The Straits Times, 3 December 2002

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    30 1 The Straits Times PACIFIC AREA NEWSPAPER OF THEsEAlfy>, Established 1845 TuCSCiay December 3, 2002 •92 Pages in five parts mita (p) 094/03/2002 IV A Singapore Press Holdings publication \J\) Cents
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    Lock icon Third generation in charge by 2012
    694 1  -  BERTHA HENSON PM OUTLINES SUCCESSION PLAN A well-tested new PM will lead Singapore by 2007, and some of the new ministers of state will be made full ministers soon Bit NEWS EDITOR 'THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER WOULD HAVE BEEN WELL-TESTED BY 2007. HE WOULD
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    Lock icon SNIFFING FOR MICROBE WEAPONS:
    63 1 AP A United Nations weapons inspector uses a video camera in front of a large pile of corn at the airfield in Khan Bani Sa'ad, 30 km north-east of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. International weapons monitors inspected the idle airfield on Sunday, apparently searching for devices
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    Lock icon $728 phones go for $60 by mistake
    351 1  -  BEN NADARAJAN BY CHRISTMAS came early for more than 300 SingTel customers who stumbled onto a fantastic deal that will have them paying next to nothing for a brand-new Nokia 6610. A page on SingTel's website offering new mobile phone deals went live
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      156 2 TWO FAITHS, ONE DINNER CHRISTIANS and Muslims will come together next week for a dinner to promote, inter-faith understanding. The dinner, with Catholic Archbishop Nicholas Chia and Mufti of Singapore Syed Isa Semait, is a joint Hari Raya-Christmas celebration. It is the second year that the two faiths have
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      83 2 CO MM EN T A RY ATTACKS BEAR GROUP'S SIGNATURE LAST week's terrorist attacks in Mombasa, Kenya, bear the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda, both because of the organisation's will to strike Israeli targets abroad and its history of trying to do so. Al-Qaeda also tends to conduct coordinated and simultaneous attacks.
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      61 2 PARENTS COULD UNDERMINE GOALS THE planned changes to the education system will fail to achieve their desired results if flustered Singaporean parents respond by sending their children for courses which teach critical thinking, project work and the like, writes student Wan Chang Chin. That's because the changes are essentially
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      94 2 DEAFNESS IS NOT A CLOSED DOOR MS MAY Low, the face of Starbucks' new deaf awareness campaign, says that with the right guidance and facilities, the deaf can do the same things as hearing people can. The 28-year-old accounts assistant is a spirited activist for deaf causes, has a
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      80 2 Slain man linked to share plunge MURDERED Hongkong businessman, Mr Harry Lam, 54, was involved in large share transactions in a locally-listed company whose value last week plunged 98 per cent, a Hongkong newspaper reported. Mr Lam was killed by a single bullet to the head on Saturday morning
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      120 2 Pushing the 'buy green' wagon EFFORTS to get consumers to buy environmentally- friendly products are about to be intensified. The Singapore Environment Council plans to expand a scheme which labels "green" products, while increasing public awareness of the scheme. It says that the Singapore Green Labelling Scheme has been
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      53 2 AS I A Uniting Malaysians THE Malaysian government is looking into the past to find the right formula to unite its multi-racial population. Its latest project to stop Malays, Chinese and Indians from pulling in different directions: Make national schools what they used to be, a melting pot of the
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      71 2 TECHNICAL GLITCH HITS MARKET A TECHNICAL glitch saw the two key benchmarks the Straits Times Index and the Business Times Singapore Regional Index diverge sharply in opposite directions in early trade yesterday. Dealers and other market players were perplexed at the erratic movements but there was no panic selling
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      67 2 THE JI'S REACH HI AUSTRALIA REVELATIONS in the wake of the Bali bombings show that the Al-Qaeda's point man in Asia had wanted to launch attacks at the Sydney 2000 Olympics and that the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) is well entrenched in Australia. JI Australia was set up in 1996
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      120 2 HU HAS ALLY IN A HIGH PLACE AMONG the key positions in the Chinese Communist Party's new leadership, there is one seat, besides party general secretary, that Mr Hu Jintao truly wanted to capture. The crucial post of secretary of the party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has been
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      89 2 A NEW RUSSIAN HERO UNHERALDED Muscovite Mikhail Youzhny, 20, wrote his name into the history books as the man who won Russia its first ever Davis Cup in the 102 years of the competition. Replacing an exhausted Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Sunday's decisive singles against Paul-Henri Mathieu of France, Youzhny's
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      Lock icon Make card payments through cell phones
      494 3  -  STEVE DAWSON Bu TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT New service lets users store credit-card details in phones and use them to pay for purchases, such as movie tickets MOBILE phones have taken a major step to becoming the payment tool of the future, with the announcement of
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      185 3 ALL-WOMEN TRAIN CARRIAGES WAYWARD male passengers will find it hara to dodge this private security guard, who is searching for such commuters aboard a special "all-women" carriage at the overhead Light Railway Transit (LRT) system in Manila. The LRT management last week decided to put
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      Lock icon M1 basks under cheery sun of successful IPO
      412 4  - M 1 basks under cheery sun of successful IPO DENESH DIVYANATHAN By] TECHNOLOGY REPORTER ITS advertisement invited Singaporeans to "come, share the sun". Going by the overwhelming response to Mi's initial public offering (IPO) which closed yesterday, few seemed to have snubbed its call. Singapore's third-biggest IPO ever after SingTel
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      Lock icon CROC DUNDEE, HE IS NOT
      54 4 UNHAPPY NEIGHBOURS 'He is not a Crocodile Dundee who can treat the whole of Asia as an extension of the Australian outback. No country will ever issue a hunting permit to Australian forces. Asia is not a place where Howard can go on a safari.'
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      Lock icon IT'S BREACHING UN CHARTER
      55 4 "The idea would breach the UN charter and international law that upholds the sovereignty, integrity and equality of aD countries. Any effort to change the established system and to move towards unilateralism, as contained in Howard's discourse, would be hard for many countries to accept." Indonesian
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      Lock icon Howard under fire at home for strike remark
      555 4  -  ROGER MAYNARD By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES Strong criticism come from fellow Australians and politicians for sending wrong message. But he isn't budging SYDNEY Prime Minister John Howard came under mounting criticism from fellow Australians and drew harsh words from regional leaders
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      Lock icon WHAT STARTED IT ALL
      86 4 "It stands to reason that if you believe that somebody was going to launch an attack on your country, either of a conventional land or a terrorist kind, and you had a capacity to stop it and there was no alternative other than to use that
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      Lock icon ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS 1S... I DON'T KNOW:
      97 6 REUTERS A Santa looks surprised when Madeleine Karl tells him she does not know what she wants for Christmas, as she visits him at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. American retailers ushered in the holiday season last Friday by
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      581 6  -  JASON LEOW By CHINA CORRESPONDENT Pyongyang is urged to drop N-weapons programme; Putin affirms new bilateral relationship with Jiang's successor I WANT TO EXPRESS THE HOPE, THE CERTAINTY, THAT FUTURE RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS WILL BE BASED PRECISELY ON THAT FOUNDATION AND WILL BE STRONG AND
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      Lock icon SMRT's new chief a surprise choice
      472 6  -  REBECCA LEE By T R A S PO R T R E PO RT F R SMRT Corp's three-month-long search for a chief executive officer (CEO) had a surprise ending to it yesterday when it named someone from outside the military and public sector
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      379 3 Wallet that resides in mobile phones THE wallet Junction is available in the Nokia 6310, 6310i, 6510, 6100, 3530, 6800 and 7250. As Nokia has developed the wallet application according to open Electronic Commerce Modelling Language standards, any manufacturer can implement it in its phones. The application resides in a
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Al-Qaeda's Aussie connection
      56 7 The Sydney Olympic Stadium may have been a target in a plot hatched by Riduan Isamuddin alias Hambali (above left), sometimes called "the Osama bin Laden of the East". Abu Bakar Bashir, Jl's spiritual leader, arrested by Indonesia for alleged involvement in the Bali blasts, visited Australia
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      Lock icon Osama's men targeted Sydney Olympics
      692 7  -  FELIX SOH B* Jemaah Islamiah terrorist network well entrenched in Australia but government think-tank plays down current threat ONE year before the Sept 11 terrorist strike in New York, Al-Qaeda's point man for Asia had wanted to launch attacks at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. This
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      Lock icon Bush too soft on Islam, say US hawks
      453 8 Fears grow that right-wingers will turn terrorism war into battle between the West and an impoverished Muslim world WASHINGTON Many foreign policy hawks some of them with advisory roles in the Bush administration have joined religious conservatives in taking issue with efforts
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      Lock icon Dispute over parts of Kenya car bomb
      364 8 Israel wants to take the pieces but Kenya stands firm MOMBASA The Kenyan and Israeli authorities have wrangled over pieces of a suicide car bomb that killed 16 people and two shoulder-to-air Russian-made Strela missiles that narrowly missed an Israeli jetliner last week.
