Today, 17 October 2016

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  • 14 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM mediacorp MONDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2016 WE SET YOU THINKING MCI (P) 026/06/2016
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  • 708 1  -  WONG PEI TING wongpeiting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The sharing economy has reached the school transport sector, with a new service that will see parents who are already making the school runs pick up other children living nearby for a fee. Called Schoolber, it was
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  • 828 1  -  Installation slatedfor 636HDB blocks and 31 govt sites, which include schools, hawker centres TENDER BIDS BY CONSORTIUMS ALLOWED THIS TIME KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Government agencies are going into the solar power market again with more organisations involved this time to
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  • 806 1 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thailand’s Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn has urged people not to worry about his surprise decision to delay being proclaimed king following the death of his father, said the country’s junta leader Prayuth Chanocha, as his government sought to dispel
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  • hot news
    • 588 2 AGENCIES BANGKOK —Thais should not reprimand others who do not wear black or white clothing as the nation mourns the death of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, said the Thai government yesterday, after some individuals who failed to wear mourning colours were
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    • 1065 6  -  VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Some can hit speeds of 80kph and stay aloft for 45 minutes, some are small enough to fit into the palm of your hand with a camera attached, and some can even pelt small projectiles. With drone
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    • 309 5 DAYS OF A i HALS A) m octotfj; Make a difference while you indulge in Singapore's national pastimes of dining and shopping. By supporting our local businesses during SME Week, you will be helping SMEs to employ 70% of Singapore's workforce. As SMEs make up 99% of businesses in Singapore,
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    • 207 6 m 4 New Chinese Uish ty¥*iiisr Md many more. Oxford Language Academy OXFORD Institute 15 Enggor Street, #10-03, Realty Centre, Singapore *****6 6734 8734 enquiries@oi.edu.sg ola.oi.edu.sg Mon Fri, 12pm 7pm Follow us: K3 Oxford Institute Singapore @oxford_sg The Shipping Corporation Of India Ltd. (A Government of India Enterprise) P&S Division,
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  • comment & analysis
    • 1122 8  -  THE HUMAN NARRATIVE BEHIND THE NUMBERS CHERYLCHUNG Cheryl Chung heads the strategic planning department at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and together with a team, is building the futures research and teaching capabilities at the School with the
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    • 1363 9  -  KING BHUMIBOL HELPED THAIS RESTORE SELF-RESPECT SANITSUDA EKACHAI Sanitsuda Ekachai is a columnist at the Bangkok Post, where she was formerly the editorial pages editor. BANGKOK POST The announcement is coming; the same message bombarded my many Line chat rooms on hursday afternoon.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • voices
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    • 60 12 LETTER DON’T SUPPORT EXPLOITATION BY VISITING ASIAN ANIMAL CAFES Visit todayonline.com/voices or download the TODAY app for the letter from Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 400L 2 DOORS BOTTOM FREEZER FRIDGE NR-BX468XSSG UP:$1299 SP:$1099 SHOW PRICE $998: All pictures are for illustration purposes only. While stocks last.
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  • singapore
    • 349 13 STALLHOLDERS TO BE RELOCATED CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Demolition work on the wet market in Jurong West Street 41, which was gutted in a fire on Tuesday, could begin as early as this week. The professional engineer appointed by the Housing and
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    • 352 13 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE There is room to increase interaction between Singaporeans and new citizens to help them understand each other better, Chua Chu Kang Member of Parliament Zaqy Mohamad said yesterday. Speaking on the sidelines of a constituency event, the Big Farm
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    • 85 13 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE A 71-year-old female pedestrian died yesterday after a lorry hit her at the junction of Choa Chu Kang North 5 and Choa Chu Kang Street 51, near Limbang Shopping Centre. Police were alerted to the accident at around noon. The female pedestrian
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    • 321 13  -  WONG PEI TING Singapore —If you are taking more than five pills, speak to a community pharmacist, as there is a chance that you may be overprescribed, pharmacists said at the end of Pharmacy Week 2016. And they are appealing to the
