The Business Times, 10 May 2003

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  • 19 1 MITA(P) 024/03/2003 85e THE BUSINESS TIMES weekend I N G A P O R E internet, hty... business tunes
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  • 788 1  -  EXCLUSIVE Far-reaching industry changes shaping up in wake of USS FTA By I Siow Li Sen Lachlan Hough, Amex managing director and head of Asia Pacific and the subcontinent, said: "It's too early for us to share with the market exactly what our future
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  • 241 1  -  -by Ven Sreenivasan SMRT chiefs train of thought [SINGAPORE] If there's one thing which turns on SMRT Corps new boss, it is commercial space. Presenting her company's full-year results yesterday, chief executive Saw Phaik Hwa was in her element as she illustrated how Singapore's biggest train operator could boost
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  • 807 1  -  The industry upheaval has left analysts with a radically changed view of their profession. WONG WD KONG reports WONG WEI KONG HE was a rookie analyst when the Singapore market saw its last bull run. Now a decade later and as head of research at DBS
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  • 593 1  -  Natsteel-styte battle may be shaping up as Oei continues purchases By] Michelle Quah [SINGAPORE) A takeover battle of Nat Steel proportions could be in the works for Singapore-investment firm BIL International. And once again, businessman Oei Hong Leong is involved. Just days after
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 51 1 13 f The Merc for execs who want to get a life on the fast lane. PAGE 12 Catch up with BT Weekend specials all weekend at http://business-times.asial.com.sg. BT newspaper subscribers get free access. For others, it will be a premium subscription service from 4am each day Call 6388-3838 for
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    • 17 1 AM LIVING WITH SARS Banker Wee Cho Yaw has a little advice for fellow Singaporeans. PAGE 4
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    • 109 1 PROPERTY S'pore developers are stirring after a long hibernation. PAGES RAFFLES CONVERSATION aßaintree Pictures' CEO Daniel Yiin lets you in on his love affair with the movies. PAGE 3 INVESTMENT How to make risky stocks work for you in the S'pore market. PAGE 7 *tiX/^ Breguet. La passion laisse des
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  • news front
    • 511 2  -  But sceptics doubt wisdom of backing euroland's economic weakness From Neil Behrmann in London CURRENCY traders have detected sizeable Middle-Eastern sales of the dollar in favour of the euro. China has been pursuing a similar strategy, they say. And this explains why
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    • 619 2  -  Reports from Jennifer Lien in Washington SINGAPORE wants to share with its neighbours the experience it gained in negotiating a historic free-trade agreement (FTA) with the United States. In its quest to promote an interlocking web of FTAs in the
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    • 526 2 Risk of catching it in S'pore very small, he tells Americans PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong went to the US not just to sign a free trade agreement, but also to deliver a message to US business interests a message seeking to reassure US
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    • 685 2  -  Saturday soapbox siow li sen TWO weeks ago I complained to my mother about having too much work. Her reaction caught me totally offguard. My usually tough-as-nails mum her being widowed for 40 years must have played a part is
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 837 2 I3S NM Holdings Ltd (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of NM Holdings Ltd ("the Company") will be held at Century Roxy Park Hotel, Roxy 3, Level 4, 50 East Coast Road, Roxy Square, Singapore *****9
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  • the raffles conversation
    • Article, Illustration
      1773 3  -  Film producer Daniel Yun carries on his shoulders the heavy responsibility of making S'pore movies a viable and creative enterprise. Yet it is a role he relishes. PARVATHINAYAR reports PARVATHI NAYAR YOU could say that Daniel Yun learnt his trade early. As a kid he was a 'producer'
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    • 639 3 DANIEL Yun didn't have a privileged background. "I spent my childhood next to a Malay kampong," he says. "We were very poor, very different from the average child of today. My father was a cook, he worked very hard." Still, his
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 63 3 Raffles INTERNATIONAL I f'ifi Is, KcMiris The Raffles Conversation is brought to you through a special arrangement with Raffles International Hotels and Resorts. The Traveller's Palm in the Raffles International logo is an apt symbol. Not only has water stored at the base of this palm provided sustenance, the leaves
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  • news companies
