Today, 18 November 2014

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    24 1 TODAY A=diaCorp TUESDAY, 18 NOVEMBER 2014 MCI (P) 046/06/2014 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp TUESDAY, 18 NOVEMBER 2014 MCI (P) 046/06/2014
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      351 1 HSBC'S DOLLAR PASS Enjoy S$1 offers at over 300 merchant outlets islandwide. Flip over to find out more. Enjoy unlimited family fun at Resorts World Sentosa when you charge to your HSBC Credit Card this Christmas. With HSBC credit cards, embracing the festive spirit of giving is now even more
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      755 2 Give more than a gift with HSBC Credit Cards 1 7*1 V 1 -.1 LJ It's that time of the year again. Presents aplenty, stuffed in stockings. Candy canes and gingerbread, shared by many. Every Christmas, families get together to make merry, exchange gifts, and bask in each other's company.
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      164 3 GREAT IS SPOTTING TALENT AND GROWING IT K J r s Plan for the future you want for your child with our education solutions Children grow quickly. So do education costs. So start early, choose a plan that grows with your child. And when the time comes, you’ll be sure
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Trans-Cab halts IPO over rise in insurance premiums
      506 4  -  TAXI OPERATOR WILL RE-EVALUATE INFORMATION, NEEDS TO SUBMIT FINANCIAL FIGURES AGAIN JOY FANG joyfangz@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Less than a day before applications were due to close for its initial public offering (IPO), taxi operator Trans-Cab yesterday abruptly called off plans to list on
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      Lock icon China to seek peaceful solutions to territorial disputes: Xi
      566 6 Chinese President mindful of history ’s lessons that war-like states will eventually fall ‘NEITHER TURBULENCE NOR WAR’ SERVES BEIJING’S INTERESTS AGENCIES CANBERRA —China may be the “big guy in the crowd”, but it will never use force to achieve its goals,
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      Lock icon PROTESTERS ‘WELCOME’ XI TO CANBERRA
      214 6 BLOOMBERG Hundreds of protesters and dozens of supporters gathered outside as President Xi Jinpiing became the second Chinese leader to address Australia’s Parliament yesterday.Pro-Beijing supporters wearing red and waving China flags were on the lawn in front of Parliament House, separated by barricades from protesters
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      Lock icon Australia-China FTA set to expand countries’ economic ties
      444 6 AGENCIES CANBERR A —China and Australia yesterday sealed a landmark free trade agreement more than a decade in the making, significantly expanding ties between the world’s second-largest economy and one of Washington’s closest allies in Asia. The deal, which Australia called the
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      Lock icon Modi takes Sydney’s Allphones Arena by storm
      624 8 THOUSANDS OF SUPPORTERS FLOCK TO HEAR INDIAN PM SPEAK AGENCIES S Y D N E Y Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took centre stage yesterday at the Allphones Arena in Sydney’s Olympic Park in front of a sell-out crowd of 21,000 supporters and
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      Court freezes local assets of ex-tour guide’s wife
      405 8  -  KELLY NG SINGAPORE —The niece of wealthy widow Chung Khin Chun has succeeded in getting a court order to freeze the local assets of former tour guide Yang Yin’s wife. The High Court’s decision to grant the niece, Madam Hedy Mok, an
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      Lock icon KL monitoring returning Islamic State fighters
      516 10 Militants coming back to spread terrorist ideologies, not to surrender, says minister 39 FROM PENINSULA MALAYSIA IDENTIFIED AS INVOLVED WITH TERROR GROUP AGENCIES KUA L A LUMPU R Malaysian Islamic State fighters are planning to return to the country to spread their terrorist ideologies,
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      Lock icon Beheading of aid worker an act of pure evil: Obama
      830 10 AGENCIES GA ZIANTEP TURKEY United States President Barack Obama has called the Islamic State’s beheading of American aid worker Peter Kassig “an act of pure evil”, following the militant Sunni group’s release of the video showing his beheading, which was
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      515 7 All I want for Christmas is 50 gifts for 50 days. VISA SPEND a min. of S$200 in a single receipt SMS TO ***** XMAS<space>DBS/POSB Card No. <space>Spend Amount WIN Cashback, iPhone 6 Plus and more daily. 250,000 gifts* up for grabs ‘A KL Because who doesn't like a nice
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      96 9 'll SIM UNIVERSITY Manage Your Future Learn anytime, anywhere and at your own pace. At SIM University, we build learning around you. Choose your course loads and complete your studies according to your schedule with our modular, industry-relevant programmes. Learn whenever you want and wherever you are with our technology-driven
