Today, 2 December 2013

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    15 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp MONDAY, 2 DECEMBER 2013 MICA (P) 053/06/2013
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    Lock icon TRAIN DERAILS IN NEW YORK, FOUR DEAD
    42 1 A Metro-North train derailed yesterday in Bronx, New York, after five critical condition.PHOTO: of seven cars slid off the tracks. Four people were killed and 67 were injured, including 11 in critical condition.PHOTO: PHOTO: AP
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    Lock icon Four dead as protesters force Yingluck to flee police complex
    747 1 More bloodshed feared as police use force for the first time since demonstrations began last week THAI POLICE PLEADED WITH PROTESTERS BEFORE LAUNCHING TEAR GAS AGENCIES BA NG KOK The police in Thailand fought off mobs of rock-throwing protesters armed
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  • Article
    Another duplicate MOM website discovered
    544 1  -  XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has lodged a police report after finding for the second time in three days a duplicate of its website. It assured the public in a Face- book post yesterday that access to its official website remains
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Results confusion at StanChart Marathon
      684 2  -  Local men ’s category hit by disqualifications as runners appeal against results PARTICIPANTS’ TIMING CHIP NOT CAPTURED AT CERTAIN POINTS: ORGANISERS LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Tired, happy faces dotted the finish line of the 2013 Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore yesterday, but the Padang was
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      Lock icon Take-up for home care referrals lags behind that of nursing homes
      582 4  -  No difference in level of satisfaction among different types of services, study finds ‘PATIENTS REFERRED TO NURSING HOMES REALLY NEED SUCH SERVICES’ SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Despite ongoing efforts to support “ageing-in-place” at home and within the community
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      Lock icon US did not ask airlines to comply with China’s demands: Abe
      639 6 WASHINGTON, TOKYO TAKE SAME STANCE AGENCIES K AMAISHI —Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday said the United States has informed Japan that it did not advise American airlines to comply with Chinese demands for prior notice before their aircraft
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      Lock icon Police step up efforts to protect seniors from crime
      457 8  -  Patrols at elderly’s haunts home visits among measures in Ang Mo Kio, Sengkang West BOYS IN BLUE TO ENGAGE ELDERLY MORE KOK XING HUI xinghui@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE From conducting patrols at areas with a high concentration of senior citizens to visiting the
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      Lock icon Fast and Furious star Paul Walker dies in car crash
      254 8 AP los angeles —Paul Walker, star of the Fast and Furious movie series, has died in a car crash outside Los Angeles that killed one other person. He was 40. His publicist Ame Van Iden confirmed the actor’s death on
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  • comment & analysis
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon From S’pore to Sweden, back to housing bubbles
      944 10  -  PROSPECTS OF ANOTHER CRASH? NOURIEL ROUBINI Nouriel Roubini is Chairman of Roubini Global Economics and Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. PROJECT SYNDICATE It is widely agreed that a series of collapsing housing-market bubbles triggered the global
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      Lock icon From a market economy, to a market society?
      1268 13  -  MORAL DILEMMA OF CONSUMER STRATIFICATION CHARLES TAN MEAH YANG Charles Tan Meah Yang is a Singaporean investment analyst. My mum, who is recently retired, suggested that we take a short trip abroad. Two hours later, she had us booked on a flight
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      79 10 Practices such as paying for the right to queue-jump at a theme park and hiring someone to queue for an iPhone are par for the course... simply reflections of the market’s attempts to most efficiently allocate scarce resources. CHARLES TAN MEAH YANG 13 fl3 McDonald’s. m ii M ’m lovin’
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  • voices
    • Article
      Teacher rotation can be managed well
      430 16  -  FROM DONALD KOH Staff rotation is practised in the private sector and the results are not as bleak as the writer thinks in “Implementing teacher rotation will pose appraisal, adjustment, expertise concerns” (Nov 29). First, mainly those in management are rotated in the private
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      Posting exercise dependent on ranking, not T-score
      171 16  -  FROM VIVIAN LIM TSUI SHAN The misconception that “branded schools would be taking in average pupils”, in “Don’t ‘guiding’ questions lower standard of PSLE?” (Nov 28), needs to be explained to alleviate the fears of parents wishing the best for their children. The
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      Guiding questions motivate students to try their best
      224 17  -  FROM KEVIN LEE TIANRONG Contrary to the query, “Don’t ‘guiding’ questions lower the standard of PSLE?” (Nov 28), I applaud the re-crafting of challenging Primary School Leaving Examination questions this year to focus pupils’ attention on learning, By rewarding pupils for solving
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      NTUC could bring down costs of products recommended by doctors
      229 17  -  FROM RAYMOND ANTHONY FERNANDO Generally, most people want to lead healthy lifestyles, but there will always be patients who have illnesses beyond their control. These include children born with autism or people who have psychiatric illness. We must be sensitive
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    • Article
      Pro bono platform for physicians too?