    • 460 4  -  Salaries there still outpace housing price rises; no danger of bubble By Vince Chong IF China needs a sales pitch, it should look no further than Hsuan Owyang. Capita Land's China operations were key to the group's profitable performance last year, and this investment
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    • 743 4  - SingTel's share scheme going back to basics The tried and trusted method of rewarding performers with cash may still be the best, says R SIVANITHY corporate analysis R SIVANITHY IN an effort to overcome the various objections to employee share options schemes, Singapore Telecommunications has hit upon what appears to
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    • 318 4  -  livingwfthsars By Quak Hiang Whai WLL Cho Yaw, a veteran of many corporate battles in the last few decades, is not someone easily intimidated by adversity. And certainly not by the Sars outbreak which many observers had feared could bring the Singapore
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    • 646 4  -  market review r sivanithy WHAT a fascinating week it has been for students of stock market psychology specifically those who marvel at how quickly greed replaces fear when a speculative game is afoot. Stocks that cost much less a fortnight ago and were avoided like
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    • 71 4 sn 1,309.60 (-8.31) ST INDEX FUTURES 1,305.00 (-1.00) SIMSCI FUTURES 159.20 (-1.50) Friday Chang*' KLSECONP 6*114 -0.70 MKKKI £25 K.I51I6 »UMI HAViSKM! __3.<*4I« «183 11 11—1 184 ,t£ *«I2 JAKARTA GOV _469 W -\M MANILA n>MP I.«7.1i6 mm, TAIPKIWPI 4.***** «KM amtooT ci9.li »ui SHENZHEN H Hnsrd AI'ST ALL
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    • 76 4 FOREX RATES USS S$ I SS (SSper I SS) 1741 Vll'SS/SS ptf V) INK 2.797 Kl K<HI 'SS/SS/K). 11*2 iMft YKN II7J (740 KM n.MW ilKS HKS 7 7» 4 480 BAHT 4157 2445 Kl 1*1 AH HSM 4312 KKNMINKI K.299 4767 INIHAN 471# 27.11 PRIME RATES SINGAPORE* 515
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    • corporateroundup
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    • 360 4 Call tofl-frw **********2 wmkEmZSiisi r~iN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF EE HOLDINGS PTE LTD (Incorporated in Singapore) (In Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of Ee Hctfngs Pie Lid duly held at 89 Short Sfreet #09-03 Golden Wall Centre Singapore *****6
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  • money property
  • 5 5 Transaction date: May 9
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • money personal finance
    • 883 6  -  By Teh Hooi Ling WORDS canl quite begin to describe what a week we have had for the portfolios we track. First, the worst nightmare of any contrarian investor became a reality when Excel Machine was suspended and put under judicial management So we
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    • 999 6  -  GENEVIEVE CUA finds out more about a course designed to boost your financial intelligence to get a better handle on your money GENEVIEVE CUA DOES the challenge of investing seem like an utter maze? Or you can't seem to disentangle yourself from debt, or you feel
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  • Article, Illustration
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  • money personal investment
    • 899 7 I NEED your advice. Since the bank interest rate is so low, and theHDB loan rate is 2.6%, should I repay the loan in full? Please recommend a financial plan. These are my circumstances. TR Age 42; Wife: 41; Two sons: Age 14
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    • 1586 7  -  A diversified portfolio of companies with low price-to-book ratios may yield higher returns in the long run show me the money teh hooi ling ONE time-honoured rule in the field of finance is that risk and return are related. Often called the "no free
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  • news at home
    • 406 8  -  Capital values of units there have fallen just 4% in the last six years By Vince Chong SUNTEC City boasts the most expensive strata-titled office space at over $1,600 per sq ft, with capital values falling only 4 per cent in the last
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    • 274 8  -  1 eye on the economy By Kenneth Lim SINGAPORE'S terms of trade fell 0.6 per cent year on year in March, while smaller year-on-year growth in export and import prices reflected a slowdown in oil price increases. Weaker terms of trade which mea- sure
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    • 238 8 SINGAPORE Press Holdings' 126,000 sq ft Paragon extension is 97 per cent let ahead of its opening by the first week of September, says an article in the company's in-house newsletter Presslines Sixty-six tenants have signed up for the extension, which is
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    • 444 8  -  They've found 2 strains of vims and mutation pattern By] Kenneth Lim ANNOUNCING yesterday that they had discovered two strains of the Sars virus and a mutation pattern, scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) are now hunkering down for the next
