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Title Section14 2017-01-31 1 TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING TODAY mediacorp TUESDAY, 31 JANUARY 2017 MCI (P) 026/06/201614 words
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Article, Illustration648 2017-01-31 1 FARIS MOKHTAR - FARIS MOKHTAR farism@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E The nine Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) armoured Terrex vehicles and other military equipment that landed home yesterday will be transported to an SAF camp within a day, withtoday.PHOTO: SAF - 648 words
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878 2017-01-31 1 AGENCIES WA SHINGTON Mr Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from seven Mus-lim-majority countries entering the United States was celebrated by jihadist groups as one that validated their claim that Washington is waging a war against Islam, as the world’s largest body ofAGENCIES - 878 words
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Advertisement22 2017-01-31 1 TH E DAI LY BRI E F Sense of rootedness will help S’pore in face of global headwinds: Shanmugam HOT NEWS 222 words
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Advertisement11 2017-01-31 1 Unique historical artefacts recovered at National Gallery site HOT NEWS 911 words
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Article, Illustration472 2017-01-31 2 ALFRED CHUA - ‘OUR STRENGTH COMES FROM OUR INDIVIDUAL CULTURES’ ALFRED CHUA alfredchuam@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A sense of rootedness through culture will help Singapore anchor itself amid global headwinds, especially in the face of a growing pushback against political correctness, such asPHOTO: WEE TECK HIAN - 472 words
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Article, Illustration652 2017-01-31 4 AGENCIES QUEBEC Six people were killed and eight wounded when gunmen opened fire at a Quebec City mosque during Sunday night prayers, in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a “terrorist attack on Muslims”. Police said two suspects had beenAGENCIES; PHOTO: REUTERS - 652 words
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Article, Illustration754 2017-01-31 6 AGENCIES NEW YORK/WASHINGTON Tens of thousands of people rallied in American cities and at airports for a second consecutive day to voice outrage over United States President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting entry into the country for travellers from seven Muslim-majority nations. In NewAGENCIES; PHOTO: ap - 754 words
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Article, Illustration736 2017-01-31 6 AGENCIES NEW YORK/BOSTON Most American corporate bosses have stayed silent on President Donald Trump’s immigration curbs, underscoring the sensitivities around opposing policies that could provoke a backlash from the White House. While the leaders of Apple, Google and Facebook emailedAGENCIES - 736 words
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Article, Illustration702 2017-01-31 7 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The White House has defended a reorganisation of the United States’ National Security Council (NSC) that elevates President Donald Trump’s chief strategist to full membership and downgrades the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint ChiefsAGENCIES; PHOTO: THE; NEW YORKTIMES - 702 words
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Article, Illustration67 2017-01-31 8 Mourners carry the coffin of Ko Ni, a prominent Muslim lawyer and legal adviser for Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy, who was shot dead on Sunday. The 63-year-old was gunned down as he waited outside the airport while holding his grandson, in whatPHOTO: AFP - 67 words
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256 2017-01-31 8 SINGAPORE Madam Choong Pei Shan, 39, was six months pregnant when she and her four-year-old child were found dead in a Woodlands flat on Saturday. Their bodies had been burnt. Yesterday, her husband Teo Ghim Heng, 41, was charged with her murder. Teo,256 words
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776 2017-01-31 8 FARIS MOKHTAR - FARIS MOKHTAR farism@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Imagine a scenario where the Government imposes a quota system like the one used to manage vehicle population on firms that own artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in a bid to quell the grievances of workers776 words
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Article, Illustration460 2017-01-31 9 ALFRED CHUA - ALFRED CHUA SINGAPORE It was the penultimate day of operations at Mustafa’s Serangoon Plaza wing, and the crowds made it a farewell with a bang. While the upper floors had been sealed off and emptied out, the first floor wasPHOTO:WEE; TECKHIAN - 460 words
