Today, 10 October 2015

Microfilm: NL33675
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      542 2 2 0 VI MS V n i IB 91 J s 7$ I 1 GRIN CUV EXCLUSIVELY AT GAIN CITY MEGASTORE SUNGEI KADUT Singapore’s LARGEST Consumer Electronics and I.T. Retail Store i.TBl us Ti Mill', 1 '.'I M|| •f BOSCH (yookUig* fy&ma Meet blogger Wahidah on 11 Oct (Sun) from
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      829 3 Singapore’s LARGEST Air-conditioner Retailer f *.fHBPWWP a y ri 5 Years Trade In Warranty worth $399 upto$160 Toshiba Tablet worth $199 $748 INVERTER SYSTEM 1 fill SHARP INVERTER SYSTEM 2 ■it 9000 BTU ttPrice includes installation 2x 9000 BTU HPrice includes installation MOVING OUT 9 \§y cTU yj22aKl 5 Years
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      Lock icon US Navy’s message to China: We’ll sail near your islands soon
      846 2 Move to show that Washington does not accept Beijing ’s territorial claims in the region WARSHIPS TO GO INSIDE 12-NAUTICAL-MILE ZONE AROUND MANMADE ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA AGENCIES WASHINGTON The United States is poised to sail warships close
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      Lock icon US Navy’s message to China: We’ll sail near your islands soon
      870 2 (2nd Edition) Beijing seriously concerned, will not condone infringement of territorial sea, airspace, says Foreign Ministry spokeswoman WARSHIPS TO GO INSIDE 12-NAUTICAL-MILE ZONE AROUND MANMADE ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA AGENCIES WA SHINGTON The United States is poised to sail warships
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      Man ‘who made water engineering sexy’ to help with rail transformation
      621 4  -  PUB CHAIR ‘BUILT UP CORE OF GOOD ENGINEERS AT AGENCY’ NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In a bid to make rail service here as reliable as the national water agency’s services, Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Minister Khaw
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      Lock icon DAP’s Tony Pua slams S’pore as a mercenary, friend-less nation
      691 6 SKIRMISH BETWEEN M’SIAN LAWMAKER, S’PORE’S AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE ESCALATES AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR The verbal sparring between Malaysia’s opposition lawmaker Tony Pua and Singapore’s Am-bassador-at-Large Bilahari Kausikan over whether Malaysian Chinese are delusional in trying to change the political system escalated yesterday,
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      Manpower plan a ‘morale boost’ for hotels, hospitality students
      611 7  -  VALERIE KOH, FRANCIS LAW SINGAPORE —Hotels are keen to adopt the Sectoral Manpower Plan (SMP), citing manpower crunch and foreign manpower reliance as perennial problems plaguing the industry. Already, 32 hotels and two hotel groups, including Amara Singapore and Far East
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      Lock icon Hotel industry gets boost with national plan to upgrade, retain workers
      759 7  -  VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Long plagued by a manpower crunch, the hotel industry is getting a boost in the form of a gov-ernment-led Sectoral Manpower Plan (SMP), which aims to better attract and retain Singaporeans, and groom talent for
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      Lock icon Panel to review if there were gaps in SGH’s handling of outbreak
      1201 8  -  Issues to be examined include timeliness of response, how crucial data is reported WORK ON HEPATITIS C OUTBREAK TIPPED TO TAKE 2 MONTHS KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE— The independent review committee looking into
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      79 2 CHANGE© Let s j° in hands to fight climate change! ClimateChangeSG CHECK OUT MY NEW CAR! WANT TO SHARE A RIDE? N WE CAN FURTHER REDUCE OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT BY TAKING PUBLIC TRANSPORT. V mam ma WAH! YOU CYCLED TO THE MRT STATION TODAY? IT’S A SHORT RIDE AND BICYCLE
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      10 2 WORLD CHINA-S’PORE ECONOMIC TIES ‘SET TO PROPEL RELATIONSHIP FORWARD’ 15
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      152 3 c t n A A >ou A w I 4 > 4Lim Jear Chuan (18) Handicaps Welfare Association Diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, Jear Chuan struggles with his physiotherapy sessions. N -V r Syawwal Syreezan (5) Viriya Community Services Born with a hole in his heart, Syawwal has kidney problems and
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      713 5 DIGITAL ELECTRONICS EXPO HALL AB ao#n viewQwest convert your used IT GADGETS TO SINGAPORE'S ONLY 2GBP5 x/HI iri-IPPC; FIBER BROADBAND VUULMtHb with dGbps §ign=i!JB WORTH UP TO Terms and conditions apply. "TIKAM TIKAM" LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS 0NE Stand a ■hkhsb msarai HOLIDAY VOUCHER With every $200 spent. 500 redemptions per day.