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    • 152 8 SINGAPORE and Malaysia yesterday exchanged instruments of ratification of the special agreement to refer the Pedra Branca issue to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The exchange took place at Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement. Singapore was
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 1225 8 §1 CLIPSAL c,i P sal Industries (Holdings) Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice off Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Level 1, Libra Gemini, Marina Mandarin, 6 Raffles Boulevard. Marina Square. Singapore *****4 on Tuesday,
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    • 906 8 11CLIPSAL Clipsal Industries (Holdings) Limited IB M (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) Notice off Extraordinary General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company will be held at Level I, Libra Gemini. Manna Mandarin, 6 Raffles Boulevard. Manna Square. Singapore *****4 on Tuesday. 27
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  • news executive jobs
    • 734 9  -  It's a rare industry that has more jobs than job-seekers, but that's the problem the precision engineering sector faces. CHUANG PECK MING finds out more CHUANG PECK MING SARS may have taken the shine off working in the services sector, but that hasn't led job
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 1306 9 JADASON ENTERPRISES LTD (Incorporated in Singapore with llmittd liability) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of Jadason Enterprises Ltd ("the Company") will be held at Empress Room 3, Level 2, Carlton Hotel. 76 Bras Basah Road, Singapore *****8 on Tuesday. 27 May
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  • news region
    • 551 10 SARS OUTBREAK Research in Singapore finds virus is not mutating significantly and disease could be killing more men than women AP AFP [BEIJING] The spread of Sars seems to be slowing in Beijing and Hong Kong but accelerating in Taiwan,
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    • 187 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said yesterday it had asked all staff to take four weeks of unpaid leave, saving the Sars-hit carrier about HK$l.l billion (*****.8 million). Cathay *said workers have been asked to take the leave between
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    • 616 10  -  But others call it a backlash against a booming industiy From Ajoy Sen in New Delhi INDIAN software professionals say the recent harassment of their colleagues abroad over alleged visa irregularities is an aberration, and will pass. But others call it a backlash against
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    • 236 10 AFP [NEW DELHI] India yesterday announced a series of measures to check stock market fraud, which two years ago led to a huge scandal that eroded investor confidence and damaged the banking industry. Finance Minister Jaswant Singh said his government was enforcing a slew of
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    • 219 10 AFP (SHANGHAI] China s offi cial jobless rate of 4.1 per cent is set to more than double after the central government said it will overhaul its definition of unemployment, analysts and state media said yesterday. People earning less than subsidised local living
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  • inbrief
    • 78 10 LAT (JAKARTA! Two environmental groups the Lon-don-based Environmental Investigative Agency and Jakarta-based Telapak said on Thursday that brokers in Singapore and Malaysia are illegally buying the logs of a threatened Indonesian tree species and selling the ram in wood as legal timber around the world,
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    • 77 10 Reuters [HONG KONG] Hong Kong saw a rise in the number of homes worth less than their mortgages in the quarter through March as property prices continued to fall. The number of negative equity loans where the outstanding mortgage exceeds the' Value of the
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    • 69 10 AP [BOSTON] The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab has pulled out of a collaboration in India after less than two years. Media Lab Asia was founded in 2001 to help develop technologies to benefit India's impoverished masses. But Walter Bender, Media Lab's director
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    • 78 10 Bloomberg [BEIJING] Foreign direct investment into China will slow in the current quarter because of concerns about the Sars epidemic, the trade ministry said yesterday. Still, total foreign investment this year will probably be a record, "likely" topping US$6O billion, as long as the epidemic
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 2111 10 iCIU TYE SOON LIMITED Notice of Annual General Meeting NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Forty-Seventh Annual General Meeting of Tye Soon Limited will be held at Jurong Country Club. 9 Science Centre Road, Singapore *****8 on Wednesday the 28th May 2003 at 1.00 p m for the following purposes
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  • news world
