The Straits Times, 23 December 1997

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    13 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1997 60 CENTS MITA(P) 114/12/97
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    Lock icon Searchers homing in on black box
    629 1  -  Derwin Pereira Tan Hsueh run Operations now focused on recovering bodies By and m Palembang THE team looking for victims and wreckage of a Silk Air ietliner that crashed near here widened their search efforts yesterday and began using sophisticated sonar equipment to search
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    Manufacturing investments to exceed last year's record
    466 1 MANUFACTURING investments m Singapore this year are set to exceed the record $8.1 billion committed last year. Trade and Industry Minister Lee Yock Suan disclosed last night that manufacturing investment commitments m the first 1 1 months of this year already total $8.1
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    Lock icon S'pore calls for lower toll fees for second link
    670 1  -  Chua Mui Hoong Walter Fernandez Malaysian minister confirms steep rates for Tuas bridge By m Singapore and m Kuala l impur MINISTER of State for Communications John Chen has called on Malaysia to halve the proposed toll rates for trucks, buses
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  • NEWS FOCUS
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      Lock icon Two former S. Korean leaders freed
      594 2 Chun Doo Hwan, Roh Tae Woo granted special pardon 'Chun showed no repentance. He was acting like a freedom fighter m his statement outside prison.' A group of dissidents m Kwangju, m a statement carried by Yonhap news agency. SEOUL Former South Korean presidents
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      Businessman, son lose $800,000 shares case
      540 2  - Businessman, son lose $800,000 shares case Lim Li Hsien By A BUSINESSMAN and his son refused to pay a stockbroking firm about $800,000 m contra losses they had incurred as a result of their trading m shares m 1995. They argued that the firm should have sold the shares on
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      What it should have been
      66 2 LAST Thursday's report, "14 hospitalised after rioting at boys' home", stated wrongly that the incident happened at Clementi Boys' Town. In fact, it happened at the Singapore Boys' Home m Cle- menti. to which juvenile offenders are sent. Boys' Town, m Upper Bukit Timah Road,
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      Lock icon Terminal allows Cash Cards to be topped up at home
      517 3  -  Siti Andrianie Convenience for ERP motorists By FOR a $50 deposit, you will be able to get a compact terminal to top up your Cash Card at home or m the office, service provider Nets announced yesterday. The terminal, a
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      New UBA rules make room for better cityscape
      442 3  -  Lillian Foo By velopers more usable floor area within the building proper. This charge m the Urban Redevelopment Authority's guidelines was announced yesterday by Mr Koo Tsai Kee, Parliamentary Secretary (National Development), at the topping-out ceremony for URA's new building. "With this
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      Suharto says coup rumours just wild talk
      566 3  - Suharto says coup rumours just wild talk Susan Sim H g By Indonesia Correspondent JAKARTA President Suharto yesterday dismissed rumours of a coup plot against him m a meeting with the country's top businessmen. He had not been under house arrest, nor was the army preparing to move against him,
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon US legal immigrants told to repay welfare benefits
      580 4 Govt officials using threats and incentives WASHINGTON In a practice of questionable legality, federal and state authorities from California to Florida as well as US consular officials abroad are pressuring immigrants to repay health and welfare benefits that they legally were entitled
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      Lock icon Ultimatum to cancel Medi-Cal coverage or face deportation
      280 4 A Mexican woman's story WASHINGTON Last summer, Ms Martha Torres, a legal immigrant from Mexico, decided to visit her ailing mother m Acapuko. Ms Torres, a mother of four who lives m a one-bedroom apartment m the gritty Los Angeles suburb of
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      Lock icon Sri Lankan heart-throb jailed for raping teen, 16
      243 4 COLOMBO A rising Sri Lankan film star known for his screen roles as a young lover boy was yesterday given 10 years' hard labour for kidnapping and raping a teenager four years ago. Kama! Addaraarachchi, 38, was sentenced by Colombo High Court
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      Lock icon PM Sharif helps pull out crash victims
      142 4 ISLAMABAD Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif helped to pull three injured men from their wrecked vehicle after a weekend motorway crash, the Nation newspaper said yesterday. It said the Prime Minister was on the Is-lamabad-Lahore motorway m his official vehicle on Sunday when
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      Lock icon Man escapes oncoming train but not police
      228 4 FORT LAUDERDALE (Florida) Hans Weschitz may have been lucky enough to escape his stalled car just seconds before an oncoming locomotive slammed into it but he could not escape the traffic ticket police issued to him. Mr Weschitz's 1989 Toyota pick-up truck stalled
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      Lock icon FBI probing 900 cases of domestic terrorism
      339 6 High threat fix>m heavily-armed extremist groups Dec 12 Two white supremacists m Little Rock, Arkansas, were charged with murder, racketeering and conspiracy. Prosecutors say the two men hoped to overthrow the federal government and replace it with a whites-only republic. Dec 12 A
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      Lock icon Giant dream machine
      54 6 picture. ENGLISH-born artist Sophie Garland posing with her larger-than-life conceptual art work of a 1942 Indian motorcycle m a farm paddock at Kerikeri, north of Auckland, on Friday. The art work, which is 4-m high and 10-m long, took nine months to complete and is made from
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      Lock icon Tape 'shows German soldiers simulating abuse of Jewish women'
      224 6 BONN A German television current-affairs programme said on Sunday that it had a new video tape of German soldiers, already tainted by a series of neo-Nazi scandals, simulating the sexual abuse of Jewish women. Focus-TV said that the video footage, which
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      Lock icon US steps up pressure on Iraq to end arms standoff
      341 6 US steps up pressure on Iraq to end arms standoff WASHINGTON The United States has stepped up its campaign to put diplomatic pressure on Iraq to allow UN inspectors access to suspected weapons sites. "We hope to pursue this m diplomatic channels and see if we can't exhaust all reasonable
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      Lock icon Childish, dull ... so British
      658 9 Childish, dull so British Where honourable gentlemen behave like schoolboys and wear bowler hats 1 don't even think they're consciously being sexist. I think they behave like schoolboys because nobody's ever told them not to.' Labour MP Jane Griffiths on her male colleagues m Parliament LONDON No one ever claimed
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      Lock icon Blair wants a more dynamic image for Britain
      333 9 LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair has told Newsweek magazine he wants Britain to shed its image of "bowler hats and umbrellas all marching down Whitehall" m favour of being creative and dynamic. The British leader, picked as the US news magazine's European
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        Lock icon DOING A TYSON
        68 9 A Sri Lankan police recruit has been remanded on a charge of biting off the ear of a fellow rookie during a brawl at a training school. The Sinhalese-lan-guage Lankadeepa newspaper yesterday said the case will be called later this week. A part of the victim's right
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        Lock icon BEACH FRENZY
        66 9 The first day of the summer season drew more than one million people to Rio de Janeiro's fabled beaches, military police said on Sunday. Beachgoers had to go early to find a place to sit at the Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, where digital clocks at the edge of
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        SERBIAN POLL
        67 9 Serbia's ruling Socialist Party (SPS) yesterday said its candidate had won the presidential election and that the voter turnout on Sunday was above the legally required 50 per cent. SPS spokesman Ivica Dacic said the party's candidate had won 2,185,218 votes, or 59.68 per cent of the votes,
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        Lock icon INFECTED BEAR
        79 9 Sixty-one Russians, including 28 children, were hospitalised with food poisoning on Sunday after eating diseased meat from a bear, the Siberian health authorities said. The animal had been shot m a Siberian forest by a hunter who did not have a permit and its meat sold without health
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        Lock icon STALIN'S BASH
        74 9 Die-hard communists gathered on Sunday m Stalin's hometown of Gori, Georgia, to cele brate the 118 th birthday of the man who led the former Soviet Union to the height of its power. Chanting "long live Stalin", "long live democracy" and "long live the new Georgia", the demonstrators
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        Lock icon 'TRY SUSPECTS'
        88 9 The families of the victims of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Sunday urged Britain to allow two Libyan suspects to be tried m a neutral country. "If the British government does not change its position, we shall go to our graves
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      Clinton in Bosnia to boost morale of US troops
      310 10 SARAJEVO US President Bill Clinton arrived here yesterday for a one-day visit to show his support for American troops m Bosnia and underline his commitment to those who back the peace process. His trip took place just days after he indefinitely
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      Lock icon STARS ONE AND ALL
      69 10 Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti (left) receiving a flower from a dancer at a children's performance m a musical centre m Mostar on Sunday. The tenor and other stars m the entertainment industry had opened the centre, named after him, m the divided Bosnian town. One of
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      Lock icon Microsoft's disregard for court order may hurt itself
      531 10 Three options Microsoft has said it will comply with an order forbidding it from forcing PC makers to install Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser along with Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system by offering them three options: Take Windows 95 and Internet Explorer
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      Lock icon Princess Grace 'was suicide cult member'
      207 10 LONDON Princess Grace of Monaco belonged to the Order of the Solar Temple, whose suicide rituals had claimed 74 lives since 1994, The Sunday Times reported, quoting producers of a docu mentary on the cult. Producers David CarrBrown and David Cohen saidshe was initiated
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    • PEOPLE
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        What's wrong with visit, asks Chuan's wife
        176 11 What's wrong with visit, asks Chuan's wife BANGKOK Nothing unusual for a wife to visit her husband at his office, but an hour-lone visit by Ms Pakdiporn Sucharitkul (above, with son Surabot) to Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's office on Saturday made the front pages of Thai newspapers the following day.
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        Lock icon Rabin's widow may enter politics when time is ripe
        108 11 FLORENCE Mrs Leah Rabin, widow of assassinated Israeli Labour prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, said she had not ruled out entering politics when the time was ripe as she attended a peace concert m Florence on Sunday. She said that "at the
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        Lock icon First woman to head major Hollywood studio dies
        172 11 LOS ANGELES Ms Dawn Steel (above), the first woman to head a major Hollywood film studio, died m hospital over the weekend, a family spokesman said Sunday. She was 51. She had been diagnosed with a brain tumour two years ago and
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        28 11 1 want somebody to be my mother/ American Jane Blasio, 32, who was sold as a newborn and, after a decade-long search, believes she has found her mother.
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        Meanwhile...
        100 11 NOT TOO MUCH SPICE: The Spice Girls new single Too Much has charged to the top of the British charts, leaving the five thumbing their noses at critics who had forecast their imminent demise. PRESENT FOR SCHUMACHER: Ferrari presented motor-racing ace Michael Schumacher with a 1967 Fiat 500 for
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      Insurers keep distance from millennium bug
      412 11 Move to limit amount of claims NEW YORK The US insurance industry has moved to protect itself against losses arising from the millennium Domb by drawing up special exclusion clauses, the Financial Times reported yesterday. It noted that the move follows similar action m
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      Lock icon Cutting work week 'will lead to decline of France'
      231 11 PARIS The new head of France's major employers' association, Mr Ernest-An-toine Seilliere, has warned that moves to cut the French working week could signal the country's economic decline. The chairman of the CNPF association said on Sunday that the government's pledge
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      Lock icon Aussie casino 'cleaned out' by Asian gamblers
      448 13 Aussie casino 'cleaned out by Asian gamblers Media magnate Packer to contribute to Melbourne gambling centre's bail-out package The casino has already lost As4o million (Ss44 million) m the last five months. Recently, a Singaporean high-roller reportedly won Asl2 million from the casino. Crown chairman Lloyd Williams. MELBOURNE Australia's best
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      Lock icon Nigerian army foils bid to topple military ruler
      156 13 ABUJA Nigeria's army said it had foiled a plot to topple military ruler General Sani Abacha and arrested his number two, Lieutenant-General Oladipo Diya, for his part m it. A statement from the army read on national television on Sunday said 11
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  • EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon A taste for rare wine in Beijing
      49 15 picture. THIS Chinese woman bid 220,000 yuan (5545,400) for a bottle of Chateau Beychevelle 1899's St Julien during Beijing's first fine and rare wines auction on Saturday. Nearly a hundred bottles of the wines were auctioned off, mainly to Chinese collectors. AFP
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      Lock icon S. Korean woman commits suicide over son's education costs
      199 15 SEOUL A mother who could not afford to keep her son studying overseas killed herself yesterday after the South Korean won lost half its value against the dollar m a month, news reports said. The mother of the 26--year-old student, now
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      Lock icon Newsweek names dissident Wei as top Asian
      345 15 Newsweek names dissident Wei as top Asian NEW YORK Exiled Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, a leading pro-democ-racy activist released last month by Beijing, has been named "Asian of the Year'" by Newsweek magazine's international edition. He had spent only six months of the last 18 years m freedom after his
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      Lock icon Okinawa residents 'no' to US offshore military heliport
      498 15 Referendum result a blow to Japan-US ties, say analysts TOKYO Residents of a small city m Okinawa had dealt a severe blow to Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and Japan-Unit-ed States defence ties by voting against the construction of a US military heliport,
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      Japanese not welcome at this Chinese eatery
      179 15 HONGKONG A dumpling restaurant m downtown Bening put up a notice on Dec 13 saying it would not serve Japanese customers for 42 days, a newspaper reported yesterday. The date and the duration coincide with those of the Rape of Nanjing 60 years
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      Lock icon A stricken mother's lament over this ex-Korean president's release
      69 16 A stricken mother's lament over this ex-Korean president's release pictures. Emotions ran high as protester Bae Un Shim, whose son was killed by police m 1987 under then-president Chun Doo H wan, screamed while trying to break through a police cordon to reach the limousine carrying Mr Chun to freedom.
