The Straits Times, 19 March 2001

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  • 34 1 The Straits Times Established 1845 Monday March 19, 2001 102 Pages in six parts MITA (P) 024/12/2000 A Singapore Press Holdings publication 60 Cents The Straits Times interactive: http://straitstimes.asial.com.sg is available from 6 am.
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  • 460 1  -  Flexibility will let companies trim costs quickly in a sudden downturn and help save jobs, says labour chief SUSAN LONG *L ONLY about 200 companies have worked with trade unions here so far to put in place a monthly variable component in their
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  • 77 1 Ferrari’s Formula One world champion driver Michael Schumacher of Germany (right) takes a commanding lead while younger brother Ralf, at the wheel of his BMW-Williams, founders, spinning out of control in the first lap of the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang yesterday. Schumacher won
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  • 372 1 AP SYDNEY Authorities yesterday ordered an investigation into one of Australia’s largest morgues after claims that doctors stabbed bodies in experiments, practised plastic surgery on corpses and took body parts without permission. New South Wales state Health Minister Craig Knowles said his agency would
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  • NEWS FLASH
    • 59 2 SPORTS TENNIS fans showed their displeasure at the non-appearance ofVenus Williams by booing her replacement her sister Serena at the Masters Series title match. Serena, given a pass to the final when her sister withdrew from their semi-final, had lost the first three games of Saturdays match
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    • 75 2 THAILAND has high hopes of becoming a regional hub for film-making, one that lures foreign directors into its advertising, television and cinema industries. And the country is now ready to serve foreign film crews, who will not need to bring their equipment and personnel in, said
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    • 60 2 GIVE sermons on green issues this appeal went out yesterday to churches, temples and mosques. It is one way they can help in the conservation movement, said the Singapore Environmental Council. The SEC also suggested to the representatives of various faiths brought together at a Faith
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    • 82 2 BABIES who breast-feed still thrive best, scientists say. But they are now questioning how long infants should stay on mother’s milk. Breast milk has special nutrients, hormones and antibodies which help babies fight infections and illness. But new research indicates that young adults who had
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    • 86 2 ASIA RESOLVING the China-US dispute over American arms sales to Taiwan is still best left to negotiations, say Chinese legal experts. China will not take the case to international courts for political reasons, even though the US has broken international undertakings on the issue for the last
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    • 97 2 WORLD EXECUTIVES in top German companies such as Deutsche Bank and Daimler Chrysler are being thrown into the company of prostitutes, prisoners and drug addicts at special courses that show them what suffering is all about. The training aims to put the managers’ social
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    • 92 2 MONEY PRESIDENT George W. Bush is the first US chief to have one. Many Singaporeans want one too. It is an MBA a Master of Business Administration degree and it can cost around $lOO,OOO. Since the first person here graduated with an MBA in 1980, more
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    • 94 2 MONEY THESE days, when America sneezes, Asia catches a cold, says an economist who is credited with predicting the 1997 Asian financial crisis. So Asian economies should see their growth sliced by half this year, says Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia’s Jim Walker. The region is
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    • 98 2 Nurses will stay but not for the pay HOME HOSPITALS eager to keep their nurses and attract new staff will be good pay-masters. But the nurses, many of them well-trained and holding diplomas, are facing demanding work situations here and the lure of going overseas to work. And so, even
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    • 121 2 HOME THE Ng family of Sembawang has 10 dogs and 30 cats for next-door neighbours. And they are reminded of that all the time, they say. They can smell and sometimes see dog poo and cat urine. After a year of that, Mr James Ng,
      HOW HWEE YOUNG  -  121 words
    • 101 2 FORUM INSTILLING fear into citizens in order to bring about a more gracious society is not the way to do it, says ST reader Dudley Au, in reponse to another Forum writer who wants to shame and horrify” Ugly Singaporeans into behaving with more civility. Mr
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    • 84 2 COMMENTARY HAS Wall Street reached rock bottom yet? Well, no. But if the end comes, it may come like a thief in the night and investors will not know it until it is too late, writes Lim Say Boon, director of OCBC Investment Research. After a couple
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    • 81 2 HOME A SINGAPOREAN is on the police “blacklist” in Switzerland, for allegedly abducting his daughter from his Swiss former wife. Madam Anh Tho Andres, 44, said she had warned the police about Mr Joseph Ramanathan, 38, to ensure that he does not leave Switzerland and
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  • PRIME NEWS
    • 484 3  -  Firm alleges its ex-CEO deleted info in its computers, did not report changes in his substantial shareholding in firm ĔIL LEONG CHAN TEIK FIVE weeks on and the Serial System drama has yet to let up. The company yesterday said it had lodged
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    • 308 3  -  i KRIST 800 THE Singapore Zoo’s most celebrated icon, Ah Meng, may be about to lose her exalted status possibly to a chubby baby elephant. The orangutan who, for years, has been Singapore’s best-known tourism ambassador and has clinked glasses with scores of
      TERENCE TAN  -  308 words
    • 464 4  -  He leads MPs and business delegation to boost political, economic ties with Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic By IRENE NC IN WARSAW PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong will arrive in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, today for a 10-day visit which sees him
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    • 604 4  -  By SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT EVERY year, 700 women discover they have breast cancer, and 200 to 300 of them succumb to it. Although the breastcancer rate here is about a third of that in the United States and half that of Britain,
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    • 70 4 The current Asian under-12 champion, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, 11, from Vietnam, plots his next move at a chess tournament organised by the Singapore Chess Federation. He was named the world under-10 chess champion last year. Yesterday, he played against five top junior entrants from
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    • 246 6 AP JAKARTA Four teenage girls were crushed to death in a shopping mall in the Indonesian capital Jakarta yesterday, when a crowd panicked while trying to catch a glimpse of the British boy-band al. Local hospital official Jeje who, like many Indonesians
      – AP; THE NEW PAPER  -  246 words
    • 462 6  -  To do so is as bad as touting, and lawyers can be suspended or even struck off, Court of Appeal rules TAN 001 BOON ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR IT MAY be all right to pay marketing executives according to the business they bring in,
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    • 219 6 LIVESTOCK DISEASE -AFP LONDON The current outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease will cost Britain at least £9 billion (5522.9 billion) this year, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said in a study. The figure, equivalent to 1.1 per cent of the country’s gross
      -AFP  -  219 words
    • 244 6 MELBOURNE An Australian girl has contracted a sexually transmitted disease after being left at a childcare centre at a Bali resort. The 2 Vi -year-old toddler was diagnosed with gonorrhoea the day after arriving home from a week’s holiday at the five-star resort,
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    • 303 3 MEDIA, WATCH THIS MAH One person was missing among the who’s who in Singapore civil society who got together on Friday to launch the Singapore MeaiaWatch Community. Not that you M recognise the 23-year-old law undergrad it he was there at the press conference. But this Singaporean abroad is the
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    • 263 3 ifeTTpijcAT^ Maj (NS) Shu Moo Chuen Board of Examiners Hon. Fellow (ULH), MBA, BBA (Hons), Prof R. Robertson (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Dip in Mktg (CIMUK), CMC (Japan) Dr Aron O ‘Cass (Griffith University, Australia) Managing Director/Director of Studies Prof lan Barnes (University of Lincolnshire Humberside, UK) University of
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  • WORLD
    • 582 7  -  Employers believe courses which let them interact with prisoners, the homeless, addicts and prostitutes will help them deal with future challenges Du' TAMARA THIESSEN IN PARIS TOP companies such as Daimler Chrysler and Deutsche Bank are sending
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    • 634 8 They would provide immigrants with forged passports, English lessons, British clothing and women escorts to help them get through airport checks LONDON A gang of Asian criminals, who amassed millions of pounds from running one of Britain’s largest human-smug-gling rings, has
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    • 235 8 AP DALLAS An 18-year-old woman who gave birth to a healthy baby girl while in a coma has returned home to her family. Mrs Shannon Kranzberg gave birth on Jan 14 after a Staphylococcus infection triggered labour. She awoke from her
      – AP; AP  -  235 words
    • Article, Illustration
      19 10 An officer at Sydney International Airport inspects and seizes banned meat products from a Hongkong passenger. AFP
