Today, 8 February 2013, Afternoon Edition

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1 20 Today
  • 16 1 TODAY AFTERNOON EDITION WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp FRIDAY, 8 FEBRUARY 2013 MICA (P) 093/06/2012
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    • 257 1 THIS COULD BE CHINA’S LAST SOFT LANDING TIME IS NO LONGER ON ITS SIDE, WARN TWO SINO EXPERTS COMMENT&ANALYSIS 12, 14 SPORTS 38 PREMIERSHIP CLUBS AGREE TO CURB SPIRALLING COSTS mi '{rvhoiX' 18 JAN 17 FEB 2013 Owner: CSU Real Estc NTEC Estate Investment Trust flyfor free/ in the Weekly
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  • 421 1  -  PAP, WP deba te heated at times, with Low defending WP’s stand on foreign workforce POPULATION WHITE PAPER AMIR HUSSAIN, SUMITA SREEDHARAN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —After a brief hiatus, the People’s Action Party (PAP) and the Workers’ Party (WP) resumed verbal jousting over the
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  • 143 1  -  WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singaporean core is defined not by whether these Singaporeans are born and bred here, but by whether these are people who have made the Republic their home, where they serve and contribute to society, said Acting Manpower Minister
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  • Article, Illustration
    964 2 be it local or international. It will be breaking faith with companies who are already invested here and are in the process of ramping up their operations,” he said. “It will damage our reputation and severely impair our efforts to attract new and different businesses which can precisely offer diverse
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    • 30 2 VIDEO WP’S CALL TO FREEZE FOREIGN MANPOWER GROWTH WILL HURT S’POREANS: TAN CHUAN-JIN Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy. sg/tanchuanjin0208
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    464 4 place home, and serve and contribute to this society,” said Mr Tan. And even as some choose to leave, Mr Tan said they “leave as friends and will look out for us because they remember the friendships forged”. “Taking too nationalistic an approach can and sometimes brings out the worst
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  • hot news
    • 202 4  -  WOO SIAN BOON SING A PORE The cut-and-thrust between the People’s Action Party and the Workers’ Party (WP) over the latter’s population proposals peaked yesterday, with Nee Soon GRC Member of Parliament (MP) Lim Wee Kiak making a personal remark against
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    • 1030 6  -  Former Deputy Prime Minister warns of consequences of shrinking workforce labour crunch forcing firms to leave POPULATION WHITE PAPER NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Weighing in on the debate on the Population White Paper in Parliament, the Republic’s former population
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    • 513 8  -  SNEF urges employers to adopt more age-, family-friendly practices so women, older workers can boost workforce POPULATION WHITE PAPER TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) yesterday called for employers to do more to raise the employment levels of older
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    • 359 8  -  ASHLEY CHIA SINGAPORE The Ministry of Social and Family Development will be reviewing criteria such as age and income limits, among others, of the Home Ownership Plus Education (HOPE) scheme. HOPE provides housing, training and education grants to young, lesseducated couples where the
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    • 368 8  -  ASHLEY CHIA SINGAPORE —With demand expected to rise for residential places at homes for persons with disabilities, the Government will increase the number of places about threefold, from 830 to 2,400 by 2020. Currently, there are eight adult disability homes here. Speaking
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    • 191 10 AGENCIES NEW DELHI —Four men were arrested in Delhi for the alleged gang-rape and kidnap of a 25-year-old mother following a dramatic car chase, officials said yesterday. According to the Times of India, police at a checkpoint in north Delhi flagged
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    • 414 10 President urges party to stand firm against Republicans in fiscal debate, gun control push AFTERNOON LATEST AP LEESBURG VIRGINIA) Assertive even as he preached humility, United States President Barack Obama vowed to confront Republicans on the deficit and urged Democrats yesterday (this morning, Singapore
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  • comment &analysis
    • 924 12  -  AN ECONOMIC PROGNOSIS: I STEPHEN ROACH Stephen Roach, a faculty member at Yale University and former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, is the author of The Next Asia. PROJECT SYNDICATE Once again, China has defied the naysayers. Economic growth picked up in the final quarter of
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    • 990 14  -  AN ECONOMIC PROGNOSIS: II YU YONGDING Yu Yongding is a former President of the China Society ofWorld Economics and Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and has also served on the Monetary Policy Committee of
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    • 619 16  -  HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT RAMESH PONNURU Ramesh Ponnuru is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor at National Review. BLOOMBERG Conservatives often point out that laws, no matter how benign they may appear, have unintended consequences. They can reverberate in
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    • 22 12 COMMENT US PAPER TIGER REVISITED BY JOERGEN OERSTROEM MOELLER Scan the QR code on your smartphone, or visit tdy.sg/comtiger for the comment.