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      Lock icon Student protesters clash with police
      445 16 SEOUL South Korean riot police yesterday fired teargas at about 400 students protesting against the release on amnesty of former presidents Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo, witnesses said. The students gathered on the campus of Yonsei University after the release, and were trying
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      Why the former presidents were imprisoned
      243 16 IN WHAT was known as South Korea's "Trial of the Century", former presidents Chun Doo H wan and Ron Tae Woo were slapped with life imprisonment and 17 years' jail respectively m April, after the Supreme Court upheld a lower appeals court decision to
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      Lock icon Seoul to free political prisoners in February
      230 16 SEOUL South Korean President-elect Kirn Dae Jung yesterday pledged an amnesty for politicalprisoners and others jailed for minor offences when he takes office m February, aides said. "Mr Kirn mentioned the amnesty at a caucus of the National Congress for New Politics to
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      Lock icon HK assigns bigger team to fight 'bird flu'
      415 17 Boy suspected to be latest victim HONGKONG A six-year-old boy was admitted to hospital m Hongkong yesterday as another suspected victim of the deadly bird flu, according to Hongkong's Health Department. The boy is "under treatment and m satisfactory condition", the department
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      Lock icon Rice balls to mark winter solstice
      46 17 picture. TAIPEI high school students marking the winter solstice yesterday by making traditional sticky rice balls known m Chinese as "tang yuan Some 1,500 students gathered at a school m the Taiwanese city to take part m the activity. Reuters
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    • EASTASIAFILE
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        Lock icon BAYER DEAL
        53 17 ;A Taiwan county has welcomed Bayer AG after the German chemical giant terminated a controversial NT$5O billion (552.69 billion) project elsewhere m Taichung, officials said yesterday. But Chiayi County Magistrate Lee Yia-ching added Bayer must meet international environmental pollution control requirements and safeguard the ecological system of the
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        Lock icon NO NUKES
        57 17 Taiwan reiterated yesterday that it was not developing nuclear weapons, m response to a private US study. Chairman Hu Chingpiao of Taiwan's Cabinetlevel Atomic Energy Council said: "All of our Budget and research and development works are completely open to the public and transparent. The Budget has absolutely
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        Lock icon PILOT DEFECTS
        54 17 A man claiming to be an escaped North Korean air force pilot has arrived m 1 hailand after a sevenmonth trek, asking to defect to rival South Korea, police said yesterday. He was detained at Aranvaprathet, on the Cambodian border, by immigration and police officials. His identity had
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        NEW RIGHTS
        75 17 Prosecutors m Taiwan no longer have the right to detain a suspect on their own authority, but will instead have to submit the case to the courts to decide on whether the suspect may remain m custody. The island's China Post reported yesterday that under the new system,
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        SINKING CITIES
        52 17 More than 100 cities m China are subsiding badly because the underground water beneath them has been overtapped, reported Hongkong's Wen Wei Po yesterday. Data has shown that the situation is serious for 27 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Tianiin. The water beneath most of the cities is
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        Lock icon MAIDEN TRIP
        78 17 Former Chinese president Yang Shangkun will be among the next batch of ageing revolutionaries to visit Hongkong following its return to Chinese rule. Mr Yang, 90, is expected to arrive on Jan 6 for his first visit, the Oriental Daily News said yesterday, adding that tight security arrangements
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Thai civil service set for big revamp
      645 18 Movies offer cheap escape from gloom BANGKOK Cinemas, mainly those m new complexes, appear to be one of the few businesses weathering the downturn affecting other industries. It is probably not surprising as movies offer a low-price way to escape from the daily
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      Lock icon Anti-drug raid at Bangkok nightclub
      64 18 THESE revellers, having fun at a nightclub m Bangkok had their partying cut short when anti-narcotics officials raided the place on Saturday. Wrappers and packages containing a variety of illegal drugs, including Ecstasy, were found on the floor of the premises. About 300 people were
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      Thai crackdown on gangs scares off foreign traders
      343 18 BANGKOK Drastic crackdowns on foreign criminal gangs as part of the security beef-up for the 1998-1999 Amazing Thailand campaign are seen as a double-edged sword. Such measures may ensure the safety of locals and tourists but could also drive away innocent foreign
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      3 business leaders appointed to deal with crisis
      534 19  -  Susan Sim Suharto spells out govt measures at meeting By Indonesia Correspondent JAKARTA President Su harto yesterday appointed three top businessmen to a team to consult with the government on the ongoing economic crisis and called on entrepreneurs not to destroy the
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      Live simply and modestly, Golkar chairman urges
      163 19 JAKARTA Ruling Golkar chairman Harmoko has called for public austerity to cope with the monetary crisis, saying that to do so will be an act of nationalism. "We need to try even harder to live simply and modestly," The Jakarta Post yesterday quoted
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      Lock icon Yangon go vt reshuffles Cabinet posts
      286 19 YANGON Myanmar's military leadership has reshuffled eight key Cabinet positions m a reorganisation of the regime's civilian wing, barely one month after forming a new ruling junta, the official press has announced. Portfolios including Finance, National Planning, Energy and Transport have been changed, continuing
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        181 19 BANGKOK Cambodian government troops surrounding a royalist base near the Thai border were reinforced with men and weapons yesterday as they began a second week of fighting to try and gain control of the northern town of O'Smach, Thai military sources said. The
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        Lock icon BOMB BLAST
        55 19 Two people were injured m a blast that destroyed an explo- sives depot at a military camp m the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga. deputy camp commander Colonel Adelberto Yap said yesterday. But he denied press reports that the blast was caused by sabotage and said it was
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        Lock icon SORCERERS TRIAL
        33 19 The tnal began yesterday m Jakarta of a self-confessed sorcerer charged with murdering 42 women. Ahmad Suraji, had confessed to police that he killed the women m black magic rituals. AFP
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        Lock icon PEACE TALKS
        61 19 Leaders from the warring sides of the Bougainville conflict will meet m Christchurcn between Jan 15 and Jan 23 to negotiate a permanent peace on the island. New Zealand Foreign Minister Don McKinnon said he would fly to Bougainville, a province of Papua New Guinea, on Jan 8
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        Lock icon LAOS POLLS
        58 19 Counting was under way yesterday after general elections m Laos m which the ruling communist party was assured of maintaining its dominance m the National Assembly. Election officials said nearly 100 per cent of the 2.27 million eligible voters turned out to cast their ballots m Sunday's poll.
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        Lock icon WELCOME WORDS
        78 19 Nobel peace prize laureate Jose Ramos Horta said that Indonesia had legitimate security reasons for entering East Timor. Addressing a Sydney conference last week, Mr Horta blamed East Timor's "collective immaturity and irresponsibility" for sparking an internal conflict which brought on Indone sia's invasion. Mr Horta's words have
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        54 19 Two children were killed and three others badly injured when a cluster bomb exploded m a primary school m a central Vietnamese province of Kon Turn, the Lao Dong newspaper reported yesterday. The children found the bomb m their school grounds and were trying to dig it up
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      Talks on for release of Malaysian workers
      116 20 PHNOM PENH Private negotiations were believed to be under way yesterday for the release of two Malaysian timber workers abducted last week m central Cambodia, officials said. The pair were originally reported to have been kidnapped with two Filipinos. But officials said yesterday
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      Lock icon Estrada is opposition's man for President
      422 20 MANILA Philippine VicePresident Joseph Estrada, one of the country's most popular politicians, was picked formally yesterday as the opposition coalition s candidate for the May 1998 presidential election. The coalition, the Fight for the Nationalist Filipino People (LAMMP), also declared that opposition senator Edgardo
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      Lock icon Ramos endorses wider role for the military
      280 20 Ramos endorses wider role for the military MANILA President Fidel Ramos yesterday called for a modernisation of the Philippine military and endorsed a wider role for the armed forces m national development. In a speech marking the military's 62nd anniversary, he noted that this year, they had finally begun implementing
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      Two families exchange bodies after mix-up
      313 20 ILOILO CITY (Philippines) In the tradition of exchanging gifts this Christinas, two families kept the holiday spirit warm despite their grief when they exchanged cadavers last week after one realised that the woman lying at home was not a dead loved one. The Somo-M
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Education core projects won't be hit by cutbacks
      209 21 Education core projects won't be hit by cutbacks PENANG The Edu cation Ministry's core projects, which include the construction of schools and the bookloan scheme, will not be affected by budget cuts under the government's austerity measures. Education Minister Datuk Sen Najib Tun Razak said he had asked the Finance
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      75 21 picture. During the economic slowdown, people are willing to try anything to earn a little extra income. Stallowner Mohd Nasir Palman, 27, got his creative juices flowing and came up with an altogether different kind durian juice. He said the drink, sold at Msi .so (550.70) a
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      456 21 Move to curb profiteering by traders ALOR STAR The price of padi will increase by M 55.39 (552.40) per 100 kg to Msss per 100 kg with immediate effect as more consumer goods, including perishables, are being identified for listing as controlled or
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      214 21 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian power giant Tenaga Nasional Bhd's proposed Msl.s billion (Ss63o million) power plant m Penang has been postponed, a report said yesterday. High cost was cited as the reason forcing Tenaga Nasional to postpone the power project, Datuk Yahaya Abdul Hamid, Penang's electricity supply
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      Lock icon Strains in ties with KL have eased, says US envoy
      561 22 Relationship should settle into a KUALA LUMPUR Strains between Malay sia and the United States had eased as Malaysian leaders started to focus on domestic factors contributing to their economic downturn and realised Washington had nothing to gain from Malaysia's
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      Lock icon Washington to decide on Petronas-Iran issue soon
      184 22 Washington to decide on Pe tronas-Iran issue soon KUALA LUMPUR US Ambassador to Malaysia John Malott said he expected Washington to decide soon whether an investment by Malaysia's Petronas and two other companies m Iran violated US law. He said a decision could come as soon as next month, but
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      Lock icon Nightspot raids will hit tourism, says minister
      463 22 Nightspot raids will hit tourism, says minister Mind-boggling 'Action can be taken against unlicensed premises and so forth but why on centres that are licensed?' 'What's wrong with spending Ms3o million on promotions when we get back thousands of millions?' Culture, Arts and Tourism Minister Datuk Sabbaruddin Chik (above). KUALA
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      207 22 JOHOR BAKU The Johor Livestock and Poultry Farmers Association has urged the Health Ministry to act against farmers who use the banned Beta Agonist drug used to fatten pigs. Its acting head for the pig-farming section, Mr Lim On Pah, claimed that
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      431 23 Results show boy missed tests he took STUDENT Ahmad Fitri Abdul Halim showing his results slip which indicates that he was absent for two examination papers. The 1 2-year-old was shocked because, according to him, he had sat for all the papers during the Ijian
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      127 23 Bogus trade officers prey on shopowners KUANTAN The State Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs' enforcement division is investigating reports about several men who nave duped shopowners into giving them money after claiming to be enforcement officers. State Local Government committee chairman Datuk Kan Tong Leong said that the division Had
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      Lock icon Candidates charged in court before will be sacked
      334 23 Candidates charged in court before will be sacked Umno leader warns: KUALA TERENGGANU Candidates standing for the Umno branch and divisional elections next year will be sacked if they are found to have been previously charged m court, party sec-retary-general Datuk Sabbaruddin Chik said. He conceded that it would be
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        37 23 A witness who was scheduled to testify m a corruption trial yesterday was found slashed to death m his taxi last Friday, The Star reported. The victim was identified as 36-year old Mr Amboiuo Mappiase.
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        Lock icon 2 RE-ARRESTED
        62 23 Two academicians who were formally released from detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA) by the High Court here yesterday tasted about 10 minutes of freedom before being re-ar-rested. Both Lutpi Ibrahim, 48, a Universiti Malaya Islamic Studies Department professor ana Fadzlullah Shuib, 40, an Institut Teknologi Mara
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        Lock icon TITHE BILL
        60 23 A Bill which seeks to require Muslims m the state to pay their tithes through deduction from their incomes will be tabled m the next State Legislative Assembly sitting. The State, through its religious council, targets a collection of MsB million (553.6 million) m tithe payments for next
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        FOUND DEAD
        45 23 A man was found dead m his car at the parking bay of the One Utama shopping centre m Bandar Damansara on Sunday. Police believe Mr Alex Chong, 26, had passed out m his car and died due to asphyxiation, the Sun reported.
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        46 23 The Senate yesterday passed a motion demanding an immediate apology from Dewan Rakyat opposition leader Lim Kit Siang who said the Senate "is a rubbish bin and senators are political deadwoods". Nine senators who debated the motion, said his statement was uncalled for. Bernama
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        58 23 The National Poisons Centre has called for labels to be put on toothpaste packaging to warn against the excessive use of fluoride. The centre's director, Professor Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, said children who have been poisoned would throw up and their lips would swell, while adults would be susceptible
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        BUS CRASH
        58 23 A bus carrying a full load of passengers rammed into a concrete pavement on Sunday night, barely 3 m from the Jelapang toll plaza of the North-South highway. According to The Sun, the bus, which was on its way to Malacca, was ferrying 38 students who were visibly
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      29 24 Nothing has been ruled out. WM m We have to remain open-minded because we have so little < information to work with. A SilkAir's spokesman Rick Clements i
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      No evidence of mechanical failure
      523 24 There is little evidence to suggest that because it was very well maintained with no known defects. We have to see what evidence we can get from the black box and the wreckage/ Mr Clements, saying there was no evidence yet that mechanical failure caused
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        Air stewardess had always wanted to fly
        416 24 WHEN she landed a job as a Silk Air stewardess, Geetah Kristine Pong, 22, told her family: "I'm the happiest person m the world." Three weeks after completing her training, the part-time model went down m a plane crash. The older of two
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        Kiwi officer joined Silk Air last year
        240 24 THE first officer on the Silk Air Boeing 737-300 that crashed, Duncan Ward, had trained with Garuda. the Indonesian national carrier, before he joined the Singapore regional airline m September last year. Mr Ward, 23, a New Zealander, was a graduate of Massey
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        Our reporting team
        51 24 In Palembang: Helen Chia, Tan Hsueh Yun, Derwin Pereira, Ginnie Teo and Jasbir Singh. In Singapore: Pearl Lee, Edmund Tee, Dorothy Ho, Braema Mathi, Koh Boon Pin, David Miller, Ray Dhaliwal, Tan Ooi Boon, Karamjit Kaur, Tee Hun Ching and Ilhoda Chua. In New Zealand: Chua Huck
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      Family visited granny every year
      467 25 A close family They were a very close family. My brother made it a point that they went out to do something together on Saturdays and Sundays/ Madam S. L. Koh on her brother's family, pictured at right. Mr Koh Peng Yam, 40, Madam Oey
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      Indonesiaa girl, 12, was very eager to start at RGS
      290 25 Indonesiaa girl, 12, was very eager to start at RGS INDONESIAN Gracia Tan was to have been one of the hundreds of freshfaced Secondary 1 students at Raffles Girls' Secondary next month. In her application to the school, she had written: "I wish I can study here and I will
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      HE ESCAPED
      45 25 1 woke up m the middle of the night m cold sweat after I saw myself screaming on a plane m my dream. I then decided that I would not do any flying on Friday/ Mr Dennis Chua (above), with his wife Karen.
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      Manager had bad feeling and bought travel insurance
      339 25 REGULAR Silk Air traveller Dennis Chua, 35, had such a "bad feeling" about his Jakarta trip last week that, the day before he left, he bought a travel insurance policy. "I could not imagine why I did such a crazy thing then.
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      At the scene
      35 26 F His visit comforted us a lot, because it HHj shows that we have not been forgotten by Singapore. Jm A relative, on Mr Mah Bow Tan's visit to Palembang M k
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      Personal thanks
      105 26 Personal thanks I MAH ON HIS VISIT 'Another important reason was to come here and personally thank, on behalf of the Government of Singapore, the Indonesian authorities, the Governor, the people helping m the search and rescue and salvage operations, the Indonesian people, the people of Palembang, the people m
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      Mah meets relatives, thanks Indonesians
      874 26 AT 11.45 AM yesterday, Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan arrived m Palembang airport from Singapore m a C-130 aircraft to start a packed day. Singapore Armed Forces personnel and a large group of Singaporean and Indonesian press gathered on the tarmac and surged towards the
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      Information given out must be as reliable as possible
      516 26 fj;ao fafjafg THE crisis management centre at Changi Airport has received feedback from people who were unhappy that it was not giving out enough information, Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan said on Sunday. "There is a feeling that perhaps there is
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      Families at the scene
      57 27 I have accepted that he is gone. I do not B want him to lie there m the river. I promised our kids that I would bring their daddy home. "0 Madam Chia Lay Sun, who wanted to see for herself where her husband, Mr Soen
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      Lock icon 'I wish I'd told my husband I love him'
      707 27 Paying respects 1 believe that if I call to my husband, his body will float up...' How can we go back? The children have to go through Chinese customs, they have to pay respects to their father.' Madam Weeny Tang, 41,
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      'These are people I don't know. But I feel so sad'
      581 27 More readers call to offer condolences If you knew any of the crash victims or if you would simply like to express your sympathy for their relatives and loved ones, please call News Line 1 800-737-8700. READERS of The
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      Lock icon Family loses 3 youngest children
      348 28 Boys, 14 and 11, and sister, 7, travelling unaccompanied to meet family TWO young boys and their seven-year-old sister were among those who died m the Silk Air crash. They were the three youngest children of the Jakin family from Indonesia Godfrey, 14; Godwill, 11;
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      The victims
      27 28 ■c may not low the family but we share their pain mam and grief. A stranger at a memorial service Jr for three Indonesian children
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      She was the life and soul of any party
      390 28 SHE was an animal lover, a perfectionist and a workaholic. And she was the life and soul of any party. Freelance British art director Ruth Scott (right), 38 one of the victims of the Silk Air crash was all this and
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      Keppel fined $300,000 for giving $8.53 m in bribes for contracts
      556 29  -  Lim Seng Jin By Money given to a manager m Britain KEPPEL Corporation pleaded guilty yesterday to giving bribes totalling $8.53 million to a manager m a British subsidiary of Exxon Corporation between January 1992 and May 1995. The
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      479 29 rtjat fatgg A REGIONAL action plan to prevent the recurrence of haze is being discussed here by environment ministers and officials from Asean countries. Delegates from eight Asean countries participated m a two-day conference which began here yesterday, chaired by Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, the
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      NUS On One gives students access to Singapore One
      294 29 THE National University of Singapore (NUS) yesterday launched NUS On One, which will allow 26,000 staff and students speedy access to Singapore One's services at any of the computers on campus. Starting with 300 Singapore One-enabled computers, this number will grow
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      162 29 FIVE precincts have been selected for upgrading under the 12th batch of the Housing Board's Main Upgrading Programme, said the HDB yesterday. They are blocks 103, 104 and 116 to 113 at Commonwealth Crescent, Blocks 81 to 83 at MacPherson Lane, Blocks 123 to 126 and
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        Singapore will match rates charged by Malaysia
        776 30  -  Chua Mui Hoong It is entitled to recover 'an equal share of the revenue' By rtja faf aga ST: Was there any agreement or understanding on toll charges before hand? Dr Chen: We have met, not on toll charges, but on administrative details.