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    • 759 10  -  Its $11 billion livestock industry depends on the vigilance of quarantine officials and if the disease enters the country, all trade will be suspended Foot-And-Mouth Outbreak KERRY-ANNE WALSH IN CANBERRA AUSTRALIA is on red alert. As the fiercely contagious foot-and-mouth disease sweeps through cattle herds
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    • 217 10 CUSTOMS -AFP SYDNEY Australian dockers prevented two cargo ships, one British and one Korean, from unloading over the weekend because of fears of foot-and-mouth contamination, officials said yesterday. Quarantine inspection officials said that waterside workers had refused to unload second-hand earthmoving machinery from the
      -AFP  -  217 words
    • 73 10 Kerry-Anne Walsh NEARLY one-quarter of all Australians claim some near or distant link to Ireland. So it was inevitable that quarantine officers at Australian points of entry would pay particular attention to packages arriving from Ireland in the lead-up to St Patrick’s Day celebrations last Saturday. Quarantine
      Kerry-Anne Walsh  -  73 words
    • 334 10 But culling held up in Scotland over protests IN BRITAIN -AFP LONDON Britain began culling apparently healthy animals yesterday in a desperate bid to stop the foot-and-mouth outbreak in its tracks. The tally of infected sites in Britain reached 297 yesterday with the Agriculture
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    • 38 11 A bride having her shoes disinfected before her wedding in Richmond Park, London. The park has been closed to the public to protect the deer. In Australia, passengers arriving from affected countries face quarantine restrictions. REUTERS
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    • 284 11 RACES Kerry-Anne Walsh ONE of the unexpected ramifications of the foot-and-mouth disease scare is the effect on the Australian racing industry and the lu- crative autumn and spring racing seasons. A ban on the importation of horses from tne European Union was
      Kerry-Anne Walsh  -  284 words
    • 697 13 They have collectively lost about $7.1 trillion since the US stock market started falling and wreaking havoc on their personal investment portfolios NEW YORK The condominium in Florida is on hold. The new car is beginning to look more like a
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    • 349 13 It would be welcome relief for Americans, he says Reuters WASHINGTON President George W. Bush, accused by Democrats of dispensing bad news on the US economy and contributing to the stock market slide, has challenged Congress to give Americans “good
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    • 346 14 British Airways fears the men could turn out to be paedophiles and attack the children sexually. But the policy is only a guideline rather than a rule LONDON Men travelling on British Airways flights will not be allowed to sit next
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    • PEOPLE
      • 135 14 SHE WON'T TAKE UP PUBLIC ROLE Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network MANILA Evangelina “Luli” M acapagal -Arroyo’s professional achievements, not to mention her political bloodline, should be opening doors for her. But the 29-year-old is not the average Filipino president’s daughter. “Luli” made news
        Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network; PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  135 words
      • 67 14 VICTORIA Ms Christine Nixon is Australia’s first woman chief commissioner of police. She replaces Mr Neil Comrie, who retired last week as head of the Victorian force, The Age newspaper has reported. Premier Steve Bracks said Ms Nixon, 47, a New South Wales Assistant Commissioner
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      • 146 14 -AFP MONTREAL The 14-month-old Canadian “miracle baby” who was found sleeping in the snow in Edmonton three weeks ago will probably not need to have her toes, fingers or left foot amputated, doctors said. Baby Erika nicknamed the “miracle baby” for surviving some two hours after
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      • 115 14 -AFP AUCKLAND Hollywood is not only ending Xena: The Warrior Princess, they have just killed her off, the Sunday Star Times newspaper reported here. The top-rating series, shown in 115 countries, is shot here with New Zealander Lucy Lawless playing the lead. Last year,
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      • 35 14 a far-right wing Austrian best known abroad for his controversial remarks about Austria’s Nazi past, has copyrighted his name to stop what he calls the exploitation of his fame, Austria’s state television said.
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      • 26 14 a singer who performed as the mustachioed, leather-clad biker in the disco band the Village People, has died of lung cancer. He was 50.
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      • 46 14 Their pain, unfortunately, is certainly our gain. Duane Davis, manager of an investigative services firm in California, on why the slowdown in the dot.com industry is booming business for Silicon Valiev's private police firms, called in to quell potential uprisings by angry, sacked new-eeonomy workers
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    • 149 15 CriseldaYabes PARIS-The rise of private English-language schools, including "mum and pop" operations, has been a recent phenomenon in France. It began in the late 1980 s, when many firms encouraged their employees to learn English for official and training purposes, but slackened in the following decade
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    • 567 15  -  It would have been unimaginable to declare this passion in the past, but more are learning to speak it now because of its importance in business By l CRISELDAYABES IN PARIS MONSIEUR Jacques Pic has three months left to learn English. If he
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    • 667 16  -  PM Howard's Liberal Party suffers 10 per cent swing against it in a by-election seen as a litmus test of voters' moods before general election KERRY-AWE WALSH By IN CANBERRA THE Labor Party was last night clinging to a knife-edge lead of 179
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    • 103 16 -AFP NEW DELHI Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh has been given the additional charge of the Defence Ministry, after the resignation of Mr George Fernandes following an arms-bribery scandal, an official announcement said yesterday. ‘The President of India, as advised by the Prime Minister, has
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    • 619 17  -  Israel feared Lebanon would divert the Hatsbani River, and threatened retaliation. But the Lebanese were just tapping water for local use By ABRAHAM RABINOVICH Br/ IN JERUSALEM WATER has always been more incendiaiy than oil in the parched Middle East, but the flare-up
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    • 118 17 AP BOGOTA (Colombia) Thousands of women happily celebrated last week’s Night Without Men by filling salsa clubs, bars and male strip shows, but few men were as enthusiastic to Friday night’s sequel when women were asked to stay home while the men partied. “Going out without
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    • WORLD FILE
      • 35 17 Reuters BRITISH bomb-disposal experts blew up a suspicious vehicle outside the BBC World Service headquarters yesterday. But no bomb was found, and the area was given the all-clear. Reuters
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      • 37 17 AP PASSENGERS who survived a 22-hour ordeal aboard a hijacked Russian jet have been flown from Saudi Arabia to Moscow. Saudi forces stormed the plane on Friday, killing four people. AP
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      • 58 17 AP THE Australian authorities ar searching for the family <-'* i. World War II airman whose body has been recovered from the sea. The wreck of the Royal Australian Air Force Beau- fort bomber was recovered off Papua New Guinea recently. It was lost
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      • 52 17 AP A NEW York surgeon, who mistakenly operated on a man’s healthy hip five years ago, has now performed surgery on a patient’s healthy knee. Dr Craig DuMond will no longer practise at the Adirondack Medical Centre nor in his private practice in Saranac
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      • 52 17 Reuters ELEVEN people died in Siwan, in India s Bihar state, during a shoot-out between police and the supporters of a parliamentary deputy. The shoot-out took place when police went to the home of Mohammed Sahabuddin to arrest him for assaulting a police
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    • 372 7 Coma Mum Goes Home She gave birth while still in a coma. Two months later, she is well enough to return to her family. pace s World Vigilant Australia Strict checks and bans, including disinfecting shoes, are in place to prevent foot-and-mouth disease. pages 10-11 "AtMDIS, we make it happen
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  • COMMENTARY ANALYSIS
    • 580 18 The Straits Times MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2001 FINANCIAL markets are in the danger zone. First, it was just technology stocks. Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below the 10,000 level. There were sharp declines in Europe and Asia, where Japan remains infamously moribund. Let's face it,
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    • 1279 18  -  By l LIM SAY BOON The writer is director of OCBC Investment Research Pte Limited. The views expressed are his own. He contributed this article to The Straits Times] INVESTORS who have been waiting for the “final capitulation” on the Nasdaq or “a
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    • 962 19  - Cloning dilemma: Is it an F or a G By ANDY HO STOP clowning around with clones. Opponents are up in arms now' that an international team led by American scientist Panayiotis Zavros is planning to clone babies soon. Probably in Israel, because as Israeli team-mem-ber Avi Ben-Abraham says, Judaism
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    • ASIAN CURRENTS
      • 168 19 CHINA THE government’s massive anti-corruption drive, though proof of its determination to wipe out graft, has been found wanting in implementing an effective supervision system to rein in officials. The National People’s Congress (NPC) is unable to exert full control over government departments because its
