Today, 21 August 2013, Afternoon Edition

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  • 25 1 TODAY A=diaCorp WEDNESDAY, 21 AUGUST 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013 TODAY AFTERNOON EDITION WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp WEDNESDAY, 21 AUGUST 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013
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    • 40 1 DJs! Stars! Spoofs! Watch Be Entertained On toggle.sg/987TV and youtube.com/987fmOnlyTheHits RADIOthe SHUFFLE New DJ pairings sizzling your airwaves Vernetta Lopez The Flying Dutchman from The Gold Breakfast Show, Gold 90.5FM Glenn Ong Joe Augustin from The Morning Express, Class 95FM
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  • 404 1 US-EGYPT RELATIONS REUTERS WASHINGTON The United States yesterday adopted a harder line towards Egypt’s military-backed government, stressing that its bloody crackdown on protesters could influence US aid to Cairo but denying reports that it has suspended the assistance. The army’s
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  • 603 1 AGENCIES WASHINGTON —The United States and China have agreed to expand military exchanges and exercises as part of efforts to build more stable ties, despite tensions over cyber security and East Asian territorial disputes. Following a meeting at the Pentagon on Monday, US Defence
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    • 221 1 IF THE GOVT IS COMMITTED TO BUILDING A FAIR AND INCLUSIVE SOCIETY, IT HAS TO TAKE ITS POLICY SHIFTS FURTHER: DONALD LOW COMMENT&ANALYSIS 10 TRUE FALSEor Q: A metamorphic rock is formed from deposition of sediment. Log on to to xinmsn.com/nsc2013 to answer and win prizes! WORLD 38 Snowden case:
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  • hot news
    • 418 2  -  Normal activities can con tinue, NEA will monitor situation and provide updates AIR QUALITY EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN ‘GOOD’ BAND WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE There could be “slightly hazy conditions” in the mornings over the next few days although air quality today
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    • 297 2 REUTERS Egypt’s former Vice-President Mohamed El Baradei will be sued in court for a “betrayal of trust” over his decision to quit the army-backed government in protest at its bloody crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. The case, brought by an Egyptian
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    • 522 4  -  Developed in S’pore and made with 3D printing technology, they are placed into gap after extraction to help with healing PLANS TO SELL THEM IN MORE COUNTRIES SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Small in size, a tiny bone tissue scaffold is
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    • 548 6  -  Offenders ‘should not be allowed to treat others as collateral damage ’to make debtors pay up PROSECUTION’S APPEAL AGAINST RUNNER ALLOWED AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SING APORE Loansharks and their runners who “knowingly harass innocent persons”, such as debtors’ neighbours,
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    • 710 8 Scientists preparing UN report dismiss recent slowdown in pace of temperature increase HUMANS CITED AS MAIN CAUSE OF WARMING THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK An international panel of scientists has found with near certainty that human activity is the cause
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    • 337 8  -  XUE JIANYUE Singapore will be able to cope should global sea levels rise by more than 90cm by the end of the century as scientists predicted, experts here said, citing the sea walls that have been built on
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    • 433 8 AGENCIES NEW YORK —Russian tennis superstar Maria Sharapova (picture) is trying to legally change her surname to Sugarpova for the duration of the US Open, which begins next week and lasts a fortnight, according to British media reports. The Times of London reported yesterday that she
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  • comment &analysis
    • 1275 10  -  MERITOCRACY AND POLICY SHIFTS DONALD LOW Donald Low is Associate Dean (Executive Education and Research) at the Lee Kuan Yew of Public Policy at NUS. The Prime Minister’s National Day Rally on Sunday has been well-received by most Singaporeans, including critics of
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    • 833 12  -  EDUCATION SYSTEM REFORMS JAKE GOH Jake Goh is the Principal of a private kindergarten and participated in the Our Singapore Conversation on education. He is interested in educational trends around the world. The coming changes to the education system announced by Prime Minister
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    • 916 12  -  THE INNOVATION SERIES NATALIE TURNER Natalie Turner is the Founder and CEO of The Entheo Network (www.natalie-turner. net), a global innovation and leadership company headquartered in Singapore. She works with Singaporean and international companies to help build the skills and capabilities for sustainable innovation. When
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    • 25 10 LETTER A FAIRER MERITOCRACY Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or visit tdy.sg/ meritaug21 for the letter by Soon Sze-Meng.
