Today, 26 February 2013, Afternoon Edition

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  • 16 1 TODAY AFTERNOON EDITION WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp TUESDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 2013 MICA (P) 093/06/2012
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    • 251 1 CHINA HAS ADVANCED RAPIDLY ALONG THE PATH OF THE RULE BY LAW BUT IT HAS YET TO EMBRACE THERULE OF LAWCOMMENT&ANALYSIS 16 SPURS UP TO THIRD SPORTS 43 WHAT’S IN BUDGET 2013 To help businesses upgrade, create better jobs, raise wages: SEE PAGE 2 Foreign worker policies to be tightened
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  • 495 1  -  Govt dangles carrots for firms to restructure, including co-fundingfor wage increases BUDGET 2013 TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With the Republic’s economy seemingly impervious in the last decade to the Government’s unceasing prodding to raise productivity, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday announced further measures to
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  • 244 1  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The young, low-income and elderly will benefit from this year’s Budget measures promoting inclusiveness and social mobility, while some on the highest end of the wealth spectrum, such as owners of luxury cars and highend residential properties,
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  • Article, Illustration
    364 2 “ambitious target” of 2 to 3 per cent productivity growth per annum. The measures announced yesterday follow a rigorous debate in Parliament and among the public recently on the trajectory of foreign manpower growth as outlined in the Population White Paper, as well as the news last week that labour
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    • 31 2 VIDEO BUSINESSES FEEL BUDGET 2013 INCENTIVES FAIL TO ADDRESS LABOUR CONSTRAINTS Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/ businessbudget for the video.
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  • budget 2013
    • 529 2  -  TIGHTENING OF FOREIGN MANPOWER WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com. sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY EUGENE NEUBRONNER KELLY NG SINGAPORE With further tightening of manpower policies but more support to improve productivity, initiatives announced in Budget 2013 drew a mixed reaction from the business community. “There are carrots
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    • 370 2  -  WONG WEI HAN SINGAPORE It will become easier and faster to apply to the Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme, and the range of equipment that can qualify for a grant under the scheme will also be extended. The enhancements, announced yesterday, will be
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    • 307 5 SINGAPORE —Citing medical and housing costs as concerns of the sandwich class, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday reiterated that this year’s Budget would, among other things, help this group cope with healthcare costs. Middle-income earners TODAY spoke to agreed the initiatives
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    • 680 5  -  PROPERTY TAX SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Under a new progressive property tax structure that aims to achieve “greater social equity”, as Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam put it yesterday, taxes will be lowered for the majority of owner-occupied residential properties. At the same time,
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    • 367 5 SINGAPORE The Additional Registration Fee (ARF), the main car tax here, will be made more progressive with a tiered structure, which will replace the existing flat rate of 100 per cent of the Open Market Value (OMV). The ARF for cars with OMVs up to
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    • 634 6  -  It will also increase investments in health promotion and preventive care HEALTHCARE FINANCING TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Government’s ongoing review of the Republic’s healthcare financing system will, among other things, look at reducing Singaporeans’ share of out-of-pocket medical expenses with
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    • 400 6  -  WOO SIAN BOON SINGAPORE —To help households cope with the rising cost of living, the Government will provide direct assistance in the form of extra Goods and Services Tax (GST) vouchers, personal income tax rebates and lower concessionary foreign domestic
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    • 232 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The Republic’s inflation rate came in lower than expected last month, partly because of a higher base brought about by the Chinese New Year holidays in January last year. The Department of Statistics data released yesterday showed that the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
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    • 578 8  -  EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION NG JING YNG S ING A POR E The Government will more than double its spending on the pre-school sector over the next five years to over S$3 billion, in an effort to ramp up capacity and raise standards
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    • 480 8  -  AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Disadvantaged students will be given a further boost in schools, as learning support programmes will be extended, richer instructional materials developed and funds extended to benefit more pupils. First, the learning support programme, currently for Primary 1 and
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    • 756 10  -  Salary cap lifted to S$1,900, proportion of cash payout increased to 40% from 29% INCOME SUPPLEMENT WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Government will be increasing Workfare Income Supplement (WIS) handouts “significantly” but at the same time tightening its criteria to ensure “they are
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    • 519 10  -  ASHLEY CHIA SINGAPORE Those who are permanently unable to work will see more monthly cash assistance to help them meet their daily needs, under enhancements to the Public Assistance (PA) Scheme. A single-person household will receive S$450 in cash, an increase of S$50,
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    • 316 14  -  TEO XUANWEI S I N G A P O R E Buoyed by higher-than-expected collections from stamp duty and Certificates of Entitlement (COEs), the Government’s coffers last year swelled by S$3.9 billion, or three times higher than initially forecast. According to the Budget
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    • 618 14  -  COMMENTARY BY DAVID SANDISON, LOH ENG KIAT David Sandison is a Partner and Loh Eng Kiat a Senior Manager at Pricewater­houseCoopers Services LLP. More increments in foreign worker levies across the board and a complementary cut in foreign worker quotas for the services and marine sectors
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    • 617 14  -  A WELFARIST BUDGET? COMMENTARY BY TAN ERN SER Dr Tan Ern Ser is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore and Faculty Associate at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Before the multi-cornered debate on
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    692 4 sharply only for those at the “very top end”. More significant tax increases will apply to high-end investment properties from a flat rate of 10 per cent, rates of 12 to 20 per cent will apply to non-owner occupied homes with over S$30,000 annual values. Tax refunds on vacant properties
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    • 34 6 VIDEO GOVT TO SPEND $1.7B TO HELP HOUSEHOLDS COPE WITH RISING COST OF LIVING Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy. sg/budgethousehold for the video.
