The Straits Times, 24 December 1997

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    13 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1997 60 CENTS MTTA(P) 114/12/97*
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    Surprise KL move to review toll rates
    738 1  - Surprise KL move to review toll rates Walter Fernandez Free travel on second link until decision is made By MALAYSIA will delay imposing all toll charges on the second link until after a comprehensive review of the rates is completed in the middle of next month, its Works Minister Samy
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    STPL's Micropolis venture may cost it $575m loss
    610 1  -  Tammy Tan By THE failed Micropolis venture looks set to become Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd (STPU's most expensive lesson to date, costing a total of $630 million for the 19 months it was held as a subsidiary. The figure includes an initial
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    Lock icon Dhana apologises to families of crash victims
    648 1  -  Zuraidah Ibrahim By SINGAPORE Airlines chairman S. Dhanabalan yesterday apologised for the crash of the SilkAir jetliner which killed 104 people, and assured grieving relatives that the top priority now was to find and identify the bodies of the dead. "No words of
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    Lock icon Kim Dae Jung's remarks rattle market
    520 1 We don't know whether we would go bankrupt tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. I can't sleep since I was briefed I am totally flabbergasted.' South Korean President-elect Kim Dae Jung. SEOUL South Korean markets fell into an abyss yesterday following President-elect Kim Dae
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    Regional haze action plan set in motion
    643 2  -  Dominic Nathan Py 1 CLEAR SIGNAL REGIONAL efforts to prevent, monitor and fight land and forest fires got under way yesterday, although there were no guarantees of haze-free blue skies next year. Asean environment ministers and officials vowed to put in place by
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    Lock icon National Museum stages Peranakan 'wedding'
    166 2 TWENTY youths from the Peranakan Association of Malacca made a special appearance at the National Museum to re-enact a Peranakan wedding in all its colour and glory. In this scene, the "bride" undergoes a purification ceremony before meeting the groom. The little boy, probably a
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    Lock icon Don't shoot! We are just partying
    212 2 WASHINGTON The murderess had just confessed to the crime. At the back of the room at the Willard Hotel, Ms Barbara Fox stood up, aimed her gun at the woman and fired. Instantly, a couple of beefy US Secret Service agents burst through the
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    What it should have been
    47 2 YESTERDAY'S report headlined "Upgrading for 5 precincts" said that Blocks 116 to 113 in the Commonwealth Crescent precinct had been selected for the Housing Board's Main Upgrading Programme. It should have been Blocks 106 to 113. We are sorry for the error.
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  • Two lawyers in trouble
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      1 Ex-scholar in debt absconds
      464 3  -  Tan Ooi Boon By Owes $3m after speculating in property, shares A 40- YEAR-OLD lawyer who is a former Government scholar has absconded abroad after chalking up about $3 million in personal debts from speculating in property and shares. The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) is
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      2 Molested woman on bus
      498 3  -  Lim Seng Jin By Sentencing put off to this morning LAWRENCE Lim Menc Hein, 29, was once a lawyer with a bright future. But he lost it all because he molested a young woman on a bus one night. He was found guilty yesterday and
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      President re-appoints 3 advisers
      143 3 PRESIDENT Ong Teng Cheong yesterday re-appointed three members of the Council of Presidential Advisers for a further period of six years with effect from Jan 2. Mr Lim Kim San, executive chairman of Singapore Press Holdings, will continue as chairman of the council, which was set
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      Lock icon Pram's full, but where's the baby?
      73 3 STOP at two? These Christmas shoppers would not dream of it Not when they could afford three and more shopping bags, that is. With less than two days before Christmas, this family at an Orchard Road shopping centre yesterday had such a long shopping
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      Lock icon Missing liquor: Indian police smell a rat...
      164 3 Missing liquor: Indian police smell a rat NEW DELHI Indian police have blamed "addicted" mice and rats after seized liquor worth thousands of dollars disappeared,, from storehouses, a newspaper reported. The Statesman, quoting police officers, said rodents had acquired a taste for the contraband liquor and had attacked storehouses across
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      81 3 For once, an ad from a hotel chain that encoura?« you to stay at home. This being Christmas and a time for the family, we'd rather you be home with your loved ones because home will always be where the heart is. Of course, if it's a family holiday, allow
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Balding? Fret not, help is at hand
      760 4 A pill a day may be all that is needed for some men to keep their crowning glory WASHINGTON The first pill to fight baldness will be available by prescription in mid-January. The new pill, called Propecia, helps male-pattern baldness only. It is
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      Lock icon Aussies turn their backs on Queen in optional ballot
      294 4 SYDNEY Australian voters have turned their backs on the British royals in a vote to appoint delegates to a constitutional convention, with the majority choosing republicans to represent them. In Australia's first optional ballot, republicans won 46 of the 76 elected
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      Lock icon Freak accident at the Golden Gate Bridge
      280 4 Child plunges to death through gap SAN FRANCISCO Engineers scrambled to check San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge on Monday after a two-year-old girl plunged to her death through a narrow gap next to the bridge's main pedestrian walkway. "They are making a
      Reuters  -  280 words
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      Lock icon 'Holiday miracle' for 89 Bangladeshi fliers
      536 6 All survive plane's crash-landing in rice field DHAKA A Bangladeshi airliner crash-landed in a rice field in thick fog, and all 89 passengers and crew apparently escaped in what was hailed as a holiday miracle. "I thought I was dying but later fbund myself
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        Lock icon YELTSIN BACK
        59 6 Russian President Boris Yeltsin arrived at the Kremlin for work yester day after leaving a Moscow clinic where he had two weeks of treatment for a heavy cold and chest infection, presiden tial officials said. His spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky said the President would meet Kremlin staff but had
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        67 6 A senior member of India's coalition government said on Monday that the country's best-known communist leader would be offered the prime minister's job if the alliance won next year's elections. Railways Minister Ram Vilas Paswan told reporters that Mr Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of the eastern state of
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        Lock icon SCOPE USE
        54 6 Saudi Arabia on Monday authorised the use of telescopes in sighting the moon, which determines the start of each month in its lunar calendar. The Saudi Press Agency said the decision was taken during the Cabinet's weekly meeting chaired by King Fahd on the recommendation of the country's
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        Lock icon SMOKING BAN
        64 6 Frankfurt's international airport has announced a ban on smoking in most of its passenger areas from Jan 1 a bold and controversial move in a country where there are almost no limits on smokers. The ban will cover 90 per cent of the airport terminal complex, confining smokers
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        Lock icon NO CHARGES
        69 6 Swiss who grow hallucinogenic plants to make beer or other legal products cannot be prosecuted under drug laws, Switzerland's highest court has ruled. A Federal Court decision handed down on Monday said an investigating magistrate in the canton of Valais had jumped the gun Last year by seizing
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        Lock icon REBELS STRIKE
        54 6 Marxist-led guerillas killed at least 29 soldiers and police in hit-and-run attacks across Colombia, the authorities said on Monday. Military sources said the attacks appeared to mark the launch of an offensive dubbed "Black December" aimed at sowing terror and chaos in the run-up to the Christmas and
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      Lock icon 7 Colombian officers die in copter crash
      240 6 BOGOTA Seven military officials, including two senior officers, were killed on Monday when their US-built UH-1H Huey helicopter crashed in a jungle-cov-ered area of north-west Colombia, military spokesmen said. Victims of the crash, which occurred shortly after the aircraft took off from the
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      Lock icon Firm to pay Melrose Place actress $8.5m for sacking her when she got pregnant
      344 6 LOS ANGELES A jury has awarded an actress nearly US$5 million (SsB.s million) for the emotional distress and economic loss she suffered by being fired from the soap opera M elrose Place because she was pregnant.