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    • 251 14 2,241 people who gathered at Bishan Stadium is largest reunion of people born in the same hospital CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —A total of 2,241 people, all born at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), showed up at Bishan Stadium yesterday to break
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    • 264 14  -  WONG PEI TING SINGAPORE —For the past three days, Mr Tan Teck Loon spent 10 hours in the pool daily to swim more than 500 laps. With that, he set a new record of 1,639 laps, equivalent to 82km, in the
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    • 58 14 INTAKE STARTING IN JUNE 2017 Application for the Jun 2017 intake is now open and will close on 31 Mar 2017. PREVIEW TALKS 21 October 2016, Friday 7pm to 8.30pm TKP Conference Centre 137 Cecil Street, Level 3 19 November 2016, Saturday 2pm to 3.30pm CET West Campus 80 Jurong
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  • china & india
    • 435 15 PRESIDENT VOWS ‘NO BARGAINING’ WITH CHINA MANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday he would raise a controversial arbitral ruling on the South China Sea with China’s leaders, and vowed not to surrender any sovereignty or deviate from the July award by
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    • 643 16 AGENCIES GOA Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi branded Pakistan the “mother-ship of terrorism” at a summit of the Brics nations yesterday, testing the cohesion of a group whose heavyweight member China is a close ally of its South Asian arch-rival. Mr Modi’s remarks
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    • 117 16 w '.~'v .fdm Jpr HOW V >v V -■••■•v.v- PEOPLE IN TECH MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE. Companies like Spotify and Apple hire professionals who harness tech to help us enjoy media anytime, anywhere. In Singapore, over 172,000 tech professionals support sectors like media and finance. However, there are still more
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  • world
    • 566 17 MISSILE DID NOT POSE A THREAT TO U.S. AGENCIES SEOUL —North Korea launched an in-termediate-range ballistic missile, but the test failed as the projectile exploded shortly after liftoff, said South Korea and the United States yesterday. The South Korean Joint Chiefs
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    • 358 17 THE NEWYORK TIMES PORTSMOUTH (NEW HAMPSHIRE) —Escalating his criticism of Mrs Hillary Clinton’s debate performances, Mr Donald Trump came to a state battling a drug epidemic and suggested without any evidence over the weekend that his opponent had been on
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    • 371 17 AGENCIES MANILA —A typhoon that barrelled into northern Philippine provinces yesterday has further weakened as it moved towards the South China Sea, but the local weather bureau said it was closely monitoring another storm that could enter the eastern boundary by today. Typhoon
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  • business
    • 933 18  -  ON THE MONEY RICHARD HARTUNG today@mediacorp.com.sg The Singapore economy is “in for a tough period that will last for a while”, Deputy Prime Minister harman Shanmugaratnam said last month. Minister for Trade and Industry (Trade) Lim Hng Kiang said this month that the Singapore economy may
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    • 409 18  -  TEA LEAVES NICHOLASTEO Nicholas Teo is trading strategist at KG I Securities (Singapore). The crystal ball paints a cloudy picture over United States corporate earnings as Q3 reporting takes a fresh gear up this week. More than 100 key S&P500 names
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    • 777 19  -  PERSPECTIVES Compiled by Rumi Hardasmalani (rumih@mediacorp.com.sg) (rumih@mediacorp.com.sg) MICHAEL SMITH JR Partner, SeedPlus Empathy. I think most people forget how lucky they are to be in the position they have arrived at. It is easy to get caught up in all of our
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    • 362 19 AFP FR ANKFURT European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi will be under pressure this week to clarify the bank’s stimulus plans after investors were spooked by talk of an end to its massive bond-buying programme. The ECB governing council is not
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    • 739 20  -  Weaker prices attract more buyers looking for assets with strong investment potential LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The number of landed homes that changed hands in Singapore during the July-to-September quarter rose to the highest in more than three years, as a
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  • technology
    • 840 21 Services flourishing because millennials have different ways of working: Researchers SLACK ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING BUSINESS APPS AFP WASHINGTON —Looking to break out of a “messy” email situation, the nonprofit group dosomething.org recently switched over to a new way of communicating among its
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    • 401 21 REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO —Twitter faces an uncertain future after Saleforce.com, the last of the companies believed to be interested in buying the troubled social network, said on Friday that it would not make a bid. Twitter and CEO Jack Dorsey may
