Today, 14 September 2013, Afternoon Edition

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    Lock icon Death sentence for all 4 convicted in Delhi gang-rape case
    769 1 AGENCIES NEW DELHI Four men convicted of a brutal gang rape were sentenced yesterday to die by hanging, a decision that met with grim satisfaction from the victim’s parents and triumphant cheers from the crowd outside the courthouse, where some
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    Lock icon More locals, fewer foreigners hired in first half of the year
    660 1  -  Growth came largely from services sector, but decline in productivity contin ues OVERALL EMPLOYMENT UP 4 PER CENT YEAR-ON-YEAR NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Employment growth was robust in the first half of the year, powered by an almost
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      37 1 SUNNY VARKEY’S VISION OF IMPACTING CHILDREN WORLDWIDE THROUGH EDUCATION HAS BILL CLINTON’S APPROVAL SATURDAY PEOPLE 8 The all-new TODAYAPP FOR ANDROID SMARTPHONES exclusively available on Samsung Apps tdy.sg/newsandroidapp NEWS FEATURE 6 Education reform: The Hong Kong experience
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  • hot news
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      NEA looking to drones in war on mosquitoes
      571 2  -  SEARCH FOR NEW DETECTION CAPABILITIES NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A monitoring system to detect noisy vehicles on the roads and unmanned aerial vehicles to inspect high spaces like roof gutters for mos-quito-breeding spots. These are two of the solutions being explored
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      Lock icon Twitter takes cautious steps towards IPO
      542 4 MICROBLOGGING SERVICE FILES PAPERWORK TO SELL SHARES AGENCIES SAN FR ANCISCO Twitter, the microblogging site that began as a side project in a small start-up seven years ago, is about to take its biggest step yet into maturity: Selling stock to the public. The
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      Lock icon Syria talks yield plan for peace conference
      628 4 AGENCIES GENEVA —Russia and the United States agreed yesterday to push for an international conference aimed at ending Syria’s civil war as talks on removing chemical weapons raised hopes for broader negotiations. After meeting for a second day of talks in Geneva to
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      Lock icon ELITE SYRIAN UNIT ‘SCATTERING CHEMICAL ARMS STOCKPILE’
      315 4 REUTERS An elite Syrian unit that runs the government’s chemical arms programme has been scattering the weapons to dozens of sites across the country, potentially complicating United States plans for air strikes, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The newspaper, citing unnamed US
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      MHA rebuts dead inmate family’s claims
      1011 5 SINGAPORE —The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) yesterday revealed fresh details about the death of an inmate in a botched restraint operation three years ago including how he left his cell without permission as it issued a point-by-point rebuttal against the version of events
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      Lock icon Temasek names top CITIC executive as new China head
      669 5 AGENCIES SINGAPORE —Temasek Holdings has appointed Mr Wu Yibing, a senior executive from China’s biggest brokerage firm CITIC, to head its China business, as the Singapore investment giant builds its presence in Asia’s largest economy, which accounts for about a fifth
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      Lock icon Education reform: The Hong Kong experience
      1903 6  -  In2000, Hong Kong overhauled its education system. Among other things, it tweaked its Primary 1 admission scheme to increase the proportion of places allocated for children living near the schools, abolished national exams at Primary 6, and pushed for throughtrain schools that provide a
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      24 7 On Monday, TODAY looks at the Hong Kong secondary school system, including how banding has resulted in stigmatisation of some schools and their pupils.
