Today, 26 August 2016

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  • 14 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING mediacorp FRIDAY, 26 AUGUST 2016 MCI (P) 026/06/2016
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  • SR Nathan 1924-2016
    • 1061 1  -  S’poreans young and old from all walks of life pay their last respects to former President STATE FUNERAL SERVICE AT UNIVERSITY CULTURAL CENTRE TODAY KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg small for him,” she said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY TOH EE MING, KENNETH CHENG,
      small for him,” she said. ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY TOH EE MING, KENNETH CHENG, TAN WEIZHEN, AMANDA LEE; PHOTO: JASON QUAH; PHOTO: WEE TECK HIAN  -  1,061 words
    • 426 8 The State Funeral Procession and Funeral Service for the late former President S R Nathan will take place today. The procession will leave Parliament House at 2pm and will end at the University Cultural Centre (UCC), where the service will be held from 3pm
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    • 981 10 Members of the public pay their final respects to former President S R Nathan at the lying-in-state ceremony at Parliament House WE HAVE LOST A GREAT MAN Mr Nathan dedicated his life to Singapore. Whenever there was a need, he always stepped up
      PHOTOS: WEE TECK HIAN, JASON QUAH, KOH MUI FONG; PHOTOS: ERNEST CHUA, JASON QUAH, KOH MUI FONG, NURIA LING  -  981 words
    • 345 13 SINGAPORE —Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday paid his last respects to late former President S R Nathan at Parliament House. Mr Nathan’s body is at Parliament House for the lying-in-state, which was open to the public yesterday. His State
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    • 275 13 SINGAPORE —In honour of Mr S R Nathan, who was Chief Scout during his presidency, the Singapore Scout Association will be setting up a fund to give scouts in need the chance to attend international jamborees and other overseas scouting
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    • 962 14  -  TOH EE MING AND KELLY NG toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Worried that he would miss the hearse of the late S R Nathan leaving his family home on Ceylon Road, part-time cleaner Sunny Kun cleaned 18 office cubicles and two toilets at Parkway
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  • hot news
    • 652 2 SAYS M’SIA’S EX-PM IS NOT QUALIFIED TO DISCUSS UNITY AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —Johor Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar has asked former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad to keep his nose out of matters related to the southern state including the “Bangsa
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    • 603 2  -  flict situation.” agencies, with additional reporting BY KOI KYE LEE KOI KYE LEE AGENCIES, KUALA LUMPUR —Malaysia’s Scorpene submarines have different specifications from those used by India, said Putrajaya, in allaying concerns over a secret data leak reportedly hitting French submarine supplier DCNS
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    • 934 4 Many asking why there are so many casualties after 2009’s quake in L’Aquila exposed risks AFP AMATRICE (ITALY) —The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy rose to 241 yesterday, amid fears many more corpses remain buried in the
      AFP; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  934 words
    • 661 15 THE NEW YORK TIMES S EOUL —North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said his country’s test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile this week had achieved the “greatest success”. He claimed that the continental United States as well as American military bases
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    • 677 18  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE —A defence lawyer who insinuated that a minor suffered no trauma from a sexual crime as she was in a sexual relationship with someone else at that time drew the ire of Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon yesterday.
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  • comment & analysis
    • 1035 20  -  LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS, NOT STIMULUS, NEEDED CHARLES TAN MEAH YANG Charles Tan Meah Yang was previously director of investment companies research at Cantor Fitzgerald and is currently co-founder of property startup 31-East.com. The global economy is like a stalled car, with governments and policymakers
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    • 1038 22  -  BANNING BURKINIS A LOSING BATTLE BRAHMA CHELLANEY Brahma Chellaney, professor of strategic studies at the New Delhibased Center 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 Battleground, and
      PROJECT SYNDICATE; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  1,038 words
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    • 35 20 Burqa bans and other measures by European authorities that target Islam as such are superficial and counterproductive, as they create divisions in European society, while leaving the ideological underpinnings of terrorism unaddressed. BRAHMA CHELLANEY 22
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  • voices
    • 392 26  -  F ROM EDWIN TEONG YING KEAT To the masses, Mr S R Nathan represented the servant leader, whose career trajectory was influenced by the trials of the initial phases of his life. To our politicians, he was a key
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    • 172 26  -  FROM JEREMY CHEONG WENG KEE I refer to the report “Art of the possible: Chapatis made by robots” (Aug 22). Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s mention of homegrown start-up Zimplistic can go a long way towards increasing the awareness and acceptance of the start-up
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    • 279 26  -  FROM RICHMOND LEE The writer of “Installing bike racks on buses not practical” (Aug 18) is quick to dismiss the idea of bicycle racks in front of buses. His main point about crowded roads as a reason for not installing
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  • singapore
    • 563 28  -  BUT INDUSTRY STILL COMPETITIVE, SAYS WATCHDOG KENNETH CHENG SINGAPORE Exclusive deals struck between food delivery businesses and eateries could pose problems in time to come, the competition watchdog said yesterday, although its investigation showed that such practices have not harmed competition