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  • sports
    • 839 22  -  Dr William Tan completes 500km cycle challenge to raise money for cancer patients HE STRUGGLED TO COPE WITH WET CONDITIONS, UPHILL CLIMBS LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Seven years ago, Dr William Tan was wheelchair racing in the Paris Marathon when his nose began
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    • 266 22 SINGAPORE —Midway through her final freestyle routine at the 2016 Federation Aeronautique Internationale World Cup of Indoor Skydiving on Saturday in Warsaw, Poland, 14-year-old Kyra Poh suffered a hit on her side in the wind tunnel and lost her shoe. But
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    • 1073 23 REDS UNITED Adrian Clarke’s combined Liverpool/Manchester United XI (4-2-3-1) Liverpool fans have always reserved their most vicious receptions for Jose Mourinho, so on his first visit as Manchester United boss at 3am tomorrow (Singapore time), you can bet that a tumultuous atmosphere will
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    • 206 23 United boast the better individuals, but Liverpool have the better team. That is why it is impossible for me to back against the on-song hosts in this one. Mourinho is still searching for his Eureka moment. The pieces seem to fit okay, but until now there is still
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    • 963 24 Games designed to reflect the sport’s reality have influenced players PROS ENJOY PLAYING FIFA, PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER THE NEWYORK TIMES L O N D O N Before his first few appearances as a teenage striker for Arsenal, Alex Iwobi used
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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    • 42 24 it 1 a a? NEW EPISODES EVERY MONDAY mediacorp “I could no longer work with you” The argument that ended Edmund Chen Xiang Yun’s collaborations toggle.sg/InBedWith ■sf *9h ffied-QUilA*. ?§)KAsJnT GET IT ON SELECTED Google Play I SMART ITVJ Toggle BiO Toggle
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  • T TODAY
    • culture & lifestyle
      • Article, Illustration
        1208 25  -  HOW THREE CHOCOLATIERS HAVE TAKEN THE UNCONVENTIONAL PATH TO FOCUS ON PROMOTING THE ARTISANAL VERSION OF THE TREAT SONIA YEO soniayeosj@mediacorp.com.sg Chocolates are universally loved. But some people love them more than others. In fact, there are a select few in Singapore who love it so much, they have
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      • 1060 25  -  As preparation for year-end exams kicks into high gear, what can we do to avoid turning into monsters? PARENTING WITH DIANA SER DIANASER Diana Ser is a TV host who currently runs online portal Crazy About Chinese that encourages parents to teach their children
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      • 396 27  -  Middle Eastern Film Festival includes recommended film by Tom Hanks MOVIE PICKS REENADEVI SINGAPORE We all know Tom Hanks, the affable Oscar-winning actor who made his name in critically acclaimed movies such as Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan and Sully. So when Hanks tweets that
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      • 314 27  -  SERENELIM SINGAPORE Those looking to renovate their homes no longer have to fear a shoddy job or an unreliable interior designer. Home renovation platform Qanvast announced last Monday that it is now offering home owners who engage one
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    • 177 27 The Middle Eastern Film Festival runs from Oct 20 to 30 at The Projector. Tickets are available online on The Projector’s website or at the counter. lespiting Kids SRAM Nurturing Curiou Le irners! TWTS c BV PAP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION V WALK-IN INTERVIEW Positions Available Centre Principal Preschool Teacher Infant Educarer
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 30 27 sudokuplus DIFFICULTY LEVEL HOW TO PLAY Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. SATURDAY’S SOLUTION COPYRIGHT UCLICK
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 1350 28 CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM The Ellen DeGeneres Show XIII (HD) (PG) 7.00 First Look Asia (HD) 9.00 The Dr Oz Show VII (HD) 10.00 Euromaxx 10.30 JML TV Home Shopping (Paid Presentation) 11.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show XIII (HD) (PG) 11.50 Just For Laughs Gags XV (HD) NOON Chuck’s Day Off
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    • 147 29 LIVE SUNDAY 23 OCTOBER 7:30PM Call these numbers now: 1900-112-8821 $5 1900-112-8822 $20 1900-112-8823 $100 Donations can be made via: Online: www.giving.sg/psc2016 Cheque: “President’s Challenge 2016” Dash App: President’s Challenge A NIGHT OF SHINING STARS This year’s President’s Star Charity 2016 is themed “Just Like You”, reminding us that the
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    • 68 30 Vote and help the 3 hottest SMEs win a $100,000 advertising grant each. Thanks to your nominations, these are the 10 finalists in the 99% SME Toggle Contest. Visit toggle.sg/99sme to vote before 23 October and you could spice up the business of your favourite SME. Let’s fire up our
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