Today, 13 December 2014

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      Air services deal could boost ASEAN-South Korea ties, says PM Lee
      375 2  -  SARA GROSSE BUSAN Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday emphasised the need to conclude a liberal ASEANSouth Korea air services agreement, which includes the exchange of mutually beneficial traffic rights. Speaking at the first ASEAN-Re-public of Korea Commemorative Summit
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      Lock icon GE may not be held when everyone’s expecting it: PM
      707 2  -  Timing of next election depends on considerations such as SG50, global events: PM Lee ANALYSTS EXPECT NEXT GE TO BE HELD AFTER SG50 FESTIVITIES VALERIE KOH, SARA GROSSE valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg BUSAN —Speculation over when Singapore’s next General Election (GE) will be
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      Lock icon 95-octane grade petrol dips below S$2 as oil prices slide
      591 4  -  However, prices not expected to fall dramatically as oil refineries usually practise hedging, say analysts TWO ROUNDS OF CUTS BY PETROL COMPANIES IN A WEEK XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The falling prices of oil have brought welcome relief to motorists
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      Lock icon Ringgit falls to weakest against SGD in almost two decades
      395 4 AGENCIES of this year. AGENCIES, ADDITIONAL REporting BY YVONNE LIM S I N G A P O R E —The Malaysian ringgit yesterday fell to its weakest level against the Singapore dollar in almost two decades, as government bonds fell
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      Comments on AHPETC arrears situation regrettable: Sylvia Lim
      629 6 WE WILL LEAVE IT TO THE PUBLIC TO MAKE ITS OWN JUDGMENT, SAYS WP CHAIR SING A PORE —Workers’ Party (WP) chair Sylvia Lim yesterday labelled the comments from government leaders on the under-fire Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) “regrettable”, as the
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      Lock icon Scant progress as UN climate talks enter final stretch
      505 6 AP LIMA —There was scant progress as the United Nations climate change talks headed into their last scheduled day yesterday. Optimism injected into the negotiations last month by a joint announcement by the United States and China on their planned emissions
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      Lock icon Japanese voters look set to stick with Abe
      593 7 Recentpolls show LDP may win two-thirds of475seats in the powerful Lower House AGENCIES SANYO-ONODA Japan is in the final stretch before parliamentary elections that may determine the fate of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic programme, and based on some recent polls, Mr
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      Lock icon ANGELINA JOLIE’S NEW MOVIE, UNBROKEN, STRIKES NERVE IN JAPAN
      245 7 AP Ms Angelina Jolie’s new movie, Unbroken, has not been released in Japan yet, but it has already struck a nerve in a country still fighting over its wartime past. The release of the movie which depicts a United States Olympic
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      Lock icon Occupy HK’s end start of ‘permanent political crisis’
      490 7 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG —While Occupy Central ended formally on Thursday, analysts predicted that this was just the beginning of permanent political unrest in the Chinese territory. When the police moved to clear the barricades, protest leaders strung a banner across their front
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      Lock icon MEDIA TYCOON JIMMY LAI STEPS DOWN AS CHIEF OF APPLE DAILY
      222 7 AGENCIES Hong Kong publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai (picture), an outspoken critic of Beijing, has stepped down as chief of Apple Daily after being arrested for refusing to leave a key pro-democracy protest site in the centre of the city.
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  • voices
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      S’pore, a pioneer of resilience
      553 8  -  FROM JUDITH RODIN President, Rockefeller Foundation The writer is also the author of The Resilience Dividend. From the South China Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, the myriad challenges threatening 21st-century cities can be traced to at least one of three causes: Globalisation, urbanisation and
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      Vital to inspire the next generation
      196 8  -  FROM BABY MATHEN MATHEWS Much has been said about Singapore’s 50 glorious years since independence. The pioneers will be remembered in the SG50 celebrations. The challenge for the young, though, is to inspire the future generation and prepare them to contribute to modern Singapore’s
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      SG50 a time to look to the future, embrace change
      322 8  -  FROM JUNE CHEAH-NICHOLLS Mr Devadas Krishnadas’ commentary “SG50: Look to the future, too, not only the past” (Dec 3) concluded with the statement: “We are not masters of our circumstances, but we are and must remain masters of our choices.”
