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    15 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp TUESDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2013 MICA (P) 093/06/2012
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    Lock icon What makes a Singaporean core?
    1237 1  -  Several MPs give their take on the concept on the first day of debate in Parliament POPULATION WHITE PAPER NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A common responsibility felt for one another. Stakeholders and protectors of the country. Citizens who grew up in, and with, Singapore.
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    SAF TO GET NEW CHIEF FROM MARCH
    59 1 Lieutenant-General Neo Kian Hong (top), 48, will step down as Chief of Defence Force on March 27. Major-General Ng Chee Meng (above), 44, who is currently the Chief of Air Force, will take over the appointment. The changes are part of the continuing
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      470 1 PROPORTION OF CITIZENS TO FOREIGNERS MAY TAKE NATION PAST POINT WHERE THE IDEA OF S’PORE WILL GROW MORE AMBIGUOUSCOMMENT&ANALYSIS 12 ft Organised by; Kreta Ayer Kim Seng CitizenS Consultative Committee Chinatown Chinese New Year Celebrations 2013 Festive Street Bazaar Date: 18 January 9 February 2013 Time: 6.00pm- 10.30pm Venue: Pagoda
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      3 1 SEE PAGE 21
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      27 2 VIDEO POPULATION WHITE PAPER ‘FOR BENEFIT OF ALLS’POREANS’ Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/whitepaper0205 for the video.
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  • hot news
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      White Paper to ensure a good quality of life, says DPM Teo
      635 4  -  POPULATION WHITE PAPER TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com .sg SING A PORE Seeking to tackle the questions on Singaporeans’ minds since the White Paper was released last week such as whether Singaporeans would end up becoming strangers in an overcrowded
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      Bolder measures needed to raise fertility rate: MPs
      555 6  -  Govt urged to do more to encourage Singaporeans to have more children DEBATE ON POPULATION WHITE PAPER TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday called for bolder measures to increase the total fertility rate (TFR) in Singapore and less reliance
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      Foreign businesses voice labour concerns to MOM
      406 6  -  WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Nine foreign chambers of commerce have issued an open letter to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), voicing their concerns over the impact of manpower constraints due to the stringent policies controlling the inflow of foreign labour. Addressed to
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      MOM mulls new body to tackle workplace disputes
      638 8  -  In termediary would address non-statutory complaints, avoiding need to go to court EMPLOYMENT ACT ASHLEY CHIA ashley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Ministry of Manpower is looking at setting up an intermediary body to address complaints of unfair workplace practices such as contractual disputes that
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      FOREIGN WORKERS IN THE UNION
      106 8  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN About three-quarters of SMRT’s 400 bus drivers from China have joined the union, a sharp increase in the numbers compared to before last November’s illegal strike. Prior to the episode, only 5 per cent of these bus drivers were union members. In contrast,
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      S’porean brain-dead after Medan robbery
      634 10  -  OVERSEAS MISHAP HENG WEI XIANG hengweixiang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Mrs Lydia Toh, 34, who was on a business trip to Medan, Indonesia, took a taxi last Saturday evening with her supervisor from Aryaduta Hotel where they were staying to go out for dinner. After they were done
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      Lock icon Increase in applications for latest batch of BTO flats
      380 10  -  SUMITA SREEDHARAN SINGAPORE —Application rates for the latest batch of Build-to-Order (BTO) flats have gone up, compared to the last two launches. As of 5pm yesterday, the overall application rate was 3.6, which means each unit available had on average about
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  • comment &analysis
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      Our impending integration challenges
      1591 12  -  POPULATION WHITE PAPER TERENCE CHONG Terence Chong is an ISEAS Senior Fellow. This is abridged from an article which first appeared in ISEAS Perspective, which is published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. The Singapore Government’s much awaited Population White Paper was finally released
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      Lock icon The virtual middle class rises
      769 16  -  A NEW POLITICAL COMMUNITY THOMAS L FRIEDMAN Thomas L Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. THE NEW YORK TIMES I encountered something on this trip to India that I had never met before: Awhole new political community India’s “virtual middle class”. Its emergence explains
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      36 12 The emergence of a whole new political community, a ‘virtual middle class’, explains a lot about the rise of social protests in India, as well as in places like China and Egypt. THOMAS L FRIEDMAN 16
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  • voices
    • Article
      The economic magic of S’pore’s demographics
      351 18  -  FROM CHRISTOPHE INGLIN Fearing the costs of an ageing population, policymakers here are frustrated by our low fertility rate compared to that of other nations. It would be more relevant, though, to compare Singapore’s fertility rate against that of major cities, such as London,
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      Let others run different population projections, and compare
