The Straits Times, 17 March 2001

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  • 186 1 MEDINA (Saudi Arabia) Climbing up ladders, Saudi commandos in full battle gear yesterday broke through the windows and doors of a hijacked Russian plane and freed more than 100 hostages in a swift action that also left three peo- pie dead, including one of
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  • 243 1  -  By DEVIASMARAM STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Indonesia’s leading Muslim group has threatened to send millions of Gus Dur supporters onto Jakarta’s streets to defend the President, prompting students to back down from a major rally against him next week. Sources in the
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  • 468 1  -  Global player ExxonMobil Asia Pacific, Anglo-Dutch firm Shell and US-based Bechtel will set up power-generation firms here as market is liberalised By WILLIAM CHOONG an d CHEE JANN PERNG THREE of the world’s biggest energy conglomerates are to set up power-genera-tion companies here. Global
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  • NEWS FLASH
    • 80 2 HOME FARMERS at half of the 36 ornamental-fish farms off old Tampines Road have refused to vacate their premises. They are staying put until they receive compensation for their farms, as they fear that their land will be razed if they move out, leaving no proof
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    • 79 2 GRANDMA was right that little jar of chicken essence is good for you. A National University of Singapore study on a leading brand of chicken extract indicates that it could help keep the heart healthy. The research carried out on rats that ware bred to develop
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    • 71 2 IN SINGAPORE, 44 per cent of Internet users are women a slightly higher rate than in China and Taiwan, says a report by Net Value, a global Internet measurement company. And as far as Internet hook-up goes, Singapore is ahead ofTaiwan, China, Hongkong and
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    • 93 2 COMMENTARY FINANCIAL-MARKET players may now realise that the warning against exuberance” from US Federal Reserve chairman was correct after all. Mr Alan Greenspan was just several years too early. And as he prepares for the Fed’s interest-rate meeting next Tuesday, his deepest concern must be that
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    • 67 2 FORUM SINGAPORE’S Car-Free Day would be better supported by motorists if it could be held on a Sunday, rather than on a Thursday on April 19, says Ms Aafje N. Elias. The Car-Free Days of European countries have been held on Sundays, with city roads
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    • 112 2 SPORTS FORMULA One cars may be fast but they are not dangerous in themselves unlike the hot young drivers on the track said 1997 world champion Jacques ViUeneuve. It is a big risk, he added, to give a racing licence to
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    • 95 2 PRIME PARENTS are free to use the first-tier Baby Bonus cash payment on any expenses they incur for the care of their child. Under the scheme, starting on April 1, parents who have a second or third baby can expect their
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    • 101 2 HOME A GROUP of former journalists and civil-society members are setting up a non-profit media watchdog body to see that there is fair representation of alternative views and to help raise local media standards. The pro-tem committee of the Singapore Media Watch Community said that
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    • 81 2 WORLD BRITISH farmers are up in arms over a government decision to slaughter another million sheep, pigs and goats in the world’s biggest culling of farm animals. The National Sheep Association said the dramatic escalation in the number of animals to be killed was an unscientific knee-jerk
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    • 76 2 MONEY DBS Group Holdings surprised the market by joining Singapore Telecom to bid for an increased stake in Nets, the electronic-payment company. This power pairing has now emerged as one of two main contenders for a stake of up to 40 per cent in Nets.
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    • 98 2 ASIA JAPAN’S taxpayers are wondering why they have to stump up for Premier Yoshiro Mori’s expensive trip to the US, as they doubt that his meeting with Mr George W. Bush will bring them any benefits. “He is quitting, isn’t he, so why is he
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    • 62 2 JOURNALISTS from several foreign publications and wire agencies could face sedition charges for the way they covered last week’s violence near the Malaysian capital, which left six people dead. The Mahathir administration’s Umno youth wing had filed a police report against the International Herald Tribune and Associated
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    • 59 2 SPORTS CHINA’S lanky basketball sensation Wang Zhizhi is set to join the Dallas Mavericks later this month, which will make him Asia’s first player in the NBA. His team, the Bayi Rockets, is allowing him to report to the Mavericks at the end of the
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  • PRIME NEWS
    • 479 3  -  Starting in Jurong next month, each household will get colour-coded plastic bags for plastics, paper and, perhaps, glass, that will be picked up weekly Bi/ SALMA KHALIK EVERY household here will be part of a national recycling effort by the end of this year. It
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    • 116 3 China’s most wanted fugitive, Lai Changxing, may now be under house arrest, but he is still enjoying the comforts of high living at his luxury Vancouver home. Accused of masterminding China’s biggest smuggling and corruption racket, Lai fled with his wife to Canada via Hongkong in 1999
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    • 372 3 A HAWKER paying subsidised rental can stop work and get a cash payout if his market or hawker centre is to be redeveloped. A market stallholder gets $15,000; and a cooked-food vendor, $19,000. This applies to stallholders relocated from the streets or who
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    • 238 3 LOS ANGELES Bullies who take weapons into Californian schools will be forced to visit a mortuary and watch post-mortems. The shock treatment is overseen by the Los Angeles board of supervisors for schools. “Going to the coroner’s is an experience you won’t forget,’
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    • 581 4  -  Confusion and miscues over US President's state visit to Beijing may be due to a mistake by the Chinese govt, or his error, say analysts B y DAVID HSIEH STRAITS TIMES CHINA BUREAU BEIJING The miscues over the US President’s state visit to Beijing
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    • 228 4 BEIJING China’s Wang Zhizhi is to be the first Asian to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The NBA is the American professional basketball Teague which is regarded as the best in the world. Wang, a 2.16-m for- ward, is set to join the Dallas
      -AFP; REUTERS  -  228 words
    • 387 4  -  t Pauline Leong PARENTS have been given the green light to use the first-tier cash payment of their Baby Bonus to defray expenses they incur for the care of their child. Under the scheme, which comes into effect from April 1, they
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    • 548 6  -  For two hours, the two-year-old was abused by his stressed-out aunt. A cut in his right lung led to its collapse KAREN WONG A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy suffered two hours of anguish and pain at the hands of his stressed-out aunt, before he
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    • 326 6 FILIPINA Marina E. Dullano, 30, left her home country to marry the man she loved. But when they registered their marriage here in July 1994, she called herself “Clarissa E. Marques”. One month after the marriage, Dullano applied for permanent-residency (PR) status and submitted a copy
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    • 204 6 She took drugs while overseas WHEN June Goh Joo Cheng was 15 years old, she was slapped with a $2,000 fine for taking drugs. Now 21 and a divorced mother of two, she has been jailed for taking drugs while on a trip to Malaysia. She was caught on the
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  • WORLD
    • 516 9 Chechen who knifed air hostess to death is in turn gunned down by Saudi commandos storming hijacked plane in Medina. Over 100 people are rescued AFP, AP, REUTERS MEDINA (Saudi Arabia) A Chechen who hijacked a Russian airliner to Medina in Saudi Arabia knifed an
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    • 71 10 Most of these men and women weigh at least 100 kg, but they are fighting to shed the most weight in a new reality show, Big Diet. They will be locked up in a castle in the Dutch town of Houtem for 13 weeks, with 37 cameras
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    • 427 10 Trials show that a hull made of E-glass, a plastic or glass-fibre composite, is superior to one of steel or aluminium, says Jane's Defence Weekly Jane’s Defence Weekly LONDON Plastic tanks won’t be just a toy in the future. They will actually be fighting battles in
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    • 300 10 Washington Post WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton made himself “America’s besttravelled president”, spending the equivalent of almost a full working year on foreign trips that probably cost more than half-a-bil-lion dollars, according to a study released yesterday by the National Taxpayers’ Union (NTU). Like
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    • 109 10 -AFP MOSCOW Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin is planning to form a “club” for retired world leaders, his aide has said. Mr Yeltsin, who retired from politics on Dec 31, 1999 on grounds of fatigue, “is preparing a schedule of possible international meetings, including
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    • 110 12 GREEK dentist Christina Yakovidou is in deep ciouble for her revealing attire and for giving other dentists a rur for their money. The 29-year-old woman has been suspended temporarily by her profession for unfair competition. The reason; The dentist posed in revealing clothes for a number of
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    • 484 12 Millions of Americans sniff fumes from legal items like air conditioners and nail polish, and the consequences of inhaling poison are dangerous Reuters WASHINGTON Thousands of Americans are “huffing” inhaling the vapours of household products ranging from nail polish remover to aerosol whipped cream
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    • WORLD FILE
      • 68 12 -AFP IN what has become a frightening monthly occurrence, El Salvador on Thursday was rocked by two earthquakes, reminding residents of the Jan 13 and Feb 13 quakes that killed more than 1,000 people. The stronger of the two quakes, felt m the capital
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      • 49 12 -AFP AT least 17 people drowned and 23 were missing in the Caribbean Sea on Thursday after a boat carrying more than 40 people, including illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic, sank off the island of St Martin, French police said. AFP
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      • 71 12 AFP AMID fears that the world’s largest oil rig will sink following a series of explosions on Thursday that spilled more than 1.5 million litres of crude oil into the water, rescuers continued to search for nine workers who are still missing. One
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      • 61 12 AFP THE Big Apple has become even bigger, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said on Thursday, with more than eight million people living in New York City proper, according to census figures. The official count put the number of New York City residents at
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      • 44 12 AP A FRENCH court on Thursday forbade an Australian vessel from unloading its spent fuel from an Australian nuclear reactor. Cogema, which re-treats nuclear waste, said it would appeal against the decision, seen as a victory for Greenpeace. AP
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    • 742 13  -  BG YEO IN U.S. BG Yeo gets assurances that America is not lessening its involvement in the region and has made moves to help Indonesia through its difficulties LESLIE KOH IN WASHINGTON GLOOMY skies and an unceasing drizzle may have marked the last few