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        Facilities at second link 'will be worth the toll charges'
        651 30 Facilities at second link 'will be worth the toll charges' Steep toll charges will be slapped on those using the second link to Johor, Malaysian Works Minister Samy Vellu disclosed yesterday, confirming reports m The Straits Times last week, which quoted unnamed senior officials m his ministry. Mr Vellu explained
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        Lock icon Businesses want proposed rate for lorries cut from M$50 to M$10
        625 31  -  Ahmad Osman By The Penang bridge is privatised, the highway from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore is privatised. They are not run by the Malaysian government any more. So what is the difference with the second link? Mr Kwek Theng
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        High toll rates will keep people away
        512 31 trjka gfag ag JOHOR BARU Johor Baru residents are shocked, unhappy and worried about the high toll rates for the second Johor Singapore link, the Malaysian Chinese-language Guang Ming Daily said yesterday. The long-awaited second link is due to be opened officially on
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        Lock icon N-S Highway toll rates won't be raised
        190 31 THERE will be no increase m toll rates for the North-South Expressway (NSE) next year, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said yesterday. The Cabinet, at its meeting last week, disallowed any toll rate hike, he told reporters here. He declined to
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  • COMMENT/ANALYSIS
    • The Straits Times
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        LIberalise but verify
        647 32 LIberalise but verify MORE than 100 countries have signed a treaty to dismantle barriers m the world's financial markets. The pact, which will come into effect m March 1999, will bind signatories to open up their countries to foreign banks, insurers and brokerages. Each country has made specific commitments to
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      69 32 QUOTES "The system isn't working and we have got to reform it. We will do it fairly, we will do it sensitively, but we will doit." British Prime Minister Tony Blair on welfare reform. "I think I've attained such a level of celebrity status that cinema can only lessen it"
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      Asia's currency crisis hurting China as well
      1722 32  -  Ching Cheong By Sheer political considerations dictate that China leave the yuan exchange rate intact, at least m the early half of next year, even though this will hurt its exports. THE coming year may prove a difficult one for China when the
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      No thumping of chest over US economic supremacy
      694 32  -  Allan Sloan By Washington Post NEW YORK When the biblical King Solomon observed m the Book of Proverbs that "pride goeth before a fall", he was obviously not talking about the US economy m 1997. But he could have been. In fact,
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      Lock icon Gold now a mere metal and a bad investment
      1630 33  -  Kenneth Goodinq Fall from grace By Financial Times Nevertheless, there are still many millions of people who retain a deep faith m g01d hi India, a farmer buys gold when the monsoons bring good harvests and he sells it when the
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  • FORUM
    • Letter
      Emissions from VDUs do pose health hazards
      529 34 Symptoms suffered by computer operators are on record I WAS surprised to read m your report, "Good work practices can cut health hazards" (ST, Dec 19), that one of the speakers m the seminar, Dr Ho Swee Far of the Ministry of Labour's
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    • Crash of MI 185
      • Letter
        TV coverage could be much better
        236 34 LIKE many concerned Singaporeans, I have been following news of this tragic national event. However, the coverage by RCS and TCS falls far short of expectations. On Saturday, at noon, RTMI had "live" coverage from the scene of the disaster, showing wreckage of the
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        Let this be a time for reflection
        322 34 THE crash of Silk Air MI 185 must have shocked many of us. Families have lost their loved ones. The nation has lost its children. These beloved people have given their best to their families and nave contributed their best to the nation.
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      Yan Kit Road was a relatively safe locality
      312 34 THE Television Corporation of Singapore began well with its senes of Streets of Singapore by featuring Tanjong Pagar, which has undergone tremendous changes throughout its existence the early colonial setting, the miserable slum atmosphere and the present-day upbeat lifestyle of pubs and
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    • Bouquet
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        Staff sensitive and prompt in helping with exhumation
        265 34 Staff sensitive and prompt in helping with exhumation MY GRAND-UNCLE who died m 1960 was buried at the former Bulim cemetery. As my siblings and I were very young at that time, we are unable to recall the exact site of the burial ground. Since we were not sure where
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      • Letter
        Home-owners, not SCV, must pay fees
        180 34 trjka gagag I REFER to the letter by Mr Koh Seoh Leng, Richard "Shouldn't SCV pay TV licence fee?" (ST, Dec 17). SCV would like to clarify that subscription rates are paid for cable TV channels only. In Mr Koh's case, the rate he
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  • SPORTS
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon A closer watch on S-League clubs
      492 35  -  Santokh Singh New CEO Chan gets the board's mandate to conduct regular checks on them SOCCER By S LEAGUE clubs will come under closer supervision from now on. The board yesterday gave newly-appointed chief executive officer Chris Chan the mandate to carry out regular
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      Rams turn down Eagles' offer
      402 35 WOODLANDS WELLINGTON has rejected an offer by the Eagles to compensate it for the signing of the Rams' defender Richard Ward. Geylang United offered to pay the Rams $3,300, but Woodlands felt the amount was way off the $8,200 it wanted. Woodlands team manager R.
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      SCORES AND STATISTICS
      411 35 AMERICAN FOOTBALL NFL: Cincinnati 16 Baltimore 14, NY Giants 20 Dallas 7, Kansas City 25 New Orleans 13, Minnesota 39 Indianapolis 28, Tampa Bay 31 Chicago 15, Tennessee 16 Pittsburgh 6, Washington 35 Philadelphia 32, Arizona 29 Atlanta 26, Denver 38 San Diego 3, Detroit 13 NY
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      Lock icon Fans strip naked victorious America team
      164 35 CALI (Colombia) America's players were stripped nearly naked by fans who invaded the pitch after watching their side win the Colombian soccer championship on Sunday. Hundreds of supporters broke through a police cordon when the final whistle was blown and stripped the players of
      Reuters; ADAM LEE  -  164 words
    • Article
      Lai loses in singles, but wins mixed doubles
      291 35  - Lai loses in singles, but wins mixed doubles Chan Tse Chueen TABLE TENNIS By IT WAS a bitter-sweet night for national paddler Lai Chin Pang at the National Table Tennis Championships at Toa Payoh last night. A rusty Lai failed to advance to the men's singles fi nal, but captured
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      Lock icon Romario and Ronaldo hit Australia for six
      682 36 Brazil coach predicts team will win World Cup SOCCER Confederations Cup Tm very happy tonight because I have now found out that the team will realise my dreams and win the World Cup m France. This is how we are going to play
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    • SOCCER SHORTS
      • Article
        Klinsmann set for return to Tottenham
        123 36 GERMANY captain Jurgen Klinsmann. now with Italian side Sampdoria, will return on loan to struggling Tottenham Hotspur until the end of the season, theEnglish Premiership club's chairman Alan Sugar said on TV yesterday. He joined Sampdoria on a US$l.l million (551.84 million) annual salary
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        PSV ends Ajax's unbeaten record
        107 36 AJAX Amsterdam should still win the league war, but it lost a psychologically-important battle on Sunday when it surrendered its season-long unbeaten run m a thrilling 3-4 home defeat to PSV Eindhoven. Ajax had let m only four goals m its previous 19 encounters, only
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        McManaman blasts Barcelona rumours
        124 36 LIVERPOOL star Steve McManaman on Sunday described fresh speculation that he is m talks with Spanish giant Barcelona as "outrageous". The England forward, who had negotiations with the Catalan club before the start of the season, insisted that he would not consider any sort of move
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        Edmundo leads Vasco to Brazilian crown
        141 36 VASCO da Gama won the Brazilian Championship for the third time on Sunday m an instantly forgettable final which saw both legs end m goalless stalemates. It won the title on having the better overall record m the competition after drawing 0-0 at home
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        River Plate bags third Argentine title
        91 36 RIVER Plate won the Argentine Championship for the third time m a row on Sunday after drawing l-l with Argentinos Juniors. The away point was enough for River to take the 1997/98 Apertura championship, the first of the two tournaments played m the Argentine
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        Goalie Lama to join West Ham on loan
        77 36 FRENCH goalkeeper Bernard Lama has agreed to join English Premiership outfit West Ham on loan from Paris St Germain. Manager Harry Redknapp moved quickly to bring m a new goalkeeper after losing Ludek Miklosko for eight weeks with a knee injury. Lama,
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      Lock icon Cole returns to haunt Newcastle
      546 37 In-form striker nods winner to restore Red Devil's four-point advantage ENGLISH SOCCER LONDON Andy Cole shrugged off the jeers of the fans who used to adore him to give Manchester United a 1-0 English Premier League victory at Newcastle on Sunday. Cole, who left St
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      Lock icon Bierhoff strike condemns Inter to first defeat
      655 37 ITALIAN SERIE A ROME An injury-time header from Udinese's German striker Oliver Bierhoff condemned Inter Milan to a 0-1 defeat on Sunday and shattered the Italian League leader's unbeaten record. Inter stays top but had its lead cut to a single point ahead
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    • Article
      Lock icon Dalglish accuses Beckham of 'cheating'
      269 37 Dalglish accuses Beckham of 'cheating' Pistone's foot was high but Beckham went and held his face, even though he was nowhere near it If he had been hit m the face that would Ve been fine, but he didn't. The pictures don't lie. He shouldn't have held his face.' Newcastle
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      41 35 Group 1 Prize $1£96 578 No. 1243/97 Mon, 22 December 1997 03 18 21 25 26 34 Add. No. I 30 I CoH 1800 *****11 1M1r..) after 9 1 Sam for Draw Kotukt, Number of Winning Entries Prue Estimates root t
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      132 35 TOGETHER, Dj^UJ L, uj DRAW DATE: WEDNESDAY, 7 JANUARY I k *^3B B^^' t* t_i c I esplanade r^ uayWH B^E« 4<r 9^ Draw NtfiW i i^'fc-L t P I /a K' l > '#T^^CV'^H^BS SEJ^^^ "-<^cSCTp^K IB ha THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT' fou si* no ;ho z»o z«
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
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      221 36 A WATCH WITH A SECRET. .■Aft "Tabogan". y lJ9KjfiSw^BHK>|: An astonishing cratch with a closely guarded secret. This small masterpiece of beauty comprises a complex set of frames and joints which can transform the watch into a miniature table clock. Available m solid gold or steel. Mechanical movement or quartz.
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      234 36 l_J V V^lS-'^t!3 V vJL/ HJWIIMNB 'J».«Hf» II (»o«ind Glaw Too TH>H w oe»A*» Suntec City UJ^JJp^^^^^^BßSSS Level 3 Gallery Hall £t+ -mt fffttlm jfSj I Singapore International H T^JJ^Dlscoum up to 60%*M9*') Convention Exhibition Centre 4^7 JSL fJ _?i^^tJ^" A MLt-^.... j. M -?J?^?^ 5i 1 JUI *1 f^
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      170 37 «H|H 4>JJ»yy only (UP: $56.65 inc. GST) at all Pan-West outlets today! W nt m si RAY'S CAMPER -The Ultimate Casual Shirt Long sleeved shirt sandwashed and softened to perfection. 100% comber cotton, cross-stitched buttons, two-button through chest pockets, button down collar. 'Two colours available: Denim bleached; White. Sizes available:
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      833 38 < ZZS STAR STANDARD INDUSTRIES fPTE) LTD fsSm R^^ BHHB^ nK^ MH i^ HH^B«^^^«^U ß^^ M l^^^aHßH^Hi^^Ba^M^a^^Hfi^^ CERT NO ***** Message from i y ChenTze Chung (PBM) Chairman m Woti Celebrates the achievement of It is with great honour for us to announce that we have achieved the prestigious M
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Clippers loses and counts the wounded
      552 39 Celtics leaves visitors ravaged NBA BASKETBALL BOSTON Guard Brent Barry surveyed the Los Angeles Clippers' bench at the end of the first half of his team's 77 99 loss to the Boston Celtics and wondered "Where is everybody?". In the Fleet Center's X-ray room.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Wrist injury sidelines star Ewing for season
      413 39 NEW YORK New York centre Patrick Ewing will miss the remainder of the National Basketball Association season, following surgery on a dislocated right wrist. The Jamaican-born star, who led the United States to Olympic gold m 1984 and 1992, suffered torn ligaments and
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    • Article
      SATURDAY'S PENANG WEIGHTS AND RATINGS
      334 39 Class 1 Dtvl 1200 m (Ratings: 125-99) Emerald Isles 60.5 Chief Executive 53.5 MastermindlV 51.5 Roadrunner Abjar 51 Casino Raider 49 OnTheProwl 49 Good Start 48.5 NHty 48.5 PegasusAbjar 48 Sanctuary 48 True Dream 48 Bold Governor 47.5 Thunder Tiger 47.5 C1 2000 m (108-64)
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      SUNDAY'S PENANG WEIGHTS AND RATINGS
      360 39 KimCaptaln 56 Straight Success 56 B.Matahari 55.5 Great Dream 55.5 Flying Arrow 55 HeartOf ATiger 55 Riding High 55 KingJugah 54.5 WlnMaster 54.5 S. Commander 52.5 C3D2 1700 m (71-57) Detonator 57 Run With Class 56.5 Beau's Magic 56 Thaveechok 55.5 KkigJagat 53.5 Private business
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      Strike Your Colours cheated death to win race for Yeo
      412 39  -  Malcolm Bast i an s RACING REVIEW By TRAINER Wilming Yeo looks back at Strike Your Colours with immense satisfaction, as the horse helped him accomplish his personal target of 20 winners this year on Saturday. For the gelding by
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      Coleman to make debut at Bukit Timah
      189 39 KIWI rider Michael Coleman, the only jockey to be granted an expatriate licence by the Malayan Racing Association m the now season, is expected to make his debut m Singapore on Jan 17. The 24-year-old, sponsored by his Singapore-based compatriot, trainer Patrick Busuttin,
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      Lock icon Year of the Ear
      537 39 Tyson's bite on Holyfield stuns the world J BOXING REVIEW NEW YORK Even those who would not know a left hook from a fish hook know that 1997 was boxing's "Year of the Ear". It was a year that produced the most stunning ending ever to
      Reuters  -  537 words
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      402 39 S I N G A PORE TURF CLUB DRAW NO: 52/97 (For races held on 20-12-97 and 21-12-97) The Lucky Draw prizes must be claimed within 90 days. FIRST PRIZE: $20,000 9189-4105 10 SECOND PRIZES: $1,000 each 9020-0538 9068-3435 9128-0282 9185^4536 9208-7075 9060-4226 9078-6952 9179-5912 9190-2534 9209-1288 50 THIRD PRIZES:
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  • OBITUARIES
    • Obituary, Illustration
      850 Deaths 850 Deaths 850 Deaths
      630 40 850 Deaths 850 Deaths 850 Deaths LEE ENG SENG Age: SI Jfc(ln the Silk Air plane crash) 'sp| Passed away on 19th Dec 1997, leaving behind ffi:' loved ones: rf&j Father: Lee Teong Cheow JK§P Wife: Khoor Sauh Jed Wgk Brothers: Sisters-in-law: jEp* Lee Tian Teck Yap Poh Kirn Lee
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      850 Deaths 850 Deaths
      457 40 850 Deaths 850 Deaths TAN CHIN HENG Age: 51 passed away suddenly on Ml 188 on 19 December 1997 m Palembang. Indonesia. Dearly beloved of: (Father: William Tan, deceased) (Mothers: Chua Chwee Lye. deceased) Yeo Siew Cheng Father-in-law: Ho Mun Chong Mother-in-law: Lock Yoke Kwai Wife Ho Chew Peng Suzanna
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      852 Acknowledgements 882 Acknowledgements
      46 40 852 Acknowledgements 882 Acknowledgements The Family off the Late WONG AH HSIANG Departed on 17-12-97 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appraciation to church members for thair prayers, relatives, friends and business associates for thalr kind attendance, condolences, donations and assistanca during thalr recent bereavement.