      108 17  -  FROM RICHMOND LEE The Law Society of Singapore has an established pro bono system in which legal professionals could volunteer their services for the public good. I believe that such a volunteer system could be extended to other professions and indispensable public services, for
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      Phone betting extends convenience of gambling to locals
      103 17  -  FROM DANNY G TAN I refer to the report, “Govt to introduce new laws to curb remote gambling” (Nov 29). The intent of the curbs, to make it harder for Singaporeans to get addicted to gambling through remote sources, is noble. Singapore
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  • singapore
    • Article
      NEA takes rat war to Joo Chiat, Arab Street
      612 18  -  Year-long rodent surveillance and control services will cover popular food, tourist spots NUMBER OF RAT BURROWS DOWN TO 4,397 WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Popular food haunts Joo Chiat, Jalan Besar and Arab Street are among the new areas that will
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    • Article
      A study on whether financial incentives encourage exercise
      462 18 pected to be out mid-2015. ashley chia, ADDITIONAL REPORTING BYTAN WEIZHEN SINGAPORE A study is under way to find out whether cash or charity incentives would encourage full-time employees to get more active. The DukeNUS Graduate Medical School and Health Promotion Board
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      Lock icon A push in the right direction
      993 19 With suitable help, life for Mdm Suhana and her family is starting to look up intact.” PRODUCED BY THE TODAY SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM Mdm Suhana Binte Suparman, 47, lives in a Housing Development Board (HDB) Interim Rental Housing (IRH) flat with her husband, three
      intact.” PRODUCED BY THE TODAY SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM; PHOTO: KOH MUI FONG  -  993 words
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      Foreign domestic workers may get another shelter
      345 20  -  Association hopes to provide more support, set up clubhouse, improve helpline and provide counselling ASSOCIATION, PARTNERS DONATE S$10,000 TO SINGAPORE RED CROSS SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL saifulbahri@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As demand for foreign domestic workers (FDWs) increases here, the Foreign Domestic Worker Association for Social Support
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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  • youth
    • Article
      Lock icon US immigrants write apps to highlight challenges
      658 22 HACKATHON IN AID OF IMMIGRATION REFORM MOVEMENT AGENCIES NEW YORK —A group of 20 young programmers, in their late teens and twenties, convened at the Silicon Valley headquarters of LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network, last month for a 25-hour “hackathon” to develop software
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      168 24 'r''v t-fi As a gift to the nation and in celebration of our 50th anniversary, we present the CDL Green Gallery. Developed in partnership with National Parks Board, this newly opened, eco-friendly building at the Singapore Botanic Gardens (SBG) is also Singapore's first zero energy Green Gallery. This unique Gallery
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      241 25 so&BRi wmmmmmm ■rSQfc; ss Accorded the BCA Green Mark Platinum Award, the CDL Green Gallery is a novel extension of the SBG Heritage Museum, which will support the Gardens' nomination bid as Singapore's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. The gallery will showcase greeningand botanical-related exhibits, with the first being the
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  • china&india
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      Lock icon India overtakes China with cheap Mars mission
      437 26 MANGALYAAN LEAVES EARTH’S ORBIT AGENCIES NEW DELHI India’s first mission to Mars left Earth’s orbit early yesterday, clearing a critical hurdle in its journey to the red planet and overtaking the efforts in space of rival Asian giant China. Mangalyaan, which means “Mars
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      Lock icon China labour camps now known as drug rehab centres
      685 27 REUTERS KUNMING —Ms Li Zhongying was freed from a Chinese labour camp ahead of schedule in September because, guards told her, the government was scrapping “re-education through labour”, a heavily criticised penal system created in the 1950s. Several hundred other inmates
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  • world