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  • saturday people
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      Lock icon GRAD OF THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
      1343 8  -  Sunny Varkey has gone from running a single schoolhouse at age 23 to seeking to impact more than 13 million children worldwide through education THE ST REGIS PERSPECTIVES KOK XING HUI xinghui@mediacorp.com.sg He helms a private education company spanning 14 countries and with
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      Lock icon Stories from the field
      1632 10  -  BBC’S CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT IDAYU SUPARTO nuridayus@mediacorp.com.sg She covered the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in the late 1980s, reported from Iraq during the war in 2003 and was in Tunisia at the dawn of the Arab Spring when protests erupted in 2010. But having
      PHOTO: BBC; PHOTO: DON WONG  -  1,632 words
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      25 8 In contrast to the buzz over Ozil at the Emirates, there’s been barely a murmur about Marouane Fellaini (picture) at Old Trafford. ADRIAN CLARKE 23
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      47 11 WHAT MR SUNNY VARKEY HAD AT BRASSERIE LES SAVEURS The Grand Astor Afternoon Tea Freshly-baked sweet and savoury novelty scones, hand-made waffles and crepes served a la minute, classic sandwiches and hot delicacies with a lavish array of tantalising desserts. Jasmine Queen Tea S$46++ PHOTO: DON WONG
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  • voices
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      STB committed to maintaining Haw Par Villa’s relevance
      131 14  -  FROM RANITA SUNDRAMOORTHY Director of Attractions, Dining and Retail, Singapore Tourism Board We thank Mr Heng Cho Choon (“Give these noteworthy spots a new lease of life”, Sept 9) for his suggestions on Haw Par Villa. Apart from its significant heritage value,
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      Lock icon Rising to the occasion
      789 14 Both pre-emptive and coping measures are needed to stay a step ahead of floods, say panellists in the extended segment of Thursday’s episode of VoicesTODAY ‘Floods: A natural or a man-made problem?’ COPING WITH THE INEVITABLE Vivian Chua: A flood prediction system typically has sensors to
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      36 14 •HAVEYOURSAY email your letters to voices@mediacorp.com.sg JOIN THE CONVERSATION facebook.com/todayonline READ MORE LETTERS todayonline.com/voices Catch the one-hour extended encore telecast of this week’s VoicesTODAY episode‘Floods: A natural ora man-made problem?’ at 5.30pm today on Channel 5.
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  • singapore
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      Question on used ballot boxes to be raised in Parliament
      368 16 SINGAPORE More light could be shed on how used ballot boxes ended up being found by a member of the public last month when Parliament sits on Monday. Workers’ Party Member of Parliament (MP) Pritam Singh has filed a question
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      Lock icon Motor vehicle sales down 43% in July
      503 16  -  INDUSTRY STILL AFFECTED BY LOAN RESTRICTIONS WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Car dealers appear to be still feeling the effects of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s curbs on car loans introduced in February, with data showing that motor vehicle sales dropped by almost
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      Lock icon Adding to S$7.6b boon in Vietnam
      388 17  -  PM Lee breaks ground on fifth Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Parks in QuangNgai province HAPPY MARRIAGE OF RESOURCES AND EXPERIENCE S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg VIETNAM The four Vietnam-Singa-pore Industrial Parks (VSIPs) in Vietnam have so far attracted more than US$6 billion (S$7.6 billion) of investments and are
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      Auditor gave ‘general advice’ to CHC leaders
      473 17  -  AMIR HUSSAIN SINGAPORE A series of emails in August 2008 between several City Harvest Church (CHC) leaders now on trial showed that an auditor had advised them not to fully disclose the church’s “relationship or control” of Xtron Productions —which managed singer Sun
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      ‘Mother tongue proficiency affected’ as more students speak English at home
      293 17  -  ASHLEY CHIA SINGAPORE More Singaporeans are speaking English rather than their mother tongues at home, posing a challenge in the teaching and learning of the mother tongue languages, said Minister of State (Education and Communications and Information) Sim Ann
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  • world
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      Lock icon Chinese army urges US not to encourage Japan over isles
      614 18 WASHINGTON SAYS IT DOES NOT TAKE A POSITION ON ISSUE AGENCIES BEIJING China’s military told the United States this week not to support Japan, nor let it do as it pleased, over a group of disputed islands in the East
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      Lock icon Beijing sentences 3 to death over Xinjiang attack
      266 18 AP BEIJING China has sentenced three men to death over a June attack blamed on Islamic extremists in the restive north-western region of Xinjiang, in which 24 police and civilians, as well as 13 militants, were killed. The official Xinhua news agency
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      Lock icon Aquino threatens use of force to end 5-day stand-off
      408 19 AP Z AMBOANGA (PHILIPPINES Philippine officials tried to negotiate a surrender of Muslim rebels holding more than 100 civilians hostage yesterday, as President Benigno Aquino III warned that his government will not hesitate to use force to end the five-day stand-off.
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      Lock icon 37 dead in Russian hospital fire
      86 19 A fire swept through a psychiatric hospital in Luka village in the Novgorod region of Russia yesterday morning, killing at least 37 people. Rescuers have so far recovered 26 bodies. The authorities had long warned thatthe building was unsafe and called for its closure.
