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  • 16 1 TODAY TODAYONLI NE .COM WE SET YOU THINKING /VI bdiaCorp WEDNESDAY, 29 JULY 2015 MCI(P) 021/06/2015
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  • 1220 1  -  Members of Cabinet should not air differences openly says Malaysian PM as he shuffles deck; AG among those removed CELENE TAN celenetan@mediacorp.com.sg AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —Embattled Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak sacked his deputy and four other ministers in a Cabinet reshuffle, and replaced the
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  • 840 1  -  SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —Pledging to improve the coordination among public agencies in providing help to vulnerable groups, Social and Family Development Min- ister Tan Chuan-Jin has spoken of his frustrations at how individuals requiring attention are not flagged earlier,
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  • 375 1 SINGAPORE —A 51-year-old Singaporean has been placed under detention for two years after he tried to travel to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Mustafa Sultan Ali was arrested last month under the Internal
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    • 87 1 A STUDY SHOWS THAT S’POREANS WANT A CARING COMMUNITY, BUT A GIVING NATION BEGINS WITH YOU AND MECOM M E NT&ANALYSIS 19 BOOST FOR S’POREI NDONE SIA TI E S Countries sign 3 MOUs in pledge to deepen security, business relations HOT NEWS 8 INSIDE If my stand in this
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  • hot news
    • 662 2  -  AUTHORITIES WILL TRY TO KEEP TIP-OFF SOURCES CONFIDENTIAL SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Minister for Social and Family Development Tan Chuan-Jin has urged Singaporeans to err on the side of being “kiasu” (Hokkien for fear of losing out) when they have
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    • 761 4  -  PRACTICAL TO GIVE THEM EQUAL INCENTIVES, SAYS EXPERT LOUISA TANG louisatang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Hailing the Government’s review on the benefits that single unwed mothers are eligible to get, women’s rights groups yesterday stressed that the welfare of the children should come
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    • 612 6  -  Resident filed claim citing unhappiness that town council had not fulfilled its duties CORRECT DECISION BY COURT: TOWN COUNCIL’S VICE-CHAIRMAN NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Small Claims Tribunals has dismissed a claim by a resident of Parkland Residences seeking a refund of service
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    • 748 8  -  COUNTRIES SIGN THREE MOUs TO EXPAND COOPERATION CELENE TAN celenetan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Singapore and Indonesia pledged to strengthen business ties and increase cooperation in security issues yesterday, as the two countries signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) during a state visit by Indonesian
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    • 657 8  -  TAN WEIZHEN SINGAPORE Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, who is on his first official visit to Singapore, has called on businesses here to invest in his country as it undergoes a political and economic transformation, saying those who venture in early will reap
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    • 435 10 SINGAPORE AND THE UK SHARE A SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP: BRITISH PM SING A PORE A packed programme awaited British Prime Minister David Cameron as he began his two-day official visit to Singapore yesterday. In the afternoon, he gave a lecture organised by the
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    • 475 10  -  AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE About 100,000 commuters will be able to travel for free on trains and buses every Friday till the end of the year, under the POSB’s “Fare Free Friday” initiative to mark SG50. Commuters who want to get these free
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    • 384 10  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE Progress on the regional haze monitoring system has been very slow, but concrete steps can be taken through information sharing between governments, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan said yesterday. Given that Malaysian and Indonesian authorities
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    • 650 12 BIGGEST ONE-DAY LOSS IN OVER EIGHT YEARS AGENCIES SHANGHAI —Chinese shares yesterday extended their biggest one-day loss in more than eight years, as Beijing scrambled once again to prop up a stock market whose wild gyrations have heightened fears about the
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    • 555 12  -  SIAU MING EN SINGAPORE —Mr Inderjit Singh, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ang Mo Kio GRC, yesterday cleared the air over what he described as a “misunderstanding” over his retirement from politics, and said there was no rift between him and the People’s
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    • 720 14 FORMER DPM SAYS HE ACCEPTS, RESPECTS NAJIB’S DECISION AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Hours after being dropped from the Malaysian Cabinet yesterday, former Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin defended his criticism of the controversial 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) over the weekend as remarks made in the interest of
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    • MALAYSIAN PM’S MOVE MAY BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL, SAYS DAP
      • 527 16 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The replacement of Malaysia’s Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail, who had been heading the multi-agency special task force that is investigating the troubled 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), has cast doubt on the credibility of the ongoing probe, with opponents crying
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      • 218 16 AGENCIES In an unusual route, Mr Mohamed Apandi Ali, 65, went from Federal Court judge to AttorneyGeneral, against the backdrop of an ongoing investigation headed by his predecessor, Mr Abdul Gani Patail, into the troubled state-owned investment firm, 1Malaysia Development Bhd.