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      338 11 Standard Chartered Because moments deserve to be this big. a 4 Shop with the card that brings more smiles Make receiving a joyous part of giving this fabulous season. Charge to your credit card from 14 November 2014 to 14 January 2015 and be hugely rewarded with one of these
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  • comment & analysis
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      Lock icon Governing a world out of order
      1077 12  -  NEW STRUCTURES AND TOOLS NEEDED TO ADDRESS GLOBAL PROBLEMS ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER Anne-Marie Slaughter, the president and chief executive officer of the New America Foundation, is the author of The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith With Our Values In A Dangerous World. PROJECT SYNDICATE
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      Lock icon WTO breakthroughs fail to mask serious structural problems
      740 14  -  RECENT DEALS THE RESULT OF UNNECESSARY CRISES SHAWN DONNAN Shawn Donnan is The Financial Times’ world trade editor. THE FINANCIAL TIMES When India and the United States last week ended a bitter dispute that had para­lysed the World Trade Organization (WTO), it
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      Lock icon The trouble with the genetically modified future
      664 16  -  TOO LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT GMOs MARK BUCHANAN Mark Buchanan, a physicist and Bloomberg View columnist, is the author of the book Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology And The Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. BLOOMBERG Like many people, I have long wondered
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      38 12 The world needs a robust and effective World Trade Organization, Group of Twenty leaders said in a joint communique, although they put off discussions on ‘how to make the system work better’ until next year. SHAWN DONNAN 14
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      86 14 NEW CREATIONS AT SHISEN HANTEN BY CHEN KENTARO frrr. r FLAVOURFUL ADDITIONS TO THE SIGNATURE MENU Shisen Hanten by Chen Kentaro unveils a new menu from November. Savour traditional handmade Dim Sum alongside mouth-watering favourites such as Foie Gras Chawanmushi with Crab Roe Soup, Osmanthus Pipa Duck, and stir-fried Wagyu
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  • voices
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      S’pore must uphold family unit as basic societal building block
      439 18  -  FROM DARIUS LEE The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) has claimed that the Court of Appeal’s recent ruling upholding Section 377A of the Penal Code contradicts Singapore’s international obligations (“S377A ruling contradicts Govt position on equality”, Nov
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      LTA can streamline taxi system with its own booking app
      192 18  -  FROM ROLAND ANG I refer to the reports “LTA exploring regulations for third-party taxi booking apps” (Nov 5) and “LTA deploys high-tech in bid to cut taxi wait” (Nov 6). Both the commercial third-par-ty mobile applications and the Land Transport
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      Lock icon Allocate more tickets to Malaysia fans only if they behave
      155 19  -  FROM COLIN LIM I read with interest the report that the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) plans to request for additional tickets from the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) on top of what was originally allocated to it for the
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      Relax illegal parking rule in bays during off-peak hours
      174 19  -  FROM ANTHONY PNG A vehicle that remains stationary along pick-up and drop-off bays and obstructs other vehicles could be penalised for illegal parking. Such a rule is indeed effective when it comes to bays that are congested during peak hours, especially
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    • Article
      Look beyond job applicants’ schools
      154 19  -  FROM MAX LEONG WAI KIT As a graduate of a private university in Singapore, I would like to highlight a divide I have observed in how employers view graduates of the local public universities, versus those who graduated from private institutions which offer degrees from
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      234 18 CELEBRATE YOUR HOLIDAY WITH HIGHER RETURNS AND FESTIVE GIFTS Kick off your festive season by opening a TRIO Current Account and earn high interest rates of up to 0.88% p.a. What's more, deposit a minimum of S$50,000 and receive a festive gift from us to truly usher in the holiday
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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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  • singapore
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      Explorer finds remains of 1887 lunatic asylum