        Hongkong Commercial Daily  -  168 words
      • 126 19 JAPAN THE government and the ruling parties are making preliminary moves towards enacting legislation designed to meet future military crises that involve Japan directly. It is puzzling why the ruling coalition is making this move. There is virtual- ly no possibility of Japan being attacked by an
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      • 148 19 THAILAND IT HAS now been more than two weeks since a blast destroyed a Thai Airways plane that was scheduled to fly 1 rime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his son to Chiang Mai. The unprecedented blast showed how unprepared Thailand is for such a major terrorist
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    • 338 20 Meet the BRAND'S Young Achiever Award 2001 Winner Andrea Chen Liwei, Primary 6, Pei Chun Public School For Andrea, her article, "Should mobile phones be allowed in schools?" paved the way to winning the most outstanding achiever in the BRAND'SYoung Achiever Award 2001. When asked why she had chosen the
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  • FORUM
    • 93 21  -  LINTZERFIN THE stress which is blamed on our education system is a problem created mainly by parents, rather than the Ministry of Education. Nevertheless, since parents are unlikely to change or help themselves in this respect, may I suggest the following guidelines
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    • 338 21  -  DUDLEYAU I REFER to the letter from Mr Raja Mitra, “It’s time to shame those who choose to act badly” (ST, March 16). Ms Cheryl Ong’s earlier letter, “Ugly Singaporeans sighted at zoo” (ST, March 14), has raised the ire of Mr Raja to such
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    • 290 21  -  TAN CHEE BENG I HAVE a child who will be entering Primary 1 in two years and, therefore, have a particular interest in the Education Minister’s comments that were reported in “Rigorous education system ‘benefits’ S’pore” (ST, March 16). I fully agree with
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    • 161 21  -  TAN RIAN JIN I REFER to the report, “Moves to curb misuse of Buddha theme” (ST, March 16). The concern of the Singapore Buddhist Federation is understandable, but there is a need to act only on matters of direct offence to Buddhists living
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    • 224 21  -  WU PEI TONG HAVING read the various letters to the Forum page on the issue of cyclists using pedestrian walkways, there are a few points I would like to share as a motorist, a cyclist and a pedestrian. First of all, as
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    • 329 3 CHURCHES, temples and mosques can help in the green movement by starting recycling campaigns or holding sermons on green issues, the Singapore Environmental Council (SEC) suggested yesterday. Mr Peter Paap, the SEC volunteer coordinator, said that such contributions would go a long way
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    • 485 5 MR SHERMAN Ong was in his third year in law school when he decided he did not want to practise law. But he completed his examinations and took the Bar exam anyway. Then, three months into doing his pupilage at a law firm, he
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    • 675 6  -  The neighbours of an animal lover find the smell of waste from her 10 dogs and 30 cats hard to bear, despite several efforts to stop the stench By NEAL COOKE THE daily stench of dog poo and cat urine permeating the
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    • 234 6 CLOSE cooperation between the people and the police led to a nearly 18-per-cent fall in crime last year. This collaboration also led to more than four out of every lO perpetrators of major crimes last year getting caught. Home Affairs Minister Wong
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    • 433 1 Streaming eyes r headaches, sneezing and fatigue start affecting population due to pollen emitted in spring from cedar trees planted all over country TOKYO A tree-planting scheme gone astray, Japan’s post-war drive to grow cedar trees has led unwittingly to a serious health
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      • 75 2 A CHINESE policeman showing off his mobile data terminal in Beijing. The force is equipped with devices like tnis which enable the police to get information about people or vehicles and send online messages. Beijing is a populous municipality teeming with immigrants ana vehicles from other
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      • 201 2 BEIJING The attempt-ed-suicide incident at Tiananmen Square on Jan 23 has claimed another life 12-year-old Liu Siying, a primary-school student whose mother was the first to die in the protest. Siying’s condition took a turn for the worse on Satur- day afternoon at
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      • 80 2 Taiwan Relations Act (1979) It says “the US will make available to Taiwan such defence articles and services...as will enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defence capability”. Sino-US Joint Communique (1982) The US “intends to reduce the sale of arms to Taiwan, leading to
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      • 497 2  -  As debate on US arms sales to Taiwan hots up China's legal experts point to conflicting 1982 Sino-US communique and 1979 Taiwan Relations Act MARY KWAN'G CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING Chinese legal experts say that resolving Sino-United States differences over arms sales to
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      • 331 3 SERIES OF BLASTS AND FIRES Reuters, AFP BEIJING A series of explosions that killed at least 108 people in the city of Shijiazhuang has raised new alarm over public safety in China. State media yesterday pinned the blame on “criminal elements” for the simultaneous pre-dawn blasts
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      • 381 3 President seems to have stepped back from advocating independence, but his advisers are still pushing for it during party's first anniversary in power AFP TAIPEI Signs of dissonance are showing up between the Democratic Progressive Party-led government of Taiwan and many of its party
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      • 249 3 AFP PEARL HARBOUR A US Navy inquiry has granted “testimonial immunity” to a fire-control technician to hear his version of the events that led to the deaths of nine people when a nuclear-pow-ered submarine hit and sank a Japanese fishing vessel in
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      • 43 4 Mrs Sumi Kuwahara, 69, and a group of Japanese tourists walking on Lantau Peak. With hiking and other special-interest tours, Hongkong is wooing back tourists from Japan and elsewhere. The number of visitors hit a record 13 million last year. AP
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      • 488 4 Legalisation will reflect changes in social attitudes, says the Financial Secretary, but parents and religious and education groups vow to fight it -AFP HONGKONG Following Financial Secretary Donald Tsang’s suggestion to legalise football betting, the heated debate about the morality of gambling has resurfaced
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      • 132 4 AFP HONGKONG Hongkong police have launched an investigation into money laundering through local banks by one of Australia’s biggest drugs dealers. Hongkong-born Duncan Lam Sak Cheung was arrested in 1999 after a two-year investigation by Australian police. He is due to be sentenced
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        • 55 4 -AFP JAPAN’S first official mission to consider assistance for wartime atomic-bomb victims in North Korea has found a total of 928 survivors there. Ch er two million Kore-. ans were in Japan at the end of World War II after they were brought
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        • 46 4 Xinhua YIN Xianping, a primaryschool teacher from central China’s Hunan province, has been held on suspicion that he tried to poison 37 people. He had claimed that he needed to kill 12 people to cure himself of a chronic illness. Xinhua
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        • 62 4 AP A MINIBUS crammed with passengers at more than twice its carrying ca- parity rolled off a highway and into a lake, killing the driver and 21 passengers. Twenty-six people were in the minibus that swerved off a highway last week in the western province
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        • 49 4 -AFP A TAIWANESE nuclearpower plant was blacked out for more than two hours yesterday morning in the worst-such incident to hit the island, officials of the Taiwan Power Company said. There was no radiation leak from the plant in the southern county of Pingtung. AFP
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        • 27 4 AFP BETWEEN 1995 and 1999, 563 children died in Japan due to abuse, the Kyodo News agency reported yesterday. AFP
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      • 477 5 Many women now head IT start-ups, with the Internet business providing them with many opportunities in a field once dominated by men SEOUL Women in South Korea are making their presence felt in the traditionally male-domi-nated world of business, particularly in the field
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      • 206 5 KUMAMOTO (Japan) A high-school student who was on a school trip to China woke up to find himself left behind at a Beijing bus depot after his school principal and teachers failed to notice his absence. The student from the south-western Japanese city of
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      • 344 6 Encouraged by the success of its own movies, the government has set up two big production studios to lure foreign directors into the country AYUTTHAYA (Thailand) Encouraged by its moviemaking renaissance, Thailand hopes to become a regional centre for film-mak-ing that will lure
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      • 59 7 A Vietnamese woman from the Kinh communitv stands beside a poster depicting the solidarity between the country’s various ethnic groups at an official ceremony in Pleiku city, capital of Gia Lai province. The ceremony took place several weeks after the province was hit by ethnic unrest.
