Today, 9 July 2013, Afternoon Edition

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    16 1 TODAY AFTERNOON EDITION WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp TUESDAY, 9 JULY 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013
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    Govt to introduce further measures to fight haze problem
    947 1  -  Extraterritorial legal action being explored; S’pore will seek answer on Jambi offer HAZE A HOT TOPIC IN PARLIAMENT NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —To prevent a recurrence of the haze which blighted Singapore’s skyline just weeks ago, a raft of measures,
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    Teacher in alleged child abuse case sacked
    437 1  -  ASHLEY CHIA ashley@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE —NTUC First Campus yesterday sacked the part-time teacher who allegedly caused a three-year-old boy to fracture his shin when she handled him roughly on Friday. She was sacked after being given a chance to explain herself. The
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      383 1 EDUCATION: WE CAN LEARN FROM OTHERS, NOT BY COPYING BUT BY REFLECTING ON OUR OWN SYSTEM TO FIND OUR OWN WAYCOMMENT&ANALYSIS 14 The all-new TODAYAPP FOR ANDROID SMARTPHONES exclusively available on Samsung Apps tdy.sg/newsandroidapp SPORTS 40 MOURINHO INVOKES THE SPIRIT OF DROGBA SHELLSHOCKED EGYPT SEEKS QUICK ELECTIONS WORLD 26 PHOTO:
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  • hot news
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      Evidence shows ‘beyond doubt’ that Todd hanged himself
      753 2  -  No reason to doubt authenticity of suicide note found on US researcher’s laptop: Coroner HE ‘ENTERTAINED SUICIDAL IDEATIONS’ ASHLEY CHIA ashley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The State Coroner ruled yesterday that evidence presented during the 10-day inquiry into the death of American researcher Shane Todd
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      Financial Times should ‘correct inaccuracies’
      316 2  -  ASHLEY CHIA SING A PORE —The theory that United States researcher Shane Todd was murdered was “untrue”, and one that was based on “pure imagination” and “pure fantasy”, said Law and Foreign Affairs Minister K Shanmugam yesterday. The Financial Times (FT), which first carried the
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      Lock icon Govt ‘prepared for national emergencies’
      483 4  -  CRISIS MANAGEMENT WOO SIAN BOON SINGAPORE —Two weeks before Singapore was hit by its worst haze episode, the inter-agency Haze Task Force had met on May 29 to review its plans and to prepare for the dry season. The Government said this yesterday, as it
      SOURCE: MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER RESOURCES  -  483 words
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      Yaacob criticises haze rumour-mongers
      732 8  -  Minister cited blogger who opposed regulating of Internet, and postedfalse information WHEN PUBLIC ANXIETY STRUCK AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Citing examples such as a prominent blogger who had posted a false rumour and an unknown individual who had doctored a screenshot of the Pollutant Standards Index
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      Lock icon Bangladesh promises to boost worker rights, crank up inspections
      214 10 REUTERS G E N E VA Bangladesh yesterday pledged to quickly boost worker rights and recruit more factory inspectors as it seeks to preserve European Union trade benefits after 1,129 workers were killed in the collapse of a garment plant in
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      Lock icon Snowden plane spat: Bolivia demands an explanation
      262 10 AFTERNOON LATEST REUTERS L A PA Z Bolivia yesterday demanded that France, Portugal, Spain and Italy reveal who told them that former United States spy agency contractor Edward Snowden was aboard President Evo Morales’ flight from Moscow last week. Bolivia said it was
      REUTERS  -  262 words
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      Lock icon GERMANY DEFENDS ‘STRICTLY LEGAL’ COOPERATION WITH NSA
      158 10 REUTERS Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government said yesterday that its cooperation with United States intelligence was fully regulated by strict legal guidelines, after a magazine reported that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was in cahoots with German spies. Germany’s opposition, with an eye
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      Lock icon Chinese plane crash victims were student leaders
      253 12 AGENCIES BEIJING —The two 16-year-old girls killed in the San Francisco plane crash were close friends and top students who were on the Asiana Airlines flight for the same reason: To get a taste of American education and work towards a brighter future.