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794 2017-01-31 9 NEO CHAI CHIN - NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE When the artefacts dug up in recent years at the National Gallery Singapore, Victoria Concert Hall and Theatre as well as Empress Place are processed and analysed, Singapore will probably be the best-studied premodern urban and port settlement794 words
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Article, Illustration818 2017-01-31 10 TOHEEMING - THEY ARE GIVEN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING TOHEEMING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They are not your ordinary lion dancers: They belong to a troupe formed by people with intellectual disabilities and are hoping to win people over with their moves this Chinese New Year. LookingPHOTO:JASON QUAH - 818 words
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356 2017-01-31 11 90% of growth in passenger traffic from South-east Asia North-east Asia, Oceania CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Changi Airport recorded an all-time high of 58.7 million passengers last year, a growth of 5.9 per cent from 2015, Changi Airport Group announced yesterday. Aircraft movementsCHANNEL NEWSASIA - 356 words
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Article, Illustration123 2017-01-31 11 Mr Soo Tiong Huat could not believe his luck when he found out that he had won S$10,000 in the TODAY Shop To Win draw. The 53-year-old machine operator had spent S$103.70 on a shirt and a pair of pants for Chinese New Year at OGPHOTO: ONGZETENG - 123 words
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Article, Illustration1046 2017-01-31 12 Wong Pei Ting; Nadarajan Rajendran - There are more than 1,000 stateless people living in Singapore, with the vast majority of them aged 50 and above, based on official statistics. As a group, they have drawn the attention of the public and Members of Parliament from time to time. But as LawPHOTOS: RAJ NADARAJAN - 1,046 words
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singapore | business
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Article, Illustration1187 2017-01-31 13 LEE YEN NEE - Regulations, govt support have helped S’pore become Asia’s second-largest Reit market LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@med iacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —Fifteen years ago, CapitaLand Mall Trust (CMT) became the first real estate investment trust (Reit) to be listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX), widening the rangePHOTO: BLOOMBERG - 1,187 words
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Article, Illustration1150 2017-01-31 14 TEOTENGKIAT - HK-born of Swiss-Singapore parentage Angela Danielle Model earns call-up after getting citizenship in 2015 TEOTENGKIAT tengkiat.teo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE When the Singapore national women’s floorball team take on South Korea today in their opening women’s World Floorball Championships (WFC) qualifier in Wellington, NewPHOTO: S’PORE FLOORBALLASSOCIATION - 1,150 words
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Article, Illustration1145 2017-01-31 15 JOHN DUERDEN - This is the best opportunity for embattled Singapore coach to take the Lions to their first Asian Cup finals since 1984 LOTS OF TRAVEL BUT ALSO LOTS OF CHANCES TO PICK UP POINTS JOHN DUERDEN sports@mediacorp.com.sg John DuerdenTODAY FILE PHOTO - 1,145 words
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Article, Illustration978 2017-01-31 16 BALVINDERSANDHU - Parents can motivate their children to do well in school without looking at good grades as the be-all and end-all PARENTING MATTERS BALVINDERSANDHU features@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is a well-known fact: Singapore is praised for its top-notch education system, and for its students winning a range of internationalPHOTO: ISTOCK - 978 words
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Article, Illustration961 2017-01-31 18 NGEOWCHOWBING - TIES WITH BEIJING CAN NO LONGER BE INSULATED FROM MALAYSIAN DOMESTIC POLITICS NGEOWCHOWBING Ngeow Chow Bing is deputy director of the Institute of China Studies at the University of Malaya. EAST ASIA FORUM In the very first week of 2017, two People’sEAST ASIA FORUM; PHOTO: REUTERS - 961 words
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Article, Illustration623 2017-01-31 19 FINANCIAL TIMES EDITORS - U.S. REJECTION OF TPP COULD MEAN TRADE FREE-FOR-ALL FINANCIAL TIMES EDITORS FINANCIAL TIMES One of President Donald Trump’s first acts in office was signing an order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a historic 12-nation trade pact. Critics haveFINANCIAL TIMES; PHOTO:AP - 623 words
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Article, Illustration736 2017-01-31 20 PRISCILLA CABUYAO - FICTIONAL MOVIES MAY NOT RESONATE AS WELL AS TRUE HUMAN STORIES PRISCILLA CABUYAO Priscilla Cabuyao is a senior analyst at the Centre of Excellence for National Security, a constituent unit of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang TechnologicalPHOTO: MCI - 736 words
