Today, 27 April 2016

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    13 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING mediacorp WEDNESDAY, 27 APRIL 2016 MCI(P) 021/06/2015
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    Lock icon Good politics, policies must go together for S’pore’s success: PM
    1107 1 Republic cannot become ‘normal’ like other nations or it will lose its edge: PM Lee HE WARNS THAT NO SYSTEM IS FAIL-SAFE, AND IMPOSSIBLE TO CRASH SINGAPORE —While Singapore is “in a sweet spot” where its politics and policies have
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    Lock icon Australia picks France for S$52b sub deal to counter Asian arms race
    738 1 AGENCIES CANBERRA —A French naval contractor yesterday won a A$50 billion (S$52.4 billion) deal to design and build Australia’s next generation of submarines the country’s biggest ever defence procurement programme as Canberra seeks to match other Asian countries
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      122 1 CHINA’S ‘DIVIDE-AND -CONQUER’TACTIC IN SOUTH CHINA SEAA DANGEROUS GAME THAT COULD WEAKEN ASEAN COMMENT&ANALYSIS 16 Merits of ensuring minority EP under scrutiny at hearing HOT NEWS 6 SjTCIBUYS pWhadabgui VALUE f BurgerKingSG I www.burgerking.com.sg All Star uys tems are available from 11am except on Sundays and Public Holidays when they
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      Lock icon PM lauds Benny Lim as example of top-notch civil servant
      613 2  -  AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —From pounding the streets as a police constable to thwarting a local terror plot as the Internal Security Department (ISD) director, Mr Benny Lim has seen and done
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      Lock icon SDP unprepared for Bt Batok, should have done its homework, says Tharman
      722 4  -  LAURA PHILOMIN lauraphilomin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With a day to go before Nomination Day, the gloves have come off in the Bukit Batok by-election: People’s Action Party (PAP) second assistant secretary-general Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday fired the first salvo by suggesting
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      Murali’s Bukit Batok manifesto focuses on jobs, elderly, social mobility
      698 4  -  LAURA PHILOMIN lauraphilomin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A job replacement programme and a new health cooperative are among the plans that People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate Murali Pillai will implement in Bukit Batok if he wins the May 7 by-election. The 48-year-old lawyer,
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      DEPOLITICISING PRESIDENCY, ADJUSTING PAID-UP CAPITAL CRITERIA AMONG PROPOSALS
      262 6 DR GILLIAN KOH, DEPUTY DIRECTOR (RESEARCH), AND TAN MIN-WEI, RESEARCH ASSISTANT, INSTITUTE OF POLICY STUDIES Restricted minority election will undermine political legitimacy and gravitas for Elected President No empirical data to show that people vote along racial lines for Presidential Election Introduce
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      Merits of ensuring minority EP under scrutiny at hearing
      727 6  -  No empirical data to show S’poreans vote President along racial lines says researcher NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With Singapore making progress in becoming a race-blind society, would safeguarding minority representation in the highest office in the land be a regressive
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      BAN PARTIES, MPs FROM ENDORSING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: LAW DON
      371 6  -  NG JING YNG Political parties, their leaders as well as Members of Parliament should be barred from endorsing presidential candidates so as to depoliticise the office of the Elected President. This was a suggestion raised by Singapore Management University law don
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      Lock icon 1MDB confirms default but calls it ‘a matter of principle’
      726 8 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) said yesterday it did not make a US$50 million (S$67.6 million) interest payment on a US$1.75billionbond following a standoff with Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund over who is required to make the payment,
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      Vivian urges Japan to sustain its role in S-E Asia
      632 10 TOKYO Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan yesterday urged Japan to sustain its strategic engagement with South-east Asia and beyond, against a backdrop of rising competition between the United States and China in the region. “Apart from the US
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      Lock icon US SENT A10 GROUND ATTACK JETS NEAR SCARBOROUGH SHOAL
      349 14 AGENCIES The United States has flown four A-10Cs near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea to demonstrate freedom of navigation and overflight, just as China is preparing to build an outpost there this year. The deployment of the
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      Lock icon US ran freedom of navigation ops against 13 countries last year
      511 14 AGENCIES WA S H I N GTO N/ B E IJ I N G The United States military conducted freedom of navigation operations against 13 territories last year, including several to challenge China’s claims in the South and East
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  • comment & analysis
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      China’s dangerous divide and conquer game with ASEAN
      899 16  -  MEMBER STATES HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN FROM BREAKING RANKS TANG SIEW MUN Dr Tang Siew Mun is head of the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. China is adamant that the South China Sea disputes will not affect its relations with
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      Lock icon What price for SIA in its pursuit of a Virgin bride?
