Today, 23 January 2013, Afternoon Edition

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    • 143 1 WEDNESDAY, 23 JANUARY 2013 M I C A P) 0 93/0 6/2 0 1 2 NEWSTREAM A constant flow of the latest breaking news updates TODAYONLINE.COM Cleaner, sleeker, and centered around visuals and social media TOPIC TABS News reports, commentaries and galleries covering the biggest issues of the day The
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  • 16 1 TODAY AFTERNOON EDITION WE SET YOU THINKING /VI bdiaCorp WEDNESDAY, 23 JANUARY 2013 MICA (P) 093/06/2012
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  • 656 1  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The fractious nature of Opposition politics here and the management of town councils came to the fore last night at the Workers’ Party (WP) rally, as its leaders tackled two hotly debated issues for the first time since the
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  • 475 1  -  S$8m annually to help middleand lower-income families with children’s medical bills PUBLIC HEALTHCARE ASHLEY CHIA ashley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —From March, middle-and lower-income families can tap on a new Medifund Junior scheme with S$8 million allocated by the Government each year —to defray healthcare
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    • 71 1 WITH SO MUCH CHANGE HAPPENING SO FAST, THE BEST TECHNOLOGY MAY NOT BE WHAT BEST SERVES TH E MILITARY COMMENT&ANALYSIS 12 BUSINESS• 36 BARCLAYS TO AXE THOUSANDS OF JOBS a MARIGOLD For health. For life. "OUc*ys +o 0oo<A |/vqaI4'K'' a Ivy Lee Renowned Celebrity MARIGOLD Mil |V|ARIGOLD 100% Juice Orange
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    • 487 2  -  Candidate says partisan disagreements are no excuse for further delays to stalled work at Rivervale Plaza PUNGGOL EAST BY-ELECTION WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Workers’ Party (WP) candidate Lee Li Lian said last night that the lack of public amenities and facilities
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    • 377 4  -  PUNGGOL EAST BY-ELECTION NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —With two days remaining to campaign in what he dubbed a “keenly contested” by-election, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday urged Punggol East residents to compare what the candidates are
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    • 389 4  -  HENG WEI XIANG hengweixiang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Back on the campaign trail after recovering from a bout of flu, Reform Party (RP) Punggol East by-election candidate Kenneth Jeyaretnam yesterday expressed confidence in his party’s ability to execute the proposals he outlined for the ward, such
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    • 312 4  -  SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saiful2@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Remove the cap on the use of Medisave for MediShield premiums by those aged 65 and above and do away with the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) to ease the stress on primary school students. These were
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    • 130 6  -  ASHLEY CHIA The KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital will increase bed capacity at its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, as the proportion of premature newborns inched up over the past two decades from 10 per cent to 13.5 per cent. By May, the number
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    • 561 6  -  PENAL CODE AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) stepped in yesterday as the debate over Section 377A of the Penal Code which criminalises sex between men continued unabated. In a media statement, the AGC pointed out that the High Court is due to
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    • 371 8 TERRITORIAL DISPUTE AP MANILA —The Philippines took a legal step against China’s claims to virtually the entire South China Sea yesterday, formally notifying the Asian superpower that Manila is seeking international arbitration to declare Beijing’s moves in the potentially oil-rich
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    • 471 10 INFLATION AGENCIES TOKYO —The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has unveiled its most determined effort yet to end years of economic stagnation, saying it would switch to an open-ended commitment to buying assets next year and double its infla- tion target to 2 per
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  • comment &analysis
    • 914 12  -  TECHNOLOGY’S ROLE IN WARFARE BERNARD FOOK WENG LOO Bernard Fook Weng Loo is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Military Studies Programme at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Technology as a force multiplier is a familiar argument for
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    • 972 14  -  US FOREIGN POLICY GIDEON RACHMAN THE FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED In their second terms, many American Presidents decide to strut the global stage. Mr Richard Nixon had his overture to China. Mr Bill Clinton became obsessed by the Middle East peace process. Mr George
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    • 31 12 In their second terms, many American Presidents decide to strut the global stage. It is clear that Mr Barack Obama intends to be an exception to this rule. GIDEON RACHMAN 14
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
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  • voices
    • 178 18  -  FROM SANDRA ALISON JAYANDRAN I read with interest the changes to childcare leave. For those with children aged seven to 12 years, they will enjoy two days of annual childcare leave. Currently, only parents whose children are below seven years old are
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    • 141 18  -  FROM YAN CHUNG HOONG “A S$2b package to boost fertility rate” (Jan 22) is a good enhancement to the marriage and parenthood package, with additional support in the form of a parenthood priority housing scheme. However, just as 30 per cent of Build-to-Order flats will be
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    • 55 18 The report, “M1 Q4 profit slightly higher” (Jan 22), should have stated that 14 per cent, and not 15 per cent, of M1’s postpaid mobile customers are on tiered data plans. It should also have stated that the Q4 profit snapped two quarters, and not two months, of decline.
