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  • 24 1 TODAY AbdiaCorp WEDNESDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp WEDNESDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013
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  • hot news
    • 933 2  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE —Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong intends to put in place a leadership team, as well as a successor, before he turns 70. He said this, in response to a question on Ask the Prime Minister programme on
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    • 621 4  -  Singaporeans urged to work together for common good, even when individual preferences cannot be fully met COMMUNITY NEEDS TO DO ITS PART TO SUPPORT S’PORE XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE Beyond race and religion, other possible fault lines have
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    • 683 6  -  MOH looking into report, which also suggests new modelfor end-of-life care EXPERTS ASK IF S’POREANS ARE READY TO TALK ABOUT DEATH TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Bodies of loved ones being wheeled out at the same exit as the trash, dying patients and their
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    • 675 8  -  National body says FIFA feels S’pore has the infrastructure to stage tournament SPORTS HUB A TARGETED VENUE IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The FIFA U-17 or U-20 World Cup could be held in Singapore in 2019, if the Football Association of
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    • 718 10 ANOTHER FALLEN PIONEER AGENCIES TORONTO —BlackBerry has reached a tentative deal to go private in a US$4.7 billion (S$5.9 billion) sale to its biggest shareholder as the industry witnesses the potential demise of yet another troubled smartphone
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    • 956 12 ONE REASON FOR COUNTRY’S CONTINUED GROWTH THE NEW YORK TIMES CH A NG S H A (CH IN A) The cavernous rail station here for China’s new highspeed trains was nearly deserted when it opened less than four years ago. Not any
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    • 273 12 THE NEW YORK TIMES When a rainstorm briefly disabled the signalling equipment on a high-speed rail line near Wenzhou in southern China on July 23, 2011, one high-speed train stopped on a concrete viaduct and the one behind it did not.
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    • 608 15 DIPLOMATIC PUSH ON TEHRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME AGENCIES UNITED NATIONS —United States President Barack Obama yesterday welcomed the new Iranian government’s pursuit of a “more moderate course”, saying it should offer the basis for a breakthrough on Iran’s nuclear impasse with the United Nations and
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    • 371 8 qJI executive career nr” MANAGEMENT TALK For Professionals, Managers and Executives (PMEs) NETWORK YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS 3 Oct 2013, Thursday 2pm to 6pm Networking is an activity where like-minded people get together to act upon business opportunities. The workshop will share different networking techniques and enable you to master
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    • 186 15 I have what it takes to seize business opportunities BRADFORD r 'P* e Crown Accreditation Places Bradford University School of Management within the Top 1% of business schools in the world UNIVERSITY School of Management W /l»s ,IOn W 52 Years of Growing with the Nation Natassia Joan Woodwards MDIS
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  • comment &analysis
    • 1070 16  -  TO ELICIT FAIR CONSIDERATION FOR SINGAPOREAN WORKERS EUGENE K B TAN Eugene K B Tan is an Associate Professor at the Singapore Management University School of Law. He is also a Nominated Member of Parliament. Workplace discrimination is hard to prove, especially when an
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    • 869 17  - Solving the world’s housing bubbles the Kiwi way? PREVENTING ANOTHER 2008 WILLIAM PESEK Tokyo-based William Pesek won the 2010 Society of American Business Editors and Writers prize for commentary. BLOOMBERG As the world’s biggest economies search for ways to let the air out of giant asset bubbles, they might find
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    • 1189 19 Lauded by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 “most intriguing”entrepreneurs of 2012, Mr George Slessman, 39, has been inventing and delivering disruptive technologies as well as creating over US$1 billion (S$1.25 billion) of value for investors over 14 years. From a team starting out
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    • 161 16 “Stansfield has prepared me well to read law in London through the Diploma in Law. Lessons were interactive and with small classes, the lecturers were able to guide me effectively.” Stansfield congratulates Ms Cheryl Tan Ling Xing who has been offered admissions into the Bachelor of Laws at 24/8 1
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    • 39 16 In carving the path to innovation and entrepreneurial success... There is no standing in the middle of the road you either go back to where you began or cross over, otherwise you risk being run down. GEORGE SLESSMAN 19
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  • voices
    • 177 22  -  FROM DAVID SOH POH HUAT I am sure that many Singaporeans welcome the Ministry of Manpower’s initiative to help citizens find jobs. (“New regulations for firms seeking to hire EP holders”; Sept 24) More must be done, though. Firstly, many unemployed Singaporeans now search for
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    • 158 22  -  FROM MUHAMMAD ISMAIL With the “New regulations for firms seeking to hire EP holders” (Sept 24), which is a wake-up call for them, the Manpower Ministry is seriously looking into the interests of Singaporeans on the issue of employability. I have nothing against
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    • 49 22 Following the report, “Singapore brand on F1 cars” (Sept 21), StarHub has clarified that it was not, as claimed, the first Singaporean brand to have its logo on a Formula 1 car in the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix. M1 had its logo on a McLaren car in 2010.