    • 624 11 Economists see this continuing even as job market stagnates Bloomberg [ATLANTA] Back in December, Atlanta contractor Ken Hammock's business was so slow he was worried about paying his company's bills. No longer. In late January, the orders started picking up. Today, Mr Hammock is so
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    • 224 11 Firms are more sensitive to bow markets will react to higher risk investments Reuters [CHICAGO] Federal Reserve Board governor Susan Bies said on Thursday that business caution on new investment projects was keeping the US economy from returning to full health. "While it's (business
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    • 358 11 Reuters [WASHINGTON] A US congressional panel on Thursday asked Swiss investment bank ÜBS Warburg to hand over records of its financial dealings with scandalplagued Health South Corp, and accused executives at both firms of "an incestu-ous-like relationship". As part of an expanding probe
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    • 267 11 Reuters [UNITED NATIONS] The United States and Britain yesterday introduced a resolution that would end 12 years of UN sanctions against Iraq and give them control of the country's oil revenues for at least a year. The tough resolution, that in
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    • inbrief
      • 122 11 AFP [NEW YORK] Telecommunications group Qwest is in negotiations with regulators to settle possible fraud charges, the Wall Street Journal said yesterday The allegations centred on a series of "swaps" in which Qwest traded parts of its fibre-optic network capacity with other telecommunications companies. The
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      • 63 11 AP [WASHINGTON] Microsoft has acknowledged a security flaw in its popular Internet Passport service that left 200 million consumer accounts vulnerable to hackers and thieves an admission that could expose the company to a hefty fine from US regulators. Microsoft said it fixed the problem on Thursday
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      • 84 11 AP [PARIS] Opec must reduce oil produc- tion further and will decide on new cuts at a June meeting, the group's president told a French newspaper yesterday. "There is too much oil on the market and this has a bad influence on prices, which have
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      • 78 11 Reuters [FRANKFURT] Chip giant Intel's president Paul Otellini sees strong demand in the key Chinese market and expects a recovery in the semiconductor industry this year, German financial daily Handelsblatt reported yesterday. Mr Otelli- ni said Intel's new wireless chip Centri no had met the
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      • 76 11 Bloomberg [SAN DIEGO, California] Gateway Inc. which has lost money in nine of the last 10 quarters, said it will make a quarterly profit this year. The goal for 2003 is to be profitable "and stay that way", chief executive Ted Waitt said at a
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  • style motoring
    • CRUISE MISSILE
      • 24 12  - The Mercedes-Benz E5OO packs the speed of a Porsche with all the gentility of its sedan pedigree. CHRISTOPHER TAN enjoys the ride CHRISTOPHER TAN
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    • 519 12  -  SAMUEL EE checks out the Amuza Grand Chauffer, a stretch limo replete with Osim massage chairs SAMUEL EE IT may not have the pedigree of a Rolls-Royce or the presence of a Maybach, but the Amuza Grand Chauffeur has one distinct advantage the shiok factor.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 2213 12 SAMUDERA SHIPPING LINE LTD (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of SAMUDERA SHIPPING LINE LTD ("the Company") will be held at Amara Hotel. 165 Tanpng Pagar Road. Singapore *****9. Connection 2, Level 3 on Wednesday. 28
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  • style travel/food
    • 484 13 Sars has sparked a tourist boom in India's famed tea town Reuters THE famed tea-produc-ing town of Darjeeling in India is seeing a boom in tourism as Indians avoid holidays elsewhere in Asia for fears of Sars. Malls and restaurants in the town, which retains a
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    • 564 13 From tandoori style giant langoustines to a creative combination off beets and cheese, Parisian chefs are whipping up some some wonderfully creative dishes this spring IHT (PARIS) The city's best tables may be suffering from a loss of customers almost every grand restaurant has an empty
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 1311 13 wine&dine with weekendßT A-f WINE Pta Ltd I include "Finest Indian Restaurant in the World 14th i of salads and desserts. Available from Mon-Fri only, except I ideal for three to four persons. The Twin Combination Hitachi Tower. #01-11. Tel/fax: *****397 Best Restaurant" by Restaurant megazine; "Singapore's pubiic#»olidays. comes in
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 163 13 UKVPTiC CROSSWORD 27 Scatter these arcxjrKj left right for protection (7) 28 Brown, a little gentleman, lends authority (7) YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION won't cross the line (7) 14 Personal siAscripbon (9) Across: 6 Power steering, 8 DOWN 15 hrt^i2^\ showin9 Anubis, 9 Road hump, 10 Hot, 17 Boldly confronts a number