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      Lock icon Saudi Arabia sets new controls on funds to charities
      255 8 WASHINGTON Saudi Arabia has decided to impose tight new controls on money sent to charities as it tries to broaden anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States, according to Newsweek magazine. It said the Saudis were also now prepared to acknowledge tnat
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      Lock icon Settlements can't last, says Israeli army chief
      417 9  -  ABRAHAM RABINOVICH GENERAL STIRS CONTROVERSY Byi FOR THE STRAITS TIMES JERUSALEM In an off-the-record briefing in Washington, Israeli army chief of staff General Moshe Ya'alon said that most Israeli settlements will have to be abandoned eventually. The statement was made last week during
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      Lock icon Mystery driver tails US ambassador
      114 9 CAIRO The United States ambassador to Egypt, Mr David Welch, was stalked over the weekend by a pickup truck that slipped between his car and his police protection on the Sinai Peninsula, a US embassy spokesman said. The pick-up came between the ambassador's car and
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      Lock icon Islam not a faith of terrorists, says Mubarak
      463 9 Egyptian leader blames unsolved political problems breeding frustration and despair as reason for worldwide attacks CAIRO President Hosni Mubarak has defended Islam against accusations it inspires terrorism or is contrary to democratic ideals and human rights during a speech delivered to mark
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      Lock icon In honour of Iraqi martyrs
      83 10 In honour of Iraqi martyrs GUARDS of honour march in front of a huge monument built in Baghdad as a martyrs memorial. Dec 1 is Iraq's Martyr Day, which has been marked since the 1980s to honour its prisoners of war who were allegedly killed by Iran during the eight-year
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      Lock icon Iraq's neighbours may back US strikes
      624 10 Kuwait: It may be the staunchest US ally in the Persian Gulf. Kuwaiti officials are bitter about Iraq's 1990 invasion of their country and see President Saddam Hussein's government as a continuing menace. Bahrain: Officials would be happy if a way was found to
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      Lock icon US lobbying Iran to remain on the sidelines
      377 10 US lobbying Iran to remain on the sidelines Disarming Saddam 'also in Teheran's interests' WASHINGTON As it courts military and diplomatic support among allies for a possible war against Iraq, the United States is also quietly reaching out to a longtime adversary Iran in hopes that it will stay on
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      Lock icon UN inspectors zoom in on Baghdad's missiles
      453 11 dfbdfnb They make a surprise visit to an airfield and enter a research centre which developed missile guidance systems BAGHDAD Trying to cast off doubts that they were not carrying out surprise inspections 01 weapons sites in Iraq, UN disarmament inspectors homed in
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      Lock icon Saddam rules through fear, says Britain
      278 11 Saddam rules through fear, says Britain LONDON The British government accused Iraq of systematic human-rights abuses yesterday, charging that President Saddam Hussein used torture, rape and terror to oppress his people. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the Iraqi people lived in Fear and subjugation and that a detailed government report
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      68 11 Al-Husseins are modified from Iraq's Sixty of these missiles were fired at Saudi older Scud-B missiles. Arabia and Israel during the 1991 Gulf War The Al-Hussein would put most of Israel and have been banned by the United and all of Syria within striking range. Nations
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      Lock icon Iran teacher convicted of blasphemy appeals
      132 12 Iran teacher convicted of blasphemy appeals TEHERAN A lawyer for a university professor sentenced to death for insulting Islam appealed against the verdict on the last day before it became final, state-run Teheran radio reported Monday. "Hashem Aghajari's lawyer lodged an appeal on Monday morning on the last day of
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      519 12  - 'New Labour' blamed for dispute with firefighters ALFRED LEE THE STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU British union bosses blast the Blair government's handling of the pay dispute as they pledge support for the strikers LONDON Four powerful union bosses have launched new attacks on the government over its handling of the
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      198 12 LONDON A refugee centre that has stirred up a diplomatic row on both sides of the English Channel will close at the end of this month, four months earlier than planned. At a ioint press conference in London yesterday, Home Secretary David Blunkett
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    • PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Mike Arroyo trades golf club for hammer
        168 12 Mike Arroyo trades golf club for hammer HE BUILDS FOR THE POOR MANILA First Gentleman Mike Arroyo traded his golf club for a hammer to help the religious group Couples for Christ (CFC) build houses for the poor in Quezon City on Sunday. Along with daughter Luli, Mr Arroyo stacked
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      Lock icon DEMOCRAT KERRY EYES PRESIDENCY
      97 12 WASHINGTON Democrat John Kerry, a leading Senate liberal and decorated gunboat officer during the Vietnam War, said on Sunday he is taking a first step towards running for president in 2004. Mr Kerry, a 58-year-old former prosecutor first elected to the Senate in 1984, has said
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      Lock icon RUSSIAN SET FOR ROWING RECORD
      89 12 RUSSIAN SET FOR ROWING RECORD MOSCOW Russian Fyodor Konyukhov was poised to set a new 47--day world record for rowing across the Atlantic from the Canaries to Barbados, beating the standing time by 10 days, Itar-Tass news agency reported. His speciallyequipped, British-built rowing-boat, the Uralaz, was within five sea miles
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      Lock icon FIRE DAMAGES EX-BUTLER'S SHOP
      128 12 CARDIFF (Wales) Police in Wales are investigating a fire that seriously damaged a florist's shop owned by the former butler of the late Diana, Princess of Wales as a possible arson attack, officials said. Firemen were called in the early hours of Sunday to the shop
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      390 13 Boston diocese may declare bankruptcy The Catholic Church is considering this idea to cope with impending lawsuits over sex abuse by clergy BOSTON The Roman Catholic archdiocese in Boston could become the first in the United States to declare bankruptcy as a way to grapple with the hundreds of pending
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      183 13 Germany and France seek to unify EU tax rules LONDON France and Germany have agreed to push to harmonise European Union tax policies, despite resistance from Britain. A joint French-German paper will be presented to the Convention on the Future of Europe proposing moves to harmonise corporate and value added
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  • COMMENTARY • ANALYSIS
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        Lock icon Preventing pre-emption
        571 14 PRE-EMPTIVE military strikes are to be I expected only between hostile nations. So when a country announces its willingness to launch such an action against targets in a friendly nation with no warning given to, or permission sought from the other government it should expect to face a
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      Lock icon Penang project splits ruling party
      816 14  -  P. RAM AS AMY *L CONTROVERSY PENINSULAR Metroworks was given the deal worth overßMl billion (Ss49o million) to construct a 17-km road to ease traffic congestion on Penang island. The controversial project requires the removal of old heritage buildings, temples, shrines, houses and burial grounds.
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      846 14  -  ROHAN GUNARATNA Hallmarks of Al-Qaeda *L THE recent attacks in Mombasa, Kenya, bear the hallmark of Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda has both the desire and ability to strike Israeli targets overseas. It also has a history of attempting to do so: It mounted surveillance of Israeli diplomatic
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      Lock icon As much at home in S'pore as in India
      934 15  - As much at home in S'pore as in India NIRMAI GHOSH By INDIA CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo's remark to The Straits Times last week, to the effect that Indian businessmen should one day think of flying to Singapore just as they would to any other
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      683 15  -  KARAMJIT KAUR Bu TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT LICENSING REQUIREMENTS ACHILLES' HEEL THE Goliath in the making from the proposed DelgroComfort merger is unnerving. With one company controlling about 90 per cent of the taxis on the road and no regulator to control what
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      237 17 Would ijoupay $9 for this? SOME pubs and restaurants in Singapore refuse to serve water to customers. Instead, they insist that customers buy mineral water. My friends and I were at the Insomnia bar at Chijmes recently. I asked for a glass of ice water and was informed, albeit politely,
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      44 1 The Straits Times home Tuesday, December 3, 2002 BE PREPARED Yaccines are not the answer, there are simply not enough around. IS toxin-weapons expert Anthony Tu, who suggests it is better to prepare hospitals to detect and treat victims of chemical and biological weapons
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        774 2  -  LAUREL TEO SUE-ANN CHIA Logically, people can cope, but don't know enough about relief measures and are upset at what is seen as another hike By and PAYING more for GST is like paying higher bus fares, as far as the man-in-the-street is concerned.