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      Lock icon Real chance for peace as Somalia's main warlords sign accord
      452 6 CAIRO Somalia's two main warlords signed a historic agreement here on Monday to set up a federal state and a three-year transitional government, ending six years of civil war. The deal differs from numerous previous failed peace accords in that
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      Lock icon Hanging 0n... for two hours
      78 6 Hanging 0n for two hours picture. uSZE^&EFVP^f hanglng high-voltage electric wires after losing control on Sunday because of heavy winds. Mr Hakan Kahvecio^Tu 31, a mechanical engineer, remained suspended from tEe wires for two hoirs in the Black Sea town of fSSS mm« -IH? north-east of Ankara, before he was
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      Lock icon Water-bombers sent in to douse bushfire in Perth
      403 6 PERTH Firefighters used aircraft to dump water on a bushfire raging in Perth's southern outskirts yesterday after it destroyed one home and threatened others. As temperatures soared above 41 deg C in the Western Australian capital, strong winds sent flames tearing across
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      Lock icon Iran 'prevented Russian MPs from visiting Iraq'
      288 7 Baghdad says plane stopped BAGHDAD Iraq claimed Iran had prevented a Russian airliner carrying Russian MPs and businessmen from defying UN sanctions to fly to Baghdad on Monday. The flight was an initiative of Russian ultranationalist MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky, said the chairman of
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      Lock icon TOUCHE, ZHIRINOVSKY
      40 7 picture. Controversial Russian, political figure Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, gamely volunteered to be the "victim" for a local magician during a Drivate Dartv he held at Mnsmw 1 Casino Golden Palace last week. AFP
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      Lock icon US hopes actor's visit to Iran will help mend ties
      207 7 US hopes actor's visit to Iran will help mend ties WASHINGTON The State Department h* responded positively to reports that actor Anthony Quinn had been invited to attend a film festival in Teheran, saying that such contacts would help end a long estrangement between the two nations. "We certainly think
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      Lock icon First vultures, now bees hold up Rio airport
      192 7 First vultures, now bees hold up Rio airport RIO DE JANEIRO First there were the black vultures, which the Brazilian airport authorities managed to scare away with fireworks. Recently, the terminals were plagued by a new invader: Aggressive bees that swarmed into Rio's international airport, delaying the departure of at
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      Lock icon UN General Assembly rejects US bid for lower dues
      519 7 but new negotiations allowed if arrears are paid Maintains the US quota oftheUNbudgetat2s per cent for the next three years Contains a clause allowing for new negotiations next September if Washington pays its US$l.4 billion (552.4 billion) of arrears to the
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      Lock icon Suspect *had gun' on night Swedish PM was killed
      294 8 STOCKHOLM Sweden's Supreme Court has made public testimony suggesting that Chnster Pettersson, acquitted in the death of Mr Olof Palme, had a handgun on the night the Swedish Prime Minister was assassinated in February 1986. The revelation emerged on Monday as
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      Lock icon My tiger, my pet
      56 8 picture. MS NASTYA Boliaseva playing fearlessly with one of her pet tiger cubs, six-month-old Tarsan, at her Moscow apartment. Ms Boliaseva and her husband, who bought the cubs soon after they were born in a Russian nature reserve, earn money for their upkeep bv loaning them
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      Lock icon Blair govt 'defender of welfare' despite proposed cutbacks
      573 8 Blair govt 'def ender of welfare' despite proposed cutbacks Reform to preserve system, says minister LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government yesterday tried to portray itself as the defender of welfare and the sick and poor as controversy over its planned cuts refused to die. As the press splashed
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    • Spotlight on killer beef
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        Lock icon US scientists develop quick test for 'mad-cow disease'
        218 8 WASHINGTON US scientists have developed a test for "mad-cow disease" which offers a way to check whether meat or other products may carry the risk of infection. Genetically-engineered mice which are especially sensitive to the disease can be used to check for
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        Lock icon London orders high-level inquiry into epidemic
        214 8 LONDON British Agriculture Minister Jack Cunningham has ordered a high-powered inquiry into Britain's "mad-cow disease epidemic and said its livestock industry had to be slimmed drastically. He also unveiled a short-term financial package which would provide some relief for beef farmers wno said cheap
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      Lock icon Today, Baxter, tomorrow, Hollywood
      84 8 STUDENT Chris Marinovich looking at his creation, a rubber-latex and poly-foam puppet called Baxter, at the opening of an exhibition at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum on Monday. He made Baxter with materials such as vegetable-oil cans, fishing nets and an old canvas schoolbag, and was chosen to
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        Lock icon Rat brains have calming chemical substance
        107 8 WASHINGTON The brains of rats and mice contain a chemical substance with the same calming properties as the prescription drug Valium, according to a new scientific report. The newly identified chemical, dubbed "orphanine FQ", also plays a role in brain-driven functions like perceiving pain
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        Lock icon 'Don't use anti-piles cream to erase wrinkles'
        105 8 'Don't use anti-piles cream to erase wrinkles' LONDON British women have found a "miracle cure" for wrinkles by using creams for treating piles, but pharmacists warned that they riskedprovoking allergies, according to a newspaper report. So great was the demand for anti-piles ointment that pharmacists had reported the trend to
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        Lock icon Canadian doctor admits assisting in suicides
        72 8 TORONTO A doctor pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of assisting in suicides, becoming the first physician in Canada to be convicted of nelping a patient kill himself. Maurice Genereux was charged last year with administering a fatal overdose of sleeping pills to
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        Lock icon German duo prescribed illegal slimming drug
        80 8 COLOGNE A pharmacist and a doctor were given pnson sentences by a German court here on Monday for making and prescribing an illegal slimming drug initially suspected of having caused the deaths of two women. The pharmacist, 46, was sentenced to three years in
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        Lock icon Boy dies 8 years after heart-lung transplant
        103 8 LONDON A boy who eight years ago became the youngest person in Britain to receive a heart-ana-lung transplant had died, reports said. Stephen Hollis, 10, died from kidney failure while his mother held him in her arms on Sun- day. His heart and
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    • PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Harrods boss may get British passport
        118 9 LONDON Controversial Egyptian-born businessman Mohamed al-Fayed s hopes ofwinning his long battle for a British passport received a boost on Monday from Home Secretary Jack Straw. Mr Straw told Parliament the government would drop its challenge to a ruling by the Court of Appeal
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        Lock icon Earl Mountbatten's killer gets Xmas parole
        82 9 DUBLIN The killer of Earl Mountbatten, uncle of Britain's Prince Philip, was among 10 paramilitary prisoners granted 10 days' Christmas parole yesterday, an Irish government spokesman said. Tommy McMahon is in his 19th year of a life sentence for the murder. Earl Mountbatten was
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        Lock icon Lottery surprise for editor in sex-video scandal
        290 9 MADRID A Spanish newspaper editor caught up in a sex-video scandal won the second prize 14.4 million pesetas (§5162,700) in the year's biggest lottery on Monday. Mr Pedro Ramirez (above) editor of one of the country's leading dailies. El Mundo, is at the
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      Lock icon Stick 'em up, ho, ho, ho
      525 9 Santa bandits give Father Christmas a bad name in Germany 'Someone running down the street at this time of year in a Santa outfit isn't going to cause much suspicion/ Munich police department spokesman Werner Veith. BONN It has been a tough Christmas season
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      380 6 SINGAPORE H Showers with possible thunder WSM High Sunset today are expected over most areas in I I 32 706 P m the predawn hours and morning. I i Sunrise tomorrow. 11l 23 704am For an update on the local weather, call 542-7788 For detailed current weather, call 542-3983 AIR
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      172 8 Lionel Bart's A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist' 1 Date: 3rd 4th January 1998 Time: 7:3opm Venue: Victoria Theatre \VH jmm Bv? BbKjl I Performed bg Operafest Children's Choir Patron: Dato Slew Nlm Chee Directed bg t Kam Sun-Yoke In Aid of Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home
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  • EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon HK bans chicken imports from China for now
      309 10 HK bans chicken imports from China for now picture. HONGKONG Hongkong announced a temporary ban on imports of chickens from China from midnight yesterday in a desperate move to contain the spread of the HSNI virus. A 60-year-old woman suspected of suffering from the HSNI strain of "bird flu" influenza
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      Member of Taiwan cult aborts 'mission'
      261 10 Member of Taiwan cult aborts 'mission' A MEMBER of the Taiwanese religious group, God Saves the Earth by Flying Saucers, aborted his mission in the United States and returned to Taiwan on Monday. According to a report in Taiwan's Independent Evening Post yesterday, the unnamed follower said he was disappointed
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      China rejects call for referendum in Tibet
      357 10  -  Self-determination is out of the question, says Beijing in response to human-rights report By Mary Kwang China Correspondent BEIJING China yesterday rejected holding a referendum in Tibet that would allow Tibetans to decide between Chinese rule or self-determination. Foreign Ministry spokesman Tang Guoqiang,
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      Kim Dae Jung's rough path to power
      851 10  -  Victor Fic By in Seoul Leftist rebel endures decades of struggle and intrigue to become President When he describes his vision, no one in Korea speaks as powerfully. He touches my heart. He wants to end regionalism, and that matters to me since
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      Lock icon US adopts wait-and-see stance over Okinawa vote
      403 10 WASHINGTON The United States has said it is inclined to wait and see how Tokyo deals with the outcome of Sunday's referendum which rejected construction of a sea-based US military heliport, calling it a "domestic matter". Residents of Nago on the island of
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      Lock icon Mag under fire over film director's suicide
      192 10 TOKYO A celebrity magazine blamed by some for driving Japanese film director Juzo Itami to suicide has come under fire while copies of its latest issue sold out across the country. The editorial desk of Flash has been inundated with irate telephone calls
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    • EAST ASIA RLE
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        Lock icon ECSTASY ARRESTS
        69 10 Japanese police had arrested two foreigners on charges of trafficking in 10,000 Ecstasy tablets, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily said yesterday. A 44-year-old Frenchman, who is still at large, was accused of being the leader of the drug ring, which allegedly sold each tablet for 1,400 yen (S$18) through
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        Lock icon HELP FOR THE JOBLESS
        85 10 President Jiang Zemin on Monday urged greater action to protect the growing army of jobless as the Chinese authorities announced around 400,000 redundancies in the chemical industry from next year. Official unions will make special payments to the families of the worst-hit laidoff workers. Increasing numbers
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        Lock icon TAIWAN EASES CURBS
        57 10 grammes in the island. The easing of limits was in response to growing complaints from the business sector. AFP visit i aiwan despite strained ties between the two sides, Taipei officials said yesterday. More technicians and executives hired by Taiwanese businesses and multinational enterprises would be permitted
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        Lock icon COPS HELD
        74 10 Six Chinese marine policemen had been arrested following an incident in the southern Pearl River delta in which 10 fishermen were injured, the China Youth Daily said. The policemen beat up a fisherman, demanded a ransom of 5,000 yuan (551,020), stole his catch and set fire to his
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        Lock icon FEWER TOURISTS IN CHINA
        61 10 Tourist travel to China from South-east Asia had plummeted since the start of a regional financial crisis in July, causing industry planners to lower goals for next year, the official China Dairy said yesterday. The South-east Asian countries, Japan and South Korea were among the top
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        Lock icon KILLED BY TRAIN
        73 10 Two men were hit and killed by an incoming express train at the Suma Station on the JR Sanyo Line in Kobe on Monday night after one of them fell from the platform and the other tried to rescue him, police said. Mr Masaru Shogan. 43, had
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Jakarta 'crash programme' to stem joblessness
      301 12 Jakarta 'crash programme' to stem joblessness JAKARTA The government has created a special programme to help stem increasing unemployment, the National Development Planning Minister said in a report yesterday. The special "crash programme would concentrate on the easternmost province of Irian Java and several regencies in the provinces of Central
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      Lock icon Bangkok may scrap plans to buy US jets
      163 12 BANGKOK The Thai air force proposes to scrap plans to buy eight F/A-18 Hornet jet fighters from the US because the cash-strapped government could not afford them, The Nation newspaper reported yesterday. The paper quoted air force Cnief of Staff Air Chief
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      Lock icon Smart turnout bv former Moro rebels
      65 12 1 picture. R Mus im re J* ls of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) parading before President Fidel Ramos during the 62nd anniversary of the Philippine Armed Forces at military headguarters in Manila on Monday. The 105 former rebels are the^Sb^^ebSSSS^SSS military as
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      Lock icon N. Korean 'defector' to be charged with gunrunning
      171 12 N. Korean 'defector' to be charged with gunrunning ARANYAPRATHET (Thailand) Thai police plan to charge a man claiming to be a North Korean defector with smuggling firearms and a car into the country, officials said yesterday. But police in this small town on the Cambodian border said they were waiting
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      Manila to auction off Marcos assets
      466 12  -  Luz Baguioro From stock to TV stations to artworks, Philippines set for sale of the year By in Manila THE Philippine government is next year set to auction billions of pesos worth of assets and properties sequestered from the family and cronies of the
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      173 12 MELBOURNE Australian and British police said yesterday they had uncovered a US$9-billion (Ssls-billion) fraud involving fake gold certificates to bullion hoarded in a Swiss bank by Philippines' late President Ferdinand Marcos. Victorian state fraud squad police said they had arrested an unidentified 47-year-old man
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      366 12 Police officer slain by assailants in the south BANGKOK Three heavily armed anti-terrorist police squads were sent to southern Thailand after a spate of rebel attacks left one policeman dead and two schools wrecked by fire, reports said yesterday. In the latest incident,
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      43 12 picture. 1 bodian man checking the winning numbers from Sunday's national lottery outside the lottery headquarters on Monday The same nf rh 9 nn O J popular in a country which has not had much luck with peace. Reuters
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        103 12 DAPITAN (Philippines) —A legislator convicted of raping a young girl was met by about 2,000 supporters and 1,000 protesters here on Monday when he returned to register as a voter in order to qualify for re-election. Congressman Romeo Jalosjos, 57, arrived on
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        56 12 Thailand's former premier Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has vowed to fight on as leader of his party and warned its "young blood" members to think twice before quitting the grouping, reports said yesterday. The comments came amid reports that some younger members of his New Aspiration Party were considering quitting
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        53 12 The Indonesian logistics agency Bulog will import 100,000 tonnes of rice this month, said the agency head Beddu Amang. At the moment, Bulog has about 1.5 million tonnes of rice stockpiled. which Mr Beddu said would be enough to guarantee supply until March. The extra was just a
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        55 12 Indonesian secret police have arrested five East Timorese university students in Surabaya, Java, on suspicion of supporting theprq-ijidepen-dence Socialist Association of Timor. The arrests on Sunday were part of a huge operation launched in September to dismantle the association's main bases on Indonesian territory, the pro-indepen dence group
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        52 12 Communist rebels have released 12 of 21 paramilitary men abducted over the weekend in the hinterlands of Davao in southern Philippines, a senior Army officer said. "We are trying to do our best to rescue nine others," General Oscar Cabaron. commander of the 701st Army Infantry Brigade, told
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        40 12 Doctors in Chiang Mai have begun testing bitter melon suppositories as a potential therapy for HIV/Aids sufferers. Extract from a locally grown bitter melon are being administered twice a day to a ctoud of 20 oa tients. AFP
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        51 12 The Thai Cabinet yesterday confirmed the previous government's decision to scrap Hopewell Holdings mass-transit project for Bangkok, a deputy minister said. Mr Pradit Phataraprasit, deputy communications and transport minister, told reporters the State Railway of Thailand was due to inform Hopewell of the Cabinet decision bv next week.
