Today, 2 May 2017

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    13 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM mediacorp TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017 WE SET YOU THINKING MCI(P) 082/04/2017
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    Lock icon Three-pronged approach to keep S’pore prospering
    1002 1  -  1 CREATE NEW JOBS BY BRINGING IN NEW INVESTMENTS 2 FIND REPLACEMENT JOBS FOR THOSE OUT OF WORK 3 TRAIN WORKERS TO GROW IN CURRENT JOBS TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —With the Republic’s unemployment rate expected to creep up further as its economy
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      128 1 STONO COOLING GEL PADS I i sato STONACOOLING GEL PADS Sato-chan Local sailors Kimberly Lim and Cecilia Low book spot at Sailing World Cup SINGAPORE SPORTS 17 THE DAILY BRIEF New hawker centre, playground onwishlistfor Raintree Cove site SI NGAPORE NEWS 12 HengSweeKeat to helm Future Economy Council HOT NEWS
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      7 1 MORE REPORTS ON PAGES 4-10,19-21 AND 23
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    Lock icon KL police sceptical of report that Wanndy is dead
    663 2  -  Wife of top Malaysian IS leader had posted news of his death on Facebook Malaysian authorities. AGENCIES, WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY KOI KYE LEE KOI KYE LEE AGENCIES, KUALA LUMPUR —The top Malaysian Islamic State (IS) operative in Syria, Muhammad Wanndy
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  • hot news
    • hot news | may day rally
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        Lock icon Heng Swee Keat will head council to transform S’pore’s economy
        711 4  -  WONG PEI TING wongpeiting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A year after it was first set up, a council tasked to develop skills for the future and to support produc-tivity-led economic growth will be renamed and beefed up to implement the proposals by the
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        Republic must be prepared if trade war breaks out: PM Lee
        385 4  -  TAN WEIZHEN SINGAPORE The United States’ new attitude towards trade is unlikely to hurt Singapore, given that the world’s largest economy has a big trade surplus with the Republic. However, if a trade war breaks out, Singapore will be
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        Changing jobs may be the norm, says labour chief
        789 6  -  WONG PEI TING wongpeiting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Workers here have to be prepared to take up more than two jobs throughout their careers, and this means coping with multiple transitions, said labour chief Chan Chun Sing yesterday at the May Day rally held
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        Workers need to know where jobs are: Union leaders
        747 8  -  TAN WEIZHEN AND WONG PEI TING tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg wongpeiting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Reskilling workers is at the heart of tackling unemployment, but more help is needed from the Government to point those out of work in the right direction, in terms of where the
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        Adapting to change in a time of disruption
        91 10 In his May Day rally speech yesterday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong cited examples of businesses both big and small that have adapted to disruption and changing external conditions, and continued to thrive. These included PS A Corporation, which managed to hold
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        Lock icon PSA goes high-tech and retains all its port workers
        464 10  -  WONG PEI TING wongpeiting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The “giraffes” that used to work continuously at PSA Corporation’s Tanjong Pagar Terminal have long been a visual cue of Singapore’s economic health. Although the port industry was badly hit last year, today’s idle quay cranes
        terminals. TODAY FILE PHOTO  -  464 words
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        Lock icon Breathing new life into an old family business
        503 10  -  TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Started almost three years ago, leather and paper accessories shop Bynd Artisan allows customers to choose materials and watch as the craftsmen turn them into books and other stationery. The company also conducts workshops on leather crafting and
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  • Singapore
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      Lock icon FINNISH COMMUNITY MARKS MAY DAY WITH PICNIC
      106 12 For the first time in Singapore, the Finnish community celebrated the May 1 holiday publicly by holding a Finnish style May Day Carnival dubbed the ‘Funky Finnish First of May’ at West Coast Park yesterday.Organised by Suomi Finland 100 Singapore (SF100SG), the outdoor
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      More open spaces with sea views at East Coast Park
      407 12  -  Many are hoping to see more recreational andfood options at the revamped site KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Work will start in the middle of this year to redevelop Raintree Cove, formerly a recreational site at East Coast Park where the
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    • singapore | news
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        Lock icon S$250k raised to bring comatose S’porean home
        430 14 SINGAPORE The daughter of a Singaporean who is in a coma has raised enough money to bring him back from Tokyo, and he is set to arrive today. The man had a heart attack when his family flew to Tokyo on April 19
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    • singapore | business
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        Lock icon S’pore’s GDP to grow 2.2% this year: UN agency
        481 16 Economic and social survey also shows positive outlook for most economies in the region SINGAPORE The Republic’s growth outlook is expected to pick up to 2.2 per cent this year and 2.5 per cent in 2018, mainly conditional on a revival
        year. PHOTO: REUTERS  -  481 words
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        Changi subsidiary wins bid to operate airport in Saudi Arabia
