Today, 29 December 2016

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    14 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING mediacorp THURSDAY, 29 DECEMBER 2016 MCI (P) 026/06/2016
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    Lock icon Companies expect rough waters next year: Survey
    967 1  -  Firms call for short-term support measures to help tide them over sluggish economy RISING COSTS AMONG CHALLENGES ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —A sizeable number of companies here expect the economy to worsen next year, after
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    Lock icon Companies expect rough waters next year: Survey
    966 1  -  Firms call for short-term support measures to help tide them over sluggish economy RISING COSTS AMONG CHALLENGES ANGELATENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —A sizeable number of companies here expect the economy to worsen next year, after a
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    Lock icon PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN
    70 1 PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with Pearl Harbour survivor Sterling Cale at Kilo Pier at Joint Base Pearl Harbour-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Tuesday. In the symbolic visit with President Barack Obama, Mr Abe paid homage to the victims of
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    NTU studying ways to manage drone traffic in S’pore
    698 1  -  TOH EE MING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg S I NG A PO R E With drones gaining popularity and some companies using them in operations, researchers here are starting work on how to manage what could be an increasingly congested airspace in a few
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      106 1 SINGAPORE NEEDS MORE IMAGINATIVE WAYS TO STEM RISING HEALTHCARE COSTS AND STRETCH ITS DOLLARS FULLY COMMENT&ANALYSIS 14 More IMH patients getting help, thanks to same-day appointments scheme HOT NEWS 4 WHAT 2017 WILL BRING FOR... BUSINESS SINGAPORE ECONOMY AFTER A SLUGGISH 2016, WHAT’S IN STORE NEXT YEAR? JOBS MARKET SHAKY
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  • hot news
    • Article
      MPs call for more Govt help to address job-skills mismatch
      494 2  -  WAGE SUPPORT FOR SOME MID-CAREER CHANGERS AMONG SUGGESTIONS KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —As businesses and workers grapple with the economic slowdown and bleak jobs outlook, the Government can provide them with more help by providing funding for absentee payroll, supplementing
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      MPs call for more Govt help to address job-skills mismatch
      494 2 (2nd Edition)  -  WAGE SUPPORT FOR SOME MID-CAREER CHANGERS AMONG SUGGESTIONS KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —As businesses and workers grapple with the economic slowdown and bleak jobs outlook, the Government can provide them with more help by providing funding for absentee payroll, supplementing
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      Lock icon IMH sees higher take-up rate after it offers addicts same-day appointments
      667 4  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Spurred to seek help for his gambling problem before he lost his family, the punter called the Institute of Mental Health’s (IMH) National Addictions Management Service (Nams) helpline early last year, and tried to
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    • Article
      STUDY TO EXPLORE POSSIBILITY OF RECREATIONAL DRONE-FLYING ZONE
      220 4  -  TOH EE MING, JEONG HONGBIN Having designated zones for the recreational flying of drones is among the ideas floated by researchers at the Air Traffic Management Research Institute. The institute’s senior research fellow, Mr Mohamed Faisal Mohamed Salleh, said: “For Singapore to
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      RISE IN NUMBER OF NEW ADDICTION CASES
      312 4  -  NEO CHAI CHIN Two hospitals here have seen more new addiction cases in recent years. At the Institute of Mental Health’s National Addictions Management Service, new cases increased by 17 per cent between its 2013 and 2015 financial years, from 1,556 to 1,819.
