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  • 13 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING mediacorp WEDNESDAY, 7 JUNE 2017 MCI(P) 082/04/2017
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  • 64 1 An artwork by renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, titled Infinity Mirrored Room: Gleaming Lights of the Souls. Known for her iconic dots, nets, pumpkins and infinity rooms, her first exhibition in Singapore traces the development of her motifs across seven decades. It runs from June 9
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  • 1325 1 AGENCIES LONDON —Anger mounted in Britain yesterday over how one of the London attackers slipped through police surveillance, as Prime Minister Theresa May came under pressure two days before an election. The British government’s confirmation that one of the three
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    • 207 1 Break Fast Timing: 7:11 pm AUSTRALIA PROBES CHINA’S ATTEMPTS TO INFLUENCE ETHNIC CHINESE WORLD• 26 jails Village robbery suspect 28 TH E DAI LY BRI E F Number of fallen windows up in first five months of this year HOT NEWS 2 Security of public places in Singapore could be
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  • 1324 1 (2nd Edition) LONDON —Anger mounted in Britain yesterday over how one of the London attackers slipped through police surveillance, as Prime Minister Theresa May came under pressure two days before an election. The British government’s confirmation that one of the three assailants
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  • 64 1 (2nd Edition) A man lying wounded on the esplanade of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France yesterday. French police shot and wounded a man who attacked officers with a hammer outside the cathedral, which was locked down during the incident. Hundreds of visitors
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    • 206 1 (2nd Edition) Break Fast Timing: 7:11 pm AUSTRALIA PROBES CHINA’S ATTEMPTS TO INFLUENCE ETHNIC CHINESE WORLD• 26 jails Village robbery suspect 28 TH E DAI LY BRI E F Number of fallen windows up in first five months of this year HOT NEWS 2 Security of public places in Singapore could be
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  • hot news
    • 81 2 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong joining an iftar at the newly renovated Masjid AlMuttaqin in Ang Mo Kio with mosque chairman Paiman Supangat (left) and mosque vice-chairman Sulaiman Musa (right) yesterday evening. Before that, he toured the mosque, which was recently given a
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    • 692 2  -  GRAFT COMPLAINTS FELL TO RECORD LOW LAST YEAR NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic has developed a system that “eschews corruption” and must keep it that way, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said as he officially opened the Corruption Reporting
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    • 390 2  -  KELLY NG SINGAPORE —In the first five months of this year, 28 windows fell from highrise public- and private-housing blocks, and this is higher than the past five years’ average of 24 cases recorded in the same months. There were no
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    • 691 4  -  FARIS MOKHTAR farism@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Amid the spate of overseas terrorist attacks involving vehicles driven into crowds, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been engaging bollard suppliers and other industry players on the possibility of beefing up the security
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    • 959 6 AGENCIES LONDON —British Prime Minister Theresa May has vowed to toughen antiterrorism laws following last weekend’s attacks in London, but she could face opposition because of public concern for civil liberties and other laws protecting human rights. Britain already
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    • 572 6 AGENCIES MELBOURNE —Australia’s Prime Minister yesterday vowed to change state laws so that dangerous criminals are not released from prison early on parole, following a deadly siege by a paroled gunman that the authorities said was an “act of terrorism”. “There
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  • singapore
    • 396 12 Lack of experience, human and financial resources among challenges for institutions S I NG A PO R E —About one in two, or 50.9 per cent, of the charities and institutions of a public character (IPCs) here do not have a
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    • 396 12 (2nd Edition) Lack of experience, human and financial resources among challenges for institutions S I NG A PO R E —About one in two, or 50.9 per cent, of the charities and institutions of a public character (IPCs) here do not have a
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    • 404 12  -  WONG PEI TING SINGAPORE —The police have taken issue with economist Yeoh Lam Keong’s allegation that inadequate community policing was to blame for the 2013 Little India riot. He was commenting on the impact of the United Kingdom’s police budget cuts
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    • 409 12 (2nd Edition)  -  WONG PEI TING SINGAPORE —The police have taken issue with economist Yeoh Lam Keong’s allegation that inadequate community policing was to blame for the 2013 Little India riot. He was commenting on the impact of the United Kingdom’s police budget cuts
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    • singapore | news
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    • singapore | sports
      • 828 16  -  Terence Khoo promises to build on sport’s success, help clubs groom young talents LEADERSHIP CHANGE AT SRU GERARD WONG Sports Editor gerard@mediacorp.com.sg day. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY NOAH TAN, LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE —For the first time in more than a decade,
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      • 370 16  -  NOAH TAN SINGAPORE —The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has issued a warning letter to its Communications Manager, Mr Dominic Leong (picture), for his role in a physical altercation with one of its vendors, video producer Nick Tan, during the S.League
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    • singapore | lifestyle
      • 536 17  -  REENA DEVI SINGAPORE World-famous Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama wants her work to give people hope in their lives. The 88-year-old artist, who is known for her trademark polka dots and mirrors along with huge, amorphous inflatable objects, said: “Today, the world
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    • Article, Illustration
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    • 1261 20  -  Overexposure to screen time impedes a child’s development social and language skills TOUCHSCREEN DEVICES HAVE CHANGED CHILDHOOD PLAY HABITS EVELINE GAN eveline@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even before he could walk or talk, two-year-old Jack (not his real name) could navigate touchscreen devices.