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      309 13 KUALA LUMPUR Deputy Prime Minis ter Datuk Sen Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday that government agencies were taking seriously the austerity drive being carried out to strengthen the country's economy and restore investor confidence. "I'm really pleased to say that many institutions, agencies and ministries
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      254 13 MUAR The Health Ministry has directed all state medical directors to organise projects to grow vegetables within hospital compounds, a move Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng said was in line with the government's austerity drive. Commenting on the Muar Hospital which had begun growing vegetables,
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      25 13 picture. One of the five policemen about to spit at press photgraohers as he was being escorted to a police lorry on Monday. Sun
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      43 13 picture. i^rvj-niUAnuTN uracer roonamed Ismail Nordin demonstrating to a group of visitors how prisoners in Pudu Prison in Kuala Lummir were I caned. Pudu Prison, converted into a museum in May, has drawn 400,000 visitors. NST
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        Lock icon Shop owner disarms robber
        141 13 MUAR The quick action of a trader in disarming a guntoting man in his shop here foiled a robbery attempt and saved his family from potential harm. Toy-shop owner Lim Gak Chew, 60, was closing up for the day together with his wife and daughter on
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        DRUG DENIAL
        67 13 The Veterinary Services Department has refuted a claim by the Johor Livestock and Poultry Farmers Association that Beta Agonist, a banned drug used to fatten pigs, was used widely by pig farmers, the Sun reported yesterday. "We have been conducting checks on slaughter houses and I think any
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        64 13 A 51 -year-old technician who underwent the first heart transplant in Malaysia last Thursday was in good condition and able to enjoy his meals, a statement from the National Heart Institute (UN) said on Monday. The patient, Mr R Sathrugnan, has been doing static exercises and is out
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        56 13 The Works Ministry has directed that all work on major roads in the country be suspended temporarily for the coming festive season. Works Minister Datuk Sen S. Samy Vellu was quoted as saying on Monday that the directive was meant to ensure the roadworks would not pose a
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        Lock icon AEDES DANGER
        49 13 Forty-five per cent of the 1,043 construction sites in Selangor which were checked were found to be breeding the Aedes mosquito. State Health, Culture and Tourism Commi tee chairman Dr Pius Martin. He said that Selangor recorded 4,693 cases of confirmed dengue and dengue haemorrhaeic fever. NST
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      364 13 PENANG Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang, who came under fire from senators for describing them as "deadwood" and the Upper House as a "rubbish bin said yesterday that he would not apologise for the remarks. On the other hand, the Democratic Action
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      Lock icon Teens torch school block in revenge
      418 13 SUNGAI SIPUT (Perak) Three 15-year-olds, two of whom were expelled and the third suspended from a school here, burnt down an entire block of the school in revenge for the disciplinary action taken against them. Police have detained the three for breaking into the
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      Five cops charged with extorting $3,150
      154 13 Five cops charged with extorting $3,150 BUKIT MERTAJAM Five police lance-corporals were charged on Monday with extorting M57.000 <553,150) from two relatives of a shopkeeper who allegedly ran an illegal lottery at Permatang Tinggi near here. The five, allowed M53,000 bail, were later rearrested outside the court under Section 53
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      631 14 flt thp CPPnP We don't want to touch anything, 9BE ni lI I W vVVIIM we just want to have a look at the effects. V i Mr Riduan Muktal, 29, whose brother-in-law was on the crash plane. PALEMBANG The Indonesian military
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      Lock icon Kin sign petition to view belongings
      556 14 ALL Madam Fauziah Muktal, 35, wants is to look at the personal effects recovered from the Musi River, in the hope that she might recognise something. Her husband, Mr Abdul Sukor Abdul Aziz, 35, a production manager working in Jakarta, was a passenger on
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      Every effort being made to locate bodies
      437 14 ISSUES ON THEIR MINDS Five days after the tragic crash ofSilkAir Mil Bs, the victims' relatives who have been to the crash site near the Musi River still have many unanswered questions. The Straits Times speaks to various authorities to piece together some
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      53 15 5 H H /1 11/1 Jm^ J^ e ma n complaint has been the lack off mam UIICIIICI information, and the reason is quite simple, f* *%\lt> CAFMI BM anc ls we don have he information. Od Y w vUI I Y -Mr Dhanabalan, saying he was aware Jr of
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      Lock icon We'll try our best to improve, Dhanabalan assures relatives
      1156 15 A DISTRAUGHT relative in Palembang went up to SIA chairman S. Dhanabalan and complained bitterly that he was not told that his family member's identity card had been found, but had to see it in the newspapers instead. This was one
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      What our readers say
      537 15 "On Sunday, I was in Orchard Road, and people were in a party mood and carolling. I'm not saying that we should not celebrate Christmas, but I thought that we, as a nation, should spend some time to think about how short life can be. "It
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      NTUC may pay $2m
      613 15 NTUC Income, one of Singapore's biggest insurers, said yesterday it expects to fork out more than $2 million in insurance claims arising from the SilkAir crash. It is the only insurance company to have announced any concrete claim figures. Other major insurers such as American International
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      Ray of light that faded too soon
      490 15  -  Dorothy Ho I WISH I had known Merieen. Wife-to-be, daughter, sister, auntie, friend and colleague. Merieen Tan Peck Jiang, (right) 28, was all these. And more. "We all love her very much," said her fiance, Mr Kok Mun Sing, 29, an engineer. "She
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      Senior stewardess liked to cheer others up
      134 15 t-er *te 4» Cm fa* Center fiia^" on CifkMr &/s//m/ /s#, Not knowing it would be a day to remember I was near enough to say hello Near enough even to touch you But why oh why Did I not say Hi! Dearest
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    753 16  -  Ahmad Osman By REACTIONS Rates must be low "It is good news. We welcome it and we are happy. We hope the toll rates which will be imposed after two or three weeks following the opening of the second link will be low, reasonable
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    Tuas complex added to the cost
    257 16 SINGAPORE spent much more than Malaysia on the second link because of the high cost of building a multistorey complex on the Tuas end of the bridge, Minister of State for Communications John Chen said yesterday. So, although the Singapore portion of the bridge
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    Welcome news for all as KL decides to review tolls
    1215 16  -  Warren Fernandez News analysis Bv Malaysian officials appear to have heeded public feedback and bought time for a review of the toll rates to be charged, as well as to observe demand for the use of the new bridge. %FIRST
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    Trains, buses to run longer hours today and on Dec 31
    350 16 MRT and bus services will be extended beyond their usual operating hours today and on New Year's Eve. On both days, the last northbound and south-bound trains will leave Orchard station at 1 am, instead of 12.14 am and
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    Fight in the MRT: What you can do
    187 16 WHAT would you do if a fight started in the MRT carriage you are riding in? Mr Liang Zhao Lun, 18, said his first impulse is to move to a safe distance, to avoid being implicated or hurt. Others agreed, adding that
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    Tourist arrivals last month down 10.7%
    395 16 Hit by the haze and financial turmoil TOURIST arrivals last month were 10.7 per cent lower than last November, as a result of the haze and the regional currency crisis. In a statement on Monday, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said Singapore received a
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    New Sec 1 students: Check your postings
    385 17 New Sec 1 students: Check your postings Ministry mix-up, so some will go to new schools Do you know any child affected by the posting mix-up? If you do, please call our NewsLJne at 1 800-737-8700 before 1 pm today. ALL 9,417 students posted to the Normal (academic) course in
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    Man fined for hitting wife's lover with bottle
    384 17  -  Lim Seng Jin By A BUSINESSMAN suspectec that his wife of 22 years was having an affair. So he hired i Krivate investigator to follow er. When the private eyt called him one night to say his wife was having dinner with
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    Man jailed for hitting woman with crowbar
    196 17 A MARKET stallholder who attacked a woman stall assistant with a crowbar late one night was jailed for four months yesterday. A district court heard that Ang Eng Koon, 62, had a stall at the Chong Pang Market, Yishun, next to one at
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    Lock icon Christmas cheer for needy from Sharity Gift Box
    308 17 Picture by MORE than 120 welfare agencies, 1,356 children and 117 families will see their Christmas wishes fulfilled this year, thanks to the Boys' Brigade Sharity Gift Box. Although donations came in slower this year than last year, people gave generously over
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    468 19  -  Sharon Vasoo By FORTY Indonesian timber companies are under investigation and four will face court action for their part in the fires which resulted in the haze, said Indonesian Environment Minister Sarwono Kusumaatmadja. The directors of the errant companies face jail terms
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      Lock icon Software sale draws bargain hunters
      238 19 Picture by PARENTS flocked to computer retailer Inforum Pac-Rim yesterday at Funan Centre to snap up computer software at half price. The sale was part of its liquidation process. The company, which has two units in the shopping centre, had been wound up on Oct
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      Woman dies in crash
      114 19 A WOMAN died after the car she was in collided with a Malaysian-registered bus at the junction of Boon Lay Way and Corporation Road at 6.30 am yesterday. She died in hospital, while three others in the car suffered injuries and were warded. Police were unable
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      Times the Bookshop burgled
      107 19 THIEVES raided Times the Bookshop's branch at Centrepoint after it closed on Sunday, making off with $20,000 from its safe. The bookshop closed at 10.05 pm, said police. Retail executive Ho Sze Sin, 22, discovered the burglary when he opened the store at 9.40 am the
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      Shaw's $14m donations
      121 19 THE Shaw Foundation has donated more than $14 million th^s year to over 300 agencies and institutions. The foundation was founded by Sir Run Run Shaw, the late Dr Tan Sri Runme Shaw and their wives, and is administered by members of the Shaw family. Its largest
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      Captured boar put to sleep
      180 19 THE wild boar found on the loose at Changi Ferry Terminal last Monday has been put to sleep. A Primary Production Department (PPD) spokesman said: "Our vets have fou nd the pig to be unhealthy so we've put it to sleep." It was suffering from
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      The Straits Times WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1997 A plea for sanity
      790 20 The Straits Times WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1997 A plea for sanity IF EVER there is a time when nerves of steel are needed in the markets, it is now. As the Asian financial crisis deepens, even after Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand have agreed to swallow the bitter medicine prescribed
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      On the right track to trade?
