Today, 18 October 2014, Afternoon Edition

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  • 15 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp SATURDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2014 MCI (P) 046/06/2014
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  • 813 1  -  Jay Chou concert postponed Mariah Carey performance to be set up away from pitch MUSIC AFICIONADOS UP IN ARMS LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After a maelstrom of public criticism over the past week of the poor state of the National
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  • 52 1 Indonesia’s losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto (left) finally met and congratulated winner Joko Widodo yesterday, more than three months after the bitterly contested polls. Following the meeting, Mr Prabowo said he had asked his party to back Mr Widodo, who will be inaugurated on Monday.
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  • 1157 1  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It will be a matter of time before militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is put in its proper place, but such malignant cells may persist unless the Islamic world can find a
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  • 667 1 AGENCIES BEIJING China and Vietnam have agreed to “address and control” maritime disputes in the South China Sea, China’s state media said yesterday, following a meeting between the two countries’ leaders, in what is seen as the strongest indication yet by both
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    • 37 1 S’POREANS SHOULD TAKE LEAF OUT OF VATICAN’S BOOK AND CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS BUILDING MORE GRACIOUS REPUBLIC VOICES 14 SINGAPORE 16 Meet the founder of the debt collection company whose agents were in that viral video HOT NEWS 12
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  • hot news
    • 667 2 Chaos unfolded last night after police cleared Mong Kok protest site yesterday morning PRE-DAWN OPERATION SURPRISES MANY DEMONSTRATORS WHO WERE STILL ASLEEP AGENCIES HONG KONG —Hong Kong riot police last night struggled to hold back hundreds of defiant pro-democracy
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    • 704 4  -  SIA TO RAISE STAKE IN BUDGET AIRLINE, WHICH WILL SELL AUSTRALIAN JOINT-VENTURE STAKE TO VIRGIN VERNON LEE vernonleeky@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E Tiger Airways has stepped up its turnaround plans amid heavy losses and stiff competition,
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    • 414 4 AGENCIES Qantas vs Virgin Australia: The fight between the two carriers to rule Australia’s skies are at the forefront once again following Virgin’s decision yesterday to take over full control of Tigerair Australia. Fourteen months ago, Virgin Australia, the country’s second-largest carrier,
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    • 603 6  -  DOMESTIC DISORDER WILL AFFECT EXTERNAL WING: ESM GOH KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Singapore cannot afford to be inward-looking when robust foreign policy is key to sustaining the Republic’s growth, said Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday. Referring to domestic and foreign
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    • 402 6  -  WONG WEI HAN SINGAPORE —The Republic’s exports grew less than expected last month as electronics shipments once again declined and demand from the eurozone the Republic’s largest export market slowed, data from International Enterprise (IE) Singapore showed. Non-oil domestic exports (NODX) rose 0.9
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    • 497 8  -  NO PURELY MILITARY SOLUTION IN BATTLE, SAYS MR LEE WONG SIEW YING siewying@mediacorp.com.sg CHANNEL NEWSASIA MILAN —Singapore is “seriously considering” how it can be a helpful partner in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Prime
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    • 607 9  -  LAURA PHILOMIN lauraphilomin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE While the Republic’s first Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, was “against welfarism as a blunt instrument of redistributing wealth, and rightly so” as Mr Lawrence Wong, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, put it
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    • 800 10  -  Challenges facing next-gen electronic road pricing system surmountable if right investments are made: Expert PRIVACY ‘NOT AN ISSUE’ WHEN NEW SYSTEM IS IN PLACE JOY FANG joyfangz@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —By 2020, when the new Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system using satellite
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    • 590 12 Former general calls on his party to back Indonesian President-elect in first meeting since bitter pollfight BUT HE WILL NOT HESITATE TO CRITICISE JOKOWI’S POLICIES AGENCIES JAKARTA —Indonesia’s defeated presidential candidate and the victor Joko Widodo have met for the first time since the bitterly contested
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    • 765 12 AGENCIES GENEVA The World Health Organisation (WHO) has admitted that it botched attempts to stop the nowspiralling Ebola outbreak in West Africa, blaming factors including incompetent staff and a lack of information. “Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly
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  • voices
    • 376 14  -  FROM MARK ANANRAJ VINCENT This week, a Vatican synod on the family released a report that sent ripples throughout the world. It called for greater inclusiveness of homosexuals and divorcees by the Catholic Church (“Vatican signals more tolerance towards gays and
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    • 454 14  -  FROM MATTHEW GLASNER The writer is the managing director of a specialised background verification company. With the increase in employee attrition in job markets across the AsiaPacific, recruiters are spending long hours browsing and filtering the most suitable candidates from
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    • 291 14  -  FROM WONG BOON HONG Regarding this week’s Talking Point, “Are we an innovation nation?”, I believe Singapore can work on three major areas to build an innovation culture. First, we should start with the young. While our educational system has been
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    • 462 15  -  FROM LEONARD CHEW JIA XI Currently, the Carbon Emissionsbased Vehicle Scheme (CEVS) can be considered a fixed cost alongside other private-vehicle tax components, such as the Certificate of Entitlement, Additional Registration Fee and road tax. Naturally, owners would seek to maximise their
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    • 76 15  -  FROM TAN CHEK WEE Many people with disabilities and many elderly are able to maintain their independence by using wheelchairs. Such barriers (picture) erected to deter cyclists at some public apartment blocks are hindrances to wheelchair mobility. I hope the
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    • 367 15  -  FROM FRANCIS CHENG CHOON FEI To free up more land for public transport and infrastructure, our Government should consider a zero vehicle growth rate. (“Growth rate of vehicles to be halved”: Oct 17) A growth rate of 0.25 per cent will not
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    • 273 15  -  FROM PAUL CHAN POH HOI I do not see the merit of a more complicated dynamic scheme to charge taxi fares. (“Use dynamic instead of fixed taxi surcharges”; Oct 15) Relying on such technology for payment is fraught with security
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  • singapore
    • 75 16 A young visitor at the River Talk: Myths and Legends show reaching out to touch a Bearded Dragon, while a Red Panda is seen nearajack-o-lantern filled with its favourite treats at the River Safari’s Safari Boo, a trick-or-treat event designed for families with children. The
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    • 783 16  -  ‘FIELD AGENTS’ OF COMPANY INCLUDE EX-OFFENDERS AND FORMER POLICE OFFICERS AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They have been chased off with an iron rod, had hot water flung at them and even been accused of damaging property, all
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    • 581 18  -  HCI STUDENTS WIN TOP PRIZE FOR SURVEY AT SINGHEALTH SYMPOSIUM EMILIA TAN emiliatankn@med iacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE —With the wait for a kidney or heart transplant well over a year up to nine years on average for patients waiting for a kidney
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    • 201 18 SINGAPORE —Some callers who dialled local telco M1’s hotline yesterday found their calls diverted to the police hotline 999 instead. M1 said the issue had occurred because of a flawed configuration file and only mobile users who accessed the Internet with
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    • 589 18  -  ROBIN CHOO SINGAPORE A patient with mental illness can have contact with multiple healthcare institutions, social service agencies and government bodies, and receive assistance from each of them, but still fall through the gaps when there is a lack of coordination
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    • 372 19 SINGAPORE A panel of experts has recommended that Singapore conduct studies involving the release of male Aedes mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacteria into the field, to combat the dengue problem. The aim is to get these Wol-bachia-carrying males to mate with female
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    • 493 19  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE With an average of 60 arts and culture events being staged daily, the National Arts Council (NAC) has come up with The A List a new fortnightly arts magazine to keep audiences in the know. Besides an extensive arts listing
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    • 376 19  -  ELGIN CHONG SINGAPORE The first day of temporary closure at Changi Airport Terminal 1’s (T1) open-air car park went relatively smoothly yesterday, except for some minor confusion about changes that have been made. The airport is conducting a fourday
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  • world
    • 906 20 BOTH UNDER INCREASING PRESSURE TO CONTAIN DAMAGE TO NATIONS’ HUGE ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP THE NEW YORK TIMES TOK YO The leaders of Japan and China are likely to meet for the first time next month on the sidelines of a