      1160 17  -  AUSTRALIAN AIRLINE’S ALLURE IS COSTLY AND ALMOST IRRESISTIBLE DAVID LEO Will history repeat itself as Singapore Airlines (SIA) mulls over the prospect of acquiring a higher stake in Virgin Australia now that the latter’s largest shareholder, Air New Zealand
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      Lock icon China’s debt-shrinking machine loses its magical power
      715 19  -  BEIJING HAUNTED BY CRISIS IT AVERTED 20 YEARS AGO TOM MITCHELL Tom Mitchell is the Financial Times’ Beijing Bureau Chief. FINANCIAL TIMES One research group, Gavekal Dragonomics, calls it “the magical debt-shrinking machine”. When the Chinese government first confronted a mountain of non-per-forming
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      23 16 As Beijing confronts increasing scepticism about the country’s high debt-to-GDP ratio, the hunt is on for another magical debtshrinking machine. TOM MITCHELL• 19
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  • voices
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      Lock icon Do more to make student innovations a reality
      291 20  -  FROM AMIR MIRZA JOHARI As we move into an education landscape that focuses on building skills and mastery instead of on academic grades alone, the initiative cited in the report “‘Makerspaces’ allow students to get messy and creative” (April 25) is certainly
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      Cleaning up is everyone’s responsibility, not just cleaners’
      228 20  -  FROM KHIDHIR ASYRAF Amid efforts to promote a clean and green Singapore, I agree that the habit of cleaning up should be taught as an individual responsibility (“Stop counting on cleaners to clear the litter”; April 24). Unlike our Western counterparts, Singaporeans
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      Lock icon APP committed to stopping haze and zero deforestation
      531 21  -  F ROM JOSE RAYMOND Vice President, Corporate Affairs (Singapore) Asia Pulp and Paper We refer to the letter “Tackling new mills a key way to stop the haze at source” (April 23). We thank Mr Chris Cheng Chin Hsien for his views.
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      14 20 •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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      Firm fined S$150,000 for failing to ensure workers’ safety
      536 22  -  One man died and two others were injured as they were replacing an inflammable gas IT HAD NOT PROVIDED SAFE WORK PROCEDURES VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A bid to replace an extremely flammable gas in the air cooling unit of a
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      Lock icon Netflix ‘recognises’ frustrations of S’pore viewers
      475 23  -  It is working on fixes, but firm’s CEO says this will take some time MAY SEAH mayseah@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Netflix is aware that many of its subscribers in Singapore have been growing increasingly disenchanted with the limited slate of offerings available here, the firm’s cofounder
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  • health
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      Lock icon Out-of-hospital births a growing trend in S’pore
      1393 26  -  Some professionals say they are a calculated risk others warn of potential complications HOME DELIVERIES: ‘NON-INTRUSIVE’ AND A ‘BEAUTIFUL’, ‘RELAXING’ EXPERIENCE EVELINE GAN eveline@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Most women in labour make a dash for the hospital, but not 34-year-old homemaker Diana Chen. In between
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  • china & india
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      Lock icon China curbs plans for more coal-fired power plants
      854 28 The move may cut greenhouse gas emissions but experts say the motivation is economic POWER INDUSTRY MARKET IS WEAK AND STILL FALLING THE NEW YORK TIMES HONG KONG Coal-fired power plants have propelled much of China’s economic rise for decades, helping make
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    • Article
      Lock icon Organiser jailed over Taiwan waterpark explosion
      641 29 Victims, families call for more to be charged, even as others keep their focus on the future AFP TAIPEI Mr Huang Po-wei trains five times a week with a coach, crunching out 300 sit-ups and pulling on weights all in anticipation of the day
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  • world
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  • business
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      March factory output falls by 0.5%