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    • 203 7 hot news commentary voices daily focus china&india world MORE STORIES What makes a Singaporean core? jyA I Several MPs give their take on the concept on the first day of debate in Parliament *****00 BY NEO CHAI CHINSINGAPORE A common responsibility felt for one another. Stakeholders and protectors of the
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    • 29 8 VIDEO BUDGET 2013: GOVTTO SPEND S$3B ON PRE-SCHOOL SECTOR Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/ budgetpreschool for the video.
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    • 130 15 COMMENT THE CARROT, THE STICK AND THE STING Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/webcomment for this and two other commentaries on Budget 2013. fCAFEZT 2ini Instant Cofieemix Proud sponsor i Esplanade Presents MUSIC FESTIVAL SINGAPORE 8-17 Mar 2013 100 winners
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  • comment &analysis
    • 1034 16  -  BUILDING A CHINESE RECHTSSTAAT ANDREW SHENG, XIAO GENG Andrew Sheng, President of the Fung Global Institute, is a former Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission and is currently an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Xiao Geng is Director
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    • 922 18  -  A RISKY GROWTH MODEL ZHANG MONAN Zhang Monan is a fellow of the China Information Center and of the China Foundation for International Studies, and a researcher at the China Macroeconomic Research Platform. PROJECT SYNDICATE China’s economic growth model is running out of steam. According to
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    • 36 16 China needs a new growth model. Reliance on investment will not enable China to achieve stable, longterm growth and prosperity; on the contrary, it may well inflict serious long-term damage on economic performance. ZHANG MONAN• 18
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    • 341 18 A Making a Difference Towards a Liveable Sustainable Future At the National Environment Agency, the work we do touches the daily lives of all Singaporeans. By protecting Singapore’s resources from pollution, maintaining a high level of public health and providing timely meteorological information, we strive to ensure sustainable development and
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  • voices
    • 393 20  -  FROM EDWIN DAI In his commentary (“A flawed sense of entitlement”, Feb 20) Mr Dickson Lee argues that meritocracy is inherently unjust, as it bases distribution of rewards on factors that are morally arbitrary, such as natural talent. The underlying assumption is therefore that
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    • 260 20  -  FROM QUEK SOO BENG Every year, we are presented with a Budget for the following fiscal year, and the Minister for Finance will articulate policies, strategies and plans that take a number of years to fund and complete. Many developed countries project such
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    • 258 21  -  FROM GEORGE QUEK As a Singaporean, I am really proud to learn that one of our top talents in football, Adam Swandi, is now studying and playing for a French club renowned for their youth development system (“Adam blazes trail”, Feb
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    • 364 21  -  FROM SANJAY PERERA There has been much discussion on the White Paper on Population, but it is also time to look at ideas that are not framed by economics. As a means of building social cohesion, we can adapt an idea
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  • singapore
    • 574 22  -  AMIR HUSSAIN SINGAPORE —The four former SMRT bus drivers who instigated an illegal strike last November may have been motivated by a sense of grievance, but a senior district judge yesterday said they had set out with “the clear consciousness that it would cause disruption and
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    • 600 22  -  AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Relying on a car loan to buy that dream ride will require more upfront cash payment as the most stringent ever financing restrictions imposed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) kick in today. Car showrooms extended their opening
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    • 413 24  -  Contribution of applicant, education level part of citizenship criteria: Minister POPULATION LIN YANQIN yanqinl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE About eight in 10 people granted citizenship last year had stayed in Singapore for more than five years, while half had stayed for more than 10 years. These
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    • 213 24  -  LIN YANQIN SINGAPORE A “potential change” in the type of dengue virus has contributed to the recent spike in dengue cases here, said Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan in Parliament yesterday. Moreover, each passing epidem-ic-free year means the risk of developing
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    • 239 25 SINGAPORE Revenue from betting and sweepstake duties collected by the Government went up over the last two financial years, and expenditure to combat gambling addiction also rose. The Government collected S$2.2 billion in betting and sweepstake duties in Financial
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    • 391 25  -  LIN YANQIN SINGAPORE —While there has been a decline in the number of students taking literature as a Full Humanities subject at the O-Levels, there is now also a wider range of subjects being offered to students as a result of changes in the
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  • education
    • 729 28 Singapore’s and Finland’s education systems exemplify Fourth Way principles: Book IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE SINGAPORE —Despite differences in culture and politics between Singapore and Finland, the two countries’ education systems were held up as role models by a pair of renowned academics from Boston
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    • 175 29 Marina Mahathir Laura Hwang Durreen Shahnaz Eleanor Wong Natalie Turner Lian Pek Ivy Singh-Lim Georgina Chang Fanny Lai Jacelyn Tay There’s nothing like the credibility that comes with success, and this year’s congress boasts a line-up of dynamic women leaders eager to share how they got to where they are,
