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  • hot news
    • 679 4 Central bank to expand bond buying, increase purchases of exchange-tradedfunds and real estate investment trusts NIKKEI JUMPS TO SEVEN-YEAR HIGH AGENCIES TOKYO After insisting for more than a year that its aggressive monetary policy was sufficient to revive Japan’s economy and end deflation, the
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    • 794 6 Support for democratic ideals will not be at expense of cross-strait ties: Ma Ying-jeou PUBLIC PRONOUNCEMENT SHOWS WILLINGNESS TO SPEAK ON SENSITIVE ISSUE THE NEW YORK TIMES TAIPEI Taiwanese President Ma Yingjeou yesterday voiced support for the democratic ideals of student protesters
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    • 604 7  -  AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Licensing rules for liposuction services have been tightened such that only hospitals and medical clinics authorised to do day surgeries can carry them out, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced yesterday. With immediate effect, licences to carry out these
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  • voices
    • 417 10  -  FROM PNG ENG KEAT I refer to Dr Nazry Bahrawi’s commentary “Breaking out of Singapore’s little boxes” (Oct 28). An axe is merely a tool. In the hands of an industrious person, it becomes an aid to collecting wood; given to a
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    • 203 10  -  FROM JENNIFER LEE Founder, Project: WILD The report “Animal rights groups rap reason for not changing Act” (Oct 28) stated that the Road Traffic Act mandates drivers to stop and help a select group of animals if they knock them down.
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    • 330 10  -  FROM FRANCIS CHENG CHOON FEI SP PowerAssets owns the electricity transmission and distribution networks of Singapore, and its sister company SP Services sells electricity to households as a monopoly. So, when residential users are allowed to buy electricity from other retailers, what
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    • 244 10  -  FROM HO CHI SAM I read with disappointment the report “Apex court rejects constitutional challenges against Section 377A” (Oct 30). It appears that further discourse on Section 377A will now reside in Parliament, to consider the extralegal arguments. It is sad that the
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  • singapore
    • 337 11 But more people were laid off compared with previous two quarters OVERALL SEASONALLY ADJUSTED EMPLOYMENT RATE AT 1.9% SINGAPORE —Unemployment remained low in the third quarter of the year, holding steady from the preceding quarter, but more people were laid off compared with the previous
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    • 594 11  -  XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —To keep Singapore a special destination for travellers, the tourism industry here must grow, by raising the quality of the experience and value of each tourist rather than solely increasing visitor numbers, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
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    • 274 12  -  YANG YIN CREATED RECEIPTS TO SHOW PAYMENTS ALICE CHIA alicechiash@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The former China tour guide at the centre of an ongoing legal tussle over an elderly widow’s assets had 11 fresh charges pressed against him at the State Courts yesterday.
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    • 393 12  -  LEE YEN NEE SINGAPORE SMRT’s unprofitable LRT operations continued to perform short of expectations, with “commensurate fare levels and the ridership levels of the LRT” not meeting its earlier projections, said group chief executive Desmond Kuek yesterday. SMRT has seen improvements in most of
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    • 284 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Overall urban transport prices in Singapore are the 13th most affordable out of 60 cities, according to a ranking by a travel search website released yesterday. GoEuro’s Urban Transit Price Index placed Singapore 18th in public transport, 11th
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    • 402 12  -  LAURA PHILOMIN SINGAPORE The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) yesterday announced a new dialysis centre to be opened in Jurong West by July next year, one of six centres the foundation has planned. It will also be one of the first
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  • world
    • 606 14 OPPOSITION LEADER ACCUSES PROSECUTION OF SPICING UP SUBMISSIONS FOR THE MEDIA AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —The prosecution in the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy case yesterday painted a picture of what it alleged was the intimate relationship between the opposition leader and his alleged
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    • 487 14 AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR A Malaysian woman who tried to join the outlawed Islamic State movement by marrying one of its militants was charged in court yesterday with supporting terrorism. Ummi Kalsom Bahak was charged before the Sepang Sessions Court for
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    • 623 15 Bill criticised as a waste of public money and one that would fail to meet country ’s emissions-reduction target AGENCIES SYDNEY —Australia’s Senate yesterday passed legislation as part of measures to provide polluters with incentives to reduce their carbon-gas emissions, a policy that
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    • 846 15 THE NEW YORK TIMES BANGALORE When a young wife in Bangalore approached the police to file criminal charges against her husband this month, she explained how her suspicions had mounted during the months after their arranged marriage. Beginning on their wedding day,
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  • business
    • 415 16  -  Retailers hoteliers expect festive season to boost consumer spending: Survey MANUFACTURERS EXPECT BUSINESS CLIMATE TO BE THE SAME LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic’s services sector expects business conditions to turn more favourable in the coming months to March next year, in
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    • 447 16  -  WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Uncertainties over China’s economic slowdown and credit quality have hit DBS’ performance and the Singapore bank is now expecting weaker growth in its financing business, said chief executive Piyush Gupta yesterday when announcing the firm’s third-quarter results. Trade
