Today, 26 January 2016

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    14 3 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM mediacorp TUESDAY, 26 JANUARY 2016 WE SET YOU THINKING MCI (P) 021/06/2015
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Terror threat a top concern as Parliament sits
    1050 3  -  Almost half of speakers spoke on the issue on first day of debate on President’s Address EIGHT MPs MADE THEIR MAIDEN SPEECHES YESTERDAY NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic’s security in the face of a hardening terror threat was the dominant
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      4 3 WAN IFRA INCQC 2016-18
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      236 3 A TOXIC FAMILY ENVIRONMENT CAN CREATE DISTRESS, LEAD TO POORER WORK PERFORMANCE COMMENT&ANALYSIS 10 THE COLOURED CIRCLES AT LEFT WILL APPEAR OCCASIONALLY ON OUR FRONT PAGE. THEY REPRESENT OUR ENTRY INTO AN INTERNATIONAL PRINTING COMPETITION Annual CPI falls for first time since2002 HOT NEWS 4 yoJfS®'! or Penang Langkawi or
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  • Article
    Canal crash: Tragedy struck after a normal family Sunday
    796 3  -  STACEY LIM staceylim@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After the family had enjoyed a day out together having lunch, followed by a massage at Le Imperial Hotel, Mr Robin Poon asked his wife Yep Lay Choo if she would like to have dinner with him
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Terror threat a top concern as Parliament sits
    1050 1 (2nd Edition)  -  Almost half of speakers touch on the issue on first day of debate on President’s Address EIGHT MPs MADE THEIR MAIDEN SPEECHES YESTERDAY NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Republic’s security in the face of a hardening terror threat was the dominant
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  • Article
    Canal crash: Tragedy struck after a normal family Sunday
    796 1 (2nd Edition)  -  STACEY LIM staceylim@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After the family had enjoyed a day out together having lunch, followed by a massage at Le Imperial Hotel, Mr Robin Poon asked his wife Yep Lay Choo if she would like to have dinner with him
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  • hot news
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      Lock icon Asia’s BIG CHILL
      680 2 AGENCIES HONG KONG —A cold wave blanketing much of Asia caused deaths, flight cancellations and chaos as countries used to balmier climates struggled with record-low temperatures. Weather-related deaths were reported in Japan and Taiwan, with hundreds of flights cancelled across the region, tens of thousands of holidaymakers
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      Lock icon Annual CPI falls for first time in 13 years
      960 4  -  RUMI HARDASMALANI rumih@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Consumer prices for the whole of last year fell for the first time since 2002, weighed down by the persistent oil slump, a slowing economy as well as government measures that include those to cool the housing
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      Lock icon Asian stocks rise, helped by cold spell, stimulus hopes
      533 4 AGENCIES SINGAPORE Asian stock markets yesterday continued their climb from the four-year lows of last week as a bitterly cold spell in the northern hemisphere fed expectations of higher winter demand for oil, but crude prices retreated sharply in Europe as
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      ‘Greater exercise of judgment needed’ to deal with complex world
      651 6  -  DEPTH IN KNOW-HOW, STRONGER HEARTS OTHER AREAS THAT NEED TO EVOLVE: ACTING MINISTER VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The world has become too complex for decisions to be made by just sticking to rules and numbers, because such a process would
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    • Article
      CHARLES CHONG, LIM BIOW CHUAN ELECTED AS DEPUTY SPEAKERS
      215 6  -  KENNETH CHENG Parliament elected Mr Lim Biow Chuan and Mr Charles Chong as Deputy Speakers yesterday. This is Mr Chong’s (Member of Parliament for Punggol East) second appointment to the post, but Mr Lim’s (Mountbatten) first time assuming the role. Deputy
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      Govt must scale back to empower S’poreans: WP
      611 7  -  KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Government should scale back its presence in non-core government functions because empowering citizens with a greater say in how their lives and society are run is central to Singapore’s aspiration to be an exceptional nation, said Workers’
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    • Article
      Lock icon IS poses very real threat to Malaysia, Najib warns
      728 8  -  Comments follow video from group’s S-E Asian wing warning against crackdown WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY BY EILEEN NG AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Najib Razak said Islamic State (IS) is a “very real” threat to Malaysia, hours after a video from
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    • Article
      Lock icon IS poses very real threat to Malaysia, Najib warns