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    • 559 30  -  He had previously served time for attempting a similar scam in 2014 and last year VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A serial conman who tried to get compensation from drivers by throwing himself against their vehicles was yesterday sentenced to seven years’
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    • 403 34 SINGAPORE —The Singapore Zoo is trying out a new outdoor air-cooling system that can bring down temperatures to as low as 24°C, while using less energy than an average air conditioner. The Airbitat Smart Coolers were developed by Innosparks,
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  • science
    • 974 36 Located in ‘Goldilocks zone’, its surface could have liquid water and the possibility for life PROXIMA B ORBITS CLOSEST STAR TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AFP TODAY THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK —Another Earth could be circling the star right
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  • china & india
    • 872 38 PRESIDENT VOWS TO UPGRADE TAIWAN’S MILITARY EQUIPMENT AFP PINGTUNG (TAIWAN) Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen urged the island’s army to improve its performance after a string of accidents, promising to help upgrade equipment as she presided over military drills yesterday. The war games in the
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    • 555 39 China hopes its neighbour ‘would do more to benefit peace and stability’ along the frontier AGENCIES BEIJING —China’s Defence Ministry said yesterday that it hoped India could put more efforts into regional peace and stability rather than the opposite, in response to
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  • world
    • 413 40 ALLEGED DRUG ADDICT DETAINED AS SUSPECT MALAY MAIL ONLINE KUALA LUMPUR —A United Malays National Organisation (Umno) politician, her husband and son were killed by a knife-wielding attacker who ran amok in their home in Kampung Bertam Malim, Malacca, early yesterday. The
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    • 409 40 2011.AFP BAGAN —Officials picked through the wreckage of toppled spires and crumbling temple walls in Myanmar’s ancient capital Bagan yesterday after a powerful earthquake rattled the top tourist destination, leaving three dead. Two young girls and a man died in Magway Region
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    • 612 42 Critics have questioned the move saying it will undermine efforts to boost confidence in the industry FINANCIAL TIMES BANG KOK A wave of deadly bomb blasts in Thai tourist resort areas has failed to deter the country’s military rulers from hiking entry
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  • business
    • 532 44 Rebates as much as 1 per cent being offered as an incentive to sell unrated securities DEFAULTS SHAKE CONFIDENCE IN S’PORE’S MARKETS BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE —Private banks in the Republic are coming under scrutiny for earning bonuses by selling risky debt as the city-state
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    • 354 44 SINGAPORE —In the first time that frontrunning offences are being prosecuted under insider trading in the Republic, the Monetary Authority of Singapore has charged three individuals including a dealer in First State Investments (FSI) Singapore for alleged insider trading in the shares
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    • 643 46 REUTERS SHANGHAI The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) the country’s central bank has urged lenders to spread out the tenors of their loans, hinting at its displeasure with a recent trend of overnight and short-term lending, banking sources said yesterday.
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    • Article, Illustration
      1188 48 FRIGHT NIGHTS Get the fright of your life at Universal Studios Singapore’s Halloween Horror Nights, returning on Sept 30 for its sixth year. The popular scarefest unleashes thrills and screams with a pulse-racing line-up that includes local and Western scare acts, five haunted houses and a procession of
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  • property
    • 1225 50  -  AREA AN IDEAL LIVE-WORK-PLAY DESTINATION EUGENE LIM AND SEAHYAOHUI property@ mediacorp.com.sg Eugene Lim is key executive officer and Seah Yao Hui is research analyst at ERA Realty Network. As early as 1991, the idea was mooted to decentralise economic activity away from
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  • technology
    • 1090 51 Cost savings low returns drive lenders into working with system underpinning bitcoin TOTAL SAVINGS COULD REACH S$27 BILLION A YEAR FINANCIAL TIMES LONDON —Early bitcoin enthusiasts hailed the cryptocurrency as a revolutionary way to sideline banks in a libertarian drive to upend the traditional
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  • sports
    • 695 52  -  Father of Olympic champion ‘knew all along’ his son would deliver on international stage NOT BLIND FAITH IN SWIMMER’S ABILITIES LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —There was no hint of conceit as Colin Schooling recounted his meeting with George Yeo, the thenMinister for
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    • 367 52  -  AMANPREET SINGH SINGAPORE —The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) will hold its annual general meeting on Sept 24 to unveil to its members proposed amendments to its constitution, six months after the March deadline that it had initially set
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    • 808 53  -  Ceres midfield duo ‘not afraid’ of Thailand, let alone Singapore AMANPREET SINGH amanpreet@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Stephan Schrock and Manuel Ott were on the losing end on Wednesday night as Filipino club side Ceres La Salle crashed out of the Singapore Cup semi-finals
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    • 503 53 AFP LONDON —Manchester City’s fans must accept hard-nosed decisions, such as the sidelining of goalkeeper Joe Hart, if the club are to make progress in the Champions League, manager Pep Guardiola (picture) has warned. City’s 1-0 win over Steaua Bucharest
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    • 1350 54 Outliers tell of their greatest moment in tennis, and how they never reached the same heights again THE NEWYORKTIMES NEW YORK —Roberta Vinci’s upset of Serena Williams in the US Open semi-finals last year sent shock waves through tennis by slamming
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  • Page 52 Miscellaneous
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