Today, 1 May 2017

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    23 1 TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING TODAY mediacorp MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017 M C I P 0 8 2 /0 4 2 0 17
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    Economy picking up, but jobless rate rising: PM
    664 1 S’pore must work hard to keep growth up as maturing economy is likely to cause unemployment rate to creep up SINGAPORE —Buoyed by an upswing in several major and emerging economies, Singapore may achieve abetter economic growth this year compared with last
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    Lock icon DRAMA AS TAXI BLOWS UP
    78 1 A Trans-Cab taxi burst into flames at Commonwealth Avenue near the Buona Vista MRT Station yesterday afternoon, injuring four men, including a Singapore Civil Defence Force officer. TODAY understands that the taxi had been in an accident with a car. During the blaze, the compressed
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      98 1 OLDER MOTHERS ARE BETTER EQUIPPED TO RAISE CHILDREN SI NGAPORE LI FE STYLE 18 TH E DAI LY BRI E F US to pay for Thaad system in South Korea HOT NEWS 3 Trump hails ‘very productive’ first 100 days, vows to win ‘great battles’ HOT NEWS 4 Bike-sharing set
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Trump calls Duterte to affirm ties, invites him to White House
      462 2 AGENCIES Manila— United States President Donald Trump has called Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte and expressed Washington’s commitment to their treaty alliance and his interest in developing “a warm, working relationship”, a Filipino official said yesterday. Presidential spokesman Ernie Abella
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      Lock icon Asean takes soft stance against Beijing over S China Sea issue
      682 2 Group drops references such as land reclamation, cites improving cooperation with China AGENCIES MANILA South-east Asian countries took a softer stance on China’s behaviour in the South China Sea during a weekend summit, issuing a statement yesterday which avoided
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      Trump reaffirms close ties with Singapore in call with PM
      452 2 (2nd Edition) SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and United States President Donald Trump spoke on the phone last night and affirmed the deep and long-standing relationship between Singapore and America. “They expressed satisfaction that ministers from both sides are already working
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      Lock icon Asean takes soft stance against Beijing over S China Sea issue
      682 2 (2nd Edition) Group drops references such as land reclamation, cites improving cooperation with China AGENCIES MANILA South-east Asian countries took a softer stance on China’s behaviour in the South China Sea during a weekend summit, issuing a statement yesterday which avoided
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      Lock icon US reassures S Korea it will pay for Thaad costs
      598 3 AGENCIES SEOUL The United States has reaffirmed that it will pay for a missile defence battery it is deploying in South Korea, despite President Donald Trump’s recent statement that he wanted Seoul to cover the cost. Mr Trump caused alarm
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      Lock icon SEOUL WORKING TO REDUCE S$38.5B TRADE SURPLUS WITH AMERICA
      292 3 AGENCIES South Korea’s Finance Minister said yesterday the government was already working on downsizing its trade surplus with the United States, a reference to US President Donald Trump’s comments last week that Washington will renegotiate or scrap the free trade pact
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      Lock icon Seoul, Washington continue naval exercise amid threats from Pyongyang
      473 3 AGENCIES SEOUL South Korea and the United States wrapped up their annual largescale military drills yesterday, but continued a separate joint naval exercise that has triggered dire threats from nuclear-armed North Korea. Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been running sky-high
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      Lock icon Productive 100 days after Obama mess, Trump proclaims
      1050 4 AGENCIES HARRISBURG (UNITED STATES) Mr Donald Trump hailed a “very productive” first 100 days as America’s President over the weekend, telling a roaring crowd of supporters other “great battles” ahead would be won. In an hour-long speech on Saturday, Mr Trump lambasted
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      Lock icon Uneven performances seen across sectors, say PM, union leaders
      668 6  -  Hospitality chemicals sectors doing well; marine and offshore still coping with downturn TOHEEMING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A discussion Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had recently with several union leaders about the prospects for various industries, where the jobs are and how unions
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      S’pore ‘must steal other people’s lunches’ to stay ahead of competition
      560 6  -  TOHEEMING SINGAPORE —Amid growing competition, and workers hungry to learn in places like Chengdu and even further away such as Russia, Singapore must not only protect its lunch but steal other people’s lunches, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has