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      850 Deaths
      172 40 TAN SEOW CHYE AGE: 71 pnud away peacefully on 21.12.97, iMving behind Moved Wlfo: Sim Ah Sin Son: Tan John Daughter hi law». Ang Lay Lang Qeughteri Tan Li Li Tan Lee Hua, Nancy Tan Lee Choo. Linda Sona-in-law: Thian Woon Chuon, Scan Chua Keng Seng, Don Lim
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      852 Acknowledgements 852 Acknowledgements 882 Acknowledgements
      190 40 852 Acknowledgements 852 Acknowledgements 882 Acknowledgements I The Family Of The Late CHAN MOOK YING Age: 73 Departed: 14.12.97 wish to express their sincere thanks and appreciation to all relatives, business associates and friends for their kind assistance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement. Our very special thanks
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      854 Condolences 854 Condolences 854 Condolences 854 Condolences
      122 40 854 Condolences 854 Condolences 854 Condolences 854 Condolences With Deepest Condolences To Our Chairman/ Managing Director I Mr Tan Pang Kheng on the demise of his beloved mother NG SAI CHENG Age: 85 Departed on 20 December 1997 From: The Management staff of YEAKIN PLASTIC INDUSTRY PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE) P.T.
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      10 40 "In Memoriam" Is for the loved ones whom you remember.
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      133 40 MORE OBITUARIES ON PAGE 17 CLASSIFIED SECTION I Late death notices can be placed j after office hours or on non-working days at Times Noose, 390 Kirn Seng Road during the following hours: MorvFri: 5.00 pm to 9.45 pm Sat Public Holidays: 1.00 pm to 9.45 pm Sun: 9.00 am
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      48 40 His smiling way and pleasant face Are a pleasure to recall; He had a kind word for each And died beloved by all. Some day we hope to meet him, Some day, we know not when. To clasp his hand m the better land, Never to part again.
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  • MONEY
    • Article
      HONGKONG
      312 41 December 22, 1997 MM ASMPacMc 4 80 -0 200 MtodMMI 0.54 AMMOiwmi 0.63 -006 AataSaclnt 1.23 -0.02 BankolEA 1788 -0.30 CP Pofcphand 1.40 -0.01 COLHoM 2.00 +0.08 Cafe D* Coral 1.61 +0.01 CatflPacMr 8.46 -0.36 CarauryCtty IJ6 -001 ChaungKong 46.00 -1.30 CMnaUght 40.60 -0.70 ChinaMotorßua 71.80 -280 CMcPacMc 30.30
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      TOKYO
      370 41 December 22. 1997 YEN AdvanMtCorp 7460 -10 Adnomoto 1200 +80 AkalEtoefrfc ill -2 Amada Si* -*0 AaaN Chani 'hid 413 -37 AaaNQlaaa 690 +1 BkofTlcy-MtaubtaN 1720 -80 PilliU— mrw 2790 -10 Canon 2980 -40 Caalo 930 -48 CMzan 820 uneh Dai Nippon 2380 -SO DaUcNKangyo 792 -66 OaM 880
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    • OVERSEAS MARKETS ROUND-UP
      • Article
        Lock icon Tokyo stocks dive below 15,000-pt level
        151 41 JAPANESE share prices slumped yesterday to a 30--month low on mounting concerns over the economy, the crisis-struck banking sector and future bankruptcies. "The plunge on the Nikkei underlined ongoing uncertainty over the Japanese economy, particularly its financial system," said NCB Research Institute managing director
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        KUALA LUMPUR
        30 41 Malaysia's key stock index fell yesterday led by declines m Tenaga Nasional Bhd and Petronas Gas Bhd, after agencies cut debt ratings on several Malaysian banks and companies.
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        Lock icon OVERSEAS INDICES
        112 41 Investors sold stocks amid concern the ratings cuts may herald a fresh round of downgrades m Malaysia's corporate earnings, and extend the sell-down of stocks throughout Asia's stock markets. The Composite Index fell 8.93 points or 1.5 per cent to 569.83. Tenaga Nasional shares fell 35 sen to
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        Lock icon HONGKONG
        115 41 Share prices dropped 2.2 per cent yesterday as investors locked m profits, taking their cue from the bearish sentiment on the Tokyo and US markets, said dealers. ASG Investment Services analyst Frances Ng said the market would have fallen more if it were not the traditional quiet season before
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        Lock icon JAKARTA
        69 41 Indonesia's benchmark stock index yesterday rose 1.9 per cent to its highest m seven trading days, led by PT Telkom, as investors bought stocks better positioned to weather the country's economic turmoil. "The thrust m Asia is now towards looking for companies with relatively clean balance sheets," said Mr
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        Lock icon BANGKOK
        43 41 Thai share prices ended 2.2 per cent lower yesterday as the baht took another dive following a Moody's downgrade which reduced Thai debt issues to junk bond status, analysts said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand Index dropped 8.3 points to 376.95. AFP
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      SOLD PRICES
      104 41 Physical (S$) Moo Fri Ktobar *****—*****04 *****—*****63 100 gm 1500-1634 61 1555-1629 46 SOgm 782—***** 779-***** 20 gm 311-***** 310-333 72 5 gm 78-90 64 78-90 .64 1 gm 16—2472 16—2472 BuOon coins (SSfoz) 5 pore button coin 496-504 495-501 CanwSan maple teat 498—504 495-601 Australian nugget 496-521
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      ASIAN CURRENCY UNITS
      102 41 Contract date: P»c*nbf 22,1997 IMT ONE 3 c t 12 rMI VALUE WfT MTH MDI MTN MTN MTN cnL DATE US$ 5S s*. W. SK. 5H 4H 24/12 A$ 4'A, 4'Ai 4Vi 4H 4"JU 3W 24/12 NZS 8V« B'A. 8-/U 8 7'V. 7\, 24/12 STG 6H 7>/U
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      KUALA LUMPUR
      3118 41 Transaction Date: Dacamber 22, 1997 m*dtu*«ltorr*ml—um, Pf »»fci»Msl trt— oM»»w<—^>«d<l»d; P/Efßo>»n<H«dMl»d>Of cwmwydWfwo— 1997 Last Vol Nat High Low Company Sal* (000) P/E INDUSTRIALS Conaumar Product* 790 220 A|lnomc4o 230 -10 9 12.7 448 112 Angkau 114 -7 16 2 0 90S 210 Apotto Food Htg 230 -10 2
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      BANK RATES
      264 41 BUSMESS LOANS Local EntwpriM Rnanc* Schwrw (LEFS) and Local Entwpns* Rnance Ovwmm Schtnw (LEFSO) loans are avaiana from 30 banks and finanoa houaaa. Export Factoring 1 year 3^' Domaaac Factoring 1 year 6. Equipmant and Factory loans up to 4 yaara 6 Equpmant and Factory loans 4-10 years
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      CURRENCY
      155 41 Singapore dollars to OM unit of for#ign currency BuytngOO SaNng USdOtar 1.0646 1.6872 Starting pound 2.7389 2.8290 AustraEandosar 1.0661 ***** Canwteidoftv 1.1457 1.1813 NZdotar 0.9442 ***** ECur* 1.8830 Singapore dollars to 100 units ©I foraign currency Ausmanschfcg 12.9760 *****4 Belgian franc 4.4402 4.6436 Dmtfikronor 23.7460 *****7 Deutschemaifc *****0 95.2328
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      SICOM FUTURES
      282 41 December 22, 1997 Rubber Futures (Closing price*) RSSI Contract Tonnes (Scents/Vg) Month High Low Salt Vol OpenM Jin 98 120.00 70 Fab 121.25 700 Mar ***** 586 Apt/Jun ***** 126.50 ***** 600 ***** Jl*Sap ***** 2145 OdrDac ***** ISO 4500 RSS3Contract (UScentetg) Jen 96 6300 560 Fab 64.00
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      TIN
      10 41 Closing pricM (Ms/Wlo) KLTm $19.95<— 0.14} Turnover 58 7)
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      1693 41 MALAYSIAN STOCKS (m Ss) ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■I 1997 Curr LMt VOl Day Dtv Nat M Cap High Lew Company Traded Sal* +or- '000 High Low P E tmri 478 45 5 m a AISB 50c 47 scd -8 5 186 55 45 5 5.0 19 2 48 7 137 195
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      CRUDE & PRODUCT PRICES
      71 41 CRUDE PRODUCT PRICES CRUOfPROOUCT MONTH* CHANGE PRICE (USS) BBL BRENT BLENO Jan -0 28-0 28 17.47-17 52 WEST TEXAS Mm Jtn -0.14 014 18 38-18 42 DUBAI FATEH F« -0 06-0 06 16 06-1613 TAMS BLENO Jan 000 17 75-17 85 MMAS Jv -0 20-0 20 17.40-17.50 NAPHTHA (OF Jap)
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        Euroven — 3-month deposit
        56 41 Euroven 3-month deposit (100 imphed interest rate) Opan Mo> Low Ml Ett Vo( Mar 98 ***** ***** ***** ***** 3850 Jwi ***** 99 310 99 260 ***** 3020 Sep ***** ***** ***** ***** 1780 Dec ***** ***** ***** 99 280 2120 Mar 99 ***** ***** ***** ***** 345 Ad Vol
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        SILVER
        28 41 CkMing prices (USaTtroy oz) Moo Fri Smgtpvt 6070-6090 6 110— 6.120 Fri Tnu Ns» Y«* 6 060-6 070 6 070— 6 080 Pit .m. fl ijjia rfiilrf
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        30 41 Opwi Mgh Low SM EMVoI Fab 96 1742 17 50 17 42 1745 04 Mw 1752 I Apr 1754 0 Act Vol (Fri) 0 Open M <Fri) 1469
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      322 42 MARKET REPORT SINGAPORE shares fell yesterday, with sentiment depressed by concerns over slower regional economic growth and higher interest rates, said dealers. They said investors' confidence was shaken after the IMF said at the weekend that the region's economic crisis could deepen and spread
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      Pioneering supermarket chain caves in to tough times
      1048 43  -  Edna Koh By The Singapore market has come of age. People are expecting more m terms of taste, fashion and trends... unfortunately, Yaohan has not changed much since its early years/ A retail analyst AT THE entrance to Yaohan Thomson, a help
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      Recession likely for Manila if regional crisis fails to blow over
      447 44  -  Luz Baguloro By m Manila THE Philippine economy is likely to fall into a recession next year if the regional financial crisis drags on beyond March, officials and economists said yesterday. "It's hard to rule it out" if Asian
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      HEADING FOR A MIGRAINE
      40 44 A Tokyo stock dealer reacting to a sharp slide m Tokyo share prices yesterday. The Nikkei Stock Average dropped 515.49 points to 14,799.4 on worries that tightened bank lending could lead to more bankruptcies. AFP picture.
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        Lock icon NEW BAYER SITE
        99 44 German giant Bayer AG said yesterday it would consider a new offer to build a US$l.5 billion (552.5 billion) chemical plant m another Taiwan district after suspending plans to build the long-frustrated project m the centre of the island. Stalled by local political and environmental J opponents
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        81 44 Financial services companies pay their top executives more than any other industry, with annual compensation averaging US$l.B3 million (Ss3.l million), according to a study by the Conference Board released m New York yesterday. The survey, involving more than 1,400 companies, found the biggest increase m last year's
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        Lock icon ABN AMRO GETS A LEG-UP
        45 44 ABNAmroNV yesterday said m Sydney it has agreed to buy BZWs Australian and New Zealand's operations from I Barclay's for Asl 77 million (*****.4 million), giving ABN a leg-up into the ranks of the country's biggest I stockbrokers. Bloomberg News
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        Lock icon HUTCHISON UPS STAKE IN UNIT
        57 44 Hutchison Whampoa, Hongkong's biggest diversified company, 1 paid US$3OO million (Ssso6 million) to increase its stake m its Hongkong container-port unit, an HSBC di statement saidyesterday. It bought the 5 per cent stake from HSBC Holdings, parent of Hongkongßank, raising its stake m Hongkong International
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      181 44 SHANGHAI China's central bank has taken the rare step of suspending a cut m interest rates, under pressure from the securities industry, financial sources said yesterday. The People's Bank of China has notified commercial banks that a cut m the interbank deposit rate to 1.71
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      Lock icon China to step up audits of state finance houses
      407 44 BEIJING With much of Asia reeling from economic turmoil and its own financial house on shaky ground, China said yesterday it would step up scrutiny of state-owned financial institutions to curb risks. The State Auditing Administration had recommended an overhaul of
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      Lock icon US mining firm acquires Plutonic Resources
      242 44 US mining firm acquires Plutonic Resources SYDNEY Homestake Mining Co said yesterday it has reached an agreement to acquire Australian gold miner Plutonic Resources Ltd, an associate company of Malaysia Mining Corp Bhd (MMC), m a US$64O million (Ssl .08 billion) stock bid. In a statement released m New York,
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      Lock icon Suharto sacks four Bank Indonesia directors
      277 44 JAKARTA Four directors at Indonesia's central bank have been dismissed by presidential decree, a Bank Indonesia official said. The four are Paul Sutopo, head of market operations; Hendrobudiyanto, director of bank supervision; Hem Supraptomo, director of legal affairs; and Mansjurdin Nurdin. That is half
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      Lock icon Goldman Sachs to buy bad loans from Tokyo banks
      408 44 'Nowisasgooda time as any to step m the market if you take a long-term perspective/ Mr Richard vanßooy. TOKYO Goldman Sachs Co aims to buy as much as 500 billion yen (556.6 billion) m bad loans backed by real estate from
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      Lock icon US regulator saw Asian crisis brewing years ago
      528 44 In the early 1980s, the United States confused deregulation with supervision, and the same thing happened m Asia.' Mr Charles Bowsher. WASHINGTON Three years ago, when Thailand and South Korea were still considered economic miracles and no one but currency traders paid
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      Nat Steel to join LKN for Hotel Equatorial site redevelopment
      418 45  -  Kalpana Rashiwala By when certain sales targets are achieved. LKN's announcement of its joint venture with Nat Steel Properties comes three months after it failed to find buyers prepared to pay the price it wanted at a September tender for
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      TSM Resources offers 26m new shares
      575 45  -  Patrick Tan By SESDAQ-ASPIRANT TSM Resources is offering 26 million new shares at 21 cents apiece to raise net proceeds of $4.76 million to expand its business. Sixty per cent of the issue, or 15.6 million shares, has already been taken up by institutional
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      Aidec to take 27% stake in Lanka Bell
      209 45 MAIN BOARD LISTED Transmarco Ltd said yesterday Asian Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (Aidec) had agreed to take a 26.84 per cent stake m its telecommunications subsidiary Lanka Bell. Aidec's participation would reduce the negative contribution by Lanka Bell to Transmarco's consolidated earnings
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        MORE PLANET FITNESS CENTRES
        114 45 HaiSun Hup plans to invest a further US$lO million (5516.9 million) to open more fitness centres under the Planet Fitness name m the Asia-Pacific region, apart from the US$2O million it had committed so far to develop up to ten such centres m Asia m the
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        OPH GAINS FROM SALE
        112 45 Orchard Parade Holdings (OPH) said it made a net $6.39 million gain from the sale of quoted securities from Nov 26 to Dec 18, which will be accounted for m the financial statements for the year ending Dec 31, it said After the sale, the total
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        SYDNEY HOTEL GETS NEW BUYER
        109 45 Hotel Plaza's subsidiary Success Venture Pty Ltd has found a new buyer for its Parkroyal Plaza Hotel m Sydney after a previous sale was terminated on Dec 19. On that day, it made a new agreement to sell the hotel to the new buyer, for
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        BOUSTEAD BUYS RIGHT
        92 45 Boustead Singapore said yesterday it would pay $2.25 million under agreements signed to secure 40 per cent of Goldman Financial Ltd's right of first refusal to acquire certain industrial properties to t>e developed by GBI Realty Pte Ltd, a joint venture of the two firms set up
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        PARKWAY HOLDINGS GETS LOAN
        32 45 Parkway Holdings said yesterday it was getting a US$lOO million (*****.7 million) transferable loan facility, arranged by Credit Agricole Indosuez Merchant Bank Asia, to refinance its existing loans.
