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  • 24 1 TODAY AbdiaCorp THURSDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2014 MICA (P) 053/06/2013 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING /VI bdiaCorp THURSDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2014 MICA (P) 053/06/2013
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  • 664 1  -  AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Video clips showing the 40 minutes from the time construction worker Sakthivel Kumaravelu whose death in a traffic accident sparked off Singapore’s first riot in 44 years boarded a bus to the time crowds
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  • 1196 1  -  Errant companies, both local and foreign, could be fined up to S$300,000 DRAFT BILL UP FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION TILL MARCH 19 WOO SIAN BOON woosianboon@mediacorp.com.sg contributing to the haze. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE —In a move aimed
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  • 1018 1 ments,” the MND said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BYSUMITASREEDHARAN S I N G A P O R E —The Auditor-Gen-eral will conduct an audit of the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council’s (AHPETC) 2012 accounts, after he was directed to do so yesterday by Deputy Prime
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    • 41 1 LESSONS FOR S’POREFROM ASIA’S PRE-SCHOOLS: PARENTS SHOULD BE THE FOCUS IN EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE SECTOR COMMENT&ANALYSIS 12 Download the new TODAY ANDROID APPSFOR SMARTPHONES tdy.sg/todaydroidmobile AND TABLETS tdy.sg/todaydroidtablet SINGAPORE 22 Surge in small car COEs leads rise across the board
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  • hot news
    • 346 2  -  AMANDA LEE Committee of Inquiry Chairman G Pannir Selvam set the tone for the public hearing yesterday, as he warned against any interference in the committee’s work. Addressing Senior State Counsel David Khoo, who had called the Chairman’s attention to an article in The
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    • 580 4  -  Accident reconstruction expert says driver was under many demands while in crowded area BLOOD TESTS SHOWED DEAD MAN WAS HEAVILY INTOXICATED AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg the impact. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AMIR HUSSAIN SING A PORE —There were many demands
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    • 556 6  -  Company files police report after being notified by banks NO EVIDENCE OF BREACH OF PAYMENT SECURITY AMONG BANKS IN S’PORE: MAS KENNETH TAN kennethtanrz@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BYSIAU MING EN AND WONG WEI HAN SINGAPORE In what is believed to be a
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    • 510 10 RULING WON’T AFFECT SECURITY OPERATION: POLICE CHIEF AGENCIES BANGKOK —A Thai court yesterday endorsed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s declaration of a State of Emergency, a day after five people were killed in gun battles in Bangkok, but warned the
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    • 356 10 AGENCIES Thailand’s Government Savings Bank (GSB), which on Tuesday was forced to scrap a loan that could have been used to prop up a controversial government rice-buying programme, has found itself in the middle of a proxy war between pro and anti-government camps.
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    • 67 2 HOT NEWS VICTIM WAS IN BUS DRIVER’S BLIND SPOT WHILE CHASING BUS, SAYS EXPERT 4 JAPAN’S #1 ONLINE SHOPPING MALL IS NOW IN SINGAPORE! ORakuten.com.sg Shopping is Entertainment! S A B E f 15% 579 309 349 209 669 OFF 259 Samsung OFF GALAXY PiSKE OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF
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    • 55 3 r HSBC <I> Women's Champions THE TOUGHEST WOMEN IN GOLF RETURN TO ONE OF ASIA'S TOUGHEST COURSES 27 February-2 March 2014 Sentosa Golf Club i A S' J A ■si a a c #HSBCwomenscjolf www.hsbc.com.sg/womensgolf Issued by The Hanging and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, which is incorporated in the Hong
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    • 224 4 PICKS libraries forllfe 22 Feb Bishan Public Library 4.30pm-6.30pm TW§ Panel Discussion; Writing the Singapore Scene Join Alfian Sa'at, Joshua Ip and 0 Thiam Chin as they discuss writing fiction in Singapore. Find out what it means to them to be a local author. Part of Read! Singapore 2013 Registration
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  • comment &analysis
    • 2036 12  -  TO IMPROVE THE SECTOR FOCUS ON PARENTS NG JING YNG, ASHLEY CHIA Ng Jing Yng is a Senior Reporter and Ashley Chia is a Reporter at TODAY. They spent several weeks in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo to look at pre-school systems