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      Lock icon Despite rape outrage, little has changed in India
      1666 20 The four men convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old student last year were sentenced to death yesterday. In the second of a two-part series, we revisit the night of the attack and look at how the case brought to the fore
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      788 18 Advertisement How Much Do You Know About Constipation? Q&N Health Awareness series 3 Madam Tan, 31 years old, works in an office and is kept busy with work. She does not often have time for breakfast in the mornings therefore eats out usually. She has been facing the problem of
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      Insurers support expansion of official healthcare schemes
      632 21  -  Industry preparing to engage Govt in discussions once public consultation gets under way MEDISHIELD LIFE: AN EXPANDED HEALTHCARE FINANCING SCHEME WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com.sg S ING A POR E —Private health insurers here are supportive of the Government’s push to enhance the MediShield
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      Lock icon UK house prices hit record on London property surge
      427 21 AGENCIES LONDON House prices in the United Kingdom rose to a record last month as government measures boosted demand and London’s property market continued to surge, research and analysis firm Acadametrics said, but there are mounting concerns a bubble may be
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      Lock icon MAS steps up scrutiny of some Indian bank branches
      224 21 REUTERS MUMBAI The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is looking more closely at the books of the local operations of some Indian banks to assess the credit quality of loans made from the branches to Indian companies, bankers have told Reuters.
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      Lock icon THE BUSINESS OF THE NIGHT RACE
      638 22  -  S’pore GP week provides a classy environment for the mingling of work and play A UNIQUE BUZZ TO CORPORATE EVENTS ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —It is less than a week before the start of the sixth instalment of the SingTel Singapore Grand Prix
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      LIONS LEND A HAND AT INAUGURAL KIDS’ CAMP
      386 22  -  FELICIA QUICK SINGAPORE —For the 144 upper primary students attending the Football Association of Singapore’s (FAS) inaugural Kids’ Camp, it had been a programme that offered more than the finer points of football playing, it even included a trip to the NEWater
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      Lock icon TIME ON OZIL’S SIDE, BUT FELLAINI MUST IMPRESS TODAY
      852 23  -  The World Cup qualifiers are over and Arsenal and Manchester United supporters will finally get to see each club’s new main signing in action this weekend. Our EPL analyst ADRIAN CLARKE (sports@mediacorp.com. sg) tells you what he thinks Mesut Ozil andMarouane
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      CHELSEA IN FOR A TOUGH TIME
      227 23  -  ADRIAN CLARKE Jose Mourinho has too many gifted playmakers to choose from for Chelsea’s visit to Everton tonight. Fitting £30 million (S$60.2 million) new signing Willian into a team that could also feature Oscar, Eden Hazard, Juan Mata, Andre Schurrle and Kevin de Bruyne
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      Lock icon WHO TO SIGN? HERE ARE 10 NAMES TO BEGIN WITH
      1002 24 Want to join the TODAY Fantasy League (TFL) but don’t know who to sign? Well, here’s a list of the most selected players by TFL managers as a Cheatsheet of sorts. If you can sign most of the players within
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      101 23 Sat, 14/09/13 Sun, 15/09/13 This match is played on neutral ground. LW* Telecast not available at Livewire(Singapore Pools) For the latest live’ telecast listing, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg LW ISeewire] Livewire (MBS) Livewire (RWS) (21 yrs and above) Livewire (Singapore Pools) (21 yrs and above during ‘Live’ telecast) SB SportsBuzz@Kranji (18 yrs
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      34 24 Join the TODAY Fantasy League at www.todayonline.com /fantasyleague and stand a chance to win US$500 Manager of the Month Awards, and the US$5,000 Manager of the Season grand prize. But hurry, scoring starts today.
