Today, 24 January 2017

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  • 14 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING mediacorp TUESDAY, 24 JANUARY 2017 MCI (P) 026/06/2016
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  • 74 1 A flooded street at the Supreme Court Lane yesterday. A heavy downpour caused flash floods and traffic snarls during the morning peak period. Flash floods were reported along Craig Road, Tanjong Pagar Road and Maxwell Road, said national water agency PUB. Accidents were reported on
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  • 863 1  -  TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Should the political landscape here evolve into one with more than one dominant political party, it could mean a lot more “jostling on the ground” as unions and various associations and even the media become split as
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  • 563 1 AGENCIES WASHINGTON —Defending the White House’s attack on the media following Mr Donald Trump’s inauguration, his adviser Kellyanne Conway claimed the administration was merely pre- senting “alternative facts”, calling into question the extent to which information from the White House can be trusted. White House
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  • 563 1 AGENCIES WASHINGTON —Defending the White House’s attack on the media following Mr Donald Trump’s inauguration, his adviser Kellyanne Conway claimed the administration was merely pre- senting “alternative facts”, calling into question the extent to which information from the White House can be trusted. White House
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    • 44 1 TH E DAI LY BRI E F Andie Chen gets double nominations for Star Awards SI NGAPORE ENTERTAINMENT •18 The real reason Dr Mis taking on the Sultan of Johor COMMENT &ANALYSIS •20 Peter Lim’s football club Valencia teeter towards disaster WORLD SPORTS 29
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    • 21 1 TWELVE CUPCAKES CHAIN SOLD FOR S$2.5M TO INDIAN TEA COMPANY SI NGAPORE BUSI NE S S 17 HOT N EWS 2
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  • hot news
    • 746 2  -  TOH EE MING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —As part of continued efforts to improve lift safety, all town councils will have to set aside at least 14 per cent of their service and conservancy charges (S&CC) collections and government grants
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    • 437 2  -  ALFRED CHUA S I N G A P O R E Ms Janell Chan, 30, thought that she had it all planned to handle yesterday morning’s heavy downpour: She packed an extra pair of shoes and a towel, just in case. But on
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    • 94 4 A driver taking a photo of a petrol station in Albany, Georgia, United States, which was damaged by a tornado on Sunday. At least 18 people were killed and in south-eastern US and many more injured, emergency officials said, as severe storms pounded southern
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    • 94 4 (2nd Edition) A driver taking a photo of a petrol station in Albany, Georgia, United States, which was damaged by a tornado on Sunday. At least 18 people were killed and in south-eastern US and many more injured, emergency officials said, as severe storms pounded southern
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    • 706 4 THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON —As the Trump administration moved towards relocating the United States embassy to Jerusalem, President Donald Trump invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to the White House early next month, working quickly to
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    • 649 4 (2nd Edition) AGENCIES WASHINGTON TOKYO United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order formally withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) yesterday, pulling away from Asia and scrapping his predecessor’s most significant trade deal on his first full weekday in
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    • 424 4 AGENCIES SINGAPORE —The United States dollar slipped yesterday in Asian trade after US President Donald Trump struck a protectionist tone in his inauguration speech, undermining optimism over the world’s largest economy spurred by his promises of tax cuts and other
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    • 424 4 (2nd Edition) AGENCIES SINGAPORE —The United States dollar slipped yesterday in Asian trade after US President Donald Trump struck a protectionist tone in his inauguration speech, undermining optimism over the world’s largest economy spurred by his promises of tax cuts and other