      596 20  -  PERIMETER WALL DISCOVERED WITHIN SGH AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —For more than a century, the remains of a lunatic asylum, the island’s third-oldest psychiatric hospital, lay forgotten in the heart of Singapore General Hospital (SGH). Their existence came to light only in September,
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    • Article
      Biodiversity ‘can affect our quality of life’
      494 20  -  SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —As the pace of urbanisation picks up, it is important to realise that biodiversity is linked to and can affect one’s quality of life, said Dr Lena Chan, the director of the National Biodiversity Centre at the National
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      Police raid former Mobile Air
      322 22 TEO SER LUCK, SIM LIM SQUARE MANAGEMENT COUNCIL AGREE BETTER MEASURES NEEDED SINGAPORE The police confirmed that officers were at the premises of a mobile phone retailer at Sim Lim Square on Sunday, after reports were made against the outlet. It is understood that the
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      Lock icon 90-year-old killed in bus accident at Jurong East
      242 22  -  XUE JIANYUE SINGAPORE A 90-year-old man was killed in an accident involving an SMRT bus yesterday at Jurong East Avenue 1 towards Toh Guan Road, near the Parc Oasis condominium. The bus driver, a 34-year-old Malaysian woman, has been arrested and the
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      219 20 mis Marketing Institute of Singapore The Leader in Executive Development in Asia Content Marketing for Web, Mobile Social Media 8-9 Dec 2014 Brands are increasingly turning to content-driven marketing strategies to gain marketplace attention and increase customer engagement across traditional and digital platforms. This 2-day course seeks to address the
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      181 21 Getting stuck 4 in traffic 67. Managing the boss 127. Helping the kids with homework Hailing a cob to work 307. Paying bills r f ■> 4. ilr v 117. Putting up with a noisy neighbour r v. 1 f.E? r Ik t-y> I A'Z rs- w r v>-. mi':*
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    Lock icon Charity’s common ground
    697 23 Meet some of the people behind Project Intan who helped to raise more than S$190,000 PROJECT INTAN of Singapore.” produced by the today SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM SINGAPORE —What do a swimmer, museum guide, office cleaner and educational institute have in common? Giving back to the community through
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  • china & india
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      Lock icon Getting ‘bear-sured’
      57 24 A staff member measuring the height of a black bear at a national forest park in Puer, Yunnan province, on Sunday. The park for the first time measured the height and weight of six kinds of animals, including the black bear, red panda, slow loris, white-cheeked gibbon and
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      Lock icon 67% of HK residents want immediate end to street occupation
      645 24 POLL ADDS PRESSURE ON PROTEST LEADERS TO GIVE UP AGENCIES HONG KONG Pro-democracy protesters in the city are losing public support, an opinion poll showed, increasing pressure on their leaders to call an end to almost two months of demonstrations.
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      Lock icon India urges higher pay for millions of Gulf workers
      748 25 REUTERS N E W D E L H I/ D U B A I/ R I YA D H India is pressing rich countries in the Gulf to raise the wages of millions of Indians working there, in a drive that
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  • world
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      Lock icon Indonesia’s rival House coalitions sign peace pact
      417 26 Move ends long-running feud over leadership positions of commissions, legislative bodies that has caused gridlock PARTIES ‘TO RAISE NUMBER OF LEADERSHIP POSTS IN HOUSE’S INTERNAL BODIES’ AGENCIES JAK ARTA The two rival coalitions in the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) have signed a
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      Lock icon Neither side abiding by peace deal in Ukraine: Putin
      571 26 AP MOSCOW Russia’s President has said he believes peace in Ukraine is possible but that neither side is fully holding up a truce struck in September. In an interview with German television broadcast on Sunday, Mr Vladimir Putin said he was
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      Lock icon Facebook at Work website to take on Google, LinkedIn
      607 27 THE FINANCIAL TIMES SAN FR ANCISCO Facebook is working on a new website called Facebook at Work to get a foothold in the office, which will see the social network of more than one billion people compete directly with Google, Microsoft
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      Lock icon France the new tax haven for technology companies