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    • 317 16  -  TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —With the launch of its new, souped-up data centre yesterday, telco M1 is looking to support what it sees as the underserved small and medium enterprise (SME) market, where IT requirements are rising as more businesses
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  • sports
    • 579 17  -  Hungarian poised to be first swimmer to win US$1 m in prize money, but feels sport lags in monetary rewards PROBABLE WINNINGS TOOK HER THREE YEARS OF COMPETING ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E Hungarian Katinka Hosszu (picture) is set
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    • 550 17  -  ADELENE WONG SINGAPORE Two-time Asian Games champion Tao Li, one of the names headlining this weekend’s FINA/ MASTBANK Swimming World Cup, has begun making plans for life after her competitive career is over, with going back to her studies and starting her
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    • 190 17  -  OON JIN TEIK I had previously been quoted by TODAY (16 August 2014) as saying that: (Ms Lee Bee Wah) brought “real glory to Singapore” with the system she built. “She localised the China-born paddlers to adapt to Singapore and its lifestyle, and pursued excellence in sports with integrity,
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    • 705 18  -  HISTORY IN FAVOUR OF LIGHT BLUES, BUT THIS MAY CHANGE COMMENTARY BY ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg Adrian Clarke is a former Arsenal midfielder who has played at every level of English football. Now an experienced sports journalist, he writes for publications around the
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    • 370 18  -  ADRIAN CLARKE LONDON It seems unfair to say it, but the only way is down for Southampton. As impressive as they have been, it will be impossible for them to cling on to their current second place in the English Premier League for
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    • 69 19 AGENCIES Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have been put on alert to the possibility of drones being flown over the Etihad Stadium during tomorrow’s derby between Manchester City and Manchester United, reported The Daily Mail. A man was arrested for flying a drone over the Etihad
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    • 87 19 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has hinted he may not be at Anfield next season. The 34-year-old, an iconic figure who rose through the club’s youth ranks, has yet to agree to the terms of a new deal with his current one expiring at
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    • 65 19 AGENCIES Queens Park Rangers defender Rio Ferdinand may withdraw his support for future initiatives by England’s Football Association (FA) following his three-match ban and fine of £25,000 (S$51,100) for a Twitter posting that was deemed inappropriate. Ferdinand, 35, was disciplined by the FA on Sept 30
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    • 98 20  -  ADELENE WONG Aleksandar Duric marked what appears to be his final game before retirement by helping Tampines Rovers beat Brunei DPMM 2-1 at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday in their final match of the Great Eastern-Yeo’s S-League season, which was won by the
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    • 536 20  -  AUSSIE FOOTBALL GOVERNING BODY EXPRESSES INTEREST IN VENUE LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The field may be greener, but Sports Hub Private Limited (SHPL) say the National Stadium pitch is still a work in progress as the consortium’s team of staff, experts and
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    • Article, Illustration
      343 20 AP KNICKS 95 CAVALIERS 90 LeBron James shot miserably. His passes were errant. He did not look good doing much other than tossing powder in the air. His homecoming was horrendous. “I didn’t press,” James said, dismissing nerves as a factor. “I didn’t do much.” James struggled from
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
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  • T TODAY
    • culture&lifestyle
      • Article, Illustration
        968 22 WHAT DOES IT REALLY TAKE TO BE A FISHBALL NOODLE VENDOR? SINGAPORE We sometimes take our hawker food for granted and kick up a fuss when prices go up even if it is by a few cents. Here, Douglas Ng, who was previously co-owner and chef of a
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      • 523 23 When an artist has something to say about something RANT AND RAVE SINGAPORE Talk about dedication. For the coming musical A Nation In Concert 2014: A Wetlands Adventure, the creative team and cast actually went on such an adventure their first script reading was right smack
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      • 132 23  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE The Singapore Writers Festival kicked off yesterday (Oct 31), even as details were announced regarding the Singapore International Film Festival, which takes place next month, and the new and unusual Zentai Art Festival this week. Kinokuniya’s Ngee Ann City store has undergone a
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      • Article, Illustration
        410 23  -  Art intervention in the heart of Tiong Bahru ARTS REVIEW: MANNER OF SPITTING BRUCE QUEK SINGAPORE Grey Projects’ latest show, located in Tiong Bahru, brings to the fore one of contemporary art’s more ambiguous and contested forms the art intervention. If the term sounds vague and illdefined, that’s
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    • family
      • 545 24 KIDS 12 AND BELOW ENCHANTED HALLOWEEN PARTY Take your children (aged two to 12) to Marmalade Pantry at The Stables for a fun Halloween party. Organised by Da Little School, there will be games, art-and-craft sessions, trick-or-treat activities, a photo booth as well as a best-dressed contest. Children
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    • television
      • 583 25  -  Anything can happen in the Star Wars universe, says the Disney series’ executive producer SCI-FI FARE CHRISTOPHER TOH christophert@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —For Star Wars fans hankering for anything that has to do with that galaxy far, far away, the Disney animated series Star Wars Rebels fills an