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  • style sports
    • 1089 14 A string of shaky calls is giving the impression that referees are favouring glamour team LA Lakers NYT THE NBA's threetime defending champions, down two games to none after a blowout loss to the Spurs in San Antonio on Wednesday, are undeniably in trouble,
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    • 643 14  -  frankly speaking walton morais IT irritates me to no end to read in the football press how Paolo di Canio could possibly be West Ham's saviour in Sunday's do-or-die battle against Birmingham City that will decide if they survive relegation from the English
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  • 736 14 Transaction date: May 9 TURNOVER COM) VALUE COM) IMi Te4al Tmt* MuMInd 68.538 68.538 50.494 50.494 Manufacturg 222.949 119.165 342.114 115.773 12.015 127.788 Commera 70,045 3,296 73,341 20,464 499 20.962 Tptrttor/Com 53,701 975 54,676 84,121 147 84.268 Finance 39,233 39,233 147.348 147.348 Construction 163,800 20,829 184.629 19,179 763 19.942
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  • style consumer alert
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      761 15  -  LCD monitors for computers are not just space-saving but also more economical than CRT monitors in the long run. DANIEL BUENAS offers some buying tips DANIEL BUENAS EVER notice how much space your monitor takes up on your table at home or in the office? Computer com
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  • style shopping
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      606 16  -  Cargo, the new homeware chain from Courts, is looking to carve a niche with its trendy and myriad merchandise. CORINNE KERK reports CORINNE KERK IT'S positioned as a mid-market lifestyle store for trendy and value-for-money home accessories and soft furnishing. Sounds familiar? Perhaps. Except Cargo the new homeware
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    • 580 16  -  Mother's Day will be celebrated tomorrow, but have you had time to find a nice gift for the mother in your life? Fear not. There'll always be at least 10 things your mother/the mother of your children really wants, except that she's just too busy, stressed
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    • 319 16 Mlllanla Walk Mother's Day promotion: Spend a minimum of $50 (combined same-day receipts from any two outlets) and receive a $10 Flower Matters voucher. Offer is limited to the first 100 shoppers. $50 Outback Steakhouse vouchers to the first 20 shoppers who spend a minimum of $150 (single
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 1263 16 1\ I ARMSTRONG INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION LIMITED (Incorporated in Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2003 Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Conference Room, 531 Bukit Batok Street 23, Singapore *****7 on Tuesday, 27 May 2003 at 9 а.m. to
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  • style health
    • 750 17  -  Pan recall shows the vigilance of regulators as well as the key role of companies who make their own brands, says CHEAH UI-HOON CHEAH UI-HOON NO doubt it caused some worry when the announcement first came out, but there is a silver lining to the cloud
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    • 878 17  -  By Irlan Qureshi RECENT news about the Pan Pharmaceuticals supplement recall brings up a number of issues concerning consumers and the use of nutritional supplements. In the light of the Sars outbreak, and the consequent increased self-pre-scription of supplements, these issues deserve to be brought
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    • 404 17  -  Dr Ng Wai Lin Consultant Cardiologist, Raffles Hospital Q: What is coronary thrombosis? I understand it is a heart condition where the arteries are blocked by blood instead of cholesterol. Which has higher risk? A: Coronary thrombosis is a condition where the coronary arteries supplying the heart is occluded
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  • style pursuits
    • 1227 18 The bespoke suit, which first transformed the male physique with the beauty inherent in construction in the early 1800s, is making a comeback LAT-WP IN an attempt to explain how men's suits are made, Terry Haste, the managing director of H Huntsman Sons Ltd on the famed
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    • 1002 18  -  Going out or staying in this weekend? parvathi nayar rounds up recommendations PARVATHI NAYAR Cds Better than original Michael Buble's rendition of the Bee Gees' hit How Can You Mend A Broken Heart is the outstanding track on this debut disc of covers. With Barry Gibb endorsing the effort
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 100 18 Have you grown enough to be recognised? i Nominations for the 2003 eso.startup Award are now open. To be eligible, a company must: K be a privately-held enterprise be under 5 years old Ji (from date of incorporation) J IJr have a strong nexus have at least 1 year of
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