The Straits Times, 28 January 2017

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  • 47 1 THE STRAITS TIMES SATURDAY JAN UARY 28,2017 SINCE1845 EXCELLENCE IN REDESIGN: SOCIETY OF NEWS DESIGN BEST IN NEWSPAPER DESIGN, BEST NEWS WEBSITE: WAN-IFRA 86 PAGES IN SIX PARTS $1.20 86 PAGES $1.20 Tosubscribe: 6388-3838 sphsubscription.com.sg sphsubscription.com.sg A Singapore Press Holdings publication MCI (P) 041/02/2016 MCI (P) 041/02/2016
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  • 426 1  -  JoseHong josehong@sph.com. sg Chinese New Year at the Yeo householdisusuallyabusyaffair– more so yesterday as relatives came adorned with their Chinese zodiac animals to usher in the Year of the Rooster. The Yeos made the extra effort to be a bit different this
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  • 490 1 Mexican peso battered as US President floats idea to impose 20% tax on imports to build wall NYTIMES WASHINGTON POST BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s decision to build a wall along the US border with Mexico has stoked his first foreign
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  • BRIEFING
    • What’s News
      • 54 2 TOPOFTHENEWS The row between US President Donald Trump and Mexico over a border wall has stoked his first foreign policy crisis and could signal a trade war. He pressed on with his plan, insisting Mexico should pay for the wall. Mexican President Pena Nieto scrapped his trip
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      • 67 2 TOP OF THE NEWS Marina Bay Sands is looking to sell 49 per cent of its stake in the plush Shoppes mall for US$3 billion to US$3.5 billion (S$4.3 billion to S$5 billion), which would make the mall the most expensive retail property in
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      • 83 2 WORLD Taking planes, trains, cars and buses, millions of Chinese headed to their home towns to celebrate Chinese New Year. At the Beijing West Railway Station, police, paramilitary troops and station staff led passengers into waiting rooms to be corralled onto trains. The staff said
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      • Straits Times Digital
        • 26 2 SINGAPORE SLIDER Chinatown in 1978,aglow with Chinese New Year stalls and festive shoppers, was not that different from the scene today. http:// str.sg/tem plestreet
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        • 19 2 VIDEO See how the creatures in the Chinese zodiac have inspired Chinatown light-ups through the years. http://str.sg/CNYlightup
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      • 50 2 WORLD A former assistant governor at Bank Negara Malaysia has claimed Malaysia’s central bank lost billions of dollars in the 1990s when Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was prime minister. The former official also said the foreign exchange losses were far higher than reported. A16
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      • 51 2 OPINION A new king in Thailand could see changes to a divide that has shaped the country’s politics for years. In the “yellow” camp, conservative royalists still cling to the monarchy as an institution but may now be less certain of the individual, writes Thitinan Pongsudhirak.
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      • 48 2 HOME Madam Lucy Ying, 71, was recognised by the Eunos Senior Citizens’ Executive Committee at an informal award ceremony for saving the life of a sales manager who collapsed during a karaoke challenge event. Madam Ying performed the “kiss of life”. B1
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      • 46 2 HOME The Migrant Workers’ Centre has said that most errant employers obey Labour Court orders to pay their workers. The advocacy group for foreign workers said that it has also helped migrant workers enforce such orders in the last two years. B5
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      • 61 2 BUSINESS Home prices in the luxury property market fell last year, but experts say upgraders should proceed with caution. Prices for homes in the prime district declined by 1.2 per cent last year, according to Urban Redevelopment Authority data released on Thursday. The price fall
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      • 62 2 SPORT Julianna Pena, ranked No. 2 in the UFC women’s bantamweight rankings, has said her biggest weapons are her mind, heart and determination. The American will face multiple muaythai world champion Valentina Shevchenko in Denver tonight (tomorrow, Singapore time) with the winner likely to get a
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      • 60 2 LIFE Ivan Ho, 50, was among aspiring film-makers in the 1980s. He eventually left showbusiness to become a businessman, dealing in everything from laundry to art. He has now come full circle, helming his first feature film, the Chinese New Year comedy Take
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    • What’s Next
      • 69 2 French politicians Benoit Hamon and Manuel Vallsfacearun-offvotetomorrowina presidential primary for the Socialist party. Mr Hamon won in the first round last week. The two men represent two wings of the party, with formerpremierVallsbeingacentristwitha pro-market policy and a security hardliner, and former minister Hamon labelled
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      • 60 2 British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim in Ankara today. A spokesman for Mrs May said the visit reflects “the fact that Turkey is an indispensable partner and a close ally for the UK on