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    • 358 13  -  FTA may pave the way For Pacific-wide agreement FREE TRADE TALKS WITH U.S. -7 Leslie Koh TALKS to cement a free trade pact between the US and Singapore are likely to conclude by the end of this year and may well set the scene
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    • 549 16  -  Senior leaders question authenticity of the tapes and say it is a plot to destabilise the government. A top judge is likely to head an inquiry soon MRMAL GHOSH INDIA CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI Senior Indian leaders, discredited by the defence deal scandal exposed by
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    • PEOPLE
      • 154 16 WANTED TO END RELATIONSHIP AP BANGKOK A woman who said she was trying to end an affair with the governor of a northeastern Thai province, has confessed to killing him in a Bangkok hotel. She was arrested by the police yesterday. Angkana Sunthomwipak, 33,
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      • 94 16 AP LONDON A second bronzed Nelson may be coming to London’s Trafalgar Square. A group of influential Britons is pushing for a 3-m-high statue of former South African leader Nelson Mandela to stand in j the shadow of British war l hero Admiral Horatio J
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      • 93 16 -AFP TOKYO The billionaire president of troubled Japanese video game maker Sega Corp, Mr Isao Ohkawa, died yesterday of heart failure. He was 74. Mr Ohkawa passed away in a Tokyo hospital, Sega spokesman Miyako Shimizu said. Mr Ohkawa took over the helm at
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      • 123 16 SYDNEY South African author J.M. Coetzee, the dual winner of the prestigious Booker Prize, is quitting his homeland to move to Australia, a report said yesterday. While the author himself has remained silent over any such move, a spokesman for his publisher said Mr Coetzee
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      • 27 16 a 27-year-old French woman found sleeping in a bed at actress Pamela Anderson’s home in Malibu earlier this month, pleaded guilty on Thursday to trespassing.
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      • 31 16 an articulate and passionate strategist who helped guide the young ClA’s efforts to contain Soviet communism at home and abroad, died in Washington on Tuesday. He was 80.
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      • 38 16 A poor cousin invited to the castle for dinner shouldnt discuss the menu A senior Polish opposition politician on why the 12 Eastern European countries waiting to join the European Union are on their best behaviour now
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    • 345 17 The water supply is being exhausted and rising salt levels are destroying farmland, costing the main food export areas $220 million a year AP CANBERRA Australia’s water supply is being exhausted and its land is being ruined by rising salt levels,
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    • 274 17 Loss in today’s by-election will be a strong blow AUSTRALIAN PM ON THE OFFENSIVE AP CANBERRA With his party facing defeat in a crucial federal by-election, Prime Minister John Howard went on the attack yesterday, accusing the opposition Labor Party of talking down
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    • 295 18 FOOT-AND-MOUTH OUTBREAK LONDON —The thousands of disinfectant mats or straw laid out to stop cars spreading the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) around Britain are useless, the government has admitted. The announcement came after an examination of a report into the mistakes made during the last FMD epidemic in 1967.
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    • 505 18  -  British farmers are starting to fight back over the wholesale slaughter of even healthy farm animals to contain the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak ALFRED LEE STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU LONDON Farmers are threatening a mass revolt against a British government decision to slaughter
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    • 146 18 BERLIN The German government may break one of its most cherished postwar taboos and deploy armed soldiers along its borders in an all-out effort to enforce foot-and-mouth quarantine zones. Although not a single case has been confirmed in Germany, the country is in a
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    • 476 19 Their Bill would reverse Bush's controversial decision not to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants because of an 'energy crisis' AFP WASHINGTON US lawmakers have moved to reverse President George W. Bush’s decision to back away from reductions in greenhouse gases which sparked a
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    • 475 19 The exclusive regiment will now wear tan, while all others wear black BATTLE OF THE BERETS AP WASHINGTON In a concession to the elite Rangers, the US Army has approved their request to switch the colour of their distinctive beret to
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    • 212 19 Reuters DUBLIN A young Asian couple were found dead in a burr.t-out Dublin apartment, Irish police nave said. Media reports said they were believed to have been in the Irish republic for eight months, studying English and working part-time. The reports said they
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    • 343 20 With New Zealand's recent cutbacks in its defence forces, France and Australia are competing to handle part of its maritime surveillance -AFP WELLINGTON The French Air Force is about to patrol New Zealand’s exclusive economic zone as Wellington downgrades its defence forces, said
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    • 38 20 In almost military' fashion, these turtles keep perfect formation as they “march” from a pond to line up on a log for some sunbathing. The follow-the-leader reptiles were spotted near Brownsville, Texas, this week. AP
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    • 703 21 San Francisco, one of the US cities hardest hit by Aids, plans to ban sexy advertising for HIV drugs, saying it may be conveying a wrong message Reuters SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco may become the first city in the United States to ban “sexy” advertising
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    • HEALTH & MEDICAL NOTES
      • 106 21 Los Angeles Times CHITOSAN dietary supplements, the so-called “fat trappers” that are supposed to gobble up fat before it shows up on your waistline do not work, said a study released on Thursday. Nutrition researcher Judith Stem of the University of California, Davis, said she
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      • 93 21 AFP THE risk of a fatal heart attack for men using the popular anti-impotence drug Viagra is no higher than among the rest of the public, the British Meaical Journal reports in today’s issue. Of 5,601 men who took the drug in 1998-99, 10
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      • 137 21 AFP SWEDISH doctors said they have pioneered a revolutionary lung transplant technique that could help overcome a crucial shortage of these organs, provided ethical concerns are met. A team led by Professor Stig Steen at Lund University Hospital’s Heart-Lung Division has devised a way of
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      • 83 21 AFP A MENINGITIS epidemic that has raced tnrough Burkina Faso since the beginning of this year has claimed 567 lives among the 3,226 people infected, said the west Auncan country’s Health Ministry on Thursday. The first cases were detected in early January in the
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      • 125 21 LAT-WP STUDYING diverse groups from three countries, researchers have discovered that dyslexic people, no matter what their native languages are, have the same brain abnormality, even though some countries have much lower rates of dyslexia than Englishspeaking countries. There are twice as many identified dyslexics
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    • 465 22 Because it took two weeks for the giant statues to be destroyed, the Taleban leader orders the sacrifice and for the meat to be given to the poor Buddha Statues Fracas AP KABUL (Afghanistan) Upset at the length of time it
      – AP; REUTERS  -  465 words
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    • 26 9 World Pictures Dent Her Image A Greek dentist has been suspended by her profession for posing in revealing clothes in a number of magazines. PACE 12
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    • 31 9 World US Keen On S-E Asia BG Yeo gets assurances from the US that it is still interested in South-east Asia, putting at ease fears of switch in attention. page 13
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  • COMMENTARY ANALYSIS
    • 649 24 The Straits Times SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2001 THE Nasdaq composite index of hightech stocks fell by 6,3 per cent on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 4.1 per cent, and. the Standard Poor’s 500 index of large-cap stocks by 4.3 per cent. Newspapers around the world
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    • Article, Illustration
      78 24 U.S.-China Relations Religious freedom, rooted in the separation of Church and State, is one of the most revered and crucial American civil liberties... Butin China, religious freedom and diversity' have always historically been the handmaiden of national disintegration, revolution and civil war. A frosty Dr Rice listened in
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    • 1255 24  -  By MARTIN SIEFF UPI SENIOR NEWS ANALYST WASHINGTON Chinese diplomats seeking to explain their government’s reasons for cracking down on the Falungong religious movement have so far received humiliating rejection from the new Bush administration in Washington. And this state of affairs looks
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    • 1074 25  -  By By LOUISE BRANSON STRAITS TIMES US BUREAU WASHINGTON Forget the days of President Bill Clinton being cosy with China and even taking an extended trip to the Asian dragon. President George W. Bush’s administration is building a new Great Wall: one between
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    • 960 26 BUSINESS TIMES EDITORIAL [This editorial teas published in The Business Times yesterday. WITH Wall Street’s recent sharp falls, financial-market players may finally be realising that US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was correct after all to warn against “irrational exuberance”. He was just several years
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  • FORUM
    • 306 27  -  AAFJE N. ELIAS I APPLAUD the Singapore Environment Council’s call for a Car-Free Day on April 19, which is a Thursday. However, I feel that if it were held on a Sunday, it would be better supported by motorists. In the European countries which
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    • 251 27  -  Thursday is a working day, and some motorists may not want to run the risk of turning up late for work. SEAH YAM MENG I READ with interest the report, “Do leave home without it” (ST, March 14). Although I fully support the move
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    • 285 27  -  HAN LIANG YUAN Manager Media Relations Land Transport Authority WE REFER to Mr Tay Eng Guan’s letter, “Have graduated ERP fee levy” (ST, March 10). Mr Tay raised a valid point, that a gradual ERP rate change is desirable. The Electronic Road
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    • 209 27  -  MOHAMAD ROSLE AHMAD MS CHUA Lee Hoong wrote that “children are resilient. They have been since time immemorial. They can cope” (“Do kids a favour: Stop stressing out”; ST, March 16). I wonder if she had missed a report some time back
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    • 989 28 ADVERTISEMENT Thousands crowd Goldenhill Park Condominium Turning the tide in a sluggish property market, thousands of Singaporeans throng to the Goldenhill Park Condominium showflats last weekend. LOCATED on a hilltop in a mature residential estate, Goldenhill Park Condominium, the first CDL property to be launched this year, looks a clear
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  • TheStraitsTimes home
    • 44 1 Ifs like a boxing match. And when one of the punches causes a boxer to fall, we say: “Wah this is a real one. Ex-remisier Peter Lim, using an analogy to explain what he meant by a real handwritten note.