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      • 335 7 Inflow of Khmers to the country's north-east leaves ethnic minorities irate over losing their land and suffering a destructive gem rush AFP TIOM ROM BEI SROK (Cambodia) Discontent is brewing among tribal people in Cambodia’s remote north-east due to mounting pressure from development and a
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      • 131 7 AFP JAKARTA Indigenous Dayak tribesmen have continued their killing spree in Central Kalimantan, murdering at least eight Madurese migrants. The bodies of eight victims have been found since Friday in and near the Central Kalimantan town of Sampit, where bloody ethnic violence erupted
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      • 461 8 Up to 1,800 members of Muslim group Nahdlatul Ulama plan to make the trip from East Java and show their support for Abdurrahman and Megawati -AFP JAKARTA Up to 1,800 members of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organisation are preparing to converge here to support President
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      • 222 8 JAKARTA The United States business community here said it would not withdraw its investments in Indonesia, despite current worries over political uncertainty in the country. “However, the security and political situation also means it is unlikefv that American businesses will pour their capital into this
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      • 505 8 The ‘pilot project’ will cover North Aceh and Bireun ACEH ACCORD -AFP BANDA ACEH Representatives of the Indonesian government and separatist rebels in Aceh yesterday agreed to set up a Seace zone covering two istricts in their effort to end
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      • 174 8 Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network SAN FERNANDO (Philippines) Giving out campaign paraphernalia is an outmoded strategy for one independent candidate in the Philippines’ May elections. Instead, he is offering hints on winning numbers in an illegal lottery to snare the hearts of
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      • 345 9 More than 300 buildings abandoned after the 1997 crisis attract dirt and crime, and have loose building materials that endanger passers-by Empty condos are making Bangkok’s skyline an... The Nation/Asia News Network BANGKOK The eyesore of residents here unfinished high-rise projects abandoned by private developers after the 1997
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      • 267 9 AFP YANGON Myanmar yesterday condemned Thailand as a bad neighbour for covering up its failure to address the nation’s drugs crisis by shifting the blame onto Myanmar. ‘The Thai government officials have never made efforts to effectively control the problem,” the military regime said in
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        • 55 9 AFP THE family of the late Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos reportedly has US$5O million (SsBs million) in Swiss banks. Mr Danilo Daniel, director of the Presidential ■Commission on Good Government, said the money was in the name of five foundations and has been ordered frozen
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        • 61 9 AP AUSTRALIA yesterday warned soldiers, who seized weapons in Papua New Guinea in protest against a streamlining of the army not to challenge the government. “Any challenge to the constitutional authority of the government of Papua New Guinea would be taken very seriously by
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        • 37 9 THAILAND’S Election Commission has vowed to call Senate by-elections in seven provinces within 45 days, tne Bangkok Post reported yesterday. On Tuesday, the commission purged 10 senators whom it said committed poll fraud.
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        • 33 9 AFP AT LEAST 20 members of the More Islamic Liberation Front, the Philippines’ main Muslim rebel group, have surrendered. The fighters also gave up high-powered firearms.
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        • 51 9 The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network JAKARTA Governor Sutiyoso has vowed to provide funds needed to rebuild Cipinang jail after buildings and other facilities there were damaged in a prison riot on Wednesday. He said he would discuss with his staff how to raise the
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      • 102 10 in-law. The Star/ Asia News Network RELATIVES and friends of Mr A. Ganesan the first victim in the recent ethnic clashes were too scared to attend his funeral at his squatter home in Xampung Lindunqan, outside Kuala Lumpur. "They thought there would be more trouble,"
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      • 458 10  -  Its latest statistics show that 1.3 people are killed by police every week, and it is concerned that officers are breaching orders on discharge of guns Malaysian Bar Council’s Demands: By LESLIE LAU IN KUALA LUMPUR THE Malaysian Bar Council has demanded that the
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      • 248 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR The Bar Council wants a Royal Commission of Inquiry to be set up to probe what ignited the recent racial clashes outside Kuala Lumpur, its chairman said on Saturday. “The royal commission is...to make sure that the rule of law
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      • 227 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s top judge has strongly supported calls for curbs on multi-million-dol-lar libel awards, describing them as a “blot on the legal landscape” and a deterrent to press freedom. Chief Justice Tan Sri Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah, in a speech to
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      • 202 10 The Star/Asia News Network KUCHING A woman watched in horror as a crocodile dragged her husband into the river in Sarawak’s Batang Lupar, in the Sri Aman division. Crocodiles have claimed the lives of many villagers over the years in Batang Lupar. In the
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      • 114 10 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian colleges and universities were urged yesterday to introduce a course on the thoughts of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The call came from his political secretary, Mr Dusuki Ahmad. If the institutions could rely on Islamic thinkers of
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      • 405 11 Teachers' union to offer proposals to government on how to restructure the education system, which has contributed to the current problems New Straits Times KANGAR Malaysia’s teachers’ union said the country’s education system must be restructured to arrest the decline in racial
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      • 78 11 >1 Sales assistant James Ong sells cars, televisions, VCD players, CDs and cell phones but they are all made of paper. The shop in Penang is stocked with replicas of luxury items for the Qing Ming festival next month, when Chinese visit the graves to pay their respects
        THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK  -  78 words
      • 216 11 Bernama KOTA BARU A top Umno leader has defended Malaysia’s communalbased education system, saying it reflects the democratic practices in the country, with parents free to send their children to Malay, Chinese or Tamil schools. Yesterday’s comment by Umno vice-president Tan Sri Muhammad Muhamad Taib
        Bernama  -  216 words
      • 219 11 AP KUALA LUMPUR The chief of the main hospital here has rejected a Dutch doctor’s recommendation that jailed former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim be allowed to go abroad for spinal surgery, claiming that nearly all the equipment and expertise for the operation are
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      • 305 12 The party warns against any move to force it to drop Islamic tag even as Rulers Council prepares to discuss the issue this week -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s opposition leader has accused the governing party of dragging the country’s sultans into a
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      • 116 12 The Star/Asia News Network KUALA LUMPUR The government is conducting final test-runs before the introduction of the multi-purpose smartcard to replace the identity card, which can also be used as a charge card or to withdraw money at ATMs. Home Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Aseh
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        • 41 12 The Star/Asia News Network JOHOR will spend RM29 million (Ssl3 million) to clean up and protect all 250 rivers. Officials have been told to stop uncontrolled development projects along river banks. The Star/Asia
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        • 37 12 New Straits Times THE Penang Adventist Hospital is trying to raise RMI million (*****,000) to provide corrective heart surgery for children with congenital heart defects under the “Gift of Life” programme.
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        • 41 12 FOUNDING chairman of the national Teaching Profession Cooperative Society, Mr A. Rajaguru, has been expelled for not pay- ing his dues. He had not paid the RM2O subscription since September 1999, The Sun reported.
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        • 47 12 The Star/Asia News Network MALAYSIANS will be able to watch more Arab movies on television under a new initiative by the Information Ministry. Minister Tan Sri Khalil Yaakob said this was to counter complaints about the negative influence of Bollywood movies.