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      • 78 2 The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI) will usher in the Year of the Golden Rooster at its annual Lunar New Year Gathering in Hill Street today, with Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry) S. Iswaran as guest of honour. Several Cabinet members
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    • 292 2  -  Why It Matters Nirmal Ghosh US Bureau Chief In Washington nirmal@sph.com.sg South Korea and Japan will be looking to hear reassurances from US President Donald Trump’s Defence Secretary James Mattis when he visits on Feb 2-3, in his first official foreign trip. President Trump’s
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  • TOP OF THE NEWS
    • 628 3  -  He allegedly helped others abuse productivity scheme for a cut Elena Chong ElenaChong CourtCorrespondent elena@sph.com.sg A magician was charged in court yesterday with multiple counts of helping others to fraudulently obtain Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) cash payouts and bonuses amounting to $1.1
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    • 767 4  -  But before it can go ahead with sale, Las Vegas Sands needs green light from the Singapore Government Grace Leong gleong@sph.com.sg Marina Bay Sands (MBS) is looking to sell 49 per cent of its stake in the
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    • 332 4 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAKARTA An Indonesian man detained for allegedly trying to join the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group in Syria with his family is a former Finance Ministry official who studied in Australia, the authorities have said.
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    • 477 4 BLOOMBERG, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Temasek Holdings will invest US$800 million (S$1.1 billion) in Alphabet’s medical arm Verily, which is working to bring some of its creations to market. Temasek will get a minority stake in the company and will nominate a director
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    • 830 6  -  Review panel recommends more rigorous vetting after series of translation errors in recent years Melody Zaccheus melodyz@sph.com.sg The quality of Tamil translations for government materials is set to improve. A review panel has put forth a string of recommendations to catch potential
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    • 601 6  -  K.C.Vijayan K.C.Vijayan SeniorLawCorrespondent vijayan@sph.com.sg More people are turning to mediation to settle spats, with Singapore’s pioneering mediation centre reporting its highest number of cases filed in its 20-year history. The Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC) handled 499 cases here involving a record $775
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    • 483 6 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WELLINGTON A New Zealand Breakers basketballer whose eyeball popped out mid-game said yesterday that he “freaked out” at the gruesome injury, but was relieved that his sight was apparently unaffected. “I could still see out of the eye even though
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    • 585 8 Options could include artillery on the ground in Syria and attack helicopters in Raqqa battle NYTIMES WASHINGTON The White House is drafting a presidential directive that calls on Defence Secretary James Mattis to devise plans to more aggressively strike the Islamic
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    • 497 8 WASHINGTON The 20 per cent tax on imports floated by the administration of President Donald Trump would affect a wide range of agricultural goods. Mexico was the United States’ sec-ond-largest agricultural imports provider in 2015, according to the website for
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    • 543 8 REUTERS PHILADELPHIA Joking that “opposites attract”, British Prime Minister Theresa May urged US President Donald Trump to renew the “special relationship” between Britain and the United States and lead in a new, changed world. In the US for what will
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    • 791 10  -  Some of the executive orders may get mired in legal challenges and take years to implement News analysis Nirmal Ghosh US Bureau Chief In Washington nirmal@sph.com.sg President Donald Trump’s first week in office has set the tone for hispresidency,analystssay–andit points to a
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    • 402 10 NYTIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE WASHINGTON just days after US President Donald Trump spoke of a “running war” with the media, his chief White House strategist, Mr Stephen Bannon, ratcheted up the attacks. He said news organisations had been “humiliated” by the election
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    • 296 10 WASHINGTON POST BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON A number of career US Foreign Service officers were informed this week that they will not be asked to stay on in senior or sensitive posts that are under direct White House control, creating an unusual leadership
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  • WORLD
    • 815 12 China’s trains have improved but ‘ticket snatching apps’ arouse ire NYTIMES REUTERS BEIJING Mr Xu Zhengming was lugging a 36-inch flat-screen television set through the Beijing West Railway Station on his way home for Chinese New Year. “I get to go back just once a year.
