Today, 14 March 2017

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  • 14 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING mediacorp TUESDAY, 14 MARCH 2017 MCI (P) 026/06/2016
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  • 73 1 Commuters alighting from a new three-door bus of Tower Transit’s Service No 143. The double-decker, unlike other current models, has a third door and two staircases. It is part of a six-month trial by the Land Transport Authority to help improve passenger flow. A second bus,
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  • 965 1  -  VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E In an unprecedented move, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is seeking lifetime trading bans against two individuals who had been convicted of offences linked to the 1
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  • hot news
    • 612 4  -  KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Two buses with three doors an entrance and two exits will be tested on the roads here in the coming months to see if this new feature will speed up passenger flow. Besides these, several other features
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    • 713 4  -  ANGELA TENG SINGAPORE The partial easing of the property cooling measures announced by the Government last Friday is a “small step” in the right direction, said CapitaLand Singapore CEO Wen Khai Meng yesterday, as he urged the authorities to relax
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    • 142 6 Devotees being sprayed with coloured water inside a temple during Holi celebrations, which is also known as the Festival of Colours, in Ahmedabad, India, yesterday. Holi, a traditional Hindu festival, celebrates the beginning of spring as well as the triumph of good over evil. It is
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    • 325 6  -  SIAUMINGEN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The van driver who crashed into nine motorcycles, killing two of the riders in a horrific accident on the Bukit Timah Expressway last Saturday has been charged in court with causing death by a rash act.
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    • 505 6  -  SIAUMINGEN SINGAPORE She took her eyes off the road to reach for a cloth on her dashboard and did not realise her van was veering to the left out of the lane she was in. Because of her four seconds of negligence,
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    • 685 8 SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST BEIJING —China plans to increase the size of its marine corps from about 20,000 to 100,000 personnel to protect the nation’s maritime lifelines and its growing interests overseas, military insiders and experts have said. Some members
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    • 342 8 REUTERS Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War II. The Izumo helicopter carrier
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    • 297 8 Taiwan.AGENCIES HANOI Vietnam demanded yesterday that China stop sending cruise ships to the South China Sea, in a response to one of Beijing’s latest steps to bolster its claims in the strategic waterway. “Vietnam strongly opposes this and demands that China respect
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    • 572 9 AGENCIES MANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the navy to put up “structures” to assert sovereignty over a stretch of water east of the country, where Manila has reported a Chinese survey ship was casing the area
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    • 63 10 Elephants and their mahouts taking part in an elephant fighting demonstration during Thai Elephant Day yesterday. Since 1998, March 13 has been celebrated to raise awareness of the animal’s importance. All across Thailand, merit-making ceremonies were held and feasts were organised for the animals. The white
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    • 557 10 Five Filipinos and two Malaysians caught in sting operations in KL Sabah AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have arrested five Filipinos and two Malaysians including an Immigration Department officer for suspected links to Islamic State (IS) in the past week.