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        Lock icon CREATIVE FOUNDER TAKES STAKE
        100 45 MrChay Kwong Soon, a founder and former director of Creative Technology, said he paid $5.25 million for a stake m Uraco Holdings. Mr Chay, who now heads his own company called IntreSource Systems Pte, said he paid 35 cents a share for 15 million shares or
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        ABR BUYS PASTRY FIRM
        32 45 ABR Holdings said it had agreed to acquire a 60 per cent stake m Marly French Taste Pte Ltd, which produces and sells pastries and savouries, for $210,000.
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        Lock icon BERJAYA LAND SCRAPS PLAN
        125 45 Malaysia's Berjaya Land Bhd, a resorts and leisure firm, said it decided to scrap a plan to sell its Sports Toto lottery unit shares to its shareholders. "The unforeseen rapid decline m the economic and financial environment of the country triggered by the fall m value
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        Lock icon WEMBLEY SACKS DIRECTORS
        104 45 Malaysian construction firm Wembley Industries Bhd sacked two directors Mr Hamzah Abdul Majeed and his wife Freida Mohd Pilus from the company, but has not given a reason for the move. Wembley had said on Oct 7 the two directors were suing it and its executive chairman
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        BUNGALOW FOR SALE
        48 45 A freehold, two-storey bungalow at White House Park, off Stevens Road, has been put up for sale and is expected to fetch around $89 million, sole marketing agent Cushman Wakefield said yesterday. It has a site area of 15,174 sq feet and a built-up areaofs,3oosqft.
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        Lock icon GRAND HOTEL MAY MERGE
        111 45 Australia's Grand Hotel Group Ltd (GHG) said yesterday it planned to offer one of its securities for every 2.79 Australian Tourism Group (ATG) securities under a proposed merger. It said it presented the proposal to the ATG board on Dec 18, two days after unveiling its
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      Police investigate computer trade fraud by foreigners
      424 45  -  Yong Slew Min By THE police are investigating 19 complaints against nine Singapore companies allegedly used by foreign visitors to commit computer trade fraud worth at least $250,000. The Trade Development Board (TDB) said yesterday the Commercial Crime Division of the Criminal Investigation
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      Lock icon Lebanese airline wins new terms in SIA deal
      317 45 BEIRUT Lebanon's Middle East Airlines (MEA) has secured better terms for a US$39 million (5565.8 million) contract with Singapore Airlines, a move that could ease bad publicity over the deal amid a judicial inquiry into alleged irregularities. A central bank statement on
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      Lock icon SIA seeks Aussie nod for alliance
      120 45 SYDNEY Ansett Australia, Ansett International, Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines yesterday applied to Australia's anti-trust regulator for permission to form an alliance. They applied to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for approval for the alliance aimed at increasing revenue and redufcing costs
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      URA holds back Tanah Merah site, citing 'too low' bids
      547 46  -  Kalpana Rashiwala By IN A move seen as "positive" for the property market, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) yesterday announced it would not award a condominium site near the Tanah Merah MRT Station to top bidder Far East Organization because
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      Lock icon DBS takes majority stake in Thai Danu
      729 46  -  Tan Li Eng First foreign group to hold the reins at Thai bank By DBS BANK yesterday announced it will acquire a majority stake m Thai Danu Bank, a deal which spells the first ownership of a Thai bank by a foreign entity.
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      Lock icon 'Junk' ratings for Korean, Indonesian and Thai debts
      503 46 HONGKONG Asian stocks and currencies tumbled yesterday after Moody's Investors Service Inc cut the debt ratings of South Korea, Indonesia and Thailand to "junk" status. The US credit-rating company also reduced the rating for Malaysia's debt as well as the debt of
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      8 1 THE STRAITS TIMES Life! TUESDAY DECEMBER 23, 1997
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        Lock icon Impossible? They can make soap box do the macarena
        1080 2  -  KELVIN TONG FIXING IT IN POST THERE was much to celebrate when Video Headquarters (VHQ) commemorated its 10th anniversary four weeks ago by throwing an open-air bash outside its restored-shop-house premises on Duxton Hill. In just 10 years, VHQ has become
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      • FOUR STAGES OF POST-PRODUCTION
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          Avid gives raw footage a structure
          148 2 Avid gives raw footage a structure 1 EVERY television commercial is essentially a story and Mr Warren Klass, 29, is the one who gives the raw footage which directors bring to VHQ a beginning, middle and end. As an editor who utilises a $200,000 machine called the Avid, he chooses
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          She can turn the sky pink
          173 2 2 WHY is the sky blue? Because Ms Sandra Klass, 26, the telecine colourist says so. She uses a Simillion machine called Ursa Gold to manipulate the colours of images. She said: "The colours on raw footage are usually very bland. What I do
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          Henry does the polishing up
          131 2 3 AFTER raw footage is organised by the Avid and coloured by Ursa Gold, it lands m the lap of Mr Ng Chin Kiat, 32, who wields a Sl-million machine called the Henry to polish up the transitions between scenes. "Henry is a more powerful
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          Let the Flame guy throw in the explosion
          286 2 4 MR MARK RENTON, 31, has a scintillating job description. He is the "Flame guy" at VHQ. The Flame is a complex software that allows the designer to pull together different shots to make up one shot. It runs on a $1.2
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      Kids don't like nice toys
      1187 3  -  Monica Gwee Itchy Feet WHEN Harrison Ford (oh, yummy) pierced his ear for a small gold hoop m his 50s, his young son asked him if he could have a pierced earring too. "Sure," he said. "When you're 53." Now, this kind of logic is
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      Leo Ku: Hongkong's new Tom Hanks?
      525 3  -  SELINA LUM SOME men just never get tired of playing cops-and-robbers. Well, not Hongkong sing-er-actor Leo Ku anyway. The boyish-looking 25--year-old, whose movie credits to date consist of one lead role m Cause We Are So Young and many cameo roles m comedies, has
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      Lock icon Me a hunk? OK, so long as I don't believe it
      1039 4 At 44, Brosnan, aka James Bond, is described as one of the world's most attractive men 'I get a great kick of that It does wonders for the ego so long as you don't believe it. You nod, accept
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        I clicked 5 times and sign said: Come back later
        868 5  -  LIVIA CHUA EVER loaded a homepage to meet a fellow cybernaut only to find five different animated "Under Construction" signs and a single message telling you to get lost, the page is not done? The Web is a weird and
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        No more smudged printouts with Canon's BJC-7000
        586 5  -  Francis Chin Hardware Update THE all-new Canon BJC 7000 colour-inkjet printer ($729) that I tested last week came with a water pistol (no, you will not get one when you buy the printer, it is for the press only). I used the gun
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      Lock icon ER, ER, ER, it's Joseph calling Miss Secret
      1387 6 Stt WRITERS AND A CHRISTMAS STORY PART FOUR THE STORY SO FAR: The case of the Ferragamo Fetishist someone who goes around drugging women m shopping centres and stealing their money and left shoe turned out to be an episode of a
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        Lock icon Dad can eat with his kids — he's a magician
        718 7  - Dad can eat with his kids he's a magician CHIN SOO FANG Paul Koh's vocation allows him to have quality family time and also gets him invitations to the best parties m town Everyday People PAUL KOH took this reporter's name card with words m English on one side and
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        Lock icon West Java offers another festival
        318 7 THE Pelabuhan Ratu coastal area m west Java has been been spruced up for a new festival. Local and foreign tourists are expected to attend the Pelabuhan Ratu Festival, which ends on Saturday, to watch traditional performances and other items. It was launched last Saturday
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        794 5 305 BMW For Sato MID '97 BMW 316 i 4- door auto. 1 owner. Low mileage. Tip top. Tel: *****97. No. 8 Jalan Gelenggang •O' 6/89 BMW 520. F auto New auto transmission/ leather seat. New model. S23K 9629-6666. REPOSSESSED 4/89 BMW 520ia. SBX 4782A. Highest offer secures. 279 Balestier
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        775 5 309 Daewoo For Sale 309 Daewoo For Sale 309 Daewoo For Sale DAEWOO LEGANZA 2.0. German engine Best buy m town Going for $75K *(inclusive of COE) Come down for a Test Drive Get a FREE GIFT. Showrooms: 3 Übi Road 4 Tel: *****11. or 2 Jurong East St. 21.
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        377 5 313 Ford For Sale •MM^aMMBBaMMMMBM^iaa^ BEAUTIFUL '90 LASER 13 4 dr 16 valve. PARF $11,200. New tax/ s/rims. Showrm. cond. $26,800 0.n.0. *****03 lot 16 Tagore Lane '96 END, FESTIVA 1 3GLI 5-dr. 1 owner, whole car orig. like new, Selling $68.5 K. showrm. condition call *****33/ pg 9-*****07 ALMOST
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        625 5 316 Honda For Sale BEAUTIFUL '83 MODEL Honda Accord I.6EX. Manual. Power steering/ windows. New tax. New 2K paint. COE 2003 near. Deposit $4800. Remote alarm. Al interior/ upholstery, CD player system, new 15" alloy s/rims. Smooth engine, no repairs. $18,800. Monthly $400+. 1-4 yrs. loan neg. *****08 A LADY
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        1570 5 316 Honda For Sale ONLY 580.3 K. 4/90 Accord 2.OEX auto. S/rims. PARF $29K, tax 3/98. Loan/ trade-in *****00 SBL 12/89 ACCORD 1 6EX auto Grey. Tax 5/98. Accident free. $30,800. Tel: *****26 Tely Auto. SELLING 12,700 NEC. 3/88 Civ ie I.SGL. PARF $11,200. Good engme Call 9-*****14 Sheriff SPORTY
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        521 6 O mtf o O <3 O O O <> V o O OoC<3 O O Oo &900 ft e> O /^H BMBaßßs*a^Bah^^Bw EaWaaaSV^. aMBBMBMMMBm JVMBsV JEMBBBBIBBiBaMBBV^BW.—^ *m ES^^^^ESMMs! W^^SSf^^k ■P^^^^tlSM ■MM ESM J^k BMBMBMESMEMMi 317 Hyundai For Sale S/SS WHITE SONATA 1.8. Man aul. Lady driver. PARF $29K. Sell ing
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        558 6 324 Mazda For Sale A TEACHER'S 10/84 Mazda 323 I.3GL. 5 door. COE 2002 near. 2K metallic paint, hifi/ s/rims/ remote. Sporty beautiful. Can trade-in. Low deposit arrangeable. Loan available. Asking only $15.8K negl Quick sale I Call *****73 nowl BEAUTIFUL A1 COND. 80 mod el Mazda 323 10. COE
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        508 6 324 Mazda For Sale 7/93 MAZDA ASTINA 1 6EGi manual, sporty red, showroom condition, call *****88 BKW 8/91 ASTINA I.BOTi 5 dr. Sun roof. Digital meter. Injection. Sporty black. S/rims. 738-7757 8/91 323 FAMILI 1.3, 4 dr. 1 owner, power steering, accidentfree. 1 owner. $40,800, *****66 "82 MAZDA I.S. $10.5K
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        861 6 325 Mercedes For Sale 325 Mercedes For Sale 9BM^tV^SBMBMBMB9MHBMBMB%MBM^BBMBnBLfMMB ■Haj^ESJBEJEBBS^EBBJB^ES^BEfIBB^ES^EHE^EBSa^^BHB^RS tißV7V l^Bs ■■f'^mWjleml ■jMaBkEsBSjESHBJBBfI imobile bb^bbhbhbbWh^. jfi^' f w b^Lbß IbmbV b^bl a^k showroom Rd #01-12 Sin Ming Plaza 2057 along Shunfu Rd '81 MODEL MERCEDES 200 manual. 1 owner. COE 2002 near. New paint. Tax 3/98. Selling $20 500
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        754 6 325 Mercedes For Sale 2T89 MERCEDES 200E auto, convert E model. White. 2 owners. Well kept. *****373 2T94 E220 AUTO. Silver Leath er. New s/rims tyres C&C maintained. *****82/ *****13 2T98 MERCEDES S2BO. 1 own er. Low mileage. Excellent cond. 2 airbag. 4 electric seats. *****07 3V84 MERCEDES 280 S.
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        797 6 326 Mitsubishi For Salo FAIR PRICEI 9/'9l Lancer I.3GLX, 1 transfer, 2k maroon, accident Uee. Nice regn. no. S/rims. CD. $40,800 only) Trade m/ loan. Lot 19 Tagore Lane. *****22 Ali NEAR '93 LANCER 1 3GLX. 4-dr. Manual, new model, accident free, well kept, downpayment $9900. Loan $44,000 Interest 2.5%,
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        741 6 328 Nissan For Salo rjTTTTTj I -4\A I M NISSAN MARCH Manual Auto Driver Airbag SALE/LEASE yeMMMBI,. I We Buy Sell I Any Model of Private I I Car. PARF, COE Car. A BETTER DEAL All brands Japanese Cars BUY/ SELL WITH COE CAR *****05 *****22 LEI FU TRADING CO
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        895 6 328 Nissan For Sale 2/89 PULSAR I.4SLX. 2 own ers, orig. Power steering/ win- I dows. well kept, call *****33 3/89 PULSAR I.4SLX power steering/ window $18 2K Tip top cond Call *****66 3/89 PULSAR I.4SLX. Full ac cessories. Tax 2, 98 Beautiful cond. $19,900. Tel 773 3393 3/90 PULSAR
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        919 6 333 Porsche For Sale '83 PORSCHE 944. FuMy* re stored. COE 6/2000 Gteed Ai cond No repair assured. *****468 '93 PORSCHE 911 Tiptronic Cab nolet 3 6 SCP 1 digit nice no Tax 4/"98 Excellent cond Tel: *****00 334 Proton For Safe ALL BRANDS JAPANESE CARS PARF/ Non-PARF/ Off-peak ee»s
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        873 7 g^^m^^^k^^^-f-f^^ttj^B^Bl "^^C 337 Rowr For Sale $90,999. NEAR '96 112/95) Ist. owner. Rover 416 SLi. Airbag*. 16 valve*. Auto 5 speed 2 unitt. PARF $16K Leather teati. New tax Nice no. Full accessories Ist. payment $12 9K ($1320 x 17 yrs). Lot 72 Kallang Auto. Offer 2 days 894.9 K.