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  • comment & analysis
    • 911 22  -  LAW-MAKING PROCESS TURNED INTO POLITICAL GAME HELEN TING Helen Ting is senior research fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia. EAST ASIA FORUM Attempts to amend Malaysia’s 1965 Criminal Jurisdiction Act, or RUU 355, have divided the nation
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    • 960 23  -  LESSONS FROM ISRAEL, NETHERLANDS ERICH GERBER Erich Gerber is general manager of Tibco Software Inc, Asia-Pacific and Japan. Singaporeans depend mostly on buses and the MRT for their daily commutes. The challenge for the operators is in balancing supply against
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  • voices
    • 398 25  -  FROM PHILLIP TAN FONG LIP The 2017IMD World Competitiveness ranking, in which Singapore overtook the United States, is worth celebrating, except that our productivity gains have not matched wage growth (Singapore ranked most ‘digitally competitive’ in the world; May 31).
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    • 206 25  -  FROM TAN HSIAO WEI I refer to the report “Downtown Line 3 to open on Oct 21” (June 1). Looking at the map of the Downtown Line, one sees a long line shaped like an upside-down ribbon. After Rochor station, the line
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    • 376 25  -  FROM PREM SINGH The legal fraternity must embrace advances in information technology as a continuing process, with no let-up, to enhance the performance of lawyers, paralegals and legal executives (“S’pore must keep its laws up-to-date to stay competitive: PM Lee”; May
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  • world
    • 697 26 AGENCIES SYDNEY —Australia has ordered an inquiry into espionage laws and foreign government interference amid growing concerns about China’s influence in the country’s politics and the Chinese community Down Under. A five-month joint investigation by two Australian media organisations has found how the
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    • 420 26 AGENCIES SYDNEY The Pacific Times was once described as a proudly independent community Chinese-language newspaper founded in Melbourne by Mr Sam Feng in the 1980s. However, corporate records suggest that the newspaper is less independent than Mr Feng claims, reported The
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    • world | news
      • 277 27 AGENCIES The Chinese government has hit back at the Fairfax/Four Corners investigation, stressing that the claims of spying and the Chinese government threatening students at Australian universities were “totally unfounded and irresponsible, and not worth refuting”.At a briefing, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua
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      • 223 28  -  WONG PEI TING SINGAPORE —Bank robbery suspect David James Roach, who fled to Bangkok after an alleged S$30,000 heist here in July last year, was sentenced to 14 months’ jail by a Thai court yesterday for smuggling the money into Thailand. The
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      • 342 28 REUTERS BANGKOK The leader of Thailand’s military junta, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha, will visit the White House next month, following an invitation from United States President Donald Trump, a spokesman for the Thai government said yesterday. The invitation to the former
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      • 711 29 Its sprawling power grid is unable to handle influx of new electricity from wind and solar AP BEIJING Efforts to cut pollution have made China the world leader in renewable energy development, yet that green power has been wasted as
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