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        256 2 "In May this year, we decided to increase the GST to 5 per cent from next year. But the economic prospects for next year now look uncertain. So DPM Lee, who is Finance Minister, is looking at two options: To increase
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        576 3 PAP scouting for young to refresh its ranks PARTY REACHING OUT The primary purpose is to talent scout and to engage these young Sporeans.' PMGoh,onhis suggestion to institute a Young Friends of the PAP scheme for those who cannot, or will not, become card-carrying members PM Goh proposes "Young Friends"
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        277 3 A time to feast, a time to share HARI RAYA AND CHRISTMAS MUSLIMS and Christians will dine together with Catholic Archbishop Nicholas Chia and Mufti of Singapore Syed Isa Semait in a joint Hari RayaChristmas celebration next Thursday. Also present will be the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) president
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        422 3  -  SIM CHI YIN *L SHE says it is not winning that keeps her going but swimmer Theresa Goh, 15, is certainly on a winning streak. Fresh from clinching three gold medals and a silver at a regional meet last month in Busan, South
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        453 4  -  KARAMJTT KAUR A SMOOTHER RIDE By TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT Motorists turning onto the CTE now have a shorter wait at the lights. Slip roads to and from the CTE are also being widened THE morning drive from Upper Serangoon Road to Bishan Roaa used
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        254 4  -  SAMUEL LEE Bu TIMES are bad and budgets may shrink, but the quality of products must not suffer. This was the theme of the welcome speech by Mr Jim Chabin, CEO of Promax BDA, at Promax BDA Asia 2002 yesterday. Promax BDA is a Los Angeles-based
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        421 4  -  JANE LEE Bu XINMIN Secondary's principal Lee Hak Boon, who has been credited for turning the neighbourhood school from a losing proposition into an award winner, is now set to work the same magic at Catholic High. The 45-year-old will be
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        487 5  - Three brothers to share 14m assets equally SELINA LUM Karung Guni Business Tussle By Eldest brother loses battle to keep most of assets of firm he says he alone built, as court says partnership was equal THE man who claimed that he alone built his father's karungguni stall into the
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        41 5 PHOTOS: SHIN MIN Two of the three homes at the centre of the tussle are a house on Kang Choo Bin Road (left) and a shophouse on Jalan Senang. The third is a Palm Grove Avenue house.
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        225 5 TOX another sports club suspected of illegal gaming was raided yesterday. The police seized 32 gaming machines, more than 10,000 game tokens and $473.40 in cash from Long Wah Athletic Association in Seng Poh Road. On Nov 20, 18 sports clubs in Geylang, Balestier,
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        175 5 A DOCTOR has been suspended and fined for dispensing addictive sleeping pills to his patients indiscriminately. Dr Chan Chee Kheong, a general practitioner, registered since 1990, was suspended for two years and fined $10,000 for over-prescribing Erimin and Dormicum at Vince Clinic on Joo Chiat Road
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          63 5 A 56-YEAR-OLD woman took the trouble to lock all the doors in her house before the family went out for dinner last Saturday, but she still fell victim to a break-in. A thief got in through a window on the second floor of the
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          58 5 A NATIONAL Serviceman died from head injuries on Sunday after the motorcycle he was riding collided with a taxi. Mr Soh Woei Liang, 21, was travelling on the Pan-Island Expressway towards Changi Airport when the accident happened near the Stevens Road exit at 4.30 pm.
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          33 5 A MALAYSIAN worker, 23, is in intensive care at the National University Hospital after his motorcycle collided with a lorry on the Bukit Timah Expressway on Sunday morning.
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          51 5 A BELLHOP was charged yesterday with severing a businessman's finger with a parang. Muliantoh Ramli, 23, was accused of causing hurt to Muhammad Yusoff Abdul Wahid, also 23, at the Pebbles KTV lounge at Seaview Hotel. His case will be mentioned again on Dec
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          68 5 GUARD STOLE FROM SCHOOL A SECURITY guard at the Overseas Family School was yesterday jailed for two months for stealing from the school he was guarding. Perisamy Kolandavelu, 36, and another guard, Dharmendra Singh, 24, were working the night shift when they broke into the school secretary's office at 3
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          84 5 FIRE caused extensive damage to the production line of a Senokp Way factory yesterday^norn- ing. No one was injured. Finest Gold and Silver Refinery, an electro-plat-ing company, caught fire at about 4 am. The Singapore Civil Defence Force took half an hour to put out the
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        598 6  -  NATALIE SOH 'LOOKING AT CANCEROUS TISSUE IS THE ONLY NAY OF STUDYING AND UNDERSTANDING THE DISEASE. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.' Prof Liu, on the need to collect cancerous tissue samples Samples taken with patients' permission will help researchers in their search for
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        232 6 PATIENTS wMI be asked if thevwiH volunteer to donate tissue samples, and doctors will explain the process and the reason for taking the sample. There is no coercion and the patient will receive the same care, whether or net he decides to donate the sample. After the
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        215 6 THE Government has given 227 students the National Science Scholarship since the scheme began last year. Out of these recipients, 147 are studying biomedical sciences in fields as diverse as biochemistry, biophysics and developmental biology, i Others are pursuing degrees in material sciences, quantum
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        587 7  -  CHANG AI-LIEN B, SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT DIVERSE RANGE OF WEAPONS 'No country today is prepared for a biological or chemical attack, and it's impossible to fully prepare against all such attacks, given the diverse range of chemical and biological weapons that can be utilised. US
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        692 7  - From plotting murders to protecting people Chang Ai -Lien ONE of his colleagues died in agony with blood streaming from his parch-ment-thin skin days after he accidently injected himself with a deadly virus. Dr Ken Alibek experienced this a scene most people see only in the movies when he was
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      388 1 F F HSON A 1. I 1 Y A Winner All The Way Swimmer Theresa Goh, 15, is named disabled Sports Girl of the Year. page H3 it E'di cation New Head For Catholic High Xinmin Secondary's principal Lee Hak Boon transferred to Catholic High. paceh4 COURTS The Case Is
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      221 2 OFFSET PACKAGES MAKE A DIFFERENCE 'People can't put all the rebates and shares together into one and see how they are actually better off. But when you sit down and put in the actual numbers, then people seem to understand. Hence, there's a need to put out the message more
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      76 2 HIKE'S FINE BUT FREEZE OTHER COSTS The Government should go ahead with the GST hike, but one suggestion is to freeze all costs and transport fares for the next three years. Those earning $4,000 and above may wish to donate their Economic Restructuring Shares. This comes out to about $70
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      32 1 The Straits Times asia Tuesday, DecemlxT 3, 2002 POPULAR BUT INEFFECTIVE Hes got the popularity, but not the policies. Prof Steven Reed of Tokyo's Chuo University assessing Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
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      782 1  - Malaysia mines the past for future harmony BRENDAN PEREIRA By MALAYSIA CORRKSPONDK NT Mindful that its races are pulling apart, its leaders are trying to bring back the 'melting-pot' national school of the past KUALA LUMPUR Nostalgia hangs heavy in the air in Kuala Lumpur these days as the government
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        904 2  -  TIANLI China's New Leaders *L Wu Guangzheng, who secured the post of CCDI secretary, is the new party chief's only ally in the Standing Committee AMONG the key positions in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) new leadership, there is one seat, besides party
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        89 2 Many mouths make light work NEARLY 1,000 diners enjoyed the challenge of devouring the bubbling contents of two massive hotpots measuring 2.25 m high and 2 m wide during a food fest in Xian, western China. According to the Beijing Morning Post, the pots each weighed 300 kg and several
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        457 3 HONGKONG A prominent Hongkong businessman slain in an execution-style shooting at the weekend was involved in large share transactions in a locally listed company whose value last week plunged 98 per cent, local media reported yesterday. Mr Harry Lam, 54, was killed by a
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        511 3  - Villagers in Beijing land row given cold shoulder JASON LEOW Bu CHINA CORRESPONDENT Hundreds of protesters seeking compensatjon are told they will be 'notified at a later date' BEIJING Several hundred protesting villagers who turned up at a meeting expecting answers from their party secretary over money owed to them
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        253 4 Putin and Vajpayee to discuss terrorism and Iraq NEW DELHI Terrorism and Iraq will dominate talks between Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is due to arrive here today for a state visit, an official said yesterday. During the three-day visit, the two countries
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        202 4 TAIPEI Taiwan's top economic planning body has proposed a one-year job creation scheme in an effort to cut the unemployment rate to below 4.5 per cent by the end of next year. The Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) is aiming to create more
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        429 4  -  MARY KWANG Professor says too much weight is placed on academic success even as jobs are being generated in other areas HOXCKOXC CORRESPONDENT ASSOCIATE Professor Howard Cheng of the Polytechnic University laments that some Hongkong parents weep when their children fail
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        102 4 TAIPEI Taiwan said yesterday that it plans to cut the price of rice wine by more than half after homedistilled products caused at least four deaths. Vice-Finance Minister T.S. Wang said his ministry has submitted to the Cabinet a revised statute on tobacco
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          50 4 AILING tycoon Koo Chen-fu was yesterday appointed to serve another three-year term as Taiwan's top envoy to China. For the past 12 years, Mr Koo, 85, has been the head of the Straits Exchange Foundation, a semi-official organisation which handles Taiwan's relations with China. AP
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          79 4 A SUPREME Court panel in India yesterday halted the trial of three business-tycoon brothers of the Hindu) a family, which was due to start this week, reversing an earlier decision by three other Supreme Court judges in one of India's most famous corruption scandals. Meanwhile,
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          41 4 A SOUTH Korean civic delegation left for the United States yesterday to demand a direct apology from President George W. Bush over the acquittal of two US soldiers who killed two schoolgirls in a road accident. AFP
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          67 4 HONGKONG'S preeminent pro-democracy politician Martin Lee has stepped down as leader of the Democratic Party but is expected to remain a thorn in Beijing's side. Mr Lee said he stepped down because the party's Constitution states that a chairman cannot serve more than four
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          61 4 RESIDENTS attacked army soldiers in a village in India's north-east, mistaking them for separatist rebels, and the clash that ensued left at least eight people dead and nine wounded on Sunday, police said. The group of nine soldiers, dressed in plainclothes, had come to raid
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        476 5  - Lawmakers seek stiff penalties for negligent doctors GUZBAGUIORO Support among Filipinos for the measure snowballs after a number of malpractice cases which have caused injuries and needless deaths Bit PHU.IPPINhS CORRKSPONDKNT MANILA An increasing number of publicised cases of medical malpractice has prompted the filing of a Bill proposing stiff
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        265 5 BANGKOK At least 300 doctors have quit their posts in state-run hospitals this year, a 50-per-cent jump compared to last year. The exodus was a signal that there was a looming state health care crisis that needed attention, a senior public health official said.