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        • 51 12 MORE than 12 per cent of deaths in Malaysia are caused by cancer, with about 40,000 cases detected each year, The Sun said. Lung cancer and breast cancer are the two leading causes of death among cancer patients, said Dr Martin Mellor, a consultant
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    • 1009 1  -  MOTOR RACING Six-in-a-row Schumacher makes history as he takes the chequered flag ELAINE LO By. INSEPANG IT IS official. Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher is the best driver in modern Formula One history, after clinching the Malaysian Grand Prix yesterday. He is now the only man
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    • 81 1 AP SEPANG Attendance at the Malaysian Grand Prix was down by a third from last year, but organisers reversed their plans to ban a live national TV broadcast after a surge in buying over the pre-race practice and qualifying days. Basir Ismail, chairman of the
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    • 497 1 Elaine Lo WHEN Williams’ Ralf Schumacher pushed his brother, Ferrari’s defending champion Michael, to the limit during the Malaysian Grand Prix on Saturday, there were gasps all around the media centre and spontaneous applause from some. That is probably one of the
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    • 468 2 BRADFORD 2 MAN CITY 2 Bradford City Robert Blake 52nd minute, Ashley Ward 57th Manchester City Gerard Wiekens 22nd, Shaun Goater 70th Half-time: 0-1; Attendance: 19,117 CHARLTON 1 LEEDS 2 Charlton Athletic Shaun Bartlett 18th Leeds United Mark Viduka 1st, Alan Smith 46th Half-time: 1-1; Attendance: 20,043 CHELSEA
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    • 494 2 Only rookie Rachubka available after Barthez pulls thigh muscle ENGLISH SOCCER -AFP London Manchester United continued its romp towards the English Premiership title with a typical win on Saturday. However, the reigning champion finds itself in a goalkeeping crisis after its 2-0 victory over Leicester. First-choice
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    • 294 2 Reuters LONDON Now put the names of Ruud Gullit and Marcello Lippi into the hat too. Ever since George Graham was sacked as manager of English Premiership outfit Tottenham Hotspur last Friday, speculation is rife as to who will be the new
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    • 328 2 -AFP LONDON Liverpool’s bid for an automatic Champions League place suffered a blow with a 1-1 English Premiership draw against Derby County at Anfield. In another match, Aston Villa and second-placed Arsenal drew 0-0. Yesterday’s result leaves Liverpool in sixth place, three points adrift
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    • 559 2 ITALIAN SOCCER MILAN AC Milan gave its new coaching team of Cesare Maldini and Mauro Tassotti a perfect start here yesterday, thrashing Serie A’s bottom side Bari 4-0 at the San Siro. A goal from Francesco Coco, two from Andriy Shevchenko and one
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      • 78 2 THE boys’ pairing of Roy Tan and Ou Dahui looked likely to make the cut for the South-east Asia Games after finishing first in the 420 trials at the National Sailing Centre yesterday. The only contenders for the slot in the girls’ division,
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      • 58 2 TEH Yew Seng and Jennifer Tan clinched the men and women’s title respectively in the first series of bowling’s Tournament of Champions at Silver Bowl yesterday. Despite finishing seventh, the last of the women qualifiers, Tan became stronger as the finals progressed. Teh, on
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      • 68 2 BELGIAN soccer champion Anderlecht suffered its first league defeat of the season on Saturday when Ghent beat it 2-1,18-year-old Egyptian midfielder Ahmed Hossam scoring an injury-time winner. Anderlecht, the dominant side in Belgium for several seasons, had remained unbeaten for more than tw o thirds of
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      • 101 2 FRANCE, once regarded as the most flamboyant team in European rugby, was given a lesson in flair in the Six Nations on Saturday when Wales clinched only its second victory in Paris in 26 years in a 43-35 win. The French suffered their
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    • 475 3 TENNIS AP INDIAN WELLS (California) Serena Williams was booed throughout the match and the jeering grew louder when she hugged her father and sister following her victory. Serena, given a pass to the women’s Masters Series title match when her sister Venus withdrew from
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    • 557 3  -  Record figures at Tampines and Jurong boost total over last year’s S-LEAGUE SOCCER By < GERARD WONG THE new SLeague season clearly passed its first test last week as 18,508 fans packed the Toa Payoh, Hougang, Bishan, Woodlands, Jurong East and Tampines
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    • 412 3 BASKETBALL AP MILWAUKEE Tim Thomas helped make up for Sam Cassell's absence. But the Philadelphia 76ers did not have anyone to cover the loss of Allen Iverson. Thomas scored 22 points, including nine in the fourth quarter, to spark the Bucks to an 87-78 victory
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    • 344 3 DALLAS 109 PHOENIX 99 In Dallas, Dirk Nowitzki scored 15 of his 34 points in the third quarter and Steve Nash had 28 points as the Dallas Mavericks won their sixth straight. Michael Finley added 20 points, 11 assists and six rebounds as Dallas matched its longest winning
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    • 330 3 AFP INDIAN WELLS Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras on Saturday set up the 30th in their careerlong series of All-Ameri-can showdowns, advancing to the final of the Tennis Masters Series. Sampras twice battled back from 1-4 deficits to hang a 7-5,
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    • 103 3 GOLF NEW DELHI Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee won the US$3OO,OOO (*****,000) Wills Indian Open when he carded his fourth successive round in the 60s to win by one stroke from Scotland’s Ross Bain. His final-round card of six-under-par 66 at the Classic Golf Resort gave him a
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    • 432 4  -  WATER POLO M LEE WAIKHIM THERE might not have been the high drama of last September, when an Yvette Higgins goal with less than a second left gave Australia the first women’s Olympics water polo gold. But the Singaporean women taking part in the
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    • 198 4 SOCCER HOME United caused an upset in the final of the Women’s Challenge Cup when it defeated favourite Tampines Rovers (1951) on penalty kicks at the Queenstown Stadium yesterday. Home, which qualified for the final after its penal-ty-shootout victory over SAFFC in the semi-final
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    • 424 4 World No. 1 may conquer Bay Hill after six winless events GOLF Reuters Orlando (Florida) By the end of the Bay Hill Invitational yesterday, a very familiar name could well be holding the trophy. If it is the same person who was the
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    • 245 4 AFP PHOENIX South Korea’s Pak Se Re gained ground on Annika Sorenstam on Saturday, closing in on the Swede after three rounds of the Standard Register-PING. One day after becoming the first player in LPGA Tour history to shoot 59, Sorenstam had a seemingly insurmountable lead
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    • 932 4 BASKETBALL NBA: Detroit 106 Atlanta 90. Charlotte 96 Washington 93. Miami 95 Vancouver 81, New York 101 Chicago 80, Milwaukee 87 Philadelphia 78, Dallas 109 Phoenix 99, Houston 103 San Antonio 99. BOWLING 1st Tournament of Champions: Men: 1 Teh Yew Seng 5,365 pintails 2 Lim Zhong
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    • 92 4 CRICKET Shaw Foundation Schoolboys League U-17: Victoria v SJI (Kallang), ACS-BR v The Chinese High (IA) both at 2pm. RUGBY Schools' National C ships Police Cup, U-17 Main: St Andrew's School v SJI (3.30pm), Damai Sec v Pioneer Sec (5pm) St Andrew's. SEPAK TAKRAW Perses Premier League: Bawean
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    • 80 1 Soccer Goalkeeping Crisis Manchester United is left with a 19-year-old rookie as Fabien Barthez is out injured. J S 2 S-LE A G U E Bursting At The Seams Officials are smiling at the sight of fans filling up the stadiums in the opening round. S 3 Water polo Splashing
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    • 47 3 ii'h'J DRAW TODAYI Monday, 19 March 2001 DRAW VENUE: Singapore Pools (Private) Limited 1 Selegie Road, #Ol-01, Paradiz Centre, Singapore 1 ***** Time 5.30 pm Draw No. 1580/2001 Group 1 Prize $550,000. Group 2 Prize $217,000.» Visit our website at www singaporepools.com.sg Towards Community Purpose and Beneft
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    • 33 4 LIVE ON TV DELAYED TELECAST GOLF PGA Bay Hill Invitational, final rd (Star Sports Ch24,11.30pm). SOCCER Italian Serie A: Lazio v Juventus (ESPN Ch23, 8pm). TENNIS Indian Wells, Men's final (ESPN Ch23, midnight).
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  • 1334 4 [obituaries] r CHUA KIM SOO Age: 87 was called home to be with the Lord on 17 Mar 2001. Sadly missed by loved ones. (Wife: Lim Hui Cheng, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Hua Meng Ellen Low (Hua Boon, deceased) Leong Lee Yong Hua Liang Peggy Tay Daughters: Son-In-law: Swee Eng, Mary
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    • 241 6 Do your safety shoes have the right legal approval? The Factories Act requires that industrial safety footwear provided for and used by factory employees shall be tested and approved under Singapore Standard SSIOS by the approved testing authority, Productivity Standards Board (PSB). How do I know my safety shoes comply?
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    • 583 6  - JP Morgan gives C&C shares perform rating BROKERS CHOICE Astras main concern remains its US dollar-denominated debt. After repaying US$l35m (S$239.9 m) this month its US dollar-denominated debt will stand at US$800m. THE rupiah’s volatility and political instability in Indonesia has weighed heavily on Cycle Carriage’s (C&C) share price, but
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    • 90 6 Reuters SEOUL South Korean shares are expected to come under renewed pressure this week after profit warnings rocked US tech stocks and concerns mounted over the Japanese economy. Tech-dominated local stocks “are expected to take a downward correction this week as weak economic
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    • 426 6 FOCUS ON NEW YORK Bloomberg News FOR the first time in 21 years, the Nasdaq Composite Index has fallen for seven straight weeks. Investors are looking to the Federal Reserve to bring an end to that streak. Some investors are sceptical that even lower
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    • 954 6 ROUND-UP Overseas markets Agencies TOKYO stocks are expected to manage modest gains this week, buoyed by possible rate cuts both at home and in the US, but analysts doubt changes in monetaiy policy alone will be enough to chase the bears away.
