Today, 28 July 2015

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      Lock icon Where multi-cornered contests are shaping up
      219 2 4-CORNERED FIGHT TAM PI NE S GRC Interested parties for GE 2015 PAP, NSP, SingFirst, PPP Number of voters (2015) 143,426 3-CORNERED FIGHTS BI SHAN-TOA PAYOH GRC Interested parties for GE 2015 PAP, DPP SPP Number of voters 129,850 BUKIT BATOK SMC Interested parties
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      Lock icon Party comments over weekend telegraph their agendas, say analysts
      884 4  -  PAP MAY ‘DRAW LINK BETWEEN WHERE S’PORE IS TODAY AND ITS LEADERSHIP’ JOY FANG joyfangz@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It may still be early days yet, with the next General Election (GE) weeks or months away, but the messages from the main political parties
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      Lock icon Japan’s Upper House begins debate on security Bills
      637 4 KYODO NEWS TOKYO Japan’s Upper House of Parliament yesterday started deliberations on controversial security Bills that would expand the role of the SelfDefence Forces (SDF) abroad, with a majority of the Japanese public opposed to the legislation. Citing an increasingly severe security
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      Lock icon Muhyiddin slammed by M’sia’s ruling party for criticising 1MDB
      797 6 DEPUTY PM CALLED A ‘TRAITOR’ BY PARTY SUPPORTER, URGED TO WAIT FOR RESULT OF PROBE AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR In a sign of growing disquiet among the ranks of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), politicians and supporters of Malaysia’s ruling party
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      Lock icon UMNO COUNCIL TO HAVE ‘HEART-TO-HEART’ 1MDB TALKS
      219 6 AGENCIES The United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) Supreme Council is expected to have a “heart-to-heart” discussion on the issue of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) at its meeting scheduled for Friday, said council member Mr Irmohizam Ibrahim. He said all quarters were requested to
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      Lock icon UMNO-run blog again accuses youth wing leaders of undermining Najib
      427 6 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR For the second time in three months, a blog run by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Malaysia’s ruling party, has alleged that a group of youth leaders are trying to turn the youth wing against Prime
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      Lock icon KLIA2 is sinking and poses a safety risk, AirAsia warns
      741 8 TERMINAL ‘MUST BE FIXED BEFORE PASSENGERS ARE HURT’ BLOOMBERG KUALA LUMPUR Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s new budget passenger terminal is sinking, with cracks appearing in the taxiway and water forming pools that planes must drive through. The defects could cause
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      Lock icon DAP leader calls for a ‘Save Malaysia’ coalition
      459 8 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR It is time for all Malaysians to come together to have a “Save Malaysia” coalition following the fallout from the 1Malaysia Development Fund (1MDB) scandal, said a senior Malaysian opposition politician. In making the proposal, Democratic Action Party (DAP)
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      Lock icon AIRASIA CONSIDERS COURT ACTION AGAINST KLIA2 OPERATOR
      224 8 AGENCIES AirAsia is considering court action against KLIA2 operator Malaysian Airport Holdings Bhd (MAHB) after claiming some of its planes were damaged by the terminal’s poor soil conditions, the airline’s chairman Tony Fernandes said yesterday. The outspoken magnate said he could no longer
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      Lock icon Banks face dearth of compliance expertise in illicit-funds crackdown
      796 10 COSTS INCURRED IN COMPLYING WITH TOUGHER REGULATIONS HAVE RISEN WITH AGENCIES SINGAPORE The Republic’s fight to stem illicit fund inflows has shoved banks into a new quandary: finding enough qualified compliance specialists to ensure the money passing through their accounts is
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  • comment & analysis
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      Lock icon Using big data to fight chronic diseases
      889 12  -  HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP TRANSFORM SINGAPORE’S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM YAU TENG YAN In Singapore, a fast-ageing population is spurring the rising burden of chronic diseases. This will place great strain on the already-stretched healthcare system in the coming years. In a commentary in this