      950 20  -  Sander M Levin By When President Bill Clinton asked for fast-track authority earlier this year, the United States Congress said no. His opponents believe that liberalising trade with other Rules needed so all get equal share of benefits WHY did fast track go down
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      Cheaper imports raise American incomes and living standards
      937 20  -  Linda Lim David Gordon By and MR SANDER Lev ins comments on why fast-track failed is right on two counts. First, growth in developing countries will affect the American economy increasingly; second, this has not been explained properly to the American public.
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      Today in Berita Harian
      43 20 Semua dalam feri menangis hiba sesampai di sungai Musi. ..dan ramai yang hampa kerana tidak dibenarkan tengok apa yang dijumpa... Cik Fauziah Muktar, isteri Encik Abdul Sukor Abdul Aziz, mangsa nahas pesawat M 1 1 85 SilkAir yang terhempas.
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      Down they g0...
      640 21 Down they g0... Asia's currencies The Economist It is still fashionable in official circles to blame speculators for weak currencies. At the moment, however, international speculators seem to be playing a minor role. The greatest source of downward pressure on South-east Asia's currencies comes from local firms desperate to service
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      Second link may become another war zone
      883 21  -  Chua Lee Hoong By Nub of the problem is KL's proposed toll charges, which are seen as too hefty SECOND LAST WORD THERE are nine more days before the second link opens to traffic, yet that 1.9 km span of concrete has already
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      Geylang signs $1-million deal with Nike
      429 23  -  Santokh Singh SOCCER By NIKE Singapore, in the SLeague's biggest apparel sponsorship to date, signed a $l -million deal with Geylang United FC at the Eagles' clubhouse in Bedok yesterday. At a time when other apparel sponsors are feeling the neat of the economic
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      Former MP Zulkifli to be S-League Board director
      212 23 FORMER Member of Parliament Zulkifli Mohammed will join the S-League's Board as a director from Jan 1. S- League chief executive officer Chris Chan said yesterday that Zulkifli accepted the board's invitation to represent the National Trades Union Congress. Zulkifli, 49, was
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      Sasa awards cash to SEA Games medallists
      320 23  -  Thomas Koh SWIMMING By CHRISTMAS came two days earlier for the national water polo team and 13 swimmers, who Derformed admirably at the October South-east Asia Games in Jakarta, as they received cash awards from the Singapore Amateur Swim- ming Association yesterday. A
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      Lock icon Happy return to old club for Stackhouse
      449 23 mark (14-14). In New York, Allan Houston scored 19 points as the New York Knicks began life without Patrick Ewing with its best defensive effort of the season in a 79-67 victory over the Dallas Mavericks, which has lost nine straight games. Larry
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      141 23 NEW YORK The Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan on Monday was named NBA Player of the Week for the period ending Sunday, becoming the first two-time winner of the award this season. Jordan, who won for the week ending Nov 23, led the Bulls to a 3-0
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      Koh wins battle of doubles partners
      312 23  -  Said Koh: "Sen kept attacking my backhand and I read his game plan." Earlier, the pair overcame Bernard Tan and former national Lai Khai Meng 20-22, 21-11, 21-17 eventually after a bad start. Trailing five points at 15-20 in the first set, Singapore's top
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      Lock icon Use Venables full time, says Farina
      352 23 Use Venables full time says Farina BRISBANE Soccer Australia should not short-change itself by employing Terry Venables as a part-time coach of the national team, former Socceroo captain Frank Farina warned here yesterday. Farina, revered in Australian football after playing 67 times for his country and for his exploits with
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      Jansher top, but not for long
      179 23 SQUASH LONDON Pakistan's Jansher Khan will complete 10 years at the top of international squash when the new Professional Squash Association world rankings are issued on Jan 1. Scotland's Peter Nicol is still second behind the 28--year-old Jansher, despite beating the world No. 1
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      SCORES
      114 23 AMERICAN FOOTBALL NFL: New England 14 Miami 12. BASKETBALL NBA: Utah Jazz 101 Atlanta 99, Charlotte 81 Toronto 79, New York 79 Dallas 67, New Jersey 99 Orlando Magic 88, Detroit Pistons 96 .Phila delphia 92, LA Lakers 94 Houston 83, Washington 110 Milwaukee 79 Phoenix Suns 91 Golden
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      Earlier finish because of Tiger Cup event
      241 23 S LEAGUE clubs have teen advised to work hard at pfeseason training as it is expected to be a demanding season ahead. Changes to the intertiational calendar with Die Tiger Cup being brought for ward to finish on Sept 7 instead of the
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      311 24 Holyfield to fight Lewis for unified title in April BOXING LONDON Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield have agreed to fight for the undisputed world heavyweight title in Las Vegas on April 25, Lew is' manager Frank Maloney said on Monday. "I confirm that an agreement has been signed by the
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      1997 — Year of the kids
      37 24 1997 Year of the kids Hingis: At 16 became the youngest Grand Slam winner this century. Ullrich: The 23-year-old stunned everyone by winning the Tour de France. Ronaldo: Negotiated a $51-million move from Barcelona to Inter Milan.
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      Lock icon Ronaldo, Woods lead youth brigade
      909 24 PARIS Ronaldo, Tiger Woods, Martina Hingis, Jan Ullrich, Tara Lipinski were at the forefront, but whichever sport you turned to this year the trend seemed to be the same 1997 was the year of the kids. Pele might have won the World Cup as a
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  • SPORTS/RACING
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      Lock icon Like coining home, gushes Klinsmann
      626 25 I RETURN OF TOTTENHAM S PRODIGAL GERMAN SOCCER LONDON It feels like coming home straight to the captaincy. Jurgen Klinsmann, the man who won the World Cup and European Championship with Germany, was back at his old English Premiership club Tottenham Hotspur and may be
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      Lock icon Ronaldo is first South American to win Euro award
      270 25 PARIS Inter Milan's Brazilian striker Ronaldo was on Monday officially confirmed as the 1997 European Footballer of the Year in the annual poll organised by France Football magazine. The 1996 Fifa World Player of the Year, World Soccer magazine's World Player
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      Trainer Stone gets his dream start
      764 25 GUIDE TO YESTERDAY'S PENANG TRACKWORK FREEMAN geared up for his second success in the Class 3 Div 4 1,400m race on Sunday with a good workout yesterday. Taken out by apprentice Kumar Vediappan, the four-year-old Australian-bred gelding clocked 44.45ec for the final 600m on
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      Lock icon FA must prevent blackouts
      548 25 LONDON Wimbledon chairman Sam Hammam and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger called for action from the English football authorities after their sides' Premiership match at Selhurst Park was abandoned due to floodlight failure. The match was called off after 46 minutes with the score at 0-0 and
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      Aston Villa hit by virus
      141 25 BIRMINGHAM Aston Villa has been hit by a virus three days ahead of its English Premiership clash with Tottenham at ViUa Skipper Gareth Southgate, Steve Staunton and goalkeeper Michael Oakes were all confined to bed on Monday. Mark Draper has also been off-colour for several
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        Ignorance is bliss
        136 25 MALAYSIAN national bowler Lai Kin Ngoh found herself in trouble with the law, not once but twice last week. The 21-year-old, who was competing in the Cathay B<mi Junior Classic, drove down from Kuala Lumpur in her brand new Honda Civic. She made an illegal right turn
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        Wrong way around
        110 25 STILL on the Cathay Bowl Junior Classic. Girls were given a seven-pinfall handicap in every game and some localboys were asking the logic in that. Especially when you consider that Malaysia's Shalin Zulkim who has bowled two perfect games this year was entered in the field. Said
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        Monopoly, Alvin?
        59 25 IN KEEPING with annual tradition, the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association handed out its annual awards yesterday. Winning the Best Diver of the Year was Alvin Peh, a result which surprised no one. After all, the 11-year-old is the only international competitive diver in the country. It would be
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        Courtesy, Egyptian style
        109 25 A LEWD gesture during an African championship qualifier between Egypt and Morocco has cost Egyptian football star Ibrahim Hassan US$3O (Ssso), a government daily reported. The Dumyat criminal court in northern Egypt found Hassan guilty on Wednesday of "making an obscene gesture" in the televised African Nations
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        A false headstart
        157 25 A false he ads tart THE crew of one Laser 16 boat competing in the HewlettPackard Singapore Laser Open over the weekend must have thought they were given an early Christmas present when they found themselves leading the entire 56-strong fleet during the first race. But it was not to
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        Food falling on my head...;
        132 25  - Food falling on my head... SHIRLYNN HO-PEREIRA Compiled by IT WAS almost like a flashback to the cinemas of old wherej most patrons were not shy of discarding bits of food any-, where and everywhere. During the National Table Tennis Championships at a packed hall of the Singapore Table Tennis
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  • OBITUARIES
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      801 26 ROBERT SOO HA *5R§ THERESA LEM CHU KEM were called home to be with their Heavenly Father on 19/12/97. A memorial mass service will be held on Friday 26/12/97 from Bpm at the car park opposite Block 506, Serangoon North Ave 4.
