Today, 18 October 2016

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1 30 Today
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  • 14 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM mediacorp TUESDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2016 WE SET YOU THINKING MCI (P) 026/06/2016
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  • 700 1 Iraq’s push to recapture terror group’s stronghold of Mosul may drive thousands of miliants here ‘PROACTIVE MEASURES NEEDED’ spanned the AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR —The launch of an operation by Iraqi forces yesterday to wrestle back the Islamic State’s (IS) stronghold
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  • Article, Illustration
    56 1 ON HIGH ALERT Special Operations Task Force troops taking down ‘terrorists’ at a cinema in Tampines Mall. It was part of an islandwide counter-terrorism exercise the country’s biggest ever which was held yesterday and early this morning, involving about 3,200 officers from the police, civil defence, military
    PHOTO: JASON QUAH  -  56 words
  • 882 1  -  TOHEEMING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Roving self-driving vehicles could travel around the island to keep streets spick and span, with the National Environment Agency (NEA) and the Ministry of Transport (MOT) yesterday calling for firms to propose how they would do this. Spelling
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  • hot news
    • 552 4  -  Some 3,200 officers from four agencies took part in activities, which lasted more than 18 hours NEO CHAI CHIN AND WONG PEI TING chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg wongpeiting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Beginning with the news of numerous bomb attacks in neighbouring countries and culminating in
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    • 367 4  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE —The Ministry of Home Affairs is studying the physical and mental needs of its Home Team officers in their work environments, so that it can design equipment and systems to ensure that they perform at their best.
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    • 429 6 AGENCIES BEIJING —China launched its longest manned space mission yesterday, sending two astronauts into orbit to spend a month aboard a space laboratory that is part of a broader ambitious space programme to have a permanent manned space station in
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    • 666 6  -  ANGELATENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —In a few years, a new S$3.2 billion mixed-development will be open for business in Paya Lebar, with analysts saying it will rejuvenate the area. Named Paya Lebar Quarter, the project unveiled yesterday by Australialisted real estate
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  • comment & analysis
    • 1209 8  -  PRESIDENT MUST REVEAL REAL REASON FRANCISCO TATAD Francisco Tatad is a Filipino journalist and politician. He was Minister of Public Information from 1969 to 1980 and a Senator from 1992 to 2001. This is adapted from a longer piece. MANILA TIMES
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    • 851 8  -  UNSOLICITED COMMENTS CAN HELP YOU IMPROVE LUCY KELLAWAY Lucy Kellaway is the Financial Times’ associate editor and management columnist. it. FINANCIAL TIMES You go to a formal dinner party. You talk to the person on one side during the starter, the other during
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  • voices
    • 460 12  -  F ROM EDWIN GOH XIAN JUN I hope Fandi Ahmad’s appointment as head football coach of youth can give some impetus to Singapore’s youth development scene (“Fandi to lead FAS’ Olympics quest”; Oct 5). This year, our Under-19 team were
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    • 256 12  -  FROM PAUL CHAN POH HOI While our society must wean itself off its dependence on highly-polluting fossil fuels, calls to eliminate diesel use are premature (“Driving a future without diesel”; Oct 12). For one thing, the fuel efficiency of diesel vehicles and the carbon emissions
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    • 14 12 •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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  • singapore
    • 420 14 ‘THIS CAN NEGATIVELY IMPACT EMPLOYEES’ SINGAPORE A promotion at work in Singapore does not always come with a bigger pay cheque, a recent survey shows. Research by recruitment company Robert Half found that just 17 per cent of Singaporean companies
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    • 172 14  -  ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY BY VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE A Singapore Airlines flight from Zurich, Switzerland, was delayed after a water servicing vehicle struck the aircraft at Zurich Airport, causing some damage (picture). The incident happened at 9.45am Zurich time on Sunday, while the
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    • 417 15 SINGAPORE —Due to headwinds in the industry and difficult economic conditions, Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) announced yesterday that it will be laying off employees and merging My Paper and The New Paper (TNP) to form a
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    • 231 15  -  out.” TOH EE MING SINGAPORE —Shoppers were evacuated from Orchard Road shopping mall Wisma Atria yesterday after a fire broke out in a second-floor unit, and four people who suffered smoke inhalation were taken to hospital. The Singapore Civil Defence
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    • 244 15 MY DREAIW IS TO HARNESS THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND." Kristen Lazarte Unravel success with MDIS School of Psychology Understand the science of human behaviour and uncover the complexities of the human mind. Be a facilitator of change and make a difference today. MAKING’DREAMS INTO-SUCCESS 1 'ft www.mdis.edu.sg (g)