      714 8 (2nd Edition)  -  Comments follow video from group’s S-E Asian wing warning against crackdown WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY BY EILEEN NG AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Najib Razak said Islamic State (IS) is a “very real” threat to Malaysia, hours after a video from
      AGENCIES  -  714 words
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      Lock icon Indonesia ‘cannot tackle terror in region alone’
      687 8  -  LAURA PHILOMIN lauraphilomin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —In light of the recent Jakarta attacks, tackling the terrorism threat in the region is not something Indonesia can do by itself, Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Luhut Pandjaitan, said yesterday. This is especially true
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      Lock icon Indonesia ‘cannot tackle terror in region alone’
      686 8 (2nd Edition)  -  LAURA PHILOMIN lauraphilomin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —In light of the recent Jakarta attacks, tackling the terrorism threat in the region is not something Indonesia can do by itself, Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Luhut Pandjaitan, said yesterday. This is especially true
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  • comment & analysis
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      Lock icon Upholding the Asian order
      987 9  -  INDIA AND JAPAN CAN OFFSET CHINA’S POWER AND INFLUENCE BRAHMA CHELLANEY Brahma Chellaney, professor of strategic studies at the New Delhibased Centre for Policy Research and fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, is the author of nine books, including Asian Juggernaut, Water: Asia’s New
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      Lock icon How incivility in the family can affect work performance
      929 10  -  FIRMS CAN DO MORE THAN JUST PROVIDING TIME OFF SANDY LIM Sandy Lim is associate professor of management organisation at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. She conducted this study with Kenneth Tai, who was a PhD student at
      unproductiveness.PHOTO: REUTERS  -  929 words
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      254 9 Family incivility can have far-reaching consequences beyond the home. A toxic family environment that undermines one’s self-worth and damages ties with loved ones can create psychological distress at work, resulting in poorer work performance. SANDY LIM 10 Hallie Tay Portfolio Consultant (Class of 2013) r* SINGAPORE’S FIRST NOT-FOR-PROFIT PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE
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  • voices
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      P2P crowdlending: Investors should approach with caution
      397 12  -  FROM WOON WEE MIN The increasing popularity of peer-to-peer (P2P) crowdlending makes for a fine example of how financial technology, or fintech, is radically changing the banking scene, making business loans available expeditiously. So fast, in fact, that it is a little disconcerting,
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      Ensure safety, welfare of construction workers
      196 12  -  FROM EYVONNE SIM SIEW SIEAN Two Sundays ago, we were driving along Woodlands Avenue 12 towards Sembawang when we witnessed a disturbing sight. Squatting under a tree by the road in a really heavy downpour were two workers sharing a packet of food. They
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    • Article
      Lock icon VOLUNTEERING SHOULD NOT BE TRANSACTIONAL
      92 12 QUICK HITS SIM WEI LIANG If T-shirts, meals and other forms of collateral are expected in return for volunteering, the experience becomes transactional and open to abuse. If an event lacks sufficient manpower, the organiser should then budget more for manpower the next time. If
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      Clarification
      39 12 In our report “47-year-old man is first dengue fatality this year” (Jan 25), we stated that the man who died from dengue lived at Marsiling Road. The Ministry of Health has clarified that he lived at Marsiling Rise.
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon New economy needs updated learning model
      386 13  -  FROM LEE TECK CHUAN I refer to ‘Mindset change needed for holistic learning to succeed’ (Jan 25). Given that children have only that many waking hours a day for meals, school and play, are the demands on them too much for them to bear,
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    • Article
      Global powers must seek to resolve Middle East crisis
      198 13  -  FROM SHIGERU ICHIGE World War I was triggered by an assassination. Today, the geopolitical situation in Middle East is even more complex and dangerous. The relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia is poor. The Islamic State (IS) has been fighting in
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  • singapore
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      Decoding the ‘blue-collar’ image of programmers
      890 14  -  Companies struggle to fill vacancies despite growing number of tech job openings MANY LOCAL IT GRADUATES ‘PREFER PROJECT MANAGER ROLE’ NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —For over a year, software development firm Net Profit Quest had been looking for a programmer, to no avail.
