Today, 18 December 2012

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  • 14 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING /A=diaCorp TUESDAY, 18 DECEMBER 2012 MICA (P) 093/06/2012
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  • 107 1 Prime Minister-in-waiting Shinzo Abe, buoyed by his landslide victory at the polls on Sunday, yesterday piled pressure on the Bank of Japan to boost public spending, after campaigning on a promise of ‘unlimited monetary easing’. Mr Abe, a foreign policy hawk
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  • 616 1  -  Electronic exports fell 16.5per cent as global conditions remain challenging SINGAPORE ECONOMY WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E The year-end festive cheer failed to lift the Republic’s exports, which unexpectedly fell last month as
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  • 729 1  -  AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg S I NG A POR E Less than a month after the illegal strike by some SMRT foreign bus drivers who were dissatisfied over their salaries and living conditions a group of major dormitory operators here have come together
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    • 57 1 MUSLIM NATIONS MUST BETTER UNDERSTAND THEIR YOUTH OR RISK LOSING THEM TO APATHY, EXTREMISM: NAJIB RAZAK COMMENT&ANALYSIS 8 HOT NEWS 2 AMERICA ‘NOT DOING ENOUGH’ TO PROTECT ITS YOUNG: OBAMA VIDEO SINGAPORE’S NODX DOWN DOWN 2.5% IN NOVEMBER Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or
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  • hot news
    • 736 2 Warning that the country has failed to protect its young US Presiden t hin ts at renewed gun control push NEWTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SHOOTING THE NEW YORK TIMES N E W TOW N (CO N N E C T I C U T United
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    • 479 3  -  WONG WEI HAN weihan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Sales of new private residential homes saw a steep decline last month, hit by a combination of the dampening effect of property market cooling measures and developers delaying the launch of new projects. Figures from the Urban
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    • 292 4  -  PAP SCANDAL AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While a typical Meet-the-People Session (MPS) at Punggol East would see about 50 residents seeking their Member of Parliament (MP) each week, last night’s session the first since former MP Michael Palmer resigned last week over an extramarital
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    • 609 6 PM-to-beplans to double inflation target, take strategic approach in ties with China JAPAN POLITICS AGENCIES TOK YO Japan’s next Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, buoyed by a landslide election victory, piled pressure on the central bank yesterday as it prepared for a policy meeting,
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    • 154 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has congratulated the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, MrShinzo Abe, on the party’s victory in the Lower House elections. In a letter, Mr Lee said he looks forward to working closely with
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    • 9 2 COMMENT&ANALYSIS TIME FOR US TO STOP FEEDING GUN FRENZY10
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    • 166 4 BRITISH AIRWAYS SHOP AROUND THE CLOCK. With year-end bargains, great fares and exclusive shopping deals, there is no better time to go for a shopping spree in the UK than now. To Fly. To Serve. All-inclusive fares to London from SGD 1,892 SGD 1,862 for travel between for travel between
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    • 347 5 go. rejoice this festive season with Visa. get a S$10 voucher* when you spend S$200 on your Visa Credit or Debit card at any of the 11 participating Orchard Road shopping malls or hotel. charge a minimum of S$50 to your Visa card in a single receipt and stand a
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  • comment &analysis
    • 887 8  -  BATTLING APATHY WITH OPPORTUNITIES NAJIB RAZAK Najib Razak is the Prime Minister of Malaysia INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE Profound change is underway in the Middle East and North Africa. It is too early to be definitive about causes, but I believe there is a common thread:
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    • 1164 10  -  NEWTOWN BLOODBATH JEFFREY D SACHS Jeffrey D Sachs is Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development
      PROJECT SYNDICATE; REUTERS; AP  -  1,164 words
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    • 43 8 The US seems to reel from one mass gun killing to another. Easy access to guns in the US leads to horrific murder rates relative to other highly educated and wealthy societies. America needs to find a better way. JEFFREY D SACHS 10
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    • 258 9 To acquire the knowledge to build a better world, we first signed our library. My time in the housing committee was highly enriching as I was involved in choosing the furniture, designing the survey to sort students into apartments and coordinating bulk buying of common household items. CO-W. To offer
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  • voices
    • 210 14  -  FROM ROBERT MACEWEN I refer to the letter, “Separate Palmer’s professional and personal life” (Dec 17). The writer quotes author William Somerset Maugham’s statement “morality is the weapon which society in the struggle for existence uses in its dealings with the individual” and seems
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    • 118 14  -  FROM JAVEN NG I am surprised by comments suggesting that we should regard former Speaker of Parliament Michael Palmer’s so-called private indiscretions as irrelevant to his political appointment. An extramarital affair is hardly a momentary lapse of judgment or a simple indiscretion. It requires careful deceptions
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    • 119 14  -  FROM TAN KOK TIM I refer to the letter, “Separate Palmer’s professional and personal life” (Dec 17). I would like to know how far we have matured politically. Should there be a by-election in Punggol East, I hope its former Member of Parliament Michael
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    • 83 14  -  FROM TIONG CHOON HIN There has been a debate on whether former Speaker of Parliament Michael Palmer’s affair should have been made public or whether he should have resigned. As an elected Member of Parliament (MP), his appointment was solemnised under oath, witnessed by
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    • 396 16  -  FROM JASON LEE Assistant Director, Corporate Affairs and Strategic Development, Football Association of Singapore The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) is heartened by the support from fans, such as those who spent hours queuing for Suzuki Cup final tickets (“A blockbuster at Jalan Besar Stadium,
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    • 365 16  -  FROM JU XIAO YONG Workplace harassment is perhaps an egregious but overlooked issue in Singapore. A recent YouTube advertisement by jobiness.sg of a man being “sexually harassed” by his colleagues may have unveiled that a professional workplace is often, but mistakenly, taken for granted.