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      451 26 TEO AH TIENG AGE: 65 YRS OLD Passed away peacefully on 23 Dec 1997 leaving behind: Wife: Lim Meow Ing Sons: Daughters-in-law: Danny Teo Beng Teck Yang Yee Boon Teo Beng Lee Koo Mui Tiang Teo Meng Hwee Tang Siew Cheng Future-daughter-in-law: Teo Meng
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      146 26 We, the family of the late WILLIAM LEE KEE NIAP Departed 16.12.97. wish to express sincere thanks and gratitude to CO, officers OETI staff, CMEO staff of HQ MES, Senior Pastor Dr. Tow S.H., Pastor Quek S.Y., session members, members friends of Calvary Pandan B-P Church
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      143 26 The Family Of The Late ISAAC TAN LAI TECK A»« 20 Departed on 21/12/97 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, colleagues for their kind attendance, condolences and donations during their recent bereavement. IN APPRECIATION FROM THE FAMILY OF
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      137 26 JSEOW POH TING Age: 42 Date of Birth 12.9.55 >assed away suddenly on SilkAir flight Ml 185 on 19th Dec 97 in Palembang, Indonesia, leaving behind loved ones. Lim Chin Kiaw Brothers: Sisters-in-law: Seow Poh Eng Chua- Ah Mui Seow Poh Leok Juliet Seow
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    OBITUARY
    85 27 With deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolences to the family of our late Senior Vice President Area General Manager, ASEAN South Asia Suzan Picariello I i i I jl J From her friends and colleagues at American Express International, Inc. The family will be holding a Memorial Service on Friday,
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  • MONEY
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      HONGKONG
      304 28 December 23, 1997 MM f&t^f^OttC 4 00 *Q 080 AfH^varMa 0.81 -0.02 MMhcM 1.19 -0.04 tjgJJEA 1775 +0 20 Qgftto Coral 1 si uncrt CritfccV 8.40 unch CMnCly i.u unch d^MßKong 47 90 -0.10 OBalgW 4330 +170 CMtfotorßua 71.75 +0.2* CM&cMc 30.40 +0 10 CfcWlaTun 13.20 •►O.lB Dtcfcjon Concept
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      TOKYO
      361 28 December 22, 1997 Mtaut Englnaartng 67 -IS MNufcaafr 347 .11 MMaumlElK 1«20 -30 Morinui 142 -6 Muratt Mg 3340 unch N*c 1310 -40 Ngfc Inauttort 1040 -40 Ngk Spark Plug 730 -10 NkkoSM 336 -44 NtpponUgMMatt 172 -2 Nippon Of 380 -21 Nippon SMI I*4 -4 Nippon Talagraph 10K>
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      BANK RATES
      260 28 OCBC OUB UO6 068 TLB POSB KB DEPOSIT RATES Savmgt 3 2v, zv. 3h 9* 2v, a* ftttd OQpOtJt 1 month 3'. 3H 3H 3* 3V« 3V« 3 month* 4 3% 3H 3H 4 4 6 months 4W 4 4 4 4V* #M ij month* 4'. 4 V,
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      Credit ratings cuts hurt KL share index
      488 28 OVERSEAS MARKETS ROUND-UP 1 OVERSEAS INDICES MALAYSIA'S main stock index sank 2.4 per cent yesterday, as phone company Telekom Malaysia Bhd and banks dropped after Standard Poor's slashed the country's credit ratings. Moody's Investors Service cut debt ratings on six companies yesterday, including
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      GOLD PRICES
      96 28 SINGAPORE Phytici (Ss) Mon Tw Kiobar *****-*****04 *****-***** 76 100 gm 1560-1634 81 1572-1646 97 50 gm 782-***** 788-«2812 20gtn 311-334 75 314-336 61 sgm 78-90 64 78-81.67 1 jm 18—24 72 16—24 72 BuHon cotna (Sttai) Spore bufcon coin 488-504 501—607 Canadian mapto loaf 498—504 501—507 Australian
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      CURRENCY
      164 28 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to ona unit of foreign currency BuyingOO Sailing USdoear 1.6457 ***** Stoning pound 2.7124 2 8093 Austraiendotar 1.0606 1.1066 Canadian*** 1.1384 1.1778 NZdoiar 0.9381 0 9816 ECunil ***** Singapore dollar* to 100 unit* of foreign currency Austrian settling *****6 *****8 Betgwnfranc 4.4138 ***** Denisri kronor
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      SICOM FUTURES
      264 28 December 23, 1 997 Rubber Future* (Closing pric w) RSSI Contract Tonnw (Scantttg) Month High Low S« Vol Open W J»n9B 120 50 ***** 120 00 120 55 121*5 700 12*25 595 Apr/Jun 128.25 127.25 127.25 1500 ***** J»*Sg> 131.75 2145 CWDec ***** 4500 RSS3Contnxi (US wntt/ta) J»»
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      ASIAN CURRENCY UNITS
      89 28 Contract date: December 23,1997 8£ Jn Ai Ai «|U« US$ s*, s*. S* 8* 5H 4'A, Wl2 A$ 4H 4H 4'*. 4%, 4H 3w 2W12 N3 8* BVt 8 7^. 7H 7*. 29^2 STG 6H 7VU 7V* 7W 7Vt 6vt 2»12 'A. 'A. 'A. 2*12 DM 3vt
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      TIN
      10 28 Closing pricw (MS/Ulo) KLTm $20.27 (+0.32) Turnover 66 8)
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      KUALA LUMPUR
      2717 28 Transaction Date; December 23, 1 997 *dM»morn— rl— urn; ParvlmMtiunl— «Hrrt— me***. iiliniiiTot tumiiu iWIi.^HT I Transaction Date: December 23. 1997 JW7 LMt VOI Nat High Low Company Sai« f0OO) P/E INDUSTRIALS Consumer Products 790 220 ApnomotO 220 -10 6 122 44a 90 Angfcaaa IS -15 56 2
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      CRUDE &, PRODUCT PRICES
      49 28 CRUDE PRODUCT PRICES (feUOE/PROOUCT MONTH* CHANGE PRICE (USS) BBL SCSf^lfL-. -022-0.22 1725-17 30 SKl.^^u 1 1 -0.25-0.25 1813-1817 DWUFATEM Fab -011-011 1592-15 97 TiPSBLENO Jan 000 1775-1785 S Ri!L. «*r -020 -OJO 1750-17 30 WHTHA (OF Jip) -050-100 *****-***** JAEMTMA^ -020-020 1810-1830 CfMMHSFO ♦100-100 8400 8500 pJ55»«^5^,2»1»»7. Source DomJam
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      PALM OIL
      34 28 Cn*k p*hn oil (llMonrw) D«c 2000.00 (south) IMhMd prim at (USttonrw) RBOf^lm(X Jan 98 542.50 (sder) Ftb/Mar 542.50 (sder) Jan 98 555.00 (sder) Fab/Mar 557.50 (sder) ■jit the* Jan 98 505.00 (sder)
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      SILVER
      24 28 OoeJng phcM (USMroy oz) Mon Tw Sngapor* 6070—6090 6 060-6 070 Frl Man Nm York 6 060-6 070 6 030-6 040 Source RototcttH
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      2157 28 I HOTELS I 1997 Ctfrr Last Vol Day Gri Nat MCapWtAvg High Low Company Traded Sato +or- 000 High Low Dlv P/E SmU Prtc* 378 163 ANA HoMa 188 23.2 90.1 186 94.5 59 5 AMtanc* Tach 59 5 224) 49.1 65 156 96 mt Apollo 96 -4
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        Brent Crude
        24 28 OpM Mgh Low S«« EaiVol W>9B 1728 0 mm 1738 0 Apr 1746 0 Ad Vd (Mon) 84 Opan W (Mon) 1409
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        Spot US Dollar/Japanese Yen
        25 28 Spot US Dollar/ Japanese Yen Opm H%h Lo« S«tt EttVol MvM ***** 130 54 ***** ***** 26 Act Vol (Mon) 53 Opan W (Mon) 112.
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        Euroyen — 3-month deposit
        50 28 Euroyen 3-month deposit (too implml innmt mb) Ocm Hgh Low Stft ErtVol Mar 96 ***** ***** ***** ***** 1780 An ***** ***** ***** ***** 1050 Sap ***** ***** ***** ***** 880 Dec 99 235 ***** ***** ***** 560 Mw99 ***** ***** 0 Ad Vol (Mon) ***** Open mt (Mon): *****6
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        MSCI Taiwan Index
        46 28 Ofm HMi Um Satl E»t V<* Sp« 335 99 ***** ***** 332 57" Ok 336 00/ 336.40 ***** ***** 3607 336 40 Jan 98 ***** ***** ***** ***** 1951 F«b ***** o Mk ***** 0 Ad Vol (Mon) 6388 Open W (Mon) *****
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        Nikkei 300
        40 28 Opwi Htah Ux* SM Et«Voi Spot ***** ***** ***** *****' Mar 98 ***** 227 00 ***** ***** 120 •fan ***** 0 m ***** 0 Dec ***** 0 Mar99 2M70 0 Act Vol (Fri) 0 Open knt (Fn) *****
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        Nikkei Stock Average
        38 28 Opm High Low S«tt EtfVol SPOT *****22 *****22 *****43 *****.40' Mar 96 *****/ ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** Jbn ***** 0 Sep ***** 0 Dec ***** 0 Act Vol (FrO: *****. Open W (Fr* *****1.
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        Eurodollar — 3-month deposit
        64 28 Eurodollar 3-month deposit (too mphd rmnst rait) Opm Hkflh Low Ml EstVot J«n9B ***** 0 Uw ***** ***** ***** ***** 3573 Jun ***** ***** ***** 94 196 1150 Sap ***** ***** ***** ***** 1380 Ok ***** ***** ***** ***** 320 Mar 99 94 070 94 080 94 070 ***** 100
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        Spot US Dollar Deutschemark
        32 28 OpM High Low S*t ErtVoi Ma/ 98 ***** ***** 32 Ad Vol (Man) 40 Open kH (Mon): 73 Spot tndtx on morfctt dOMd. v $4tt)MWlt PriM not •vtltbtt.
