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  • 13 1 TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING TODAY mediacorp TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017 MCI(P) 082/04/2017
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  • 717 1  -  Don’t be fixated on university education as only way to realise potential: Ong Ye Kung TOHEEMING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Urging the public not to be “overly fixated” on the university cohort participation rate, Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) Ong Ye Kung stressed
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  • 61 1 Teachers and family members of a 12-year-old boy who drowned yesterday at East Coast beach in front of Xtreme Skatepark. The Jurongville Secondary School student had gone swimming after finishing an examination. SCDF officers found the body off the waters of Bedok
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  • hot news
    • 689 2 AGENCIES PARIS —French President-elect Emmanuel Macron laid the groundwork yesterday for his transition to power, announcing a visit to Germany and a name change for his political movement and appearing with his predecessor at a solemn World War II commemoration. Mr Macron’s
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    • 520 2 Resounding victory a mixture of political skill and luck WHY CENTRIST TRIUMPHED AGENCIES PARIS —The French presidential runoff transcended national politics. It was globalisation against nationalism. It was the future versus the past. Open versus closed. But in his resounding victory on Sunday night, Mr Emmanuel Macron, the centrist who
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    • 696 4 WHY FAR-RIGHT CANDIDATE LOST AGENCIES PARIS —For the past year, a pressing political question has been whether widespread public frustration against Western political establishments had morphed into a global populist movement. Britain’s vote to leave the European Union last
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    • 835 6 HUGE CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT AGENCIES PA RIS French President-elect Emmanuel Macron will not have much of a honeymoon period as he faces the daunting task of reuniting a troubled and divided nation riven by anxieties about terrorism and chronic unemployment. Ravaged
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    • 530 6  -  JOEY CHUAXUE TING joeychua.xueting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —French nationals working in Singapore expressed relief over the results of the presidential polls in France, saying that the prospect of the country’s economy closing off to the world has been averted. After the election on Sunday, Mr
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    • 571 8  -  He argues that it has only been four terms since Elected Presidency was in troduced VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Former presidential candidate Tan Cheng Bock has made a legal challenge in the High Court against the Attorney-General’s Chambers’ (AGC)
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    • parliament
      • 540 10  -  TOHEEMING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —With the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) set to be the sixth autonomous university here, several Members of Parliament (MPs) yesterday raised some areas of concern about how the institution would be positioned. Issues raised included whether it
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      • 431 10  -  SIAUMINGEN SINGAPORE The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) will step up its efforts to ensure that its students go through a curriculum with a strong social focus regardless of their course of study. Set up as a private university
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      • 692 12  -  Simplified import requirements clearer labelling rules planned to better protect consumers KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Ahead of the competition watchdog’s findings on the infant-for-mula market to be released later this week, the Government has indicated that it wants to
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  • singapore
    • 523 14  -  KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Making all essential payment modes available on a single terminal is something the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and other agencies are working on, as the Government aims for half the food and beverage
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    • 413 14 SINGAPORE —The number of eateries ordered to suspend operations because of food hygiene lapses more than doubled over three years, jumping from 62 in 2013 to 132 last year. Of the 132 licences suspended in 2016,60 involved stalls in food courts, coffee shops and canteens
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    • parliament
      • 613 16  -  KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE How Singapore protects its workers against unemployment is crucial but if done wrongly, this could lead to undesirable repercussions such as more redundancies and higher long-term unemployment, Second Manpower Minister Josephine Teo cautioned yesterday. She was responding to
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      • 450 16  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE Compared with previous terms of Government, Parliament sittings are getting longer. Members of Parliament (MPs) stayed behind until 10pm at a sitting last month, Leader of the House Grace Fu noted yesterday as she urged lawmakers to
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    • news
      • 359 17  -  His body was found some three hours later off the waters of Bedok Jetty by SCDF personnel FARIS MOKHTAR farism@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE With an examination paper behind them, a group of Jurongville Secondary School students headed to East Coast Park yesterday to
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    • sports
      • 831 18  -  Midfielder yet to resolve his contract with BBCU after their withdrawal from Thai league TEOTENGKIAT tengkiat.teo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Sadness, confusion and frustration. These are the emotions that Singapore national footballer Hafiz Sujad has been experiencing over the past one-and-a-half weeks after
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      • 506 19 Time is slower than national mark but he is pleased to meet qualifying goal SINGAPORE Joseph Schooling ensured that he would be swimming in four events as planned at the Fina World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in July after clinching his ticket