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      Let those who want more costly taxis join priority line
      175 9  -  FROM FRANCIS CHENG CHOON FEI I refer to the report “Changi Air­port halts premium queue trial amid cabbies’ ire” (Dec 10). The Changi Airport Group should revamp the taxi passenger queue to allow those who do not mind paying for
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      FairPrice’s Warehouse Club a way to serve community
      186 9  -  FROM GERRY LEE Deputy CEO (Operations), NTUC FairPrice We thank Ms Stephanie Yeo for her kind comments and suggestions in the letter “Warehouse Club may fa­cilitate return of kampung spirit” (Dec 10), regarding the opening of Warehouse Club. We agree that Warehouse
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      Unfair for bus operators to charge for holiday months
      180 9  -  FROM CHLOE CHEW XUE YUN I agree it is time that the Consumers Association of Singapore or the rele­vant authorities look into the issues raised in the letter “Can school bus operator raise fare after issuing re­ceipt?” (Dec 10). Similarly, I
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  • singapore
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      Lock icon SG50 Jubilee Baby Gift: A sneak peek
      154 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Members of the media yesterday got a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the packaging process of the SG50 Jubilee Baby Gift sets. About 9,000 to 10,000 sets will be ready for delivery in the first quarter of next year, said Noel Gifts International,
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      New scheme seeks to recognise, professionalise adult educators
      632 10  -  Voluntary programme offers three tiers of recogn ition: Associate, Specialist and Fellow IT WILL BE ROLLED OUT IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF NEXT YEAR JOY FANG joyfangz@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A new voluntary scheme to professionalise adult educators and potentially weed out those who
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      Lock icon New MSO app being tested, may be rolled out next year
      343 10 CHANNEL NEWSASIA S I N G A P O R E The new Municipal Services Office (MSO) mobile app, expected to be launched early next year, will need users to only snap a picture of a problem, geo-tag it
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      Lock icon Designing solutions for social change
      566 12  -  SUTD STUDENTS COME UP WITH IDEAS TO TACKLE ISSUES PREVALENT IN SINGAPORE ELGIN CHONG elginchongsw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —When a vehicle comes within 5.5m, the bicycle’s handlebar vibrates and indicator lights mounted on it will show which direction the vehicle is coming from. The rear light will
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      Lock icon iPhone bought for Vietnamese tourist to be auctioned for charity
      279 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE —The man who started the crowdfunding campaign to buy an iPhone 6 Plus for a Vietnamese tourist who had been scammed is championing a new cause: Auctioning that iPhone to raise funds for a Vietnam orphanage. Last
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    • Article
      43 cases of fallen windows in first 11 months of this year
      277 13  -  ROBIN CHOO robinchoorb@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE There were 43 recorded cases of fallen windows from Housing and Development Board (HDB) and private residences between January and November, said the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and HDB in a joint statement
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      Lock icon TODAY Shop to Win draw
      130 13 This week ’s winner of the TODAY Shop to Win draw, Mdm Yuliana Kandani (centre), receiving her S$10,000 cheque from Ms Ho Sz Ting (left), area manager, retail, NTUC Healthcare Co-op-erative, and Ms Caroline Bone, marketing manager, MediaCorp Press. Md m K an d an
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      Two residences raided for selling electronic cigarettes
      233 13  -  ROBIN CHOO SINGAPORE —Two residences at Yishun Street 81 and Seletar Hills Estate were raided on Thursday by the Health Science Authority’s (HSA) Tobacco Regulation Branch for selling electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). The HSA said transaction records seized revealed that the sellers, two Singaporean
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  • world
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      Lock icon House narrowly passes spending Bill, averting US govt shutdown
      637 14 OBAMA AND BOEHNER ON THE SAME SIDE IN PUSHING FOR PASSAGE AGENCIES WA S H I N GTO N —The United States House of Representatives has averted a government shutdown, narrowly passing a US$1.1 trillion (S$1.44 trillion) spending Bill despite strenuous
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      Lock icon Press body slams move to charge Jakarta Post editor with blasphemy
      420 14 AGENCIES JAK ARTA —The Independent Journalists Alliance (AJI) has condemned the police move to charge The Jakarta Post’s editor-in-chief Meidyatama Suryodiningrat with blasphemy over a cartoon the paper published earlier this year. The Jakarta police named Mr Meidyatama a
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      Lock icon It never rains in California — it pours
      96 16 It never rains in California it pours A resident of Guerneville, California, who parked his car overnight in a Safeway parking lot in Healdsburg found it nearly completely submerged as Foss Creek broke its banks on Thursday morning. A powerful storm churned down the West Coast on Thursday, bringing strong