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        545 6  -  ROBERT GO Detention has strengthened the cleric's conviction that Indonesia needs a leadership sensitive to Muslims, much to Jakarta's dismay B, THE STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BIREAI JAKARTA Cleric Abu Bakar Bashir is in detention but still dreams about Islamic laws for Indonesia and
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        97 6 DENPASAR The Bali bomb blasts in Kuta will be re-enacted to assist in investigations, an officer of the joint investigative team said yesterday. And key suspects Imam Samudra, 35, Amrozi, 40, and four others will be moved from Jakarta to Bali for the re-enactment.
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        168 6 BANGKOK A South Korean tourist cycling through Thailand may face up to two years in prison for allegedly assaulting a police- man during a scuffle caused by a misunderstanding when he asked for directions in English, police said yesterday. Yoon Ok-hwan, 41, from Seoul, was arrested
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        234 6 Thais crack down on drug inmates BANGKOK The Corrections Department intends to put drug traffickers in maximum security wings to control inmates after a convict was discovered using a mobile phone to sell drugs from prison. "These drug offenders will be separated from the prison population and targeted for maximumsecurity
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        988 7 Bargains that break the economy suramiK in INDONESIA PART II OF A TWO-PART SERIES A main driver of Indonesia's underground economy is the "under-the-table" sale of goods. ROBERT GO of The Straits Times Indonesia Bureau reports on smuggling in the second part of our series on its "informal sector". JAKARTA
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          48 7 RESIDENTS RESIST POLICE RAID POLICE faced violent resistance from residents of a Bangkok suburb on Sunday when more than 300 officers raided a four-storey building suspected of being a gambling den. A number of police officers and residents were injured in the clash. The Nation Asia News Network
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          38 7 A SMALL bomb exploded yesterday outside a government office in Sulawesi, the scene of sporadic clashes between Muslims and Christians, state news agency Antara reported. There were no injuries in the pre-dawn explosion. AP
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          64 7 BULLET-RIDDEN BODIES FOUND THE bullet-ridden bodies of three youths believed to be from Myanmar were found yesterday on a roadside in a Bangkok suburb, police said. The killings were probably the result of a drug dispute, they said. The victims one male and two females, all in their early 2Os
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          50 7 INDONESIAN President Megawati Sukarnoputri is to appoint former foreign minister Ali Alatas as one of two special envoys to advise her on a series of international conferences next year, a minister said yesterday. The other adviser is former Foreign Ministry director-general Nana Sutresna. AFP
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          69 7 VIDEO tapes showing Vietnamese children suffering the effects of Agent Orange sprayed by the US army during the American War have Deen released in Japan. The video was dubbed into Japanese and the money collected will be used to help victims. Some 154,000 children have
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        558 8  -  LESLIE LAU Move To Clean Up Moneylending Business B, 1\ kl A1.A1.l MPI R The authorities can do little to stop strong-arm tactics used to recover debts as most of the moneylenders are licensed MALAYSIA'S crackdown on the activities of loan sharks, Whose debt-collecting tactics
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        475 8 PETALING JAYA Two Malaysian celebrities have been arrested by the religious authorities for allegedly committing khalwat at a posh condominium here on Sunday. Actress Aida Rahim and singer Joe Radzwill were detained early on Sunday by the Selangor Religious Department (JAIS) officers for being In
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        83 8 PETALING JAYA About 2,000 Malaysian musicians are planning to log a protest with the government to stop local entertainment spots from engaging foreign musicians. They claim that some agents are using Malaysia as a dumping ground for third-class acts. "What we don't understand is why
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        681 8  -  REME AHMAD By IN KUALA LUMPUR Mixed message 'I DIDN'T SAY THAT WE ARE GOING TO THE COURT, DID I? I HAVEN'T SAID ANYTHING...! AM NOT SAYING THAT WE ARE PREPARING FOR ANYTHING BUT WE WILL PREPARE.' Malaysian Foreign Minister Sy
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        77 9 THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Lim Pooi Ling gets a hug from the most important person in her life her grandmother Yoe Ah Chia, 70 after she went missing and was found more than 50 km from her home in Kuala Lumpur. Pooi Ling is staying
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        355 9 State official rejects reports that economy of opposition-controlled state is faring very badly KOTA BARU More than 200,000 Kelantanese living in other states are propping up its economy by remitting no less than RM2 billion (*****,000) a month to their parents, said a state
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        256 9 PAS leaders 'rejected by other nations' UMNO YOUTH HITS OUT KUALA TERENGGANU Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) leaders are not viewed favourably even outside Malaysia, Umno Youth leader Hishamuddin Tun Hussein said, citing as an example the rejection of a visa for PAS acting president Abdul Hadi Awang to go to
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          72 9 ALTHOUGH Hari Raya is four days away, the 6a/ik kampune (going home) exodus nas begun, with some people taking leave for the coming week to get a headstart in the rush to make it home. Many of Kuala Lumpur's transport terminals were more crowded than
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          45 9 TWO horses apparently destined for the cooking pot during the upcoming Hari Raya season were saved from being slaughtered when police picked up a man suspected of stealing the animals from a house in Ipoh yesterday. New Straits Times
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          34 9 MALAYSIA'S first-ever fully furnished shuttle service City Tram will start its operations in Kuching in the middle of this month, said Sarawak State Tourism Minister Abane Johari Tun Opene. Bernama
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          62 9 NINE foreign women visiting Malaysia on social visit passes have been arrested for working as guest relations officers at nightclubs in Seremban, said Negri Sembilan state police. State CID Chief Mohmad Salleh said seven of them were from China and the rest from Thailand.
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          74 9 PROTEST OVER BANK UNION'S FEES HUNDREDS of bank workers resumed their noisy protest yesterday after the banks' association failed to adhere to advice by the government to deduct union fees from their members' salaries, a union leader said. The demonstrators are members of the National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE),
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      53 10 The Straits Times sports Tuesday, Decenilier 3, 2(X)2 BETTER THAN SEX 7 cannot describe what I'm feeling right now. It's just something that is so great. It's the best better than sex. World No 3 and Russian tennis ace Marat Safin (left), after winning the Davis Cup against France. See
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      511 10  -  G.SIVAKKUMARAN SOCCER B,i Despite the high fees, parents won't stint on sending kids to soccer camps THEY can cost up to $595 per child, carry no promises that their participants will become future Diego Maradonas or David Beckhams, and last
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      369 10  -  CHIAHAN KEONG 'IIL WHY spend a bomb on commercial soccer camps, when the Centres of Excellence (COEs) from the S-League clubs offer proper and professional coaching free of charge all year long? This was the Football Association of Singapore's response to the growing number
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      503 10 LONDON Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek may pay the price with a place on the bench after his mistake gifted Manchester United a 2-1 victory at Anfield. The Polish international let Jamie Carragher's header slip under his legs, allowing Diego Forlan through for the simplest
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      Lock icon Westerveld's plight a warning to Dudek
      352 10 LONDON As Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek struggles to regain his confidence amid calls for him to be benched, he would do well to take a lesson from the experiences of predecessor Sander Westerveld. The Dutch custodian, who was unceremoniously dumped by manager Gerard Houllier
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      Lock icon Roma as good as its top Serie A rivals, says coach Capello
      246 10 ROME AS Roma may be ninth in Serie A and 10 points behind league leader Lazio, but coach Fabio Capello believes his side is as good as any of the teams above it in Italy. "I can't see
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      420 10 YOKOHAMA European champion Real Madrid will be looking to put a poor run of results behind it and cap its centenary year with victory over Olimpia of Paraguay in the World Club Cup today. The Spanish giant, which arrived in Japan
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        102 11 2nd Anniversary In Loving Memory Of KAN WEE YAM Departed on 3 December 2000. Time changes many things, But not the memory this days brings. Always remembered and cherished by loved ones. Wlfe:TanAhMoey Son: Daughter: Kang Guan Hock Elsie Chiang Kim Lian Daughters: Sons-in-law: Kang Sioh Gek (Kan Ah Lek,
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        43 11 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences To The Family Of The Late Rechael Phillip (called home to the Lord on 29 Nov 2002) Always loved and remembered by: The Management and Staff of McDonald's Restaurants Pte Ltd We will miss you Rechael K X
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        49 11 1 The Family Of The Late RUTH FANG FANG ENG TING (Departed on 23 Nov 2002) wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to relatives and friends for their attendance, condolences, prayers, donations, wreaths and kind assistance during their recent bereavement. Words cannot adequately express our sincere gratitude.