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    • 102 18  -  FROM MUHAMMAD NOOR ALIF A friend of mine has four days of family care leave this year, which is for employees to look after, say, sick parents or a spouse. Such leave entitlement enhances the work-life balance. It is not available in all sectors
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    • 113 18  -  FROM THOMAS LEE CHEE CHEE After seven rounds of property cooling measures, it is still legal for Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat owners to buy private property and still hold on to subsidised housing. Allowing them to do so
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    • 344 21  -  FROM SHARIFAH GAMAR ALAM ALBAHAR I lived in Hong Kong from 2004 to 2007 and experienced its public healthcare system during my pregnancy there. A private hospital charged S$6,000 to S$12,000 for delivery, including hospital stay, and separate payments for antenatal check-ups. Many
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    • 216 21  -  FROM KEN OONG The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) should advise if it is correct for property developers to advertise and sell completed units without the issue of title. I responded recently to a sale of a unit with a temporary occupation permit (TOP),
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    • 136 21  -  FROM TEO KUEH LIANG I refer to the letter, “Potentially harmful to rate our politicians” (Jan 19). National policies should be based fundamentally on the long term and for the interests of citizens as a whole. It
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  • singapore
    • 395 22  -  EUGENE NEUBRONNER SINGAPORE —The country’s fifth pub-licly-funded university is experiencing growing pains, but the institute is not complaining. Overbooked courses and plans to expand student intake have the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) looking into possible alternative sites for the university’s main campus.
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    • 465 23  -  MOE programme to encourage independent learning, skills such as reasoning, inference, in upper primary school students PRIMARY EDUCATION NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE By the end of this year, more than 1,000 Primary 4 teachers will be trained to deliver English Language lessons in
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    • 196 25  -  KELLY NG, THEN AI PING SINGAPORE —Three people were hospitalised after being rescued by firefighters from a fire that broke out at a Hougang Avenue 8 flat yesterday morning. A 17-year-old male was rescued from the kitchen toilet, and two women one in
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    • 451 25  -  SEX-FOR-GRADES TRIAL CLAIRE HUANG SINGAPORE —The National University of Singapore law professor defending himself in the sex-for-grades corruption case started hyperventilating in the dock when the trial resumed after lunch yesterday. Tey Tsun Hang’s lawyer, Mr Peter Low, asked for a
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  • health
    • 957 26  -  These times are particularly tricky diet-wise, but rather than abstaining, patients just need to balance lifestyle and diet FESTIVE FEASTING EVELINE GAN eveline@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —For 77-year-old diabetes patient Tan K W, every Chinese New Year celebration is fraught with temptations. Presently on insulin once
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  • china&india
    • 318 28 ANTI-CORRUPTION INITIATIVES AGENCIES BEIJING —China’s incoming President Xi Jinping yesterday took his campaign against corruption to the petty bureaucracy and minor infractions of lowly officials who are the bane of many Chinese people and businesses. Mr Xi, in comments carried by
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    • 595 29 AGENCIES BEIJING The Mayor of China’s capital yesterday unveiled new measures to ease the chronic air pollution in the city that has triggered growing public anger. Beijing’s already notorious air pollution hit a record earlier this month, with pollution levels reaching 755
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  • 220 30 REUTERS NEW YORK Lawyers for former Goldman Sachs Group board member Rajat Gupta (picture) are urging a federal appeals court to reverse his insider trading conviction, arguing that a judge should not have allowed wiretaps to be heard at trial. In a brief filed
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  • 304 30 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS JERUSALEM —Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged the bruised winner of Israel’s election yesterday, claiming victory despite unexpected losses to resurgent cent-er-left challengers. Exit polls showed the Israeli leader’s Likud party, yoked with the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu group, would
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  • 197 32 AP BALI An Indonesian court sentenced a British grandmother to death yesterday for smuggling cocaine worth US$2.5 million (S$3.07 million) in her suitcase onto the resort island of Bali even though prosecutors had only sought a 15-year sentence. Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was arrested