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      Lock icon CRAFTSMAN WHO ENJOYS THE NITTY-GRITTY OF CODING
      316 14 NG JING YNG Programmer Tan Kai Heng likens himself to a craftsman who gets his hands dirty with the nitty-gritty of coding and figures out complicated coding puzzles to get a software up and running. At Primary Three, the Computer Science graduate from
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      Lock icon S’porean pleads guilty to identity ‘harvesting’ using SingPass accounts
      579 15  -  Details of 293 individuals were used in sham visa applications for Chinese nationals SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —In the span of five months, he successfully “harvested” personal details of nearly 300 Singaporeans, which he sold to a China-based syndicate that
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    • Article
      Singapore, US agencies agree to put a stop to animal-testing
      425 15  -  WONG PEI TING SINGAPORE Less-cruel ways of testing the potential harm of chemicals that do not involve the use of animals could be developed here, under a partnership between Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the United States’
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    • Article
      Man charged for claiming he wanted to bomb S’pore
      406 15  -  SIAUMINGEN SINGAPORE A mental patient who dialled 999 to say he wanted to join the Islamic State (ISIS) and bomb Singapore had his charge of making false threats of terrorist acts downgraded yesterday, to that of giving false information. Lee Soo
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon S’porean pleads guilty to identity ‘harvesting’ using SingPass accounts
      579 15 (2nd Edition)  -  Details of 293 individuals were used in sham visa applications for Chinese nationals SIAU MING EN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —In the span of five months, he successfully “harvested” personal details of nearly 300 Singaporeans, which he sold to a China-based syndicate that
      PHOTO: JASON QUAH  -  579 words
    • Article
      S’pore, US agencies partner to find alternatives to animal testing
      425 15 (2nd Edition)  -  WONG PEI TING SINGAPORE Less-cruel ways of testing the potential harm of chemicals that do not involve the use of animals could be developed here, under a partnership between Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the United States’
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    • Article
      Man charged for claiming he wanted to bomb S’pore
      406 15 (2nd Edition)  -  SIAUMINGEN SINGAPORE A mental patient who dialled 999 to say he wanted to join the Islamic State (ISIS) and bomb Singapore had his charge of making false threats of terrorist acts downgraded yesterday, to that of giving false information. Lee Soo
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      187 16 Q •v s L' I J t JO. J_Kj r-J pJ 1 rJ i^J 1 Vi\ -> i nur QJ^HQJ^nQJZRQrERQTEPiQrERQrZRyrEFnQriEPiQrEPi Guess the number of Ang Pows on the screen and win! Watch all-time favourites like Little Red Riding Hood and I Believe in Unicorns come to life with KidsFest 2016
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  • china & india
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      Lock icon India to set up satellite imaging centre in Vietnam
      755 17 MOVE COMES AS TENSIONS RISE OVER DISPUTED S CHINA SEA REUTERS NEW DELHI/HONG KONG —India will set up a satellite tracking and imaging centre in southern Vietnam that will give Hanoi access to pictures from Indian earth observation satellites that cover
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      Lock icon China-made ‘US$5 insanity’ drug goes global
      549 17 FINANCIAL TIMES HONG KONG —On the street, the drug is called “US$5 insanity” because of its quick, cheap hit. Alternatively known as Flakka, it is at the forefront of a surge in Asian-made synthetic drugs that are inundating Western nations. The drug, created in
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    • Article
      Lock icon Beijing under growing pressure to help promote Afghan peace talks
      818 20 Analysts say one key move is to convince Pakistan to help curb the Taliban in Afghanistan THE NEWYORK TIMES BEIJING —As a bloody offensive by the Taliban spreads in Afghanistan, and with United States combat operations there officially ended, anxious
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      Lock icon China deepens strategic Iran footprint as West lifts sanctions
      641 20 THE NEW YORK TIMES Z ARRINABAD (IR AN) —Rising from the yellowish, treeless plains so typical for central Iran stands a square, three-dimensional labyrinth of pipes and conveyor belts, topped by a silver chimney that glitters in the summer sun. Sanctions
      THE NEW YORK TIMES; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  641 words
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  • world
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      Lock icon Laos wants ASEAN united on S China Sea: US
      663 22 KERRY CONFIDENT BLOC WILL UNITE AGAINST BEIJING TO PROTECT RIGHTS, AVOID MILITARISATION AGENCIES VIENTIANE Laos wants to see maritime rights respected and avoid a military build-up in the South China Sea, United States Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday, after
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    • Article
      Lock icon Ousted Australian PM’s move to contest next election could ‘bode ill’ for conservatives
      295 22 BLOOMBERG CANBERRA Ousted Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he will seek another parliamentary term in this year’s elections, creating a potential rallying point for conservative lawmakers in the ruling Liberal Party and a headache for his
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      Lock icon Vietnam signals leadership shift as PM’s prospects fade