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      Lock icon China’s ‘live’ stress test
      1048 14  -  MANAGING VOLATILITY IN THE COUNTRY’S STOCK MARKETS ANDREW SHENG, XIAO GENG PROJECT SYNDICATE The plunge in China’s stock markets, which has sent shock waves reverberating around the world, has amounted to a realtime stress test for the country. The bears, who have been predicting the Chinese
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      41 12 China’s economy has succeeded through trial and error, and the lessons of its current stress test should be viewed as part of that process, to be used to drive the next phase of economic reform. ANDREW SHENG AND XIAO GENG 14
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  • voices
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      Caring for the elderly is a shared responsibility
      355 16  -  FROM JUNE CHEAH-NICHOLLS I refer to this week’s Talking Point, “The hidden world of elder abuse”. Admittedly, there would be difficulties in any care situation. How much care, how to give care and how best to care is subjective, as “care” is
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    • Article
      Communism failed due to flawed economic ideology
      420 16  -  FROM ZHENG HUIFEN Vice-President, Humanist Society (Singapore) NURUL FADIAH JOHARI Publicity Manager, Leftwrite Center In an interview with Time magazine, the Prime Minister said: “If we were (a) godless society, we would have many other problems, the communists found that out.” (“We welcome
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      Do more in Phase 2C to make P1 registration a fairer process
      166 16  -  FROM WILL WOONG KWOK SIONG It is disheartening that some schools have already been oversubscribed in Primary One registration (“13 schools oversubscribed after first day of P1 registration under Phase 2B”, July 20, Channel NewsAsia; “6 schools oversubscribed
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    • POSB
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        Lock icon Celebrating SG50 with SG stories
        1565 18 POSB Storytellers Grant gives three Singaporeans the chance to showcase community stories 2015 marks the year Singapore celebrates its 50th birthday, and POSB is commemorating the nation’s golden jubilee with the POSB Storytellers Grant. The POSB Storytellers Grant is a platform for Singaporeans to share
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        Lock icon POSB NEIGHBOURSFIRST.SG
        181 18 The NeighboursFirst.SG portal was created by POSB to help Singaporeans rediscover their neighbourhood. On the right are some of the inspiring homegrown stories you can find on the website. Visit www.neighboursfirst.sg to read these stories that celebrate Singapore’s way of life and the people behind it. Have a
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      155 16 How To PROFIT from Stock Market No Matter the Economy A A CK Ee Winner of Notable Category SME One Asia Awards 2013 Have you been struggling to find success when it comes to investments? Many investors lose hundreds even thousands of dollars as they use trial and error in
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  • singapore
    • Article
      Men’s suicide rates rise over past decade as overall numbers decline
      525 20  -  GENDER STEREOTYPES, DIFFERENCES IN COPING SKILLS MAY ACCOUNT FOR DISPARITY, SAYS NON-PROFIT JORDON SIMPSON jsimpson@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While the number of suicides continued to dip last year, the Samaritans of Singapore (SOS) has noticed an increase in suicides among men
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      Lock icon New drug shows promise for late-stage lung cancer patients
      454 20  -  LYNETTE TAN lynettetan2@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A new drug could offer hope to some late-stage lung cancer patients, after positive results in the early phase of clinical trials. The drug, Ceritinib, stabilised the tumour growth of trial participants for an average of eight
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    • Article
      13 years’ jail for maid who stabbed boss’ in-law to death
      400 20  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE Her employer’s mother-in-law had called her “useless” and, in retaliation, Than Than Win stabbed her to death with a 21cm-long pair of scissors. Yesterday, the domestic helper from Myanmar was sentenced to 13 years in jail
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      Lock icon PM Lee honours volunteers who advocated pioneer package