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    • 27 12 The efforts in many cities to discourage the use of plastic bags demonstrate that unintended consequences can be, among other things, kind of gross. RAMESH PONNURU 16
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  • voices
    • 550 18  -  FROM CORINNA LIM Executive Director, Association of Women for Action and Research Both proponents and critics of the White Paper have the misconception that improving the total fertility rate (TFR) will reduce the need for migrants and enable Singapore to maintain a
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    • 230 18  -  FROM TAN CHI WEI According to the Population White Paper, Singapore’s ageing population and low birth rate will contribute to a decline in the number of workingage citizens. To push more working-age citizens to contribute to the economy, we should encourage polytechnic graduates to pursue
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    • 326 18  -  FROM WINSTON CHIN CHEE WEI The Population White Paper outlined the need to rely less on foreign labour and to develop a strong core of Singaporeans through a high quality education system. We should question, though, whether the nature of our
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    • 407 19  -  FROM DICKSON LEE KE FENG Mr Rio Hoe argued in his letter “Abetter definition required for sub judice material” (Feb 6) that the broad definition of sub judice hinders further discussion of Section 377A of the Penal Code and that legislative reform
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    • 141 19  -  FROM DAVY YOUNG PAK NANG I refer to the report “M Ravi and Law Society end stand-off” (Jan 18). The dispute erupted last year, when a Law Society official took the unprecedented step of showing up at the
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    • 129 19  -  FROM SEBASTIEN LEOW Assistant Registrar of Moneylenders, Registry of Moneylenders (Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office), Ministry of Law TAN PANG YONG Manager, National Crime Prevention Council We refer to the online letter “Legal or illegal SMSes from moneylenders?” (Feb 5). Under the advertising
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    • 34 18 LETTER INVEST IN SOCIAL COHESION, STEM GROWTH OF NEW CITIZENS Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/ invest0208 for the letter from Soon Sze Meng.
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    • 14 18 •HAVEYOURSAY email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg JOIN THE CONVERSATION facebook.com/todayonline READ MORE LETTERS todayonline.com/voices
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  • singapore
    • 496 20  -  Nearly 25% of fires in residential areas last year involved discarded items in common areas FIRE SAFETY DESIREE TAY, LOUISA TANG desireetay@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Fires involving discarded items in common areas made up nearly a quarter of all blazes in residential areas last
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    • 402 20  -  AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —Nearly a decade has passed but a four-way tussle here over S$29 million from former Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos’ illgotten gains held in escrow at a bank here is still unresolved.
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    • 200 20  -  DESIREE TAY In response to the increasing number of emergency calls, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) has ordered 18 new emergency ambulances as part of its fleet renewal programme and will also bring on board 10 more private ambulance operators later this year. The SCDF
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    • 96 20 Mr Goh Mong Pheng receiving his prize of S$10,000 from Ms Christina Lim (left), Brand and Marketing Director of NTUC FairPrice Co-operative, and Ms Caroline Bone, Marketing Manager of MediaCorp Press. Mr Goh spent S$38 on Chinese New Year goodies and household items from
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  • science
    • 851 22 BACTERIA LIFE THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK For the first time, scientists report, they have found bacteria living in the cold and dark deep under the Antarctic ice, a discovery that might advance knowledge of how life could survive on other planets or
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    • 128 22 ENJOY A GREAT LIFE AND GREAT MOMENTS WITH YOUR LOVED ONES IN EUROPE frftuVE GREAT GETAWAY LUCKY DRAW Congratulations to our 11 lucky winners who each won a pair of air tickets to Europe! Choy Chi Foong Cedric Goh Seong Moi Hiew Chee Wah Keong Kexian Lian Hoe Beng Ma
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  • china&india
    • 673 24 Project launched in 2011 has made farmers more secure about their rights and could protect against land grabs LAND MAPPING REUTERS YANGWANG VILL AGE (CHINA) —The bare light bulbs, unheated rooms and elderly residents of the whitewashed village of Yangwang in eastern China
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    • 377 26 CHINA POLITICS AGENCIES BEIJING The south-western Chinese province of Yunnan said it has stopped sending prisoners to labour camps, becoming the first in the country to take steps to phase out the much-crit-icised practice. The move, which is expected to extend to
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    • 306 26 AP NEW DELHI India’s government has failed to curb rampant sexual abuse of children, especially in schools and state-run childcare facilities, the Human Rights Watch group said in a report yesterday. The report comes in the wake of the fatal gang-rape
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    • 184 26 REUTERS SHANGHAI —China’s Cabinet has issued a timetable for oil companies to deliver cleaner fuel nationwide beginning this year, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported, but the new standards will not become mandatory for four years despite rising public anger over choking air pollution.