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        10-Year Japanese Government Bond
        29 28 10- Year Japanese Government Bond Omh HMi Low Stff EttVol Mar 97 ***** ***** ***** ***** 304 Jun9B ***** ***** 0 Ad Vol (Fri) 580 Op«n N (Fri) 3498
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      SES MAINBOARD
      3251 29 I INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL Tr«MCMon Mi; DtCflibtf ZUMZ—I 1997 Cur LM Vol Day Oft Nrt MCapWlAvg High tow Comply Tredfcd Sth +of- -000 High Low Wv% P/E $mH Pries 167 26 a ACE DynamlcaaOc 26 -1.8 361 264 25 21.3 27 ASENTJIOJOO US- MS M6 ASFUSICIOO US 866
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      Shares beat retreat as currencies ease
      321 29  -  PATRICK TAN MARKET REPORT BARGAIN HUNTING in blue chips shored up share prices at midday but falling Malaysiar share prices ana re newed weakness in re gional currencies forcec the key stock index here to reverse earlier gains. The Straits Times Industrials Index rose
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      INDICES
      75 29 Dtcwnbtr 23 CtanQt ST Industrials *****1 -6 34 ST Finance 3060 79 +1 59 STHoWs 1670 89 -167 ST Properties 1105 67 -5 72 BT Composite *****0 —1148 BT-MGA 837 65 +249 BT-SRI 660 58 *9 26 BT 08/OS -1038 *2 BT CADI -***** -103 BT OBV +*****73 -*****
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      SCOREBOARD
      64 29 MAM CLOB Up On Unch Up Dn Unch Industrial 45 98 36 6 42 2 Finance 8 13 5 1 10 1 Hotels 2 7 2 0 3 0 Properties 3 10 3 0 20 3 Plantations 0 0 0 0 9 0 Mining 0 0 0 0 11
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      TOP ACTIVES
      29 29 RHBCapWt99 5,712,000 MBt Capital 4,737,000 Asia FoodAProp 4,058,000 SingTel 15c 4,023,000 HKLandUSIOc 3,487,000 OUB Foreign 3,185,000 Rekapadfic Bh 2,902,000 DairyFUSSc 2,781,000 UOB Foreign 2,651,000 DBS Land 2,606,000
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      TURNOVER (READY)
      44 29 TotalMartet Tim Mon Industrials 49.288m 68 871m Finance 23.358m 17.829m Hotels 3.246m 2.723m Properties *****m 16.020m loansStocfcs 13.877m 9.183m Plantations 1.534m 1.252m Mmwg 386.000 431,000 Total volume 104.908m 116.309m Total value mSS 221.613m *****7m Sesdaq volume 5.099m 3.876m Nasdaq volume Nil Ni
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      BONDS. LOANS & WARRANTS
      1467 29 BONDS. LOANS WARRANTS Al atom quoMd ptr vatu* ol $1 unlaw ottwnnaa apadM. W tradbtg in thhj Mock rnWrtid to buytnotn nwrtaM on(y. Adwkt*. taaol|*t9htt.N-TM.«Mi» < »ddMa»«MlP€njtfc»i«a^l*>aati^^ ■d>NM lor currtncy dMnncw t TnMkM itoeki undar CPf Appro** hunt—* Schama. t icrtphn trtdfcv 8»**». Novtruata. atocfca. id: n-dMdand. cd: cum dMdand,
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      UNIT TRUSTS
      545 29 Mgrs' Prtc—, Decwnbor $A AtertMlAMMNgMilM Absrdsan S>x» OrFund 0841-09(0" «Oo««(Mi)LM «*"w»iii i GowltA.aPicfcOw.tißj 0912-0958* GovM GUM Bunk FO 0982-1042* AaariemkajAaaar AlAUntUikedFd 0841-0886* AlAßagnnalEquayFd 09*9-0999* AURMantfFoadmoonwFd 0950-1000/ Kmimirura iOBs— 1 w OUancua (V Fd 1 012—1 086" CtpWGrFO 0919-0986" OfwnacGVFd 0843—0886" V*u»GfFdT 0 864-0 910" FortnjMFundt 0860* CMeofmkMßMk C«
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      SESDAQ
      815 29 1997 Cwr UK Vol Day Gr Nat MCapWlAvg High Low Company Tradad Sal* +or- 000 High Low Otv% P/E $mll Prtc* 1M 76 ABA Hk»g« 5c 129 -6 M 137 123 3 0 IMS 57 4 136 44S 116 «ASAutoloc 139 *19 4SB 140 120 15.0N 118 158 7
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      Lock icon Financial turmoil will take a toll on retail rents next year
      622 31  -  Kalpana Rashiwala By Analysts say 10% increase in supply will also dampen market RETAIL rents are expected to continue to face pressure next year as the supply of retail space is projected to rise by 10 per cent while
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      Far East takes 41% private homes market share
      281 31 SINGAPORE'S biggest developer, the Far East Organization group, has sold about 2,410 private homes since the start of this year giving it a 41 per cent market share. The group has also spent $1.33 billion this year buying up residential, commercial and
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      Advice to cash in on SembCorp offer for Delifrance
      290 31 DELIFRANCE Asia shareholders are advised to either accept the takeover offer by Sembawang Corporation at $1.80 a share, or sell their shares on the open market at $1.7852 or higher. Shareholders with sizeable holdings should regard the offer as an opportunity
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      NatSteel reduces stake in HK firm
      216 31 LISTED industrial group NatSteel Ltd said yesterday it had agreed to sell 142.6 million ordinary shares in Hongkonglisted Burwill Holdings, subject to conditions, reducing its stake in the company from 24.2 per cent to 5.37 per cent. The sale price is expected to be
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      PARKWAY GETS LOAN
      99 31 Parkwav Holdings said yesterday DBS Bank and OCBC Bank had granted it a five-year, $300 million fixed rate transferable loan facility, which would be used to redeem its $200 million unsecured bonds due this year and to repay bank loans. Parkway said it had granted the two
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      SBS' CHINA VENTURE
      84 31 DelGro Corp said yesterday its subsidiary SBS International Holdings had signed an agreement to set up a joint venture, Shanghai Shen Xin Bus Service, to operate public bus services in Shanghai. SBS International will contribute 49 million yuan (SslO million) in cash fora 49 per cent stake
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      BAMBANG CUTS STAKE
      44 31 President Suharto's son, Mr Bambang Trihatmodjo, has reduced his stake in Van der Horst to 6.27 per cent from 6.42 per cent after the sale on Dec 18 of 173,000 shares by Societe Generale, which had held the shares as collateral.
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      CPI INCHES UP
      47 31 The Consumer Price Index last month edged up 0.1 per cent over a month earlier. Comparea with a year earlier, it was 2.3 per cent higher, with housing, transport and communication ana health costs rising by between 3.7 per cent and 5.3 per cent.
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      SHIP SALE
      63 31 Pacific Andes (Holdings) has agreed to sell a deep-sea trawler to one of its trading partners for US$4.5 million (557.6 million) through a hire purchase arrangement. During the term of the hire purchase agreement, the buyer of the trawler will supply frozen seafood products to Pacific Andes of
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      NEW PARTNER
      85 31 Pacific Can Investment Holdings said Qarira Holdings, its partner in a can manufacturing project in Malaysia, was unable to provide trie external bank financing for the joint venture, and had thus roped in a new partner, Perbadanan Usahawan Nasional Bhd (PUNB). PUNB has agreed to subscribe for 19.5
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      Ho Wah Genting aborts stake sale plan to Bariston
      315 31 HO WAH Genting International (HWGI) said yesterday that Bariston Investments Pte Ltd, controlled by businessman Ramdas Nair and his brother, would not have to make a takeover offer for the Sesdaq listed firm. This was because Kuala Lumpur-listed Ho Wah Genting
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      Lock icon Most of MRCB's lenders agree to restructure $421m bridging loan
      343 31 *Most of the lenders for the bridging facility have agreed to reschedule the loan whilst several others are awaiting their respective formal approvals/ -MRCB statement KUALA LUMPUR Malay sian Resources Corp Bhd (MRCB) said its lenders have agreed to reschedule
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      Chemical industry will 'grow by 12%'
      405 31  -  Yong Slew Min By SINGAPORE'S chemical industry will probably grow by 12 per cent to $27 billion this year, fuelled mainly by strong growth in petrochemicals and specialty chemicals, said the Economic Development Board yesterday. Growth is also expected to remain strong over the
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      Lock icon Exxon to take action against Smedvig for delays
      302 31 IRVING (Texas) Exxon Corp said it would "seek recourse" against Smedvig ASA for delays in developing a North Sea oil field because of problems with a production ship to be used on the project. Exxon would not specify what action it would
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    • The Straits Times Money
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        TOP RISES (C)
        50 32 I DOWN I Cents CreabveT2sc 3300 60 1.9 DBS Foreign 1500 50 3.4 SlAForeign 1130 50 4.6 OUBForeign 680 35 5.4 Robinson 605 35 6.1 OCBC Foreign 990 30 3.1 MISC Foreign 242 22 10.0 Cerebos2sc 446 20 4.7 ASAutolOc 139 19 15.8 DatacraftlOc 240 18 8.1
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        TOP RISES (%)
        51 32 TOP RISES Cents LKHWtOO 5 25.0 1 AS Auto 10c 139 15.8 19 JSHWI9B 4 14.3 0.5 MISC Foreign 242 10.0 22 Serial Sys 10c 52.5 9.4 4.5 GenMag2oc 26 8.3 2 DatacraftlOc 240 8.1 18 Liang Courtsoc 41 6.5 2.5 Robinson 605 6.1 35 St Tyres 25c 35 6.1
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        TOP FALLS (c)
        47 32 C«ntt SPH 1480 50 3.3 IPCOSI.7O 251 34 11.9 First Eng 10c 35 25 41.7 Semb Marine 270 20 6.9 TACBUO2OO 20 18 48.1 Pelangißhdso 50 17 25.4 RashidHussatn 109 17 13.5 NBT ...540 14 72.4 TDM 133 14 9.5 Bolton 27 13 32.5
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        TOP FALLS (%)
        44 32 TOP FALLS Cent* NBT 540 72.4 14 TACBtIO2OO 20 48.1 18.5 HleongFnWt9B 2 42.9 1.5 FirstEnglOc 35 41.7 25 PSCWt§B 5 41.2 3.5 Pacific CWI99 3.5 36.4 2 OUEWWB 3 33.3 1.5 Bdton 27 32.5 13 HLeongCrWOl 12 29.4 5 Mult)PWt9B 7 26.3 2.5
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        Lock icon KL shares sent reeling as S&P slashes credit ratings
        472 32 KUALA LUMPUR Malay sia's main stock index sank 2.4 per cent as shares of phone company Telekom Malaysia and banks dropped after Standard Poor's (S&P) slashed credit ratings for Malaysia. The S&P move came a day after Moody's Investors Service cut
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        Lock icon SPH acts to scrap dual share listings
        667 32  -  Jean Chia By SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) yesterday proposed to scrap its 49 per cent limit on foreign ownership a move that will result in a merger of its local and foreign share tranches. In an unprecedented step, the publishing group said it
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        DBS and Stanchart engage in interest rate war
        554 32  -  Edna Koh By DBS BANK raised the stakes in the fixed deposit price war yesterday by dangling interest rates of up to 7.625 per cent, provided customers invest in their unit trusts at the same time. Its latest rate increase comes hot
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        479 32 Maruso is the fifth Japanese brokerage to go under this year amid deepening financial woes and a looming credit crunch. TOKYO Maruso Securities Co Ltd filed for bankruptcy yesterday, becoming the fifth Japanese brokerage to go under this year amid deepening financial woes
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    615 30 DA/ICE THE SHOCK Time is running out. There must be urgent steps, including an immediate closure of some debt-stricken financial institutions and companies/ Mr Chung Yoo-Hin of Daewoo Economic Research Institute. SEOUL Fears of possible debt defaults intensified in South Korea
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    401 30 RESTRUCTURING BOOST BANGKOK The Thai parliament has passed new, more flexible bankruptcy laws to prevent a wave of business closures as a result of the country's economic crisis, the government said. The new Bill seeks to encourage creditors and debtors to restructure
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      1005 2  -  David Kraal On Wednesday Christmas Day starts early in the morning when the young ones come down to find out what Santa Claus has delivered the night before. It is the best time for them and all those around them. EXCITING, exotic
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      27 14 Santa has abandoned his reindeer sleigh and now goes around Change Alley and Raffles Place in a scooter, watched by a bemused crowd. STEPHANIE YEOW
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      52 14 Christinas decoration is more than having bright-red Santas. Here at Change Alley, students and graduates of LaSalle are producing body art on live models such as this picture of a mother and child. The finished body creations then display themselves by walking around the shopping and office complex.