      513 21  -  LYNETTE TAN lynettetan2@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Despite working hard to familiarise himself with the details of the Pioneer Generation Package, Nick Low, 18, had doors slammed in his face by seniors who thought he was a salesperson. Still, he was undeterred and went the
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  • china&india
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      Lock icon At least nine killed after gunmen storm police station in India
      526 22 FIVE BOMBS ALSO FOUND ON RAILWAY TRACK IN AREA REUTERS DINANAGAR (INDIA) Indian police overcame a group of heavily-armed men dressed in military fatigues yesterday after a 12-hour gun battle that ended in a small-town police station near the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Dump yards trump affordable housing in Mumbai
      489 22 BLOOMBERG MUMBAI Which global city uses prime real-estate nearly the size of New York’s Central Park to dump trash on? Mumbai. The land-starved peninsula currently discards 11,000 tonnes of refuse every day in three dump yards that together occupy more than 299ha. At
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      Lock icon China may irk Vietnam with second cruise to the Paracels
      344 22 AGENCIES BEIJING Chinese authorities plan to start a second cruise-ship link to the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, state media said yesterday. The move may irk Vietnam, which also claims the islets. China began cruises on the
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  • world
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      Lock icon Seoul promises more jobs for young S Koreans
      712 24 24 AGENCIES SEOUL The South Korean government and major local industry associations yesterday pledged to create some 200,000 jobs for young people until 2017, amid concerns about high youth unemployment. Those concerns have been heightened as big companies and public organisations are
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      Lock icon South Korea releases last suspected MERS patient
      422 25 AGENCIES SEOUL South Korean health authorities yesterday lifted the quarantine on the last person suspected of being infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, leaving no one subject to isolation over MERS for the first time in over two months. “We
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      Lock icon Protesters, police clash ahead of Aquino’s state of the union address
      109 25 Some 4,000 Filipino protesters clashed with riot police yesterday as they tried to breach a barricade of barbed wire and shipping containers ahead of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III’s final state of the nation address. Several policemen and protestors
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  • business
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      DBS’ Q2 profit rises 15% to S$1.12b
      650 26  -  Improving interest margins, robust loan growth help bank withstand weak housing market FIRST-HALF NET PROFIT AT NEW HIGH OF S$2.39B TAN WEIZ HEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE DBS Group Holdings posted a better-than-expected 15 per cent gain in second-quarter profit, as improving interest margins and
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      Streamline customs procedures for smoother trading: Experts
      371 26  -  LEE YEN NEE SINGAPORE While China’s One Belt, One Road initiative will lead to greater world trade and will benefit the flagging shipping industry, shipping executives said customs processes have to be streamlined in order to better facilitate the impending increase in movement
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    • Article
      Lock icon Aussie falls below Singdollar for first time since 2009
      635 27 Currency dips below parity to S$0.9979 as a result of weak Chinese growth, falling com modity prices WITH AGENCIES SINGAPORE The Aussie dollar has fallen below the Singapore dollar for the first time in more than six years, as weak Chinese
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  • technology
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      Lock icon InMobi to tie up with Samsung to reach 650 million users
      426 28 Partners will develop tool to better compete with Google, Facebook for advertising revenue PART OF ATTEMPTS TO ‘RECAST IDENTITY’ BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI Indian mobile advertising start-up InMobi is partnering with Samsung Electronics and other device makers, as it sets
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  • sports
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      Lock icon FIFA NEEDS INDEPENDENT COMMISSION TO CLEAN UP