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    • 542 11  -  National landmark to capture the ‘voices and collective aspirations of Singaporeans KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A fenceless open-air museum with a playground for children, an interactive maze with historical photographs, an imposing tower that captures the spirit and struggles of Singapore’s pioneer
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    • 148 9 U N IJ E_ JOIN THE U THAT BELIEVES IN U. With SIM University’s full-time undergraduate programmes, you can expect more than a conventional tertiary education. Through industry-relevant, practice-focused curricula that are enriched by valuable work and overseas experience, our unique pedagogy hones both professional knowledge and real-world skills. Combined
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  • singapore
    • 279 12 SINGAPORE To celebrate 50 years of National Service (NS), Singapore Post Limited (SingPost) is releasing a new set of stamps today. They feature key milestones, such as the enlistment of the first batch of full-time National Servicemen (NSF), the passing of
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    • 607 12  -  THEY WILL RECEIVE HELP TO BOOST EMPLOYABILITY FARIS MOKHTAR farism@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With certain industries hit harder in the current cloudy economic conditions, the labour movement is hoping to help retrenched workers pick out possible jobs in sectors that continue to show
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    • news
      • 716 13  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —It is very hard to justify the culling of healthy animals from a public health approach that should promote the health of humans, animals and the environment, argue Singapore researchers of a study published recently. Their findings
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      • 553 13  -  SIAUMINGEN SINGAPORE A 25-year-old man who threw a cat from the 10th floor of a public housing block in Tampines, then slammed it on the ground to its death was sentenced to 18 weeks’ jail yesterday. Fajar Ashraf Fajar Ali (picture) had earlier pleaded
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      • 749 14  -  ALFRED CHUA alfredchuam@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Muhd Danial, a 12-year-old who has muscular dystrophy, used to be withdrawn and quiet, and he disliked going to school. But since being a beneficiary of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Singapore (MDAS) in 2013, the Canberra
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      • 975 15  -  Residents say the replaced roofs retain heat generate loud noises when it rains FARIS MOKHTAR farism@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Nearly a year since asbestos, a hazardous material, was discovered in roof awnings of terrace houses at Chip Bee Gardens, about two-fifths of
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    • business
      • 697 16 Landing Pad start-up accelerator is latest initiative in strategic partnership SINGAPORE Singapore-Australia cooperation on science, technology and innovation received a boost with the launch of the Australian Landing Pad at one-north yesterday. Singapore is one of five global innovation hubs identified by
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      • 212 16 SINGAPORE/TOKYO The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan have announced the establishment of a cooperation framework to enhance FinTech linkages between both countries. The framework enables MAS and FSA to refer FinTech companies in
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    • sports
      • 481 17  -  TEOTENGKIAT SINGAPORE —The Republic’s synchronised swimming team have fired an early warning to their Malaysian counterparts ahead of this year’s SEA Games. At the 7th Make Up Forever French Open, Singapore finished higher than Malaysia in all four events where both nations were
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    • entertainment
      • 932 18  -  Singaporean guitarist sets up firm to link artistes with clients and raise industry standards HONJINGYI honjingyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Local music has been going from strength to strength in the last few years, with the rise in popularity of acts like The Sam Willows, Gentle
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    • 139 16 EnOOmETRIOSIS AUJAREHESS CAmPAIGH 2017 Millions suffer in silence. Don't let it be you. A Health Forum on Fighting Endometriosis! in conjunction with the SEUD 2017 conference Endometriosis is a common condition that affects women, resulting in painful and heavy menses, painful sex, infertility and ovarian cysts. Find out more about
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    • 70 17 Step into the world of March Highlight The Banded Swallowtail is a fast flying butterfly which feeds on Ixora and Lantana flowers. A heart-warming experience awaits you at Butter flies Up-Close, where you will delight in the spectacular beauty of hundreds of live butter flies from the region. Enjoy up
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  • comment & analysis
    • 913 20  -  RISING TERROR THREATS WILL POSE CHALLENGES NICHOLAS FANG Nicholas Fang is the executive director of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, and a member of the Support for NS working group of the Committee to Strengthen National Service. He also serves
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    • 899 20  -  UNCHALLENGED AS NATIONAL LEADER MIHIRSHARMA Mihir Sharma is a Bloomberg View columnist. He was a columnist for the Indian Express and the Business Standard, and he is the author of Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy. BLOOMBERG When voters in the northern
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    • 1357 22  -  THAILAND RIPE TO TIP CHINA’S WAY BENJAMIN ZAWACKI Benjamin Zawacki is author of the forthcoming book, Thailand: Shifting Ground Between the US and a Rising China. More than a month after his inauguration, Mr Donald Trump has not publicly mentioned Thailand.