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    • 61 16 It was reported in “Aljunied-Hougang receives red rating in S&CC arrears” (Dec 15) that Ang Mo Kio, Bishan-Toa Payoh, Holland-Bukit Panjang, Moulmein-Kallang, Sembawang-Nee Soon and Nee Soon town councils achieved perfect scores for all five indicators. It should have been Ang Mo Kio, Bishan-Toa Payoh, Holland-Bukit Panjang, Moulmein-Kallang, Sembawang-Nee
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    • 45 14 •HAVEYOURSAY email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg JOIN THE CONVERSATION facebook.com/todayonline READ MORE LETTERS todayonline.com/voices LETTER SAME MORAL HIGH GROUND IS EXPECTED Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/ltrpalmer1218 for the letter from Samuel Chia Lam Soon.
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  • singapore
    • 408 18  -  CONRAD RAJ Editor-at-Large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Facing an increasingly ageing population of ordinary members and a long queue of Singaporeans waiting to join, the 147-year-old Tanglin Club is planning to increase its membership to 5,000, up 25 per cent from the current
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    • 460 19  -  Brandon Ong, 16, scores nine points for his exams, placing him among the top scorers in his cohort EDUCATION HENG WEI XIANG hengweixiang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Brandon Ong was someone his schoolmates might call a “floater” someone who drifted through his days indifferent to how
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    • 422 20 LABOUR DISPUTE Singapore The “serious accusations” made yesterday by civil society group Function 8 are “entirely baseless”, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). Function 8 had called on the Government, public transport operator SMRT and the media to stop using
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    • 167 20  -  ALVINA SOH Singapore A relief teacher with a secondary school has been charged with five counts of sexual offences with a 13-year-old girl. The 26-year-old allegedly had sex with the girl twice last year, and in March and sometime between May
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  • education
    • 301 21 Apartfrom grades and interviews, extra-curricular achievements will also be given weight in evaluation process LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE SINGAPORE Almost 2,600 applications from students across 72 nationalities have been received by Yale-NUS College, the Republic’s first liberal arts college. Giving the update in a press
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  • china&india
    • 312 22 REUTERS BEIJING The Chinese authorities have detained 93 people accused of spreading doomsday rumours and arrested a man who slashed 23 children at a school after he was “psychologically affected” by such predictions, the Xinhua state news agency reported yesterday. The 93 people, from
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    • 462 23 Final phase of elections seen as potential game changer that could decide who becomes India’s next Prime Minister INDIA POLITICS AGENCIES A HMEDA BA D Some 70 per cent of 19.8 million eligible voters yesterday cast their votes in the second and final
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    • 10 22 TECHNOLOGY 32 CRACKED SCREENS COULD BE A THING OFTHE PAST
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    • 196 23 THINK SUCCESS. THINK MDIS. fifi Manage your future or someone else will. JJ Peter Drucker MDIS, pioneering hands-on learning for the new economy. An education at MDIS is more than just a certificate. It's about inspiring your mind, developing your passion and providing you with a foundation to build a
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  • world
    • 645 24 Candidates under 35 to comprise a third of opposition party’s slate in bid to win over increasingly younger electorate MALAYSIAN POLITICS THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER PETA LING JAYA Young leaders will make up at least 35 per cent of Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s
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    • 409 25 AP SEOUL South Korean presidential candidate Park Geun Hye (picture) heads into election tomorrow under the weight of history. Not only is she the daughter of a dictator who ruled with ruthless efficiency for 18 years, but she is trying to win
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    • 116 25 AP North Korean soldiers bowing before the statues of late leaders Kim Il Sung (left) and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang yesterday. At noon, North Koreans across the country stopped in their tracks to pay tribute to Kim
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    • 403 26 REUTERS MANIL A The Philippines’ Congress passed a Bill on promoting statefunded contraceptive yesterday, underscoring President Benigno Aquino’s influence on the legislature and his defiance of Roman Catholic bishops opposed to the measure. The legislature’s two chambers, dominated by Mr Aquino’s allies, approved by solid
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    • 402 26 AP M A NIL A A suspected terrorist killed by Philippine police snipers after he threatened to detonate a powerful bomb may have been targeting a church or foreign aid workers helping a typhoon-devastated province, a senior police official said
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    • 331 27 Human Rights Watch calls actions of Islamist insurgents a ‘disregardfor humanity’ and a threat to security of Muslims IN SOUTHERN THAILAND AP BANGKOK A major international human rights organisation called yesterday for an immediate end to violence against school personnel in
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    • 181 27 REUTERS CANBERR A More than 3,500 people evacuated to emergency shelters in Fiji as the biggest cyclone in 20 years swept across the Pacific island nation yesterday, three days after the storm killed four people and destroyed thousands of homes in nearby Samoa.