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    • 558 1  -  The DBS Bank and POSBank have taken on a small army of youths to help reduce waiting time at branches §IL ARJLINA ABSHAD A TEAM of "greeters” is now on hand to help customers cut queuing tune at all 107 branches of the
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    • 764 2  -  PAP MPs back single results centre and separate areas for each party's supporters, but JBJ dismisses idea §IL AHMAD OSMAN PEOPLE’S Action Party MPs who have fought electoral battles in the past have welcomed the Government’s proposals to prevent supporters of rival political
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    • 292 2  -  EUNICE LAU REPRESENTATIVES of the various faiths in Singapore are coming together to spread the green message. A workshop will be held tomorrow to promote the understanding of the teachings of the different faiths on the care of the environ- ment. Called Faith
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    • 520 3  -  Eighteen stay put on repossessed farms, pressing for compensation which they claim is their due §!L NEOHUIMIN FARMERS from half the 36 ornamental-fish farms at Fish Farm Roads 1, 2 and 3, off old Tampines Road were supposed to have vacated their premises three
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    • 358 3  - Stallowner’s monthly rent $10,600 fly l CHONG CHEE KIN LIKE most hawkers, Mr Goh Ah Leng is hardworking and dedicated, spending over 10 hours at his stall every day. Like most of them, he is friendly and chatty. But one thing sets this 60-year-old father of five apart from all
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    • 224 3  -  *L ELISABETH GWEE SINGAPORE’S first Fashion Festival kicked off last night at Millenia Walk with a high-energy, outdoor fashion show called Kenzo Fashion Explosion. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the cascading water wall at Temasek Reflections, 40 models took to a catwalk
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    • 670 4  -  The former remisier king claims he pushed for the club's early launch and its competitive membership pricing RAFFLES TOWN CLUB LAWSUIT Bjl KAREN WONG EX-REMISIER king Peter Lim claimed credit yesterday for the financial success of the Raffles Town Club as he
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    • 267 4 Money 7 was used for personal debts and expenses A SENIOR insurance agent collected more than $1 million from his customers for their insurance policies, but did not hand over the money to his company. Instead, Tay Hock Lai, 3£>, pocketed the sum and
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    • 304 4 Bu WONG FEIWAN A WOMAN died of heart failure after undergoing a procedure to clear her obstructed arteries, a coroner’s £ourt heard yesterday. Madam Ang Ah Lek, 57, was admitted to Mount Elizabeth Hospital on July 25 last year tor coronary angioplasty, a procedure to
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    • 405 7  -  STORE VOLUNTEERS HEED LIANGSHAN PLEA Bt, PAULINE LEONG A CHINESE prefecture with a high incidence of serious road accidents has turned to Singapore for help. And the plea for training and equipment support has received a positive response. A team of volunteers led by
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    • 373 7  -  NUS study suggests that a daily dose of chicken extract can help keep heart disease at bay Btl MARGARETPERRY FOLLOWING grandma’s advice and taking chicken extract regularly could do a lot for your health. Research at the National University of Singapore (NUS) on
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    • 508 8 1,500 female residents of the district who are aged 45 and above can have a breast X-ray when the bus arrives A TOTAL of 1,500 women living in the Tanjong Pagar district aged 45 and above can hop onto the Mammobus for a
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    • 283 9  -  New products, forum and carnival highlights of 3-day event KIDS' WORLD 2001 *L JACKHEE THE visitor to the educational exhibition tried out some of the software on display, asked about preschool books and gamely chewed children’s vitamins. He could well have been mistaken for a
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    • 414 9  -  Formed in September, the group aims to improve media standards and the coverage of alternative views *L LEONGWENG KAM AN INDEPENDENT me-dia-watch body is being set up by a group of former journalists and civil-society members to help raise local media standards and
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    • 323 1 Ethnicity Race And Optimism True integration of the races here is not too far away, says Han Fook Kwang. PAGE Hl7 WKERS SIO,OOO-A- Month Rent 1* Mr Goh Ah Leng pays probably the highest amount in Singapore for his stall. page h 3 Health Why They Are Waiting Not enough
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • BUDGET DEBATE – DAY 10
      • 591 10 It will target noise hot spots created by expressways and put in curbs for work in construction sites so that residents will have quieter nights EXPRESSWAYS have created several noise hot spots in Singapore, and the Environment Ministry (ENV) is working on ways to
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      • 368 10  -  ft L JOSEPHINE JAMES THE noise from the Central Expressway rarely stops long enough for residents at Whampoa Drive to appreciate the sound of silence. Madam Suriah Basuni, 42, a housewife living at Block 75, thinks she might even be going deaf from
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      • Article, Illustration
        563 11 MPs let loose a flurry of concerns about the liberalisation of the energy market yesterday. Is it big enough for several players? Why privatise when the present system works well? Will households suffer price swings? LIBERALISATION OF THE UTILITIES MARKET FAIR TO CONSUMERS? Mrs Lint Hwee Him
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      • 318 11 These five Bills, which were passed yesterday, seek to develop a new framework for the utilities market. PUBLIC UTILITIES BILL MERGES the existing water department of the Public Utilities Board (PUB) with the Environment Ministry’s sewerage and drainage department. They will form the restructured PUB. The electricity
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    • 590 12 Raising rents will not mean that traditional trades will vanish, as those which serve a purpose and are in demand will still thrive in the new era TRADITIONAL trades will not vanish if they stay relevant, not even if they have to start paying higher
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    • 240 12 Though I am for conservation, 1 am not for the freezing of time, We cannot save businesses through giving special privileges, by freezing them in time. When we look around us, sometimes there are stories that hearten us. For example, the Killiney Road
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    • 225 12 DEVELOPERS were not cool at all in their response to a pilot district-cooling system to be tried out at Marina South. Response was warm, said Acting Trade and Industry Minister Peter Chen, for the project that will see centralised air-conditioning systems that meet the needs
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    • 914 13  -  The gruelling Budget season saw some stellar performances, but the real test is in the rough and tumble of polls By 1 CHI’A LEE HOONG “AYES” louder than any in the past two weeks reverberated round the Chamber when, ai 7 pm yesterday, leader
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    • 323 13 BABY BONUS ONLY children who are Singaporean by birth and bom after April 1 this year can qualify ror the Baby Bonus. Those born overseas who are eligible for Singapore citizenship will get tne Baby Bonus once they become citizens. It is for the
      LIM VONG  -  323 words
    • 282 13  -  Reports by Jason Leow, Laurel Teo, Pauline Leong and Eunice Lau THE Baby Bonus scheme should be extended to the first, fourth and subsequent children, said Nominated MP Claire Chiang. She added that if the scheme was to encourage married Singaporean women to have
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    • 204 10 n fe Pentium®/// Save $200! hp SupportPack* only s99^ An irresistible offer like this doesn't come by everyday. And when it does, you have to be quick. Rush on down to the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Suntec City, during the Comworld 2001 Show from the 15-18 March 2001,
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    • 232 12 hougangFURNITURE CENTRE^H HI II 1 i t ,4 Imported sft Queen-Sized Bedroom Set modern V-g sft Queen-Sized Bed, a Night Table, a 4-Door Wardrobe and a Dressing Table with Mirror UP: $2,388 NOW $999 Mthly $32 i (Complete Set) DAYS ONLY! 71? JSV-7A Imported Junior Bedroom Set ijovena^ up: 6BB
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  • INSIGHT
    • 160 14 IT’S a long, long wait for these subsidised patients at the specialist outpatient clinic (SOC) at the National University Hospital. They can wait one to two hours beyond their appointment time just for a five- to 10-minute consultation with the specialist. They sit
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    • 1568 14  -  Long queues. Two-hour waits. Exasperated patients. Hard-pressed specialists. Last year saw 2.8 million visits at the specialist outpatient clinics in public hospitals of which 60 per cent were subsidised. What causes this gross market imbalance under-provision of doctors or under-pricing of services? Or both? Our
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    • 744 15 OFFERING A CURE HAVE MORE PUBLIC DOCTORS AN OBVIOUS answer would be to increase the number of doctors in the public sector. But this is only possible if there is enough money to pay for more doctors at a salary they are willing to accept.