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    • 426 6  -  CURRENCY REVIEW I OB T vvasury REGIONAL weakness and sluggishness in global equity markets resulted in more bad news for the region’s currencies. Do not look for much improvement this week, especially in Indonesia where political instability is battering the rupiah. SING DOIJUUt
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    • 412 7 Many have cut back on their spending but only a few are fleeing the stock markets, Newsweek poll shows Bloomberg News WASH1NGTON Seven-ty-one per cent of US adults think a recession is likely in the US within the next year, according to a Newsweek
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    • 681 7 NATION OF INVESTORS Bloomberg News NEW YORK This time around, US individual investors are helping to provide the colour commentary on a stock market in decline. Weaned on around-the-clock financial news and with the aplomb of a Wall Street strategist, housewives and
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    • 711 8  -  So much talk, so little action how many discussions will it take before Japan starts tackling economic ills? COMMENT By WILLIAM PESEK AFP Bloomberg News TOKYO With much fanfare last week, Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori unveiled a plan to revitalise the economy.
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    • 140 8 Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has just set up a panel to revitalise the economy, the latest in a bewildering array of panels to look into myriad issues, such as: Ethical standards for scientists; Whether children are learning English too early; Encouraging J apan to
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    • 577 9 Jakarta's guarantee of $2.3b in debts owed to Bank Internasional Indonesia may put f urther strain on the Budget Reuters JAKARTA The recent debt standstill by troubled Asia Pulp Paper has forced lndonesian government into a corner over a leading local
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    • 364 9 DEBT STANDSTILL Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia’s banks and pension funds, already battered by more than three years of crisis, will suffer further pain from a debt standstill announced last week by Asia Pulp Paper. The New York-listed Asia Pulp has debts of more than
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    • 350 10  -  Ba LORN A TAN GET ready for employee performance appraisal to become an even more critical part of everyday working life and for high achievers to get even greater rewards. A global survey of some 300 senior management executives has found that the role played
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    • 363 10  -  By joining forces, they hope to increase their share of the lucrative housing market in China By] By DENESH DIVYANATHAN MAINBOARD-LISTED property developers Keppel Land and Dragon Land nave joined forces to make further inroads into China’s lucrative housing market, the companies said
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    • 508 10  -  ASEAN INVESTMENT IN BRITAIN By ALFRED LEE STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU LONDON Singapore leads its Asean neighbours in the number of companies that have been set up in Britain. Of the 164 companies from the region with British operations, 69 are Singaporean.
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    • 456 10  -  By CHEE JANN PERNG COMPANIES REPORTER THE Nasdaq bubble may have burst, but many Asian technology companies are waiting in the wings to launch initial public offers (IPO) when the mood improves. Mr Eugene Yang, SG Cowen’s head of technology investment
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      • 91 10 Reuters CABLE Wireless (C&W) is to return part of its £4 billion (5510.2 billion) cash fund to investors if it fails to identify a major acquisition in the next two months. The company, whose share price slumped 35 per cent to 435 pence
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      • 89 10 Reuters JAPANESE cellular phone giant NTT DoCoMo may bring forward, by as much as four years, its launch of fourth-generation (4G) wireless transmission networks propelling the company well ahead of global rivals. A report in the Daily Yomiuri newspaper yesterday said DoCoMo
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      • 94 10 Reuters TELECOM giants Vodafone Group and Germanowned one2one have held talks with the British government over the huge financial burden of thirdgeneration licences, the Independent on Sunday said. The two companies were reported to be worried about how they could recoup the costs of the
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      • 84 10 Bloomberg News EUROPEAN Aeronautic, Defence and Space Company (Eads), the biggest shareholder of plane-mak-er Airbus Industrie, said it will cut as much as 61 per cent of the workforce at its Paris, Munich and Madrid headquarters, where it employs 1,100. The work, affecting between 570 and
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      • 88 10 AFX-As 1 a THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said that fresh loans to Indonesia will be linked to the country’s success in carrying out reforms in key areas such as poverty reduction and better governance. The ADB said it is prepared to lend
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    • 416 11  -  SLOWDOWN NOW 16 MONTHS OLD By] By NARENDRA AGGARWAL ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT GLOBAL equities markets are nearing bottom, making this a good time for investors to bolster their stock portfolios, says a top analyst with Goldman Sachs. Of specific interest to local investors, Goldman
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    • 440 11  -  Credit Lyonnais’ Jim Walker, who predicted the 1997 Asian crisis, says slowing credit growth will affect region ĔIL WILLIAM CIIOONG ASIA’S economies will see their growth sliced by half this year as the effects of the US slowdown kick in, says an
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    • 1041 11  -  AFTER going through what was perhaps the worst week for the local stock market in recent months, investors can be forgiven for praying for a miracle this week. All eyes will be on Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meeting tomorrow. Investors are clamouring
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    • 1207 8 A Pan United The Directors of Ran-United Corporation Ltd wish to announce the following unaudited results of the Company and the Croup for the year ended 31 December 2000. Turnover Investment income Other income including interest income Operating profit Interest on borrowings Depreciation and amortisation Foreign exchange gain/(loss) Operating profit
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    • 92 11 EARNINGS SCOREBOARD m i i For companies reporting in Sing dollars CUMULAt IVE PROFITS: $7 billion (Up from $6 billion a year) Note: These are the combined earnings, including losses, of listed companies which have announced their results for the year ended Dec 31 124 companies hate reported full-year results
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    • 747 6 Vehicles 316 HONDA FOR SALE 316 HONDA FOR SALE Other models available UVfbe 7-SUTJTHMPV MHUA YANG iTORTWiW #01-07 AMTECH BUILDING BEAUTIFUL ‘B3 CIVIC 1.3, COE 9/2003. 3 units. Deposit $2OOO. $441 24. $ll6OO. *****41 Raman VICOM EVALUATION 6 mths. maintenance. 11/'97 Civic SIR 1 owner. Manual/ s/rims. *****23 11/92 CIVIC