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      Lock icon Malaysia gains from trade wars to become solar powerhouse
      695 16 WAGE LEVELS, POWER COSTS HELP MAKE IT THE WORLD’S NO 3 PRODUCER OF SOLAR EQUIPMENT THE NEW YORK TIMES KULIM (M A L AYSIA) Tucked away in this former tin-mining town, past the small farms of banana trees and oil palms,
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      Lock icon Paradise is open to all, even dogs, Pope tells boy
      396 16 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK —Pope Francis has given hope to gays, unmarried couples and advocates of the Big Bang theory. Now, he has endeared himself to dog lovers, animal-rights activists and vegans. Trying to console a little boy
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      165 17 With Digital TV, all of Singapore will take a much closer look at what’s on TV Which explains why all our artistes are doing what they can to look and speak better and in a hurry. With Digital TV, television viewing just gets better. Superior broadcast quality aside, it also
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  • business
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      Lock icon Homes put up for mortgagee sale at auctions rise seven-fold
      699 18  -  NON-LANDED RESIDENTIAL UNITS MAKE UP BULK OF LISTINGS ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg S ING A POR E —The number of homes put up for mortgagee sale at auctions surged seven-fold this year, property agency Colliers International said yesterday, warning that the
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      Keppel DC REIT closes up 3.8% on debut after heavy trading
      505 18  -  ANGELA TENG SING A PORE —Keppel DC REIT, the second-biggest initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore this year, saw active trading on its debut yesterday, with its units closing 3.8 per cent above the offer price after the issue
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      Lock icon Qantas key execs to leave in major reshuffle
      393 19 AGENCIES SYDNEY Qantas Airways executives in charge of the domestic and international full-service units will leave the company and a new chief financial officer was named in a management shake-up at the Australian carrier. Mr Simon Hickey, chief executive officer of Qantas
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      Lock icon GIC buys Rio de Janeiro office building
      194 19 AGENCIES SING A PORE Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has agreed to buy an office building in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, in its first wholly-owned investment in Latin America. The building, Eco Sapucai, is expected to be completed in the first quarter of
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      Lock icon China to set up fund to support trust firms
      287 19 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China plans to establish a fund to support troubled trust firms, as repayment risks accumulate in the 13 trillion yuan (S$2.8 trillion) industry. Under rules jointly issued by the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the Ministry of Finance, each
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      Lock icon BoJ ‘likely to be more upbeat’ as economy picks up
      434 19 REUTERS TOKYO The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is likely to offer a more upbeat view of the economy than last month when it meets for a rate review next week, sources said, as exports and factory output pick up in
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  • sports
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      Lock icon 2020 VISION BEHIND SHOOTING CENTRE UPGRADES
      713 20  -  New 10m shooting range in the works, while an electronic target system is installed for SEA Games PLAN TO TURN NATIONAL SHOOTING CENTRE INTO ‘WORLD-CLASS FACILITY’ LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —For years, the lack of a 10m shooting range at the National Shooting
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      SPEXCAREER SCHEME ALSO OPEN TO NON-CARDED ATHLETES
      442 20  -  ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —National athletes could soon have more employment opportunities after seven companies, including CapitaLand, Fuji Xerox Singapore and Volkswagen Group Singapore, joined the Sports Excellence Career Scheme (spexCareer). The announcement, which was made by Minister for Culture, Community and Youth
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      Lock icon AND NOW FOR SAMOA, AGAIN
      598 21  -  S’pore netballers come from behind to beat M’sia, enter Nations Cup final EMMANUEL PHUA emmanuelphua@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Singapore survived a nervous start against Causeway rivals Malaysia yesterday to book their place in this year’s Nations Cup final, where Samoa await. Behind 12-8 after the first quarter
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      Lock icon Y-SPARKS CUP GIVES YOUNG FENCERS MORE EXPOSURE
      474 21  -  EMMANUEL PHUA S ING A PORE —It began as a closed event for young fencers from a local club but, when the sixth edition Y-Sparks International Fencing Cup gets under way at Marina Bay Sands (MBS) today, it will have a truly international
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      Lock icon RUDDERLESS LIVERPOOL COULD STRUGGLE AGAINST UNITED
      942 22  -  REDS DON’T HAVE A ‘TEAM’ 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 world. Follow him on Twitter @adrianjclarke. AGENCIES
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      Lock icon PARDEW IS MANAGER OF THE MONTH