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      64 8 *Pictures for illustration only. Slumberland United Kingdom 1919 WEEKEND SALE All showroom discontinued mattresses to be cleared. Leather bedframe also available. Wide range of models to choose from. Exporter are welcome. 3 Days Only! 10 -12 Oct 11am-7pm S .y We’re v ount m S' Mattress Factory Outlet 47 Jalan
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  • voices
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      Politicians entitled to live consistently with their beliefs
      338 10  -  FROM DARIUS LEE I do not agree that political leaders or civil service officers should keep silent about their religious beliefs (“Leaders should continue religion-neutral politics”; Oct 9). Singapore adopts an accommodative form of secularism. It is not antagonistic towards religion, but
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      Women’s representation in politics here still lacking
      485 10  -  F ROM JOLENE TAN Programmes and communications senior manager, Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) Oct 5 was a big milestone for Singapore. We celebrated 20 years of commitment to gender equality after acceding to the Convention on the Elimination of
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      MOE needs to explain how it arrived at school fees
      248 10  -  FROM KWAN JIN YAO Besides the generic explanation that the Ministry of Education (MOE) wishes to “further differentiate fees by citizenship” the same proffered in 2013 when the fees were last raised for permanent-resident and international students perhaps more information
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      59 10 Come and join our talk on: Start Your Own Wedding Planning Business In conjunction with the ICWP Wedding Planning Certification Course To register for free INTRODUCTORY TALK Park Mall, level 13 (Opposite Dhoby Ghaut HART Station) SMS;V<space>15/10 <space><name> to 9092 6339 or Ccili i I*. I* “-jd 1 Awarded Bv:
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      14 10 •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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      67 11 Togge krai) ot UTT« D sn t r Family entertainment at its A on eenefi i Toggle i u/ r > THIS CHILDREN’S DAY ENTER COUPON CODE “TOGGLEKIDS” TO ENJOY 25% OFF THE FIRST MONTHS Unlimited access to thousands of movies and TV shows. *Valid till 18 October 2015. Terms
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  • singapore
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      188 12 WALK-IN INTERVIEW TECHNICAL OFFICERS TECHNICIANS Depending on the posting, the scope of work ranges from the operation and maintenance of transmission and distribution network to the implementation of projects. These may involve the supervision of works carried out by contractors and attending to customers’ requests and enquires. You may also
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  • world
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      Lock icon Widodo’s popularity continues to fall as Indonesian economy falters
      496 14 APPROVAL RATING DIVES FROM 75% LAST YEAR TO 46% NOW THE JAKARTA GLOBE JAKARTA A survey released this week shows that more than 50 per cent of Indonesians are unhappy with the performance of President Joko Widodo, in large part due
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      Lock icon INDONESIA MISSES OUT ON TIMBER ROYALTIES
      270 14 REUTERS Unreported forest clearing cost Indonesia up to US$9 billion (S$12.5 billion) between 2003 and 2014 in lost timber royalties about three times the royalties it actually received, according to an investigation by the country’s main anti-graft agency. “Where does the money go it
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      Lock icon Slowing growth prompts Beijing to get more hands-on with HK
      682 14 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Among the magnates who have dominated Hong Kong’s economy for decades, Li Ka-shing is first among equals. Like other tycoons in the city, he has made a fortune investing in Hong Kong and China real estate. The
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      Lock icon China-S’pore economic ties ‘set to propel relationship forward’
      1416 15  -  As Singapore celebrates its founding 50 years ago, TODAY is running a monthly series of interviews with ambassadors of countries that play a key role in Singapore’s foreign relations. This month, Albert Wai (albertwai@mediacorp.com.sg) speaks to Chinese Ambassador to Singapore Chen Xiaodong
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      Lock icon Syrian confict enters complicated new phase
      153 16 Washington’s US$500 million (S$697.2 million) programme to train and equip Syrian rebels to fight against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria was terminated yesterday, after the programme failed to produce any kind of ground combat forces capable of taking on the IS. Instead United
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      Lock icon Asian markets surge as Fed minutes lift sentiment
      704 17 US holds rate near zero as it keeps a watchful eye on the Chinese economy RALLY BASED ON EXPECTATIONS RATHER THAN FUNDAMENTALS AGENCIES S I N G A PO R E Asian stock markets surged yesterday, with the regional benchmark index chalking
