Today, 6 December 2016

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  • 14 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING mediacorp TUESDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2016 MCI (P) 026/06/2016
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  • 977 1  -  WP’S AHTC PLANS TO REFURBISH ITS LIFTS AT THE 15-YEAR MARK WONG PEI TING wongpeiting@mediacorp.com .sg AHTC chairman Pritam Singh. ADDItional REPORTING BY KELLY NG SINGAPORE —The 15 town councils run by the People’s Action Party (PAP) announced yesterday
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  • Article, Illustration
    66 1 The Aerostat a radar-equipped balloon tethered to land that can scan Singapore’s seas and skies for threats 55m-long helium-filled floating above Jurong West yesterday. The 55m-long helium-filled airship, with an operating height of 600m and the ability to provide 24/7 radar coverage of up to 200km, is the
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  • 783 1 AGENCIES WASHINGTON BEIJING —United States President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at China early yesterday to defend his engagement with the leader of Taiwan, accusing Beijing of currency ma- nipulation and military expansionism in the South China Sea. Despite the outburst, China
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  • hot news
    • 657 2  -  DIPLOMATIC GAFFE OR TEST FOR CHINA? BEN HO AND ALBERTWAI ben.ho@mediacorp.com.sg albertwai@mediacorp.com.sg WITH AGENCIES SINGAPORE —Foreign policy experts interviewed by TODAY have noted that it may be too early to draw firm conclusions on whether the protocolbending phone
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    • 748 4 AGENCIES ROME —Italy was plunged into political and economic uncertainty yesterday as Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said he would resign after voters decisively rejected constitutional changes, the latest victim in a global wave of antiestablishment anger. His decision to quit after just two-and-a-half
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    • 543 6 AGENCIES ROME The defeat of former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in a reforms referendum early yesterday has cast the spotlight on the Five Star Movement (M5S), an anti-establish-ment populist party that spearheaded the “No” camp on the issue. It
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    • 338 6 AGENCIES The euro rebounded from 21-month lows against the greenback yesterday, recovering all of the early losses incurred after Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi conceded defeat in a referendum on plans to reform the country’s Constitution and said he would resign.
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    • 556 8  -  KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —The High Court has awarded S$8.65 million in damages to a cyclist struck by a bundle of overhead cables while riding on a pavement, in what is believed
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  • comment & analysis
    • 902 10  -  EMPHASIS SHOULD NOW BE ON THE QUALITATIVE ADRIAN WJKUAH AND DONALD LOW Dr Adrian W J Kuah is senior research fellow (Future Ready Singapore project) and Mr Donald Low is associate dean (Executive Education and Research) at the Lee Kuan Yew School
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    • 565 12  -  DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS CALL FOR TRANSITIONAL DEAL BLOOMBERG EDITORS BLOOMBERG Britain will begin talking to the European Union (EU) about its impending divorce when Prime Minister Theresa May formally starts the process by the end of next March, she says. And while
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  • voices
    • 347 14  -  F ROM LEONG KWOK PENG Vice-President and Chair (Conservation Committee), Nature Society (Singapore) Within the parameters of being tasked with running revenue-earning attractions, Mandai Park Holdings has tried to give some consideration to the nature reserve adjacent to its new wildlife parks
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    • 110 14  -  FROM GANKOKTIONG I refer to the report “STTA chief has no regrets over ‘painful’ Feng axing” (Dec 2). Singapore Table Tennis Association president Ellen Lee’s decision is to be applauded for its boldness and far-sightedness, in the long-term interests of Singaporeans. If
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    • 106 14  -  F ROM SUSAN NG In the report “STTA chief has no regrets over ‘painful’ Feng axing” (Dec 2), Singapore Table Tennis Association president Ellen Lee said: “We wanted to preserve her dignity for her and I gave her a graceful exit.” I do not
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    • 158 14 ENABLE FUND Give a gift to those with disabilities this festive season. Go to todayonline.com/ enable to find out how you can. 5S 5 m Mr. m i'. %S I* •St h*- ,> 'i£V* V A TIMELESS CHRISTMAS AT CARLTON CITY CHRISTMAS SHOPPE 1 25 DECEMBER 2016 Lobby Level T
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    • 109 15 DIGITAL TV ROADSHOW GET READY FOR DIGITAL TV! 10-11 December 2016 (Sat Sun) 11am 9pm Hougang Central Hub, 814 Hougang Ave 10 (next to Hougang Mall) Learn how to switch to Digital TV through activities and games. Limited edition gifts to be redeemed daily! While stocks last. k. Singaporean household
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  • singapore
    • 478 16 ‘INCREASE DUE TO MORE MOTHERS, GRANDPARENTS WORKING’ SINGAPORE About one in 10 babies 18 months old or younger are enrolled in an infant-care centre today, a growth of 60 per cent since 2012 due to greater participation of females and seniors in
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    • 343 16 SINGAPORE Some subscribers to Singtel’s fibre broadband service said yesterday they still could not connect to the Internet, more than one day after the telco said services have been fully restored. Customers from various areas, including Woodlands, Sengkang and Serangoon, complained on
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    • 239 17  -  KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Police arrested a 63-year-old driver yesterday after a crane on his vehicle hit the ceiling of the Central Expressway (CTE) tunnel. The incident caused the expressway entrance on Upper Cross Street, heading towards the SLE, to be closed
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    • 447 17 SINGAPORE Real estate firm SQFT Global Properties Singapore and its agent, Paleenia Wong Mui Wah, were fined for misleading a customer over a foreign property purchase, which caused the customer to lose NZ$65,000 (S$65,670). The Council for Estate Agencies
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  • china & india
    • 943 18 AREA ‘A BEACON OF CULTURAL CHANGE’ TO YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS THE NEWYORKTIMES MOUNTAIN VIEW (CALIFORNIA) —The majesty of the Golden Gate, the windy chill of Alcatraz, the tourist hubbub of Pier 39 Mr Zhao Haoyu’s itinerary for San Francisco had it all.