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        674 7 341 Subaru For Sale 341 Subaru For Sale 341 Subaru For Sale BPffWf!r' l lTFrWW'liT|Tjy| Best buy m category one Sf Japanese quality reliability s^ .^^-Jbsb^bbb! .w k 5 doors/side Impact beams/ ji>^M *"**m*/ WEL——~*~~l energy-absorbing M ~-mgmmm steering wheel Lai^BaaiT^^B E^jflC 3^B^^~ Jft &T Fuel Injection engine '^^^wL^^^SSSSSU^L T
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        420 7 342 Suzuki For Sale END '91 SU2UKI Swift. 1.0 4 drs. Full accessories. Tip-top condition Selling cheap! Tel *****20 LIKE NEWI 1/94 Black GTi. 1 owner. Full accessories. G'teed accident free orig. cond. *****348 MID '94 SWIFT 310GL. 4-dr 1 owner. Well kept. Accident free. $57,000 0.n.0. 9 *****63 1
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        620 7 344 Toyota For Sale YEW HENG Brand new TOYOTA EMINA J TOYOTA IPSUM j TOYOTA CORONA HONDA ODYSSEY A BEST DEAL All Brand Japanese Car PARF/ NON PARF OFF-PEAK CAR BUY Bt SELL 447 1005 Michaal Tan BMT Auto Trading Lot 32 Kaki Bt. Carmart BEST DEAL FOR ALL TOYOTA
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        885 7 344 Toyota For Sale 344 Toyota For Sale 344 Toyota For Sale e»^tTa?3 i'!lT.'-|li. ■^sE-s2K«_alßnnlE^ PL— iß ■sP^T^^^ bsb^BßbMMbbsbbbbWb»H^^^^^W^ 1691 NEAR. TOYOTA Cressida GLX Auto (new model). Pte. banker owner. Electrical seat. 24 valve injection. Tax 5/-98. Pg 9-*****11 2 UNITS '80 Starlet 1.0. COE 7/2000 Beautiful cond. S/rims./ ■Mcs.
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        807 7 3/89 COROLLA 1.3. Excel. Blue. Tax 2 98 $18,800 0.n.0. Call *****166/ pg 9302 5662 3/92 COROLLA GLI Manual 1 owner. Low mileage. Tip top cond. $60,800 neg. Tel: 441-6175 4/89 TOYOTA COROLLA 1.6. Auto. S/rims. Good cond. Tax 3/98. $22,500 0.n.0. *****13 4/90 COROLLA I.3XL. Manual. Power steering/ windows.
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        452 7 349 Other Makes For Sale KEOW HONG TRADING ENT. Blk. KotM Kallang Auto Ctr. ERK PEEN 9-*****71 1 WE PROVIDE EXCELLENT SVCS. (QUALITY USED CARS) 01/93 Corolla 1 3XI i ('94 facelift) 07/92 Mazda 626 2.0< 5-dr. f/auto 02/92 Ford Laser 1.3 4-dr. 08/91 Corolla I.6GL 4-dr. f/auto 12/90 Corolla
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        625 7 356 Off Peak Cars OMV $24,268. '64 mid Galant I.BMTi. Auto. 1 owner. Easy loan. Lot 8, Kaki Bt. Carmart. *****27 10T83 PROTON 1.3. Aeroback I Deposit 56.5K Mthly $554 x 6 yrs. Lot 8, Kaki Bt Carmart. *****00. lirS3 SUZUKI 660 Swiftlet. Au I to. 1 owner. Deposit 55.5
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        561 7 377 Car Financing/ 377 Car Financing/ Insurance Insurance Tled-up with cash! Still need the car to run about, then Call *****1 1 I Oam 6pm 7 days a week Competitive Swift transaction interest rate COE loan available *No obligation quote Vehicle insurance Hl^l Up to 7 years repayment I FLAT
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        250 8 V bW 0 <> __C> O 0 _f O o Q froOa^P 0 Oo°&OoO &••>•* °/W^ a^aaaaaaals^tJL-^ V •IaBBBBBBBB 1 bbbbH Efeafl BaZ^^BaZ^Lfl Lk aal Ba^r^^Z^aaMßaaaaaaaHaaaaßaaaaaaßalßßa^Baaal Rllbbbbbbbbbb. .asflaaW bbbbW Vehicles For Hire 382 Vehicles For Hire 382 Vehicles For Hire BBsP^Bw*W i^Kt I I 1 .fJ JX SBfaßßr^K^feßßßßßß^aaßaßsw Car m
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        595 8 CAR FOR RENTAL to M'sia, $131 per day for holiday. Call *****628 Pg *****870 for reservation CARS FOR RENT at special rate m good cond. 1.3 to 1.6 c.c. Inter ested please call 9-603-7549 CX: PICK-UPS, VANS, Truck! 516, Guillemard Road (Behind Cit Plaza) Tel: 747-0300/ 747-8900. i DATSUN PICKUPS,
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        718 8 383 Vehicles Wanted EXTRA SSSI CASH on the spot! Urgently wanted Starlet/ Charade/ Pulsar/ 1.6 Accord. COE 2000 above. 297-7120. 24 hrs. OWNER NEEDS 1.8 Accord/ 1.0 Starlet/ Pulsar/ Charade/ etc. COE '2000 above. Cash payment I (24--hrs). 874-0675. No dealers pis. WE'VE GOT THE RIGHT PRICE WANTED ALL TYPES
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        989 8 387 Lorries For Sale 387 Lorries For Sale GOLDBELL LEASING PTE LTD~ Used Trucks and Forfclift for sale SAw.Modal Year Description Brand 1. FK 415 02/1993 Open/ Tail (6 Tons) Mitsubishi 2. FK 415 11/1992 Open/ Tail (6 Tons) Mitsubishi 3. FK 415 *****91 Open (6 Tons) Mitsubishi 4. FK
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        2961 8 402 ColoBCity South-West PTE APTS Rent WghßbeLuxjnovtApvtrmnU Hwß rBWOfSBIfc Qtjf W*W 2 or 3 bedroom apartments (1033/1399 sq.ft.) I Condo facilities Near Outram MRT Newly renovated units/ immediate occupation Reasonable rental BbVW^TTT'^TVbiH LIANG SEAH PLACE Neer Buejia Junction Fully furnished 1 2 bdrm apartment unit with living/ dming/ kitchenette Fully
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        566 8 402 DOl 08 City SouthWest PTE APTS Rent D.03 WESTBAY. 4 yrs old. 3*1. 1346 sq ft Facilities/ sch Valued $630 p s.f 9 *****28 sole agent D.03 ***** EMERALD PK 3+l Low floor. F/furn Near MRT 3Bay *****049/ *****88 George D.04 HARBOURLIGHTS. Neer to city. 2 rooms. Greenery pool
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        522 9 tka gag 402 DOI 08 City ft South-Wast PTE APTS Rant REGENT PK. TWR. B 2 rms. 968 sq.ft. Beautifully furn. Amenities/ MRT Quiet. $3.8 K. 9804-4283 agt. RIVERWALK APT. 2 bdrms. Good view 1200 sq.ft. Furn. Facilities. $3500. Pg. 9-*****58 agent. TO. PAOAR ILK. 7. #18 F/fum. F/aircon. High
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        457 9 404 DO9-10 Orchard/ Tanglin/ Holland PTE APTS Rant IrvTTsiNAI DRIVE fI For L—9) I /02-02//04-02//10-02 1 #06-03/#l6-02//02-03 #03-03//04-03/#OB-02 |#08-01/#1(M)1//17-0i| 1/18^16-03 B«4-Ak. 3200 sq.ft. 4+l. Pte. lift. Very high flr Well kept. SI2K Aiajnon Pv 4+l. 3400 sq.ft.tlOk AstrM Maedaw 2100 sq.ftS9.9K Pandan Valley. Bauhinia/ Powclaw 4+l, renovated S7K. Tulip Garden.
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        894 9 404 DOS 10 Orchard/ Tanglin/ Holland PTE APTS Rant CHANCERY ESQUIRE. WALK ING distance to MRT/ Orchard Rd. Exquisitely furnished. Large living dining. 3 bedrms. 1300 sq.ft. Swimming pool. $3900. Strictly no agt. *****221 (Mr. Low) D.OS STUDIO APT. Fully fur nished with swimming pool and parking facilities, near MRT
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        1811 9 404 DOS 10 Orchard/ 404 DO9 10 Orchard/ Tanglin/ Holland Tanglin/ Holland PTE APTS Rant PTE APTS Rant D.09 BRAND NEW apt 6 mins. D.lO HABITAT 11. 3+ l. Pool, to MRT. 1500 sq.ft. 3+l. Nice inte- $9500. Quiet facing. P/furn. Good rior, f/furn. Aircon. PA *****66. location. CR 282
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        801 9 404 DO9 10 Orchard/ Tanglin/ Holland PTE APTS Rant UE SOUARE. 3+l. 1561 sq.ft High flr. Face pool. Choose your finishing. $6.5K p/mth. *****388 VALLEY PK. JUST TOP Blk 483 Studio. Face fountain/ pool. New, f/fum. 9630-8177/ 9494-6000 ERA VALLEY PK. 1216 sq.ft. Fum. 2 bdrms. High flr. Blk. 479,
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        944 9 406 Dll &21 Newion/ Bt TimarV Clement PTE APTS Rant D.ll WHITLEY HOTS. 3 bdrms Face pool. pte. gdn. Near presti gious schs. Pg. 9-*****30 NR 0.11 19 SHELFORO Enjoy youi own garden! 2 bdrms. Furnish tc taste. Co broke. *****627 ERA D.ll 19 SHELFORD/ Kellett Ct 2 rms./ 3+l.
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        746 9 410 Dl 5-16 East Coast 410 015-16 East Coast i PTE APTS Rant PTE APTS Rent r *i*T' 1 r I iafrTS'^Bt I 9*9: ll*]Flll L^^Ea I P^K^-l-T^a^^jLx^^^^^^^^^^J^^'^^^^^^^^k^l'^^i^B i »»a^a%ams^AlaatJMaaJ m 1 1 I'm FOR LONG OR SHORT TERM LEASE (As SERVICED APARTMENTS) Located along Bayshore Road Linen and crockery
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        1278 9 410 Dl 5-16 East Coast PTE APTS Rent D.l* CHILTERN PK. 3+l Pool view. Tastefully renovated. F/fumV aircon. Mini to town. *****676 EASTERN LAOOON. 2 bdrm. condo. Well furn. Convenient. Facilities. Immed. Patron 9404-6834 FULL SEA VIEW/ condo 1500 2400 sq.ft. Rent $4000 up. Sole agt 9631 9698/ 9200-5288 GOOD
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        1121 10 b^ __j>_ O o c> c Q -Q fr O 0 oo<?o o 0 oo&Ooo a°DO /^t MMMmW— m S^BflLfsW .As^LMR^BMBMMMMk atfR^RfcsM^BMMMMMMMB. .a^B^BMMMV j^ Bh^Kl -^ST3h Ib. Mi r^^^SItHHHISHKKSKtMI^OUi Sk^^mmml bßßbA^^Kb^^-^-^i^b^b^bml Lmmmw I 420 Houses For Ren; 420 Houses For Rent laccMm Description Area (sq ft) East Uyn Gardens 4+l
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        651 10 QUALITY BRAND NEW DETACHED HOUSES With swimming pool $15K. to tiSK. GOLDWORTH *****64 Mr. Ong *****925 SWISS CLUB ROAD. 2 storey bungalow. Designer layout *****/ 8200 sq.ft. 6+l. C/w cellar, pool, pte. driveway, garage, patio, huge gdn. Secluded environment. Pg. 9490-4509 PONGQOL NORTHSHORE BRAND new 2-storey bunglw. with attic. Built-up
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        866 10 420 Houses For Rent D.lO REGENT VILLAS semi-d. s+l, beautiful landscaped garden. Amenities. 9-*****30 NR 0.10. S4.SK. ORCHARD area Beautiful 2K storey terr 6 yrs. 2100/ 2500 sq.ft 4+l CA *****462 D.ll D/STOREY DETACHED bunglw. 14 Sime Rd. 5+2 rms. F/aircon. S/pool. P/furn. 334-3552 D.ll HILLCREST RD. 2 storey semi-d.
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        933 10 422 HUDC/ HDB Apts For Rent ACTION! A.M. KIO. T Payoh, Tampines, Yishun, Woodlands, CCX., Bt. Batok. Bedok. Holland. Pasir Ris, Dover Rd, Kallang, Übi, Bendemeer, Boon Lay. *****32 ALL AREAS. 4-RM. Serangoon Aye. 1. F/furn. Aircon. $1500/ 5-rm. Bt. Purmei. $1500/ 4-rm. Teck Whye, Pandan, Woodlands $1200/ Mais. Jurong
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        930 10 422 HUDC/ HDB Apts For Rent LICENSED TO RENTI 3 rm. Blk 828, Tampines. Nice renovation. Aircon P/furn 471-6566 DP LOR. AH SOO 4 'A' Whole unit Blk. 143. Furnished. Amenities. Immediate. *****407 MARINE PARADE, BISHAN, Far rer, Pandan. Jurong. CCX, Simei, Tampines, Macpherson. 755-4517. MARSILING MRT. 2 rm 1
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        786 10 426 Rooms For Rent ALL AREAS Rooms available immed. (HDB/ private) Master/ Common. Furn./ unfurn. For single/ couples/ students. Call *****64/ pg *****085, 24 hrs. AU AREAS. AU types. Master/ common rms. For singles/ couples. All nationalities/ races welcome. Prompt reliable service guaranteed! l Call 585-0907 agt. ATTN. FOREIGNER STU
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        897 10 426 Rooms For Rant JURONG EAST BLK 305 Com mon rm Toh Guan Rd(IMM) Blk 279 Indian/ Others. *****48 agt JURONG WEST 2 common rm. Blk 922/ 917/ 718/ 759 at .same unit. For prof workers. *****48 MARSILING BLK. 9. 2 rms for rent. Malay owner. Move m immediately Price
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        713 10 441 DOl 08 City South West I PTE APTS Sale I 0.04 HARBOURUOHTS Brand new development I 721/ 1259 sq.ft I 2/ 3+l rms. Pool, greenery view Luxurious quality finishes i Co broke agent full commission Call now KNIGHT FRANK *****845/ *****27 Joanna D.03 CENTRAL GREEN. 2 -bedrooms. 926 sq.ft.
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        836 10 445 DO9 10 Orchard/ Tanglin/ Holland HOUSES Sala GREAT LOCATION S2.SM 3+l Built-in 2500 sq ft To appreciate drive by 31 Jin. Ladah Puteh Jim Ellis Pg: *****217 Deans n D.09 EMERALD HILL. 2 storey Peranakan 2575 sq.ft. F'hold. Pte carpark Fair price *****86 Af/I D.OS 2 STOREY pre war
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        907 11 °/H Btaßa«k»fl6w*«w .a«Bß9^Baff6Mß^B\^Baaaaaaaa%7a^BaV ~V to&tDo9-10 Orchard/ Tanglin/ Holland PTE APTS -Sala D.OB ELIZABETH HOTS. 2500 sq.ft. 4+l. F'hold. Amenities. Full facilities 9818 6148 Sole agent D.OS GRANGE TOWER Pent Hse 2245 sq.ft F'hold. 4 bdrms Excel lent location *****783 Deens. O.O» GRANGE HOTS. 1900 sq.ft. 3+l bdrms. Beautifully renovated. Colliers
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        1286 11 455 Dl 2-14 Balestiar/ Macpherson/ Geylang HOUSES Sala JLN. SENTOSA FREEHOLD SEMI O 2-storey. 4500/ 3500 sq.ft. s+l rooms, 5 toilets About 4 years old Beautifully renovated Quiet neighbourhood Welking dist. to Kembangan MRT Viewing Any Time Agent 9310-3021 Co-broke welcome D.14 WESTERHOUT ROAD 928 sq.ft. F'hold. Tenanted. Easy Parking.