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    • entertainment
      • 643 20  -  The HK singing veteran of 30 years says one family member in the industry is enough FAITH WONG SINGAPORE Hong Kong-born star Wakin Chau would not encourage his daughter, Anya Chua, to enter the music business. Anya, 23, is studying
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      • 541 21  -  JILLALPHONSO SINGAPORE Reality singing contest The Voice Singapore/Malaysia has drawn brickbats from netizens because of a competition rule stating that contestants must be fluent in Mandarin. While participants maybe of any nationality or race, they must also be able sing in Mandarin
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  • comment & analysis
    • 1058 22  -  MAKE THE APPLICATION PROCESS FOR PRs AND CITIZENSHIP MORE EXTENSIVE AND TRANSPARENT EUGENETENG Eugene Teng is a research analyst at the Institute of Policy Studies Social Lab, a centre for social indicators research. In recent weeks, there has been renewed public debate on revising
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    • 548 23  -  CELEBRATION, ANXIETY IN FRANCE PETER FOSTER Peter Foster is The Daily Telegraph’s Europe editor. THE DAILYTELEGRAPH Emmanuel Macron’s convincing election to the French presidency will have been greeted with sighs of relief on both sides of the Channel, but in London,
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    • 871 24  -  POSSIBLE FIRST CHANGE TO 70-YEAR-OLD CONSTITUTION LEO LEWIS Leo Lewis is Tokyo correspondent for Financial Times. FINANCIAL TIMES A t the opening of the 1964 Olympic Games, a flock of white doves plumed from the stadium into the blue Tokyo skies: Symbols
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    • 35 22 The Constitution may have been drafted by Americans and promulgated while a broken Japan was under United States occupation, but it has proved remarkably resistant to various postwar waves of Japanese nationalism. LEO lewis 24
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    • 239 24 Broadcast A sia2017 www.Broadcast-Asia.com LEVEL 3-6, SUNTEC SINGAPORE 2017 MAY MAY 23 25 TUESDAY THURSDAY Source, Connect, Gain insights S more... Over 300 product launches from 600 international brand owners and solutions providers Comprehensive exhibit profiles covering the broadcasting ecosystem with key thematic zones Gain insights from 80+ renowned speakers
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  • voices
    • 245 25  -  FROM JUNE CHEAH-NICHOLLS It was interesting to read the comments about the attitude of entitlement of some young Singaporeans, raised in a dialogue with the Prime Minister (S’pore ‘must steal other people’s lunches’ to stay ahead of competition; May 1). Competition is primordial.
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    • 154 25  -  F ROM KAREN LOW Director, Communications and Marketing, Infocomm Media Development Authority We refer to Mr Tiong Choon Hin’s letter “Stop the sale of dual-SIM phones that support 2G” (April 28). The sale of dual-SIM phones, in which one of the card slots
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    • 489 25  -  FROM EDWIN GOH XIAN JUN Congratulations to Team LKT for winning the affiliates’ confidence at the Football Association of Singapore elections. There is, however, no honeymoon period for the new council; it must hit the ground running (We’re watching you, FAS: SportSG; May
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  • world
    • 632 26  -  Freedom of navigation policy in South China Sea unchanged says Pacific Fleet commander AMERICAN ADMIRAL IN SINGAPORE FOR DEFENCE TALKS BEN HO ben.ho@mediacorp.com.sg WITH AGENCIES SINGAPORE —While China has been strengthening its maritime capabilities in recent years, the rise
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    • 373 26 NEW STRAITS TIMES KUALA LUMPUR —Malaysia’s police chief has confirmed that the top Malaysian Islamic State (IS) operative in Syria, Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi, has been killed in an attack near Raqqa, Syria last month. “After looking through the intelligence
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    • news
      • 480 27 AGENCIES MANILA Philippine and United States troops yesterday kicked off their annual joint exercises that are smaller in scale than in years past, focusing on disaster response and counter-terror-ism while excluding territorial defence operations and maritime security. The changes were instructed by
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      • 767 28 AFP SEOUL —Thirty years after South Korea became a democracy, voters born in the period go to the polls today frustrated over their prospects and demanding change as growth slows and job prospects fade. The decades-long “Miracle on the Han” named after
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      • 550 29 Fears that a US withdrawal from Paris pact will throw agreement into disarray AFP BONN —United States President Donald Trump’s threats to pull America out of the climate-rescue Paris Agreement are expected to cast a cloud over the United Nations talks that
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      • 590 29 (2nd Edition) deal. AGENCIES OS LO/ WA S H I N GTO N Many nations urged United States President Donald Trump yesterday to remain in the global agreement to combat climate change, even if he reduces the ambition of US pledges to cut
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    • 81 29 (2nd Edition) Comprehensive conservatory-style training to become an artiste, this programme will equip participants with the fundamental knowledge of screen acting. Learn the various skills and techniques of script reading, voice articulation and character building through the guidance of Media Practitioners. 1 f43t J-L. Diploma in Acting (Chinese) inW REGISTER NOW AT
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 984 30 CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM Antique Road Trip IX 7.00 First Look Asia (HD) 9.00 The Dr Oz Show VII (HD) 10.00 Arts 21 (HD) (PG) 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 Jamie’s American Road
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    • 238 30 Mediacorp’s latest online TV service offers entertainment, lifestyle, information and news across multiple devices. Log on to www.toggle.sg or download the Toggle App now. TOGGLE-IT-FIRST Watch episodes in advance before anyone else. PAID MIGHTIEST MOTHER-IN-LAW (EP 21) (PG) Xiuzhu is diagnosed with liver failure. Her heart sinks. Hongzhe appreciates Ke’en’s
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