Today, 12 November 2013

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  • Article
    Public transport fares likely to rise but will stay affordable: Lui
    1100 1  -  Govt fully accepts committee’s recommendations; hikes may be implemented in the first half of next year FARE REVIEW EXERCISE TO BEGIN IN THE WEEKS AHEAD SUMITA SREEDHARAN sumitas@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Public transport fares are likely to increase in the first
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    Lock icon ‘MUM, I’M WELL, I’M WELL’
    54 1 Three Singaporean students, (from left) Eileen Heng, Alyssa Chee and Vanessa Chong, lost contact with their families after Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the Philippine city of Tacloban where they were on a placement project through their Australian university. They were found safe and well yesterday. PHOTO:
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  • Article
    OCBC bags Sports Hub naming rights for S$50m
    644 1  -  IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE— The worst-kept secret here was finally confirmed yesterday when SportsHub Pte Ltd (SHPL) and OCBC Bank officially sealed a 15-year naming rights deal worth more than S$50 million the Republic’s biggest sports sponsorship deal to
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      171 1 A SINGAPORE ‘FAT TAX’ WON’T WORKBECAUSE HAWKERS SERVE UP AS MUCH UNHEALTHY FOOD AS BIG OUTLETS: JEREMY LIM COMMENT&ANALYSIS 12 The all-new TODAYAPP FOR ANDROID SMARTPHONES exclusively available on Samsung Apps tdy.sg/newsandroidapp HOT NEWS 10 Thai Senate debates amnesty Bill amid heightened security jetstar.com Jetstar^ Price based on payment at
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Filipinos pick up the pieces as Haiyan hits Vietnam, China
      860 2 STATE OF EMERGENCY IN TACLOBAN CITY AGENCIES ORMOC CITY (PHILIPPINES) —An area of the central Philippines devastated by one of the world’s worst typhoons began burying its dead in mass graves yesterday, as soldiers and police reinforcements arrived to hard-hit
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    • Article
      Three S’porean students in Tacloban found
      338 2  -  KENNETH CHENG kenenthcheng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The three Singaporean students who had lost contact with their families for days in the typhoonravaged Philippine city of Tacloban have made contact and been flown safely to the capital Manila. Ms Eileen Heng, Ms Alyssa Chee and Ms Vanessa
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    • Article
      Lock icon Global aid efforts begin in Philippines
      370 4 Singapore to send relief teams as Government donates total ofS$200,000 2.5M PEOPLE WILL NEED EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE: UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME AGENCIES TACLOBAN (PHILIPPINES) —Governments and agencies across the world are mounting a major relief effort to help victims of the Philippine typhoon. Japan and
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    • Article
      Lock icon Storm surge wipes out villages, leaves thousands dead or missing
      311 4 AGENCIES TACLOBAN (PHILIPPINES) —The largest storm surge in modern history in the Philippines sent walls of water over half a kilometre inland along a crowded coastline when Typhoon Haiyan hit Tacloban last Friday, erasing villages and towns and leaving thousands
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    • Article
      ‘Limitations’ in having a single poverty line
      771 6  -  It is one-dimensional and inadequate for identifying the poor, says Social and Family Developmen t Minister DOES NOT PROVIDE USEFUL DETAILS ON LOW-INCOME NEEDS: CHAN CHUN SING ASHLEY CHIA ashley@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A single poverty line is “one-dimensional” and inadequate for identifying the poor
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      Lock icon Thai Senate debates amnesty Bill amid heightened security
      430 10 AGENCIES BANGKOK Thailand’s Senate yesterday convened a highly-charged session to determine the fate of a political amnesty Bill that could pave the way for the return of the country’s divisive self-exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra. Thousands of protesters rallied in several parts
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    • Article
      Lock icon UN court orders Thai troops to withdraw from Preah Vihear site
      425 10 AGENCIES THE HAGUE Thailand must withdraw all military and police forces from the area surrounding a 900-year-old Hindu temple at the centre of a longrunning border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, world court judges said yesterday, in a ruling
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    • Article
      Lock icon China to let private investors hold up to 15% in state firms
      558 11 Investors can ‘create private equity consortia to purchase direct stakes in these companies’ RISING REVENUES AT GOVT-CONTROLLED FIRMS AGENCIES SHANGHAI China will allow private investors to buy stakes of up to 15 per cent in state-owned enterprises (SOEs),
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  • comment & analysis
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      Lock icon Why a ‘fat tax’ won’t work in Singapore
      984 12  -  CONTEXT MATTERS, IN WAR ON OBE SITY JEREMY LIM Jeremy Lim has held senior level executive roles in the Singapore public and private sectors, and is the author of Myth or Magic: The Singapore Healthcare System. Taxes on sugared drinks and other
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      Lock icon Who will run the world’s deficits?