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    • 1514 17  -  Bij HAN FOOK KWANC [e-mail: hanJk@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S brand of multi-racial-ism has been in the spotlight lately, which is not a bad thing if it results in a better understanding of what it is about. This is seldom easy because race is always
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    • 259 15 Any comments? IF YOU have any feedback on this issue, please e-mail us at stlocal(f>sph.com.sg or fax us on 732-0131. WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE SALE (FOR 2 DAYS ONLY) I Display Cabinet c/w Glass Door 3 Doors Wardrobe with Topbox Sliding 3 Doors Wardrobe (Mirror Optional) 146 cm x 59cm x 221
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    • 379 15 S' Y SI I I From politics to public policy Straits Times Political Editor Han Fook Kwang, (top left) News Editor Warren Fernandez (right) and Deputy News Editor (Features) Sonny Yap will share their insights with you. Every Saturday. Make your dreams with the perfect home from The Straits Times
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    • 247 17 sM S; Sj'lsf ■f i! THERE HAS NEVER BEEN tTBETTER 1 to BUY AUSTRALIAN PROPERTY Aussie Dollar is below 90' against Singapore Interest'Tates art" low and t ree Trade Agreement talks soon. IMAGINE LIVING IN OZ-WITHOUT A VISA Taiics to begin this year on the Australia-Singapore Free Trade Agreement. Australia’s
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    • 393 17 UN IVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY with our lecturers before you v come to Australia. Before you decide on an Australian university, you’ll want to do your homework. The Business School at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia invites you to find out about any of the postgraduate courses iisted below.
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  • TECH & SCIENCE
    • 732 18  -  By OO GIN LEE [This is an occasional column on tips and technology for PC users. The writer can be reached at ginlee@sph.com.sg IN MY last column, I addressed an important issue for many Singaporeans today what type of PC to buy that would
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    • 80 18 IN SINGAPORE, the age group most active on the Net is between 15 and 24, comprising slightly over a third ofusers. The next most active age group is between 25 and 34 (30 per cent), followed by 35- to 49-year-olas (25 per cent). Students make up
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    • 350 18  -  Almost 50% off the Republic's homes have access and most of the surfers are men, finds a study of Internet use in four East Asian nations B^l STEVE DAWSON WHEN it comes to being hooked up to the Internet, Singapore is ahead of
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    • 422 19  -  The answer to your query is now just a call away, thanks to a new system designed to respond to your voice By i CHAN KAY MIN LUKE: Where’s the nearest chicken-rice stall? Weniwen: Where are you now? Luke: Ang
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    • 379 19 Palm and Handspring infringed patents, it says Reuters NEW YORK Retail computer-system maker NCR has sued Palm and Handspring, alleging their popular handheld computers infringe on two 1987 NCR-owned patents for a credit-card-sized “portable personal terminal”, In papers filed on Wednesday in a
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    • 57 19 AFP A Tomy employee enjoying a conversation with communication robot “Memoni”, which can recognise over 20,000 words in a conversational context and can make two billion patterns of sentences in response. The Japanese toy giant will put the robot on the domestic market later this year at
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    • 160 19 SITOCd rnmni irpp pi iomiti ipp i-ui iru i CAT ru/si n i uKc COMWORLD 2001 V 15-18 MARCH 2001 SUNTEC CITY, 7 HAU 404, BOOTH 806 tfc/ioo/ fnolidau 7* COMPACT 7 UNCriONAL RCONOMIC Second level shelf for printer, speakers etc... COMPLETE WITH FULL OPTION Unique CD holder •i--m Tabletop
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    • 281 19 i i The Straits Tirqes Classified connects -w w “H 0 o.#. and C.A.T.S. Buv h. Sell It. Find H. •FREEHO I m m* m SLii m* it f rmm s 1 Prestige 2-Storey Terrace Houses With Attics Phase I 80% Soldi Phase 2 Open For Sale Now Make your
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    • 278 20 GOLDEN MOMENTS TO (treasure me mm 3 t >■ mf condorainia •<o= *<•«. wl SB ’3& elcome to Goldenhill Park Condominium. Perched atop a majestic hill that rises over a premium residential precinct, it offers a whole new level of fine living. The finishes are in the finest CDL tradition
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  • TheStraitsTimes asia
    • 45 1 ‘To suggest that somehow, under certain situations people can legitimately abuse each other is an abhorrent thought. Hongkong Justice Andrew Chung On Tak on the idea that anyone with a justified complaint can act impolitely without answering to any rules.
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    • 630 1  -  Nine major noodle companies plan to invade the world market with 100 billion packets in 10 years and make ramen a household food everywhere Third World Ramen Summit EDWARD TANG THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK Move over McDonald’s. Rainen, or instant noodles, is going
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    • EAST ASIA
      • 611 2  -  Washington probably leaked information of new base near Taiwan to media to help justify upcoming arms sales to Taipei, says official LAWRENCE CHUNG STRAITS TIMES TAIWAN BUREAU TAIPEI The US media’s disclosure of China’s new missile base close to Taiwan is aimed to facilitate
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      • 149 3  -  When US President George W. Bush won the presidential election, right-wing conservatives hailed it as their victory, and many of them offered foreign-policy prescriptions to the new chief executive. The proposals by like-minded think-tanks such as the American Conservative Union, Centre for Security Policy,
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      • 501 3 Reuters MACAU Amid a resurgence of violent crime in the tiny coastal gambling haven, Macau’s highest court yesterday rejected an appeal by a jailed triad gang lord to overturn a conviction for an array of crimes in the former Portuguese territory. Wan
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      • 186 4 -AFP BEIJING China seized fake goods bearing foreign brand names worth 500 million yuan (Sslos million) last year. But the seizures are only the tip of the iceberg in a country where goods with rip-off brand names are sold on every other urban
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      • 570 4  -  A senior official says Beijing will protect their interests, but tells them not to support independence for the island at the same time By MARY KWANG CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING Senior Chinese officials renewed their warnings yesterday to Taiwanese investors in China against supporting independence for
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      • 144 4 -AFP HONGKONG A woman who claims she was excommunicated from a Mormon church because she had a sexchange operation has filed a writ seeking to be reinstated. In the writ, Ms Jessica Park, who used to be known as Stew'art Park, claims that the Hongkong International District
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      • EAST ASIA FILE
        • 69 4 Xinhua FOUR people died and another eight are missing after a shipwreck that took place in the waters near Zhenhai of Ningbo Port City, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. The accident is believed to have been caused by a private cargo ship owner
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        • 53 4 AP JAPAN’S Public Safety Commissioner yesterday urged people living in Mir’s flight path to stay indoors to avoid being hit by falling debris. Japan is the last populated area that the space station is scheduled to pass over in its final, low orbit before
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        • 47 4 -AFP SIX convicted Chinese bank robbers were executed yesterday in south-east- em Jiangxi province after a bank heist last year in which three people died, state press reported. The six had made off with 500,000 yuan (S$106,000) after killing three people. AFP
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        • 66 4 Reuters IN A step that could lead to the formal filing of charges, Japanese police yesterday sent documents to prosecutors in a food-poisoning case against Snow Brand Milk Products, local media said. In one of Japan’s most widespread case of food poisoning, more than 14,000
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        • 43 4 -AFP RUSSIA is ready to begin work on a rail track through North Korea that would extend the Trans-Si-berian railway to the South Korean border, effectively linking Moscow to Seoul, railway ministry officials said yesterday. AFP
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      • 36 6 A 1 Newly-recruited sales clerks for Japan’s largest supermarket chain Ito Yokado learn sign language tor deaf and mute customers before the company’s entrance ceremony at a Tokyo hotel yesterday. AFP
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      • 548 6  -  Officials face a difficult task to create substance out of the Mori-Bush summit when the Japanese PM is widely seen as a lame-duck leader By HAL BOON LAI STRAITS TIMES JAPAN BUREAU TOKYO Taxpayers are Questioning why they should shell out for an
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      • 106 6 AFP TOKYO The Japanese tax authorities have ordered a bizarre foot-reading cult to pay US$3.3 million (555.7 million) in penalty taxes for failing to declare more than US$6 million of income, an official said yesterday. The additional taxation was in respect of income which cult
        – AFP  -  106 words
      • 405 8 An opposition lawmaker charges that the government is using relief funds to bribe officials for year-end polls, but the island's Premier denies it TAIPEI A significant portion of the special funds for post-earthquake reconstruction is being used to bribe officials for the yearend elections,
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      • 628 9 3 dormitories housing worker families of cotton mills and a railroad firm were struck in Shijiazhuang, centre of China's declining textile industry AP, AFP, Reuters BEIJING Disgruntled workers, who had Been laid off, were blamed for explosions at three dormitories
