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  • 15 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp WEDNESDAY, 17 JULY 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013
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  • 588 1 Local banks undertake regular stress tests have adequate buffers in place: Central bank MOODY’S DOWNGRADE SINGAPORE The three local banks have the highest average credit ratings in the world and are not at risk, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said
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  • 698 1  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Malaysian Fabian Adiu Edwin, 23, yesterday became the first convicted murderer to escape the death penalty since the Penal Code and Misuse of Drugs Act were amended to remove the mandatory death sentence for certain types of homicide
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    • 72 1 IN SINGAPORE, FEAR OF FAILURE IS BARRIER TO INNOVATION THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE FIND FERTILE SOIL HERE: GARY MILES COMMENT&ANALYSIS 14 The all-new TODAYAPP FOR ANDROID SMARTPHONES exclusively available on Samsung Apps tdy.sg/newsandroidapp HOT NEWS 6 THEIN SEIN PLEDGES TO RELEASE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS HOT NEWS HOT NEWS T SECTION MP
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  • hot news
    • 675 2  -  RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONLINE CONTENT TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A week after the credibility of bloggers came under the spotlight in Parliament, a Member of Parliament (MP) yesterday took issue with a socio-political website for publishing false allegations in an article
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    • 775 4  -  Hybridprivate-public homes cheaper but similar to condos in value and features: Analysts ATTRACTIVE TO UPGRADERS LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Demand for executive condominiums (ECs) has remained buoyant, with another such privatepublic housing development receiving a robust response at its opening weekend. The
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    • 716 6 Myanmar leader also hopes for ceasefire with rebels soon ENDING REPRESSION IN MYANMAR AGENCIES AGENCIES WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY NURIDAYU SUPARTO LONDON —The Myanmar government will release all its political prisoners by the end of the year, President Thein Sein promised in
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    • 579 8 IMPLEMENTING UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE AGENCIES HONG KONG —China will work with Hong Kong to implement universal suffrage suitable for the city in 2017, the top Communist Party official in the former British colony told lawmakers amid rising calls for electoral reform. The working
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    • 70 8 AGENCIES Political scientist Sonny Lo of the Hong Kong Institute of Education said the meeting was intended to demonstrate that Beijing is responding to concerns and to tamp down some of the outrage behind this month’s massive pro-democracy rally. Beijing wishes to ‘demonstrate to the pan-democrats
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    • 218 10 REUTERS The future of an ambitious project to connect almost all of Australia’s far-flung inhabitants to high-speed Internet, the largest infrastructure enterprise in the country’s history, hangs on the outcome of the coming federal elections. The Labor government and the conservative Liberal-led opposition,
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    • 444 10 Australia’s switch to emissions trading scheme involves cuts to some environment programmes HOUSEHOLDS WILL PAY LESS AGENCIES SYDNEY The Australian government says its plan to scrap a deeply unpopular carbon tax, ahead of national elections, will cost A$3.8 billion (S$4.4 billion).
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    • 206 12 AP PA N A M A CIT Y Panama says it has seized a North Korean-flagged ship carrying what appeared to be ballistic missiles and other arms that had set sail from Cuba. President Ricardo Martinelli said on radio on Monday that the
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    • 361 12 IP ADDRESS FROM NORTH FOUND IN WEBSITES AP GWACHEON (SOUTH KOREA) South Korean investigators yesterday blamed rival North Korea for a cyber attack last month on dozens of its media and government websites, including those of the President and Prime Minister. The biggest piece
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  • comment & analysis
    • 1231 14  -  THE INNOVATION SERIES GARY MILES Gary Miles is Director of International Operations at Roffey Park Institute and manages the Asia Pacific Operations. He has designed and delivered programmes all over the world, including in Singapore. He has worked with DHL, NTUC Income, Civil
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    • 813 16  -  US AND JAPAN RECOVER YURIKO KOIKE Yuriko Koike, Japan’s former Defence Minister and National Security Adviser, was Chairwoman of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party and currently is a member of the National Diet. PROJECT SYNDICATE The impact of Abenomics on Japan’s economy is gradually beginning to
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    • 1045 16  -  THE COUP AGAINST DEMOCRACY 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 SecretaryGeneral on the Millennium Development Goals.