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    • 55 26 A bridge under construction collapsed in Mumbai, India, yesterday. An official said at least three people died and six were injured. Work at the construction site, located near the international airport, has been going on for site, near airport, two years. The cause of the collapse
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  • world
    • 435 28 Training not against specific country, but healthy alliance sends strong message: Japanese air force general DEFENCE RELATIONS AP ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE (GUAM) Fighter jets from the United States and two key allies roared into western Pacific skies yesterday in the combat phase
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    • 163 28 AP Russia’s Defence Ministry has rejected a claim by Japan that two Russian fighter jets have violated its airspace. The Japanese Defence Ministry said the two Su-27 fighter jets intruded into Japan’s airspace for just over a minute yesterday off the north-western tip of
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    • 533 30 TRANSPORTATION BLOOMBERG JAK ARTA Indonesia’s state-owned companies will build a monorail linking Jakarta and surrounding areas as an expanding economy and rising vehicle sales threaten the capital city of 9.6 million people with gridlock. The 9 trillion-rupiah (S$1.14 billion) project will be
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    • 287 30 AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR Sabah’s fragmented opposition front appears to have hit its biggest stumbling block yet with the independent Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) engaging in a verbal row with two new state allies of opposition alliance Pakatan Rakyat (PR), which could thwart their dream
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    • 176 32 AGENCIES WASHINGTON —The White House has directed the Justice Department to show lawmakers its classified documents discussing the legal justification for killing, by drone strikes and other means, American citizens abroad who are considered terrorists. The White House announcement seems to refer to
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    • 349 32 Arrests believed to be the first under Security Offences Act which replaced the ISA TERRORISM AP KUAL A LUMPUR —Malaysian police yesterday detained three people, including an Al Qaeda-linked former army captain, suspected of recruiting militants for terrorist activities. The detentions are believed
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  • business
    • STOCK CALLS
      • 27 33 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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      • 54 33 Karin Technology’s H1 revenue up 39.7 per cent, exceeding OCBC’s expectations, while estimated core PATMI of HK$26.8 million (S$4.3 million) in line due to a lower-than-expected gross margin. Forecast FY13 dividend yield stands at 7.7 per cent. House raises fair value estimate from S$0.25 to S$0.295
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      • 62 33 Pressures in Myanmar caused Viz Branz to report 5.6 per cent on-year drop in H1 revenue. But favourable raw material costs and fall in admin expenses saw operating profit rise by 6.7 per cent, OCBC notes. VB’s management declared interim dividend of 1 cent. OCBC’s
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      • 58 33 Midas’ 32.5-per-cent-owned Nanjing SR Puzhen Rail Transport (NPRT) clinched metro contract worth 710 million yuan; could lead to contract wins for Midas, a supplier of NPRT, OCBC notes. While NPRT was a drag on Midas’ earnings in FY12, OCBC feels fortunes would reverse from FY13. It
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      • 85 33 ASL Marine’s Q2 results in line with OCBC’s expectations. Given ASL’s busy yards, OCBC understands it will aim to secure orders only after June. Since house’s last report on Dec 3, the stock has done well, with share price appreciating by 13.8 per cent. But OCBC
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    • 506 33 In lawsuit, activist investor calls for iPhone-maker to ‘unlock its growing value’ AFTERNOON LATEST BLOOMBERG SA N FR A NCI SCO —Apple’s board and management are actively discussing the return of more cash to shareholders and considering a proposal that it issue preferred
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    • 147 33 BLOOMBERG SAN FRANCISCO —LinkedIn, the biggest online professional-networking service, rose as much as 12 per cent in extended trading after increased membership helped fourth-quarter profit and sales beat analysts’ estimates. Revenue jumped 81 per cent to US$303.6 million (S$376.4 million), the company said yesterday.