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        77 11 i 31st Anniversary S* In Loving Memory Of i GOVINDASAMY HACHUTHEN Departed 3/12/1971 Of one we will never forget, His absence to us is a sorrow. His loss we will always regret. Always remembered by I family loved ones B B AVTAR KAUR D/0 LATE SURDARA SINGH Wife of Channdttp
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        98 12 MRS TEO JIT NEO NEE TAN JIT NEO AGE: 64 passed away peacefully on oi TXEC 2002, (caving behind (wed ones. Husband: Teo Mao Tian, Gordon Son: Daughter-in-law: Teo Seng Huat, Dennis Ang Siak Ping, Jennifer Daughter: Son-in-law: Teo Li-Hua, Evelyn Gim Shung Cheul Grandsons: Teo Tat Loong, Daniel Eugene
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        99 12 have fought the good fight, I have finished the race; I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7 YEE SIEW LOON Aqe: 55 was called home to be with the Lord on 2 December 2002. Dearly missed by: Wife: Helen Liew Kwai Hoi Son: Daughter-in-law: Yee Hoy Yong, Gene Tay
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        65 12 With Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to Our CEO MR ROBERT CHIA KH on the demise of his beloved Father CHIA TECK HAI on 30 Nov 2002 From: The Management and Staff of Min Aik Technology Co. Ltd Min Aik Technology USA, Inc. Min Aik Colour Plating Co. Ltd Min
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        127 12 3 "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me tl! all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house oflheHordforerer." Psalms 23 CHONG TOH TECK AGE: 81 was catted home to be with the Lord on 2 'December 2002, (caving behind Coved ones. (Husband: Koh Chwee Beng,
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        74 12 SOO AH CHOO AGE: 67 passed away peacefulTy on 2 (December 2002, leaving behind (ovecdmes. Husband: Neo Boon Kee Son: Daughter-in-law: Neo You Soon Tan Ai Hong Daughter: Son-in-law: Neo Poh Keow Steven Loh Grandsons: Granddaughter: Neo Yi-En Alicia Loh Cai Feng Neo Yang Body resting at Blk 256, Ang
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        121 12 AU YONG LAI YOONG, JOANNA Age 45 passed away peacefully on 1 December 2002 Sadly missed and lovingly remembered by: Husband: Yap Peng Huat, Kenny Daughter: Yap Weiling, Yvonne Son: Yap Wen Jie, Eugene Father Mother Aw Yong Chi Hing Yip Siew Wah Brothers Sisters-in-Law Au Yong Kok Fye Karen
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        109 12 LER TEO CHENG Age: 85 passed away peacefully on 1-12-02, leaving behind loved ones. (Wife: Tan Soo Sim, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: Ler Kim Huat Lai Tuan Tuan Ler Kim Heng (Lee Hwee Hwee, deceased) LerKimSia LekAhMui (Ler Kim Seng, deceased) Ler Kim Phoon Chua Chye Juan Daughters: Sons-in-law: (Ler Le
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        52 12 2nd Anniversary In Everloving Memory Of LEONG HONG TOH Departed on 3 Dec 2000 Dearest Pa Remembering you is easy We know and appreciate all your sacrifices Missing you is hard Our present comfort is that Your Spirit has returned to Cod who gave it Ecc 12:7 Ray Ros Tina
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        63 12 In Memory Of Our Dearest Angel THIVYA D/0 ATHIHOOLAH Departed 3/12/99 3 years have passed not a single day goes by without thinking talking about you. Your smile, your goodness S all memories are so fresh in our minds. You are the angel of our lives. Be happy wherever you
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        58 12 YONG SAM HENG AGE: 58 passed away peacefully on 2 Dec 2002, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Wong Yoen Moy Daughters: Son-in-law: Yong Pei Yee Peter Chow Chee King Yong Pei Juin Body resting at Blk 121, Teck Whye Lane (Void deck), S'pore *****1. Tel: 6760 4155 Cortege leaves on
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        158 12 TAY KIM ENG Age: 75 was called home to be with the Lord on 2-12-02, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Lim Soon Tee Sons: Daughters-in-law: Tay Chai Seng Beatrice Tay Chye Kok, Lawrence Lee Guat Kheng Tay Chye Beng, Calvin Ang Siew Geok. Wendy Daughters: Sons-in-law: Tay Chen Yang. Christine
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        129 12 "Jesus said to her, 7 am the resurrection and the Me. He who believes In me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes In me will never die. John 11 25-26 Rechael Phillip was called home to the Lord on 29 Nov 2002. Dearly missed by
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        94 12 JIMMY EE FOOK CHYE Age: 55 passed away peacefully on 01 Dec 2002 sadly missed by Mother Loh Nun Keow Wife: Lim Ah Kim Brothers: Sisters-in-law: (Ee Hock Hee, deceased) Ang Ai Choo Paul Ee Fook Huat Lucy Chan Sisters: Brother-in-law: Ee Fook Neo Danny Koh Ee Oi Lin Nephews:
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        111 12 TOI HIEN ENG Age: 66 patted away tuddenly on 2 December 2002. Dearly mitted by tens, daughters and loved ones. Body is resting at void deck of Bik 367 Tampines Street 34. Cortege will leave on 4 December 2002 at 8.45am for Mount Vernon Crematorium for cremation at 9.45am. Tel:
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        67 12 SOH WOEI LIANG Age 23 passed away peacefully on 1 Dec 2002. leaving behind loved ones. Father Son Van Kheong Mother Yeo Cheng Lian Brothers Son Wei Ye Soh Wei Zhi Body resting at Multi Purpose Hall of Blk 656 Jurong West Street 65, Tel: *****197 *****884. Cortege will leave
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        51 12 NANTHAKUMAR S/0 PACKIRISAMY Age: 47 passed away peacefully on 1.12.2002 Leaving behind Wife: Chettiar Alagamah (Malliga) Brothers, sisters, relatives and friends. Body is resting at Blk 881 Woodlands St. 82 804-44 Cortege will leave on 3.12.02 (Tues) at 4pm for Mount Vernon Crematorium for cremation at spm g Tel: *****087
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        43 12 SAROJINI Age: 51 Passed away peacefully on 2-12-2002 Leaving behind Sons, Sisters, Brothers, Brothers-in-law, Nephews, Nieces and all Relatives to mourn her loss. Cortege leaves Blk 368, Bt Batok St 31, #02-471 8(*****8) at 3pm for Mt Vernon Crematorium Tel: *****357 Hp; *****548
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        51 12 sth Anniversary I In Lcvlnq Memory Of KWEK BOON TONG Departed: 3 Dec 1997 Rest in peace, dear loving father, Five long years have passed away; You are gone, but still are living In the hearts of those who stay. Mr Mrs Jackie Seet Family Mr Mrs Tan Peng Guan
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        57 12 Ist Anniversary In Loving Memory Of I UMADEVI Sivaganqa d/o The Late P Ponnusamy Departed on 3 Dec 200 In our home she is fondly remembered. Sweet memories cling to her name; Those who loved her ii life sincerely. Still love her in death just the same. Always remembered by
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      642 11 TENNIS The 20-year-old substitute fights from two sets down to win decider PARIS Before the Davis Cup final, the organisers asked Russian star Marat Safin to say what he associated with each letter of the alphabet. D stood for Davis Cup while R meant
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      Lock icon Defeat sees Lakers crashing to the bottom
      327 11 BASKETBALL LOS ANGELES For the first time in nine years, the Minnesota Timberwolves scored a win over the Lakers in Los Angeles but not before nearly blowing an eightpoint lead in the last 41 seconds. Kevin Garnett had 23 points, 15 rebounds and
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      406 11 GOLF INDIO (California) Every now and then, Mark O'Meara can still get the better of Tiger Woods. Far more frequently, someone with a camera gets to Woods. O'Meara won the Skins Game for his first victory of any kind in four years. He collected
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      1021 11 dbsdn AMERICAN FOOTBALL NFL: Buffalo 38 Miami 21 Baltimore 27 Cincinnati 23, Carolina 13 Cleveland 6. Green Bay 30 Chicago 20 Pittsburgh 25 Jacksonville 23. Kansas City 49 Arizona 0. Atlanta 30 Minnesota 24 (OT). Tennessee 32 NY Giants 29 (0T). Indianapolis 19 Houston 3. San Diego
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        64 13 Dec 2 CHANGE HONGKONG: Hang Seng *****.16 +135.29 MALAYSIA: KLSE Comp 624.26 -4.96 CHINA: Shenzhen B 191.05 -3.79 AUSTRALIA: Sydney All Ord 3047.60 +22.40 JAPAN: Nikkei 9174.47 -41.09 THAILAND: SET Index 366.67 +1.77 INDONESIA: Jakarta Comp 389.27 -1.15 PHILIPPINES: Manila Comp 1050.04 +2.82 SOUTH KOREA: Seoul Comp 730.16
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        36 13 Chart SemiCond 26c 27,584.000 SembCorp ind 25c 22,959.000 NatSteel 50c 17.097,000 Datacraft 10c 16,408,000 SingTel 15c 13.357,000 Citiraya 2.5c 10,984,000 Surface MT HK2Oc 7.907,000 TT Int 15c 7,732,000 Europtron 10c 7,585,000 UniFiber 10c 7,233,000
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        116 13 MAIN SDO TOTAL Up Dn Unch Up Dn Unch Up Dn Unch Multi Ind 6 19 0 0 0 6 19 Manufacturing 32 26 39 5 10 8 37 36 47 Commerce 7 12 19 4 5 1 11 17 20 Tpt/Stor/Comms 49 11 000 49 11
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        41 13 Change Straits Times Index 1396.81 +5.28 BT 08/OS 87.00 +72.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -12.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +8.00 UOB Sesdaq 55.89 +0.39 UOB Blue Chip 495.16 +1.49 STI Futures 1395 +4.00 MSCI Singapore 172.68 +0.68 SiMSCI Futures 172.20 +0.50
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        97 13 TURNOVER COOO) VALUE ('OOO) Main Sdq Total Main Sdq Total Multi ind 50,297 50.297 67.838 67,838 Manufacturg 102,199 8,844 111,043 96,102 2,575 98,678 Commerce 22,204 2,136 24,340 8,311 458 8.768 Tpt/Stor/Com 26,886 26,886 33.697 33.697 Finance 13 620 13.620 75.552 75.552 Construction 16.070 434 16,504 4,226 48