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    • 198 12 REUTERS BEIJING The Beijing city government has told officials to lead by example and not set off fireworks or firecrackers to welcome the Chinese New Year to help prevent smog, after the city was blanketed in choking smog earlier this month. The
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    • ASIA
      • 1326 14  -  Chinese exports would be hit hard by raised tariffs, but Americans’ pockets will suffer too News analysis Goh Sui Noi China Bureau Chief In Beijing suinoi@sph.com.sg If Apple’s iPhone has been used often as an example of what might happen in a
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      • 331 14 BEIJING Internet users in China are flocking to websites that allow them to generate fake tweets by @realdonaldtrump using them to share jokes and promote goods. The fake Trump tweets circulating in China reflect how the US President’s use of
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      • 423 15 North brands drills involving more than 300 Marines ‘madcap’ and warns of retaliation REUTERS PYEONGCHANG (South Korea)• South Korean and US Marines are conducting military exercises on ski slopes in sub-freezing temperatures, including shirtless hand-to-hand combat in the snow, prompting warnings of retaliation
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      • 279 15  -  Raul Dancel MANILA Singapore and the Philippines are looking to revive a military training agreement next year that will allow Singapore’s troops to hold exercises in the Philippines. “Yes, we will look into that, for the revival of Anoa-Singa. It’s a
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      • 644 16 No probe into forex losses under Mahathir’s watch, says official at Malaysian central bank in 1990s KUALA LUMPUR A former assistant governor at Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has claimed that the central bank lost billions of dollars in the early 1990s when
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      • 79 16 Ten-year-old Mohd Adam Haridh Amizi showing off the cockles he picked up at Batu Hitam beach in Kuantan, the state capital of Pahang, yesterday. Dozens of people rushed to the beach after hearing that the strong waves caused by the monsoon had washed ashore
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      • 450 16 LONDON A four-year divorce case between former Miss Malaysia Pauline Chai and her Malaysian tycoon husband Khoo Kay Peng is over. Britain’s Mail Online reported on Thursday that a family judge signalled the end of the marriage by granting a decree nisi with both sides
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      • 625 16 KUALA LUMPUR A curious debate has been taking place among the most senior leaders of Malaysian politics, with the final answer possibly swinging Malay voters one way or the other. The debate revolves around the question: Can a Chinese Malaysian aim
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      • 456 18  -  Funds sought for 15 projects, including key railway line, dam and irrigation works Raul Dancel RaulDancel PhilippinesCorrespondent InManila rdancel@sph.com.sg The Philippines has pitched for China to fund a key railway line connecting Manila to the southern part of the main island of Luzon
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      • 54 18 A Pakistani Customs official using a steamroller to crush bottles of liquor on the outskirts of Karachi on Thursday during a ceremony to mark International Customs Day. The Pakistani Customs Collectorate destroyed drugs and hundreds of bottles of illicit liquor smuggled into the country. PHOTO: AGENCE
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      • 411 18 THE STAR ASIA NEWS NETWORK JOHOR BARU•A top Johor official has assured Singapore that the Linggiu Dam has sufficient water to supply 1.1 billion litres a day to the Republic, in reaction to concerns about the low level of
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      • Asia Briefs
        • 65 18 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE JAKARTA An Indonesian Constitutional Court judge has been detained for allegedly accepting US$160,000 (S$228,600) in bribes, officials have said, the latest blow to the country’s graft-riddled judiciary. Patrialis Akbar, who also used to be Indonesia’s justice minister, was detained on Wednesday for
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        • 79 18 REUTERS TOKYO The number of foreign workers in Japan surpassed one million for the first time last year, as the labour-strapped country struggles to find enough Japanese workers. Slightly over a million foreigners from countries such as China and Vietnam were working in Japan
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        • 72 18 NYTIMES COLOMBO A group of hunger strikers in Sri Lanka have gripped the public’s attention as they tried to get answers to what happened to their family members who went missing in a 26-year war with the Tamil Tigers that ended in 2009. The
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    • WORLD
      • 683 19 Pilot and passenger killed after light aircraft goes down in Perth’s Swan River SYDNEY Two people have died after a light plane nosedived into a river in front of thousands of horrified spectators at an air show in Western Australia,
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      • World Briefs
        • 97 19 REUTERS AMSTERDAM A leading member of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s Cabinet has resigned, weakening the government ahead of a national election in March in which it is trailing in the polls. justice Minister Ard van der Steur unexpectedly told Parliament on Thursday
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        • 92 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MOSCOW Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that talks in Geneva on the Syrian crisis had been postponed from Feb 8 to the end of the month. The announcement came after Syria’s main opposition leaders turned down an invitation from
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        • 92 19 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE LOS ANGELES A former high school student in California has been awarded US$1.25 million (S$1.8 million) in a lawsuit for having been forced to urinate in a bucket after being denied a bathroom break. A jury ruled in favour of