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  • china&india
    • 1048 30 Officials say they are now more willing to call out the Chinese directly BILATERAL TIES THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON —When the Obama administration circulated to the nation’s Internet providers last week a lengthy confidential list of computer addresses linked to a hacking group
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    • 378 31 AP BEIJING Incoming Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed his country’s desire to bring Taiwan under its control in a meeting yesterday in Beijing with the honorary head of the island’s ruling party. Mr Xi told the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) Honorary Chairman Lien Chan
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    • 191 31 AP BEIJING KFC launched a campaign yesterday to rebuild its battered brand in China, promising tighter quality control after a scandal over misuse of drugs by its poultry suppliers. The company, a unit of Yum! Brands, promised to test meat for banned
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  • world
    • 540 32 M’SIAN OPPOSITION’S ELECTION MANIFESTO AGENCIES kualalumpur— Malaysia’s three-party opposition alliance pledged yesterday to create jobs, increase incomes and combat corruption if it ousts the longruling coalition in national elections this year. The promises form the official agenda of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s Pakatan Rakyat
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    • 243 32 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER S H A H A L A M A big question mark hangs over the Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) final choice for the post of Prime Minister, despite repeated claims by top leaders at the alliance’s election manifesto launch yesterday that
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    • 594 33 In her inaugural speech, Park Geun Hye also calls for ‘second miracle on Han River’ AGENCIES SEOUL South Korea’s first woman President, Ms Park Geun Hye, promised a tough stance on national security and an era of economic revival as she took the oath
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    • 381 34 REUTERS WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama urged state gover­nors yesterday to pressure Congress to prevent US$85 billion (S$105 bil­lion) in across­the­board government spending cuts from going into effect on Friday, saying he is willing to reach a compromise with
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    • 383 34 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS ROME —A huge protest vote by Ita­lians enraged by economic hardship and political corruption pushed the country towards deadlock after an election yesterday, with voting pro­jections showing no coalition strong enough to form a government. With more
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    • 198 34 REUTERS S T O C K H O L M Sweden’s IKEA stopped nearly all sales of meatballs at its store cafeterias across Europe after tests in the Czech Republic showed some contained horsemeat. The furniture retailer yesterday said it was
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    • 368 36 HEALTH THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK About 30 per cent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish,
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  • business
    • STOCK CALLS
      • 27 38 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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      • 51 38 BUY(S$1.215) OCBC disappointed by Neptune Orient Lines’ (NOL) Q4 performance. Results have forced OCBC to re-evaluate timing of NOL’s turnaround, and house expects Q1 to remain loss-making. Stabilisation in overall freight rates remain encouraging and OCBC maintains NOL will return to full profitability by onset of peak
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      • 53 38 HOLD (S$3.54) OCBC notes Wilmar International’s stronger-than-expected FY12 results. Management remains ‘cautiously optimistic’ about longterm prospects and believes its fledgling flour and rice business in China will continue to show strong double-digit growth. But OCBC suspects most of the positives may already be priced in and so downgrades
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      • 54 38 HOLD (S$0.98) OCBC says results in line with expectations, with revenue and net profit 4% off house’s full-year estimates. Four shipbuilding contracts ceased in Q4. Commercial shipbuilding still in down cycle. Operating environment still challenging, with 2H13-1H14 to be most difficult period. OCBC maintains Hold rating with fair
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      • 76 38 HOLD (S$3.21) Improvement in Raffles Medical’s Q4 results attributed to growth from Hospital Services and Healthcare Services divisions, which saw jump in revenue. Former driven by higher patient loads and wider range of medical specialties on offer. Given appreciation in share price, OCBC places Hold rating and
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    • 501 38 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS NEW YORK Goldman Sachs will begin a fresh round of job cuts as early as this week, sources said yesterday, with its equities-trading business bracing for bigger cuts than fixed-income trading. The bank usually culls out the weakest 5
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    • 255 38 BLOOMBERG LONDON —Pearson, publisher of the Financial Times (FT) newspaper, predicted operating profit will be stagnant this year as it cuts jobs and spends more quickly to shift its education business to online from print. Pearson will have about £150
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  • impact
    • 486 40  -  To attract S’poreans and Permanen t Residen ts to work in the F&B industry, one company is hosting a party RECRUITMENT KHOO BEE KHIM Deputy Special Projects Editor khoobeekhim@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The print advertisement features a waiter hoisting a silver platter with a dome-shaped lid. He
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