      105 23 REUTERS Newcastle United’s Alan Pardew was named Premier League manager of the month for November yesterday, following a remarkable turnaround in the club’s fortunes only weeks after fans were calling for his head. The club were languishing in the bottom three in October, but
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      Lock icon RAMSEY ADDS TO ARSENAL’S INJURY WOES
      102 23 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Aaron Ramsey has added to Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal injury crisis after being ruled out of Saturday’s Premier League game against Newcastle United. The midfielder is expected to miss up to four weeks after a scan confirmed he has suffered a hamstring
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      Lock icon BUTTON ACCEPTS PAY CUT TO PROLONG F1 STAY
      588 24 McLaren ace sees annual salary slashed by a third to under S$16.4m CONTRACT INCLUDES OPTION TO EXTEND BEFORE END OF NEXT SEASON THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —Former world champion Jenson Button has taken a significant pay cut to stay at McLaren and
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      Lock icon NBA WATCH
      373 24 AGENCIES Kobe Bryant has downplayed an explosive practice session on Thursday, in which he reportedly called his Los Angeles Lakers team-mates “soft” during a heated, expletive-laden 5-on-5 game. The 36-year-old star had an exchange with team-mate Nick Young, who told him that nobody in the world could guard
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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      60 25 FILM START-UP ANTHONY CHEN LAUNCHES HIS OWN FILM COMPANY 27 GOOD LAWS DJ STEVE ANGELLO LIKES SINGAPORE’S TOUGH DRUG LAWS 28 SATURDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2014 GOLDEN CHANCES BIRDMAN LEADS THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE GOLDEN GLOBES 29 26 CULT OF PERSONALITY THE FUTURE’S VERY BRIGHT FOR BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, BUT THE BRITISH
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  • T TODAY
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        Lock icon BEING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
        983 26  -  BRITAIN’S HOTTEST STAR SAYS HE’S HOLDING ON TO HIS IDENTITY AMID AWARDS SEASON CRUSH JENELLE RILEY features@mediacorp.com.sg REUTERS enedict Cumberbatch is concerned that the world might be growing tired of him. Though the actor, who shot to fame as the title character on the BBC series Sherlock,
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        Anthony Chen launches film company
        467 27  -  Called Giraffe Pictures, it aims to nurture and develop new voices in Singapore and the region GENEVIEVE LOH SING A PORE Award-winning Singaporean film-maker Anthony Chen remembers all too clearly his early days when he was struggling to make his first feature film. So he
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        STATE OF THE ARTS
        211 27  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE The Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth released its annual Cultural Statistics report, noting, among others, a record number of museum visitors, a strong audience for community arts and a growing trend among young people open to the arts as a career. Elsewhere,
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        Art explosion
        341 27  -  Next month’s Singapore Art Week features more than 100 events MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE Singaporeans will be spoilt for choice next month as the local visual arts scene starts the year with a bang courtesy of the Singapore Art Week. A joint initiative by the National Arts Council (NAC),
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        Singapore’s drug laws are great: DJ Steve Angello
        529 28  -  The former Swedish House Mafia member says such restrictions are good for the EDM scene TODAY EXCLUSIVE ANJALI RAGURAMAN anjaliragu@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —DJ Steve Angello thinks Singapore’s “drug laws are great”. The DJ, formerly one-third of the now-defunct DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia,
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        Lock icon YouTubing his way to success
        558 28  -  R AYMOND THAM SING A PORE Tan Jian Hao had not slept for four days. It’s cold and wet and he is out in the rain. That’s all part of being a success on YouTube. Tan, 21, is one of Singapore’s most popular YouTube stars,
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        Lock icon Birdman leads Golden Globe nods
        557 29 But there are also major snubs across categories AWARDS SEASON THE NEW YORK TIMES LOS ANGELES —Birdman, Boyhood and The Imitation Game solidified their status as movie-award front-runners on Thursday, each securing multiple Golden Globe nominations in major categories. Globe voters also pushed a slew
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        442 29  -  DON MENDOZA SINGAPORE If there was any doubt that people here love their gelato, it should be dispelled by this recent announcement: Organisers of the muchanticipated international Gelato World Tour are bringing this notable celebration to Singapore next year. It
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      743 6  -  By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY CALENZANO, Italy Strolling through the olive grove that abuts his family villa last month, Federico Dufour picked up a few purplish lumps. “I am ashamed to call them olives,” he said. He
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