Today, 30 May 2017

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  • hot news
    • 634 2  -  The Republic, he said, has distinguished itself from rivals because of its legal system VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Noting that “up-to-date, effective but not onerous” regulation has become a new source of economic competitiveness, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
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    • 634 2 (2nd Edition)  -  The Republic has distinguished itself from others because of its respected legal system he says VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Noting that “up-to-date, effective but not onerous” regulation has become a new source of economic competitiveness, Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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    • 492 2  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE By combining legal knowhow with political instincts and a human touch, Mr Edmund William Barker came up with practical solutions and contributed to creating and building a prosperous Singapore, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday.
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    • 492 2 (2nd Edition)  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE By combining legal knowhow with political instincts and a human touch, Mr Edmund William Barker came up with practical solutions and contributed to creating and building a prosperous Singapore, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday.
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    • 314 4  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE —Eleven Sports Network’s (ESN) decision to drop the English Premier League (EPL) from its offerings will see the company letting go 10 employees from its Singapore office at Infinite Studios. Mr Shalu Wasu, ESN managing director, told TODAY that
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    • 748 7 Authorities fear pro-ISfighters are blending in with civilians fleeing Marawi to enter Iligan AGENCIES MARAWI The Philippine city of Iligan was overflowing with evacuees and on lockdown yesterday over fears that Islamist militants had sneaked out of nearby Marawi, where troops were
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    • 426 7 AGENCIES JAKARTA —Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said that the 11 Indonesian nationals who are currently in the southern Philippines should be responsible for their own actions. “It’s dangerous for Indonesians to go to the Philippines,” Mr Kalla told Tempo on Sunday, while adding
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    • 746 8  -  ALFRED CHUA alfredchuam@mediacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —Like the stirring of a hornet’s nest as an expert here put it the imminent defeat of Islamist militants in the southern Philippine city of Marawi could pose a bigger problem
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    • 326 8 SINGAPORE —The driver of a tipper truck was injured after the vehicle was involved in an accident along the Kallang Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE). The exit to Nicoll Highway was partially closed for about six hours yesterday because of the accident.
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    • 820 10 AGENCIES BERLIN —A day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to question the reliability of the United States as a partner, her office said yesterday that she believes firmly in strong German-US ties and was simply being honest in highlighting policy differences
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    • 555 10 AGENCIES SEOUL North Korea test-fired a missile yesterday into Japan’s maritime economic zone the latest in a series of provocative launches that have heightened tensions over its nuclear weapons ambitions. It was the North’s third ballistic missile test in
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    • 549 11 REUTERS LONDON Britain’s MI5 has begun an internal review of how it handled intelligence on Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi, who was known to the authorities but was not under active investigation, a source told Reuters yesterday. Interior Minister Amber Rudd
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    • 380 8 The HEART Truth: HARD FACTS, BETTER LIFE www.nuhcs.com.sg The Heart Truth Symposium by the National University Heart Centre, Singapore is back for its 5th instalment! Buy your tickets through: SISTIC website at www.sistic.com.sg/events/chear t0717 SISTIC hotline at 6348 5555 SISTIC authorized agents island-wide Peppered with anecdotes on the speakers’ personal
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  • singapore
    • 544 12  -  The number, however, is low compared with other Singapore varsities TOH E EMING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —More than 60 per cent of the pioneer graduating cohort of Yale-NUS College in Singapore have secured jobs or university places for graduate studies,
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    • 406 12 SINGAPORE The proportion of dual-in-come families is on the rise in Singapore, making it challenging for many mothers today to balance their work and family commitments, the Centre for Fathering said in a press statement yesterday. There were about 66
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    • singapore news
      • 446 13 Eatery had failed to keep its premises clean and had prepared food on the floor SINGAPORE —The Soon Huat Bak Kut Teh outlet at Simpang Bedok was ordered closed for two weeks starting today, after committing several health violations
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      • 258 14  -  62-year-old has another charge of causing hurt to elderly man pending FARIS MOKHTAR farism@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A 62-year-old man was charged in court yesterday for beating a red light along Hougang Avenue 7 while riding his e-bike, with another charge of voluntarily causing hurt to
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      • 643 14  -  FARIS MOKHTAR SINGAPORE Suspecting that his then-girlfriend was seeing others behind his back, a man threw a mobile phone at her face in a fit of anger and punched her about five times near her left eye. A day after the assault,
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      • 429 15 Ruling, which will come into force from June 6, is to ensure the safety of those involved SINGAPORE Over several days in the next three months, activities such as kite-flying and operating of drones will be barred in areas around
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      • 428 15 (2nd Edition) Curbs to ensure safety of aircraft will come into force on selected dates from June 6 SINGAPORE Over several days in the next three months, activities such as kite-flying and operating of drones will be barred in areas around the
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      • 800 16  -  Team of mostly deaf workers services more than 200 kiddy rides in shopping malls here TOH EE MING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Scores of children have been entertained by coin-operated kiddy rides in shopping malls and tourist attractions that mostly cost S$1 for
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    • singapore business
      • 581 17  -  RUMI HARDASMALANI rumih@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Artisan water, free-range eggs, organic vegetables, cold-pressed juices, steroid-free meat. Singaporeans are spoilt for healthy eating choices, as specialised grocers and eateries compete for the consumer dollar. Fuelled by an increased awareness of health and nutrition, consumers are growing more
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      • 381 18 Operator says it is on course to handle record 60 million visitors this year SINGAPORE More than 1 billion passengers have passed through Changi Airport, the airport operator said yesterday, adding that it is on course to handle a record 60 million passengers this year.