      797 15  -  WHILE NATIONS FROM CHINA TO S’PORE RUN SURPLUSE S SANJEEV SANYAL Sanjeev Sanyal, Global Strategist at Deutsche Bank, was named Young Global Leader 2010 by the World Economic Forum. PROJECT SYNDICATE These days, everyone seems to want to run a current-account surplus. China has
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      128 12 The US has both the required scale and the youngest population of any major developed country. Given this, it will once again fall to it to run the world’s largest external deficit, in what could be dubbed Bretton Woods III. SANJEEV SANYAL 15 Truffle Celebrations at Prego From now till
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  • voices
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      Awareness of transportation equity lacking
      332 16  -  FROM NOEL CHIA KOK HWEE Based on the reports and Voices letters in TODAY about transport issues during the past week, what is lacking is our awareness of universal access. The goal of universal access is to enable everyone young or old, student or worker,
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    • Article
      Transport debate fruitless without fixing fundamentals
      316 16  -  FROM HENRY TAN SENG LEE I refer to the Voices letters about the public transport operators. (“Fare review: Consider interests of PTO shareholders”, Nov 9; “Current PTO model will never please everyone”; “PTOs not disadvantaged by fare review recommendations”, both Nov 11) The policy
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    • Article
      Hijab issue: Whatever their choice, women deserve respect, inclusion
      377 17  -  FROM FROM SAHAR PIRZADA, JOLENE TAN Association of Women for Action and Research Recent discussions about whether Muslim women should be allowed to wear headscarves at work have focused on the voices of political and community leaders, as well as the
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    • Article
      Automatic discharge for bankrupts will encourage entrepreneurship
      265 17  -  FROM ULAGANATHAN KARUMANAN The suggestion to “Allow automatic discharge, to provide certainty for bankrupts” (Nov 8) is what we need to make Singapore a place for entrepreneurs. As for the letter, “Would automatic discharge for bankrupts encourage recklessness?” (Nov 9), I say that
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      94 16 OLYMPUS 'S i rf yA(a w OLYMPUS 11 Touchscreen to shoot Depending on the theme, the art filter, the number of segments and effect can be chosen n I T1 0 I Shoot L'"r Share photos to facebook instagram via Wi-fi import 1 0 Share I TYLUS XZ-10 Pictures take
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      14 16 •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
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      ‘More rules’ needed as interest groups jostle for public space
      708 18  -  Society must accept compromise, learn to disagree without being disagreeable, says former AGC Walter Woon MORE CHALLENGES TO GOVT IN COURTS IN LAST 5 YEARS THAN IN PAST 30-40 YEARS AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —With more interest groups jostling for
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      Lock icon Ministry looking at updating harassment laws
      351 18  -  AMIR HUSSAIN SINGAPORE —To deal with issues such as online harassment, the Ministry of Law is “actively” looking into updating the Republic’s harassment laws, Law Minister K Shanmugam said yesterday. Speaking at a dialogue session during the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) Conference on
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    • Article
      MP proposes law to tackle human trafficking
      428 19  -  XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A dedicated law to combat human trafficking will be drafted and tabled before Parliament within a year, said Senior Minister of State (Home Affairs) Masagos Zulkifli in Parliament yesterday. The law will provide “a consistent and forward-looking framework” to
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    • Article
      Prisoners released for good conduct may have to serve full sentence if they reoffend
      328 19 SINGAPORE —Prisoners given a onethird reduction of their jail term for good conduct may be issued a Conditional Remission Order when they are released, which stipulates that they should not be convicted of another offence committed
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      Lock icon Telcos may need to have back-up equipment at different location
      507 20  -  AUTHORITIES REVIEW POLICIES AFTER EVERY OUTAGE: YAACOB SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Mobile operators may have to put in place at least two sets of network equipment at different locations of the island to ensure sufficient back-up in the event
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    • Article
      Law allowing detention without trial extended
      801 21  -  MPs seek disclosure on detention numbers, assurances on safeguards against abuse NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg Singapore— A law allowing some perpetrators of serious crimes to be detained without trial was extended unopposed for another five years yesterday, but not before Members of Parliament (MPs)
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    • Article
      Sentence reduced for couple who lied to get travel documents
      514 23  -  AT LEAST 4 WEEKS’ JAIL FOR OFFENDERS AMANDA LEE SINGAPORE —Those who lie in order to obtain travel documents from the authorities will be jailed for at least four to eight weeks, warned Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, even though he
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    • Article
      Batman jailed for theft, housebreaking
      145 23  -  CLAIRE HUANG SINGAPORE —He has the name of a superhero, but Batman Suparman has been up to no good. The 23-year-old, whose unusual name has inspired at least two Facebook groups to be set up, was yesterday sent to jail for two years and nine
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      236 23 BQsim university Manage Your Future Beijing I I Ho Chi Minh fKV OVERSEAS STUDY MISSION BEIJING HO CHI MINH (vf More than just a tour (vf Learn from insiders Qf Earn credits i i Singapore Singapore has no hinterland and needs to actively engage with other countries in Asia if