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    • 133 22  -  FROM CHAN CHONG LEONG I am concerned that there may be ways to game the “New regulations for firms seeking to hire EP holders” (Sept 24). How is the Manpower Ministry going to investigate if a company states that locals applying for the jobs do
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    • 75 22  -  FROM ERIC CHAN I refer to this week’s VoicesTODAY topic, Will Singaporeans Get a Fairer Shot at Jobs?. Besides seeking to tamp down on discriminatory hiring by employers, will the Fair Consideration Framework do so in the case of job agencies? These
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    • 448 24  -  FROM JOANNA CHEN While I agree that we should “Consider harsher penalties to deter paid underage sex” (Sept 23), it is necessary to supplement enforcement with a change in culture. The root issue is that promiscuity and pleasure are valued over
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    • 190 22 WATCH THE DEBATE MOTHER TONGUE: CAN THE DECLINE BE STOPPED? To watch last week’s episode, scan the QR code or visit tdy.sg/ voices25sept. LETTER WHY IT MAKES INCREASING SENSE TO LEARN MOTHER TONGUE Scan the QR code or visit tdy. sg/learn25sept for the letter from Kevin Chung. i No.1 BEST
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    • 14 22 •HAVEYOURSAY email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg JOIN THE CONVERSATION facebook.com/todayonline READ MORE LETTERS todayonline.com/voices
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    • 777 25 Departing from Tradition Responsibilities of employers With Singapore facing a tightening labour market, both Singaporean women and their employers would benefit if employment hurdles faced by women were reduced. The Tripartite Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices set out the principle that employers who advertise for candidates with specific attributes should
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  • singapore
    • 381 26  -  WOO SIAN BOON SINGAPORE —While job placement rates and the number of companies willing to hire ex-offenders have increased steadily over the past three years, it is a challenge to retain them in jobs for the long run. As of July, 3,803
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    • 366 27  -  FINDINGS OF NEW STUDY BY NUS DEPARTMENT IMELDA SAAD imeldasa@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A new study has shown that the working poor in Singapore are not getting enough pay to make ends meet. “Working poor” is defined as someone earning less than half
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    • 254 27  -  TIARA HAMARIAN SINGAPORE Couples who are trying to conceive using Assisted Conception Procedures (ACP) can soon use Medisave to pay for more than the current limit of three treatment cycles, subject to a lifetime cap of S$15,000. From Oct
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    • 463 28 Guidelines to help public, organisations better understand how Act will work when it takes full effect next July BASED ON PUBLIC FEEDBACK SINGAPORE Organisations will not have to verify the accuracy of personal data collected every time it is used. And
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    • 1109 29  -  Factors such as price and customer service affect perception of budget airlines TIARA HAMARIAN tiarabtemh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —When she began planning a graduation trip with six other friends in April, Ms Nurhafizah Hatman based her search for a flight ticket on one simple requirement
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    • 1149 30  -  XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Before there was the Our Singapore Conversation, another conversation somewhat smaller in scope was taking place in the residential halls, canteens and theatres of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2010. The university collected thoughts about living and learning at NTU from
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    • 1230 31  -  Zalora’s Harry Markl explains how improving business productivity can lead to happier and loyal customers LIN YANQIN yanqinl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —For the shopper, it is a straightforward enough process: She arrives at a website, checks out the selection on offer, picks a garment, drops it