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  • business
    • STOCK CALLS
      • 27 28 Readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision. TODAY cannot be held liable for any consequence arising from the use of this information.
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      • 60 28 BUY (S$3.09) Maybank-Kim Eng starts coverage at Buy with a S$4.18 target, noting that United Engineers is on the brink of a major transformation to unlock value. The house notes major shareholder OCBC, which holds a 24.5% stake, could be the catalyst for change after the bank’s steps
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      • 60 28 BUY(S$1.035) OCBC maintains its Buy rating with an unchanged fair value of S$1.31, noting that apart from having a strengthened financial position and lower funding cost burden, it expects Fraser Commercial to gain from interest savings following the refinancing of its S$500 million. The average borrowing rate
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      • 58 28 BUY (S$0.565) DBS maintains its Buy call with an unchanged target price of S$0.90, noting that a recentlywon water treatment plant contract in Changchun, China, enhances order book visibility but does not boost near-term earnings significantly as project recognition is phased out over 12 quarters instead of 6-8
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      • 87 28 SELL (S$0.81) DMG downgrades Hi-P to Sell, noting that the company, thought to be a proxy to Apple’s iPhone 5, may suffer as demand for the phone may not meet expectations. The risks for Hi-P’s recent S$300 million investment in its Chinese plant appear to have increased as
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    • 317 28 INDIAN ECONOMY BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI India’s economy may grow at the slowest pace in a decade in the current financial year, according to forecasts by the Finance Ministry, which predicts that inflation will slow enough to allow interest-rate cuts. Asia’s third-largest economy may expand
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    • 153 29 SINGAPORE Frasers Hospitality has been conferred the World’s Leading Serviced Apartment Brand at the 19th World Travel Awards held in New Delhi. Often regarded as the “travel Oscars”, the World Travel Awards are the largest, most comprehensive and prestigious awards in the travel industry.
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    • 364 29 BLOOMBERG TOKYO The magnitude of the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) win in Japan’s election smooths the path for fiscal stimulus early next year as incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seeks to end the economy’s contraction. The two-thirds majority won by an
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  • impact
    • 1361 30 American gelatin brand turns to tongue-in-cheek humour as predicted ‘apocalypse approaches in a few days ’time NOT JUST DESSERTS THE NEW YORK TIMES THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK According to the Mayan calendar, at least as some have interpreted it, the world may
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    • 42 31 The best gift is returning home safely from work every day Safety Tip Use the right ladder for the job. Never stand on the top step. STOP THE ASSUMPTIONS. STOP WORK ACCIDENTS. A WSHCOUNCIL MINISTRY OF MANPOWER For more information, visit wshc.sg
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    • 44 31 The best gift is returning home safely from work every day Safety Tip Use the right ladder for the job. Never stand on the top step. STOP THE ASSUMPTIONS. STOP WORK ACCIDENTS. X A WSHCOUNCIL IS MINISTRY OF MANPOWER For more information, visit wshc.sg
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  • technology
    • 421 32 Amazon ‘airbag’makes use of motion sensors to detect when phone enters airborne state MOBILE INNOVATION THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SAN FR ANCISCO It is a momentary lapse that can cost you hundreds to fix. But the cracked screens that result from dropped
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    • 408 33 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Twitter has begun allowing users to download an archive of all their tweets, so that they can look back on their entire history on the micro-blogging network for the first time. The firm revealed it had been working on
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    • 170 33 REUTERS SHANGHAI Apple said it had sold more than two million of its new iPhone 5 in China during the three days after its launch there last Friday, marking it China’s best-selling iPhone rollout ever. But the highly-anticipated release in China, Apple’s
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  • sports
    • 677 34  -  Both sides will not hold back despite prospect of suspension for key players AFF SUZUKI CUP DAN GUEN CHIN danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Radojko Avramovic’s Lions and Thailand may be entering the first leg of their ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Suzuki Cup final clash at the Jalan
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    • 337 34  -  DAN GUEN CHIN Fahrudin Mustafic will have a date with the doctor this morning to see if he is ready to claim his place in the Lions’ starting 11 against Thailand tomorrow. The 31-year-old midfielder who has been one of Singapore’s star performers in
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    • 673 35  -  PHILIP GOH Deputy Sports Editor philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Frankie Thanapal Sinniah, Singapore’s leading proponent of disability sports, died suddenly yesterday of a suspected cardiac arrest. He was 61. His son, Taufik, told TODAY that the family was informed that Sinniah had collapsed while having lunch and
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    • 413 35  -  GERARD WONG SINGAPORE National sprinter Gary Yeo may have qualified for the 100m for next year’s SEA Games when he won the blue riband event at the ASEAN University Games in Laos on Saturday, but the 26-year-old and his team-mates Calvin Kang, Lee Cheng
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