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      Lock icon Record technology spending to boost Asia’s money-laundering hunt
      674 17 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE —Asian financial-servic-es companies are poised to spend a record amount upgrading the software systems they use to monitor illicit fund flows as they seek to overcome a persistent shortage of anti moneylaundering (AML) specialists. Spending on technology for AML and
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      Lock icon BRING IT ON, WORLD
      694 18  -  World No 120 badminton player Liang Xiaoyu aiming for first tour title SINGAPOREA BEATSHER HAIID L 2-1 LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Slaying one of the world’s top badminton players in her own backyard is no easy feat, particularly if that opponent Thailand’s 2013 world champion
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      Lock icon S’PORE’S RUGBY 7S TEAM ON A MISSION IN COLOMBO
      492 18  -  ADELENE WONG SINGAPORE There is much at stake for Team Singapore’s rugby players at the Asian Rugby Sevens Series in Colombo, Sri Lanka, this weekend. Currently in 10th position overall, the Singaporeans are aiming for a good result in the third
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      Lock icon CLOCK STARTS TICKING FOR KLOPP NOW
      1294 19  -  Liverpool have (finally!) unveiled Jurgen Klopp as their new manager. But the German inherits a struggling squad that is fumbling its way through the season so far. What does Klopp need to do to recharge the Reds machine? OurEPL analyst Adrian Clarke (sports@mediacorp.com. sg)
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      Lock icon THE STINK’S IN EUROPE TOO
      997 20  -  PLATINI’S BAN PUTS EUROPEAN FOOTBALL IN THE CENTRE OF FIFA SCANDAL COMMENTARY BY PAUL HAYWARD sports@mediacorp.com.sg Paul Hayward is The Telegraph’s chief sports writer. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Gold, silver, bronze. With world football’s three most powerful administrators now on the podium of alleged infamy, FIFA
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      Lock icon UPSETS APLENTY IN WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS
      453 21 Giants Argentina, Brazil surprised in first qualifying matches for Russia 2018 REUTERS RIO DE JANEIRO Argentina and Brazil both lost their opening World Cup qualifiers on Thursday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) as the South American campaign for Russia 2018 started in unexpected fashion. Argentina,
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      Lock icon RED BULL ENGINE WOES SORTED: ECCLESTONE
      463 21 REUTERS SOCHI Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone played down fears yesterday that former champions Red Bull could walk away from the sport by saying he was confident their engine supply problems were “sorted”. Without giving any details, and despite reports that Ferrari had joined
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      Lock icon IRELAND STUN GERMANY TO KEEP EURO DREAM ALIVE
      367 21 REUTERS DUBLIN Ireland stunned world champions Germany 1-0 thanks to Shane Long’s 70th-minute strike on Thursday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) to throw Euro 2016 qualifying Group D wide open and maintain their chances of booking a spot at the finals with a
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      Lock icon IT’S GOING TO GET DOWN AND DIRTY
      757 22 CRUCIAL RUGBY WORLD CUP TIE BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND WALESWILL ECIDE WHO GETS EASIER ROUTE AP LONDON It was the loss that Michael Cheika so eloquently described as a boot to the backside that is driving his Wallabies at the Rugby World Cup. From
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      88 21 No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any prize. LW: Livewire (MBS) Livewire (RWS) (21 years and above) Uvewire (Singapore Pools) (21 years and above during ‘Live’ telecast) SB: SportsBuzz@Kranji (18 years and above) Ip A Y(i) Alwa V
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      56 22 I I I BR IDEAS ON THE GO t U)*' ea »c Bridestory is South-east Asia's premier online marketplace that connects couples with wedding professionals. With vendor listings across 20 categories and a blog for inspiration, we’re here to make your dream wedding come true. M=DIACORP 0m AFTER STARTS WITH
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        Lock icon MOVING FORWARD
        1760 24  -  WITH DA:NS FESTIVAL CELEBRATING ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY, ARTISTS MULL OVER THE STATE OF THE SINGAPORE DANCE SCENE MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg October is shaping up to be the unofficial “Singapore Dance Month”, thanks to two huge dance-related festivals taking place at the same time. The National Arts Council’s (NAC)
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        Lock icon 5 things to check out at Got To Move
        450 25  -  From Monkeys to dancing with strangers, here are some unusual events taking place MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE Two left feet? No sense of rhythm whatsoever? That’s not a problem. The National Arts Council’s mega-dance event this month has got everything covered, including