        218 16 SINGAPORE —A consortium led by a subsidiary of Changi Airport Group (CAG) has been awarded the contract to operate the King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for up to 20 years. In a press release issued yesterday,
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    • singapore | sports
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        Lock icon S’pore’s Lim, Low qualify for final of Sailing World Cup series
        493 17  -  Duo navigate windy conditions and contend with top-class competition in Hyeres, France NOAH TAN noahtanyw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Local sailors Kimberly Lim and Cecilia Low continued their encouraging start to the season as they booked their spot in the series final
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        Lock icon SPORTING LISBON WIN JSSL S’PORE INTERNATIONAL 7s
        140 18 Sporting Lisbon emerged champions of the JSSL Singapore International 7s first-ever Professional Academy competition after edging out Australia’s Perth Glory 2-0 in the final at the Padang yesterday. Sporting’s goals were scored by Ciriaco Santos and Borges Reis Miguel in each of the
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        Lock icon Leap into the unknown pays off for national sprinter Enn
        735 18  -  Despite having less than a year’s training in the triple jump, she ends up setting a new national mark with a 12.05m effort NOAH TAN noahtanyw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE At the start of last year, just a few months after she helped
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  • comment & analysis
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      Lock icon As long as we work together, S’pore can stay in the game
      4343 19  -  While Singapore’s economy could do better this year than last year, the unemployment rate is expected to creep up further as the economy matures, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his May Day Rally speech on Labour
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      Lock icon Asean: Putting a ‘human face’ to an economic community
      1001 22  -  MORE MUST BE DONE TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF ITS PEOPLE CHENCHEN LEE AND SHANGARI KIRUPPALINI Chen Chen Lee and Shangari Kiruppalini are, respectively, director of policy programmes and policy research analyst at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. The Association
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      26 19 If unemployment rates persist in the long run, Singapore’s income inequality situation can also worsen as technological changes continually lean towards the higher skilled. VOICES 23
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  • voices
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      Employers, workers need to be proactive in upgrading skills
      384 23  -  FROM JAVIER SEH MIN WEI Despite recent positive economic data, unemployment figures, especially those of structural unemployment, are expected to rise as various sectors of the economy restructure. Singapore’s structural unemployment is mainly due to the mismatch of skills and attitudes
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      Know which courses are effective for what types of jobs
      263 23  -  FROM EDRIC TAN CHIN YUAN “‘Unemployment could rise further’ as Singapore tackles structural transition: Swee Say” (TODAYonline, April 28) is really a call to action for Singaporeans. The world has seen many great changes, such as the Industrial Revolution and
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      Asean must stay united and true to its course
      374 23  -  FROM MANORAJ RAJATHURAI The Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) is 50 years old and has come a long way. It is pertinent to ask, where does it go from here? It needs to work on consolidating its position so no
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  • world
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      Lock icon N Korea ready to carry out nuclear tests ‘at any time, any location’
      551 24 Pyongyang says it will continue with tests unless US scraps hostile policies TENSIONS ON KOREAN PENINSULA HAVE BEEN HIGH FOR WEEKS AFP SEOUL —North Korea warned yesterday that it would carry out nuclear tests “at any time
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    • world | news
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        Lock icon Trump is damaging bilateral ties: S Korean media
        536 25 AFP SEOUL South Korean media yesterday warned of a “Trump risk” threatening the alliance between Washington and Seoul, amid high tensions over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. The two countries are bound by a defence pact, and 28,500 American troops are stationed in
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        Lock icon Japanese on N Korean missile fears: ‘Whatever will be, will be’
        977 25 AP FUSSA (JAPAN) —Residents living near United States military bases in Japan are facing a fresh reality: Their neighbourhoods are on the frontline of North Korea’s dispute with Washington, and if Pyongyang were to attack, they would have just
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        Lock icon Feisty Trump risks economic damage with new trade order
        1152 26 policy.”THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON As political theatre, the threat last week from the Trump administration that it would pull the United States out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) effectively enhanced the White House storyline. From the campaign
        policy.”THE NEW YORK TIMES; PHOTO: THE NEWYORK TIMES  -  1,152 words
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        Lock icon Duterte pays visit to Chinese vessels in show of goodwill
        553 27 AGENCIES DAVAO —Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday visited Chinese warships docked in his hometown and raised the prospect of future joint exercises, highlighting the countries’ fast-warming relations despite competing claims in the South China Sea. Mr Duterte made his visit
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      89 30 RECOGNISING THE BEST IN GIVING Conferred by the President of the Republic of Singapore, the President's Volunteerism Philanthropy Awards represent the highest honour for giving excellence in Singapore. Nominations Now Open Know of any individual, group or organisation that demonstrates excellent giving spirit? Nominate them for the following categories. 2
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