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    • 314 32  -  KIMBERLY SPYKERMAN SINGAPORE —A sales engineer who attacked a tattooed young man, thinking he was a loan shark runner, was jailed for seven months by a district court yesterday. The court heard that on April 24, 2011, Ng Hwa Lee (picture), 34, was at
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    • 179 32 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —The police officer accused of the Kovan murders is expected to go on trial after March next year. This was made known in a pre-trial conference at the High Court yesterday. Defence lawyers say this is because
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  • health
    • 547 33 Annual report shows HIV infection rates also down, dropping to 2.3 million last year from 2.5 million in 2011 COUNTRIES SPENT MORE ON FIGHT AGAINST HIV IN 2012 REUTERS LONDON The global rate of HIV infection and the number
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    • 443 37 FDA says that only those that have potential to harm consumers will be reviewed STATEMENT MAY SPUR INNOVATION THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK The United States Food and Drug Administration said on Monday that it would regulate only a
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    • 904 39 Things that disgust us can influence our lives in many subtle ways: Hygiene expert THE ‘FORGOTTEN EMOTION OF PSYCHIATRY’ REUTERS LONDON —Dr Valerie Curtis is fascinated by faeces. And by vomit, pus, urine, maggots and putrid flesh. It is not the oozing, reeking
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    • 365 41 Researchers say a previously clean aquifer has been contaminated due to pumping from private wells WASHED DOWN FROM HIMALAYAS THE NEW YORK TIMES N E W YOR K Arsenic-laden sediment that washed down from the Himalayas eons ago underlies vast stretches of Asia, from
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  • china&india
    • 1003 42 Delhi gang rape convict’s wife expects to be cast out by her in-laws andface ostracism and destitution ‘AS A WIDOW, MY HONOUR WILL BE LOST FOREVER’ DOW JONES KARMALAHANG (INDIA) —When the call came from New Delhi, Ms Punita Devi
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    • 226 43 AGENCIES BEIJING State media said a former Chinese banking official who amassed a real estate empire under multiple fake identities is standing trial for forgery and trading in forged official documents. Xinhua news agency said the trial opened yesterday against Gong
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    • 376 43 AGENCIES BEIJING —China will audit military officials’ real estate holdings and use of official cars before deciding whether to promote them, as the Communist Party seeks to purge wasteful spending and power abuse within its ranks. Military officers recommended as candidates for regimental
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    • 427 44 DECISION TO MAKE FOREIGNERS ‘FEEL AT HOME’ REUTERS SHANGHAI —Facebook, Twitter and other websites deemed sensitive and blocked by the Chinese government will be accessible in a planned freetrade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported yesterday.
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    • 96 43 www.jcu.edu.sg 9 I Your dream just got closer. Course commencement date: 21st October 2013 Find out more: 8222 6833 3 enquiries-singapore@jcu.edu.au James Cook University Australia offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in business, information technology, psychology education at the JCU Singapore campus. James Cook Australia Institute of Higher Learning 600 Upper
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    • 30 45 THE MORNING EXPRESS WITH GLENN JOE WEEKDAYS, 6AM 10AM THEY’VE GOT PUNCH! Wickedly funny and unpredictable! The hits keep on coming! THE DAILY POLL GIVE US YOUR OPINION, NO-HOLDS BARRED!
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  • world
    • 591 46  -  ‘SO MUCH REMAINS TO BE DONE’ IDAYU SUPARTO nuridayus@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He will be pushing 80 when the next Malaysian general election comes around —but retirement is far from veteran opposition politician Karpal Singh’s mind. “I don’t think it’s time.