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    • 45 20 Mr Trump cannot be expected to simply embrace the policy of his chief opponent. But his moves thus far, replacing the non-committal with the cavalier, both advance a regional crisis and place the US at further geopolitical disadvantage if it comes. BENJAMIN Z AWACKI 22
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  • voices
    • 234 23  -  F ROM TAN CHI WEI “Innovation” has become a very big word here recently. The Government is sparing no efforts in getting enterprises to “innovate” and to train workers for the future economy. A simple Google search on “Why innovate?” would yield
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    • 173 23  -  FROM LOUIS LAUYI HANG I refer to the report, “Disagreeing with excessive penalty submission, judge puts off sentencing of maid” (March 7). This case brings up a salient point about foreign workers, who come from faraway lands hoping to
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    • 148 23  -  FROM KOKMEIHUI I applaud the move of having a cafe run by special-needs trainees in the report, “Cafe run by special-needs people goes the extra mile” (March 13). Every customer can do their part when patronising the cafe (the APSN Mystical Cafe
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    • 250 23  -  FROM LIM HONG YIN On Feb 27, I was taking a walk along the park connector beside Sungei Serangoon at about 6pm when a speeding cyclist hit my back. This happened about 1.5km from Capeview@Hougang towards Punggol. The impact caused me to fall
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    • QUICK HITS
      • 73 23  -  TANLEENOI Sensors in toilet cubicles for automated flushing often flush more often than required or they flush unnecessarily whenever movement is detected. These sensors also tend to get faulty easily they are either not working or they flush non-stop until a plumber arrives
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      • 87 23  -  just L AWRENCE SEOW As a regular user of the BishanAng Mo Kio Park over the past 20 years, I have come to notice that there are more smokers (even the park contractors) and more cyclists speeding along the footpaths.
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  • world
    • 398 24 AGENCIES WA SHINGTON United States President Donald Trump is planning to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at a two-day summit next month at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort, Axios reported yesterday, citing officials familiar with the planning. The two-day meeting is
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    • 619 24  -  EILEEN NG eileenng@mediacorp.com.sg WITH AGENCIES SINGAPORE The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) should play a greater leadership role in the region to uphold the rules-based international order, said Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop yesterday. At the same
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    • 373 26 Gray Eagle Unmanned Aerial Systems coming amid tensions over North Korea’s missile tests REUTERS SEOUL —The United States has started to deploy attack drones to South Korea, a US military spokesman said yesterday, days after it began to deploy an advanced anti-missile
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    • 516 26 AGENCIES SEJONG (SOUTH KOREA) Seoul does not have firm evidence that China has retaliated against it for deploying a United States missile defence system, so no action has been taken against Beijing, South Korea’s Finance Minister said yesterday. “If we
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    • news
      • 321 27 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR Disney’s live action remake of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast has been removed from Malaysia’s cinema listings and postponed indefinitely pending an “internal review” by film distributor The Walt Disney Company (Malaysia) Sdn
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      • 969 27 BLOOMBERG BEIJING China should further ease population controls by lowering one of the world’s highest marriage ages to encourage more births as the nation grows older, according to a lawmaker. Ms Huang Xihua, a member of the National People’s Congress (NPC) gathering
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    • business
      • 872 28 BLOOMBERG S TOCKHOLM Volvo’s luxury XC90 SUV has a quintessentially Scandinavian design. But the cabling comes from Morocco, the catalysts from South Africa, the leather keys from Portugal and its plug-in hybrid batteries from South Korea. Oh, and its owners are Chinese.
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      • 995 28 BLOOMBERG TOKYO The owner of a car repair business in north-west Tokyo has been digging into his retirement fund to keep his shop going. He is in his mid-60s, he is not making money and he knows he will eventually have to close
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 1015 30 CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM The Ellen DeGeneres Show XIII (HD) 7.00 First Look Asia (HD) 9.00 The Dr Oz Show VII (HD) 10.00 Arts 21 (HD) 10.30 JML TV Home Shopping (Paid Presentation) 11.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show XIV (HD) (PG) 11.45 Just For Laughs Gags XV (HD) NOON Food Factory
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