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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    • 299 28 MediaCorp’s latest online TV service offers entertainment, lifestyle, information and news across multiple devices. Log on to www.toggle.sg or download the Toggle App now. E: English C: Chinese M: Malay T: Tamil MOVIES ON DEMAND... Watch your favourite movies on Toggle anytime, anywhere! SUBSCRIPTION DEJA VU (NC16 BRIEF NUDITY) Called
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  • 1109 1  -  By MICHAEL WINES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY BOSTON Nine years old and orphaned by ethnic genocide, he was living in a burned-out car in a Rwandan garbage dump. Daytimes, he was a street beggar. He had not bathed in more than a year. When an American
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  • 2142 1  -  Inside an ISIS Prison, Grim Months of Torture and Dashed Hopes By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY James Foley returned to the cell he shared with nearly two dozen other Western hostages and collapsed in tears of joy. The questions his kidnappers had just asked were so
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    • 35 1 INTELLIGENCE The complexities of being French. PAGE 2 ARTS DESIGN An architect enchants Paris. PAGE 14 WORLD TRENDS A new North Korean mystery. PAGE 3 MONEY BUSINESS Sheep farming takes a big turn. PAGE 8
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 891 2  -  |NTELLIGENCE/ MARC LAMBRON Marc Lambronis a writer and a member of the French Academy. This column was translatedfrom the French by Philippe Gélie. Send comments to intelligence@nytimes. com. THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Paris It’s amusing to note that as soon as France receives
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; EMMANUEL FRADIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  891 words
    • 472 2  -  SYDNEY JOURNAL By JANE PERLEZ THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SYDNEY, Australia For most sophisticated places in the world, cocktails after work in an intimate setting would be hardly extraordinary. But in boisterous, booze-lov-ing Sydney, the founding British officers and the
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    • 755 3  -  By MARK LANDLER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY WASHINGTON For weeks, American intelligence agencies puzzled over the mysterious disappearance of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator. Now Mr. Kim is back a walking stick in his left hand and it is the
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    • 759 3  -  By JIM YARDLEY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY VALLETTA, Malta Only four of the survivors remained. Two sets of Palestinian brothers, adrift in the Mediterranean. The Awadallah brothers were delirious. Mohammed saw vampires and Ibrahim kept removing his life jacket, imagining himself at home
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    • 624 5  -  LENS TOM BRADY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The dangers of stress are well-documented sleep loss, anxiety, depression, stomach problems, obesity, headaches. We have long been warned that stress could be killing us. But some of us may be at risk of the
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    • 576 6  -  By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY JOSÉ MARÍA MORELOS, Mexico Candido Escuen, a 58-year-old papaya farmer, is not sure what word to use, but he knows he is not mestizo, or mixed white and native Indian, how most Mexicans describe
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    • 640 6  -  This article is by Sheri Sheri Fink, Adam Nossiter, James Kanter THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY When the Ebola virus began spreading in Sierra Leone, officials made an urgent plea to Doctors Without Borders. “They asked us to be everywhere,” recalled Walter
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
    • 651 8  -  By MIKE IVES THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY ST. ANDREWS, New Zealand About three decades ago, when Andrew Fraser began raising sheep, wool was among the star exports of this nation. Its other sheep products lamb and mutton were supporting actors. Today, the
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    • 747 8  -  By CLIFFORD KRAUSS THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY HOUSTON The Singa-pore-flagged tanker BW Zambesi set sail from the port of Galveston, Texas, on July 30, loaded with crude oil for South Korea. Although the ship left with little fanfare,
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 763 9  -  ESSAY MICHAEL BENSON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Four elegantly cloaked gentlemen in idiosyncratic caps peer through what seems to be a porthole at distant Earth a planet so spiky with spires as to look ma- chine-made. The tenor of the scene
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    • 556 9  -  By LIZETTE ALVAREZ THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MIAMI They eat anything, reproduce copiously and adapt effortlessly. And they have become as ubiquitous and pesky as rats only prettier and more conniving. Nearly three decades after a lone venomous lionfish was
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    • 833 10  -  By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY BA WA PIN, Myanmar After a knee-to-knee chat with this hamlet’s chief in the local malaria clinic, Rear Admiral R. Timothy Ziemer reached into his pocket for his usual thank-you gift. The
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    • 621 10  -  By CONOR DOUGHERTY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY LOS GATOS, California A lot of things can hover. There are helicopters. There are hovercraft. But for the last three decades, a generation of engineers and movie fans have been waiting for something else: a
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  • ONLINE
    • 708 11  -  By ALEXANDRA ALTER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Some novelists draw on their own experience; others borrow from history or mythology. Anna Todd, a 25-year-old debut novelist in Texas, found inspiration in Harry Styles, from the British boy band One Direction. When Ms.
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    • 867 11  -  By KATE MURPHY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Imagine a world suddenly devoid of doors. The controlling authorities say if you aren’t doing anything wrong, then you shouldn’t mind. That’s essentially the state of affairs on the Internet. There is no privacy. Increasingly, people are
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