Today, 16 May 2017

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  • 13 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING mediacorp TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017 MCI(P) 082/04/2017
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  • 42 1 Japanese naval servicemen aboard the warship JS Sazanami during Singapore’s inaugural international maritime review yesterday. Delegates from 44 countries and 46 warships joined in to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Republic of Singapore Navy. HOT N PHOTO: JASON QUAH
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  • 1043 1 About 40,000 institutions, including hospitals and offices, infected across the nation AGENCIES HONG KONG —Cyber chaos spread yesterday in Asia as companies, schools and government agencies booted up computers following the weekend’s worldwide ransomware attack. China bore the brunt of
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  • 1031 1  -  KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —Motorists may say goodbye soon to the hassle of tearing parking coupons, with a new mobile application for the payment of parking fees in the works. The
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  • hot news
    • 821 2  -  SIAUMINGEN siaumingen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —In the wake of the latest global cyber attacks, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) here say they have been beefing up their defences in recent months amid greater awareness and having witnessed their systems come under siege. While they
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    • 542 2 AGENCIES LONDON —Mr Marcus Hutchins (picture), the young cyber expert who saved Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) from even worse damage by hackers is believed to have operated from a small bedroom in his parents’ house in Devon.
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    • 604 4 THENEWYORKTIMES HONG KONG —Hackers in Vietnam have been attacking foreign firms and other targets for years, seeking information and using tactics that suggest links to the Vietnamese government, cyber security company FireEye said yesterday. The findings, laid out in a report by
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    • 589 8 AGENCIES BEIJING Chinese President Xi Jinping criticised protectionism yesterday at a summit positioning Beijing as a champion of globalisation with the United States turning inwards under President Donald Trump. “Globalisation is encountering some headwinds,” Mr Xi told nearly 30
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    • 266 8 AFP Some European countries have refused to sign off on a trade statement at China’s Silk Road summit, a diplomat said yesterday, dealing a setback to Beijing’s efforts to gain full support for its initiative. Germany, Estonia and Hungary are among the European
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    • 595 10  -  Amaravati slated to be centre for global investment; project to be carried out over 15 20 years RUMIHARDASMALANI rumih@mediacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE A consortium comprising Ascendas-Singbridge and Sembcorp Development has been appointed to master develop the core commercial area of the
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    • 364 10 S ING A POR E The Republic is looking forward to concluding the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca) with India, Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry) S Iswaran said. Concluded in 2005, the SingaporeIndia Ceca is a bilateral free-trade agreement covering areas such
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    • 502 12  -  VICTOR LOH victor.loh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE No one country can manage the growing range of complex transnational threats on its own, and multilateral cooperation is the key to ensuring maritime security, President Tony Tan said yesterday. He was presiding over Singapore’s inaugural international maritime
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  • Singapore
    • 760 14  -  Active and retired TP officers will contribute to the building’s storied past WONG PEI TING wongpeiting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —There was a time when, if you were taking a driving test and you made a mistake that means immediate failure, you would
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    • news
      • 751 16  -  LaSalle grads design clothes that cater to both wheelchair users and the able-bodied JOEY CHUAXUE TING joeychua.xueting@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —For most people, fashion conjures up images of conspicuous, captivating articles of clothing donned by models strutting down the runway. Three LaSalle graduates are
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      • 286 16  -  ALFRED CHUA SINGAPORE —Over a span of five days last year, Paul Kwan watched out for when his domestic helper went to bed, because that was his cue to retrieve secret recordings of her in the bathroom. The 52-year-old Canadian
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      • 426 17  -  ALFRED CHUA alfredchuam@mediacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE –A former Singapore Customs officer who tried to gain sexual favours from a cigarette smuggler in return for showing her leniency was yesterday sentenced to three months’ jail for trying to obtain bribes. Jonathan Sasayiah, 31, sent
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      • 241 17 SINGAPORE —From Monday, members of the public can send in their suggestions for the names of the last three MRT stations on the Circle Line, located at Keppel, Cantonment and Prince Edward. To be completed in 2025, the stations will
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    • business