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        770 5  -  LEONG WENG KAM Experts from China give a helping hand as amateur opera group here celebrates its 85th anniversary with production of Puccini's opera FOLLOWING an Earlier adaptation of Puccini's Turandot, which was performed in Singapore by China's Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Troupe in
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        533 5  -  JUNAIDAH DAHLAN SINGAPORE'S rock icon, Ramli Sarip also known as Papa Rock is coming back in a big way. Plagued in the past by no air-play in Malaysia, where a blanket ban on artists with long hair is still in force,
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      523 13 CHANNEL 5 6.00 AM Breakfast Briefing (News) 6.30 AM Singapore (Breakfast show) 8.30 Children Cartoon Special I Old Bear Stories Christmas Special: The Perfect Presents 9.05 Children Cartoon Special II Little Orphan Annie's Very Animated Christmas 9.30 Children Cartoon Special 111 Monster Christmas 10.00 Pre-Holiday Movie Special I Ugh/ Duckling
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      448 13 10.30 Holiday Movie It's A Drink, It's A Bomb (English subtitles) An ammunition expert kills his assistant in order to prevent the latter from handing the "can bomb" to the police. Stars George Lam, John Sham and Maggie Cheung. 12.20 AM TV Champion (Variety) 1.00 Kaleidoscope (Variety) 1.30 Very China
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        1118 4 At bG Lta^B^L^^^lMHil^k^ft^fll^^ A^ftlf^ i^^L%\fttll^&.lit^L^ 302 Alfa For Sale 305 BMW For Sale EXCELLENT 1882 MODEL Alfa AUTO BMW 3161 mid '90, 4-dr 33 I.7iE. Fuel injection. Latest CD, hifi. leather seats. Full bodykit. model Power steering. Hifi. Excel- S/rims Price neg. Owner *****647 RLTSS SffiAsaKS •"UTfUL «mm 318iA A
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        447 4 I 309 Daewoo For Sale 309 Daewoo For Sale 309 Daewoo For Sale I 309 Daewoo For Sale I A CHRISTMAS PRESENT FROM DAEWOO 1 1 INCLUSIVE OF COE* jr/M^^||||^ It's a gift! A new Daewoo 1 Leganza- a festive season /JM w offer that's unbeatable. M. >^™i m. Beautifully
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        269 4 310 Daihatsu For Sale MID '87 CHARADE 1.0. 5 -dr. 5 speed. COE 3/2007, full accessories, tax 4/98. Beautiful. 468-7779 M99 '91 CHARADE I.3SG. 4 dr. 5 speed. Power windows/ steering. 2 owners. Tel: 766-4228 NEAR '92 PASSENGER van. 1.0. 7 seater. Blue. Tip top cond. Very beautiful. $39 8
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        263 4 312 Rat For Sale jaaasasi I 2/88 FIAT REGATA 1.6. 10OSIE. Fuel injection. Power steering/ window. PARF $11,200 neg. $16,500 neg. Loan avail. *****19 MERRY X'MAS I 8/84 Uno I.OiE, 1 owner, cost below $500 p/mth. Loan $35,000. *****711/ *****308 TEST-DRIVE THE EXCITING New Fiat Marea today! Massa Mo- tor
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        549 4 313 Ford For Sale 12/84 FORD LASER 1.6. Auto. Latest model. Full accessories. Immaculate cond. 462-1822. 3/81 FORD LASER 16 Ghia. Power steering. Tip top cond. Page. 9 *****95 8/88 LASER 1.8 Auto. 1 owner. Low mileage. Silver Tip top cond. $82.8K. TelTB4l7ni/ *****111 9/89 FORO LASER 1.5 auto 4-dr.
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        1007 4 316 Honda For Sale FEW UNITS I '82/83 Accord I.6EX Manual/ Auto. COE 2001/ 2002. accessories. Loan avail. No repair needed! *****75 Clementi NEAR 'M CIVIC. 1.6 ESI. 4 drs 1 owner. OMV $20K. New painty tax. Only $79.8K. View *****77 (3/93 VTI. 3 dr. $69 8K neg) 1 OWNER
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        788 4 310 Honda For Sale '82 a 'S3 Accord 1.6 manual, both showrm. condition. COE 2003, loan 4 yrs. Call *****55 '94 ACCORD EX. Manual. 12--valves. COE 6/'2003 S/rims. Tip-top cond. Trade-in. *****11. '84 CIVIC I.SOL Auto COE 2004. Tax 4/-98. A1 cond. $30,800 Easy loan. Tel. *****51/ *****693 '99 ACCORD
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        790 4 317 Hyundai For Sale 4/93 BEAUTIFUL ELANTRA VI GLS, 4-dr., 2 owners, hifi. $48,800 Lot 18 Kaliang Auto Centre. 4/93 ELANTRA I.9GLS. IManu al). 2 owners. Tax 3/98. Silver Tip-top. Loan avail. *****55 6/91 HYUNOAI EXCEL 1 3LM 3 door 2 owners, Al cond $27,500 0.n.0. Call *****56 9/94 ELANTRA
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        796 4 324 Mazda For Sala I 12/*92 MAZDA 929 door aulo 1 owner. New tax. $69 8* *****97 Hougang Court #01-05 12/93 ASTINA 1.9 EGI auto. 1 I owner. Tax 6/98 Orig. cond. Agt. service. View: 9681-9469 12T94 (NEW MOOCU Aatina 1 6 manual. 1 owner. Full accesaories. Immaculate cond. *****29
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        1134 5 °/4sl m~ a^ffg-^ _s_=___= 9BEfiEBBEEBBBa>aaaaaE=S-= 325 Mtcsxk* For Sale 325 Mercedes For Salo 325 MarcadoTFor Salo I '^j^KKBWBmBWBM I sc Euromobile I^EVTga showroom LSa&slsJ6 Sin Mina Rd #01-12 Sin Mina Plaza ZfeXj Tower 2S' 2057 along Shunfu Rd ~flHfjft /^T~\ AS cars swppßed by Cycle fe Cmrrimg*. "*He*# m* (JL
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        696 5 326 Mitsubishi For Sato 2/93 Mitsubishi oaismt natch back 20GLSi 1 owner. Auto. ABS. 2K new paint. Accident free. Serviced by C&C. Tel: *****72 3/OO OALANT AUTO. 1.6 S/S. Beautiful cond. Many new parts. $31,800. Loan/ trade in. Lot 3 Irving Road. *****00 Scotts Motors. 4/OS COLT AUTO 16 GLXi.
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        1053 5 328 NfiSa^TorSaio A BUSINESS MANAGER'S end '90 Sunny I.6SS, auto. PARF $11. 2K. 16 valve, twincan. Beautiful elegant white. Orig. power steering/ windows. Leather interior. Silent engine. No repair needed. Flexi deposit/ loan. $30 5 K negl with low interest. 344-7883 BEAUTIFUL '78 MODEL Nissan 100A COE 2001 near. New
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        777 5 328 Nissan For Sals •81 MODEL BLUEBIRD 1.6 GL I (manual). Blue. COE 10/2001. Tip top Low deposit. $9.8K. *****55 '82 MODEL. IOOA Sq. lamp. $7800 Deposit $1800. Mthly. $280 i x 24 mths. *****83/ pg. *****965 '83 NISSAN PULSAR 1.0. COE 2003. S/rims. Exchange welcome/ non available. *****73 '83
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        1030 5 336 Renault For Sale 2TM ESPACE 2.2 Auto SI4BK 4/*94 19. 16 vslves. 1.8. $74 3K 8/93 Cabriolet 16 valves. $76. 8K View: Lot 6 Kallang Auto Centra. 94 RENAULT SAVANNA 2.0 Au to s/wagon 1 owner. Tax 12/97 S/rims. Asking $71,000. Cal *****93 I OWNER. NEAR '94 Renault Es
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        663 5 337 Rovar For Sale 337 Rover For Sala BaBBBMBBBBaBBB«BaMB»BBB»aBBBBBSMBBBBB»BBBB»aB»BBaS«BBB»lBMBaiBBI I j I NTRX- MOTORS OUR PARTS AND SERVICE CENTRE IN DEFU WILL BE CLOSED ON 26 DEC '97. To prepare ourselves to serve you even better in the New Year, we're taking a short break this Christmas. So on Friday,
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        633 5 344 Toyota For Sals ■jßehmhU^hh^bb^hbi^Bl bist dial for au toyota mooels AM Mnde PARF or NON-PARF Japeneee weae) ears/ Off PeasV Continental ■ts>f*iY Moioc TraMiftoQ Mr Pug (Day/ Night) BaPT^C^^^^BT* Ba"»Ta^V» >• >• mm I Pro-Select Toyota I Borneo Motors 378 8651 I *****010 I EXOTK 14 MODEL Tovota Carina
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        1424 5 344 Toyota For Sale 344 Toyota For Sale t TOYOTA &fc BPACIO c^ I TOYOTA J^^^^^. EMINA CHEAP! CHEAP! 1989 Starlet. S/rims. New tax. A1 cond. i $17,900. Pg: 9-*****88 CMP! CHIP! S22K. 6/89 Starlet I i full bodykit. s/rims.. tax IV9B, full accessories. *****33 COE 2002. '82 Hiace s/wagon.