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  • china & india
    • 944 16 FIRST ONE-TO-ONE TALKS WITH PRESIDENT XI AGENCIES MANILA —Before he was elected President, Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte promised to use a jet ski to reclaim a disputed reef seized by China. Since taking office in June, he has extended
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    • 354 16 AGENCIES China yesterday sought to play down comments by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that he would raise a controversial arbitral ruling on the South China Sea with China’s leaders, ahead of his visit to Beijing this week. Speaking on Sunday, Mr Duterte vowed not
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    • 477 17 Commission says some officials and officers not enforcing the law in a ‘just and cultured way’ AGENCIES BEIJING —China’s Public Security Ministry, which runs the police, is coming up short in its efforts to tackle corruption with some officials lacking
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  • world
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  • business
    • 540 20  -  Nodx down 4.8per cent and outlook remains bleak unless external demand picks up ALISON JENNER business editor deputy business editor jenneras@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Exports of locally made goods plunged back into negative territory last month after coming in flat in August, reflecting the global pressures
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    • 421 20  -  LEE YEN NEE SINGAPORE Infrastructure development can be the next sustained growth engine in the region and globally, but governments have to make sure the payoffs justify the costs, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday. Speaking at the 7th
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  • technology
    • 314 21 SINGAPORE —The Republic’s largest telco Singtel yesterday launched a smart home solution that allows users to remotely command their doors and appliances through a mobile phone app called True-i, developed in partnership with Hanman International. Users, for instance, can set air-con-ditioning and other home appliances
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    • 226 21 BLOOMBERG TOK YO Pick up a high-end smartphone these days and chances are it will have a crisp, energy-sipping organic LED display unless it is an iPhone. That will change next year when Apple will adopt the technology for
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  • sports
    • 680 22 US tennis star to miss WTA Finals for second straight year FANS, ORGANISERS DISAPPOINTED BY WITHDRAWAL AFP SINGAPORE —United States superstar Serena Williams has withdrawn from the elite WTA Finals in Singapore, saying she is still working to recover from the shoulder
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    • 509 22 1.” AP SHANGHAI Andy Murray’s season is turning out even better than he expected: He has won a second career Wimbledon title and a second Olympic gold medal, and reached the finals at the Australian Open and French Open. And on
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    • 567 23  -  National sprinter Calvin Kang spearheads launch of Football Talent Track Asia, a data analytics platform LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Youth football academies and clubs here will soon be able to tap a new tool to track and analyse the skills of their
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    • 456 23  -  NOAH TAN noahtanyw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —They had previously flown the flag for Singapore when they were chosen to officiate matches at last year’s Asian Cup Finals in Melbourne. This year, referee Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari and assistant referee Jeffrey Goh have once
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    • 1040 24  -  Sport Cares runner Thaslim aims to one day represent Singapore on the international stage NOAH TAN noahtanyw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE –He was a latch-key kid, who came from an underprivileged family, and lived in a neighbourhood where unsavoury characters often hung out. As such,
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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    • culture & lifestyle
      • 1153 25  -  PERFORMERS HAVE BEEN HELPING PATIENTS IN AREAS WHERE CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE MIGHT FALL SHORT JO TAN features@mediacorp.com.sg Various performers are transforming hospital wards, injecting cheer and song to the lives of patients there. For example, while Sing’Theatre is a company known for its lush musicals inspired by
        PHOTOS: SANDRINE CAPDOUZE, SING’THEATRE, CLOWN DOCTORS ASIA PACIFIC; PHOTO: MR BOTTLE KID’S PARTY  -  1,153 words
      • 636 25  -  Matthias Jabs on why Scorpions are still rocking 50 years later BLAST FROM THE PAST KEVIN MATHEWS SINGAPORE “We’re going out with a bang, we’re going out with a bang, I said we gonna go out with a bang, bang, bang, bang.” The opening song
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      • Article, Illustration
        536 27  -  Photographing the cats in traditional Hong Kong shops FELINE GOOD SERENE LIM HONG KONG When Dutch visual artist and photographer Marcel Heijnen moved from Singapore to Hong Kong last December, he began to notice something rather interesting while walking from his apartment in Sheung Wan to his nearest
        PHOTO: MARCEL HEIJEN  -  536 words
      • 324 27  -  MAYSEAH SINGAPORE Thedal 2016 has a winner and it is Magalakshmi Sudarsanan, who just might be one of Vasantham’s future stars. At the grand finals of the talent search, which aims to uncover acting talent, the 19-year-old beat three other finalists whittled down from
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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