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      Lock icon On Pearl Harbour visit, Abe pledges Japan will never wage war again
      724 6 AGENCIES PEARL HARBOUR —Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a symbolic visit to Pearl Harbour with President Barack Obama early yesterday, commemorating the victims of Japan’s World War II attack and promising that his country would never wage
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      Lock icon Tokyo’s approach to ties with US may be tested under Trump
      912 6 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO —Since becoming prime minister for the second time in 2012, Mr Shinzo Abe has made it a centrepiece of his foreign policy to steer Japan closer to the United States. Even as Washington has
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      Lock icon Chinese aircraft carrier’s mission a show of force to Trump, Taiwan
      711 8 AGENCIES TAIPEI —China’s sole aircraft carrier arrived yesterday at a naval base in Hainan after drills in the Pacific, in what observers have said is a show of force by Beijing ahead of American President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next
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      Lock icon Duterte snubs US again with push for closer ties with Russia
      669 8 FINANCIAL TIMES MANILA The Philippines plans to forge new ties and trade deals with Russia, in the latest blow to United States strategic supremacy in the archipelago at the heart of Asia’s disputed seas. President Rodrigo Duterte is expected
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      Lock icon Kelantan’s non-Muslims happy with PAS rule, but worried about slow economy, hudud
      1812 10  -  Malaysia’s opposition Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) has won the support of the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) to strengthen the country’s Syariah Courts, in what looks like the start of cooperation between the traditional rivals ahead of
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      Lock icon Citing safety, Malaysian express buses segregate male, female passengers
      579 12 MALAY MAIL ONLINE KUALA LUMPUR —Malaysian bus operator TransMalaya Ekspres is segregating male and female passengers if they are not family or married, even when they are non-Muslims. The company said it made the decision to provide comfort and safety for
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  • comment & analysis
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Rethinking how S’pore can meet the challenge of healthcare financing
      1030 14  -  REPUBLIC MUST CONTINUE EMBRACING INNOVATIVE WAYS TO ADDRESS RISING COSTS JEREMY LIM Dr Jeremy Lim is head of the Health and Life Sciences Practice in Asia at Oliver Wyman, the global consultancy. Ten years ago, the Government’s allocation for health
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      Lock icon Why it’s time for us to support S’pore films
      1279 15  -  FOCUS ON QUALITY AND THE MONEY WILL FOLLOW DANIEL YUN In a recent gathering with two friends, one in education, the other in public transport, I felt a newfound sense of validation as a Singaporean film-maker. One of them said: “You
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      Lock icon Investing in a closed-border world
      987 16  -  A SHIFT FROM GLOBAL INTEGRATION TO SELF-RELIANT MODELS CHRISTOPHER SMART PROJECT SYNDICATE Investors, like astronomers or anthropologists, rely on intellectual models to make sense of a complicated universe, guide immediate choices and set priorities for further inquiry. But, every so often, a freak occurrence forces
      PROJECT SYNDICATE; PHOTO: REUTERS  -  987 words
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      40 14 In 2017, (investors) will need to reappraise how the global economy works, and recalibrate accordingly their assessment of every stock or bond on sale, because even if some market fundamentals remain the same, many others have clearly changed.CHRISTOPHER SMART 16
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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  • singapore
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      Age limit for driving instructors raised to 75
      426 20  -  But they must pass annual 2-part enhanced medical examination CURRENT LIMIT IS 70 KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —From next year, driving instructors may continue teaching until they turn 75, up from the current limit of 70, the police announced yesterday. The condition
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      Lock icon Bedbugs cause eight-hour nightmare for passengers on KL-S’pore coach
      589 20  -  ALFRED CHUA SINGAPORE Barely an hour into her nap on a Starmart Express bus from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore on Boxing Day afternoon, Ms Natalie Yap was awoken by an itch that would not let up, and what the 29-year-old saw
      PHOTOS:HANNAH ZEKIE, SHAFIQ HARUN  -  589 words
    • Article
      Clerk gets 5 years’ jail for embezzling over S$600,000
      378 21  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE —An office clerk who emptied her company’s bank account by embezzling more than S$600,000 was sentenced to five years’ jail yesterday. Sim Siow Shi, a 30-year-old Malaysian, had been managing the accounts of Fu Yuan Construction for the
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      Construction worker jailed two weeks for lying to police