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    • 63 12 ENGLISH CHINESE STATIONERY ASSESSMENT BOOKS MULTIMEDIA CDS DVDS Singapore EXPO Hall 5A 11am 9pm 20 Feb POPULAR Members Closed Door Sale 21 23 Feb Open to Public final SeOuction a*': All stocks Must Go! \0WT ALL English Books 5 or more POPULAR Members enjoy privileges over 156 stores in Singapore,
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    • 207 13 DIGITAL -'JsS? Canon Delighting You Always V Ill anoti "3^ BLv LlugSifc EOS 70D kit IIKEF S18EOS 70D kit II (EFSI8-135 I EOS 70D kit |EF S18-55 IS STM] EOS 70D body $1,4-99 REWRITE THE RULES WITH ALL NEW Dual Pixel CMOS Autofocus doesn't get more advanced than this. Combining
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    • 125 14 Wi 11 I III Hi h% Ji 3 i 'l-'H'iJLlI From boys to men, some things don't change. Remember the water parades or being the odd one out among a brotherhood of equals in NS? Relive the goofy moments and reunite with your buddies here. Catch up over good food
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    • 148 15 BRITISH AIRWAYS TWO CITIES. ONE SPECIAL PRICE. To Fly. To Serve. V' m B i fi 7. i m Terms and Conditions: Offer ends 5 March 2014, unless sold out prior. Subject to availability. Economy return airfares from Singapore are inclusive of taxes and surcharges. Two cities offer based on
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  • voices
    • 341 18  -  FROM TAN KOK TIM Some well-intentioned Singaporeans have proposed an increase in personal income tax on the rich in this year’s Budget, to narrow the income gap and have more equity in wealth sharing. But I hope instead that
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    • 214 18  -  FROM SEAH KENG TIA I am heartened by the report “NTUC wants CPF contribution rates for above-50-55 age group to be hiked” (Feb 13). With life expectancy increasing, society must redefine what constitutes being “old”. Workers of that age are now
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    • 316 21  -  FROM RICHARD YAP GEOK ENG I read with disbelief the writer’s support for Bitcoins in the article “Bitcoin’s part in creating a better financial system” (Feb 17). Bitcoin is so intangible, with its fluctuations greater than in any commodity in
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    • 144 21  -  FROM NG SOOK FUN Director, Corporate Marketing Communication Division, Infocomm Development Authority We thank Mr Jeremy Aw for his letter “Let subscribers roam when their telco is down” (Feb 11). The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) is studying the feasibility of implementing some form
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    • 90 21  -  FROM TEO LAY YAN We should value the past if it serves a purpose. Most of us have learnt from our mistakes and experiences, whether pleasant or unpleasant. The past provides us insight and acts as a reference point for future planning.
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    • 14 18 •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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    • 75 19 Singapore at 50: Does OUR PAST MATTER? Does the past still have relevance today? Events like the Little India riot and spat with Indonesia have raised some important ghosts of national history. But do younger Singaporeans even care about their backstory and heritage? How to stoke their interest? PHOTO: QUEK
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    • 204 21 W Wanwisa Sheikh Hassan MDIS Student (2014) ■«< •a, rss a m j o a UB r UOB Plaza, Singapore A MDIS founded 1956 Management Development Institute of Singapore Where lifelong learning begins School of Postgraduate Studies GAIN INFINITE SUCCESS WHEN YOU THINK BIGGER PRI FYSGOL BANGOR UNIVERSITY Ranked 54
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  • singapore
    • 360 22  -  XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SING APORE Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums rose across the board in the latest bidding exercise yesterday, with premiums for small cars surging to a four-month high despite moves to remove luxury models from the category. COE
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    • 589 22  -  PROPOSAL MADE AHEAD OF LAWS TO CURB REMOTE GAMBLING NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Allowing one to three operators and excluding online casinos as well as online poker from the list of permissible gaming. These were some of the suggestions made
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    • 325 23  -  JOHN LEONG SINGAPORE —A framework that rates the transparency of charities in Singa­pore to help them be more accountable could be introduced towards the end of the year. Announcing this yesterday, Act­ing Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong said the