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    • 732 19 AGENCIES chennai (India)— Authorities in southern India put police on high alert yesterday, fearing an outbreak of civil unrest after one of the country’s most popular leaders, Ms Jayalalithaa Jayaram, suffered a cardiac arrest. Doctors treating the 68-year-old former film
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    • 141 19 NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY College of Professional and Continuing Education r\ t\ t August 2017 Intake 4-Year Part-Time Programme BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING PROGRAMMES Computer Science Electrical and Electronic Engineering Mechanical Engineering Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 13th globally. It is also placed 1st amongst the world’s
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  • world
    • 984 20 PM LEE, TURNBULL PRAISE HIS ACHIEVEMENTS AGENCIES WELLINGTON —New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, who won praise for his economic stewardship after the global financial crisis, unexpectedly announced his resignation yesterday after eight years in power, backing his Finance
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    • 724 21 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —A leader of the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) has accused opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) of blindly emulating Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP), after former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad praised the DAP for having a stronger
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  • business
    • 520 22 DATA SAFETY COMPROMISED BY IGNORANCE SINGAPORE —One in three chief information officers (CIOs) in Singapore believes that their employees pose their greatest security risk, a survey commissioned by Robert Half showed yesterday, signalling a growing concern for companies as staff
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    • 335 22 BLOOMBERG SHENZHEN —Almost lost in the barrage of antagonistic tweets by US Presi-dent-elect Donald Trump and the results of the Italian referendum was the opening up of China’s second-largest equity market to the rest of the world. The link
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    • 267 22 AGENCIES SINGAPORE —GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, is investing 3.5 trillion rupiah (S$370.7 million) in a company that operates Indonesia’s biggest cinema chain, marking the latest foreign investment in the country’s burgeoning movie industry. GIC’s strategic partnership with PT Nusantara Sejahtera Raya
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  • technology
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  • sports
    • 788 24  -  Track and field body could lose grant for its top job after failing to consult with SportSG LATEST IN LINE OF ISSUES FACED BY ASSOCIATION LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Republic’s track and field governing body, Singapore Athletics, could lose its funding for
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    • 383 24  -  LOWLIN FHOONG SINGAPORE —Two months after she was unceremoniously axed from the national team, paddler Feng Tianwei hit back with a statement of intent on Sunday, as the 30-year-old shocked world No 1 Ding Ning of China 3-2 in her
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    • 718 25 AFP LONDON —Jurgen Klopp has been forced to defend Liverpool’s character and title credentials after the Reds’ incredible meltdown in a stunning 4-3 defeat at Bournemouth. Liverpool’s shock loss on Sunday came at a time when they looked set to move to
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    • 536 25 AGENCIES NASSAU (THE BAHAMAS) —Tiger Woods’ return to competition after an absence of nearly 16 months was a mixed bag, though the former world No 1 said he had a great week simply competing at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.
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    • 463 26 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —Jose Mourinho has declared that he has “nothing to hide” after it was claimed that income from his image rights, amounting to million of pounds, were moved offshore to avoid tax. An investigation, based on a leak
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    • 799 26 AFP PARIS Two decades ago, he was a simple entrepreneur making a living from managing a video club and discotheques. Today, at the age of 50, Jorge Mendes operates in the rarefied upper stratosphere of the hyper-mon-eyed world inhabited by top sportsmen as
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  • T TODAY
    • culture & lifestyle
      • Article, Illustration
        1371 27  -  HOW CHEN HANWEI MADE THE JOURNEY FROM ‘90S TEE IDOL TO LOCAL TV’S LIVING LEGEND MAYSEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg Chen Hanwei’s latest drama, a heartland comedy, is titled Hero. Coincidentally, if you ask any young actor, they’ll tell you that Chen himself is a real hero in the industry. How
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      • 726 27  -  No chance of do-overs in Mulan The Musical brings on the jitters for veterans Pierre Png and Ann Kok UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT HON JINGYI SINGAPORE —They may be veteran actors, but Pierre Png and Ann Kok aren’t spared from the jitters. Png and Kok have had a
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      • 1004 29 The causes of long-term picky eating remain poorly understood, and social anxiety related to the habit seems to increase with age SAME FOOD PERCEIVED DIFFERENTLY THENEWYORKTIMES NEW YORK —Children are known for being picky eaters. But what happens when these picky eaters grow
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 963 30 CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM The Ellen DeGeneres Show XIII (HD) 7.00 First Look Asia (HD) 9.00 The Dr Oz Show VII (HD)(PG) 10.00 Arts 21 10.30 JML TV Home Shopping (Paid Presentation) 11.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show XIV (HD) NOON The Holiday Show III (HD) 12.30PM Donna Hay Fast, Fresh, Simple
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    • 267 30 Mediacorp’s latest online TV service offers entertainment, lifestyle, information and news across multiple devices. Log on to www.toggle.sg or download the Toggle App now. TOGGLE-IT-FIRST Watch episodes in advance before anyone else. PAID HERO (EP 11)(PG-SOME SEXUAL REFERENCES) Meiyu meets her sugar daddy, Eric, a middle-aged accountant, who offers her
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    • 369 32 A SPARKLING ;SV. V CHR STMAS t 18 NOV TO 25 DEC 2016 One Raffles Place lights up the holiday season with merry good deals, fundraising activities, and the most spectacular prizes! A s*s ■>- Vk m m oneRa espiace m sag Enjoy A Little Something Every Day Shopping And
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