      249 18  -  FROM NG YA KEN The most striking feature of the White Paper is the projected population of 6.9 million by 2030 as the worstcase scenario. Given the many concerns and unhappiness the people have over transport, housing and congestion, releasing this White
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    • Article
      Cooling measures on private property may have side effects
      377 19  -  FROM HUI CHI SHING I agree with the writer, in “Why penalise private property players? (Jan 30), that the latest round of cooling measures could well hurt industry players. It may also deter some genuine long-term investors from the private property
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      Legislate penalties for employers who discriminate based on age
      292 19  -  FROM RAYMOND KOH BOCK SWI I empathise with the writer of “Retirees encouraged to work, but not wanted?” (Jan 28). It is no secret that many older educated Singaporeans face difficulty when they lose a job or want to come out
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  • singapore
    • Article
      300,000 more to be eligible for legal aid
      560 20  -  Amendments to Act will widen scope of coverage to about 25% of Singaporeans a nd PRs LEGAL AID AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Recognising the needs of those with “meritorious legal claims” but are unable to afford lawyers, the Government has amended the
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      Lock icon Her first MPS
      105 21 About 150 people showed up for newly-elected Punggol East Member of Parliament Lee Li Lian’s first Meet-the-People Session last night, with some Workers’ Party (WP) supporters coming from as far away as Jurong East with gifts. Ms Lee, who was also sworn in yesterday, declined to speak
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    • Article
      Lock icon New chiefs for Defence Force, Air Force
      165 21 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —Major-General (MG) Ng Chee Meng, currently Chief of Air Force, will take over from LieutenantGeneral (LG) Neo Kian Hong as Chief of Defence Force on March 27. LG Neo, 48, whose career began with his enlistment in 1983, will be
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      Lock icon Two men arrested for theft of motorcycle parts at Changi Airport
      347 21  -  LOUISA TANG SINGAPORE Two Malaysian men were arrested on Sunday for stealing parts from motorcycles parked at Changi Airport. The two men, aged 21 and 17, are believed to have stolen eight brake calipers over the course of last
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    • Article
      Prosecution questions ex-CJ’s ruling on drug law
      571 22  -  Ruling defeats Parliament’s intention in criminalising two distinct offences of trafficking and importa tion argues DPP IN COURT AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE The Public Prosecutor yesterday challenged the landmark ruling made by former Chief Justice (CJ) Chan Sek Keong last year
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      Lock icon Number of drug abusers arrested up 5 per cent last year
      227 22 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Anti-drug officers arrested more drug abusers and seized more drugs last year due to intensified enforcement efforts. The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said yesterday that the number of people arrested for drug abuse last year rose
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  • education
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      Lock icon Tutors priced out of the grasp of UK middle-class parents
      633 23 COST OF LEARNING THE DAILY TELEGRAPH L O N D O N Wealthy families from overseas are offering the best-qual-ified British tutors up to £80,000 (S$156,000) a year as well as housing to coach their children for the common examinations.
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  • china&india
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      Lock icon Reformers want China to live up to Constitution
      764 24 CHINA POLITICS THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING After the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, the surviving Communist Party leaders pursued a project that might sound familiar to those in the West: Write a Constitution that enshrines individual rights and ensures rulers are
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    • Article
      Delhi charges 10 over suspected Commonwealth Games corruption
      223 25 NEW DELHI A court yesterday charged the former chairman of the organising committee for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi and nine others over suspected corruption and financial malpractice related to the sporting event. Suresh Kalmadi and the nine are accused
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    • Article
      Lock icon Indian govt defends interim rape legislation
      363 25 AGENCIES NEW DELHI The Indian government yesterday defended its approval of a set of interim laws prescribing harsher punishment for sexual assault offenders, as demonstrators protested near the Parliament building. The laws, passed by the Cabinet on Friday and signed by the President on
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  • world
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      Lock icon Cambodians bid farewell to Sihanouk
      384 26 DOW JONES PHNOM PENH Cambodians poured into the streets yesterday to bid a final farewell to the late Norodom Sihanouk, a two-time King and energetic statesman widely revered for leading his nation into independence. The cremation of Sihanouk, who died in October in Beijing at
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      Lock icon S Korea, US begin drills amid North’s nuclear threat
      484 27 Naval exercises to send warning against possible North Korean provocation NUCLEAR PROGRAMME AP S EOUL —South Korean and United States troops began naval drills yesterday in a show of force partly directed at North Korea amid signs that Pyongyang will soon
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      Lock icon Afghanistan, Pakistan vow to achieve peace in 6 months
      332 28 AFGHAN FIGHTING THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari have vowed to achieve a peace settlement for Afghanistan within six months. Following a meeting at British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Chequers country