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    • 310 23 SINGAPORE —Users of the Urban Rede­velopment Authority’s (URA) online database will now be able to retrieve records for free, with the launch of its new map­based application that taps Geographic Information Sys­tem technology. The application allows anyone who wishes
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    • 658 24  -  TARGETS FOR ACCOUNTANCY AND ICT COURSES SURPASSED NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —With less than a month to go before applications close onMarch 16, the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) has attracted nearly 500 applicants for its own new degree programmes exceeding
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    • 618 26  -  RESULTS MAY NOT BE APPLICABLE TO WOMEN HERE, THEY SAY SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg S I NG A PO R E —A recently­published study that appeared to cast new doubt on the value of mammography has not swayed the opinion of doctors
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    • 127 26 SINGAPORE —Archbishop Emeritus Ni­cholas Chia is in a coma at the inten­sive care unit at Mount Alvernia Hos­pital after suffering a fall on Tuesday. The Archbishop’s Office said in a statement that the fall left Archbish­op Emeritus Chia, who retired as the head
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    • 388 28 DELI ORGANIC WINES SEAFOOD INTERNATIONAL SELECTIONS L ikw ss£2Sgg5» ■T: awsotf e ■22, •Vvitiv Vl-V. X&W..' L '<>««>>, «<xr#*/i>«‘pj, 'v>»u**/ *»«v .•vv* v w>, itiWt'AltrVa^t «I;lC' T, .'V *vv' vw .iv.r.C'Ocll t.M j 2 _k Nothing says "oishii" like having fragrant flavours melt in your mouth upon taking a bite
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    • 384 29 Fair Price fm QS t Y i-' fg 5 til fel o 2 M0 PT -■i 5 -y> S S(5» E33 •W** Dffl’JU" ffl(D I n 7 is Round out your meal with some irresistible Japanese snacks, packed with nothing but sheer enjoyable crunch. 1 KAMEDA Yasai To Ringo No
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  • china&india
    • 564 30 Chinese President says Beijing willing to discuss political issues on ‘equal basis’ MAINLAND SAYS IT RESPECTS ISLAND’S SYSTEM AND LIFESTYLE AGENCIES BEIJING Chinese state media yesterday devoted blanket coverage to a visit by a senior figure in Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang party in a
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    • 448 30 REUTERS BEIJING —A former aide to retired Chinese security tsar Zhou Yongkang is being investigated for corruption, the government said, the latest move targeting associates of Mr Zhou, himself the subject of a graft probe. The ruling Communist Party’s
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    • 763 32 TELANGANA TO SPLIT FROM ANDHRA PRADESH THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW DELHI —Few questions in Indian politics have generated as much raw emotion, as well as pros and cons, as the proposed creation of Telangana, a 29th state, out of
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    • 38 32 LOCATION DATES PLACE Jem 18 23 FEB Atrium (Level 1) Forum The Shopping Mall 28 FEB 2 MAR Atrium (Basement 1) West Coast Plaza 7 9 MAR Atrium (Basement 1) Square 2 14 16 MAR Atrium (Level 1)
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  • world
    • 618 34 Indonesian Ambassador will not return to Australia until relations have improved AUSTRALIA NEEDS TO GAIN NEIGHBOUR’S TRUST: FOREIGN MINISTER MARTY AGENCIES JAKARTA Efforts to heal a rift between Indonesia and Australia looked to be in limbo as Jakarta hardened its stance,
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    • 348 34 REUTERS SYDNEY An Australian review into violations of Indonesian territory by its navy released yesterday has absolved the government of any blame for the incursions, which contributed to a sharp deterioration in relations between the neighbours. Australia apologised to Indonesia last month
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    • 646 38 EXPERTS URGE MORE ACTION AS LEADERS PREPARE FOR U.N. DEAL NEXT YEAR REUTERS LONDON Bitter cold in the United States might appear to contradict the notion of global warming, but with Britain’s wettest winter and Australia’s hottest summer, extreme weather events
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    • 121 38 BQsim university Manage Your Future UniSIM OPEN HOUSE 22 FEB 2014 I 11am to 5pm SIM HEADQUARTERS Informative Programme Briefings Enriching Talks Bazaar and Sure-win Carnival Prizes Free Shuttle Bus from Guano Vista MR! Station Exit D. North Buena Vista Goad. Gus Stop Number 113GB. Every IB minutes fram 11am
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  • business
    • 695 40  -  South-east Asia’s largest developer stops short of asking Govt to relax cooling measures Q4 NET PROFIT FALLS 45.6% DESPITE DOUBLING OF LOCAL SALES LAST YEAR LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@med iacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —Real estate developer CapitaLand said the residential property market