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      • 1119 20  -  French presidential candidate’s Catholic support may waver amid graft allegations Neo Hui Min For The Straits Times In Paris huimin.neo@gmail.com For Mr Francois Fillon, his leading status in the French presidential election is becoming more than ever a matter of faith. The 62-year-old former prime
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      • 737 23 Citizenship offer part of plan to attract skilled, educated immigrants amid greying workforce NYTIMES ST JOHN’S (Newfoundland) At the College of the North Atlantic here, a young Chinese woman stood discussing her future with two fellow students, a Bangladeshi man and a Korean woman,
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      • 1657 24  -  Efforts of NGOs which set up soup kitchens are often hindered by ad hoc volunteers whose misplaced intentions can be harmful Field notes Carolyn Hong CarolynHong ForTheStraitsTimes InKualaLumpur carolyn.sy@gmail.com Every Thursday night, volunteers with the soup kitchen Need to Feed the Need (NFN) turn up
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      • 644 25 Italian soup kitchen among many now turning mountains of leftovers into meals for homeless REUTERS ROME It all started with an espresso. When a homeless man asked pensioner Dino Impagliazzo for one, he thought: “Why not help?” Soon, he and his wife were making
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  • OPINION
    • 376 26 The Straits Times says TheYearoftheRoosterdawnsamidthefluxofper-plexingevents.BrexitispassingintotherealityofEuropean history, and US President Donald Trump has inaugurated a possibly insular phase ofAmericanhistory.Whattheseeventshaveregisteredwithavengeance isavisceralrejectionof globalisation by discontents in the Western world.Whetherimmigrationwasthecause,asin Britain, or the flight of jobs was, as in America, largenumbersofvotersintheindustrialdemocracies turned their backs on the economic integrationoftheglobe. Asia,AfricaandLatinAmericaareunableasyet
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    • 1187 26  -  Changing dynamics in both red and yellow camps may turn Thai electoral politics into a fairer game By Invitation Thitinan Pongsudhirak For The Straits Times stopinion@sph.com.sg The writerteaches international relations and directs the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in
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    • 1319 27  -  Shannon Teoh Malaysia Bureau Chief shannont@sph.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR The signature project of the Malaysian government’s planned redevelopment of Kampung Baru, a Malay enclave clinging on to a way of life that existed before Kuala Lumpur morphed into a bustling city, boasts
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    • 1014 27  -  Leo Suryadinata, Mustafa Izzuddin For The Straits Times stopinion@sph.com.sg LeoSuryadinata is visiting senior fellow and Mustafa Izzuddin is fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. Days before Mr Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the US on Jan 20,
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    • 1041 28  - In these tough times let’s celebrate the Year of the Rooster without crowing Don’t let the looming economic crisis turn into a crisis of empathy William Wan For The Straits Times stopinion@sph.com.sg William Wan is general secretary of the Singapore Kindness Movement. The Year of the Rooster has arrived. Family
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    • 740 28  -  Vivek Wadhwa WASHINGTON POST Picture the commute of the future: You live in Palo Alto, California, but work 560km away in Los Angeles. After your morning latte, you click on a phone app to summon your digital chauffeur. An autonomous car shows
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    • 993 28  -  Daniel W. Drezner The writer is a professor of international politicsatthe Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy atTufts University. WASHINGTON POST Hey, the new Office of the United States Trade Representative website is up! Let’s take
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    • 965 29  -  Asian Editors Circle Chong Lip Teck Leader Writer Sin Chew Daily, Malaysia Braindrainseemstobeanobstacle inMalaysia’sdevelopment.Moves byMalaysiansleavinghometoseek greenerpastureshaveneverbeen stopped. Ihavearelative,ayoungmanin hisearly30s,whojoinedan e-commercecompanyasan informationtechnology(IT) engineer after his graduation and has a master’s degree. The office is locatedinPetalingJaya,Selangor. In 2015, his e-commerce company, despite achieving outstanding results, announced
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    • 1464 29 With the 45th president of the United States sworn in, commentators in Asia discuss the changing nature of ties between their countries and the world’s reigning superpower and suggest pragmatic ways to further the relationships. Here are excerpts from papers
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  • FORUM
    • 184 30  -  Jeffrey Law Lee Beng Housing six different churches within the same building is a good move in land-scarce Singapore (“Six churches under one roof in Jurong”; Jan 23). This concept will be welcomed by small and medium-sized churches. They
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    • 257 30  -  dirtyandunglamorous. Gabriel Cheng Kian Tiong Setting aside 14 per cent of a town council’s income for a dedicated Lift Replacement Fund is a move that is overdue, given the number of lift accidents over the past two years (“Town councils to
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    • 199 30  -  Albert Ng Ya Ken I was shocked by the state of a very popular food centre in the Rochor area recently. A rough count found that at least one-third of the tables were full of used tableware and cutlery. Many food centres
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    • 66 31 WRITE IN: Letters should be meant for exclusive publication in The Straits Times. They should be no longerthan 400wordsand must include the writer’s full name, address and phone numbers. The Forum editor reserves the right to edit the letters. For women, please indicate Miss, Ms, Mrs or Madam.