      858 23 Two terms of aggressive politics have alienated many Communist Party members BLOOMBERG HANOI Vietnam’s exiting Prime Minister is struggling in his bid to become Communist Party chief, raising doubts about how much the new leadership will advance his efforts to reform bloated
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      Lock icon MH370 search setback as towfish hits volcano, sinks
      400 23 AGENCIES SYDNEY Australian authorities searching for a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet said yesterday they had lost a deep-water sonar detector being used to scour a patch of the ocean floor where the plane is believed to have gone down almost two
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  • business
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      MTI’s Deputy Secretary of Trade to take over reins at IE Singapore
      207 24  -  ANGELA TENG SINGAPORE —With effect from the first of next month, IE Singapore, the Government agency driving the Republic’s external economy, will see a new CEO in the form of Mr Lee Ark Boon (picture), Deputy Secretary of
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      Lock icon Foreign worker levy will remain: Teo Ser Luck
      777 24  -  Minister takes firm stance as business community calls for it to be deferred in Budget MINISTER URGES SMES TO FOCUS ON BUILDING SINGAPOREAN CORE INSTEAD ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The foreign worker levy is here to stay, said Minister of State for
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    • Article
      Lock icon Keppel to merge asset managers overseeing S$26b
      299 25 AGENCIES SINGAPORE Conglomerate Keppel Corp is merging its interests in four asset management businesses that currently oversee assets worth S$26 billion into one subsidiary Keppel Capital Holdings in a bid to boost the returns from its investment division. The consolidation, which brings together
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    • Article
      SMRT’s Q3 profit jumps 63.5%
      302 25 SINGAPORE Transport operator SMRT yesterday reported a 63.5 per cent jump in its fiscal third quarter net profit, boosted by the performance in its train, bus and taxi segments as fuel prices fell, with higher funding and grants also helping the bottom line. For the
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      121 25 Calling all mid-career Sales Professionals Join Mediacorp and be part of something big THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WOULD BE: Driven towards exceeding targets (the higher the better) Someone who has strong relationships with clients (a wide network is preferred) Digitally savvy (a growth engine for media) A believer of respect, teamwork
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  • technology
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      Lock icon Four senior execs leaving Twitter, CEO confirms
      399 26 Biggest leadership change since return of Jack Dorsey as CEO with more changes expected AGENCIES SAN FR ANCISCO Four senior Twitter executives are leaving the media company, CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted late Sunday night, the biggest leadership changes since Mr Dorsey returned as
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      179 26 m K 5 ii w m KIDS FIESTA IS BACK! u o -\3 March n&1 4pm to 10.30pm The Float Marina Bay Experience Singapore’s first outdoor ice skating rink and enjoy over 30 fun activities! OTHER FUN HIGHLIGHTS Meet and greet famous cartoon characters Music and dance performances Stand a
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  • sports
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon END OF AN ERA AS NEO CONFIRMS EXIT
      689 27  -  National basketball head coach will call time on his 12-year tenure next month STEPPING DOWN TO SPEND MORE TIME WITH HIS FAMILY NOAH TAN noahtanyw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —After more than 12 years in charge of Singapore’s men’s basketball team, head coach Neo Beng
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    • Article
      Lock icon S.LEAGUE WELCOMES ‘FASTEST, MOST ADVANCED’ MATCH BALL
      401 27 AMANPREET SINGH SINGAPORE —The new season will see a new ball take centre stage, after the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) announced Mitre as the official football and product supplier for the next five years. At yesterday’s launch at the Jalan Besar Stadium,
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      Lock icon ONG READY TO STRIKE FEAR INTO HIS RIVALS
      532 28  -  Back from retirement, former Asian No 1 is gunning for the podium LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The silky skills that won former national bowler Remy Ong titles on the international circuit and major Games may be a little rusty, but the
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      Lock icon SONNY BILL’S RIO QUEST GETS WELLINGTON START
      303 28 REUTERS WELLINGTON —Two-time Rugby World Cup winner Sonny Bill Williams’ (picture) quest for an Olympic medal will be put to the test in earnest this weekend after he was named in New Zealand’s side for the Wellington leg of the World Sevens Series.
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      Lock icon EX-TENNIS PRO PLEADS GUILTY TO CHEATING
      545 29 AGENCIES SYDNEY —Allegations of corruption in world tennis were reignited yesterday when a former Australian professional tennis player pleaded guilty to match-fixing just hours after a top global bookmaker suspended betting on a suspicious match at the Australian Open. The case against former world
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    • Article
      Lock icon ADIDAS ENDS IAAF SPONSORSHIP DEAL
      487 30 11-year deal worth about S$50m cut over doping, corruption controversy AGENCIES LONDON —German sportswear company Adidas AG is to end its 11-year sponsorship deal with the International Association of Athletics Fed- erations (IAAF) almost four years early. According to the BBC, Adidas, the biggest sponsor
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