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      • 260 9 Apology and compensation demanded for sex slaves JAPANESE COMIC BOOK AFP, Xinhua TAIPEI Taiwan has protested to Japan against a controversial cartoon book which suggests that Taiwanese women forced into sexual slavery during World War II acted voluntarily, a foreign ministry official said
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    • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
      • 471 10 The search continues for the man who murdered the young police officer at a public housing estate in a gruesome act which has shocked the territory Reuters HONGKONG A massive manhunt was underway yesterday as police scoured Hongkong for the third consecutive day to
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      • 230 10 AFP SEOUL North Korea announced yesterday that its Parliament would hold its annual session next month amid speculation that it might take steps towards opening up. The fourth session of the 10th Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) will convene in Pyongyang on April 5,
        – AFP  -  230 words
      • 584 11  -  Group launches nationwide initiative to mobilise women voter support for women candidates in the May 14 poll and bring a cleaner face to politics ARTURO BAR I L AD STRAITS TIMES PHILIPPINES BUREAU MANILA Banking on the 17-million strong voting power of women, prominent Filipino women
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      • 273 13 But much of it is wasted since children dislike it The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network JAKARTA The United States governments is providing free milk to children in Java for another two years even though they dislike milk and much of it is
        The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network  -  273 words
      • 56 13 A job applicant filling up a form at a Department of Labour job fair outside the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila yesterday. President Gloria Arroyo earlier said the Philippine economy is still recovering from its plunge after the Estrada scandals. She now expects to cut unemployment with
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      • 294 13 Pro- and anti-Gus Dur protesters in Jakarta left behind 60 cu m of rubbish daily this week, straining the city's garbage collection system AFP JAKARTA Jakarta municipal authorities are complaining that the daily antiand. pro-government protests in the Indonesian capital are causing a strain on their
        – AFP  -  294 words
      • 465 14  -  The minister claims his defiance of the Indonesian leader's order to sack his ministry's secretary-general over 'unproven charges' led to the move DEVI ASMARANI STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid has sacked a minister from one of the political parties trying to
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      • 202 14 BULOGATE SCANDAL AFP JAKARTA Former national police chief Rusdihaijotold state prosecutors that President Abdurrahman Wahid had admitted giving funds from state food agency Bulog to a businesswoman friend. The payment is one of many related to a US$3.5billion (Ss6-billion) scandal dubbed “Bulogate” in which the
        – AFP  -  202 words
      • 690 15  -  With the Forestry Minister falling out of favour and getting the sack, Gus Dur's government seems headed for a second overhaul in seven months By St SAN SIM INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA Thirteen. That was the number of ministers and lop
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      • 374 17 Vehicle ban after Thai expose on drug trafficking TIT-FOR-TAT AP BANGKOK Myanmar has halted vehicle traffic at a border crossing with Thailand in what may be retaliation for the Thai government’s disclosure of widespread drug trafficking from that country, a Thai official said
        – AP; THE NATION /ASIA NEWS NETWORK; ST GRAPHICS  -  374 words
      • 300 17 Frequent drug seizures in Thailand have led to a full warehouse and officials admit large amounts make monitoring narcotics difficult The Nation/Asia News Network BANGKOK Thailand has a new illicit drug problem where should all the seized drugs be kept. Public Health Minister
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      • 259 19 Em Socheat, 27, daughter cf the higk-ranking Cambodian official, was found carrying a weapon at the departure hall of Changi airport Gun In Woman’s Bag SINGAPORE has barred the daughter of a highranking Cambodian official from entering the country after she was found with
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      • 58 19 Vietnam War veteran Lawrence Colburn joins Do Ba, a REUTERS 42-year-old Vietnamese he rescued 33 years ago, in placing burning incense at a memorial dedicated to eight of the 504 civilians killed by US soldiers in the notorious My Lai massacre. Helicopter door gunner Colburn rescued
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      • 161 19 -AFP BANGKOK The World Bank yesterday endorsed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s controversial economic platform and praised his CEO-style approach to government. “Frankly, I believe they’re on the right track,” the bank’s vice-president for East Asia and the Pacific region, Mr Jemal-ud-din Kassum, said after meetings
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      • 488 20 Look at the poor state of Cambodia's roads...repair the potholes or resign, the Cambodian PM tells his ministers AFP, AP NEAK LEUNG (Cambodia) Cambodia’s Cabinet ministers got the surprise of their lives yesterday when Prime Minister Hun Sen marched them onto
        – AFP, AP  -  488 words
      • 266 20 They are upset by rumours of Aussie troops’ arrival PAPUA DISTURBANCE AP PORT MORESBY Soldiers who broke into the armoury of the Papua New Guinean army and stole at least 30 weapons were holed up in their barracks yesterday as negotiators urged them to
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      • 93 20 al relations. The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network JAKARTA About 1.3 million Indonesian teenagers each year have abortions, a sex consultant disclosed. “Teenage pregnancy, abortion, school dropout, teenage marriage, divorce and drug abuse are all a result of misguided love and sexual adventures,” physician Boyke
        al relations. The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network  -  93 words
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        • 66 20 AP INDONESIAN prosecutors yesterday said they were seeking the death penalty for three Christians accused of masterminding the riots that led to the murder of more than 240 Muslims in Central Sulawesi province. Chief prosecutor La Anatara saia the three men Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da
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        • 34 20 AFP INDONESIAN authorities on Thursday replaced the director of the city’s top Cipinang jail a day after inmates there rioted, torching buildings and battling police and leaving one dead. AFP
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        • 85 20 AP A MANILA court handed a maximum four-year prison term yesterday to two owners of a disco gutted by a fire that killed over 150 people, mostly teenagers, celebrating the end of the school term five, years ago. Judge Ofelia Marquez found Hermilo Ocampo,
          – AP  -  85 words
        • 68 20 -AFP A VIETNAMESE border guard was killed and his five colleagues were seriously injured when they were escorting two drug traffickers to a border post in central Vietnam, police said yesterday. Sub-lieutenant Pham Xuan Phong, 31, died on the spot and the five were seriously
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        • 41 20 AP AUSTRALIA’S ambassador to Laos said yesterday that the case of two Australians jailed on suspicion of embezzling sapphires would be discussed with the communist country’s foreign minister in the next few days. AP
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    • MALAYSIA
      • 510 21  -  The government is unhappy with the way the foreign journalists covered the recent clashes and accuses them malicious reporting ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN MALAYSIA By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR Journalists with several foreign publications and wire agencies could face charges of sedition for
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      • 524 22  -  A special meeting will be held soon to discuss the squatter violence that left six people dead, says Barisan Nasional secretary-general Mohamed Rahmat By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT MALAYSIA’S ruling coalition will convene a special meeting soon to discuss the flashes between Malays %nd
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      • 373 22 Man said to be Singaporean stabbed in love dispute Bernama KUALA KANGSAR (PERAK) A man believed to be a Singaporean was stabbed shortly after he arrived here for talks to settle a dispute involving his lover, a married woman, with another man. The
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      • 135 24 MALAYSIA has been struggling to sell its stocks of crude pann oil (CPO), due to lower exports and stiff competition from the second-biggest producer of the commodity, Indonesia. The two nations produce about four-fifths of the world output of palm oil. In November, Malaysia’s
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      • 545 24  -  The move, aimed at supporting the price of the commodity, will begin with plants in Pasir Gudang in Johor, Port Klang in Selangor and Prai in Penang REME AHMAD IN KUALA LUMPUR IF YOU can’t sell it, bum it. The
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      • 162 24 The Star/Asia News Network SUNGAI PETANI Graduate civil servants holding top positions have been found to be living in squatter areas, according to Cuepacs, the umbrella body for civil service unions. Cuepacs president N. Siva Subramaniam said the body will conduct a nationwide survey on
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      • 612 26 The older man hears that his businessman-nephew has been shot dead by a hired killer. He sets off to claim the body, but never makes it KUALA LUMPUR It was a case of double tragedy when a gunman shot
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      • 276 26 The Star/Asia News Network JOHOR BARU The An-ti-Corruption Agency (ACA) detained 42 people for corruption in Johor last year and has charged half of them. Of those charged, 14 have been found guilty, while investigations are pending in the other cases. The
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      • MALAYSIA FILE
        • 41 26 Bernama MALAYSIA will draw up an urban master plan to address the challenges posed by urbanisation and to provide a better quality of fife for urban residents, Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting said yesterday.