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      Lock icon Pilot in plane crash was still in training
      423 12 FIRST ATTEMPT TO LAND 777 IN SAN FRANCISCO AGENCIES SAN FR ANCISCO The pilot of the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed at San Francisco International Airport was still in training for the Boeing 777 when he attempted to land the aircraft under
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  • comment &analysis
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      Lock icon Singapore should not be Finland
      2064 14 COMPARING EDUCATION SYSTEMS As the national conversation continues over the future shape of Singapore’s education system, the example of Finland has cropped up now and again. Should we emulate the Finnish system where tuition is unheard of, students take a compulsory national examination only at
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  • voices
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      Detailed information for home buyers on URA website
      177 17  -  FROM MARC BOEY Group Director (Land Sales and Administration), Urban Redevelopment Authority We refer to Mr Tan Hoe Heng’s letter, “Property index numbers do not tell whole story” (July 3), on the property price index. The Urban Redevelopment Authority’s overall property price
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      Lock icon Take action before we lose our Rail Corridor
      508 17  -  FROM NICK MCHUGH For years, the old Rail Corridor was a strong line of steel running from Tanjong Pagar to the Causeway. The tracks were removed in 2011, leaving a ribbon of green open to runners, walkers, photographers and cyclists. As it
      PHOTOS: NICK MCHUGH  -  508 words
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      Vehicle balloting realistic choice for the long term
      323 17  -  FROM QUEK SOO BENG As the Government reviews its Certificate of Entitlement (COE) policies and other measures, the motor vehicle industry should be viewed with a balanced perspective. Given the current inadequacy in our public transport, motor vehicles provide a significant transport
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  • singapore
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      Internet freedom will not be curtailed: Yaacob
      548 19  -  New regime will have little impact on public and business operations, assures minister MEDIA LICENSING FRAMEWORK TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The new licensing regime for online news sites will not have much of an impact on the public, and the Government should not
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      HDB reviewing income ceiling for purchase of 2-room flats in non-mature estates
      240 20 SINGAPORE —The Housing and Development Board (HDB) is reviewing the income ceiling for the purchase of tworoom flats in non-mature estates, and the review will be finalised “soon”, said National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan yesterday. Last year,
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      Shorter wait for HDB rental flats for vulnerable families
      198 20 SINGAPORE —Vulnerable families may face a shorter wait for a Housing and Development Board (HDB) rental flat, following a government review of the Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) limits for such units. The policy, which began in 1989, stipulates ethnic quotas in
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      False entries case: SAF captain to be retried
      364 21  -  SUCCESSFUL APPEAL BEFORE MILITARY COURT AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE —An army captain who was charged with making false entries in an official document will have his case retried, following a successful appeal before the Military Court of Appeal yesterday. Captain Sherwayn
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      Lock icon Two cosmetic products found to contain mercury
      182 21 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) yesterday advised the public to stop using two cosmetic products, Melati UV Whitening VitE Cream, and ESTHER Bleaching Cream (A) and (B), which have been found to contain mercury. The HSA said it had sampled
      CHANNEL NEWSASIA; PHOTO: HEALTH SCIENCES AUTHORITY  -  182 words
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  • education
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      Nervous about exams? Take deep breaths
      585 22  -  TEST ANXIETY AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Deep breathing exercises may help to reduce feelings of anxiety and improve mathematics performance in students who may feel nervous during test-like situations, according to a recent National Institute of Education (NIE) study. Students who generally exhibited high
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      Lock icon Gold for NYP student at WorldSkills competition
      222 23 SINGAPORE —A 21-year-old Singaporean nursing student from Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) has won the gold award at the WorldSkills competition, making it the fourth consecutive win for NYP in the Health and Social Care category (previously known as the Caring category). Ms Audrey Foo
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      Lock icon Shared knowledge leads to brighter future
      633 23 An MBA programme is helping this manager achieve his long-term goals change management.” produced by THE TODAY SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM For Mr Benny Koh, attaining higher academic qualifications wasn’t the only benefit from enrolling in the University of Birmingham’s Master of Business Administration, which
      change management.” produced by THE TODAY SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM; PHOTO: KOH MUI FONG  -  633 words
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  • china&india
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      Lock icon Indian authorities detain man over Buddhist shrine blasts
      417 24 Temple complex was to reopen yesterday after monks held a special prayer: Magistrate TERRORIST GROUP RESPONSIBLE, SAY POLICE AGENCIES PATNA (INDIA) One man has been de­tained and sketches of two others have been prepared as investigators searched for clues yesterday into a
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      Lock icon Chinese mine run-off ‘pollutes water for 30,000’
      187 24 BLOOMBERG BEIJING Officials in southern China shut 112 illegal mines after polluted run­off entered the local water sup­ply, killing fish and making the water unusable for 30,000 people, the China Daily newspaper said yesterday. Pollutants including cadmium and thallium flowed into the Hejiang