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    • 21 31 1. LOONG CHIKTONG: Install bollards for ground floor facilities near roads. 2.TEOKOKSEAH: Ways to stop having prams on escalators.
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    • 496 31 Would you send your child to a mega childcare centre? What benefits or drawbacks would such a centre have over a smaller one? My younger son attended a church kindergarten. Small in numbers but he had a very dedicated principal and teachers. Much prefer a smaller pre-school. When
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    • 333 31  -  Lionel Loi Zhi Rui I attended The Future Of Jobs dialogue organised by Young NTUC recently, which featured four young speakers who were actively pursuing their own careers paths in the creative and innovation sector. One of the key messages was that, given that disruptive
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    • 229 31  -  Seah Seng Choon Seah Seng Choon President Foreign Domestic Worker Association for Skills Training The initiative by the Association of Employment Agencies (Singapore) and the Philippine-based Association of Licensed Recruitment Agencies to Singapore, with the support of the Philippine government, to cap
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    • 132 32 The Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal, was crowded with devotees yesterday as they came to offer prayers at the Pashupatinath Temple as part of the annual Swasthani Brata Katha festival. During the month-long festival, devotees recite one chapter daily from the sacred Swasthani Brata Katha
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    • 820 1  -  She used what she learnt from watching TV to revive man who had heart attack Ng Huiwen ngh uiwen@sph.com. sg Like many Singaporeans today, Mr Tang Siew Loon will be hoping for continued prosperity and good health in the Year of the Rooster. But
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    • 619 2  -  A group of volunteers has so far found 23 felines in vacated blocks; six have been relocated Audrey Tan audreyt@sph.com.sg When residents of Dakota Crescent moved out of the estate last month, what they left behind were more than pots and pans. Instead,
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    • 642 2  -  Christopher Tan ChristopherTan SeniorCorrespondent christan@sph.com.sg Parties involved in accidents with private-hire cars operated by companies such as Uber and Grab tend to have a harder time settling their claims, according to lawyers who act for insurers. These vehicles are involved in accidents more
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    • 631 4  -  Scientists to probe if global warming may similarly affect fish populations in the wild Samantha Boh samboh@sph.com.sg Local scientists have discovered that subjecting juvenile zebrafish to elevatedtemperatures–byheating upthewatertheyarein–forcesthe females to turn into males, lending support to the theory that global warming
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    • 417 4  -  Jose Hong Al-Istighfar Mosque in Pasir Ris has built a temporary prayer facility to accommodate its growing congregation. The mosque in Pasir Ris has a capacity of 3,500 but worshippers fill up almost every inch of space there, with many
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    • 390 4  -  Chew Hui Min chuimin@sph.com.sg A pre-Chinese New Year dinner turned dramatic for a family of otters in Kallang Basin on Thursday. When an otter pup was separated from its parents while frolicking in the waters, a group of otter watchers including Mr N. Sivasothi,
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    • 505 5  -  Migrant Workers’ Centre calls for action against‘very small group’ of errant employers Toh Yong Chuan Manpower Correspondent tohyc@sph.com.sg The large majority of employers obey Labour Court orders to pay their workers, an advocacy group for foreign workers said yesterday. Those who do
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    • 339 5  -  Elena Chong Court Correspondent elena@sph.com.sg Taking advantage of an app that allows people to secretly record videos on their phones, a 29-year-old man took39 upskirt videos ofwomen at various places from supermarkets to MRT stations. For his upskirt spree over 16 months,
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    • 444 5  -  Selina Lum selinal@sph.com.sg Facing jail time for forgery, he fled Singapore in 2003 using a passport bearing another man’s name. For the next 12 years, Ng Chong Lin settled in the United States, where he practised immigration law under a bogus
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    • 459 6  -  Three generations of Kiew family continue potluck dinner tradition Preparing for Chinese New Year Jose Hong josehong@sph.com.sg About three weeks ago, Ms Kiew Yoke Sim received a message through a specially created WhatsApp chat group. It stated the time, date and venue of the