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      Lock icon Career mentors to help youths boost job prospects
      656 7  -  TOHEEMING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —To boost job prospects for fresh graduates and young professionals, managers and executives (PMEs), a mentorship programme has been launched to help them gain tips to navigate the job market. Called Todo Todo, this is part of a joint
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      Lock icon Four injured as taxi explodes in Buona Vista
      600 8  -  WONG PEI TING wongpeiting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —They thought it was a car bomb. Shards of metal, big and small, flew through the air after a taxi caught fire and exploded yesterday at about 2.15pm on a road near Buona Vista MRT Station. Five
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      226 8 r i Teamwork Ownership Professionalism WALK-IN INTERVIEW Date 4 May 2017 (Thursday) Time 12.30pm 5.30pm (registration ends at 4.45pm) Venue CGH Auditorium, Level 1 (Lobby D) 2 Simei Street 3, S*****9 1) Patient Services Associate, Accident Emergency Operations Provide customer service to patients including registration and billing, payment/deposit collection, appointment
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  • singapore
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      Lock icon New St Theresa’s Home to encourage seniors’ independence
      635 9  -  Modern facility will replicate concept of home and offer rooms for couples WONG PEI TING wongpeiting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Catholic Welfare Services (CWS) plans to redevelop St Theresa’s Home into a modernised, larger and more lively elder-care facility to be called St Theresa’s
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      PM Lee to commission littoral warship as S’pore Navy marks 50th anniversary
      623 9  -  VICTOR LOH SINGAPORE —The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) had just two wooden ships when it came into force on May 5,1967. Fifty years on, the RSN will be celebrating its Golden Jubilee this week with the commissioning
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    • news
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        Lock icon After cars, bike-sharing is S’pore’s next big thing
        1970 10  -  KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At 7am each morning, while other commuters jostle for a space in the feeder bus service to Boon Lay MRT Station, Mr Terry Ng and his wife Maureen, both 44, beat the crowd by zipping to the station
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    • business
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        Lock icon Low-cost carrier Norwegian spreads its wings in Asia
        936 12 SINGAPORE —Low-cost Scandinavian carrier Norwegian is on an aggressive Asia expansion spree. The airline announced last month that it would launch a non-stop service between Singapore and London with fares starting from S$199 later in the year. In an exclusive interview with
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        Lock icon Contesting a credit card transaction
        948 13  -  ON THE MONEY RICHARD HARTUNG today@mediacorp.com.sg If you have a debit card or a credit card, you may find an error such as a charge from an unknown store in Eastern Europe or a wrong amount charged by a retailer in Singapore. When you find
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        Indicators released this week will give better outlook on global economy
        451 13  -  TEA LEAVES DHARMO SOEJANTO Dharmo Soejanto is director, Multi-Asset Strategy, UOB Asset Management. The latest economic data released in the United States were the durable goods orders, which rose a less-than-expect-ed 0.7 per cent month-on-month. A sluggish advance estimate
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    • sports
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        Lock icon ‘ZERO WASTE’ RUNNERS LEAD WAY IN ECO RUN
        123 14 A special group of 1,500 ‘Zero Waste Runners’ got together for a green cause at the Income Eco Run yesterday morning opting to forgo their finishers’ medals and tees in a bid to reduce waste. The group were part of close to
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        FAS at rock bottom, but that may not be a bad thing
        1163 14  -  PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN EXPOSED AND CAN BE ADDRESSED COMMENTARY BY GERARD WONG gerard@mediacorp.com.sg Gerard Wong is TODAY sports editor. Now that the curtains have finally come down on the Football Association of Singapore’s (FAS) elections, I think that
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    • entertainment
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        Lock icon The Esplanade comes of age
        2595 15  -  Singapore’s national arts centre celebrates 15 years of a testing yet eventful history REENADEVI reena@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Set for an expansion as it marks its 15th anniversary this year, it is easy to forget that the multi-mil-lion-dollar Esplanade was opened in October 2002 to much scepticism.