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        709 11 460 D l 5-16 East Coast HOUSES Sala D.lB KOON SENG, new maiestic bunglw. F'hold. 6+2. Nice landscape with double volume dining. Sauna/ jacuz/i/ gym. HB 9-*****01 D.lB TELOK KURAU 3 storey bungalow. Approx. 10,000/ 7300 sq.ft. s+l. Serious seller! Price very very neg. HB pg. *****479 D.16 EVERGREEN AYE.
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        589 11 465 Dl 7- 18 Changi/ 465 Dl 7-18 Changi/ 466 Dl 7-18 Changi/ 465 Dl 7-18 Changi/ 465 0 17- 18 Changi/ 465 Dl 7-18 Changi/ Pasir Ris Pasir Ris Pasir Ris Pasir Ris Pasir Ris Paair Ria HOUSES Sala HOUSES Sala HOUSES Sale HOUSES Sale HOUSES Sale HOUSES Sala
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        473 11 466 Dl 7-18 Changi/ Pasir Ris PTE APTS Sals IF YOU GO on an overseas trip, there's no g'teed that at your overseas destination you will find some place as nice as Loyang Velley More open spaces. Landscaping comparable to 5 stars hotel. Loyang Valley was filmed extensively m early
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        531 11 470 Dl 9-20 Ssrangoon/ Thomson HOUSES Sals D.19 SERANOOON OON. Urgent sale. D/storey bunglw. 5300/ 4500 sq.ft. 5 yrs. s+l rm. Owners instruction sell fasti I CP *****234 D.19 URGENT SALEI Only $1.42 M. Huge 4200 sq.ft. semi-d. (Serangoon Gdn). Near amenities. I Good buy I HARVEST *****88 D.20 MAYFLOWER!
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        515 11 471 Dl 9-20 SerangooiV Thomson PTE APTS Sato D.IB KOVAN APT. F'hold. 3 rms. Renovated. Face pool. Future MRT/ amenities. *****515 DW. D 20 BRADOELL VIEW Blk. 106. High fir Best blk. 1700 sq.ft. 3+l. S. facing. $700K APC 295-5033 D.20 CALROSE GDN. Upp. mais. 1760 sq.ft. F'hold. Renovated. *****721
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        927 11 488 HUDC Apts For Sal< MUST SELLI S73OK neg.l Ju rong E. ground fir. mais.; high/ mid fir. apt. Pg 9313-3132 ERA. SERAMQOON N. MAM. Blk. 130. unblocked, windy, renovated. SS2OK only. *****89 sole agt. S3OK BELOW VALUATION. Eu nosville. Opp. MRT. Move m cond. Quiet, windy. LMK 2866-911. 492
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        1031 12 V 4) o o(7 0 <5 O- O oOo»0 0000 V O »O Oo Q O o_ O O O_--^bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbH LbbbbW. i H&H »kw Baan a^Lsal b^L^kbb^Bß>v. .^bbb>__ d| 'tf '■tMß^ntfte^'**'*'^^^-^^^^**'?-f^rf?^' > I^^^ Lb^bV 492 HDB Apts For Sale (Ang Mo Kio) aMMMMMHavsMa^B^iaBH* m 3 'NO' A.M. Kio Aye. 10.
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        647 12 HDB Apts For Sale 493 HDB Apts For Sale I 493 HDB Apts For Sale 493 HDB Apts For Sale 493 HDB Apts For Sale (Bedok/ Chai Chee) (Bedok/ Chai Chee) (Bedok/ Chai Chee) (Bedok/ Chai Chee) (Bedok/ Chai Chee) (Bedok/ Chai Chee) i B The Straits Times Classified I
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        759 12 3 'NO' 108. Bedok Res. 100% move m. High fir. Cash $12K. Can contra. Michael 9309-1339 LLF 3 "NO 7 4"S Bedok Res. 139/ a 128, well kept, near amenities, reasonable price, 9-*****86 Orion, g 3-RM. BLK. 74/ 502/ 534 Bedok. High fir. Can contra. Single eligi- v ble. Rocky
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        692 12 a 494 HDB Apt« For Sale i (Bishan) s 'I' CORNER Bishan blk. 140, igh fir. Unblocked. Nicely renoated. New. MRT 10 mins. Sell ear value. *****888 Applegate r** A BEAUTIFUL Home 5 T ilk. 128/ 146. Can contra. Breezy, tear MRT/ Junction 8. *****977 ILL RACES) 4 A' 259
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        636 12 (96 HDB Apts For Sale (Bukit Batok) ALL BUKIT BATOK 3 T Bah. SO7. Low cash I High fir .Renovated 3 'A' Blk 249/ 837. Low cash! High fir. Well kept. Don't missl 4 'A' Blk. 172. Very High fir. Marble. Blk. 206. Corner. Low fir. Face greenery. Unblocked. Low
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        630 12 496 HOB Apts For Sale (Bukh Batok) 3 'A' BLK 163. Bt. Batok St 11 High fir. Fantastic view. N.S. facing. Valued. Price neg. 9414-9226 3 "A* BLK. 169. High fir. Near amenities/ school. Windy. Renovated. Well kept. *****885 Agt. 3 "A 1 BLK. 166/167 Bt. Batok W. Aye. 8.
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        734 12 496 HDB Apts For Sal* (Bukit Batok) 4 'A' CORNER Bt. Batok 537, sell at valuation. High fir. Can contra. Register immed. 9411-0356 OW 4 'A' CORNER 417/ 185. Renovated. Amenities/ Central/ mkt./ MRT/ park/ c.cV sch. 9318-8139, C&H 4 'A' CORNER blk 178 Bt. Batok W. Aye. 8, high
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        966 12 497 HDB Apts For Sala (Bt Merah/ Q'towrV Telok Blangah) fO CASHI 3-RM Tanglin Halt. Ilk 34 high fir Blk 36 corner, blk !5V 27 high fir MRT. 9-*****37. )NLY $SK CASHI 3 "I" T. Blan- I iah C'res. Blk. 13, f/renovated. All aces. High fir *****90/ *****438 JUICK SALEI
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        987 12 499 HDB Apts For Sale (Central/City) 3 HAVELOCK. high fir. Windy. MRT, renovated, unblocked, valued $141k. *****283 RED. 500 HDB Apt* For Sale (Choa Chu Kano/ Bukit Panjang) BUKIT PANJANG Blk. 409. Saujana 4 'A*. High fir. Very well kept. Face open field. Valued S24OK Blk. 244. S T. Face
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        886 12 500 HDB Aptt For Sals (Choa Chu Kang/ Bukit Panjang) S 'I' BLK. 238 Bt Panjang. high fir Unblocked. Move-in. Can contra. Best buy! 9494-3000 Jane ERA T BLK. 419 Fajar Rd. Must seiif Low floor No cash. Windy. Near LRT/ amenities. 9269-5638 agt. T CORNER Faiar Rd. blk. 439.
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        944 13 atkja gagag 501 HOB Apt* For Sale (Clementi/ West Coast) 3 'I' TEBAN Gdn. bik. 34. Lift landing. Valued SI2IK. Asking SI36K Pg. 9418-1818 agt. 3 T UPGRADED Bik 12 Holland Aye High flr. No blockage Good location. View to offer 733-2238 »-V» L-SHAPE CORNER bik 309 Clementi. High flr.
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        865 13 502 HOB Apt* For Sale (Qaytang/Eunos/ Macpharson) ALJUNIED MRT B A' Geylang East bik. 125. High flr. No block ing. Very windy. *****31 sole agt. BLK. 112 3-RM. Aljunied Cresc Near shop/ amenities. Can contra. Chinese not eligible. 9412-7135 BL BLK. 333 EXEC. Mais. Übi Aye. 1. High flr. Can
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        919 13 504 HDB Apts For Sale (Hougang/ Serangoon/ Ylo Chu Kang) BLK. 4SS B T corner Hougang. lift landing, beautifully renovated 101% move m. OMH *****208 CASH SBK. 4 'A' corner Hougang 524. Renovated. Hougang Mall/ future MRT. *****212 PW CHEAPEST! B T Serangoon bik. 212. Choice locationl Near central. Asking
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        1036 13 504 HOB Apts For Sale (Hougang/ Serangoon/' Ylo Chu Kang) 4 '8' BLK. 329/ 239 Serangoon. High flr. no blocking. Near amenities. Can contra. *****422 4 'S' BLK. 325 Serangoon Aye. 3. High flr. Contra. Renovated. Amenities. Price neg. *****977 4 'S' BLK. 605 Near sports facilities/ MRT Valued S22SK.
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        1096 13 505 HDB Apts For Sale (Jurong) NEW USTINGI 3-RM. Jurong W. Blk. 498. Valued $132 K. Low cash. Central/ shops. *****989 B Knight NEW USTINGI 3 ■Mf Blk 306. Jurong East. Mid flr. Renovated, unblocked. MRT. *****592 NO CASHI 4 NG' corner Blk. 491 Jurong W. Marble flr. Can contra.
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        955 13 505 HDB Apts For Sale (Jurong) 4 'A7 S T Jurong West blk. 836/ 976. 100% move m cond. Near MacDooald. *****488 ERA 4 T A blk. m Tao Ching. blk. 105. valued, low cash. Move-in. High fir. Can contra. 9202-2509 agt. 4 T BOON LAY Blk. 220/ 184. High
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        728 13 510 HDB Apts For Sale (Marine Parade) Doni Worry Be Happy! pjscußw Albert Wong PRicE IV V-^fc 3 T MARINE Cresc. High fir. Sea I view. Windy Near sch./ mkt. i Parkway Parade. Valuation $185 K. asking $220K Pg. *****581 IDA ANY OFFER CONSIDERED!!!!! 5-rm. Pt. Blk. 43, #05. Lift
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        1125 13 512 HDB Apts For Sala (Pasir Rls/Changl) BLK. 107 PASM Ris 5 'I' corner, recess area, selling below valuation, OMH 9301 4208 BLK. 21S. 4 -A- Good location. Near amenities. Mid floor. Price neg. Pg: 9578-0146 BLK. 888. 8 'I' Pasir Ris. 4 bdrms.. nice renovation, aircon., amenities, move-in cond.
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        1651 13 514 HDB Apts For Sala (Tampinas/ Simei) j MUST SELL! 8 T Simei Blk 126. High fir Unblock/ windy. Can contra. MRT/ mkt. *****125 ERA NAME YOUR PRICE! 4 A' 846. 1 Tampines corner. High fir. Move I m. Can contra. *****288 ERA NO CASHI 4 -A- Tampines Blk. 277.
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        984 14 J g^ i—y- w <3 Q O O O o Q p o Q op p Q p o o O o O ft* b 514 HDB Apts For Sal* (TamptoM/ SknaJ) 'A' DR. TO-OR. Blk. 906 Tampines. Low floor. Well kept. Unblocked. Low cashl *****446 agt 4 'A' SaMB
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        1788 14 517 HDB Apts For Sak) (Woodlands/ Sembawang) 3 "NO' 14S Woodlands. New renovation. Low flr. Near MRT. Valued SI26K Regn. Feb. *****585 4 'A' BLK. 854 Woodlands. Lift level. Corridor end. Near amenities. View to offer. Pg: 9592 8282 4 'A' CORNER Woodlands. Blk. 310, high flr. 5 yrs. only,
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        960 14 518 HDB Apts For Sale (Yishun) HURRYI NAME YOUR price. 5 'I' Blk. 788. Low flr. Well kept. MRT/ amenities. Page: 9511-8274 RC JUMBO CORNER BLK. 633. Low flr. 4 rms. Near park. S.E. SS6OK neg. BHR *****33/ *****240 JUMBO FLAT! 684/ 604. High flr. 5 bdrms. Near MRT/ pky
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        1467 14 518 HDB Aots For Sala 525 Housas Wantad (Yishun) (Rant/ Buy) 4 -A' YISHUN Aye. 6 Blk. 394. ATTN. ALL OWNERS!!! Ready f Renovated. Near schy food ctr. clients for furn unfurn. detached/ r Can contra. *****196 PW semi-d./ terr. hse. for rent/ sale. 4 'A' YISHUN 412. #03 Just
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        612 14 527 HUDOHDB Apts Wfanfd (Rant/ Buy) •ROFESSIONAL EXPATS OOKING for 3/ 5-rm. HDB Apt 1 Tanjong Pagar, Tiong Bahru, elok Blangah all other areas. g 9254 3056 Doreen, agent IBK 82OK. Deposit m advance rrangeable for sellers. Buyers can vait. require immediately Exec. ipty mais., 3/4/5 rms. Any sres. Ml
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        860 14 531 Factory Spaca For Rant ADMIRALTY INDUSTRIAL PARK Brand new 4 storey terrace factory cum office Approx. 13,200 sq.ft. Immediate Rental negotiable Pa* 9*oo-3868 DW NEW COPORATE IMAGE FTY. For Lease Choice location at Übi Road 4 Built-in: 7000 30,000 sq.ft. Floor load 15kN/ sq.m High ceiling/ high Amp. Sheltered
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        674 14 531 Factory Space For Rant IMMED. GROUND FLR. High ceiling. Near Bishan MRT. 1270 sq.ft. Mayfair Bldg. *****991 HY KAKI BUKIT. 3 STOREY Terr. fty,/ basement/ lift/ hoist/ carpark. 4700 sq.ft. 348-3511/ *****033 MACPHERSON/ PAYA LEBAR. 400/ 600/ 1000/ 2000/ 3000/ 5000/ 10,000 sq.ft. Pg. *****258 Agt. MACPHERSON. HENDERSON. Paya
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        712 14 534 Office Spaca For Rant Am: 1,300-3,000 sq ft Wrect access to KmtW% rIsKC MrtT UsmssK m ii ■■a—l i Iflin I rwyl Wmm I rmVjf m\wL TlCw CECIL COURT 800-3.300 sq.ft. Fitted-out units avail. I Near Raffles MRT I Attractive rent [1 Tel: 3303 505 I COMMERCE POINT 3
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        447 15 0 o C* 1 o °oO<? o go- 0 9 o 4 "ooa o o o o o O 534 Office Space 534 Office Space For Rent For Rent I Lm* Mf'af*' '"i "I 'jissa'^Ejal H*iS 'jttLt >^BsV'^bbbßb Brand new development TOP soon Prominently located within the Singapore River District
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        264 15 D.OI RAFFLES/ MRT/ CITY, any size from $3 $6.50 p.s.f. Fitted. Singaland 458-0972/ 9708-0814. D.Ol $1800 PER month 880 sq.ft. Office m Stanley St. Near Tg. Pagar MRT. CKS *****350 D.02 ANSON RO. 463 sq.ft. High fir. Partial sea view. $2500. 9400-5313/ 9637-9887 G&R D.02 DUXTOfW ANN Siang con servation
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        912 15 534 Office Space For Rent D.12 LAVENDER STREET 3rd storey office space for rent. Please call *****77. Pg. *****981 D.12 QUIET tk cosy. Ground dr. 120 150 sq.ft. Aircon. Carpet. Furn. Pg. *****633 owner immed. D.14 NEAR MRT. Ground fir. 1550 sq ft Bldg. renovated Ample parting. *****274 TPR. D
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        392 15 537 Shop Space 537 Shop Space For Rent For Rent I CUPPAGE PLAZA H^ffjxaa|^ffa eastpoint shopping I FAR EAST PLAZA •J'llTtrJ I GINZA PLAZA HJK^Jilljg I GOLDEN LANDMARK I LUCKY CHINATOWN I ORCHARD PLAZA m ÜBIWA^ 1 IPJWJsM riverside point I SICLAP CENTRE LO>f>PP«M I SIN MING PLAZA ■Cj i
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        84 15 DIST. 07 PARADIZ Centre, off Orchard Road. Good location Convenient and easily accessible by MRT/ Bus. Area 398 1200 sq.ft. For enquiries, call *****22 peacGt* Prime Ground Floor Space(Facing Atrium) Area: Approximately 753 sq ft Ideal for jewellery, Immediate occupation fashion lifestyle For more details, please call products Attractive rental
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        404 15 537 Shop Space For Rent AREA (SQ.FT.) I 466 1 CTR 334 to 1410 377 t 188 to ***** 194 to 4047 151 to 5877 280 1464 226 f 980 to 1119 f 441 to 807 AD 730 ORGANIZATION 1 mTri'KvnuTf I 1 HUUfcS PIACE I 1* Retail space on
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        1786 15 537 Shop Space For Rent SHOP- APOLLO HOTEL vicinity. I Main Rd Outside CBO. $1300 neg. < 350 sq.ft. immed. *****88 agt. i SHOP AT CORONATION Plaza I for rent. 200 sq.ft. Heavy human traffic Pis contact 467 0297 SHOP FOR RENT at Orchard Pla- za. Suitable for Beauty Salon.