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      • 280 18 BLOOMBERG Watch out, Singapore. Thailand is looking to eat its way up the food chain as it takes on the Republic’s regional dominance in aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) with a US$5.7 billion (S$7.9 billion) upgrade of a Vietnam War-era
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      • 331 18 SINGAPORE Broadening access to financial services will be a key priority when Singapore assumes the chair- manship of the regional Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) group next year, said Mr Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
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    • singapore sports
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  • comment & analysis
    • 801 20  -  PLATFORM CAN BE A WAY OF RECOGNISING S ’PORE ’S DIVERSITY EUGENE K B TAN The formalities for Singapore’s fifth presidential election will commence this week. From June 1, presidential hopefuls can apply for both the Certificate of Eligibility and the Community
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    • 2407 22  -  BEIJING OUT TO LEARN THE LESSONS OF JAPAN’S BUBBLE AND ITS ‘LOST DECADES’ LEO LEWIS, TOM MITCHELL, YUAN YANG FINANCIAL TIMES There are few things studied as closely by the Chinese Communist Party as how to avoid the fate of its Soviet counterpart. In an
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    • 2425 22 (2nd Edition)  -  BEIJING OUT TO LEARN THE LESSONS OF JAPAN’S BUBBLE AND ITS ‘LOST DECADES’ LEO LEWIS, TOM MITCHELL AND YUAN YANG FINANCIAL TIMES There are few things studied as closely by the Chinese Communist Party as how to avoid the fate of its Soviet counterpart. In
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    • 532 24  -  TRADE GAINS MAYBE SMALLER BUT DEAL IS STILL A NET PLUS BLOOMBERG EDITORS BLOOMBERG The United States signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal last year, then decided not to implement it. The 11 other signatories have given themselves until November to decide whether
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    • 698 24  -  ONLY MOST POPULAR ONLINE TITLES ARE STOCKED AT STORE FRANCIS X CLINES THE NEW YORK TIMES Anon-virtual, real-life Amazon bookshop opened in Manhattan last Thursday with no obvious signs of corporate guilt at having driven countless independent
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    • 49 20 Without the US, expanded intra-regional trade will deliver smaller benefits, but the (TPP) deal is still a net plus. The fact is, many of the so-called concessions granted during the talks do not require reciprocal sacrifices to make sense they are valuable in their own right. BLOOMBERG EDITORS 24
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  • voices
    • 344 25  -  FROM CONNIE LEE Senior Assistant Director, Communications and Engagement Office, Cyber Security Agency of Singapore We thank Mr Leonard Poh for his letter “SMEs need more resources to tackle cyber attacks” (May 22). The Government recognises that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are
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    • 137 25  -  FROM ELAINE YONG I am disturbed by some comments netizens have made with regard to recent reports on suicides and crimes committed owing to mental illnesses. The stories about a kleptomaniac and a new mother who had committed suicide, and a professor who
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    • 388 25  -  FROM DARREN CHAN KENG LEONG I read the report “S’pore edging up as world’s second-largest shark’s fin trader” (May 26) with concern. Despite campaigns to educate food establishments to remove shark’s fin from their menus, there has been an increase in
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  • world
    • 616 26 Airline cancels 13 short-haul flights as unions blame IT outsourcing for computer crash AGENCIES LONDON Passengers faced a third day of disruption at Heathrow Monday as British Airways (BA) cancelled shorthaul flights after a global computer crash that unions blamed on the outsourcing
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    • 470 26 AFP KUALA LUMPUR A lawyer for one of two women charged with assassinating Kim Jong-nam accused the Malaysian authorities yesterday of an “unethical” failure to share documents vital to the defence. Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, 28, have
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    • 603 26 (2nd Edition) Airline to carry out exhaustive probe, step up measures to prevent a repeat of incident REUTERS LONDON —British Airways (BA) said yesterday it would take steps to ensure there was no repeat of a computer system failure that left 75,000 passengers
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    • 471 26 (2nd Edition) AFP KUAL A LUMPUR A lawyer for one of two women charged with assassinating Kim Jong-nam accused the Malaysian authorities yesterday of an “unethical” failure to share documents vital to the defence. Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, 28,
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    • world news
      • 600 27 Opposition politicians say breaking fast together can promote harmony among races AGENCIES PENANG —Opposition politicians have hit out at a civil society organisation for saying that non-Muslims, like Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng should not be allowed to break
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      • 558 27 AFP YANGON Myanmar netizens were in uproar yesterday after Facebook seemingly banned people from posting the word “kalar”, often used as a slur against Muslims, at a time of rising Islamophobia in the country. Dozens of users in Myanmar reported
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      • 743 28 Indian PM and Putin will look to resolve tensions over global alliances, stem decline in trade AFP NEW DELHI —Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek to repair India’s drifting partnership with Russia when he meets President Vladimir Putin this week, amid wariness over
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      • 336 28 AGENCIES BEIJING —China has restricted the export of big dredgers that it has used to build artificial islands in the South China Sea, citing national security concerns. The Ministry of Commerce said in a notice that from June 1,
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      • 1251 29 Start-ups are looking to share anything from concrete mixers to mobile phone power banks THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING China may be oversharing. First, a brutal and costly ride-hail-ing war drove Uber out of the country. Next, a boom in bike-sharing blanketed
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    • world sports
      • 1082 30 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —Arsene Wenger has delivered a defiant message to the Arsenal board, insisting that if they harbour any doubt over whether he should continue as manager, they should simply watch a rerun of the FA Cup final triumph
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
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