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    • 192 14 US President Barack Obama’s unwillingness to stand up for Egypt’s elected leaders shows that when push came to shove, the West sided with the antiIslamists in subverting democracy. JEFFREY SACHS 16 Power-up your career with a degree in IT. It’s possible. jBJItrust SINGAPORE Cert No: EDU-2-2005 Validity: 20/05/2010 -19/05/2014 PSB
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  • voices
    • 351 20  -  FROM SABINA BEGLEROVIC I refer to this week’s VoicesTODAY topic, How do you fix the COE system?. My question is: How does someone with a total household income of, say S$8,000 or less, compete with a household earning S$30,000 or more
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    • 190 20  -  FROM CHEW SEI KAI It was reported recently that the number of off-peak car (OPC) registrations has dropped significantly over the last few years, mainly due to high Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices. The intended scheme was an effective tool to curb
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    • 129 20  -  FROM YEO CHONG PENG Currently, car dealers have to bid as high as possible to obtain enough Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) for the cars they want to sell and COE prices end up higher than they should be. Perhaps, only vehicle buyers should
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    • 466 21  -  FROM ABHIMANYAU PAL Executive Director, Society for the Physically Disabled We have heard more calls in recent years to increase social workers’ salaries. And they ought to be rewarded equitably for what they do. We should not, though, overlook the
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    • 43 21 We reported, in “Be mindful of rising healthcare costs: Balakrishnan” (July 15), that Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan had entered politics in 2011. This is incorrect. He has been a Member of Parliament since 2001. We apologise for the error.
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  • singapore
    • 561 22  -  TALENT DEVELOPMENT NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Having been a broadcast deejay and student journalist for the past two years, Holy Innocents’ High student Kelly Yeo said the experiences have given her greater confidence and improved her communication skills. At the school, students
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    • 378 23  -  AMANDA LEE SINGAPORE —In this proposed theme park, youths not only experience what it is like to live in, say, “a spaceship hotel” or munch on an astronaut icecream, but they could also dress up as a crew member of a spacecraft.
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    • 419 24  -  MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS AND EDUCATION FACILITY ASHLEY CHIA ashley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Patients can expect better medical diagnosis and shorter waiting times for test results with the opening of a medical diagnostics and education facility by SingHealth, the largest healthcare group in Singapore. The first of its
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    • 115 25 Family members and friends of the two Kovan murder victims bade their final farewell yesterday afternoon, with the two hearses making their way past Kaki Bukit Avenue 1, where Mr Tan Boon Sin ran a car workshop. Mr Tan, 67, was murdered at his
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    • 302 25  -  KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN SINGAPORE —Two Malaysian men were each sentenced to 54 months in jail for attempting to use counterfeit credit cards to buy luxury goods at Marina Bay Sands earlier this year. Among the items Soh Kien Wen, 32, and Goh Boon
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    • 188 25 S I N G A P O R E A Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) regular was yesterday found hanging from a rope in an SAF training area in Lentor by two civilian contractors who were maintaining training equipment. In a statement last night,
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  • health
    • 565 27  -  Most chronic patients do not seek follow-up care and have misconception about the illness SYMPTOMS DON’T SHOW TILL ‘YEARS DOWN THE ROAD’ EVELINE GAN eveline@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —In spite of her busy work schedule, Madam Wan Ching Fang, who discovered that she had chronic Hepatitis B
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    • 387 28  -  MORE ACCURATE THAN BMI, BLOOD PRESSURE NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE —Waistlines of more than 92.5cm for men and 86.5cm for women are the most accurate way to detect Chinese Singaporeans at risk of diseases like Type 2 diabetes and
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  • china & india
    • 571 30 A SHIFT IN PRIORITIES REUTERS S H A NG H A I —Behind China’s two investigations into irregular pricing of infant formula and pharmaceuticals announced this month, is one powerful institution and its struggle for relevance as Beijing attempts a transition to
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    • 632 34 LIMITS TO NEW GOVT’S ANTI-CORRUPTION PUSH REUTERS BEIJING —Three Chinese activists agitating for officials to disclose their assets will be put on trial, their lawyers said yesterday, in a coordinated crackdown that underscores the limits of an anti-corruption push by the new government. China
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  • world
    • 582 36 SIGN OF WARMING SECURITY TIES REUTERS M A N I L A Washington and Manila have expanded talks on military cooperation to include possible American funding to build facilities and the storage of US humanitarian relief supplies, the Philippine envoy to the United