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    • 30 10 If we do not develop our own writers, musicians, et al, then who will tell our Singapore stories, and express our hopes and dreams, grief and disappointments? KIT CHAN 56
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    • 25 14 This is part of a weekly series on Innovation that runs every Wednesday. To read the previous articles, scan the QR code or visit tdy.sg/cominnovate.
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  • voices
    • 413 16  -  FROM MARCUS HOH The removal of the Primary School Leaving Examination aggregate score (or T-score) and restructuring of the PSLE system according to the O-and A-Levels, announced at the National Day Rally, fall short of my expectations. The intention is good; I
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    • 140 16  -  FROM JOHNNIE CHIA I refer to the changes to the Primary 1 registration exercise (Parents laud ‘positive’ change to Pri 1 registration exercise, but Aug 20). There is an unfortunate group of Singaporeans: Those whose primary schools, many of which
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    • 365 19  -  FROM LOH SWEE HENG Director (Sales), Housing Development Board We refer to Ms Huzie Jasni’s letter, “Current processes make search for home difficult” (Aug 8). The Housing and Development Board (HDB) is committed to helping Singaporean families set up their first homes.
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    • 175 19  -  FROM PETER LOON SENG CHEE The announcement during the National Day Rally that Paya Lebar Air Base will be moved, freeing up land for commercial and residential use, has significant implications. (“Paya Lebar Air Base to move to Changi”; Aug 19) Moving the military
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  • singapore
    • 202 20  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE —The court case of the senior Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) officer accused of misappropriating S$1.76 million of public funds was yesterday adjourned to Sept 19, after he changed his mind about not hiring a lawyer. Edwin Yeo
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    • 475 20  -  Sundaresh Menon’s remarks come at launch of upda ted book on court sentencing ‘MORE CHALLENGING TO DISPENSE A JUST SENTENCE NOW’ NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The task of dispensing a “just sentence” is now more challenging, with the expectations
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    • 309 22 OFFENDERS GETTING ‘CREATIVE’ CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The number of contraband smuggling cases detected went up in the first six months of this year with more Singapore-registered “branded” cars being used to convey the illegal items. There were 46,300 contraband smuggling cases between January
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    • 642 22 Trouble in the bedroom? Shhh When it comes to treating premature ejaculation, opt for an open approach Dr Chong. PRODUCED BY THE TODAY SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM When men get together, it is not unusual to hear them bragging about their sexual prowess. However, the same cannot be said when it
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    • 415 25  -  FACES LIFE IMPRISONMENT, CANING NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —He loitered around the Woodlands housing estate, following girls he found attractive and imagining touching their breasts and stabbing them in the back. Before he fatally knifed a mother of two on a
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    • 185 25  -  AMIR HUSSAIN SINGAPORE —Some 1,900 holidaymakers, who were bound to sail out of Singapore yesterday for a 14-day trip to Fremantle, Australia, had their plans scrapped after their cruise ship suffered a power failure. The Sun Princess, which was scheduled for
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  • health
    • 1015 26 Secret to bats’longevity may be linked to their ability to harbour viruses that are deadly to other animals CELLS CAN SURVIVE SURGES IN METABOLISM BLOOMBERG HONG KONG —Count Dracula was onto something: Bats. The immortal Prince of Darkness has been
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    • 627 27 We approached a team of medical experts for the answers to your digestionrelated questions. This is the first of a four-part series on digestive health. BROUGHT TO YOU BY for people with such issues, produced for people with such issues. PRODUCED BY THE TODAY SPECIAL PROJECTS
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  • china&india
    • 1327 32 PARTY CADRES WARNED ABOUT ‘SEVEN PERILS’ THE NEW YORK TIMES HONG KONG —Communist Party cadres have filled meeting halls around China to hear a sombre, secretive warning issued by senior leaders: Power could escape their grip, they have been told, unless the party eradicates
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    • 817 33 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING —Mr Bo Guagua, the younger son of fallen Communist Party official Bo Xilai, has made a rare public comment on the case, saying that he had been unable to communicate with his father or mother for a year
