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    13 1 TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING TODAY mediacorp MONDAY, 21 AUGUST 2017 MCI(P) 082/04/2017
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    Lock icon PM: 3 keys to secure S’pore’s future
    1333 1  -  EARLY EDUCATION Govt to increase involvement in pre-schools create more places HEALTHY LIVING Diabetes a serious problem; Singaporeans must fight it SMART NATION Take full advantage of tech to improve lives for all NATIONAL DAY RALLY KELLY NG kel lyng@mediacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE With
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  • national day rally 2017
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      Lock icon Lessons from one family in building for the future
      789 2  -  KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As a gardener, a pharmaceutical engineer and a primary school pupil, theirs is not only the tale of a three-generation family but also a microcosm of the Republic’s growth story in the last 50 years. And today,
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      40,000 additional places, 35 more MOE kindergartens in next 5 years
      935 3  -  EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: S$1.7B BOOST FOR SECTOR AMANDA LEE amanda. lee@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Having made “good progress”, the Government is set to raise its level of involvement in the preschool sector and further ramp up the number of pre-school places,
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      New NIE-style institute to train early childhood educators
      583 3  -  AMANDA LEE SINGAPORE The new National Institute of Early Childhood Development (NIEC) will be similar to an NIE for pre-school teachers and carers, providing a full range of diploma and certificate programmes. NIE, the National Institute of Education, is the national teacher-training
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      New training institute will ‘raise pre-school standards’
      541 4  -  EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: GOVT’S CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO QUALITY AMANDA LEE AND TOH EE MING amanda. lee@mediacorp.com.sg toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE Of the new initiatives announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his National Day Rally speech, the setting up of a new
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      KidStart pilot to be ramped up after ‘promising’ feedback
      508 4  -  AMANDA LEE SINGAPORE —A pilot programme to help children from low income and vulnerable families could be scaled up, following “promising” feedback after its first year of implementation, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday at the National Day Rally. Currently,
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      Lock icon Teaching helped former civil servant to ‘grow as a person’
      625 5  -  EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE LOUISA TANG louisa.tang@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE She harboured dreams of becoming a teacher in her university days, but Ms Marie Luo decided not to take the leap straight after completing her business degree at the
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      Sky’s the limit for pre-school deputy centre lead
      571 5  -  LOUISA TANG SINGAPORE —After working her way up from teacher to vice-principal at Kinderland pre-school, Ms Nuraslinda Safaruan decided to pursue her dream of becoming an air stewardess in 2013. She joined regional airline SilkAir for two years, then found herself wanting
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      Lock icon ‘Invisible disease’ a serious problem in Singapore
      852 6  -  PM Lee advises health checks, exercise, better diets and less sugar as ways to reduce risk DIABETES: ONE IN NINE SINGAPOREANS HAS IT KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Singapore is behind only the United States in terms of the prevalence of diabetes in developed
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      Soft drink companies urged to cut sugar content
      513 6  -  TOHEEMING S ING A POR E —The Government has asked soft drink producers to agree to reduce the amount of sugar in all their drinks sold in Singapore, as part of the latest efforts to tackle the threat of diabetes. Announcing this
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      Lock icon FairPrice offering discounts on healthier rice products
      700 7  -  DIABETES: PUSHING FOR THE NATION TO EAT HEALTHY TOHEEMING toheeming@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —From today until the end of the month, NTUC FairPrice will have special discounts and offers on healthier rice products to encourage Singaporeans to eat healthily, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said
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      Lock icon Food stall owners serve up alternate versions of local dishes
      610 7  -  LOUISA TANG S I N G A P O R E —Husband and wife Mr Yahya Ibrahim and Madam Salama Salim avoid soft drinks and sugary foods. When they take tea or coffee, they go for the “kosong” option (Malay
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      Push to weave sensor networks together
      437 9  -  SMART NATION: TURNING TO TECHNOLOGY VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Republic needs to make greater use of information technology (IT) to boost public safety and security, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. For example, while the country has started building its own network
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      Lock icon New app for parking fees to be rolled out by October
      635 9  -  KENNETH CHENG SINGAPORE —By October, a new parking mobile application on trial among public sector officers and their networks will be rolled out to the general public saving motorists the hassle of fumbling with parking coupons. Prime Minister Lee
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      Common QR code will allow you to pay by phone
      335 9 SINGAPORE —In six months’ time, Singapore will have a common QR code, allowing consumers to pay electronically anywhere just by flashing their smartphones. Such transactions will be made via PayNow, the digital fund transfer system recently launched to allow customers
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      Lock icon Dropout’s digital hunch turns into a new economy success story
      612 10  -  SMART NATION: SOLVING PROBLEMS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Acting on a “hunch” about seven years ago that the digitalisation of retail was only a “matter of time”, Mr Syafiq Yussoff decided to give logistics a go and set