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    • 383 47 AGENCIES NAIROBI —Somalia’s Al Shabaab Islamist group said yesterday its militants were still holed up in an upscale Kenyan shopping mall the group attacked at the weekend and there were “countless dead bodies”, raising fears the death toll could be higher
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    • 324 47  -  IDAYU SUPARTO After a series of setbacks for Mr Karpal Singh, it appeared as though the biography that New Zealand journalistTim Donoghue had been working on since the late 1980s would never be published. The 325-page book chronicles the life of the outspoken
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    • 673 48 CHANCELLOR INSPIRES MIX OF ANXIETY AND GRUDGING RESPECT THE NEW YORK TIMES BRUSSELS As Ms Angela Merkel savoured the results of Germany’s national elections, newspapers on the left and right in Greece gave the same mournful assessment of what the result means
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  • business
    • 385 50  -  BILATERAL TRADE RISES WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Republic is fast becoming the gateway for Russian companies to access regional markets, as the bilateral flows of trade and people continue to grow on the back of improving relations between the two
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    • 810 54  -  FAS to partner counterpart in France, providing new opportunities for coaches, players NATIONAL BODIES TO SIGN MOU IN OCTOBER DAN GUEN CHIN danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Local football is poised for some exciting times ahead when the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
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    • 372 54  -  ADELENE WONG SINGAPORE A decision on the future of V Sundramoorthy, coach of the LionsXII and national Under-23s, is expected in the coming week following speculations over his future with the Football Association of Singapore (FAS). The 47-year-old guided the LionsXII to win the Malaysia
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    • 758 55  -  26 others will also be tracked for future inclusion into S$40m scheme PHILIP GOH Deputy Sports Editor philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The first batch of athletes under the new Sports Excellence Scholarship (spexScholarship) programme was unveiled yesterday, with 66 athletes from 15 sports tapped for funding and other
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    • 524 55  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE As she watched the Formula 1 cars zipping by on the Marina Bay street circuit last week during the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix, Stacey Allaster, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), was thinking how neat it
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    • 514 56 STRIKER FINALLY AVAILABLE FOR SELECTION AGENCIES LONDON —Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez will show that he is totally committed to Liverpool’s cause when the Reds take on Manchester United tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) in a League Cup thirdround clash. So said
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    • 142 56 Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) continued its long-time support of Singapore rugby yesterday when it penned a new three-year sponsorship deal worth S$810,000 with the Singapore Rugby Union (SRU). The sponsorship, valued at S$270,000 per annum, will run from this year to 2016, effectively
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    • 449 56  -  ADELENE WONG SING APORE —National table-tennis players who want to pursue an academic degree can now do so for free, thanks to a tie-up between the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) and SIM University (UniSIM). The local private educational institution inked a five-year UniSIMSTTA
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    • 408 58 PENALTY JUSTIFIED BECAUSE OF POTENTIAL DANGER POSED: STEWARD REUTERS LONDON —Australian Mark Webber has branded the reprimand he was given for hitching a ride on Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari after the Singapore Grand Prix night race as “comical”. The reprimands for the Red Bull
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      • 301 62 REUTERS LOS ANGELES Elden Henson and Wes Chatham have joined the cast of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Parts 1 and 2, Lionsgate announced on Twitter on Monday. Catching Fire film-maker Francis Lawrence returns to direct the twopart Hunger Games finale, which is based on
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      • 431 63  -  Bieber steals the show at the F1 closing concert CONCERT REVIEW: JUSTIN BIEBER KIMBERLY FONG SINGAPORE —The sixth edition of the Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix ended with a closing concert at The Padang on Monday, a grand finale to the exciting race that had
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      • 491 64  -  Legendary drummer Steve Gadd says his years of experience have helped keep things fresh MUSIC ICON KEVIN MATHEWS SINGAPORE —Drummer Steve Gadd is the consummate side-man. In his 45 years in the music business, Gadd has played the drums and percussion for numerous superstar musicians from all
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