      • 779 18  -  ANGELATENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —AEM Holdings’ chairman Loke Wai San is very positive about the growth prospects for the company, on the back of the adoption of new equipment and the tech sector rebound boosting demand for semiconductors. Mainboard-listed AEM designs and builds high-density
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      • 319 18 SINGAPORE—City Developments (CDL) has pledged to reduce its carbon emissions by 38 per cent from 2007 levels. The developer aims to achieve this target by 2030, up from its previous target of 25 per cent, the group stated in its
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      • 587 19 1,555homes were sold last month, down from the 1,780 units developers sold in March SINGAPORE New private home sales retreated 12.6 per cent last month from the near four-year high in March but market momentum continues to be strong,
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    • sports
      • 691 20  -  DEEPANRAJ GANESAN sports@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is probably their biggest match in almost 13 years, but unfortunately, Home United will be marking their appearance in tonight’s Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup Asean zone semi-final clash against Global FC
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      • 611 21  -  S’porean driver and partner win two races to lead GT3 Cup series and GTC Class TEOTENGKIAT tengkiat.teo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Singaporean race driver Andrew Tang got his debut in the Porsche GT3 Cup Trophy China off to a great start last week when
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  • comment & analysis
    • 1064 22  - Macron’s victory cause for hope or despair? RISE IN NEO-LIBERALISM ALSO IMPACTING ASIA AROSOAIE AIDA-MIHAELA Aida Arosoaie is a senior analyst at the Malaysia Programme of S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. The victory of Mr Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 French presidential elections signals the emergence
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    • 660 23  -  THE TIME FOR A CONCERTED EFFORT IS WELL PAST DUE FINANCIAL TIMES EDITORS At a time when hyper-targeted phishing attacks and sophisticated government-sponsored assaults represent the cutting edge of the battle over cyber security, the spread of the WannaCry ransomware looks like a blast from
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    • 34 22 While we cannot control the forces of circumstance or the vagaries of change, we can adapt and emulate the ethos of craftsmanship to ride the waves of change instead of being inundated. VOICES 24
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  • voices
    • 376 24  -  FROM E DWI N TEONG YI NG K EAT It can be easy to interpret the remarks made in “‘Skills, not degrees, at a premium now’” (May 9) simplistically as being that a university qualification is not important, given that it is
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    • 286 24  -  FROM PAUL C HAN POH HOI With the tensions on the Korean peninsula, and China growing more assertive with its foreign policy, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should tread carefully when calculating his nation’s defence policy (“Abe seizes chance to wean Japan off
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    • 236 24  -  FROM ALBERT NG YA KEN It is natural for citizens to compare sentences for similar offences, especially high-profile cases, though they have limited knowledge of the legal niceties or technicalities. The public expects consistent law enforcement and sentencing, although their
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  • world
    • 488 26 Officials warn that terrorist group’s extreme ideology is still active and spreading online AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —Malaysian police said yesterday four Malaysian militants have taken over the role of slain Syr-ia-based Islamic State (IS) recruiter Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed J edi’s role.
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    • 323 26 REUTERS B E IJ I NG —China and Vietnam will manage and properly control their maritime disputes, avoiding actions to complicate or widen them, so as to maintain peace in the South China Sea, the two nations said in a
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    • news
      • 563 27 Expert says Pyongyang’s longest-range ballistic weapon could strike US base in Guam AGENCIES SEOUL —North Korea yesterday celebrated the launch of what appeared to be its longest-range ballistic missile yet tested in a bid to bring the American mainland
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      • 477 28 AFP GENEVA —Scientists will intensify scrutiny of the polar regions as part of an international campaign to improve global weather predictions and minimise risks linked to rapid climate change, the United Nations said yesterday. The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
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      • 549 28 AFP MANILA —Philippine lawmakers yesterday rejected an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte that accused him of a crime against humanity over the deaths of thousands of people killed in his war on drugs. The complaint alleged Mr Duterte had adopted a state policy of
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      • 1264 29 Lines adapting to local tastes as passenger n umbers expected to hit 4.5m by end of the decade BLOOMBERG BEIJING —Ms Liu Jing wakes up at 7am, feeds her 84-year-old mother and two-year-old grandson and then spends the day watching
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
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