      609 33  -  Industry experts say the manufacturing sector remains on a weak growth trend DECLINE LESS THAN ECONOMISTS ANTICIPATED ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Manufacturing output fell by a better-than-expected 0.5 per cent last month, thanks to a surge in pharmaceuticals and an expansion from electronics, pointing
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    • Article
      CFE creates group to help SMEs navigate cloudy economic future
      442 33  -  LEE YEN NEE SINGAPORE —A working group has been formed under the Committee on the Future Economy (CFE) to study how to better help small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) restructure and tide through challenging times, said Finance Minister Heng Swee
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    • Article
      Common parcel locker system to make deliveries more efficient, says Tharman
      319 33  -  LEE YEN NEE SINGAPORE The Government is planning to implement a common parcel locker system in residential areas in a bid to improve last-mile delivery of parcels here, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said yesterday. Doing this can reduce
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    • Article
      Lock icon Temasek shuffles management, adds 2 presidents to tackle ‘challenging times’
      483 34 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE —Temasek Holdings said that its Americas president, Mr Boon Sim, is leaving as the Singapore state investment firm appointed two new presidents in the latest management shuffle to help it navigate “challenging global times”. Mr Chia Song Hwee
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      Lock icon Standard Chartered jumps on surprise drop in loan impairments
      673 34 BLOOMBERG LONDON —Standard Chartered shares surged after the bank which generates almost three quarters of its revenue from Asia reported a surprise decline in loan impairments and capital increased more than some analysts estimated. Pretax adjusted profit fell 64 per cent
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  • technology
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      Lock icon Where’s the cable or pizza guy? Now your phone can show you
      1148 35 More businesses are providing location data to let customers know what they are up to ON-DEMAND LOCATION APPS GROWING IN POPULARITY THE NEW YORK TIMES SE AT TLE Some parents find peace of mind in the location-tracking features
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      127 35 "Education is our Business where our Students come First" Prof Tim Boatswain Chairman, TEG Board of Directors, former Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of Huddersfield, k- University of Bedfordshire^ TEG INTERNATIONAL ICOLLEGE FACULTY OF I'lBb Project Management ■Engineering Management Start Date: 2 Jun 2016 Part-time -18 months 4- UnivnrsHyot V* 5u
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  • sports
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      Lock icon ONE CHAMPIONSHIP’S NEXT STEP IS TO WOO CHINESE FANS
      689 36  -  MMA promoter targeting an event in Asia every week by 2018 10 EVENTS PLANNED IN CHINA THIS YEAR ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —As ONE Championship aims to widen its reach in Asia, the biggest challenge facing the Sin-gapore-based mixed martial arts
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    • Article
      Lock icon LIVERPOOL FANS UNLAWFULLY KILLED IN 1989 HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER: JURY
      232 36 AFP LON DON The 96 Liverpool fans who died in Britain’s 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster were unlawfully killed, a jury found yesterday, following the longest-run-ning inquest in English legal history. After hearing more than two years of evidence, the jury
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon THE BOY WHO DIDN’T CRY FOUL
      637 37  -  RI striker Jonathan Chua receives plaudits for refusing penalty in c’ships AMANPREET SINGH amanpreet@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Jonathan Chua does not understand what the fuss is all about. The teenage footballer is receiving plaudits from far and wide for something he believes everybody should be capable
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      Lock icon TIGERS LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY
      268 37  -  AMANPREET SINGH SINGAPORE —Coming into yesterday’s AFC Cup group match against New Radiant from Maldives at the Jalan Besar Stadium, Balestier Khalsa knew they simply had to win to keep their hopes of qualifying for the last 16 of the AFC Cup alive. And
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