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        Lock icon Migrant worker poetry contest expands reach
        432 26  -  Second edition now accepting entries in more languages WORD GOES AROUND MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After last year’s successful first edition, the Migrant Worker Poetry Competition is back, and it has expanded its call for entries to other nationalities and languages. Organised by Singapore-based
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        Lock icon An impressive 148 projects submitted for SAFF Project Market
        476 26  -  GENEVIEVE LOH SINGAPORE The Southeast Asian Film Financing (SAFF) Project Market may be a brand new addition to Screen Singapore 2015, but it has already amassed an overwhelming 148 project submissions from 22 countries, after a call that ended on Sept
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        STATE of THE ARTS
        184 26  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE The film anthology 7 Letters was again in the spotlight it was selected as Singapore’s entry for consideration to the Oscar’s Best Foreign Language Film category. It was also screened at the Busan International Film Festival together with 3688, the latest film from
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        New ‘Ladysaver’ soap for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
        320 27  -  The Breast Cancer Foundation hopes to remind women to conduct regular self-examinations HON JING YI SINGAPORE —This month, which is designated as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, there’s a new soap that will remind you to “check breasts”. The Breast Cancer Foundation (BCF)
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        MediaCorp raises more than S$90,000 with charity auctions
        269 27 SINGAPORE —MediaCorp has raised over S$90,000 from three recent charity auctions for the President’s Challenge and MediaCorp Cares, the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme. Classical music radio station Symphony 92.4FM held a silent charity auction of a Boston 163 Grand Piano
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      1122 28 CHANNEL CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM My Genie 6.30 Easy Cooking 7.00 A Song To Remember (HD)(PG) 9.00 Pleasant Goat And Big Big Wolf VI 9.30 Chicken Stew: Tales From The Salted Egg Temple 10.00 Tales from Journey To The West (HD) 10.30 Little Counsellor Season 1 and 4 (HD) 11.00
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      1084 29 CHANNEL CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg CHANNEL 6.00AM Battle Water Margin (HD) 7.00 A Song To Remember (HD)(PG) 9.00 Math’s Island Series 3 (HD) 9.30 Doraemon TV Special 10.00 Super Family 2 (HD) 10.30 Little Detective (HD) 11.00 Tuesday Report: Lifeline 11.30 Hey Gorgeous 2015 (HD) 12.30PM Those Were The Songs (HD)
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      310 30 ON SATURDAY 2.00PM TGI Saturday With Dafril Phua 5.00 987 HOME With Joakim Gomez 6.00 Say It With Music With Naomi Yeo 10.00 Automated 11.00 987 Anthems by Zouk And The AOS Collection DJs 6.00AM News Plus The Best Of Body Soul With Daniel Martin 10.00 News Plus Weekend Brunch
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      248 30 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 FREE TOGGLE ORIGINALS Check out exclusive movies and series produced by Toggle anytime, anywhere. COOK EAT CHINA II
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    Lock icon The Mystery Of Mass Killers
    1997 1  -  Shooters Fit a Certain Profile, But Many Others Do as Well This article is by N.R.Klein field, Russ Buettner, David W. Chen, Nikita Stewart INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY They have become one of the most notorious and alarming stripes of evil. People who, when you think back,
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    Lock icon Hard Times Ahead for Soft Drinks as Attitudes Are Changing
    992 1  -  By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Five years ago, Mayor Michael A. Nutter proposed a tax on soda in Philadelphia, and the industry rose up to beat it back. It’s a familiar story. Soda taxes have also flopped in New York
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  • WORLD TRENDS
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      Lock icon U.S.-Trained Military Is Failing in the Field
      627 2  -  By ERIC SCHMITT and TIM ARANGO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY WASHINGTON In recent years, thousands of Ameri-can-trained security forces in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia have collapsed, stalled or defected, calling into question the effectiveness of the tens
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      Lock icon Rhodes and the Balanced Life
      842 2  -  INTELLIGENCE INTELLIGENCE/ROGER COHEN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Rhodes, Greece Gazing at Rhodes under a clear blue sky it occurred to me that the fury of attempts to draw neat eth-no-national-religious lines through realities of mingling is matched only by its futility. I climbed
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      Lock icon In Turkey, Attacks Escalate Against Opposition Journalists