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    • 545 6 AGENCIES TOK YO —Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said yesterday he believed American President Donald Trump understood the value of free trade and that he would keep pitching a multinational trade pact that Mr Trump’s administration has vowed to exit. “I believe
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    • 99 6 Fire trucks extinguishing a blaze at TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK’s oil refinery in Arida, Wakayama prefecture in western Japan yesterday. The authorities told more than 2,900 people to evacuate after the fire broke out on Sunday afternoon in a unit producing lubricants at the
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    • 542 6 (2nd Edition) AGENCIES WASHINGTON United States President Donald Trump met a dozen prominent American manufacturers at the White House yesterday, promising them he would slash regulations and cut corporate taxes, but warning them of penalties if they moved production outside the country. Mr Trump
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    • 99 6 (2nd Edition) Fire trucks extinguishing a blaze at TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK’s oil refinery in Arida, Wakayama prefecture in western Japan yesterday. The authorities told more than 2,900 people to evacuate after the fire broke out on Sunday afternoon in a unit producing lubricants at the
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    • 529 8 AGENCIES SINGAPORE —Stakeholders in the South China Sea should “look beyond tired and childish notions of winners and losers” in resolving overlapping territorial claims, said Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein yesterday, amid growing Chinese assertiveness in the region. Delivering
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    • 68 8 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte looking at Miss Universe candidates at the Presidential Palace in Manila yesterday. The Philippines is hosting the 65th Miss Universe pageant, which will be held on Jan 30 atthe Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, Manila. The reigning
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    • 510 8 REUTERS BEIJING —The new United States administration must fully understand the importance of the “One China” policy and appreciate that the issue of Taiwan is highly sensitive for the Beijing government, China said yesterday. “We urge the new administration to fully
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    • 492 10  -  VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Republic’s foreign policy has been premised on cultivating close ties with other countries without aligning itself to any superpower, but it may become more difficult to do this as Sino-US relations are very likely
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    • 76 10 Attendees at a Singapore record-setting event for “The Largest Chinese Character Made with Pineapple Tarts”, featuring 25,120 pineapple tarts laid out across an area measuring 88sqm to form the word Fu” (meaning “good fortune”), at Bishan Community Club yesterday. The pineapple tarts were distributed to the needy
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  • singapore
    • 481 11 Opposition questions why Govt did not state upfront in Parliament the need to use Act for protection from falsehoods MINISTRY SAID WP MISREPRESENTED THE ISSUES SINGAPORE —The Workers’ Party (WP) yesterday pressed the Government on the issue
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    • singapore | news
      • 299 12 SINGAPORE This year’s Thaipusam procession will feature more static music points along the route, from nine to 23, said the Hindu Endowment Board. According to information posted on the official Thaipusam website, the 23 static music points are at the following locations:
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      • 396 12  -  ALFRED CHUA alfredchuam@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The School of Law in the Singapore Management University (SMU) campus was flooded on Sunday after a water pipe burst and students returning to school yesterday had to attend classes in other rooms in the new building. Photos shared
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      • 587 13  -  KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Prosecutors yesterday continued to refute a man’s claim that a botched penis enlargement procedure made it impossible for him to sexually abuse his daughter, suggesting that he got the job done after his daughter’s accusations.