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Article, Illustration1487 2017-01-31 20 RICK GLADSTONE - BRE X IT, TURK EY S RE FUG E E S, G RE EC E AN D ITALY S DE BT, AN D E LECTION S RICK GLADSTONE Rick Gladstone is an editor on The New York Times Foreign Desk.THE NEW YORK TIMES; PHOTO: REUTERS - 1,487 words
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Advertisement25 2017-01-31 18 As a medium able to disseminate information through entertainment, films can be highly instrumental in depicting and fostering multicultural relationships in Singapore. PRISCILLA CABUYAO 2025 words
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165 2017-01-31 22 PHILLIP TAN FONG LIP - FROM PHILLIP TAN FONG LIP I am glad that Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke in Davos in favour of free trade (“Xi presents China as new pillar of free trade”; Jan 18). Free trade augurs well for all countries, including165 words
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Article, Illustration472 2017-01-31 22 FOO MAU REEN - FROM FOO MAU REEN The report “Petition against limits on Home United youth academy gets over 1,200 signatures” (Jan 21) reveals two typical Singaporean mindsets: A bias against complaints, especially when lodged by a minority; and emotionalism about local footballPHOTO: HYFA'S FACEBOOK PAGE - 472 words
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175 2017-01-31 22 GEOFFREY KUNG KUO-WOO - F ROM GEOFFREY KUNG KUO-WOO I refer to the report “Chiam, Peng Siong team up for new charity foundation” (Jan 19). I applaud Mr Chiam See Tong’s effort to set up a foundation to provide financial aid for “people who175 words
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Article, Illustration557 2017-01-31 24 Move follows their alleged involvement in murder of South Korean businessman PRESIDENT CALLS FOR CLEANSING OF RANKS AGENCIES M ANIL A Philippine police are suspending their anti-narcotics operation until they have cleansed their ranks of “scalawags”, the chief of the force saidAGENCIES; PHOTO:; REUTERS - 557 words
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499 2017-01-31 24 REUTERS MANIL A Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte accused the United States early yesterday of risking regional stability by building permanent arms depots in his country, and threatened to respond by scrapping a security treaty between them. Mr Duterte, who has madeREUTERS - 499 words
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Article, Illustration496 2017-01-31 25 US President tells S Korean leader bilateral relations will be ‘better than ever before AGENCIES SEOUL United States President Donald Trump assured South Korea’s Acting President yesterday of Washington’s firm commitment to Seoul as an ally and agreed toAGENCIES; PHOTO: REUTERS - 496 words
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Article, Illustration538 2017-01-31 25 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Rescuers expanded their search for four Chinese tourists and a Malaysian crewman yesterday after their boat sank in rough seas off the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah, as police detained the skipper and another crewman for suspected negligence.AGENCIES; PHOTO:AP - 538 words
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Article, Illustration2327 2017-01-31 26 Experts are predicting potholes sinking at the proposed airport site, but the options are limited THE FINANCIAL TIMES MUMBAI —The site of Mumbai’s future airport is a mess of crocodile-filled swampland, jungle and the odd river. It is a daunting landscape evenTHE FINANCIAL TIMES; PHOTO: REUTERS - 2,327 words
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Article, Illustration740 2017-01-31 28 AGENCIES YANGON The killing of a top Muslim lawyer and adviser to Ms Aung San Suu Kyi who was gunned down outside Yangon airport was a political assassination and a terrorist act, Myanmar’s ruling party said yesterday as policeAGENCIES; PHOTO: AP - 740 words
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318 2017-01-31 28 AFP DHAKA The authorities in Bangladesh are to push ahead with a controversial plan to relocate tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees who arrived from Myanmar to a remote island, according to a government website. The government has set up a committeeAFP - 318 words
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Article, Illustration652 2017-01-31 29 AFP MELBOURNE —Roger Federer dropped hints that his great career may be drawing to a close after his age-defy-ing win over his Grand Slam nemesis Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open. The 35-year-old Swiss admitted his return to Melbourne was notAFP; PHOTO:GETTY IMAGES - 652 words
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Article, Illustration475 2017-01-31 29 AFP LONDON —For the first time since he arrived at Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp is in the midst of a crisis to the extent that a win today (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) at home to English Premier League leaders Chelsea isAFP; side.PHOTO: REUTERS - 475 words
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