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      • 637 16 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) investigation into the scandalridden 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) will be temporarily suspended, after four of its members were appointed to the Cabinet following yesterday’s reshuffle, said the committee’s chairman. Mr
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    • 923 17  - Najib fights back but will he last? NEWS ANALYSIS WONG CHIN HUAT Dr Wong Chin Huat is head of political and social analysis at Penang Institute. Yesterday’s Cabinet reshuffle and removal of the AttorneyGeneral showed that Prime Minister Najib Razak had the guts in him to remove his threats in
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    • 585 17 AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR —Malaysian opposition lawmakers have called for the tabling of a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Najib Razak, following his Cabinet reshuffle and removal of the Attorney-General, which they say have cast doubts on the investigations into troubled
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  • comment&analysis
    • 994 18  -  WHY CHINA’S COSTLY CHARM OFFENSIVE HAS NOT WORKED JOSEPH NYE Joseph Nye, a former US Assistant Secretary of Defence and chairman of the US National Intelligence Council, is University Professor at Harvard University and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda
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    • 968 19  -  CAN SINGAPOREANS MAKE A COLLECTIVE CHOICE TO HELP ONE ANOTHER? MELISSA KWEE Melissa Kwee is chief executive officer of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre. This commentary is adapted from a longer piece in Beyond 50: Re-imagining Singapore, a book of essays by different
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    • 732 21  -  PROPOSED CHANGES TO RBI’S OPERATIONS THOUGHT TO LEAD TO TURF BATTLE DHIRAJ NAYYAR Dhiraj Nayyar is a journalist in New Delhi and editor of Surviving The Storm: India And The Global Financial Crisis. BLOOMBERG India’s Ministry of Finance and its central bank are on
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    • 182 18 For now, the Indian government should not allow the central bank to confuse what is essentially a turf battle with a false narrative about the loss of its independence. DHIRA J NAYYAR 21 My degree in 1 year I am ready. V Edinburgh Napier UNIVERSITY Find out more at our
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  • voices
    • 330 22  -  FROM MANORAJ RAJATHURAI Abuse of the elderly in this day and age is sad, to say the least. It also shows that some sections of our populace still lack the tools to keep up with the pace of life here (“The hidden world of
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    • 331 22  -  FROM SIM BENG TIONG If only we care for one another, elder abuse would not be an issue (“The hidden world of elder abuse”; Talking Point). Let us discuss the video that went viral. What viewers see is the serious
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    • 304 23  -  FROM MARK FINDLAY Reasons for the fall of political and economic regimes are more challenging than observed recently. At its simplest, it is about the haves and the have-nots (“Communism failed due to flawed economic ideology”; July 28). Be it the fall
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    • 271 23  -  FROM EUGENE TAN Y S The question the opposition parties must ask themselves is: Why are they contesting? Is it because they are for Singapore or because they are against the People’s Action Party? (“Opposition talks on poll areas likely to be
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  • singapore
    • 508 26  -  Members of the public have up to Aug 31 to make donations for families of the victims MORE AVENUES OPENED UP FOR DONATIONS HOLLY MATTHEWS hollym@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The deadline for donating to a fund to help the families of the Sabah earthquake victims has
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    • 474 26  -  LAURA PHILOMIN lauraphilomin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The curriculum for trainee teachers will be changed to help them become masters in the subjects they want to teach, as well as improve their pedagogical skills, Education Minister Heng Swee Keat announced yesterday. Starting
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    • 615 27  -  While progress takes time things are moving in the right direction, says Lawrence Wong JOY FANG joyfangz@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Concerns about whether youths here can be confident enough to pursue unconventional career pathways of arts and sports in lieu of traditionally materially rewarding occupations dominated a
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    • 587 28  -  PROJECT FEATURES SERIES OF 50 SHORT VIDEOS, EACH ABOUT A DIFFERENT PERSON VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After wandering into an unassuming cafe in Queenstown one day, digital advertising professional Jeff Cheong spent three hours chatting with the cafe’s elderly owner and learnt that