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    • 273 40 S I NG A PO R E An apartment development in the prime District 11 has been put up for collective sale, with its owners looking for offers in excess of S$40 million. The 16-unit apartment on Moulmein Road sits on freehold land
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    • 984 41  -  Instilling a culture of innovation is as important as hardware investments WAY TO GO, SINGAPORE! WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —To improve productivity and optimise manpower, the plan of air-conditioning servicing company Atmosphere was direct yet ingenious send one serviceman on a motorcycle with the necessary
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    • 476 43 AGENCIES S H A N G H A I Chinese auto maker Dongfeng Motor Group has agreed to pay €800 million (S$1.4 billion) for a 14.1 per cent stake in struggling French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen, hoping the move will
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    • 188 43 SINGAPORE Airport services and catering firm SATS said yesterday it has agreed to buy a 41.65 per cent stake in Indonesian aviation and food service provider Cardig Aero Services for 1.1 trillion rupiah (S$118 million) to grow its business in South-east
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    • market buzz
      • 211 44 Embark on a unique holiday to Taiwan with local celebrity Moses Lim. In SA Tours’ 8Days Taiwan Gourmet and Cultural Tour with Moses Lim, travellers will get to enjoy various cultural sights and sample delicious cuisine. Your vacation begins with a ride on the
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      • 151 44 Admissions into UniSIM are now open for the 2014 intake. Find out more about the school and its programmes at the UniSIM Open House on Saturday, from 11am–5pm, at SIM Headquarters, 461 Clementi Road. Attend the programme briefings by faculty members and talks by industry practitioners. There
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      • 135 44 MediaCorp Class 95FM D J Jean Danker took part in the Shell Eco-marathon Asia in Manila and emerged second place, posting a fuel-consumption figure of 58.68km/l. Competing with three other celebrities from across Asia, Ms Danker had to drive an ultra-energy-efficient Shell Eco-marathon vehicle as far as
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      • 79 44 Stay cheery with the Happy Colour Pants collection from Bossini. Made of high-quality stretch fabric, the pants are comfy and fitting. Plus, they come in an array of refreshing colours, such as lemonade, icy coral, cobalt, burnt orange, jade turquoise and raisin. For ladies, the Happy Colour
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      • 142 44 Tiger Beer offers a refreshing take with Tiger Radler, a light beer that is formulated with Tiger Beer and lemon juice. It has a fruity flavour and zesty taste that can be enjoyed at barbeque parties or over a spicy meal of chilli crabs. Mr Rene de Monchy,
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      • 186 44 Chan Brothers Travel’s 12D Alaska Voyage of a Lifetime with Capital 95.8FM DJ Ong Teck Chon offers a fun experience as you cruise through Alaska onboard Celebrity Solstice. Before you embark on your cruise, explore the charming waterfront city of Seattle and visit
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      • 180 44 In its Ready, Set, Go campaign, Air France is offering promotional fares to more than 80 destinations in Europe from S$999, including Paris, Rome, Madrid and Milan (fares to the UK and Germany start from S$1,199). What’s more, economy return airfares from Singapore are inclusive
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    • 204 40 Walk-in Interview Friday, 21 February 2014 (10am to 5pm) National University Hospital Human Resource Department 1 E Kent Ridge Road NUHS Tower Block, Level 6, Singapore *****8 Company Registration No. *****0843R Or apply now at www.nuh.com.sg Please apply by 20 March 2014. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be
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    • 95 41 example cut our operations by than cent. Frederick Ang OF ATMOSPHERE AIRCONDITIONING ENGINEERING 2000s. By building parts of an apartment in a factory before assembling them on-site, “we have less workers at the site fewer accidents and higher productivity”, Mr Ang added. The panellists believe the time is right for
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  • technology
    • 962 46  -  Long battery life and well-conceived user interface make the Redmi a worthy buy A WALLET-FRIENDLY DEVICE FOR ROAD WARRIORS ALVIN CHONG alvinchonggl@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A quad-core smartphone with a 4.7-inch display and 8-megapix- el camera available for S$169 without contract is unbelievable, but Chinese
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