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    • 454 34 AP BEIJING Heavy rains brought by a typhoon triggered landslides in southern China that buried homes and vehicles and killed at least 15 people, as the number of dead or missing from recent flooding in the country surged past 200. Nine
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  • world
    • 510 35 CRACKDOWN ON VIOLENT CRIME PUTR AJAYA —Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has said there are no immediate plans to bring back preventive laws amid a crime wave in the country, despite calls by some quarters for their return. “We have not made
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    • 382 36 CORRUPTION ‘COSTS THE COUNTRY S$11.5B A YEAR’ BLOOMBERG KUAL A LUMPUR Malaysia may allow phone tapping and Internet monitoring as it steps up the war on corporate and government graft, which costs the country as much as US$9 billion (S$11.5 billion) a
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    • 211 36 AGENCIES NUSAJAYA Johor should consider imposing a levy on Singapore-reg-istered vehicles entering the state to generate additional revenue, a Johor assemblyman has proposed. Mr Samsol Bari Jamil, the representative for Semarang, from the ruling Barisan Nasional, said more than 200,000 cars from
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    • 439 38 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS LONDON The British government, accused of abusing media freedom, yesterday said that the police were right to detain a journalist’s partner if they thought lives might be at risk from data he was carrying from fugitive United States intelligence
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  • business
    • 311 40 REUTERS LONDON Glencore Xstrata took a US$7.7 billion (S$9.8 billion) hit on mining assets acquired in its takeover of Xstrata, drastically reducing the value of projects in the early stages of development. The diversified trader and miner announced the writedown as it
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    • 415 40 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS WA SHINGTON Moody’s Investors Service yesterday revised its outlook for American states to stable from negative, marking a significant improvement in its assessment of state finances after cutting its outlook for the sector more than five years ago.
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    • 191 40 REUTERS NEW YORK Kodak, once a mighty photography pioneer, yesterday earned court approval for a plan to emerge from bankruptcy as a much smaller digital-imaging company. The green light from United States Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper puts Kodak on track to exit bankruptcy in
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    • 418 42 US PROBE IN PROGRESS REUTERS SHANGHAI China Everbright Bank’s decision to hire JPMorgan Chase to underwrite its initial public offering in Hong Kong was not linked to the United States bank hiring the son of a high- level executive linked to the Chinese
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    • 204 42 BLOOMBERG Shares of Everbright Securities plunged yesterday by the maximum daily limit of 10 per cent as the Chinese brokerage faced possible fines and more restrictions on its business after it committed an unprecedented trading error that threatened to erode confidence in
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  • technology
    • 590 44 E-tailer Amazon.com the latest to suffer fallout following Google Microsoft disruptions MICRO-FAILURES BECOME NEW FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT AGENCIES SEATTLE —When Google suffered an outage last Friday, it caused a 40 per cent slump in Internet traffic, said Web analytics company GoSquared. Digital expert Phil Dearson, Head
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    • 432 45  -  Highly anticipated sequel to Plan ts vs Zom bies offers more worlds, additional species of the enemy and lots more fun HIRANAND SUNNY hiranandsn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A friend of mine who lived in Jurong once boarded the wrong train and ended up in
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    • 57 51 WEDNESDAY, 21 AUGUST 2013 CULTURE VULTURE DIRECTOR SIMON MCBURNEY ON HOW EXCHANGING IDEAS CAN BE GREAT 54 HOME STORIES KIT CHAN ON WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO SUPPORT SINGAPORE’S TALENT 56 SEEING RED DI ECTO NICOLAS WIN ING REFN’S MOVIES MAY BE VIOLENT, BUT HE IS PRETTY MUCH A WUSS
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      • 299 54  -  IN CINEMAS MAY SEAH ALVIN CHONG HON JING YI GENEVIEVE LOH Only God Forgives (M18, 90 mins) Directed by Drive’s Nicolas Winding Refn, this substance-fuelled nightmare that sickens and yet intrigues isn’t entertaining in the conventional sense. It will jolt your senses, and what makes it
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