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        UNDER THE RADAR
        691 26  -  INFLUX OF NEW LUXURY MODELS COULD BRING NEW TWIST TO CATEGORY A COES LEOW JU-LEN features@mediacorp.com.sg Michael Lim, a manager in his 50s, has just decided not to buy a car. “It doesn’t make sense to rush in now if you’re not in a hurry,” says the
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        Mobility, sans COEs
        525 27  -  Cutting-edge ideas at Frankfurt Motor show could help solve Singapore’s car ownership woes DERRYN WONG FR ANKFURT, GERMANY Judging from the towering, multi-storey pavilions of Germany’s big three (Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz) at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, it’s easy to think that the car industry is
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        Classic capers
        244 27  -  Bring the family and experience classic machines at tomorrow’s Motoring Heritage Day DERRYN WONG SINGAPORE —If you’re free tomorrow, don’t feel like visiting another mall and love to time travel, visit the (now historic) Tanjong Pagar Railway Station and join in the fun at the Malaysia and Singapore
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    • food
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        Singled out
        765 28  -  Bruichladdich’s local debut reflects a market’s renewed love for a fine dram WHISKY IN THE BAR DON MENDOZA, LEE YEN NEE features@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The intricate charms of single malt whisky have continued to prove irresistible to imbibers who also find great pleasure in the diversity being proffered. It
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        DINING GUIDE
        354 28 JOHOR PALACE DELICACIES AT TOWN RESTAURANT A celebrated culinary expert from Johor will serve more than 25 tantalising dishes from the Malaysian state, such as asma rojak, rojak petis, gado-gado, rojak salad, nasi briyani and many more. Sept 17 to 27. S$53 per adult, S$26 per child. Call
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        Royal rewards
        478 29  -  The meat here might cost a king’s ransom but you’ll feast like royalty FOOD REVIEW: OUSHIN JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE ANNETTE TAN SINGAPORE —Its miniscule entrance hidden away on the second floor of Suntec City means that you might blink and miss Oushin Japanese Steakhouse. (We walked past it twice.)
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        Meat and greet
        443 29  -  This Korean BBQ does the beef well, but the featured pork was a letdown FOOD REVIEW: E!GHT KOREAN BBQ ANNETTE TAN SINGAPORE —E!ght Korean BBQ at The Central gets its name from the fact that it serves the Eight Colours Set (S$98) made up of eight different
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    • culture&lifestyle
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        Lock icon Lady Gaga: ‘Leave Miley alone’
        194 30 REUTERS LOS ANGELES —Lady Gaga has a message for the world: Give Miley Cyrus a break. The Born This Way singer appeared on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday to discuss a number of topics, including Miley Cyrus’ racy, twerked-up performance at the MTV
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        Lock icon Disney banking on ‘evergreen’ Star Wars
        533 30 The company will be ‘more judicious’ approving non-franchise movies MOVIE MONEY AGENCIES LOS ANGELES —Walt Disney will be more judicious when it comes to approving the next big-budget film that doesn’t feature a member of the Marvel Comics or Star Wars universe. Chief Financial
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        Paris Hilton at ME@OUE
        189 31  -  CHRISTOPHER TOH S ING A PORE She’s known for many things but, come next week, Paris Hilton will be in Singapore as a DJ. That’s right, the delectable Ms Hilton will make an exclusive appearance at ME@OUE over the F1 weekend for an after-party on race
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        Lock icon Marc Jacobs’ storm of a show
        547 31 AGENCIES NEW YORK The Marc Jacobs show that closed New York Fashion Week on Thursday was a proper stormer. Not only that, but it took place in a proper storm. Half an hour before showtime, Manhattan’s skies started dumping a Hudson’s worth of water.
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      59 29 WALK-IN INTERVIEW Monday to Friday, 2 pm to 6 pm No. 1 Gopeng Street, Singapore *****2 Food Beverage Waiter Waitress Hostess Kitchen Junior Sous Chef Chef de Partie Cook Stewarding Supervisor Stewardess Housekeeping Housekeeping Supervisor Housekeeping Attendant Front Offi ce Bellman Guest Service Agent Engineering Technician Sales Sales Coordinator Reservations
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      29 30 HOW TO PLAY Fill in the grid so that every row every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9 .DIFFICULTY LEVEL: YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION COPYRIGHT UCLICK
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      857 32 MUTTONS ON THE WEEKEND WITH JUSTIN ANG AND VERNON A Join Justin and Vernon to kick-start your weekend. Hear the best bits from Muttons, and watch it streaming live at toggle.sg/987tv. 9AM~ 10AM~ You~ and~ the~ Law~ With~ Keith~ de~ Souza 10AM~ 11AM Road~ Trip~ With~ Keith~ de~ Souza~ And~
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      181 33 To subscribe, log on to www.toggle.sg or call Toggle Customer Care Hotline at 6388 3888 (9am-9pm daily) VIDEO ON DEMAND Watch your favourite movies series anytime, anywhere THE EYE Sydney Wells is an accomplished and independent Los Angeles-based concert violinist. She is also blind. LOVE ME NOT Julian has lived
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