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      Lock icon Modern home care solutions for an elderly population
      708 10  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE —Noticing a lack of home caregiving services for the Republic’s elderly population when she returned last year after living abroad for 15 years, Ms Gillian Tee decided that technology could help plug the gap. Together with two partners, she
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    Seize advantages of IT to benefit all S’poreans, PM urges
    541 8  -  SMART NATION: AN INCLUSIVE MOVEMENT FOR ALL GENERATIONS VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Trotting out examples of young and old Singaporeans who have responded to the drive to transform Singapore into a smart nation, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong stressed that
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    Lock icon S’pore lagging behind other cities in e-payment use
    552 8  -  VALERIE KOH SINGAPORE —When it comes to electronic payments, the Republic trails behind other cities, including those in China, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. He noted that Chinese visitors would ask why Singapore was “so backward” when they realised that
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  • singapore
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      Vehicle-rental association could get firms to tighten screening process
      542 11  -  KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Vehicle Rental Association (VRA) is looking into helping car-rental firms to tighten their screening process, such as assisting them to identify customers who have past criminal records. This could be done with the aid of technology,
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      Lock icon Celebrating 40 years of NS brotherhood
      630 11  -  ALFRED CHUA SINGAPORE —Trading stories of how their instructors “tekaned” (punished) them and the rough terrain and operations of their overseas training, a group of close to 40 men spent a merry evening last Friday at a restaurant at Botanic Gardens. Given the clarity
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    • business
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        Apps to help you boost your savings, invest better
        933 12  -  ON THE MONEY RICHARD HARTUNG today@mediacorp.com.sg Apps can definitely make life easier. You can use Uber or Grab to catch a ride, Whats pp or Facebook to connect with friends, and Deliveroo to order a meal. In one of the most
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        Lock icon Is the decline of the US dollar nearing an end?
        435 14  -  TEA LEAVES ZHOU SHI WEI Zhou Shiwei is an investment analyst at Phillip Futures. There is no doubt that the past four months have been rough on the US dollar. After reaching its peak near 103 in early January, the
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    • sports
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        Lock icon Tearful bowler pays tribute to late mentor Henry Tan after gold win
        695 15  -  LOW LIN FHOONG IN KUALA LUMPUR linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg KUALA LUMPUR —Of the women’s bowling team of six here in Malaysia for the SEA Games, Cherie Tan who at 29 is the oldest among them is the “big sister” of
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        Lock icon Waterpolo, netball teams experience contrasting fortunes against hosts
        512 15  -  many years.” noahtanandteoteng KIAT IN KUALA LUMPUR IN KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR —They went to Kuala Lumpur as the defending champions of their respective sports. But Singapore’s men’s waterpolo and women’s netball teams ended up experiencing contrasting fortunes in their final matches
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    • lifestyle
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        Lessons learnt from raising a biracial child
        893 16  -  Bringing up mixed-race children presents many unique challenges PARENTING MATTERS JASSMIN PETER-BERNTZEN features@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE One of the things I love about living in Singapore is that it is a melting pot of cultures. Mixed marriages in Singapore are also at an all-time high,
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  • Learning Minds {SPECIAL}
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      Lock icon Learning doesn’t stop? even when school does
      672 17  -  Five myths that may be stopping you from continuing your education and why you shouldn’t let them BY TRUDY KWEK BY TRUDY KWEK Education is not only for children, but for everyone at every age. The government has rolled out SkillsFuture, a national
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      Lock icon Inspire generations of change
      438 18 Make an impact; mould young lives by working in the early childhood education sector Did you know that children between the ages of two and five should only have up to two hours of screen time daily? According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children who
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      Lock icon Inspiration for her bundle of joy
      430 19 Ms Alice Tham hopes that her pursuit of a degree at Kaplan will inspire her child in future Despite Ms Alice Tham’s work experience, the doors to a promotion seemed closed. Her husband’s enrolment in a master’s programme encouraged the 38-year-old to enrol in
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      Lock icon Ahead of the learning curve
      433 20 NUS-ISS’ Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis gave this Arts student the confidence to make a career switch Mr Chen Mushi Luke was studying for his arts degree at the University at Buffalo when he applied for the Institute of Systems Science at National University of
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      Lock icon An analytical career boost
      448 21 NUS-ISS MTech EBAC has given Mr Ang Ang Rui Xiang more career options, especially in analytics-related fields He was given an opportunity to work as an analysis executive even though he had a bachelor of science in Physics. However, as he did not have a background
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      Lock icon Spurred on to new heights
      409 22 A passion for reading and writing drove para-equestrian Gemma Foo to embark on a Bachelor of Arts programme Cerebral palsy has not stopped Ms Gemma Foo, 22, from living life to the fullest. The para-equestrian who represented Singapore at the Rio 2016 and London 2012