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        3947 13 dbdzfnfn 52-Wk Currency last 'Vol Day Gr's Net M Cap mm laa. c mmm '000 jg_________j u* T1.5 4.5 Acma SOc 7 unch 388 7 6.5 54.7 13 7 Alliance Tech 11.5 susp 9.5 9.5 4 Asia Food&Prop 6 unch 772 6.5 6 174.2 68 22
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        232 13 STOCK PRICES LEGEND NOTES All shares Quoted have a par value of $1 and are Straits Times Index Stocks traded in lots of 1.000 shares each unless otherwise bi buyfng-ln specified S scrlplessandnonCPF All shares are scriplesj except Burwili.Fujitec. IMC, c Stocks approved under CPF Investments Scheme mt
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        1046 14 US industrial output shrinks for third month Manufacturing sector remains stagnant even as economy expands; low interest rates continue to support home-building NEW YORK Economic activity in the manufacturing sector declined for the thira month in a row even as the overall United States economy grew for the 13th straight
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        550 14 COMPUTER EQUIPMENT AND SOFTWARE LEAD THE WAY WASHINGTON The first hint that Spectrian Corp might need to boost next year's capital spending came three weeks ago as marketing chief Joe Madden scrolled through websites that track contract awards worldwide. Several cellular telephone
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        127 14 Foreign Currency Note Rates (9am, Dec 2) Buying OP Selling Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 0.9840 1.0000 Canadian dollar 1.1190 1.1430 Euro 1.7490 1.7710 NZ dollar 0.8740 0.8990 Sterling pound 2.7360 2.7650 US dollar 1.7620 1.7730 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency
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        133 14 dfndnfd Rubbor Futurti (Closing prtcts) RSS 1 (S eants/kq) Month Hlah Low Satt Vol Opan Int J»n03 150.00 Fab 03 150.00 Mar 03 150.00 Apr/Jun 03 152.00 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month High Low Satt Vol Opan Int Jan 03 85.00 84.50 84.75 1125 3000 Ftb03 84.75 84.50
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        63 14 CRUDE PRODUCT PRICES Crude/Product Month* Change Price (USS) BBL Brent Blend Jan «0.26 25.34-25.39 W Texas interm Jan -0.04 26.83-26.87 Dubai Fateh Jan -0.09 24.10-24.15 Tap.s Blend Nov »0.10 28.00-28.10 Timing of cargoes. Prices as at 17:20 Crude/Product Month* Change Price (USS) BBL Minas Nov ♦0.10 27.30-27.40 Naphtha CIF Jap
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        73 14 Yesterdays close: 10,205.16 (Up 135.29 points) The Hang Seng Index rose to a fresh three-month high as encouraging news on the economic front at home and in the United States spurred buying of Hongkong blue-chip stocks. Trade at HK56.49 billion was more than a 10th higher than
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        76 14 Yesterdays close: 624.26 (Down 4.96 points) Malaysian shares fell for a fifth straight day, led by losses in banking stocks and power utility Tenaga Nasional, as foreign investors sold at the start of a holiday-shortened week. Volume was thin at 121 million shares, with decliners beating gainers
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        46 14 Yesterdays close: 191.05 (Down 3.79 points) China's landmark stock market reforms took hold officially, allowing selected foreigners to trade domestic shares for the first time, but prices sagged as investors cashed in on recent gains. Turnover on Shenzhen's B-share market was HK548.35 million. Reuters
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        55 14 Yesterdays close: 3,047.6 (Up 22.4 points) Australian shares closed 0.7 per cent higher, with strong support for News Corp, National Australia Bank and resources stocks offset partly by weakness in Telstra, brokers said. Turnover was 575.28 million shares worth A51.68 billion. Gainers led losers by 553 to 488, with
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        523 14 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS dfndnf 52-Wk List Vol Day Last Ouot* High Low Company Salt +or- 'OOP High Low Buyar Sallar 37.5 17 ASTI W*****1 _...17.5 5 0.5 AcmaW*****6 1.5 unch 24 1.5 1.5 1.5 2 101 30 AmtekW*****0 81 *1.5 73 81 79.5 81 82 7 1 Armstrong W*****0 1.5
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        63 14 Yesterday's close: 9,174.47 (Down 41.09 points) Tokyo stocks ended tower in sleepy trade, which dealers attributed to profit-taking and a reaction to the Nikkei's surprising rally to a two-month high last week. Trading was subdued, with 697.07 million shares changing hands on the First Section, down
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        325 15 PRIVATISATION'S IN THE AIR ATHENS The Greek government has received six bids for a majority stake in Olympic Airways in a fresh attempt to privatise the carrier ahead of a projected rise in traffic to Greece for the Athens Olympic
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        344 15 BNP Paribas tightens grip on Credit Lyonnais France's largest listed bank boosts its stake by another 5.3% just a week after buying the govt s 10.9% stake PARIS BNP Paribas on Sunday night signalled its intention to acquire greater control over Credit Lyonnais by acquiring a further 5.32 per cent
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        581 15 Australia's smallest retail bank grows where Big Four refuse to tread SYDNEY In an age when bankers are more scorned than politicians and few people know the name of their account manager, who would want to own a bank branch? Plenty of people, according to Australia's smallest retail bank, Bank
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        578 16 Yen falls on Shiokawa's remark that it is too high Hint of market intervention? THE YEN MAY BE TOO HIGH, CONSIDERING JAPAN'S CURRENT ABILITY. THE DOLLAR SHOULD BE ABOUT 150 YEN T0 160 YEN.' MrShiokawa (right), whose comments were on the \fainichi website Japan's finance chief reportedly says the yen
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        352 16 PURCHASING MANAGERS' INDEX FOR NOVEMBER HONGKONG The economy shrank for the fourth straight month in November as employment levels continued to fall, but a modest recovery in output and demand helped slow the pace of contraction, NTC Research said yesterday. The British-based
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        371 16 JAKARTA Opposition to free trade with China is mounting in South-east Asia, less than a month after the announcement of a groundbreaking deal to liberalise trade across the region, Dow Jones Newswires reported yesterday. So far, the backlash has been strongest
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        276 16 HK airport renises to cut charges 'Fair' fees The Hongkong Airport Authority says its charges are fair, value-added and competitive. It points to a 15 per cent cut in charges in January 2000, noting that this would have saved airlines more than HK$96O million (*****.88 million) by the end of
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        393 17 Strong exports boost ICL trade surplus to $2.2b The good performance in October mirrors the recovery in the Asian region as the US economy gathers strength KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's trade surplus grew to RM4.9 billion (552.2 billion) in October, from RM4.B billion in September, adding to signs of a regional
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        67 17 FORWARD MARCH Apart from Malaysia, the rest of the Asian region is posting strong growth too. Singapore: (Vtolx mmanufacturing output is up 1.3% from September, in seasonally adjusted terms. Thahit October's export figures are up 18.4% vear-on-year Hongkong: October's exports jump 12.9% year-on-year. AFP Just like this participant in a
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        136 17 VICE-PRESIDENT APPOINTMENT AGERE Systems, a maker of communications chips, has named former Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing senior vice-president John Docherty as vice-presi-dent. Agere said he will manage its relations with providers of made-to-order chips such as Chartered. Agere is relying more on those firms to make chips
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          177 17 UNITED Airlines said yesterday it reached a new agreement on wage cuts with its mechanics' union, a crucial part of its effort to stave off a bankruptcy filing. The nation's second-largest airline reached a tentative pact with the International Association of Machinists early yesterday
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          131 17 BEIJING has given the green light to Asian multi-bil-lionaire li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa to build a US$737 million (Ssl.3 billion) container terminal in the boom town of Shenzhen. This move will speed up exports from southern China and increase competition for nearby Hongkong. Beijing's approval
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          144 17 MORGAN Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group won approval from China to buy US$l.54 billion (552.6 billion) of bad loans, the first purchases by overseas investors, paving the way for more deals that may help clean up the nation's banks. The purchases, first agreed upon
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          113 17 INDONESIA'S leading car maker Astra International yesterday revised the schedule of its planned rights issue, aimed at raising up to 1.5 trillion rupiah (Ss2B4 million) for the company to help repay its hefty debts. The revision follows last week's failed creditors' meeting in Singapore designed
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          68 17 HUTCHISON Telecommunications (Australia) said yesterday it would outsource the operation of its mobile networks to Sweden's Ericsson in a strategic shift for the money-losing Australian mobile group. Hutchison, 58 per cent owned by Hongkong's Hutchison Whampoa, said it expects to save As4o million (5539.6 million)