        PHOTO: ESPLANADE – THEATRES ON THE BAY; PHOTO: ESPLANADETHEATRES ON THE BAY; PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN/TODAY  -  2,595 words
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        Lock icon FROM ZERO TO HERO
        39 16 From left: The Esplanade’s ‘durian’ design taking shape. The venue took about six years to build, and was officially opened by ex-President S R Nathan on 12 October 2002. PHOTOS: ESPLANADE THEATRES ON THE BAY
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        Lock icon Megadeth wants to make up for its last Singapore gig
        710 17  -  Metal band frontman Dave Mustaine remembers 2012 show to be ‘really bad’ VICTORIA BARKER SINGAPORE —Fans of Megadeth may remember the band’s last Singapore gig differently, but frontman Dave Mustaine said that the show in 2012 was “really, really, really
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    • lifestyle
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        Lock icon I am an older mum, watch me soar
        1120 18  -  The discourse about being an older mother needs to change PARENTING MATTERS DIANA SER features@mediacorp.com.sg Diana Ser is a TV host who currently runs online portal Crazy About Chinese, which encourages parents to teach their children the Chinese language through daily activities.
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  • comment & analysis
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      Lock icon Is S’pore’s port hub revamp enough to keep rivals at bay?
      1069 20  -  PROVIDING SUPERIOR PORT, BUNKERING SERVICES IS KEY PHILIPP MARTIN DINGELDEY Philipp Martin Dingeldey is a research analyst with the Maritime Security Programme at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Overcapacity and low oil prices
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      Lock icon A decade after Great Financial Crisis — a world turned inside out
      1117 21  - A decade after Great Financial Crisis a world turned inside out DIVERGENCE BETWEEN ECONOMIES AT A CRITICAL POINT STEPHEN ROACH Stephen Roach, a faculty member at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, is the author of Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China. PROJECT SYNDICATE Slowly but
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      Meet the people who train robots to do their jobs
      142 22 TRAINERS DO NOT BELIEVE A.I. WILL REPLACE HUMANS TOTALLY What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone’s job —perhaps your own? Before the machines become smart enough to replace humans, as some
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      Lock icon ‘That was a wow moment for me’
      481 22  -  Sarah Seiwert, customer representative It took two weeks for Ms Seiwert to notice that her company’s AI computer system was starting to pick up on her work patterns. Ms Seiwert, 37, a customer representative at the online test-prep company Magoosh, answers student emails.
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      ‘How do we elegantly recover?’
      560 22  -  Diane Kim, interaction designer Ms Kim (picture) is adamant: Her assistant does not use slang or emoji. Her assistant, Andrew Ingram, also avoids small talk and does not waste time on topics beside scheduling her meetings, she said. Ms Kim is not being tyrannical. She
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      ‘It made me feel competitive’
      561 23  -  Rachel Neasham, travel agent Ms Neasham, one of 20 (human) agents at the Boston-based travel booking app Lola, knew that the company’s artificial intelligence computer system named Harrison would eventually take over parts of her job. Still, there was soul-searching when it was decided that
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      ‘A cesspool of legal language’
      444 23  -  Dan Rubins, chief executive Mr Rubins has a lot of grievances with lawyers. At his former job, he recalled the time when six corporate lawyers, each billing at hundreds of dollars an hour, were inspecting a contract looking for capitalisation errors. It is what prompted
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      Lock icon ‘Cases we haven’t seen before’
      305 23  -  Aleksandra Faust, software engineer THE NEW YORK TIMES As a senior software engineer at the self-driving car company Waymo and a robotics expert, Ms Faust grapples with an unpredictable world. Formerly known as Google’s selfdriving car project, Waymo wants to build autonomous vehicles that can
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      45 20 Too many questions still require a level of human intuition to know the appropriate answer. There are also times when rules need to be broken, like when customers ask for an extension on their account because of some circumstance beyond their control. DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI 22
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  • voices
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      Lock icon Pre-emptive measures will prevent clashes with wildlife in the long run
      394 24  -  FROM DARREN CHAN KENG LEONG I read with concern the report “Monkey menace at Segar Rd a risk to public safety: AVA” (April 19) on the removal of monkeys in the interest of public safety. The authorities must make