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        721 6 O ,-^MMMMV—- I°—1 1 00 O 0 o' O o o 6 b° •Q °/jA MMMMMMMMMMMaX m^Oa\^aMMM%MMMM^ ama j^Jß^^ i:=s^ tma^ m^ m^^ it _J^^m m^. MMMM b^bHb^b^bl i "^^^^m^^n*'"'^***-^^^^^^^ T^^ *^b^BmHb^b^l^bßb B^BB^^l«Bßw.^B^Btir^^^^jH A \m m %%m 381 Classic/ Vintage Cars '71 QRIEN MINI. COE 12/2001. Excellent cond. Pg owner:
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        1710 6 372 Vehicle 382 Vehicles For Hire 382 Vehicles For Hire Accessories/ Parts y Your ONE-STOP H j*j I j W^ l} [W'A Al\\l L\Vl I Car Enhancement Centre. =J2HHBifLHBHpiMiM I Rnwa^t ]OuT CaT PPWt a PBfcnMM I IB V^VMn.^| wth our Fuet-Saytng Sytem K*MPtaf^!tiHJ|^| I^SwfWWvWi BODYKITS FOR MOST models bK^t^^lbHbV-
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        987 6 383 Vehicles Wanted OWNER NEEDS 1.0 Accord/ 1 Starlet/ Pulsar/ Charade/ etc. CC '2000 above. Cash paymentl (2 hrs). 874-0675. No deeiers pis. STOP SEARCHING WE off. one cf the highest price in O market. Specialist in all Japanei car. Call 9667-9008 Steven Hey. WE'VE GOT THE RIGHT PRICE WANTED
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        1058 6 I 357 Lorries For Safc> .o j Tel: 8******/ 9888 7000 (Am SS Upp. Changi Rood Boat Br '96 Niasan 10 Ton. Powergate ie '93 Fueo 6 ton Hiab Crane M '92 Mhsublshl 24 Ft. Wooden '92 Mitsublahi 24 ft. 6 ton. Box. '87 Mrtsublshi 20 ft. COE 2002 Mo*
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        1014 6 For Sale y) No Hook Sena Motor Trading LOT D DEFU USED CAR Cm 180 AIRPORT ROAD Buy ft Sell Commercial Vena, Pickups. Lorrias. 10' to 28' Cranes, and PB Buses TEL: *****72/ 3 (Mr Ong) '98 Mitsubishi Frighter 24' box '98 Nissan CMB7 22ft box van '98 Nissan CMB7
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        1114 6 393 |HHM»|iiMf 393 Motorcycles/ 393 Motorcycles/ tISKf For Sale Scoof rs For Sale Scooters For Sale Section, 'l QteetintjA and lied udlUeL fat a Jt&ppy A/e*u i/eG* I I Long live the King! To paraphrase a famous American writer, "Reports of the ZZ-Rl loo's downfall were greatly exoggeroted." In spite
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        619 6 394 Motorcycle)*/ Scooff Wanted QHC BUYS IN used motorcycles. scooters, scramblers, big bwes. Arrange trede-irV financing/ strap Call 291-6664. Guan Hoa Chaong Welcome to: 1110 Serangoon Rd RE-CYCLE CO. PAYINO bitter price for uaad motorcycles, scum Wars, scooters. Selling proMafns? *****33. 468 Macpherson Rd. WE PAY HIOH cash price, for
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        733 7 a0 o o 1 424 Sendee Apts 1 JOO CMUTI BAST Coast vicinity. Brand newl 6 unit*. 2/ 4 rm. For eclal rats. Call *****666 ERA 426 Rooms For Ront A MASTER/ COMMON rms. AM Kio/ BisharV Bedok/ Bt. Batok/ dementi/ C.C.KV Dover/ Hougang/ Jurong/ Kallang/ Q'town/ Redhiii/ Simet/ Sgoon/
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        707 7 0 o 426 Rooms For Ront MASTER/ COMMON/ PTB. rms avail. All races, all areas. T*i 364-1704,' Pg. 9699-6440 MASTER RM. FOR rental at Be dok Reservoir. Near amenities Call 9816-4359 NEAR ORCHARD/ MRT. lodging, meals, laundry, guardian for foreign student. 9677-3037 NEAR ORCHARD, SOMERSET MRT (lady owner). Beautiful pte
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        1687 8 C Q C^* 3 O O f> *\<oOo- L.» a < CO O o O*. O or,- v sw o o a °/ml BMMMM^BSBWfIW .«*B^Bfe^£ 448 DOS- 10 Orchard/ 446 DO9-10 Orchard/ Tanglin/ Holland Tanglin/ Holland HOUSES Sale PTE APTS Sale UE SQUARE BLK. A. 1141 sq.ft. D.H> TAN KM
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        957 8 o o < 460 Dl5 16 East Coast HOUSES Sale Open House Parfcston* Road Brand New Luxurious Bungalow 4400/ 3960 sq.ft. s+l bdrms. Freehold Asking S4M Harry SeSS7974 Ftocitoe sssosoea Mawk ■SSSeSSM EdwHiod Tie B. Co. *****— D.IS PRIME DUNBAR Walk vicinity modern 3-storey terr. Ist class location. Last transacted
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        3104 8 't_&°°°Q»*>Q O C> 0 O o O 0 o C B^b^^a^ af^B^BMBBBfBsV laSßsflßv *^^^^^^^^*JB^^3BB^B^BBBBSTE^^BBEEa\i !eEB^BBjBB| BsVHb^EBBB) "^^B^B^B^^BJBeß**"**^-"^ 465 Dl7 18 Changi/ 465 Dl7 18 Changi/ 465 Dl7 18 Changi/ 465 Dl 7 IS Changi/ 465 017 13 Chano 465 017 18 Chanai/ PwirW* Pasir Ris Pasir Ris Pasir Rie ;7^\
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        692 8 493 HOB Apts For Sale (Sedoh/ Chai Cheet 4 'A7 4 'S' corner Bedok South Blk. 165. Unblocked. Renovated. Near amenities. Pg. 9709-5303 agt. I 4 'NO' BEDOK North. Blk. 513. I Dr. to dr. Renovated. High flr Cosy. Amenities. Ken 9201-4698. 4 'NO' BEDOK Res. 706. High fir. Unblock/
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        981 8 0 D o tipajHHfet 494 HDB Apt* For Sal* (Bithan) 4 'A' BLK. 130 Bithan. Low fir MRT/ NTUC/ tch. Face N.S Can contra. Low price! *****032 HMR 4 'A' CORNER blk 268 Bithan #01 Near Catholic High/ mkt. 107 tq.m. Pg 9622-9073 ERA 4 '8' SIN Ming Ct. Blk.
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        1489 9 J^^^B BBS Ml B^A V^^^VHHHHI 493 HDB Apts For Sal* 493 HDB Apts For Sale 493 HOI Apts For Sale 493 flO* Apts For Sale 493 HDB Apts For Sale 493 HDB Apts For Sale (BadoW Chai Ch— (B+dofc/ Chai Ch— (B#dofc/ Chai Ch— (Basok/ Chai Ch— (Badoh/ Chai Ch—
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        737 9 500 HDB Apts For Sal* (Choa Chu Kang/ Bukit Panjang) Excellentlj* NEAR MRT/ LOT 1. 5 T Choa Chu Kang Blk. 305. Mid flr. Convenient. Door steps to all facilities. Price neg. Pg: 9-*****43 Ariff ERA B 'A' BLK 434 high flr. Unblocked, designer decor Blk 307, 344, 354. 435,
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        660 9 500 HDB Apts For Sale (Choa Chu Kang/ Bukit Panjang) B 'A' TICK Whye Blk. 7. Unblock. Spacious. Children pool/ chiidcare/ mkt. Co-broke. *****786 Orion B T 8LK.137 Teck Whye Lane, renovated, feeing E. Can contra. Low cashl Shertyn 9202-9752 DW. B T CORNER. Neg. at valuation. Blk. 419 Bt.
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        726 9 501 HDB Apts For Sal* (Clementi/ Wast Coast) 4 'NO' BLK. 408 Pandan Gdn. Mid fir. Corner. Unblock. Can contra. View to offer. *****481 ERA 4 IMs' CLEMENTI Blk. 328. #04 Walking distance to MRT. Valued $270K. View to offer. *****646 4 'NO' CORNER Clementi Ave. 3 Blk. 432. High
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        663 9 502 HDB Apts For Sal* (Geylang/Eunos/ Macpharson) 4 'A'/ 8 *A* Joo Seng Rd. High floor. Renovated. Near sch./ mkt. Future MRT. Pg: 9309-9051 4 'NO' BLK. 10 Eunos. Mid fir. Move-in cond. MRT. Amenities. View to offer. 9213 8059 agt. 8 'A' GEYLANG E. Good facing.. Bright. Near library.
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        1051 9 O o 504 HDB Apts For S«l« (Hougang/ Serangoon/ Yio Chu Kang) 3 'NO' BLK. 123 Hougang. Mid fir. Can contra. Valued iI4BK. Low cash. Amenities. *****977 ERA 3 'NO' BLK. 23. Hougang. High fir. Upgrading. Renovated utility room. Pg Jessica 9-650-6726 3 'NO* BLK 218 Serangoon Ave. 4. Good
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        1089 9 O o 505 HDB Apts For Sale (Jurong) HURRYI NO COMMISSION/ caah. Blk. 714 Exec. mais. Nice, 100% move in *****688 owner JUMP THE OUEUE. Blk. 136. 4 T Tah China Rd. High flr. Face N. Renovated. Louis *****686 ERA LOW CASHI 3 RM. Jurong W Blk. 498. Valued SI32K.
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        1683 9 r> Bmmmmmml bmmmm*. 512 HDB Apts For Sale) (Pasir Ris/ Chaiwjt) BEAUTIFUL S 'A' Patir Ris blk 216. selling at valuation!!! A dream home with open view. Mid flr Don't mittl 9200-5892 sole agt. BEST UNIT I S 'I' corner Pasir Ris Blk 107 High floor. Huge recess area. 4-bdrms.
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        1909 10 Q sS^ESsssl o*o <3 O /j^fl Lsssss^Bss&^^^B^^ /^B^EBsi EBsssssssssssssssss^EßsssssV EBsssssssSEßssi b^eb^mbCH I 512 HOB Apt* For Sal* 614 HDB Apts For Sale (PsakKWChanQQ (TampTn—/ 8»m1) B T CORNBR 107. high flr. Sch. 84OOK. T corner Tampinee Wk. Nicety renovated. S3OK betow vet- 306. 6 yrs. Windy. Move in. Neer u«*on.
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        1099 10 o o 516 HOB Apts For Sale) (Toa Payoh/ Potong Pasir) 3 'I' extra rm. Neer MRT. No blockage. Windy. Valued. Single eligible. Call 9-*****21 agt 3 T T. Payoh Blk. 199. High flr. Renovated. Beany Pn. Sec. Sch. A near MRT. Price neg. *****736 3H-RM. CORNER. TOA Payoh Blk.
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