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    • 123 33 BLOOMBERG LONDON —The Bank of England voted yesterday to reinvest government bond holdings that mature next month and promised to provide more stimulus if needed for an economy that was recovering only very slowly. The bank kept its main interest rate at 0.5
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    • 317 33  -  PETER YEO SINGAPORE —StarHub CEO Neil Montefiore has said he will be retiring by the end of this month. StarHub Chairman Tan Guong Ching made the announcement before the infocommunications company shared its quarterly results. Mr Montefiore, 60, who had served as StarHub’s second CEO
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    • marketbuzz
      • 126 34 Next month, when you’re shopping for Super products, look out for its new logo. Super Group Ltd, the powerhouse of instant beverage brands in South-east Asia, has refreshed its logo to align the company’s brand identity across product and geographical lines. The new logo features a
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      • Article, Illustration
        143 34 Need help getting back into shape after all the festive bingeing? Turn to the New GLOW Ignite 2.0. Made in the United States and backed by 20 clinical studies, the 100 per cent vegetarian formulation builds upon its top-selling weight loss brand that was sold out nationwide
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      • Article, Illustration
        141 34 Visit Sentosa with your loved one this Valentine’s Day and take a romantic walk through the beautiful garden settings of Sentosa Flowers 2013. Spread across 45,000sqm from the Beach Station to Palawan Beach, Sentosa Flowers 2013 will see the beaches’ golden sands turned into a colourful wonderland filled
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      • 120 34 Pizza Hut is ushering in Chinese New Year with a unique Fortune Pizza. Slathered with a base sauce of golden pumpkin and taro bits, the pizza is robustly flavoured. It is generously topped with sweet barbequed chicken meat (bak kwa) and juicy chunks of pineapple. And for a
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        230 34 Take your family to LEGOLAND Malaysia and help build the world’s longest LEGO snake. The theme park is attempting to set the new LEGO building record by assembling a 300m LEGO snake using about 1 million LEGO bricks. Once it is completed, the LEGO snake will wind through
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      • 156 34 This reunion dinner, impress your family with a home-cooked Eight Treasures Pot dish. MAGGI makes this dish easy to prepare with its Chinese New Year gift pack (S$10.80), which includes a bottle of MAGGI Concentrated Chicken Stock, a bottle of MAGGI Premium Oyster Sauce, a bottle of MAGGI
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  • property
    • 559 35  -  Developer says foreigners will be attracted to resort projects in places like Hua Hin, Phuket OVERSEAS HOMES CONRAD RAJ Editor-at-Large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg BANGKOK —Thailand’s Sansiri Group, one of the country’s largest developers, is looking to sell more homes to Singaporeans and other foreigners as the Thai
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    • 549 35 AGENCIES HONG KONG —Chinese property companies are rushing to the United States dollar bond market, almost matching last year’s sales in the first month of this year alone, in a frenzy that could inflate the sector’s gearing and the broader risk of
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  • technology
    • 345 36 Software maker Microsoft believes the operation has brought down malicious botnet CYBER CRIME REUTERS BOSTON Software makers Microsoft and Symantec have disrupted a global cyber-crime operation by shutting down servers that controlled hundreds of thousands of PCs without the knowledge of their users. The
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    • 198 36  -  PETER YEO SINGAPORE —There is no better time for budding singers and amateur rock stars to dust off those microphones. Amid the din of lion dances and family get-togethers at every other household, they can ring in Chinese New Year with some sweet vocals. These
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  • sports
    • 661 37 Govt report reveals ‘widespread’ use of drugs among country’s athletes DRUGS IN SPORTS REUTERS C A N B E R R A —Australia was rocked yesterday after it was revealed in a government report that the use of performance enhancing drugs is “widespread” among professional
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    • 466 37  -  CHARLES ONG charlesongzc@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Wednesday’s 4-0 drubbing by Jordan has left Singapore with an uphill task to reach the 2015 Asian Cup. While the result in Amman left the Lions bottom of Group A in the qualifying competition, midfielder
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    • 799 38 From next season, points will be docked for overspending AFTERNOON LATEST THE GUARDIAN LONDON —Premier League clubs will be docked points if they fail to comply with new financial control measures designed to curb rampant wage inflation and stem losses when their new
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    • 271 38 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LIVERPOOL —Jamie Carragher has announced that he is to leave Liverpool at the end of the season and will be retiring from football. Carragher, 35, made his firstteam debut in Jan 1997 against Middlesbrough. He subsequently made more than 700 senior appearances for Liverpool,
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