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      Lock icon Pakistani girl shot by Taliban makes first video statement
      252 28 AP LONDON —The Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban has made her first video statement since she was nearly killed, saying she is recovering. Speaking clearly but with the left side of her face appearing rigid, 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai (picture) said
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      Lock icon Myanmar reaches deal with Kachin rebel group to ease tensions
      240 29 AP YA NGON Myanmar’s government reached an agreement with ethnic Kachin rebels yesterday to work to end a bloody conflict that has cast a shadow over the country’s progress in moving away from almost half a century of repressive military
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      Lock icon Bangkok angered by Saturday Night Live skit
      335 29 Sketch made fun of Thailand’s booming sex industry, govt trying to block videos on Internet: Culture Minister AGENCIES BANGKOK An American comedy skit that made fun of Thailand’s booming sex industry has angered the government, which is trying to block videos of the
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  • business
    • STOCK CALL
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        DISCLAIMER
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        TRIYARDS BUY (S$0.83)
        69 30 OCBC starts coverage with a fair value estimate of S$1.07, saying Triyards’ valuations are undemanding. The house says: “Unlike many shipyards, the group has a strategic focus on the construction of selfelevating units (lift boats), having established a significant track record.” SINGAPORE 3,297.37 (+0.19%) JAPAN 11,260.35 (+0.62%)
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    • Article
      Lock icon Qantas to boost capacity in phases to S’pore
      343 30 CIVIL AVIATION DOW JONES SINGAPORE —Qantas Airways will boost passenger capacity between Australia and Singapore by about 40 per cent in phases beginning on March 31 as part of its wider Asian strategy following the Australian flag carrier’s alliance with Dubai-based Emirates
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    • Article
      S’pore manufacturing shows signs of recovery
      519 32  -  The Republic’s electronics sector may be finally following the recovery trend seen earlier in North Asian rivals SINGAPORE ECONOMY DAVID BOTTOMLEY Business Editor davidb@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —After six months of contraction, Singapore’s struggling manufacturing sector is showing signs of improvement after crossing the line into
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  • impact
    • Article
      Lock icon Selling the ‘smell of the wild’
      406 34  -  ADVERTISING ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES POR TL A N D A commercial for Old Spice’s new line, the Wild Collection, opens with a formal party, where a man in a tuxedo descends a sweeping staircase with two snarling wolves. “There was
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  • technology
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      579 36 Authorities claim the scale of illegal activity is unprecedented FOOTBALL AGENCIES THE HAGUE —A wide-ranging matchfixing investigation has uncovered more than 680 suspicious matches including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League games and found evidence that a Singaporebased crime group is
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      441 36  -  DEBORAH ONG SINGAPORE —She may have been in the sport competitively for only a year, but Martina Lindsay Veloso, 14, still managed a perfect 400 to win the schools’ division of the women’s 10m air rifle at the HomeTeamNS Invitation Shoot and rewrite the national
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      606 37  -  PHILIP GOH Deputy Sports Editor philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE By his own admission, it was a good Monday for Atletico Madrid Chief Executive Officer Miguel Angel Gil Marin. Not only did he watch his club beat Real Betis 1-0 from the comfort of his room here
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      473 37  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE Nine-time La Liga and Copa del Rey champions Atletico Madrid boast a youth football academy that has groomed the likes of Chelsea forward Fernando Torres and Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea. And Singaporean youngster Adam Swandi could become
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      402 38 BOXING AGENCIES N E W O R L E A N S Muhammad Ali’s daughter has scotched rumours of her father being near death. May May Ali said she talked to her father on Sunday morning on the phone and he was fine, adding
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        1168 40  -  TAKING A PEEK INTO THE FUTURE OF TV MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of local television this year, one can’t help but marvel at how much the TV-watching experience has changed. With things like high-definition channels, catch-up TV, on-demand content and even 3D TV,
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        793 42 Singer delivers an intense half-time show capped by a minor Destiny’s Child reunion SUPER BOWL 2013 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW ORLEANS —A main requirement for a half-time performer at the Super Bowl is indestructibility. Too much is on the line for anything but. The halftime show
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        229 43 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —A portrait of one of Pablo Picasso’s mistresses, considered to be among his most important works, will lead a sale of Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby’s this week. Woman Seated At A window (1932), a painting of Marie-Therese Walter, known
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        333 43 REUTERS TA I PE I —As Chinese communities around the globe prepare for the Chinese New Year on Feb 10, a Taiwanese fortune teller predicted a mixed bag of luck for famous “snake” people around the world. People born in 1929, 1941,1953,1965,1977,1989 and 2001
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