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        125 15 543 Warehouses/ Storage Space For Rent A* JUwOWO wvtorty 5,000/ 10,000/ 25,000/ 40,000/ 80,000/ 70,000 to 180,000 aq.ft. Overhead crane, chem-cai urn Sprinkler leveller* avail. B. LOYANQ/ CHANOI SAHewwy 2500/ 6000/ 14,000 eg.ft. Close to amenitie* c. Mmrr batok a/Mor^ 20,000/ 35.000/ 43,000 aq.ft. Self contained. High ceiling D. SSfOKOr
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        700 16 .^BBBMBMMBB MMw*^Mbl < BJBV Vbtb^T i^lvfe p**ot* j^Bßl V VaMEX 52. t! iifZt BBBMSBCBJI BB^BMRBB BMMMMBi -i,aaii^_. MMfekw 543 Warehouses/ Storage Space For Rant •2790 sq ft 4.200 sq ft Near AYE Attractive rental tmmedate occupation Call: 539 7806/711 PkJemco Land UnrWted BTT7iTrY*T*| f >1 1 LH 'U 23.169 62
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        604 16 550 Property Auctions/ 550 Property Auctions/ Tenders Tenders Properly Address 3 Barbary Walk, Singapore Legal Description Lot *****A Mukim 1 Land Area 602.1 sq.m. (approx.) Tenure Freehold Tender Closing Date Fri. 9 Jan. 1 998 at 3pm. For viewing and tender document, please contact the Marketing Agent T^^^» B^ ■bTWb^^W
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        530 16 573 Air Tickets SILK TRAVEL. *****32 Offer budget fares from $140 to Jakarta. Bangkok, H.K., Taipei, Japan, Down under, USA, Europe. Hotels/ tours can be arranged. TA923 SPECIAL O GREAT BARGAINS Penang-$220 Jakarta $175 Brisbane $700 XL. $155 Phuket TG $350 Osaka NH $850 Bali-GA $450 Call *****55 or Fax:
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        532 16 574 Cruises 574 Cruises 574 Cruises 574 Cruises tgy^lJj^i^j_[O|lllD Loom] L^ri^aJ [^a]^ [^gL^g] L^aJ^ L^gL^al L^OMll fpgi^ S Kt-^^^ccHSlS^ H" illlli^Bßi^ A^^oriofArribaBBadono^ |ilu] "^M i i^ cMI -jiItKKSSSBWamBmjP BaaP^* I I aaa^ aW\\\^a\W bb^b^bbS B^ca^LaS B^sm^aaS 1 B €RgISES^T^^||KSSSS323ifc sm 3p suns«ltionai uvuuc^/Binten) 1" Paiil2"Paill3*PaJ|4* PaJCHLDJIBUn| I I CM] Dept
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        78 16 578 Resorts s Sibu Island Resort Swimming Pool /M|t Sea Sports Centre WW •TV, IDO, Mini bar 121 Resort-styled Rooms Century HoWays 533 2377 #03-68 People's Park Centre I CATS. 581 Tours /limited space I NEWYEARSEVE I SPL FESTIVE OFFER 1 From HUH I (PACKAGE INCLUDES) ff Accomm, ferry, breakfast
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        103 17 II IN LOVir#QMEMORYOf]| CHAN FUN SENG I BERNARD Departed: 23V12/»3 His Memory is as dear I today, As in the hour he I passed away. Always Remembered I Annie, Sui, Li, Luan I ft all loved ones. JOSEPH DORAI Times changes many things But not the memory
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        35 17 ATHMA SHANTI POOJA For our Dearly Beloved Mother Punnammal W/O M.S. Packiam Departed 9.12.97, India Always remembered by husband. :hildren. grandchildren loved Hi Athma Shanti prayer* on M.12.97 at 7pm. Geylang siv.nT.mpU ■■■■■SBBBBj^BBBBBBBBBBBMB
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        62 17 With Fond Mtmon.i of CHARLES SELVARAJ JESUDASON Departed: 23/12/96 Jesus said "I am the Ressu rection, and The Life; he that believeth m Me though he were dead, yet shall he live.' Always remembered by: Wife, daughter, son, mother, brother, sisters loved ones In Ever Loving Memory
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        130 17 S. P. MUTHU (NEW WORLD) Departed 16/12/97 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks appreciation to all ralatives and friands for their kind assistance condolences, donations and wreaths during their recant breavement. Prayer will be hald on 23.12.97 at Tampines New Town Blk 218 St. 23 #07-63. |7.00pm). Tel:
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        448 17 Q o 0 O C> O 0 < O 9 o 0 Oo(7oO "0 Oo 674 Cruises 574 Cruisos 574 Cruises 574 Cruises 574 Cruises 574 Cruises M3D PENANG Every Sunday |HHHHHHHHH iPil^Sni ■r^^^aa ■f^vr^Bil U4I) PORT KLANG/LANGKAWI Every Tuesday H PQ9 fe^Tj gT^JI gt> j g-T-« ■3D INTERNATIONAL CRUISE
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        278 17 581 Tours 581 Tours P^rV Chinese JVewi [fog\ MALACCA OO W^f/ Free Water World >'wW [[3D> M ALACCA^CL 1 98 f ree Sunday Lagoon LAGOON^L $1 yi> W free Genting I 3D/4N> PENANG $1 99 IPSnS SUNWAY nr-i«9Qfl U^ LAGOON/XL $^^O [Qg> BUNWAY LAGOONr^rn t OOO M°.y/ RESORT WOO f***/
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        518 17 581 Tours 581 Tours wHHiW 10/20 TGPINAHG SEDONA M $M 10/20TGBAUI «s*s MAYANG SARI .s7* 30 TG «NAH<VBIMTAN .$205 4DBAUPACKAGETOUR,S399 BANYANS n.5218 -$368 MANAMANA »$57 -$339 [GHINESEINEWAYEARISREGrAL; ?*Af% JAKAITa/ W9W Dtf)al9 R (5 Off )<u it, 29 HONG KONG £7999 i j^ utf jm n. a. a Otf jm 27
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        295 17 587 Where To Stay JTRENGGANUJ HOLIDAYS/ BUSINESS IN lon don/ Adelaide/ Cairns/ Malacca For rm. reservations, pis. tel. *****40/ *****11. Cockpit Hotel SLOANE COURT HOTEL, 17 Bal moral Rd rms Single $70/-, Double $807- Transit $55/- (near Orchard Rd) Tel: *****11 BUDGET GENTING HIGHLANDS. Ria Apt. for rent. 2 bdrm
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        135 17 860 Funeral Directors/ Services H|||HlMlJMMfl I I 1 OBITUARY SECTION"! News Centre 82, Genting Lane, Singapore *****7 Mon Fri 8.30 am to 5.00 pm Sat :8.30 am to 1.00 pm Public Holidays 9.30 am to 1.00 pm Specialists' Shopping Centre #01-32/33 37/38 277 Orchard Road, Singapore *****8 Mon Fri 9.00
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        376 18 fammmW \\\\\\\\\\m\\m\\m\\\\\\\\m\\\\\\\\m\\m\\m\\\\\mu\m^^ CLASSIFIED JOBS I I TheStmitsTimes CATS I \/^*l Ma^aaMaaaaMaaaaaaaaaa^aaaaaaaaMßaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa .^ar mA*aJk*LaIJL*LaWKKaW 606 Professional /Executive 600 Engineering 612 IT 615 Lecturing /Teaching 618 Tutoring 621 Healthcare I 624 Art/Creative 627 Marketing Communications 630 Sales 633 Counter /Telephone Sales 636 Customer Service S 639 Agent Broker Trader 642 Hotel Restaurant
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        719 18 606 Professional/ 606 Professional/ 606 Professional/ Executiv Positions Executive Positions Executive Position! A leading financial institution requires: 1 1 SENIOR AUDITOR I A Degree m Accountancy or professional qualification recognised by ICPAS Minimum 3 year's experience m auditing preferably m public accounting firm of financial institution Successful applicant will be
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        488 18 Deg/Dip m Mechanical/Production Enporeqw. Rdevnt worbat expeneaet m metal tsduarv, preferably m Tool Die Making Metil Stamping or Due Dnvt Able lo travel Overseas OthCliMatSmfmtnmrfTtMimtt Call; 338 2655 ext 18 V An exptndint company located "T I m the west requires: I Female with strong social skills I Mm 1
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        610 18 606 Professional/ i Executive Positions SETTLEMENTS OFFICER S3BOO. Merchant bank Mm. 4 yrs experience m bank settlements work. Select Business *****33 x 14. ACCOUNTS EXEC. 5 days. Jurong. Up to 52.5K Full sets LC budgeting Tel: *****13 x 21 I FINANCE EXEC. TOA Payoh. ACCA/ Degree Prefer Chinese. S2K $2
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        579 18 609 Engineering 609 Engineering Positions Positions I A rapidly growing company m Tuas is I I presently undergoing a major expansion and seeks to find qualified personnel to fill I the following positions: Diploma/ degree m Electronics/ Telecommunications Possess prior knowledge and/ or experience m Telecom systems (Telephony and RF
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        400 18 U.S. FMM NEEDS Marketing En?ineers with 3 yrs. experience. el: *****02/ Fax *****28 VARIOUS IT POSITIONS avail ablel Interested candidates pis. call *****16/ fax CV to *****81 3 FULL-TIME IT Trainers needed. I (Contract 10 to 12 mths.) Attrac- tive salary. *****26/ *****89 615 Lecturing/ Teaching Positions 1 A Church
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        681 18 618 Tutoring Positions A childcare centre At Springleaf Garden along Upper Thomson I Road requires: A CHILOCARE TEACHER Mm 3 GCE '0 level preferably with basic/ intermediate certificate m childcare Kinderland trained will be advantageous Able to start work immediately Interested, pis. call Mrs Connie LinY Mrs Shane at Tel:
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        490 18 627 Marketing/ Communications Positions REQUIRED: EXPERIENCED SALES Mktg. Exec. Promote edu cation products to schools ft kin derganen Tel 283 6168 $1.3 K. EXPERIENCE 1) MKTG Coordinator 2) Customer Svc. Coordinator. Tannery Rd. Prefer Chi nese below 30 *****63 x 14 EARN ***** MARKETING Exec utives training provided. *****89 x
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        1130 19 630 Sales Positions 030 Sales Positions 930 Sales Positions I I .aaaMSaf oss Industries Pte Ltd is a rapidly growing company dealing with import and export of mechanical and electronic products at*^ Today, our markets include Singapore, Indonesia. Philippines I and Vietnam and to facilitate our business expansion, we are
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        729 19 630 Sales Positions Japanese Mfg. Co. ClawawdreJ urgently seeks: SALES AOMIN Chinese female age 22-35 preferred Mm. O' level with similer experience indoor sales co-ordinating snd •dmin duties 5 day wk/ Salary SI.3K-SIBK Please call SJUcImN* M ***** or fax resume *****71 Jewelry shop requires: FEMALE SALES ASST. Experience not
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        546 19 oao customer Service Positions Temp CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSISTANTS, Town, available for 3 months and above, fast accurate typina fluent m English "Han Yu Ping Ying". Temp CUSTOMER SERVICE OFFICERS, Aljunied, Training provided, MS Word/Excel. 2 shifts, able to work on weekends, available till end March 98. Call Ming/Latha *****20 Recruitment
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        298 19 648 Administrate*/ Ctorical Position* AweTestitblishedStuppin^ Company has immediate I Kscancjesforfoflotwr^l for Freight Department s» Preferred applicants with experience m outbound documentation. Salary commensurate with qualification and experience. Interested applicants, please call Mr. nan at Tel. No: 320 5949 Office location: Near Tanjong Pagar MRT An established Marina i* EnejueerinQ firm
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        314 20 v 654 Technical Poorttons m UYOUT ENGINEER With 1-2 yrs oxp needed m the North. Responsible for planning, organising designing IC layout using mixed signal BICMOS A power technologies IC layout. Must have Deg/Dip m Electrical/Electronics Engrg. Call Sknon/AMn. BUSIMESS TRENDS ORCHARD BRANCH IScotts Rood #22-12 Shaw Ctr.SJwre *****8 T»l
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        535 20 684 Technical Position* OUKJMNO MANTTtMANCC TECHNIC4AM REQUMSD OY AM EXCLUSIVE A* AMTMCNT M RSnVTON To be responsible for all ee>. pectt of building mairttenanaa i Practical experience m electrU csl plumbing works and most be able to service aircon. utStA. of residential apartment. Must possess NTC V 3 m electrical
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        543 21 654 Techßkei Positions UROENTLY REQUIRED ELECTRONIC Technicians with RF experience. Call *****21 $1 4K TECHNICIANS. NTC/ ITC Prefer Chinese. YlshuiV MRT pickup, 5 day* *****10 Prime Staff 057 Production Positions Electronics factory m Übi urgently requires: Primary 6 education •Age betow 30 Experience m handling soldering machine •Malaysians are welcome
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        1190 21 657 Production 567 Production Positions Positions j£V Ta naka Elect ronics C> Singapore Pte Ltd Urgently requires: FEMfILE OR INSPECTORS f\ WefkiM Hosts m Perm Ist shift: 7om-3. 15pm 0* Perm 2nd shift. 3pm- H 15pm FEMfILE PRODUCTION OPERRTORS MI-.H-- li Perm"* shift: 7om-3.!5pm OK Perm 2nd shift: 3pm-li.lSpm^ Perm
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        624 21 666 Security Positions 666 Security Positions SENIOR SECURITY OFFICERS SECURITY OFFICERS $1390-$2050 Ror Month P«ily rafd: 943 SSO Age 18-60 yean j 12 hn shift J Secondary education J 6 days week J FullCPf J Mate/Female Medkoi Benefits Q Malaysians are welcome Walk-In Interview: Pro««c Services Pte> Ltd 998 Tanjong
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        250 21 675 Driver/ Transport Positions PERSONAL DRIVER WITH at least 3 year* experience. Staying at East zone. Below 46 years old. Malay preferred. Tel. 273-7700. BUS DRIVER REOUIRCD with class 3 driving/ vocational lie. Salary $1460. Tel: *****75. PERSONAL DRIVER CHANGI Despatch Rider. Own bike. Outram. Sl-SI.3X. *****66/ *****66 689 Other
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        445 21 tea onwf PotWotn ■fBHBXHHHHHBHHsSMHHMSI Leading Landscape I Company requires GCE '07 'A' level <* Dip. m ornamental horticulture oarden design, ft 2 y*rs. experience or more <t Experience m plant display will be a credit Interested, please call or write m to: Ms Choo Qsofc HueV Mr Ooh Ling Choon
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