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  • 370 32 MALAYSIA POLITICS THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUAL A LUMPUR A video clip has surfaced on YouTube showing an official, allegedly from the Malaysian National Civics Bureau or Biro Tata Negara (BTN), telling school students to get their parents to support the
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  • 636 33 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK —Their curriculum devotes months to helping a company solve a current technological challenge. Their progress is supervised not just by an academic adviser, but also by an industry adviser. Their vast campus on Roosevelt Island, when it
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  • business
    • STOCK CALLS
      • 78 34 OCBC notes that the trust turned in consistent 4Q12 results with distribution per unit up 1.6%, matching full-year forecasts. This translates to an attractive FY12 yield of 6.4%, higher than the S-REIT sector average yield of 5.8%. The firm’s portfolio occupancy as at Dec 31
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      • 73 34 OCBC says results were mostly in line, though net profit of S$146.5 million was 3.3% below expectations. It says the shortfall was due to higher-than-expected tax expenses in Q4. Management expects moderate earnings growth in 2013 and has maintained its minimum 80% dividend payout ratio. OCBC is
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      • 27 34 Readers should seek independent financial advice before making any investment decision. Today cannot be held liable for any consequence arising from the use of this information.
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    • 461 34 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS SAN FR ANSISCO Revenue from Goo­gle’s core Internet business outpaced many analysts’ expectations during the crucial holiday quarter and ad­vertising rates fell less than in previ­ous periods, pushing the company’s shares up more than 4 per cent. The world’s largest
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    • 722 35  -  A Singapore WSQ Diploma in Tourism has given Michelle Chen’s career a lift TOURISM CAREERS THROUGH SINGAPORE WSQ MELODY TAN SINGAPORE For more than 12 years, Ms Michelle Chen, 37, worked in security at Changi Airport. Being an avid traveller and watching hordes of travellers arriving
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    • 185 36 REUTERS NEW YORK International Business Machines (IBM) reported fourth-quarter earnings and revenue that beat analysts’ estimates. Its quarterly net income rose 10 per cent to US$6.1 billion (S$7.5 billion), or US$5.39 a share, from US$4.71 a year earlier. Revenue dropped 1 per cent to
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    • 285 36 AFTERNOON LATEST AGENCIES LONDON Two of the United Kingdom’s highest-profile employers, Barclays bank and Rolls-Royce, will axe thousands of jobs after launching formal consultations on cost-cutting. All 9,000 staff in the UK investment banking arm of Barclays received an email informing them that a
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    • 84 36 IN BRIEF REUTERS Microsoft is in discussions to invest between US$1 billion (S$1.2 million) and US$3 billion of mezzanine financing in a buyout of Dell, sources said yesterday. Private equity outfit Silver Lake Partners is trying to finalise a bidding group to
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    • 591 40  -  National bowler named Academic All-American for fourth year running BOWLING LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE National bowler Jazreel Tan’s list of accolades at the Wichita State University in the United States just keeps getting longer and longer. The 23-year-old undergraduate added yet another feather to
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    • 254 41 AFTERNOON LATEST AP LO N DO N Bradford City became the first fourth-tier club to reach an English final in more than 50 years yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) after they knocked Aston Villa out of the League Cup semi-finals. Bradford lost the
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    • 175 41 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Ashley Cole has ended the uncertainty about his future by signing a one-year contract extension with Chelsea. The England left-back’s previous deal expired at the end of the season and, at one stage, he was expected to leave Stamford Bridge. However,
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    • 167 41 REUTERS PARIS Newcastle United’s French shopping spree continued yesterday when they signed Montpellier defender Mapou Yanga Mbiwa, while Girondins Bordeaux forward Yoan Gouffran said he would join the Premier League club today. Struggling Newcastle confirmed that France international Yanga Mbiwa had signed from the French champions
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    • 346 42 ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP AGENCIES LONDON Manchester United are searching for an experienced, imposing goalkeeper to replace David de Gea at the end of the season because of a growing acceptance at Old Trafford that the Spaniard is unsuitable for the demands of English football.