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    • singapore | business
      • 753 14  -  CPI boost attributed to higher private road transport costs petrol prices and carpark fees ALISON JENNER jenneras@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After more than two years of decline, consumer prices edged up last month, as private road transport costs rose at a faster pace
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      • 591 15  -  ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Tissue implants customised for individual patients could soon be produced using a new mobile 3D printer under joint development by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and homegrown start-up Structo. The partners are developing a desktop-based 3D-bioprinting system, which
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      • 492 17  -  RUMI HARDASMALANI rumih@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Less than a month after celebrity couple Jaime Teo and Daniel Ong made their divorce public, it is now confirmed that Twelve Cupcakes, the cupcake chain they founded in 2011, has been sold to Kolkata-based Dhunseri Group, one of
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    • singapore | sports
      • 557 16  -  Defender Madhu Mohana says Stags are well prepared for their Filipino opponents TEO TENG KIAT tengkiat.teo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —They may not have won any of their three pre-season friendlies against Malaysian clubs, but Tampines Rovers are nevertheless feeling confident of their chances
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      • 365 16  -  LOW LIN FHOONG S I N G A P O R E The local bodybuilding fraternity celebrated a historic achievement yesterday, with veteran Joan Liew becoming the first Singaporean to be awarded the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness
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    • singapore | entertainment
      • 821 18  -  Zhang Zhen Huan scores first Best Actor gong; Desmond Ng gets first Star Award nod DRAMA SERIES HERO LEADS WITH 11 AWARDS NODS MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The nominations for the Star Awards 2017 are out, and the drama with the best
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      • 688 19  -  Juanita Melson who voiced SMRT’s announcements for 12 years, died on Thursday ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY MAYSEAH AND KENNETH CHENG SINGAPORE She was most famous for being the voice in MRT stations and trains, but to many radio personalities
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    • 1095 20  -  FOREST CITY PROJECT POLITICAL GODSEND FOR FORMER P.M. MUSTAFA IZZUDDIN Dr Mustafa Izzuddin is fellow and associate editor of Contemporary Southeast-Asia at the Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, and a lecturer at the University Scholars Programme of the National University
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  • voices
    • 354 24  -  FROM MANORAJ RAJATHURAI So Mr Donald Trump has been inaugurated as the United States’ 45th President (“‘From this moment on, it’s going to be America First’”; Jan 21). Does it signal a new era or the beginning of the end of the
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    • 317 24  -  FROM LEE TECK CHUAN History matters because we are all descendants of history. And as a young nation, we must cultivate the common sense of self known as “Singaporean” (“Economy of the future must build on Singapore’s identity”; Jan 20). Old
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    • 121 24  -  FROM CHEANG PENG WAH Changi Airport Group and the Economic Development Board (EDB) have signed a memorandum of understanding to harness technology for airport operations (“S$50 million programme launched to turn Changi Airport into ‘living lab’”; Jan 6). The outcomes envisioned
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  • world
    • 606 26 ‘No evidence’ to back claims 700,000 Chinese will get citizenship for buying property STRIDENT DEFENCE OF S$143B FOREST CITY PROJECT AGENCIES JOHOR BARU —Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad’s allegation that Chinese nationals will swamp Johor via the Forest City mega project
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    • 440 26 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —Malaysian police said yesterday they had arrested four people, including three foreigners, with links to an Islamic State (IS) cell based in the southern Philippines. The cell, operating out of the province of Mindanao, is led by
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    • world | news
      • 1322 27 THE NEW YORK TIMES DHAKA —Bangladesh’s Education Ministry was preparing to print the 2017 editions of its standard Bengali textbooks when a group of conservative Islamic religious scholars demanded the removal of 17 poems and stories they deemed “atheistic”. By the
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      • 550 28 AGENCIES SYDNEY —The Australian government announced a new infrastructure body yesterday that will, among other functions, check whether foreign-led bids for key assets, including power grids and ports, pose any national security risks. The creation of the body follows a series of controversial
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      • 57 28 The mounted camels of the Border Security Force taking part in a rehearsal for India’s 68th Republic Day parade in New Delhi yesterday. Thousands of people usually flock to the capital for the parade, which marks the adoption of the country’s Constitution on Jan 26,1950, following its
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      • 334 28 AFP BEIJING —China has announced a 14-month campaign to “clean up” Internet service providers and crack down on devices such as virtual private networks (VPNs) used to evade strict censorship. The ruling Communist party oversees a vast apparatus designed to censor
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    • world | sports
      • 1265 29 THE NEW YORK TIMES MADRID —The players sensed the coming crisis last summer. When Valencia returned to pre-season training, many of their members did so with one goal: To get out, as soon as possible. Some grumbled among themselves as they waited
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 947 30 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 Arts 21 (HD) 10.30 JML TV Home Shopping (Paid Presentation) 11.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show XIV (HD) NOON The Holiday Show IV (HD) 12.30PM The Mind Of
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