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        • 51 26 MALACCA will apply to the court to declare juvenile delinquents from broken families wards of the state. Chief Minister Datuk Wira Mohamed Ali Rustam said those with minor offences should be given a second chance instead of admitting them into youth correctional facilities, The Sun
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        • 42 26 PSYCHIATRIC patients in Kuala Lumpur will receive more personal service from next month. Under the Community Mental Health Programme, doctors and nurses will visit patients at their homes instead of patients going to hospital, The Sun said.
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        • 60 26 New Straits Times DEPUTY Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wants more Malaysians to write books on the various aspects of the country and struggles of the people. “This will be a good move as others would be able to read what their fellow Malaysians feel
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        • 68 26 id said. The Star/ Asia News Network THE government is looking into ways of increasing opportunities for religious stream students to enter public universities as less than 25 per cent of them qualify. Many such students are currently unable to enter public universities because of
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      • 168 27 New Straits Times RAWANG It was a close shave for 50 students when a stalled bus they were in, rolled into a ditch. The driver was attending to engine trouble when this happened. Three students were injured. Two received outpatient
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      • 571 27  -  The Barisan Nasional, which can ill afford to go against any ethnic group, says the system is 'good for political stability and development' By WAN HAMID I Hamid IN KUALA LUMPUR SABAH’s controversial rotation system of the chief minister will stay but
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    • 490 2  -  Last season’s bottom club loses to Bulls on home ground S-LEAGUE SOCCER GOMBAK 2 BALESTIER 1 §IL PEH SUING HUEI ANEW season and a new title sponsor, but the same old sorry tale for Balestier Central in the S- League as it sunk to
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    • 210 2  -  WOODLANDS 1 CLEMENTII Gerard Wong A NEW-LOOK Clementi Khalsa promised much but delivered little as it struggled to draw 1-1 with Woodlands Wellington at the Woodlands Stadium last night. Armed with a J-League striker and three ex-Home United stalwarts, the Elephants were expected to beat a Woodlands
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    • 171 2 HOME UNITED v SEMBAWANG RANGERS (Bishan Stadium, 7.30 pm) Home's probable line-up: 1 Adi Salleh, 2 Ong Leong Koen, 5 Aide Iskandar, 6 S. Subramani, 13 R. Sasikumar, 15 Amir Tavakolin, 19 Edson Gareia, 14 Roniwardi Mamsa, 9 Egmar Goncalves, 10 Peres De Oliveira, 20 JacksenTiago
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    • 157 2 GOLF SINGAPOREAN Lam Chih Bing barely made the midtournament cut of 146 at the US$3OO,OOO (*****,000) Wills Indian Open yesterday. He carded a four-over-par 76 for a two-day total of 146 (70, 76) to end the second round at joint-6lst position and just made it
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    • 433 3 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SOCCER Reuters NYON (Switzerland) Manchester United was drawn yesterday to face Bayern Munich in the quar-ter-finals of the European Champions League in a repeat of the 1999 final won in injury time by United. Favourite and holder Real Madrid will play
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    • 816 3  -  Chelsea and Sunderland trade places in a reversal of fortunes ENGLISH SOCCER Bi t NEIL HUMPHREYS THE birthplace of organised football is rejoicing. Three Premiership teams are in the Champions league, Chelsea is eyeing a place in next season’s competition and manager Claudio Ranieri is being
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    • 283 3 AP LONDON George Graham’s turbulent career took another twist yesterday when he was sacked as Tottenham manager. Graham was summoned to an emergency meeting with Spurs executive vicechairman David Buchler and was told that the club could no longer work with him.
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    • 305 3 UEFA CUP SOCCER Reuters EINDHOVEN (Holland) Kaiserslautern reached the Uefa Cup semi-finals after its match against PSV Eindhoven had been halted for 15 minutes when irate fans broke through a gate in the stadium. Spanish referee Antonio Lopez Nieto halted play 16 minutes from
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    • 475 3 AFP LIVERPOOL Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier, while pleased with his side’s 2-0 Uefa Cup victory over Porto on Thursday, admitted he would be disappointed if his side missed out on a Champions League place. Its victory with goals from Danny Murphy and Michael
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    • 548 4 Back to home, down to earth for the Knick who turned into a Raptor BASKETBALL Los Angeles Times New york He had a feeling it would be like this. Chris Childs knows New York and, even more, he knows what New York Knicks
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      532 5 No such thing, says injured Venus as she pulls out against Serena TENNIS Reuters INDIAN WELLS (California) After Venus Williams withdrew ahead of her semi-final against sister Serena at the Tennis Master Series-Indi-an Wells, the siblings set out to quell speculation that the move was hatched by their
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    • 610 6 Juventus match result will be critical for Serie A champion Milan Defending champion Lazio hosts secondplaced Juventus tomorrow at the Olympic Stadium in a match that is critical for its already fading hopes of retaining its Serie A title. With third-placed Lazio 11 points
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    • 407 6 GOLF -AFP ORLANDO With Tiger Woods undone by a rare tri-ple-bogey, Phil Mickelson overcame three bogeys and a stiff wind to join a fiveway tie for the lead after the opening round of the Bay Hill Invitational. Woods’ first triple-bogey in nearly a year came
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    • 171 6 AFP PHOENIX (Arizona) It is safe to say Kris Tschetter likes the changes made to the Moon Valley Country Club. Tschetter set a course record with a nine-under-par 63 on Thursday and grabbed a two-stroke lead after the opening round of the US$l million (551.75 million) Standard Register
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    • 261 6 BADMINTON A STRING of service-fault calls against Singapore’s Patrick Lau played a big role in sending him and Sartner Aman Santosa turnling out of the third round of the Swiss Open on Thursday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time). They lost 7-8, 7-3, 0-7, 1-7 to
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    • 805 6 BASKETBALL mmmsMmmmmmmmmm NBA: LA .akers 125 Detroit 119 (OT). Ne*v York £8 Toronto 72, Seattle 108 Milwaukee 102, Dallas 103 Minnesota 83, Houston 108 New Jersey 106, Boston 105 Phoenix 101. CRICKET Fifth and last day of Second Test in Calcutta: Australia 445 and 212 (M. Hayden
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    • 500 6 SOOCER Reuters ZURICH Africa is to host its first soccer World Cup after world governing body Fifa said on its official website it would award the 2010 event to the continent. The statement came after a day of confusion as early reports that a
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    • 430 10 Core index, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, dips 0.3% the steepest drop in seven years Reuters, Bloomberg News WASHINGTON US wholesale prices barely rose last month, the government said yesterday in a report that may give Federal Reserve policymakers added comfort as they
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    • 356 10 FAILED INTERNET VENTURE Financial Times, Bloomberg News ZURICH Vontobel, Switzerland’s second-big-fest independent private ank, has sacked its chief executive and two members of its top management team because of losses of nearly 300 million Swiss francs (Ss3lo million) on an aborted Internet banking
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    • 228 10 Bloomberg News CHICAGO DuPont, the largest chemical maker, is considering divesting some of its businesses, chief executive Charles Holliday said. Mr Holliday, who is in Chicago to speak to business executives, said that the company may have to divest some businesses to
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    • PROFIT SLUMP IN THE U.S.
      • 364 12 Reduced profit estimates for the third quarter are met, but sales for the following quarter will miss the mark Bloomberg News REDWOOD CITY (California) Oracle reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that met reduced estimates and said the weakening economy will cause it to miss
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      • 414 12 World's biggest PC maker declares its intention to go all out to defend its crucial server market Reuters NEW YORK A price war in personal computers (PCs; is spreading to the powerful business computers that are key to Compaa Computer’s future, ana could sweep through
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        • 110 12 Bloomberg News CHARLES Schwab said earnings will likely fall even more than expected previously due to the stock market plunge. The No 1 discount broker may announce job cuts this month as trading by clients fell to the lowest level since August. They lost
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        • 68 12 Reuters APPLIED Materials, the biggest supplier of equipment used to make computer chips, said on Thursday it was seeking to cut its workforce by 4.5 per cent to cut costs as customers curtail spending, becoming the latest high-tech firm to pare jobs. It
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        • 113 12 Bloomberg News EASTMAN Kodak cut by half the bonuses paid to top executives last year as the world’s largest photography company reduced earnings estimates three times and sustained falling sales during the year. It trimmed the bonus of Mr Dan Carp, who took over as
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    • STOCK SLUMP IN THE U.S.