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    • 406 6  -  Leong Weng Kam LeongWengKam SeniorWriter wengkam@sph.com.sg Members of the public can win the red packets by taking part in games and quizzes on the SCCC’s facebook page (www.facebook.com/ Singaporechineseculturalcentre) until Feb 11. Winners will be notified online and will have to collect
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    • 321 6  -  Abigail Ng abigailng@sph.com.sg For the past 16 years since moving to Singapore from India, Mrs Kavita Raha has had her circle of friends limited mostly to people from her workplace as well as expatriates. But yesterday, the 50-year-old, who became a Singaporean last year,
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    • 178 7 On the night before Chinese New Year’s Eve and the start of the Year of the Rooster, Singaporeans were out in force doing last-minute shopping to prepare for the annual Spring Festival. The Straits Times checked out Chinatown and various spots around Singapore on Thursday, where
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    • 1060 8  -  Good planning, using mobile apps and even buying a pair of shoes can keep the kilos away The ST Guide To... fitness on the go Lee Siew Hua LeeSiewHua TravelWriter siewhua@sph.com.sg Vacations are a double jeopardy. We feast while the fitness regime takes
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    • 733 1  -  Decline still smaller than in other parts of S’pore; experts say prices could fall further Lee Xin En xinen@sph.com.sg Prices in the luxury property market fell last year but experts say upgradersshouldproceedwithcaution. Values in prime districts from the Central Business District to Orchard Road
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    • 585 2  -  Other ways: Help firms to expand globally, align education to jobs Yasmine Yahya YasmineYahya AssistantBusinessEditor yasminey@sph.com.sg Getting the Singapore economy in the right shape to meet future challenges will mean boosting support for research and development (R&D), helping local firms
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    • 460 2 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China’s escalating crackdown on capital outflows is sending shudders through property markets around the world. In London, Chinese citizens who clamoured to purchase flats at the city’s tallest apartment tower three months ago are now struggling to transfer their down payments.
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    • 311 2  -  Rachael Boon Giving out red packets or hongbao to employees is one of the top Chinese New Year traditions practised by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), a recent survey has found. OCBC Bank, which surveyed some of its SME clients,
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    • 696 2  -  Yasmine Yahya Citibank Singapore customers will soon have to save and/or invest at least $15,000 with the bank, or face increased account service fees. For the past few weeks, the bank has been issuing alerts to customers across all its segments from
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    • 427 3  -  London-based car distributor tight-lipped about staff moves Christopher Tan ChristopherTan SeniorCorrespondent christan@sph.com.sg Motor distribution giant Inchcape, which axed about 120 employees here this month, is moving senior managers from its London head office to fill regional roles here. The Straits Times understands that
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    • 347 3 TOKYO Japan’s core consumer prices fell at the slowest annual pace in nearly a year in December, a sign that inflation should pick up in the coming months on a rebound in oil costs and rising import costs from a weak
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    • 621 3 BLOOMBERG BEIJING For a foreign brewer hoping to gain an edge in the Chinese market, it seemed like the ideal alliance: Japan’s largest beer-maker teaming up with one of China’s premierbrands. Yet, Asahi Group Holdings’ 2009 purchase of a
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      • 99 3 BLOOMBERG ZURICH UBS Group said yesterday profit more than tripled in the fourth quarter as rising interest rates and a rally in equities boosted the bank’s securities unit and US wealth management. Profit before tax rose to 848 million Swiss francs (S$1.2 billion)
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      • 122 3 BLOOMBERG SAN FRANCISCO Apple is set to join the Partnership on AI, an artificial intelligence research group that includes Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft. Apple’s admission into the group could be announced as soon as this week, say people familiar with the situation.