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        454 18  -  IGNATIUS LOW B. cfndfn FINANCE CORRF.SPONDF.NT It stops taking deposits and advises customers to withdraw funds before Dec 27; exit leaves 5 players in S'pore FAR EAST Finance Organisation has become the latest finance company to pack up and leave Singapore's increasingly competitive
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        290 18 TELEPHONE calls made using Internet technology, which have been gaining ground in the Asia-Pacific region led by countries such as Singapore, are set to see phenomenal growth going forward. This is because calls over the Internet called Voice over Internet
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        460 18 UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACH By HUGH CHOW FIXAXCKCORRKSI'OXDKNT THIS may be the closest thing that small-time stock market investors get to a crystal ball. Investment fund tracking firm Mercer Investment Consulting has launched for the first time for local retail investors a
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        459 18  -  SIMON WILCOX ROLLING out new bread products. Testing new sandwich fillings. Delitrance has set up a crack team of chefs to come up with the right recipes to satisfy its appetite for growth in Asia. Three "food technologists" now form the
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        504 19  -  COLIN TAN TAKING STOCK MARKETS CORRESPONDENT Problem with data exchange feed leads to STI falling 3.7% and the BT-SRI soaring over 80% within minutes of opening bell FAULTY FEED EYE-POPPING swings in two Singapore stock market indexes caught market-watch-ers by surprise yesterday, especially after
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        82 19 Dec 02 Cents DBS Grp H4O 20.0 1.8 UOB 1220 20.0 1.7 Cerebos 25c 217 14.0 6.9 SPH 100 2000 W.O 0.5 DatacraftlOc 79.5 9.7 7.4 Sincere W 25c 130 6.0 4.8 Spore Land 326 6.0 1.9 TACBtIO 200 66 5.3 4.8 APB Breweries 505 5.0 1.0
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        83 19 TOP RISES Dec 02 Cents BBR Hldgs 5c 1.5 50.0 0.5 PDCCorpsc 13.5 28.6 3.0 Frt Links 20c 3.5 16.7 0.5 MFS Tech 10c 31.5 12.5 3.5 UniFiber 10c 4.5 12.5 0.5 HorKewsc 5 11.1 0.5 Lion TeckC 50c JO U 1.0 ACE oynamics2oc n W.O LO Adroit 10c 5.5
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        78 19 Dec 02 Cents DelGro Corp 500. 201 W.O 4.7 GreatEast 50c 895 W.O 11 OCBC 990 W.O 1.0 OUE 600 W.O 16 SIA 200 W6O W.O 0.9 SIA 50c W6O W.O 0.9 VentureCorp2sc 15W 10.0 0.7 SembCorp Ind 25c 87 9.5 9.8 MCLLand WO 5.0 4.6 Shang
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        79 19 TOP FALLS Dec 02 Cents Excel 20c 2.5 44.4 2.0 GMG Global 5c 1.5 25.0 0.9 GoldtronNCCPSsc.... 3 25.0 1.0 Shanghai Allied 0.8 20.0 0.1 GreenWorld2oc 18 M.3 3.0 PNEIndWOSOB2B._. 3 14 J 0.5 Cyber Vill 5c 3.5 12_ 0.5 Cybermast Ltd 5c 7.5 TLB 1.0 HongFok2sc 15 H 2.0
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        393 19  -  AZHIAR KHALID IMPACT OF PROFIT WARNING By MAKKKTSCORRKSPONDKVr SHARES of diversified conglomerate SembCorp Industries (SCI) plunged nearly 10 per cent yesterday as investors tied the counter, disappointed by news that its engineering and construction division (SembE&C) will incur a $127 million loss this financial year. Steady
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          70 19 UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) has set up an offshore fund company to invest in technology-related projects in China, in partnership with China-based Shenzhen Capital Group. The joint venture plans to raise an investment fund of up to US$5O million (5588.5 million). UOB has
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          70 19 KL TECH FIRM ISSUES PROFIT WARNING MALAYSIA-BASED information technology firm NTI International, which went public in July, said yesterday that its proforma results for the year ending Dec 31 would be affected significantly by the failure to clinch a major project from an existing customer. Besides this, some other major
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          55 19 MFS TECHNOLOGY'S Singapore subsidiary said yesterday that it had received a follow-on order of $65 million from a key customer. The order, expected to be fulfilled by February, is for the design and manufacture of flexible printed circuits and the related assembly for use
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          99 19 DBS BANK will sell $505 million in bonds for the sale of Capital Square, a 16-sto-rey office building in the financial district. The building held previously by Keppel Land and Rodamco Asia was valued last month by Colliers International Consultancy Valuation at $508
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          44 19 ECON HEALTHCARE SHARES AT 28C EACH ECON Healthcare said yesterday it would offer 28 million shares at 28 cents each for a listing on the Singapore Exchange's second board. The offer comprises 20 million new shares and eight million vendor shares, it said. Reuters
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        488 19  - Sias' appeal: Avoid creation of odd lots LEONG CHAN TEIK *L AN INVESTORS' association yesterday urged companies and their investment advisers to avoid "unnecessary creation" of odd lots of shares, thereby minimising trading inconvenience and cost to shareholders. Mr David Gerald, president and chief executive of Securities Investors Association of
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        292 19 WATCH retailer Sincere Watch yesterday said its net profit rose 3.6 per cent to $6.2 million for the half year ended Sept 30. This was on the back of a record turnover of $1073 million, an increase of 25.1 per cent over the same period
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        552 20  -  LEE SU SHY AN 4 With $35.5m buying spree, Oei now becomes the biggest shareholder He is a tad shy of 30% trigger point for making a general offer By) COMPAMKSCORRKSPONDFAT AFTER a $35.5 million sharebuying frenzy, tycoon Oei Hong Leong yesterday became NatSteel's biggest share- holder
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        383 20 NEW YORK Bombarding shoppers with bargains apparently worked in pumping up sales for United States retailers, which posted a solid start to the holiday shopping season. Sales jumped 12.3 per cent last Friday and 9 per cent on Saturday, compared with the
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      334 20 Unit e i> Sia r e s Still Stagnant US manufacturing sector declines for the third consecutive month. pace Ai4 J A t' A N Too High Yen falls, following report that Finance Minister says it is too Strong. PAGE 416 Finance Too Tough Far East Finance is latest to
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        292 1 mk fashion wt Malaysian designer m wins British award M By Suzanne Ong fliH L PAGE 3 Monday ARTS Tuesday TRAVEL Wednesday MOVIES Thursday FASHION Friday MUSIC Saturday DESIGN Sunday LIFESTYLE Y<>l Journals, a new book fIBHHH Bpp JHBBi l^m of clippings and 959be I^^^^^^K scribblings by the late ■HH
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      209 2 NEW YORK Mr and Ms Pac-Man, Super Mario and the princess, and Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck (left)? Director Kevin Smith is giving the engaged couple a cus-tom-made video game to thank them for co-starring in his movie Jersey Girl, says the New York Post.
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      241 2 PARIS Shania Twain's new album, Up!, has soared to No. 1 on the American charts, but the country singer hinted to Time magazine that she might stop performing. "I never burned to perform, and I don't care if I ever perform again," the
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      74 2 MUNICH Liam Gallagher and three other members of British rock group Oasis were arrested briefly early on Sunday after a punch-up with guests in a plush Munich hotel's nightclub, police said. Police said Gallagher, 30, brawled with guests at the Bayerischer Hof, the city's top hotel.
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      190 2 HEY, GOOD LOOKING: Terence Cao has impressed Hongkong viewers with his looks. HOMEGROWN hunk Terence Cao has caught the eye of Hongkong TV viewers, after starring as a lawyer opposite Tien Niu and Anita Yuen in the Hongkong legal drama Law 2002. The drama, which
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      56 2 LIFE! is giving two readers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet F4 in Hongkong. They will meet the pop foursome at a news conference on Dec 18, and catch the members in action at their concert at the Hongkong Coliseum on Dec 19. Look out
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        345 2 THE BUZZ WHAT'S ON is on Page 18 TOMORROW Life! in film: Movies on Wednesday uHb ibW^frfllPYi Webb? V MbbbH ,J I^U I [iff* 1 r^piiJ[tfAw| PtM bI 1 M BbbIII BB^KJ L -l^L^W* .B^H BBw^L^l B^B^L^bU i^Ih^^BBBV^BBBB^^BBPV^^S^^^BBI BBB^^BH H^^BBbl BBBBBBBBBbPVb^BBBBBBBbI BBBT^BBf^BBBBBBBV^^^^^aBBB^BI B^^^^^^^| BBfll Baal SINGAPORE SHANGHAI SHANGHAI SINGAPORE FLIGHT
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        444 3  -  CLARA CHOW There's nothing negative about Pacita Abad's Endless Blues. It bubbles with optimism, the same way she bounced back after a year-long battle with cancer Bu FILIPINO painter Pacita Abad is bouncing back after a year-long battle with lung cancer. Diagnosed with the illness last
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      416 7 Shrewd careerist who planned Nirvana' s rise [From previous page] kept them open. Frequently when his friends came by, he pointed them to his friends and said, 'Here read this, what do you think?' Many people have seen these through the years, just not all of them." If anything, these
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        16 7 Journals is available in the book stores. Nirvana's greatest-hits album is also out in the shops.