      • 636 13 Goldman Sachs expert says the worst economic news is happening right now, but the economy remains strong Reuters MIAMI Goldman Sachs stock market expert Abby Joseph Cohen, one of the bulls who drove the record US stock market surge during the last decade, said
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      • 765 13 NEWS ANALYSIS NASDAQ PLUNGE The Washington Post LAST March, the techheavy Nasdaq index reached a staggenng 5,048, prompting venture capitalist John Doerr to claim that we were witnessing “the greatest-ever legal creation of wealth in the history of the world”. This week, the
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      • 250 13 Boy gets top score in stock contest but no prize he is underaged Reuters LOS ANGELES-Who says you need a PhD and years of financial training or even be old enough to shave to make a virtual bundle on Wall Street? Not 12-year-old Brandon Wallace, a Las Vegas sixthgrader who
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    • CRISIS IN JAPAN
      • 409 14 High-level officials in Washington are holding meetings to help Tokyo come up with a solution, says Powell Reuters, Bloomberg News WASHINGTON The faltering Japanese economy has raised alarm within the Bush administration, prompting top-level meetings aimed at devising a recommended solution, Secretary of State Colin
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      • 413 14 MINISTERS' CLAMOUR Reuters TOKYO Japan’s ruling politicians piled pressure yesterday on the central bank to relax its already loose monetary policy after the government downSaded its assessment of e economy for the second month in a row. Fanning speculation that the bank could
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      • 94 14 The government has downgraded its assessment of the economy for the second month in a row The unemployment rate is at a record high of 4.9 per cent Persona] consumption, which accounts for 60 per cent of total economic activity, is flat Machinery orders, which
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      • 608 15 Two ministers clash over possible use of taxpayers' money to help banks clean up their balance sheets Reuters TOKYO An if Japan’s government does not have enough problems, a rift has appeared over plans for a stock-buying fund to rescue the struggling
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      • 134 15 Reuters TOKYO Shares in Japanese banks recovered yesterday from steep falls on investor hopes they will swallow the pill and clean up the mountain of bad loans saddling their balance sheets. The trigger for the recovery was an announcement on Thursday by UFJ group to be
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      • 350 15 $13.4B INVESTMENT Reuters TOKYO Japan’s five big chipmakers will cut semi-conductor-related capital spending by about 20 per cent in the business year starting next month. This was due to slowing demand in the information technology sector, company spokesmen said yesterday. The reversal follows
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    • 500 16 Shortfall in the next fiscal year is expected to swell by 10% to $4.7 billion as govt boosts spending Bloomberg News, AP BANGKOK Thailand’s government Budget deficit is likely to widen by about 10 per cent in the next fiscal year as the government Eours
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    • 366 16 'LOUSY FIGURES THIS YEAR' AP KUALA LUMPUR National carrier Malaysia Airlines (MAS) would announce “lousy numbers” this financial year but would return to profitability within two years, its new chief has promised. Managing director Mohamed Nor Mohamed Yusof said that by restructuring debt
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    • ASIA UPDATE
      • 75 16 Reuters INDONESIA’S central bank said yesterday that it might revise a hefty penalty it imposed on a Jakartabasea foreign bank for breaching tough new foreign exchange rules. The comment came after Standard Chartered said the fine imposed on its Indonesian banking unit was excessive.
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      • 77 16 Reuters JAPAN’S biggest car maker, Toyota Motor, said yesterday that it had spent 35.92 billion yen (***** million) to secure a minority controlling stake in the nation’s fourth-largest non-life insurance company. Toyota said it had bought 20 million shares in Chiyoda Fire Marine Insurance and
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      • 63 16 Reuters SUN Hung Kai (SHK) Properties said yesterday that its net profit for the six months to Dec 31 rose less than 1 per cent to HK$5.3 billion (551.21 billion), as core earnings from property sales fell. The result included a profit of HK$2B2 million
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      • 50 16 Reuters MID-SIZED Japanese trading firm Kanematsu said yesterday that it had sold 724 million yen (5510.5 million) in Indone-sian-based account receivables. It said it believed that it would be very difficult to collect the account, related to an export contract with Indonesia for textile chines. Reuters
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    • 404 17  -  Investment expert dismisses debate over internationalisation of the Singapore dollar as a 'red herring' §!L LOHCHENYI SINGAPORE’S decision not to internationalise its currency has no bearing on the development of the domestic bond market, says a senior executive at a leading asset management firm.
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    • 294 17  -  MANAGEMENT FALL-OUT iIL FELISA BATACAN MAINBOARD-LISTED IT firm Serial System has moved further to get a new senior management team in place after losing four key members. It said yesterday that it has assigned two senior staff to replace its chief
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    • 280 17 Singapore is Asia’s top port for 13th time SINGAPORE has been voted Asia’s best seaport for the I3th time. The prestigious award, which provides a further boost for the Republic’s international reputation as a world-class port, was presented at the Asian Freight Industry Awards held yesterday in Hongkong. The director-general
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    • 643 18  -  Govt's speed in awarding the site just three days after the tender closes takes market-watchers by surprise Reports by CORNELIA TAN PROPERTY REPORTER TWO new office towers are set to be added to the financial district skyline after the Government awarded
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    • 551 18 THE Australian International School (AIS) has announced it will move to new long-term premises in Serangoon Gardens in 2003, sparking talk of intensified property investment in the district. With room for 1,500 students and a 30-year site tenure, the yet-to-be-built school in the
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    • 361 18 MAS ASSURANCE Bloomberg News, Financial Times SINGAPORE’S central bank said yesterday that the exposure of the country’s lenders to Asia Pulp Paper, which stopped repaying debt this week, was small and not a matter of concern. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 65 18 CONSTRUCTION firm Hua Kok International’s net profits plunged 86.9 per cent to $494,000 for the six months ended Dec 31. This was despite a 21.7 per cent rise in turnover to $73.2 million. Earnings per share was down at 0.2 cent from 1.98 cents
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      • 76 18 WAH Shing International Holdings yesterday warned that its net loss for the year ended Dec 31 would widen significantly. This is because it might have to set aside about HK$33 million (557.49 million) as provisions for doubtful debts after discovering that a customer had “encountered
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      • 68 18 EASTERN Publishing reported a net loss of $2.7 million for the year ended Dec 31 against net earnings of $725,000 previously. Turnover rose 30.56 per cent to $14.7 million. Loss per share was 2.52 cents against 0.68 cent previously while net tangible asset backing per
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      • 64 18 LION Teck Chiang has reported a net loss of $486,000 for the half-year ended Dec 31, a reversal from earnings of $735,000 previously. Turnover fell 20.7 per cent to $45.5 million. Loss per share was 0.31 cent, compared to previous earnings of 0.47 cent
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      • 77 18 UPP’ S FULL-YEAR EARNINGS RISE 9% UNITED Pulp Paper’s net profits rose 9 per cent to $3.9 million for the year ended Dec 31. Turnover rose 25 per cent to $65.2 million. After an extraordinary gain of $342,000, bottomnne profit was $4.3 million. Earnings per share rose to 3.4 cents
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      • 59 18 SESDAQ-LISTED Health Management International (HMI) is increasing its stake in Excellent Strategy, an owner and operator of hospitals and nursing schools in Malaysia, by 30 per cent. The deal, which will cost HMI $9.65 million, is expected to boost its stake in Excellent to
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      • 56 18 PARKWAY Laboratory Services’ net profit rose 13.6 per cent to $4.5 million. Turnover was up 9.5 per cent at $23.5 million for the year ended Dec 31. Earnings per share was flat at 2.1 cents while net tangible assets per share rose to
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      • 63 18 JADASON Enterprises has reported net profit of $B.B million, up 7 per cent. Turnover soared 40 per cent to $150.3 million for the year ended Dec 31. Earnings per share slipped to 1.61 cents from 1.65 cents while net tangible assets per share jumped to 5.76
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    • 417 19  -  Frenzied trading sees share price going up to $1.34; punters bet Robert Kuok will offer $1.40 takeover price FELISA BATACAX SHARES of Pacific Carriers (PCL) soared past the takeover price of $1.25 a share offered yesterday by Kuok (Singapore) unit Hovert Investments. Investors
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    • 801 19  -  By CHEE JAW PF.RNG Send your comments to jpchee@sph.com.sg ON A day when major index stocks were sold down, much of the activity centred on three recent issues. The Straits Times Index (STI) slipped 21.7 points or 1.2 per cent to 1,772.1