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      • 89 3 REUTERS TOKYO Toshiba’s board yesterday approved plans to make its core memory chip business a separate firm and seek outside investment in it. The drastic step will be one of many tough choices the Japanese conglomerate must make as the proceeds are set to
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    • 311 3 BLOOMBERG SEATTLE Amazon and PayPal have discussed letting shoppers pay for Amazon purchases using their PayPal accounts, highlighting how PayPal can attract new partners since its 2015 split from Amazon rival eBay. “We have been in conversations with Amazon,” PayPal chief executive Dan
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    • 588 4  -  STI rise due to banking stocks and surprise economic rebound in Q4, says Credit Suisse Wong Siew Ying wongsy@sph.com.sg The promising start to the year displayed by Singapore equities should hold up for the rest of the first quarter, Credit Suisse tipped in
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    • 620 5 IT firms reposition themselves around such Internet services BLOOMBERG NEW YORK Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel, which all posted quarterly results on Thursday, have reinforced what has become a truism in technology: the biggest growth is in businesses that deliver computing over the
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    • 1143 5 Construction industry veteran David Low believes the future revolves around crazy ideas bold, off-the-wall concepts that can help businesses make a quantum leap forward and remain relevant in a changing world. With this in mind, the founder and chief executive officer of
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    • 542 6  -  Local stocks end on sweet note as banks and property counters rally ahead of CNY break Bulls And Bears Grace Leong gleong@sph.com.sg Local shares ended the Year of the Monkey on a positive note, partly due to Wall Street holding above the 20,000
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    • 34 6 1 CDWHoldingandathird-party Japanesefirmhavesetupaunit inOsaka.Itwillprovide biotech-relatedresearchand developmentandmanufacture andmarkethealthcareand beautyproducts. 2 SGX-listedInfinioGroup, whichhasinterestsinmining, willissue180millionnew sharesat0.1centpershareto AdvanceOpportunitiesFundI. 3 MiningplayerAllianceMineral Assets,whichfocuseson lithium,saiditsBaldHill projectinWesternAustraliais showingpromisingresults. 4 TycoonSamGoihasraisedhis stakeinSGX-listedYellow Pagesto11.314percent throughinvestmentvehicle Oregold. 5 SinHengHeavyMachinery expectsanetlossforthe secondquarterendedDec31, mainlyduetounrealisedfairvaluelossonforwardcurrency contracts.
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    • 100 6 FTSE ST Large Mid-Cap Index stocks 52-WEEK CURRENCY LAST 'VOL GROSS HIGH LOW COMPANY TRADED SALE +OR-'000 YIELD COMPANY CURRENCY LAST TRADED SALE +0RVOL '000 GROSS YIELD% 172.5 101 ARA Asset Mgmt 172 +0.5 752 2.9 257 220 AscendasReit 244cd unch 3994 6.3 735 555 HongkongLand USD US675 unch 1191
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    • 78 6 52-Week Vol Last Quote High Low Counter Last Sale +/-(’000) Buy Sell Counter Last Sale Vol (’OOO) 3268 2355 DBXT China50 US$ US3129 -31 7 3136 3143 Buy Sell 120.1 112.1 6072 4670 DBXT MSKorea US$ US6009 -63 3 5991 6013 1128 -0.2 5 113 2399 1772 DBXT MSTaiwan
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    • 57 6 BY CENTS CLOSE UP BYCENTS Venture Corp 1026 18.0 1.8 UP DairyFarm USD 825 11.3 1.0 6148 Haw Par Corp 951 10.0 1.1 1.4 JSHUSD BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP China Great Land 3.5 29.6 0.8 Venture Corp 1026 APAC Strategic 0.7 16.7 0.1 Asiatravel.com 9.8 16.7 1.4 DBSGrp 1917
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    • 62 6 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN BY CENTS Sembcorp Ind 319 -5.0 -1.5 DOWN Frasers Com Tr 126 -2.5 -1.9 Pharmesis Intl 44 -2.0 -4.3 4187 Sembcorp Marine 151 -2.0 -1.3 Keppel DC Reit 119 -1.5 -1.2 Raffles Medical 147 -1.5 -1.0 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN MMP Resources 0.3 -25.0 -0.1
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    • 487 7  -  New board of directors say they need time to determine current state of affairs at the company Jacqueline Woo tsjwoo@sph.com.sg Embattled International Healthway Corporation (IHC), which is trying to move ahead after the ouster of key personnel, has asked for a voluntary trading suspension. It had
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      • 100 7 Keppel Corporation said yesterday that its wholly owned subsidiary, Keppel Infrastructure Holdings, is divesting itself of its 49.99 per cent stake in GE Keppel Energy Services. Keppel Infrastructure Holdings, through a wholly-owned unit Keppel Infrastructure Services, is selling the shares to GE Singapore for $24.6 million. They struck