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    • 648 6 317 HYUNDAI FOR SALE <s> MYuriOHI Accent 1.3 $66,626 Immediate Delivery Call 235-5855 AUTHORISED DEALER. Aspen Automobile Pte Ltd #Ol -02 Balmoral Plaza, 271 BukitTimah Road (Free Parking) IPONT MlSStti] BEST PRICE ASSURED FOR 92-2001 rH USED CARS BUY i SELL ANY MODEL Pis Contact FRANCIS s *****358 M Iwmfngamx»
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    • 1194 6 31T HYUNOAI FOR SALE 317 HYUNDAI FOR SALE BEST BUY IN TOWN mu* visit Asia's biggest car mart with 80 Used Car Dealers to give the highest valuator on your used vehicle. RICKY TAY MOTOR TRADING Tel: 347-7878 61 Übi Ave. 2, #Ol-06 Automobile Megamart 324 MAZDA FOR SALE 1
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    • 972 6 325 MERCEDES FOR SALE 325 MERCEDES FOR SALE 325 MERCEDES FOR SALE KBKW AUTOMOBILE PTE LTD SHOWROOM 501 Guillemard Road Singapore *****0 i i« E2OO (Compressor E240V6 2.6 Avantgarde Trade-in f Low Downpayment Immediate Delivery C2OO (Compressor Avantgarde ■3 741 9679 8888 teoo "motor Y r% T? *****17******20•*****89 #Ol-05 AUTOMOBILE
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    • 344 6 BODY FOR EXPORT 5/ 96 S42OL Beige. 4/'9l 300 E 3.024 valve. Blue. Both 1 owner. 9790-8219 7/’96 E2OO. OMV 548,300. 3rd owner. CSC Silver. Tip top. New tax. SII7K neg. 9858-2664 Owner '9l MERCEDES 190 E 1.8 Auto. Silver. Tax 7/2001. CD player. COE 2/2011. Excellent cond. Tel: *****10
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    • 337 6 326 MITSUBISHI FOR SALE Best Offer For all makes models Buy sell *****88 Mr Ong Hup K»ng Lee Enterprise ANY MAKES MODELS I BUY I SELL AL *****13 BEST DEAL FOR ALL MITSUBISHI MODELS (Sell a Buy) All Kinds PARF orNON-PARF Japanese used cars Contact Anthony at *****227 SOON SING
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    • 1567 6 326 MITSUBISHI FOR SALE 326 MITSUBISHI FOR SALE PRIME LEASING Mitsubishi Chariot 2.4 :*****62 $5700 A YEAR or.ly! 06/ 92 Larcer I.6GLXi (new model) OMV $>4.7K. Selling cheap SIB.SK. 344-7533 '9l MITSUBISHI LANCER !.3GL V Au to. 4-dr. Sporty silver. Hi fi. S/rims. New COE paid. Tip top. *****C56 12/'92
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    • 865 6 334 PROTON FOR SALE 3/'93 SAGA ISWARA, 1 owner, S4K driveaway, s/rims. PARF S7l’B. Asking 521,500 neg. Call *****11 DEPOSIT SI.SK. 4/'93 Iswara 1.3 GL Aeroback. Manual. Tax 9/01. SISK. Loan 2 w yrs. x $7OO. *****22 336 RENAULT FOR SALE DEPOSIT $3BOO MID 97 Renault Laguna 2.0 stationwagon. auto,
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    • 1301 7 344 TOYOTA FOR SALE 344 TOYOTA FOR SALE 344 TOYOTA FOR SALE 344 TOYOTA FOR SALE Tei*****33/*****18 Other available models: Toyota Landcruiser Cygnus LX470. Toycfla Prado 3.4. Toyota Harrier 2.2/3 0 PENG TAT CREDIT PTE LTD I" X PACKAG IToyota Estima' Factory options: 6 armrests Digital Aircon Front rear moonroof
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    • 1075 7 367 SERVIClfw/WORKSHOP 367 SERVICING/WORKSHOP www.katc.com.sg ilTil AT KATC RAYMOND *****200 Automatic Transmission (Rebuild) > Proton Wira 95 Model-$1.6k > Mit Lancer 95 Model-$1.6 > Mit Galant 95 Model-(1 8L)-$1 6k > Hyundai Accent 97 Model-$1 9k > Hyundai Elantra 97 Modei-$1.9k > Mercedes ail 80- 95 Models (overhaul-from S1 6K)
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    • 1633 7 Vehicles 383 VEHICLES WANTED 387 LORRIES FOR SALE **********000 HIGHEST OFFER ANY MAKE/ MODEL WITH/ WITHOUT COE **********000 CALL <<*****20>> <<*****2 U> (24 hours) A. 0. TECK TRADING MEET YOUR PRICE! Buying/ Selling All Used Cars PRICE GUARANTEED!!! VALUATION GUIDE!! Cell Mr Nelson H/p. 9845-2433 Pg. 9303-4416 Cell Immediately HIGHEST
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    • 576 8 Vehicles Properties 387 LORRIES FOR SALE 387 LORRIES FOR SALE 387 LORRIES FOR SALE ABWIN PTE LTD 18 Kaki Bukit Rd 2 #Ol-33 Ruby Warehouse Complex Tel: 841 6666 DIESEL VU Uc PRICE Immgd Regn New Nissan Toyota Hiace Diesel 388 MINI BUSES FOR SALE 3/’B2 PTE. PLATE Datsun C
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    • 203 8 402 DOl-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST PTE APTS RENT 402 DOl-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST PTE APTS-RENT GINZA PLAZA APTS IN WEST COAST •3 1 rms. 1282 to 1284 sq ft Full recreational facilities Private and exclusive Immediate occupation Grand Hotel style lobby SCV cable TV ready Short term lease avail FAR EAST ORGANIZATION
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    • 444 8 402 DOl-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST PTE APTS-RENT FAIRWAY. OPP. KEPPEL Golf Club. 2000 sq.ft. F/furn. facilities. Avail, immed. $3500. 287-3266 $950 ONLY! STUDIO in town near MRT! F/furn./ aircon. Kitchenette/ 2 or 3-rm. SI.6K-$2.2K. 324 1292 THE PEAK, EXCLUSIVE 5,500 sq.ft. 4+l. Seaview. Furnished or unfurnished. Call: 265-8122 ANCHORAGE. 1604 SO.FT.
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    • 1152 9 392 OTHER COMMERCIAL VEHICLES FOR SALE 392 OTHER COMMERCIAL VEHICLES FOR SALE 392 OTHER COMMERCIAL VEHICLES FOR SALE 392 OTHER COMMERCIAL VEHICLES FOR SALE 392 OTHER COMMERCIAL VEHICLES FOR SALE 392 OTHER COMMERCIAL VEHICLES FOR SALE 10% DOWN PAYMENT WITH 7-YEAR REPAYMENT* Herb's your chance to replace your old van
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    • 1307 9 404 DO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTE APTS RENT BEAUTIFUL CONDO. ORCHARD Rd./ Botanic Gdn. vicinity. 5/ 4/ 3/ 2 bdrms. Greenery. S/pooi., etc. $3,000-$: 5.000. 477-9866. SOMERSET MRT. LARGE 1-bdrm. stui dio. SI.6K. 2/ 3 bdrms. $2.5K53.5 K. Furn J pool. 1 yr. lease. Immed. Tel. 9738-3459/ 9578-3378 ASTRID MEADOWS.
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    • 1241 9 406 Dll 21 NEWTON/ BT TIMAH/ CLEMENTI PTE APTS-RENT 0.11 DUNEARN CARDEN. Mins, to Newton MRT. 2 bdrms. 829 sq.ft. F/facilities. $2BOO. P/furn. CB Richard Ellis *****81/ *****891 SI.3K UP 2/3/4 rms. Hillside/ 2/3 rms. Signature Pk./ 2/3 rms. dementi Pk. 3 rms. Pandan Valley. Many units avail. 9207-5720 HAN
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    • 1255 9 420 HOUSES FOR RENT 414 Dl9-20 SERANGOON/ THOMSON PTE APTS-RENT NO. ***** UPPER Serangoon Rd. Area 1055 sq.ft. 2 Bedrooms. Convenient location. Near future Kovan MRT station. Avail. June 2001. Tel: *****69. Pg. *****233 COUNTRY ESQUIRE. 3*l. High fir. Brand newly furn. Ouiet serene. Condo facilities. Rental ***** neg. Pg
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    • 634 9 Vehicles Properties 420 HOUSES FOR RENT D. 14 CHANGI RD. Lor. 107 terr. hse. Aircon. 3 bdrms. Unfurn. Near MRT. immed. Call 9671-0268 aqt. GOLDHILL DRIVE. RENOVATED. 4+l. 3000 sq.ft. Gdn, pond. S6K. Amenities. Aqt. 9620-0226/ *****88 D.lO. OFF SIXTH Ave. 2Vi storey bunqlw. SB.SK/ Semi-D. S6.BK. 5 rm. Serene.
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    • 714 9 422HUDC/HDB APTS FOR RENT $6OO UP I+l, 2*l, 3+l Aircon. MRT. F/furn. Pte/ HOB long/short term. 9 382 9313 APPROVED EXEC. APT. at Hougang. F/furn. Near amenities $l2OO neq. Pq. 9413-8601 Aqent BOTH APOROVED 4 S' (Yishun). Blk. 173. F/furn./ 5-rm. (Houqanq). P/furn. Near mall. *****582 aqt 4- CCK BLK.
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    • 436 10 Properties The Straits Times Classified's Property Trends Recent transactions for districts 19 CATA Buy It. Sdl It. Find It. 20 22 28. u Source: SISV Servian Pta lid 426 ROOMS FOR RENT 2 RMS. AVAIL. Bishan. Near MRT/ Rl. yet quiet. For professionals. Rent neg. Owner *****09 ALL COSY RMS.