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    • 494 30  -  FEW TRACES OF BLOOD FOUND AT CRIME SCENE VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —He told his accomplice it was a crime of passion, sparked by jealousy over his wife speaking to another man on the phone. However, the Coroner’s Court heard
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    • 212 30 SINGAPORE —SingNet has been fined S$90,000 for a pay-TV disruption on Feb 3 that lasted nearly two hours and affected about 11,000 SingTel TV subscribers, said the Media Development Authority (MDA) yesterday. The incident occurred at around 10pm that day. Affected customers were
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  • health
    • 1080 34  -  Other than moisturisers, steroid creams, pills and UV phototherapy, new smart drugs are also under way ONE IN 10 ADULT SINGAPOREANS HAS ECZEMA: NATIONAL SKIN CENTRE EXPERT EVELINE GAN eveline@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —For more than 30 years, living with severe eczema made life “a living hell” for 34-year-old
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  • china&india
    • 493 36 Military claims to have achieved breakthroughs’ in detecting targets SOUTH CHINA SEA IS TESTING GROUND FOR NEW WEAPONS, EQUIPMENT REUTERS BEIJING China said it conducted air and sea drills in the South China Sea yesterday as it stakes an increasingly assertive claim to virtually the
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    • 384 36 BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI Just when nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan agreed to start high-level talks for the first time in more than a year, a terrorist attack has put everything on hold. India pointed the finger at Pakistan for a strike on Monday
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    • 520 37 Competition is heating up for a slice of country’s train market, which is expected to ‘explode’ TENSIONS WITH CHINA MAY GIVE COMPANY UPPER HAND BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI Spanish train-maker Talgo SA sees an opportunity in India’s tense relationship with China.
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  • world
    • 544 38 Govt to implement reforms to fix healthcare shortcomings exposed during outbreak NEW LAW TO RESTRICT HOSPITAL VISITS BY FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS AGENCIES SEOUL South Korea yesterday announced that it is virtually free of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus that killed
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    • 1214 40 APPROACH JEOPARDISES CRIMINAL CASES, MISSES CHANCES TO GATHER INTELLIGENCE, SAY CRITICS THE NEW YORK TIMES WA SHINGTON —In the immediate aftermath of the Sept 11 attacks, United States Justice Department officials, concerned that another offensive was imminent, swiftly moved to arrest
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  • business
    • 844 42  -  Airline aims to launch six to eight new destinations, increase route network by 50% CARRIER ALSO STEPS UP HIRING PLANS RUMI HARDASMALANI rumih@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Scoot, Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) medium- to long-haul low-cost subsidiary, is set to take off with an
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    • 229 44 SINGAPORE —Insurance group Great Eastern yesterday reported a 14 per cent gain in second-quarter net profit despite lower sales, and warned of a challenging operating environment ahead amid stiffer competition and uncertainties in the macro economy. Net profit for the three months ended
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    • 336 44  -  LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E An executive condominium (EC) site at Choa Chu Kang Avenue 5 received 11 bids at the close of tender yesterday, which property analysts said signalled developers’ continued enthusiasm towards
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    • 600 45 BLOOMBERG JAKARTA Bali, the world’s hottest island property market, is about to get even hotter: demand from Singapore investors is expected to surge as soon as the Indonesian government revises foreign ownership rules in the next few months.
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  • technology
    • 489 46 EASIER FOR USERS TO LOG IN TO SERVICES AGENCIES MOUNTAIN VIEW (CALIFORNIA) Google is limiting the reach of its social network, planning to make it simpler for users to log in to the company’s many Web services without Google+. The company will soon allow users
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  • sports
    • 736 48  -  S’porean-owned club has set up office here to grow their brand SPANISH SIDE TO GET INVOLVED IN LOCAL FOOTBALL SCENE ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Boasting a rich 96-year history in the sport, Valencia CF are considered one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football,
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