      601 3  -  By CEYLAN YEGINSU THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY ISTANBUL Hours after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out against a prominent newspaper here, an angry mob of his supporters descended on the publication’s headquarters, smashing windows, chanting profanities and trying to storm the
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      Lock icon East Timor Imports Its Soccer Success
      639 3  -  By JACK KERR THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MELBOURNE, Australia —With so little to cheer in their nation’s brief soccer history, fans of East Timor’s national team would be correct to consider this the squad’s golden era. East Timor, which did not play
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      Lock icon The Tightrope Of Church and State
      622 4  -  LENS ALAN MATTINGLY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Separation of church and state is a concept held sacrosanct in the United States and elsewhere, though that separation defies easy definition. Where one person sees private belief encroaching on the public domain, another sees
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      Lock icon Eastern Europe Resists Migrants, Despite Shrinking
      742 6  -  By RICK LYMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SOFIA, Bulgaria In Germany, the arrival of an expected one million migrants this year is being sold as a way to inject vigor into an aging country. For the former communist nations of Eastern Europe
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; DMITRY KOSTYUKOV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  742 words
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      Lock icon Paris Looks to Profit From Toilets
      576 6  -  By ALISSA J. RUBIN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY PARIS “Dames pipi,” as the women who clean public toilets here are known, have been a fixture of Parisian neighborhoods since the days when many buildings lacked indoor plumbing. Such was their prominence that,
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; PIERRE TERDJMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  576 words
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      93 7 THE ALL-NEW NOW ON EVERY ANDROID DEVICE ANDROID NATIVE. Built from scratch to maximise your smartphone or tablet’s potential. SOCIALLY ADEPT. Share the latest breaking news on your network of choice, be it Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Or Bookmark a story so you can visit it at your own leisure.
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
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      Lock icon With Emojis and Apps, Brands Woo Millennials
      560 8  -  By SYDNEY EMBER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY David Perel spends at least an hour a day on his iPhone 6. He watches live sports on television and talk shows but he rarely tunes in to prime time. He does not have
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; AMY LOMBARD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  560 words
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      Lock icon Bartering Meat for Tires in Greece
      714 8  -  By LIZ ALDERMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY ATHENS For months, Thodoris Roussos, a butcher, had put off replacing the tires on his delivery van because Greece’s financial crisis had cut into business. But recently, he found a price that could not be
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; EIRINI VOURLOUMIS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  714 words
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      Lock icon Searching for Water, Dreaming of Profits
      748 9  -  By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY CADIZ, California Gazing out of a turboprop plane high above his company’s main asset 14,000 hectares in the Mojave Desert with billions of liters of fresh water locked deep below the sagebrush-dotted land Scott
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      Lock icon India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Giants
      762 9  -  By VINDU GOEL THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY BANGALORE, India —American technology companies desperately want to win over people like Rakesh Padachuri and his family. Mr. Padachuri, who runs a construction business in this city, uses his smartphone
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; KUNI TAKAHASHI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  762 words
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Race for Smaller and Faster Computer Chips Hits a Wall
      801 10  -  By JOHN MARKOFF THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference in Philadelphia in 1960, a young computer engineer named Douglas Engelbart introduced the electronics industry to the remarkably simple but groundbreaking concept of “scaling.”
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; LIANNE MILTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; BELOW, INTEL  -  801 words
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      527 10  -  By CARL ZIMMER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY As the Inuit people spread across the Arctic, they developed one of the most extreme diets on Earth. They didn’t farm fruits, vegetables or grains. There weren’t many wild plants to forage. For the most
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