      761 29 Only outside monitors can eradicate corruption in world body: Legal experts GOVERNANCE BODY UNAWARE OF NEED FOR CHANGE REUTERS NEW YORK —United States prosecutors could eventually try to impose a court-appointed monitor on FIFA to ensure that football’s corruption-hit governance body cleans up
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      Lock icon DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE, FEASIBLE GAMES A KEY ISSUE, SAYS IOC CHIEF
      397 29 AP KUALA LUMPUR —International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach expects the vote to determine which city will host the 2022 Winter Olympics to come down to the quality of sports facilities for athletes, and which bid is perceived as the
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      Lock icon VAN GAAL, ROMERO RE-UNITED
      461 30 Argentine’s arrival plugs keeper uncertainty at Old Trafford PAIR HD WORKEDTO ETHER AT DUTCH CLUB AZ ALKMAAR REUTERS SANTA CLARA Manchester United have confirmed the signing of Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero on a three-year deal, reuniting manager Louis van Gaal with a player who helped bring
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      Lock icon FERRARI, MERCEDES BOSSES TRADE SPAGHETTI BARBS
      340 30 REUTERS BUDAPEST Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but hot and spicy is tastier for Ferrari Formula 1 team principal Maurizio Arrivabene. Sebastian Vettel’s stirring victory on Sunday in Hungary, the land of paprika, gave Arrivabene the chance he had been waiting
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      Lock icon LEDECKY PRIMED TO DOMINATE DISTANCE EVENTS IN KAZAN
      453 32 RIGOROUS TRAINING PUTS SWIMMER IN CONFIDENT MOOD REUTERS KAZAN Katie Ledecky surprised a few people when she blew away the field to win the 800m freestyle at the 2012 London Games, becoming, at the age of 15, the youngest winner of the
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      103 32 SPORTS FIXTURES HIGHLIGHTS This match is played on neutral ground. LW*: Telecast not available at Livewire(Singapore Pools) No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any prize. LW: Livewire (MBS) Livewire (RWS) (21 years and above) Livewire (Singapore Pools) (21
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      62 33 SINGA-POP #1 ORGANISING 150 MUSIC ACTS FOR A FESTIVAL? IT’S A HAPPY PROBLEM, SAY ORGANISERS [36] SINGA-POP #2 THE PHOTO EXHIBITION SHOWCASING SINGAPORE’S ROCK HISTORY GETS A SECOND AIRING [37] TUESDAY, 28 JULY 2015 ALL THINGS AND BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL YASMINNE CHENG SAYS SHE CAN BE PERKY LIKE A RAY OF
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  • T TODAY
    • culture&lifestyle
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        Lock icon THECULTOF PERSONALITY
        1337 34  -  CLASS 95FM DJ YASMINNE CHENG IS ZIPPY, HAPPY AND AGGRESSIVE CHRISTOPHER TOH christophert@mediacorp.com.sg Small, compact, generally funloving, but can be aggressive at times. That’s how Class 95FM’s radio DJ Yasminne Cheng describes herself. Hang on. Aggressive? Is this the same Yasminne Cheng who used to share tales of
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        Lock icon 22,000 bricks used to construct 2.59m ‘dragon playground’
        205 34  -  GENEVIEVE LOH SINGAPORE —Enter the dragon playground! In conjunction with Singapore’s SG50 celebrations, LEGO Singapore has launched the LEGO SG50 Rebuild Your Memories campaign with a series of event. One of them was the “live” construction of a 2.59m-long LEGO version of
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      • Article
        Singaporeans quite picky about hotels
        277 36  -  SERENE LIM SINGAPORE Singaporeans can be notoriously picky when it comes to their choice of hotels and a new survey by accommodation website Agoda.com has just confirmed this. In the survey’s findings for Most Generous Hotel Reviewers, Singapore ranked 31 out of 44 countries on
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        Lock icon Bringing the good vibes to Bedok Reservoir
        548 36  -  Organisers hope the public will experience the arts in all forms 100+50 MUSIC FESTIVAL HON JING YI honjingyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Last year, they had 100 bands entertaining audiences in Kovan over three weekends. This year, organiser The Rock Star Collective (RSC) has upped the
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        Still rockin’ on
        567 37  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH SINGAPORE Back in April, Little Ong, the creative director of fFurious and the curator for So Happy: 50 Years Of Singapore Rock, a photo exhibition featuring 100 images of local rock bands, was toying with the idea of taking the exhibition on the road after
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