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  • education
    • Article
      Lock icon A tweet could derail your college application
      621 24 Growing online scrutiny means students need to watch what they say on social media ‘A HUGE PROBLEM’ IF STUDENTS ARE WRONGLY IDENTIFIED THE NEW YORK TIMES NE W YORK At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in the United States, admissions officers are still
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  • china&india
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      Lock icon China’s building push goes underground
      419 25 INCREASING FOCUS ON URBANISATION DOW JONES KUNSHAN (CHINA) —Twenty years ago, China’s Communist Party leadership earmarked money for an expressway network modelled on the United States interstate highway system. A decade ago, they spent big on bullet trains. As a fresh team of Chinese leaders
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      Lock icon Land reform issues in China trap rural poor
      587 26 Government urbanisation drive may be held back by flawed residency rights system PILOT SCHEME IN CITIES REVEALS PROBLEMS REUTERS CHENGDU Mr Tan Yingyu is one of China’s 200 million migrant workers and, like many, he is stuck: He does not want to
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    • Article
      Lock icon India’s small towns, flush with govt funds, look to the opposition
      606 26 REUTERS K ASBA BONLI (INDIA) Kasba Bonli is a newly prosperous market town in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan and it should be a perfect advertisement for the ruling Congress party’s pro-farmer policies. Instead, the buzz in the
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  • world
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      Lock icon Olympic torch returns from space station
      119 28 International Space Station (ISS) crew member Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin holding the torch of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games after landing near the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan. The Soyuz capsule landed at 8.49am local time, about three-and-a-half hours after undocking from
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    • Article
      Lock icon If we can’t go home, tell us: Fukushima evacuees
      984 28 Shared understanding among those in temporary housing that govt is unable to deliver on ambitious clean-up goals SOMEONE MUST SAY THEY CAN’T LIVE THERE ANY MORE, SAYS RULING PARTY OFFICIAL REUTERS IWAKI (JAPAN) For many of Japan’s oldest nuclear refugees, all
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    • Article
      Lock icon Syrian opposition outlines terms to join peace talks
      247 29 AGENCIES BEIRUT The main Western-backed Syrian opposition group yesterday said it intends to join peace talks with the Syrian government if its conditions are met. In a statement released after the group held its General Assembly meetings in Istanbul yesterday, the Syrian
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    • Article
      Lock icon Indon suspect in M’sian bank shooting identified
      365 29 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian police have identified the suspect arrested for the murder of an AmBank officer in a robbery in Subang Jaya two weeks ago as an Indonesian from the eastern island of Sulawesi. Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar yesterday
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  • business
    • Article
      Lock icon Singapore risk officers’ pay hikes trump those in New York, London
      541 30 RISES AMID SHORTAGE OF SKILLED STAFF IN ASIA BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE Salaries for banks’ risk and compliance officers in Singapore and Hong Kong have risen at about twice the pace this year than the pay for similar positions in New
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    • Article
      More firms pay promptly as outlook improves
      328 30  -  LEE YEN NEE SINGAPORE More companies in Singapore settled their payments on time in the third quarter, thanks to better economic and business conditions, and four out of five industries showed declines in payment delays, according to the Singapore Commercial Credit Bureau (SCCB).
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    • Article
      Lock icon Temasek-led group buys S$265m stake in milk powder maker
      278 30 REUTERS HONG KONG A group of investors led by Singapore investment giant Temasek Holdings bought a HK$1.65 billion (S$265 million) stake in Yashili International, sending shares of the milk powder producer soaring yesterday after its parent sold down stock to meet
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  • impact
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      Lock icon Charities’ shocking ads spur action
      1021 32 Unconventional, provocative marketing may be needed in a ‘world of competing sorrows’ ‘WE HAVE TO GET CRAZIER, WACKIER, LOUDER’ THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK To introduce a wider audience to Water Is Life, an upstart aid organisation that provides potable water to villages in
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  • technology
    • Article
      Lock icon Apple ‘developing curved iPhone screens’
      495 34 Bigger screens, enhanced sensors in two models planned for release next year, says source SIMILAR OFFERING KEEPS SAMSUNG AHEAD IN GLOBAL MARKET SHARE BLOOMBERG SAN FR ANCISCO Apple is developing new iPhone designs, including bigger screens with curved glass and enhanced sensors that can detect
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      Lock icon An all-in-one ultra-zoom
      634 34  -  Canon’s latest super-telephoto zoom lens is perfectfor sports, wildlife photographers XABRYNA KEK today@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Shutterbugs who find it cumbersome to lug a number of telephoto lenses may now heave a sigh of relief: The ability to use a 1.4X extender without having to dismount the lens from
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