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    • 287 37 AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR Sex bloggers Vivian Lee and Alvin Tan, nicknamed “Alvivi”, could be facing a more serious charge of causing disharmony, disunity and hatred on grounds of religion, which could see them jailed for between two and four years. The couple had
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    • 373 37 AP KUALA LUMPUR The first Vatican Ambassador to Muslim-majority Malaysia yesterday denied trying to interfere in a sensitive legal battle over the use of “Allah” as a translation for God. Some Muslim activists have urged the authorities to expel Archbishop Joseph Marino for
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    • 399 38 MANILA’S CHALLENGE TO BEIJING’S CLAIMS BEING EXAMINED AP MANILA A United Nations arbitration tribunal has convened in The Hague to look into a complaint lodged by the Philippine government questioning the legality of Beijing’s massive territorial claims in the South China Sea,
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    • 335 40 AP HANOI McDonald’s said yesterday it will open its first burger restaurant in Vietnam after awarding the franchise to the son-in-law of the Communistruled nation’s Prime Minister. The fast-food chain is a relative latecomer to the country where other Western consumer brands such as
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    • 184 40 AP HANOI A Vietnamese court has sentenced five people to death for dealing in heroin, lengthening the country’s list of condemned criminals even as it struggles to obtain the chemicals needed to execute them. The country has not executed anyone since
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    • 653 41 SHOW OF FORCE DIRECTED AT CHINA, JAPAN: ANALYSTS AP MOSCOW RussianPresident Vladimir Putin yesterday watched the country’s biggest military manoeuvres since Soviet times, involving 160,000 troops and about 5,000 tanks across Siberia and the far-eastern region in a massive show of the nation’s
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  • business
    • 456 42 WEAKER EXPANSION IN CHINA AGENCIES MANIL A —Growth in developing Asia will be weaker than initially estimated this year and next amid a slower expansion in China and lacklustre export demand from advanced nations, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said yesterday. In a
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    • 605 43 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Facing each other diagonally across the Orchard Road shopping belt, malls owned by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE) that have competed for shoppers are now competing for investors. OUE said last week it would be raising as much
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    • 516 47 ‘Acqui-hiring’ for wearable technology skills is under way as company seeks follow-up to iPhone, iPad THE GUARDIAN SAN FR ANCISCO —Apple has turned to outside expertise to find staff for its wearable computing projects, which will not be launched until next year, according to
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    • 689 48 Five athletes, including former 100m world record holder, test positive DID THEY UNKNOWINGLY TAKE ILLEGAL DRUGS? THE GUARDIAN LONDON Every so often, synchronised waves of happiness lasting a little under 10 seconds roll over Jamaica. And the island’s hardships and tribulations seem to soften and
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    • 585 49  -  Getting football philosophy right is a priority for S’pore national coach AMIR YUSOF amiryusof@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Football has become an increasingly results-based business, where a win-at-all-cost mentality appears to have pervaded all levels of the sport in many football-playing countries. But, for the future of
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    • 553 49  -  FELICIA QUICK SINGAPORE —If all goes well, Safuwan Baharudin could end the year with not only the Malaysian Super League (MSL) winner’s medal, but also the Malaysia Cup and South-east Asian (SEA) Games titles as well. Yet, it could all come at a
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    • 424 50 AGENCIES LONDON —New Manchester United manager David Moyes could be rejected for the second time in a week after Cesc Fabregas reportedly wants to remain at Barcelona. The English Premier League champions had offered £26 million (S$49 million), but Fabregas has told Barcelona coach Tito
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    • 473 51 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK —The New York Knicks on Monday added another veteran player who has a personality big enough to fit in New York. Metta World Peace, whose antics during a 14-year career have ranged from the comical to the outlandish to
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    • 457 52 SKY ONLY SEEKING TO PRESERVE LEAD THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —If the rest day proved an unwelcome trial for Chris Froome, there was nothing in any of his rivals’ demeanour to suggest they actually believe they still have any better than a cat
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      • 174 56 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —It was to be expected. Kanye West’s capsule menswear collection for hip French brand A.P.C. sold out in a matter of hours after becoming available on the brand’s website. Made up of only seven logo-less pieces two T-shirts, two
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      • 344 57  -  Finale of the final season will be a satisfying one says its star, Michael C Hall KILLER SEASON SERENE LIM serenelim@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE He is arguably TV’s first serial killer anti-hero, and as Dexter’s story draws to an end this season, Michael C
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