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    • 464 48 606 PROFESSIONAL/ 606 PROFESSIONAL/ 606 PROFESSIONAL/ EXECUTIVE POSITIONS EXECUTIVE POSITIONS EXECUTIVE POSITIONS siczcj SICO ASIA PTE LTD, an American subsidiary dealing with hotel banqueting equipment, is inviting applicants for the position of: SALES MANAGER (with regional responsibilities) The ideal candidate should be mature, pleasant, confident and self-motivated. Must be able
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    • 821 56 646 ADMINISTRATIVE/ CLERICAL POSITIONS 648 ADMINISTRATIVE/ CLERICAL POSITIONS 648 ADMINISTRATIVE/ CLERICAL POSITIONS 648 ADMINISTRATIVE/ CLERICAL POSITIONS Private Limited We are a leading European steel manufacturer and trading company. Our Far-East Headquarter is located in Singapore, where we have immediate vacancy for the following position: DOCUMENTATION OFFICER Responsibilities: Handling LC negotiation
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    • 1265 57 651 SECRETARY/ PERSONAL ASSISTANT POSITIONS 651 SECRETARY/ PERSONAL ASSISTANT POSITIONS 654 TECHNICAL POSITIONS 654 TECHNICAL POSITIONS A public listed company is looking for individuals to join us as EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Reporting to the top management, the incumbent will provide full secretarial support including drafting of correspondence, preparation of reports and
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    • 1456 58 «84 TECHNICAL POSITIONS 654 TECHNICAL POSITIONS 654 TECHNICAL POSITIONS 654 TECHNICAL POSITIONS 654 TECHNICAL POSITIONS 654 TECHNICAL POSITIONS I mg. E2O is a US-based high-technology company aiming to take the data communications market by storm. E2O (say “Ee-Two-Oh") is carving out a new course for free-flowing (electrical optical electrical) communications
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    • 1688 61 689 OTHER POSITIONS 689 OTHER POSITIONS 689 OTHER POSITIONS 689 OTHER POSITIONS 689 OTHER POSITIONS 689 OTHER POSITIONS National Healthcare Group Adding years of healthy life The National Healthcare Group (NHG) comprises Alexandra Hospital (AH), National University Hospital (NUH), Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), Institute of Mental Health/Woodbridge Hospital (WH),
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    • 497 62 68» OTHER POSITIONS 689 OTHER POSITIONS 68» OTHER POSITIONS Exel pic, one of the world’s largest supply chain management companies is formed by the merger between parent company of MSAS Global Logistics, Ocean pic and Exel pic (formerly NFC). Exel, a UK listed FTSE WO company with sales of over
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    • 85 1 OUTDOORS Fred Loh can out-skate most people half his age THE president of the Inline Sports and Skating Association of Singapore chalks up to lOOkm on any one run, skating at speeds of up to 40kmh. As a pioneer, he has helped
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        361 2 FREAK SONS AND DAUGHTERS The Drama Centre, Fort Canning Hill Today i? tomorrow, March 20-24:8 pm; 3 pm (today, March 23-24) Tickets: $l9 (students, NSF and senior citizens), $2l Tel: 348-5555 IF YOU find what happens in this play disturbingly familiar, that may be because it is a reflection
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        288 2 SINGAPORE CHINESE ORCHESTRA COMMUNITY SERIES CONCERT Woodlands Town Centre Garden Today: 7 pm Free, tel: 440-3839 IF YOU hear the familiar melody of the pop hit Mambo No. 5, don’t be surprised. Yes, you are at a Chinese orchestra concert where the SCO is performing. Younger listeners as well
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      • 129 2 ROMEO AND JULIET A STORY DANCE Nantjang Girls’ High School Today: 7.30 pm Tickets: $3O Tel: 9635-9800/9735-3800 “...FROM forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives...” So was the story’ of William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Romeo And Juliet. But we don’t
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      • 214 2 KIDS' WORLD 2001 Singapore Expo Hall 2 Till tomorrow: 12.30- 8.30 pm Free Tel: 223-1229 AS MUCH as its name sounds like an event meant only for children, Kids World 2001 has much in store for parents too. exhibition, public forum and a fun-filled carnival, it promises fun for
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        147 2 BABY ELEPHANT SANG RAJA'S BIRTHDAY BASH Singapore Zoological Gardens Tomorrow: 10 am Tel: 269-3411 EVER been invited to a king’s birthday party? Now’s your chance to celebrate baby Sang Raja’s second birthday. Sang Raja whose name means ’royal king’ was the first babyelephant born in captivity and is now
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      • 82 2 EXUBERANCE IST INTER-TERTIARY VIDEO FEST 2001 National University of Singapore, Lecture Theatre 12 Today: 7 pm By invitation Tel: 9841-6596 AN inaugural ceremony, this event aims to showcase the works of aspiring film producers in the various tertiary institutions. Initiated by the NUS Students’ Union Video Photographic Committee, these
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      • 218 3  -  &L CHERYL HO FANCY your photos being displayed in cafes, not just in Singapore but all over the world? It could happen. O’Briens Irish Sandwich Bar, which is based in Ireland and has outlets across Europe, the US, Australia and Asia, including five in Singapore,
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    • 1222 4  -  We're locked in a mad race and getting nowhere. It might be good for us to fall off the wheel now and then THE UGLY SINGAPOREAN Monica (Twee Send your comments to stlife@sph.com.sg IT USED to be said Hongkongers were the rudest city people
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    • 206 4  -  A model start at Terminal Two Cat Ong HERE is Wendy Jacobs preparing for another take-off at Changi Airport’s Terminal Two. No, she was not heading off to a foreign destination. She was modelling yesterday in the first of the terminal’s Departure/Transit Lounge series of
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    • 1013 5  -  The BBC interview programme, HARDtalk, celebrated its 1,000th edition recently. Host Tim Sebastian, whose distinctive style has shaped the show since its debut in 1997, tells ASAD LATIF in London what makes the programme special CONVERSATION WITH A POINT ASADLAIT THE Belvedere is an excellent place
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      • 302 7 KING OF THE HILL 0993) Set in St Louis during the Great Depression, this sensitive coming-of-age movie revolves around a boy (Jesse Bradford) with the world’s richest imagination and the world’s poorest parents. THE UNDERNEATH (1995) An update of Robert Siodmak’s superb 1948 noir thriller,
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      1265 9  -  Got a need for speed? It’s time to put your shoulder to the wheel 10 wheels to be exact and get rolling for tomorrow’s National Inline Speed Skating Competition, reports SUSAN LOH SPEED SKATING SUSAN LOH The writer is a senior business development manager and an aspiring,
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        415 11  -  There's a better way to go back to the past without resorting to bell bottoms Om, a fashion furniture store, is going retro with its 1970s range HOME FRONT Teo Pan Lin IF YOU are wondering how 1970 s furniture was updated so fipidly in the modernday
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      • 662 12  -  DESIGN CLINIC The former Maxwell Road OPD gets a shot in the arm as e-business consultancy Icon Medialab checks in and spices up an old building A MFDICAL clinic may not be the most habitable of places. Stark white walls, harsh cement and cold, stonehard furniture
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      • 72 14 COE Total bids received Quota* Category A (1,600-cc and below) $35,468 6,971 2,620 Category B (1,601-cc and above) $34,930 3,206 1,161 Category C (Commercial vehicles) $16,566 4,056 1962 Category D (Motorcycles) $1,055 1,689 1,063 Category (Open) $33,880 3,651 1,857 NOTE; Prevailing quota premium (three-month moving average) payable
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      • 414 14  -  They want you to see famous people driving their machines By' VALERIE WEE LINKING cars to stars is fast becoming big business. Blockbusters are seen by millions of people, and even standard movies get their fair share of audience. The vibrant movie-go-ing culture here in Singapore
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      • 374 14  -  TIP OF THE WEEK Leow Ju-Len DRIVING up to Sapang for the Malaysian Grand Prix? The North-South Highway is an easy road system to tackle, with traffic going in one way and more than one lane for each direction, but while in Malaysia, you
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      • 570 15  -  The carmaker will premiere two new models, one a lusty coupe, the other a nimble number with a keen price tag NEW MODELS Byi UEOWJU-LEN BMW is set to introduce two significant models which will occupy opposite ends of its model range.
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      • INFORMATION HIGHWAY
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        • 76 15 MG ROVER’S imminent financial report is expected to announce losses in the region of £3OO million (***** million) for the fiscal year of 2000. The British carmaker, which was bought from BMW eight months ago, is anticipated by analysts to announce losses blamed mainly
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        • 62 15 Fl AND motorsport fans can now get the latest Fl as well as rally news delivered to their mobile phones as and when the news breaks. This information service by telecommunications company Sonera Zed is delivered as a text message. The service is subscrip-tion-free
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    • BOOKS
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      • 169 16 THIS book may be about fast food, but it serves up a hearty 10-course banquet on post-World War II American history, pop culture, sociology, eating habits and fast food recipes. Despite the heavy American bias, it is wortn a read for Singaporeans for whom McDonald’s and KFC have
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    • 1971 43 LEADING IT SOLUTIONS COMPANY Our client, one of Europe’s leading provider of IT solutions, has core interests in software solutions, outsourcing, and design and development of specialised applications. The company seeks a self-motivated, proactive and independent professional who will be responsible for the entire finance function of the Outsourcing Division
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