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    • 958 10 441 DOl-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST PTE APTS SALE 441 001-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST PTE APTS-SALE 441 001-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST PTE APTS-SALE 441 001-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST PTE APTS-SALE LUXURIOUS CITY CONDOMINIUM BY THE SINGAPORE RIVER ft 4 im m Hi e SbowlJats open for viewing daily (including Sundays Public Holidays) Tel: *****78 or
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    • 823 10 446 DO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTE APTS-SALE D.IO SOMMERVILLE GRANDEUR. 1830 sq.ft. F'hold. 3+l condo. $950 p.s.f. Orient *****475/ *****316 D.IO SPRING GROVE Condo. 1389 sq.ft. 3+l. High floor. $lOOO p.s.f. Orient 9505-2475/ 9617-0316 D.lO ASTRIO MEADOWS. 3+l+l. Big balcony. 2756 sq.ft. F'hold. Face pool. 52.35 M nett. 9818-0090 Agt
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    • 943 10 460 Dl5-16 EAST COAST HOUSES-SALE 461 Dl5-16 EAST COAST PTE APTS-SALE 461 Dl5-16 EAST COAST PTE APTS SALE D. 16 21/2 Storey 3unglw. Upp East Coast. Beautiful 10,260 sq.ft. Excellent Interior. Instant Occupation. Pg. 9313-0650 Boon- ERA 0.15 FRANKEL AVE. S/ storey bunglw. 5844/ 2500 sq.ft. F’holfl. Nice surrounding. 52.2
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    • 1081 11 4SI Dll 21 NEWTON/ BT TIMAH/ CLEMENTI PTE APTS-SALE 451 Dll S. 21 NEWTON/ BTTIMAH/ CLEMENTI PTE APTS-SALE 451 Dll 21 NEWTON/ BTTIMAH/CLEMENTI PTE APTS-SALE 451 Dll &21 NEWTON/ BTTIMAH/CLEMENTI PTE APTS-SALE 451 Dll 21 NEWTON/ BTTIMAH/CLEMENTI PTE APTS-SALE 451 D 11& 21 NEWTON/ BTTIMAH/CLEMENTI PTE APTS SALE The Straits
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    • 1098 11 493 HDB APTS FOR SALE (BEDOK/ CHAICHEE) 4 'NG' EXCITING low cash! Bedck 528. high fir. Very well renovated. Open hse. 9321-9168. 4 NG' CORNER Blk. 86 Bedok N. St. 4. #O3. Near mkt./ sch bus-stop/ MRT. All eligible. 9661-4263 4$ BEDOK SOUTH Blk 156 mid fir well kept valued
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    • 766 11 500 HDB APTS FOR SALE (CHOACHUKANG/ BUKIT PANJANG) 501 HDBAPTS FOR SALE (CLEMENT!/ WEST COAST) EXEC APT. SUL 603. Mid fir. Near Yew Tee MRT. Nicely renovated. Exec. mais. 287. Nea' mkt. Low cash. C3n contra. 9410-0996 IDA A IK Aim Teh 9482 4478 4 'A' BLK 237/ 252/ 404.
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    • 1520 11 304 HDB APTS FOR SALE (HOUGANG/ SERANGOON/ YIOCHUKANG) ALL SERANGOON! 4 'S7 4 A' 324/ 401. Lift level. Low cash! 4 'A7 4 'NG' 238/ 404/ 229/ 309. S neg. 285-0622/ 9209-2702 Max Comm ATTN./ SERANGOON CENTRAL 3rm./ 4-rm./ Exec. Mais. Newly renovated. High/ mid/ low fir. Blk. 330/ 322/
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    • 1212 11 Properties 510 HDB APTS FOR SALE (MARINE PARADE) 5t4 HDB APTS FOR SALE (TAMPINES/ SIMEI) IST in RESULTS A Transactions in year 2000 Thinking of Selling? 9755 8889 OPEN HSE. 3-SPM. Blk. 711. High fir. Unblocked. Windy. 100% move in. N.S. facing. Serious seller. Cobrokq. View by appt. 9301-3579 SELLING
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    • 1376 12 Properties 493 HDB APTS FOR SALE (BEDOK/ CHAICHEE) 493 HDB APTS FOR SALE (BEDOK/ CHAI CHEE) 493 HDB APTS FOR SALE (BEDOK/CHAI CHEE) 493 HDB APTS FOR SALE (BEDOK/CHAI CHEE) 493 HD3APTS FOR SALE (BEDOK/CHAI CHEE) 493 HDB APTS FOR SALI (BEDOK/CHAI CHEE) The Straits Times Classified PROPERTY GUIDE (HDB
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    • 1111 12 518 HDB APTS FOR SALE (YISHUN) j 4 'A' CORNER. All races. 778. Recess area. F/renovated. Amenities. I Almost sold! 9705-3363 4 'NG' CORNER 211 mid fir. Recently renovated/MRT/ Northpoint/ ame- nities/ view to offer. 9636 5112 Rl 4-RM. CORNER YISHUN Blk. 141. Low i cash. Indian eligible. Tel. HH
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    • 941 12 53* FACTORY SPACE FOR RENT ($0.70 P.S.F. UP) ISLANDWIDE Int'lßd. 6000/*****/ *****-***** Boon Lay 6000/*****-***** Bonoi/ Tuos 3000/*****/ *****-***** Jurong Port. *****-***** W. Coast land; *****/ built: *****. S/storey Tuas land: *****/ built: ***** Plonaar land *****/built ***** Bt. Batok *****-*****. Woodland land *****0/ built *****, S/storey Changi S./ Loyang
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    • 831 12 531 FACTORY SPACE FOR RENT 331 FACTORY SPACE FOR RENT 531 FACTORY SPACE FOR RENT 331 FACTORY SPACE FOR RENT WOODLANDS Op ect/'t//// U Ready For Immediate Occupation X s s s X IS > I WOODLANDS cerrtim Vour Desired Location mith Ground Floor Convenience Woodlands Spectrum, JTC Corporation’s stack-up
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    • 698 13 #32 FACTORY SPACE FOR SALE 532 FACTORY SPACE FOR SALE 532 FACTORY SPACE FOR SALE Have It All At 30 Shaw Road A Quality Light Industrial Building Bill m** Marketing Agent: COLLIERS lARDINE Visit our Sales Office Now l Date: 1 4-23 March 2001 (except Sat Sun) Time: 10 am-6
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    • 1383 13 534 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT 534 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT CLIFFORD CENTRE 24 RAFFLES PLACE Size ranging from 800 sq.ft to 19,000 sq.ft. Fitted units available Next to Raffles Place MRT Parnoramic sea view Carparking facilities SINGAPORE LAND LTD 222-9312 ANSON CENTRE Near Tg. Pagor MRT •Area: 421 ft 2
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    • 858 13 534 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT D.Ol SHENTON HOUSE. 441 sq ft. High (Ir. Good frontage. Designer decor. Move in. Rent neg. *****27 NEIL RD. CONSERVATION shophse with Architectural ambience. 1500 sq.ft. S neg. 9852-6462 Agt. BEACH RD. OFFICE. Approx. 350 sg.ft. With mgr. rm. Immed. movein cond. Near MRT. Call
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    • 564 13 535 OFFICE SPACE FOR SALE HIGH RETURNS BOUSTEAO Ind. 661 sq.ft. Tenanted. High ceiling. New. Low investment. 9818-6328 CJ. ÜBI D/STOREY TERR. Workshop. Office/ warehse. Approx. 2600 sq.ft. $680,000. HARVEST *****88 TELOK BLANGAH HOUSE 1430 sq.ft. E'Hold. MRTi Selling below valuation. Rightmann 9408 4554 537 SHOP SPACE FOR RENT CUPPAGC
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    • 768 13 537 SHOP SPACE FOR RENT 537 SHOP SPACE FOR RENT 538 SHOP SPACE FOR SALE LUCKY CHINATOWN SHOP SPACE FOR LEASE Next to landscaped bridge Suitable location for jewellery shops, kitchenware, home furnishings. Chinese Medicine shop, etc. Area 161 to 4166 sq. ft. Attractive rental Immediate occupation Knight W* Frank
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    • 500 13 Properties 538 SHOP SPACE FOR SALE JUST OUTSIDE CBD. 65 Jin Besar. New 2v% storey shophse. F'hold. Opp. Sim Lim 2100 sq.ft *****266 FOR SALE Site A: 670/672 North Bridge Rd Site B: 73/75 Ha}i Lane 4-adjoining shophouses at the fringe of the CBD I Near Bugis MRT Station 1
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    • 901 24 624 ART/ CREATIVE POSITIONS 624 ART/ CREATIVE POSITIONS A leading interior design house requires: (Parkway/Plaza Singapore) Responsible for marketing and managing residential interior projects Possess Diploma in Interior Design or equivalent Minimum 1 year’s relevant experience Possess own vehicle (Poya Labor) Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience Good interpersonal skills Pleasant
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    • 1495 30 663 WAREHOUSING/ INVENTORY POSITIONS 663 WAREHOUSING/ INVENTORY POSITIONS 663 WAREHOUSING/ INVENTORY POSITIONS A' German transnational chemical company, with its regional office in I Sgapore, invites suitable candidates for the position of: LOGISTICS EXECUTIVE s 1 Location: Suntec Tower One Provide logistics support to Regionol Distribution Centre for Asia Pacific W
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