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      Bring overhead garden concept to Orchard Road
      116 24  -  FROM TANKOKTIM I refer to the letter “Reinvent the Orchard Road experience, not just its environment” (April 27). An overhead garden spans Eu Tong Sen Street and New Bridge Road outside People’s Park Complex. We should replicate this concept in Orchard Road. If
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      Airlines are more than businesses, they’re also about diplomacy
      403 24  -  FROM RAPHAEL BLET Recently, the video of a United Airlines passenger being forcibly removed from a flight went viral and sent shock waves round the world. It worsened the reputation of United States-based airlines as being notorious for their poor customer
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  • world
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      Lock icon Thailand under strain from surge in tourists
      531 25 Infrastructure upgrade needed as annual visitor numbers set to double to 60 million by 2030 TOURISM ACCOUNTS FOR UP TO 20% OF COUNTRY’S GDP FINANCIAL TIMES BANGKOK Thailand’s tourist industry faces “trouble” without urgent investment to cope with an expected neardoubling of visitors
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      Lock icon Child of IS fighter ‘filmed threatening to kill Australians’
      542 25 AGENCIES SYDNEY —Police in Australia said yesterday that they were investigating a report that the eight-year-old son of a notorious Islamic State (IS) fighter was filmed wearing a suicide vest and threatening to kill Australians. The footage was allegedly of the
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        Lock icon PAS votes to cut political ties with long-term ally PKR
        377 26 AGENCIES ALOR SETAR —Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) delegates passed a motion to sever political cooperation with Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) yesterday at its 63rd muktamar (general assembly), ending months of strained relations with its long-time political ally. The motion was
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        Lock icon Taiwan shifts tech industry focus away from hardware
        916 26 Virtual and augmented reality, Internet of things all part of the country’s Digital Nation Plan SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST TAIPEI A 36-year-old child prodigy hired to a senior government job last year is using free software, a remake of the sharing economy
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        Lock icon Jokowi slammed for not addressing plight of maids in HK visit
        521 27 AFP HONG KONG Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo was greeted by a mixture of celebration and protest in Hong Kong yesterday with calls to improve working conditions for the city’s army of foreign maids. There are around 170,000 Indonesians living
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        Lock icon Massive celebration to mark 20 years of Chinese rule draws flak
        762 27 AFP HONG KONG A multi-million-dollar programme of events in Hong Kong will mark 20 years since the city was handed back to China by colonial ruler Britain, but critics said the show is out of step with political tensions.
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        Lock icon SE Asian cities sweeping vendors off the streets
        1153 28 Officials say the move is largely aimed at promoting public order and food safety THE NEWYORK TIMES HANOI —As strips of tofu sizzle beside her in a vat of oil, Ms Nguyen Thu Hong listens out for police sirens. Police raids on
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    • sports
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        Lock icon HIGH PRAISE FROM CELEBS ON TWITTER
        148 29 One of the most exciting fights I’ve ever seen. Congrats anthonyfjoshua on the win @Klitschko on amazing battle. Hope there’s a rematch. Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger WHO WAS RINGSIDE AT WEMBLEY Well done anthonyfjoshua good fight, you had life death with @klitschko I played
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        Lock icon Joshua takes world heavyweight crown after epic battle with Klitschko
        890 29  -  COMMENTARY BY PAUL HAYWARD Paul Hayward is the Daily Telegraph’s chief sports writer. THE DAILY TELE GRAPH Every hope invested in Anthony Joshua was justified in an epic fight, a study in the courage of two boxers that elevated Britain’s
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
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      921 30 CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM Antique Road Trip IX 7.00 First Look Asia (HD) 9.00 Who Lives Here? (HD) 9.30 Holiday Special: Strangers In Danger (HD) (PG) 10.00 Holiday Special: Jessie J: Alive At The O2 (HD) (PG) NOON Holiday Special: C Food Wars Asia (HD) 12.30PM Hollywood Profiles Leonardo DiCaprio (PG)
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      280 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 ORIGINALS Check out exclusive series produced by Toggle at home or on-the-go. PATISSERIE FIGHTING (EP 5) (PG) Every Friday, Hsiao D wakes up early to
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