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    • 419 20 AGENCIES TOKYO China’s Foreign Ministry yesterday expressed serious concern and opposition to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s sending of a religious offering to Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine. “China reiterates that only by Japan earnestly and squarely facing, deeply reflecting upon its history
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    • 671 22 REPEAL OF SEDITION ACT ‘WILL BE COLOSSAL MISTAKE’ AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR A group of retired police officers and several lawyers have objected to any move to repeal the Sedition Act, a day after the Malaysian Bar staged a protest march against the law,
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    • 637 22 THE MALAY MAIL ONLINE KUAL A LUMPUR Nearly one-third of Malaysians see religious and ethnic hatred as posing the greatest danger to the world, showed the latest survey finding by the Pew Research Center a concern shared by Indonesia amid simmering religious
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    • 928 23 Strategy to fight Islamic State rests on working with moderate rebels but US officials do not trust them AP WASHINGTON —Despite years of diplomacy and a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation to vet and train moderate rebels, the United States finds itself
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  • business
    • 551 24  -  STI up 0.43% following strong US economic data, but reprieve likely to be temporary: Analysts ASIAN MARKETS FIND SOME FOOTING LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The local share market yesterday clawed back some of the previous session’s losses to lift the Straits Times Index
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    • 520 24 THE NEW YORK TIMES CUPERTINO —In reaction to declining sales of tablets, Apple’s chief executive Timothy Cook recently remarked that shipments of the computing devices had hit a “speed bump” that was nothing to be concerned about. Now Apple is trying
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    • 305 24 SINGAPORE The Republic and the European Union (EU) have completed talks over the investment protection clauses of the EU-Sin-gapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA), marking the successful conclusion of the negotiations of the entire deal, the key parts of which were signed in September
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  • sports
    • 676 26  -  Wimbledon champ Kvitova still finds it ‘very strange’ to be recognised by public CZECH STAR WANTS TO END YEAR WITH FLOURISH ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —She broke through in 2011 for her first Major at Wimbledon, and backed that up with her second Major this
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    • 432 26  -  JEAN IAU S I N G A P O R E They have tweeted about spending time shopping and posted pictures from the famed Marina Bay Sands’ infinity pool. But come Monday, it will be all business for the world’s top eight women’s tennis players.
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    • 587 27  -  Mixed fortunes for two Singaporeans in WTA Future Stars event EMMANUEL PHUA Emmanuel Phua@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE —A handshake was as much courtesy that top seed Cao Siqi extended to local player Nicole Tan, as the Chinese player motored to a
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    • 264 27 REUTERS LONDON —Formula 1’s sole tyre supplier Pirelli has changed its compounds for next month’s Brazilian Grand Prix after reassessing the state of new asphalt laid at Sao Paulo’s Interlagos circuit. The original choice of hard and medium tyres was criticised by
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    • 321 27 AP JOHANNESBURG —South Africa is reluctant to step in as a last-minute host for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations, its sport ministry said on Friday as it cited fears over Ebola and unplanned staging costs. “There
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    • 91 28 AGENCIES Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho says he will continue with his habit of shaking hands before the final whistle, brushing off criticism from Roy Keane and Paul Lambert. Keane called Mourinho a “disgrace” after the Portuguese attempted to shake hands with Aston Villa’s managerial team for
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    • 77 28 REUTERS Former Sheffield United and Wales striker Ched Evans was released from prison yesterday after serving half of a five-year sentence for rape. United manager Nigel Clough has discussed the possibility of Evans making a comeback with the third-tier club but more than 145,000 people
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    • 85 28 AGENCIES QPR boss Harry Redknapp says he is under no pressure despite his side managing just one win from the first seven matches. Ahead of hosting Liverpool on Sunday, Redknapp says his players are looking forward to upsetting the Reds. “Nobody is walking around feeling
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    • 972 29  -  TheEPL action returns after a twoweek international break and TODAY columnist Adrian Clarke (sports@ mediacorp.com.sg) looks at two big teams who are expected to win, but face potential banana-skin fixtures. MAN CITY, LIVERPOOL MUST BRING THEIR A-GAMES THIS WEEKEND Adrian Clarke columnist Adrian Clarke