      343 21  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE —His colleague had thrown a hammer onto the ground after being scolded by his supervisor for disobeying instructions, and the latter responded by grabbing the safety helmet off the man’s head and throwing it onto the ground, causing
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  • china & india
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      Lock icon China’s ‘Godfather of real estate’ pitches idea of reverse mortgages to elderly
      1313 22 CULTURAL RESISTANCE TO U.S.-STYLE HOUSE-FOR-PENSION PLAN THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING –He is known in China as the “Godfather of real estate”, helping lay the groundwork for private home ownership in China, a move that enriched millions and
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      Lock icon Planned HK museum to display China’s imperial relics
      837 23 THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING —In a sign of growing cultural ties between mainland China and Hong Kong, officials in Hong Kong have announced plans to build a museum to serve as a permanent display space for objects from Beijing’s Palace Museum,
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      Lock icon Bid by Taiwan, HK activists to link up doomed to fail: China
      525 25 AGENCIES BEIJING –Quoting a poem by the founder of Communist China, Mao Zedong, China’s government said yesterday that the efforts by Hong Kong and Taiwan independence supporters to link up were doomed to fail, as they would be
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      Lock icon Chinese middle class in uproar over alleged police brutality
      1000 26 AP BEIJING —Thousands among China’s middle class are signing online petitions to protest the dropping of an alleged police brutality case, representing a rare but concerted display of white-collar outrage with Beijing. The signatories of at least two online petitions organised
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  • world
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      Lock icon N Korea nuclear hopes have surged, says defector
      844 30 Former diplomat says China will not punish it harshly, for fear of a pro-US, unified Korea REGIME IS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF S KOREA, U.S. LEADERSHIP CHANGES, HE SAYS THE NEW YORK TIMES SEOUL –A senior North Korean official who defected to the
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      Lock icon US Embassy denies plot to oust Duterte
      561 34 Alleged document outlines list of strategies’ to undermine and depose Philippine President AGENCIES MANILA —The American Embassy in Manila said the United States respects the Philippines’ sovereignty, after the State Department denied the existence of an alleged blueprint to oust President Rodrigo Duterte.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Facebook redfaced at sharing false Thai bomb alarm
      549 34 BANGKOK POST BANGKOK —Facebook Thailand has defended the trigger of a false bombing alarm in Bangkok on its network late on Tuesday, saying the incident did happen and referred to a Government House bomb threat incident reported by local media early in
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    • Article
      Lock icon Myanmar fathers may face jail for deserting mums-to-be
      362 34 AFP YANGON —Myanmar’s government is drafting a law that could jail men for up to seven years for getting a woman pregnant but not marrying her, a senior official said yesterday. The provision is part of tough new legislation designed to strengthen
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  • business
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Year of misbehaving moneymen places MAS on high alert
      1331 38 CRACKDOWN TO MAINTAIN SQUEAKY-CLEAN IMAGE BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE —The naughty list for Singapore financiers has rarely been so long. From the 1MDB-linked scandal to a 333-count front-running case and the largest market-manipulation prosecution in Singapore’s history, this year’s allegations of moneymen behaving
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      Lock icon Singapore defaults seen as bellwether for 2017 Asia distress
      638 40 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE —Commodities-related defaults in Singapore could turn out to be the canary in the mine. Despite a modest rebound in resource prices, restructuring specialists including KPMG and Hogan Lovells Lee Lee see more Asia-Pa-cific commodities and shipping companies being pushed
      BLOOMBERG; PHOTO: AFP  -  638 words
    • Article
      Changi passenger traffic up by 3.2%, on path to record
      268 40 SINGAPORE —Changi Airport handled 4.78 million passengers last month, up 3.2 per cent compared to the same period last year, as travel to and from South-east Asia, North-east Asia and South Asia rose. The latest data takes its total passenger
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  • technology
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Flight booking systems lack basic privacy safeguards, say researchers
      767 42 With just a passenger’s last name, analysts could access booking codes, travel records LONG-TIME PRIVACY FEARS VINDICATED REUTERS HAMBURG Major travel booking systems lack a proper way to authenticate air travellers, making it easy to hack the short code used on
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