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      • 152 7 Singapore eDevelopment is proposing to convert its US$10.5 million (S$15 million) Hengfai Business Development (HBD) loan into new company shares. The group said yesterday it wants to allot and issue 372.9 million new shares at an issue price of four cents per conversion share to HBD. It also
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      • 111 7 Pan Asian Holdings announced yesterday it has received a writ of summons and statement of claimfromRHBBankforaboutRM634,250 (S$204,400), filed at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court on Dec 29 last year. RHB’s claim against the company is based on the guarantee by a non-resident, dated July 21, 2014, Pan
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    • 80 7 Points Change Mid Cap Small Cap Fledgling Catalist China China Top Maritime Basic materials Consumer goods Consumer serv Financials 703.46 388.12 742.48 476.53 218.36 166.36 174.10 109.22 536.72 748.18 831.34 +2.09 +0.76 +0.96 +3.18 +0.60 +1.53 -1.62 -0.75 +1.22 +0.07 +4.01 Change Points Change Healthcare Industrials Oil
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  • SPORT
    • 632 9 He shoots his highest score to launch a PGA Tour season in first official round since 2015 NYTIMES AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SAN DIEGO Tiger Woods has made more momentous putts on the 18th hole of Torrey Pines’ South Course, but he has probably
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    • 275 9 REUTERS NEW YORK Disgraced American swimmer Ryan Lochte, who lost all his major sponsors after his tall tale about being robbed and held at gunpoint during the Rio Olympics, has signed on with TYR Sport, the swimwear company said on Thursday. Lochte,
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      • 93 9 unlikely to be inahurry.THE TIMES, LONDON be completed LONDON LONDON Southampton have rejected an offer of £180 million (S$322.7 million) from Lander Sports Development to buy the English Premier League club. Negotiations with the Chinese property company are continuing despite considerable irritation inside the
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      • 70 9 REUTERS BARCELONA Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez were on target as holders Barcelona thrashed Real Sociedad 5-2 to reach the King’s Cup semi-final for the seventh successive year with a 6-2 aggregate victory on Thursday. Further goals from Denis Suarez (two goals) and
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      • 69 9 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE MIAMI American golfer Brittany Lincicome fired a tournament record nine-under 64 on Thursday to grab a two-stroke lead after round one of the LPGA Pure Silk Bahamas Classic, the Tour’s 2017 season opener. She made seven birdies and eagled the par-five seventh
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    • 492 9  -  Jonathan Wong jonwong@sph.com.sg The Fijians may be Olympic champions and two-time winners of the World Rugby Sevens Series but newly-appointed Japan coach and former All Black Damian Karauna does not expect the Pacific Islanders to run away with this year’s title. Fiji lost
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    • 363 10  -  Lin Xinyi LinXinyi In Melbourne linxinyi@sph.com.sg The Australian Open is affectionately known as “The Happy Slam” and Mastercard wants its consumers to have more fun at this tennis Major than most. From ambassador and former world No. 1 Martina Hingis surprising fans with
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    • 297 10 TODAY BASKETBALL NBA Portland v Memphis (Singtel TV Ch110, 11am) FOOTBALL English FA Cup Liverpool v Wolverhampton (8.20pm), Chelsea v Brentford (10.50pm), Southampton v Arsenal (tomorrow, 1.20am) SingtelTV Ch109. Tottenham v Wycombe (SingtelTV Ch110, 10.50pm). Dutch Eredivisie Heracles v PSV (Singtel TV Ch116 StarHub Ch210, tomorrow, 2.35am)
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    • 372 10 REUTERS OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook, a notable absentee from the starting line-ups for next month’s All-Star Game, was selected among the reserves for the marquee exhibition match. The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced on Thursday that Westbrook, averaging a
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    • 694 11 On the court where they first met in 1998, the Williams sisters face each other once again Australian Open 2017 NYTIMES MELBOURNE The sibling rivalry, at least on the tennis tour, started here at the Australian Open for the Williams sisters. It was
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    • 988 11  - The Williams Sisters the greatest sibling show in world sport Open Minded Rohit Brijnath Assistant Sports Editor In Melbourne rohitb@sph.com.sg The Spinks boxing brothers and the Polgar chess sisters. The Charlton football brothers and Maleeva tennis sisters. Mothers and sons at the same Olympics. Twins in the same boat. Jackie
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