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        721 46 William H Macy on how films have damaged attitudes to sex and violence SENSE AND SENSIBILITY THE GUARDIAN losangeles —In director Ben Lewin’s latest offering, The Sessions, William H Macy plays Father Brendan, a priest and confidant to poet Mark O’Brien (played by John Hawkes) a man who
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        400 48 Film about hunt for Osama bin Laden is ready to think on its feet and in grand style too REVIEW: ZERO DARK THIRTY (NC16,160MINS) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Zero Dark Thirty is military terminology for half past midnight, the time at which the pivotal raid to capture Osama
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      • 351 49 A deeply humane film about a disabled poet, a sex surrogate and an open-minded priest REVIEW: THE SESSIONS (R21, 95MINS) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —It’s one of the crueller shocks of awards season that John Hawkes’ performance in The Sessions didn’t make it to the Academy’s Best Actor
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      • 193 50 ‘He brought happiness to everyone, says Mark Lee OBITUARY SINGAPORE Singapore actor and getai veteran, John Cheng, better known as “Ah Nan” or “Ah Nam”, has died. According to reports, the 52-year-old collapsed onstage at a Chinatown nightclub on monday night and died of
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      • 229 50  -  THREE TO SEE FARAH DALEY Over the past decade or so, comic books have had an increasing presence in multi-plexes world-wide.A bumper crop of comic book movies are being released this year, promising viewers heaps of action. Here are just three of the many to look forward to.
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      • 81 52 OUR PICK TODAY presents an all-styles dance competition with event partners Recognize Studios and TAB Movement. Competitors will get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to take to the stage and perform their magic to an international panel of world-class dancers and choreographers, including Lyle Beniga and G Haksu.
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      • 47 52 Created following choreographer Perrine Valli’s research residency in Tokyo in 2009, French/Swiss company SamHester explores the dancer’s profession, the relationship between dancer and choreographer, plus culture, sexuality and femininity in this sizzling double-bill. Jan 24 and 25, 8pm, Esplanade Theatre Studio. Tickets at S$30 from Sistic.
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      • 70 52 Sumi is an art form involving painting with ink that originated in China and was later adapted by the Japanese. The first part of the exhibition showcases abstract works by three established artists from China and Japan. Until Feb 8, 10.30am
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      • 78 52 FAMILY PORTRAITS PHOTOGRAPHING WITH JOHN CLANG This exhibition explores the theme of the Family the central building block of Singapore society, by looking at Singaporeans’ sense of identity rootedness and connection to their families in Singapore and abroad. The exhibition will showcase over 90 works by the artists and more
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      • 70 52 Apart from pieces from his five-decade there will be over 10 new works by the famed Italian abstract artist, known for his imaginative play on light and shadows as well as his technique of inserting wood and metal into canvases. Until Feb 24,
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      • 52 52 The Thai independent film director’s first solo show in Singapore presents video and photographic works that aim to probe into the uncertain boundary between truth and fiction. Until Feb 24, noon to 7pm (Tuesday to Saturday) and noon to 6pm (Sunday), Future Perfect, Gillman Barracks, 47 Malan
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      • 57 52 This Imax film is an interconnected scientific adventure story that follows the remarkable Monarch butterfly migration from Mexico to Canada. An incredible trip you won’t want to miss. Until May 31, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, 5pm and 7pm, Omni Theatre, 21 Jurong Town Hall Road. Tickets at
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