      833 28 R&D TAX BREAKS, TOP SCIENTISTS MAKE COUNTRY ECONOMICALLY ATTRACTIVE BLOOMBERG PARIS —Move over, Ireland. Companies from Microsoft to China’s Huawei Technologies scouring Europe for fiscally attractive shores are turning to an unlikely country: France. As a base for research and development (R&D)
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      175 27 ESSEC MSC IN MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH INDUSTRIES Prepare yourself for a fulfilling career in the Health Industries m Established in 1907 in Paris, France, ESSEC Business School is an academic institution of excellence which has been characterised by its pioneering spirit throughout its history. ESSEC has over 25 years of
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      95 29 Managing Director for Radio, MediaCorp, Ms. Florence Lian with the winner, Mr. G. Jaishanker and Executive Director of Tan Chong International Ltd, Mr. Glenn Tan. This year’s MediaCorp Subaru Challenge The Asian Face-off was a success with a new record time of 82 hours and 16 minutes! Kudos to the
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  • business
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      October’s private home sales at five-month high
      609 30  -  INCREASE DOES NOT SIGNAL RECOVERY: ANALYSTS LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The private housing market continued its slow climb out of the doldrums last month as new home sales hit a five-month high, but analysts warned that the increase does not signal a
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      Singapore exports slide back into contraction
      552 30 SING A PORE —Overseas demand for Made-in-Singapore products reverted to contraction last month after two months of growth on lower electronics and non-electronics shipments, signalling that the year-end holiday season may not bring much joy to businesses dependent on external trade. Non-oil domestic exports
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      Lock icon Demand for Chinese shares hits limit on stock link
      582 31 AGENCIES SHANGHAI —Investors piled into do-mestically-listed Chinese shares yesterday on the first day of a landmark trading link between the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges, buying the maximum amount allowed in a sign of global demand for mainland equities as
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  • technology
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      Lock icon Amazon looks to extend lead in cloud computing for businesses
      510 32 COMPANY OFFERING NEW SERVICES, PRODUCTS THE NEW YORK TIMES L AS VEGAS Most people know about Amazon’s ambitions to sell you everything from books, movies and smartphones to power tools and auto parts. Less understood outside the technology industry is
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  • sports
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      UNVEILING OF NEW NATIONAL SWIMMING HEAD COACH IMMINENT
      372 33  -  ADELENE WONG The Singapore Swimming Association’s (SSA) search for the new national head coach and technical director could end soon, with an announcement by the SSA expected this week. Sources have told TODAY that a successor to Briton Ian Turner has been
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      Lock icon S’PORE GET THE BOOST THEY NEED
      613 33  -  But Stange needs to iron out defence ahead of Suzuki Cup MANNER IN WHICH LIONS PLAY GIVES COACH CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM DAN GUEN CHIN danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE CAMBODIA 4 2 SING A PORE If Bernd Stange was looking for a strong confidence boost for his
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      Lock icon MESSI, RONALDO TAKE RIVALRY TO OLD TRAFFORD
      477 34 STARS FACE OFF FOR ONLY SECOND TIME AT NATIONAL LEVEL REUTERS LONDON —Cristiano Ronaldo’s second Old Trafford homecoming will be another highly-charged affair with big rival Lionel Messi leading Argentina in their friendly with Portugal today. Ronaldo returned to Old Trafford for the
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      Lock icon CROATIA FANS ARRESTED FOR DISRUPTING QUALIFIER
      163 34 AP MILAN —The police have arrested 16 Croatia fans for interrupting a 2016 European Championship qualifier against Italy by throwing fireworks onto the field. Sunday’s Group H match at the San Siro Stadium in Milan was suspended twice and the referee ordered the players
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      Lock icon EX-FA CHIEF CALLS FOR BOYCOTT OF 2018 WORLD CUP
      377 34 REUTERS LONDON —The former chairman of England’s Football Association (FA) has urged the FA to lobby UEFA to organise a European boycott of the next World Cup unless the sport’s governing body FIFA reforms itself. David Bernstein, who was FA chairman
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      Lock icon CATCH ME, IF YOU CAN: DJOKOVIC
      466 35 Serb, who ends year as world No 1 with World Tour title, is bullish about his future REUTERS LONDON —Novak Djokovic has laid down the challenge to his rivals on Sunday after completing another year as the world’s No 1 ranked tennis player. Djokovic
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