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    • 789 30 Agreement with NFL involves tablets, Xbox sets FIRM REPORTEDLY PAID S$509M OVER FIVE YEARS THE NEW YORK TIMES REDMOND (WASHINGTON) Few things are left to chance when it comes to National Football League (NFL) games. Strict rules govern everything from the uniforms to
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 82 30 For the latest live’ telecast listing, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg iw mww! Live wire (MBS) Livewire (RWS) (21 years and above) Livewire (Singapore Pools) (21 years and above during live’ telecast) SB SportsBuzz@Kranji (18 years and above) Ip Y(i> Always play with care. Do not bet illegally. Singapore Pools Account Service. Call
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    • 67 31 SATURDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2014 FASHIONED IN REALITY DESIGNER DIANE VON FURSTENBERG’S NEW TV SHOW GIVES A PEEK INTO THE FASHION WORLD >> 33 TV’S NEW ERA CAN ONLINE STREAMING SIGNAL THE WAY FOR BROADCASTERS? >> 35 NO MEAN FEAT THE WORLD OF DANCE GETS A REINTERPRETATION WITH AN INVENTIVE PHOTO
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  • T TODAY
    • culture&lifestyle
      • Article, Illustration
        581 32  -  PHOTOGRAPHER TAN NGIAP HENG SHOWCASES HIS LATEST DANCE PORTRAITS MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg Photographer Tan Ngiap Heng has long been synonymous with the Singapore dance scene, having photographed various dance groups and artists. But during a personal trip to Tuscany in 2010, he decided to take his relationship with
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      • 133 33  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE —A big week for the arts: Theatre practitioner Alvin Tan, sculptor Chong Fah Cheong and poet KTM Iqbal received the Cultural Medallion while five young artists also received the Young Artist Award. The National Arts Council also launched a new arts magazine, The
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      • 458 33 Masterful storytelling in this one-man show by The Finger Players’ Oliver Chong THEATRE REVIEW: ROOTS MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE First staged to critical acclaim in 2012, The Finger Players group has revived their production, Roots, as part of its 15th anniversary season. I can clearly see why it had
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      • 340 33  -  MAY SEAH Singapore— It is abusy time for fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. Earlier this year, her iconic wrap dress marked its 40th anniversary with an exhibition in Los Angeles. Next week, she releases her new memoir, The Woman I Wanted
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    • family
      • 457 34 KIDS 12 AND BELOW ART ROJAK! S$10 WORKSHOPS Discover your child’s creativity and talent with these arts workshops, a community initiative by The Playtent aimed at making the arts more accessible to everyone. Workshops are held every Saturday this month and next, and range from performance storytelling to
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    • television
      • 531 35 Analysts say a new era of TV has arrived ONLINE PRESENCE THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK —Just one day after HBO said it would start an Internet-only offering, American network CBS announced its own subscription streaming service that lets people watch its live
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
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  • 845 1  -  By DOUGLAS QUENQUA Clifford the Big Red Dog looks fabulous on an iPad. He sounds good, too tap the screen and hear him pant as a blue truck roars into the frame. “Go, truck, go!” cheers the narrator. But does this count as
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  • 1398 1  -  Anti-Semitic attacks in some countries leave Jews feeling unsafe. By JIM YARDLEY INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SARCELLES, France From the immigrant enclaves of the Parisian suburbs to the drizzly bureaucratic city of Brussels to the industrial heartland of Germany, Europe’s old demon returned recently. “Death
    INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; THIBAULT CAMUS/ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  1,398 words
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    • 41 1 INTELLIGENCE Corruption is a way of life in Brazil. PAGE 2 WORLD TRENDS A baby is caught up in Ebola crisis. PAGE 3 SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Poorly understood, but easily spotted. PAGE 10 ARTS DESIGN Fashion photography viewed as art. PAGE 14
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 899 2  -  INTELLIGENCE/ ANTONIO PRATA Antonio Prata, a writer, is also a columnistfor the newspaper Folha de São Paulo. Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SãoPaulo We Brazilians suffer from a curious cognitive dysfunction, which occurs with the same frequency in our
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    • 740 2  -  By IAN JOHNSON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY YANGLING, China For about 4,000 years, farming in this region has been a touchstone of Chinese civilization. But now Yangling’s fields are in disarray. Frustrated by how little they earn, farmers have migrated to cities, hollowing
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