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      Lock icon Thai protesters may have to look to courts, not the army
      828 28 After history of ousters, generals stay out of protest, a sign of change in the country ‘MILITARY COUPS ARE OUT OF STYLE NOW’ DOW JONES BANGKOK Seven years ago, Thailand’s army generals thought they were coming to the country’s
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    • Article
      Lock icon Landslides after rain kill 9 in North Sumatra
      169 29 AP K ARO (INDONESIA) Landslides triggered by torrential rain buried houses near a rumbling volcano in western Indonesia and nine bodies have been found in the mud and water, a disaster official said yesterday. Several houses were buried when mud gushed down
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      Lock icon Getting to the root of the problem
      251 32 It’s normal to lose anything between 50 and 100 strands of hair daily. It sounds like a lot but it’s an amount that you typically won’t notice. If you’re seeing thick clumps of hair in the shower drain, however, it’s time to pay
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  • management
    • Article
      To reduce email, start at the top
      539 34  -  IMPROVING OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY COMMENTARYBY CHRIS BROWN, ANDREW KILLICK, KAREN RENAUD Chris Brown and Andrew Killick are practitioners at Modeuro Consulting, in Chester, England. Karen Renaud is a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow. The main reason our email inboxes consume so much
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  • technology
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Bridging the gap
      586 35  -  Lumia 1520 could be the device that helps Nokia catch up with its rivals FINNISH FIRM’S FIRST QUAD-CORE DEVICE HIRANAND SUNNY hiranandsn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Nokia finally entered the phablet game with the Lumia 1520, a device that could help the Finnish company close the gap with its Apple
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    • Article
      Singapore firms team up to launch two games
      334 35  -  HIRANAND SUNNY SINGAPORE Mobile games will grow at a much faster pace than their PC counterparts as players opt for convenience and popularity, says Director of Games Management for IAHGames, Mr Jonathon Sze. “With the dramatic growth in mobile devices, we see
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  • 27th SEA GAMES MYANMAR 2013
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      HEADING TO MYANMAR WITH AN EYE ON 2015
      277 36  -  TAN YO-HINN Deputy Sports Editor yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg With Singapore hosting the 28th South-east Asian (SEA) Games in 2015, the weight of expectation and responsibility that awaits those picked to represent the Republic that year will be greater than for those in previous editions.
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      Lock icon THE GIRL’S SOMETHING SPECIAL
      713 36  -  Shanti Pereira out to end Singapore women sprinters’ SEA Games medal drought ‘IT WILL BE AN HONOUR TO WIN A MEDAL FOR SINGAPORE’ LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE —Her head was full of questions when she met her idol, American sprinter Allyson Felix, last
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  • sports
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      Lock icon SURPRISE WIN FOR CHELIMO
      579 37  -  Participants serve up thrills and spills at S’pore’s marquee running event STANDARD CHARTERED MARATHON SINGAPORE 2013 LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Sprinting into the final stretch of the Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore 2013 (SCMS), race leaders Eliud Kiptanui and Luke Kibet looked ready to wrap up
      PHOTOS: LOW LIN FHOONG, WEE TECK HIAN  -  579 words
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      Lock icon ROONEY DOUBLE RESCUES MAN UNITED
      364 37 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SPURS MAN UTD 2 2 LONDON —It was a match that neither manager could scarcely afford to lose and so, perhaps predictably, ended with the points shared. A 2-2 draw, however, will probably have been best received in another part of north
      THE DAILY TELEGRAPH; PHOTO: AP  -  364 words
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      Lock icon STANGE WORRIED ABOUT GOALS DESPITE 6-0 WIN
      503 38  -  LACK OF CONCENTRATION COULD PROVE COSTLY: STANGE IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A 6-0 score line in a final tune-up normally serves as a resounding statement of confidence in a team’s battle preparations before they leave for a major tournament. But not for
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