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      Lock icon Capital for a career boost
      453 23 RMIT’s accountancy degree has helped open new doors for Ms Chong Wei Yun When Ms Chong Wei Yun enrolled in RMIT University’s Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) under SIM Global Education, she did not expect to be awarded the 2017 Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Scholarship after
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      Lock icon Gearing up for change
      441 24 SUSS’ School of Business programmes help support the growth of local businesses amid rapidly changing times Over the past two years, the Singapore University of Social Sciences’ (SUSS) School of Business has rolled out an Executive Management Programme (EMP) and an Executive Development Programme (EDP) to
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  • comment & analysis
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      Lock icon Jokowi must ensure religious tolerance holds at all levels
      1067 25  -  GROUPS USING NATIONALISM AS MASK FOR INTOLERANCE DEASYSIMANDJUNTAK Deasy Simandjuntak is a Visiting Fellow at Iseas Yusof Ishak Institute. In his State of the Nation address last Wednesday, President Joko Widodo, also known as Jokowi, called for the safeguarding of Indonesia’s
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      Lock icon Singapore a world leader in water governance
      990 26  -  CHAMPIONING A CIRCULAR ECONOMY APPROACH TO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CECILIA TORTAJADA AND SUNIL NAMBIAR Cecilia Tortajada is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Sunil Nambiar is a researcher at
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      35 25 Singapore shows that the potential for a circular economy approach to water management exists. Perhaps it is only a matter of time before policymakers around the world follow suit. CECILIA TORTAJADA AND SUNIL NAMBIAR 26
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  • voices
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      Cross-sector tie-ups key to meeting green buildings goal
      474 27  -  FROM VEERA SEKARAN The writer owns an urban greening solutions company. In Parliament last month, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat, who heads the Future Economy Council, pointed to the need for close collaboration to support Singapore’s future economy. He quoted the Building
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      Hold employers, dormitory operators to greater account
      298 27  -  FROM KWAN JIN YAO I refer to the report “Two foreign workers’ dorms flagged for hygiene, safety lapses” (Aug 14). This is not the first time transgressions in foreign workers’ dormitories have been observed and reported, yet the extent to which the submission
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      Govt must help mitigate adverse impact of technology on society
      171 27  -  FROM TEOKUEH LIANG I read with interest the commentary “As Smart Nation drive speeds up, anxieties arise” (Aug 15). When we place emphasis on technology in national and social development, a segment of society is bound to be at risk
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  • world
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      Lock icon Indonesia accepts Malaysia’s apology for flag misprint
      357 28 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —Malaysia apologised to Indonesia yesterday for an “unintentional” mistake in printing the Indonesian flag upside down in a souvenir guidebook for the SEA Games. The error made the red-and-white Indonesian flag resemble Poland’s and caused anger in Indonesia, where “#shameonyoumalaysia”
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      Lock icon S’poreans first foreigners to use auto gates at Bangkok airport
      329 28 AGENCIES BANGKOK —Singapore tourists visiting Bangkok can now use automated gates to clear immigration at Suvarnabhumi Airport, the first foreigners allowed to do so by the Thai authorities. “Singapore is the first country to be allowed to use this Auto
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        Lock icon S’pore is our gateway to the region: Turkish PM
        563 29  -  ALBERT WAI albertwai@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE –Turkey wants to strengthen its ties with Asia, the country’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said last night, adding that Singapore is important to his country as a gateway to the region and as a partner in counter-terrorism
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        Lock icon Australia develops plans to prevent public terror attacks
        470 29 AGENCIES C ANBERR A —Australia yesterday released a strategy to prevent vehicle terror attacks carried out in crowded public places following deadly assaults in Barcelona, Nice and London. The report commissioned after 86 people were killed in the Nice truck attack last
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        Lock icon Barcelona van attack suspect may have escaped to France: Police
        369 29 AGENCIES BARCELONA Spanish police hunting for a suspect after the Barcelona van attack that killed 13 people said yesterday they could not rule out that he had slipped over the border into France. Spanish police said security operations were under
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        Lock icon N Korea warns US, S Korea against joint war exercise
        534 30 AGENCIES SEOUL —North Korea warned yesterday that the United States will be “pouring gasoline on fire” by conducting an annual war game in the South this week amid heightened tensions between Pyongyang and Washington. Combative rhetoric between the nations spiked
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        Lock icon Concerns grow over Trump’s volatility, unpopularity
        594 30 AFP WA SHINGTON —United States President Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office today after a two-week holiday rife with chaos and the dark clouds plaguing his fledgling presidency show no signs of clearing. Seven months after taking office, the real estate magnate’s approval
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      236 31 TV HIGHLIGHTS 95.8 IN ACTION! (HD) (CC) Being a DJ not only requires one to be eloquent; a good DJ is also knowledgeable and witty. Besides reinforcing the image of Capital 95.8 as an informative radio station with well-informed DJs, this gameshow also serves as a platform to convey useful
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