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      Lock icon Chinese general’s son to be tried on rape charges
      271 25 AP BEIJING —The son of a well-known Chinese general was indicted yesterday on charges of taking part in a gang rape in a case that is certain to fuel public anger at abuses by the wealthy and highly privileged. Li Tianyi,
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      Lock icon At least 12 dead in India building collapse
      263 25 AGENCIES HYDER ABAD —A two-storey hotel collapsed in southern India early yesterday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 18 others, the police said. A spokesman for the local police said the City Light Hotel and Bakery in Secunderabad collapsed early yesterday
      AGENCIES; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  263 words
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  • world
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      Lock icon Egypt seeks quick elections as US urges ‘maximum restraint’
      534 26 AFTERNOON LATEST AGENCIES CAIRO —Egypt’s interim head of state has set a speedy timetable for elections to drag the Arab world’s biggest country from crisis, after the military ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last week sparked a wave of bloody
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      Lock icon Exiled Cambodian politician ready to take on Hun Sen
      380 27 AGENCIES PHNOM PENH Cambodia’s charismatic, self-exiled opposition leader has vowed to return to the country ahead of this month’s general election to help challenge the 28-year rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Sam Rainsy made the announcement on Sunday in a
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      Lock icon Spat over S$2 fare ends in fatal stabbing
      186 27 AP BANGKOK —The Thai police have arrested a Bangkok taxi driver accused of stabbing an American passenger to death in an argument over fare worth about S$2. The police said the 32-year-old taxi driver confessed that he took out a 30cm knife
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      Lock icon Hackers used 2009 malware to steal US, S Korean army secrets
      472 29 SOFTWARE TARGETS DETAILS ON JOINT EXERCISES AP SEOUL The hackers who knocked out tens of thousands of South Korean computers simultaneously were trying to steal the country’s military secrets, and those of the United States, with a malicious set
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      Lock icon Philippine military calls off offensive against rebels
      225 29 AP MANILA Philippine troops have called off an offensive that killed dozens of breakaway Muslim rebels and dislodged 100 others from two southern strongholds ahead of the resumption this week of peace talks between the government and a main insurgent group, military officials
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  • business
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      Lock icon US consumer borrowing up S$25b, the most in a year
      523 30 AFTERNOON LATEST BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON Consumer borrowing in the United States climbed in May by the most in a year as Americans put more purchases on their credit cards and took out more school and car loans. The US$19.6 billion (S$25
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    • Article
      Lock icon Euro zone grants S$11.2b lifeline to Greece
      188 30 REUTERS BRUSSEL S After more than three years on life support from Europe, Greece secured a €6.8 billion (S$11.2 billion) lifeline from the euro zone yesterday. But the country told that it must keep its promises on cutting public sector jobs and other
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    • Article
      Lock icon Alcoa posts healthy Q2 profit
      141 30 REUTERS TORONTO —Alcoa remains optimistic that global demand for aluminium will grow 7 per cent this year, driven by demand from the aerospace and commercial transportation sectors, the largest aluminium producer in the United States said. It also reported a larger-than-expected profit on productivity gains
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      Lock icon SIA Engineering set to ride regional travel boom
      558 31 Fleet expansion, rise of low-cost carriers offer opportunities but stock ‘remains undervalued’ BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE —SIA Engineering, Asia’s second-largest aircraft maintenance company, is set to gain from a travel boom in the region, according to Maybank Kim Eng and Samsung Asset Management. Carriers
      BLOOMBERG; PHOTO: BLOOMBERG  -  558 words
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  • impact
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      Lock icon Copying its rival, one bite at a time
      1170 32 Marspromotes miniature Snickers, following the example of Hershey SWEETENING ITS APPEAL THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Copying the strategy of the Hershey Co, its arch-rival Mars has introduced a bite-sized Snickers, which it is promoting through advertising and social media. Mars
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      444 38 SINGAPORE Sports is going green, and a handful of the Republic’s sporting stars will spearhead the effort to spread the message on environmental conservation. The first group of Green Champions was unveiled yesterday, comprising six athletes. They will serve as role models embodying
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      642 39 Coach Ivan Lendl and mum Judy key players in cast THE GUARDIAN LONDON There is a photo of Andy Murray, aged two, staring intensely at a tennis ball during a beach game of swingball alongside his older brother Jamie. Both have endlessly recounted how Murray’s
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      48 41 TUESDAY, 9 JULY 2013 MAN WITH A PLAN ANDIE CHEN ISN’T AVERSE TO TAKING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED IN FACT, HE RELISHES IT42 MUSIC MAN RUNNING MAN’S HAHA AND HIS LOVE FOR REGGAE 44 MUSIC BAND METAL ROCKERS METALLICA TO GET NEW FILM DONE 44 PHOTO: ALEX WESTCOTT
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        280 45 REUTERS LOS ANGELES —The small yellow minions of Despicable Me 2 upstaged Johnny Depp at the weekend movie box office. The animated sequel hauled in an impressive US$82.5 million (S$105.9 million) in the United States and Canada from Friday through Sunday, more
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