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        377 9 r^:«^% -'x i- hI HBB BV^^^E GOLDEN Lianhe Zaobao presents the exclusive "Wine Dim Sum Fusion" Workshop. Conducted in Mandarin by wine connoisseur Chng Poh Tiong, it's an opportunity for you to enjoy the famous Golden Poeny Dim Sum with champagne and a selection of fine wines. Food and wine
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        248 10  - Can t top views from T aiping Madgalena Lum dfndg zfn ma IF YOU are looking for a peaceful retreat where you can unwind, consider a visit to Taiping, which means "everlasting peace" in Chinese. This serene town, 3 km north of Ipoh in Perak, boasts a cool hill resort,
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        241 10 THE upmarket Pangkor Laut Resort on the private island of Pangkor Laut, off Perak, now has its own special village, too. Its Spa Village offers body and beauty treatments in private spa pavilions. Guests can choose from a menu of treatments from all over Asia
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        280 12  -  Magdalene Lum MALAYSIA GETAWAYS By THE Holiday Inn Resort in Penang is offering special year-end promotions for families and kids. This 362-room resort at Batu Ferringhi, which has been refurbished at a cost of RM40.9 million (Ssl?.2 million), is offering a Kids Eat Free
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        269 12 IF YOU are driving across the Causeway for the first time and are afraid of getting lost, you can join a three-day Yokohama Driveaway trip to Genting Highlands from Dec 28 to 30. Organised by Wheels For Fun, a driveaway and treasure hunt specialist in the
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        417 12  -  Magdalene Lum WffWSWfrW m Who: Krishen Jit, 63, a Malaysian director from Kuala Lumpur, who is currently directing Action Theatre's play, Proof, now on till Sunday. He has spent six months working on plays here over the past two years. Where to eat: "Brickfields
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        276 13  -  Magdalene Lum MALAYSIA GETAWAYS By IF YOU are adventurous, consider a four-wheel camping holiday in the tropical jungles of Johor. FootWorks Media, which organises hardcore four-wheel and off-road expeditions to Malaysia, has a three-day Sungei Emas 4X4 Discovery Educational Tour to Johor from
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        190 13 THE Mutiara Johor Baru is offering a Weekend Retreat at RMIOO a night for two persons in a Deluxe Queen or Superior King room. Breakfast is not included. You can stay for up to 24 hours. For instance, if you check in at 9 pm on Friday,
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        261 13 TAMAN NEGARA, Malaysia's premier National Park, is just the place for nature lovers. In this ancient rainforest which is more than 135 million years old, you can take a night walk among the flora and fauna and climb up hides or raised shelters to spot
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        285 14 F STANDS for food and for nourishing fare in truly generous portions in Sibu. The noodles are thick and glistening with rich broth. The kong bian, a pastry somewhere between a bun and a biscuit, goes well with an early cup of tea or coffee. Or
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        610 14 Sibu has moved from a farming village to become a trading and manufacturingtown, complete with shiny new buildings VISITORS WHO HAVE NOT KEN TO SIBU FOR THREE OR FOUR YEARS STARE, OPEN-MOUTHED, ATM IMPROVEMENTS ALL ROUND SIBU, according to one of its more poetic
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        241 14 Eat to your heart's content at KLIA DINING in sophisticated Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang can be an unique affair. The airport is where you can find international outlets which are the only ones of their kind in Malaysia and, to a certain extent, in the region. Whether you
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        436 10 For details, call Tourism Malaysia on 6532-6321. To find out more about Bukit Larut, call its superintendent in Taiping on 02-05-827-243. For more information about the Spa Village and room rates at the resort, call 02-05-699-1 10 or e-mail spavillageplr@ytlhotels.com. my. You can also log on to www.pangkorlautresort.com. 9 all
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        15 10 To book a room at Park Plaza, call Safe2travel here on 6823-3000 or e-mail tour@safe2travel.com.
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        224 12 To book, call the hotel's Singapore sales office on 6730-01 14 or call the hotel direct on 02-04-881-1601. 1 MV; "t*l^^^^^ tl'» mSt^' bedroom ■;..J^^^| ipTV"2I!!JiS^S«*, -^a 1 SHBF^ HHli Embassy Suite. ■or 3 PF|^^i^r»^*d^|^|'^K i^^ It Spacious and well appointed suites with fully-equipped kitchen, dining and lounge areas. Enjoy
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        19 12 To book, call Wheels For Fun on 6235-2591. For more information about Kuala Lumpur, rail Tourism Malaysia on 6532-6321.
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        87 13 For more information and to book the trip, call Chris Ng on 9677-0722. To Iwoi f/ie Tahan Outdoor Holidays package, call 02-03-5636-1898. For the Mutiara Taman Negara train package, call Atrium Travel on 6536-9282. %t^TlT3^'\ Fully-Furnished r Ai y t Apartments i* r <J I I "Room Service" Jpt^ »^JSP
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        151 15 THE Gresham made a sensational debut and featured all modern conveniences such as gas and electricity. It also boasted a gigantic vacuum cleaner that wound its way through the building, providing wall-socket nozzles in every apartment to which maids simply had to attach tubes. The ground and first
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        124 15 FROM there, it was all downhill for the Gresham. In the winter of 1944-45, Soviet troops took over the palace during their siege of the Nazi-occupied Castle District across the Danube. With no electricity or gas, soldiers burned furniture to keep warm, while the residents huddled in
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        233 15 RESTORATION began three years ago, and the 179-room Four Seasons Gresham Hotel is due to open next summer, symbolising the fortunes of a now resurgent nation about to join the European Union. Project architect Gabor Kruppa has employed local artisans for the painstaking restoration work, which
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        634 16  -  THOMAS WHITE Then and now, this land of couscous, olives, saffron and that Bogart movie welcomes weary travellers to its sandy shores Story and pictures bz dzfndf fng TUCKED away in the north-western corner of Africa, Morocco is a gentle introduction to Africa if you are one inclined
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        258 17 [From previous page] A city vibrant with adobe buildings and wide Parisian-style boulevards, it is home to some of the country's most stunning cultural icons. Among these is Place Djemaa el-Fna, a massive square packed with a panoply of hawkers, dentists, magicians and an eccentric
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        221 18 THEATRE PROOF Jubilee Hall Raffles Hotel, Till Sun: a pm (also 3 pm matinee on Sat ir Sun), Tickets: $23 -$53, Tel: 6296-2929 Witty writing and fine acting in this mathematics-based Pulitzer Prize-winning play by American playwright David Auburn add up to a show worth more than the sum of
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        227 18 (performance). Tickets: $800 a person for cocktail, dinner and concert, Tel: 9677-7123 Be treated to arias by composers such as Bach, Vivaldi and Purcell. Isabelle Sabrie, the winner of the Placido Domingo World Voice Competition in 1994, is accompanied on the harpsichord by Salvo Romeo, founder and director of the
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        187 18 Tel: 6333-1055 Kids aged nine to 12 can have fun learning how to design their own T-shirts at this session. EXPERIMENT WITH COLLAGE (SCHOOL HOLIDAY CREATIVE WORKSHOPS) Sculpture Square, 155 Middle Road, Thu: 10 am 11 am (kids aged four to seven), 1-2 pin (kids aged eight to 12), Fee:
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        188 18 glass frames and tiles. These artworks by Pure Art Australia, which are priced from $88, are ideal for homy decor, and housewarming or Christmas gifts. EXHIBITION OF CLASSICAL CHINESE HUANGHUALI FURNITURE Tomlinson Gallery, Raffles Hotel Arcade #02-35 b3ti. Till Dec 15: 11 am 7 pm daily, Free, Tel: 6334-0242 Some
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        141 18 cash prizes will be given out ART ART TREASURES Millenia Tower Lobby, #01-104, Millenia Walk, Till Thu: 10.30 am 7 pm (Mon -Fri), 10.30 am 9 pm, Free, Tel: 9026-9222 If you are looking for an artistic Christmas gift, check out this art exhibition, which features more than 200 works
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        147 18 printmaking in the United States. A SERIES OF STORIES. A SYMPHONY OF LIFE (OIL PAINTING BY TAN PUAYTEE) Cape of Good Hope Gallery, #01-06 Mita Building, 140 Hill Street, Till Thu: 11 am -7 pm, Free, Tel: 6733-3822 Malaysian artist Tan Puay Tee's oil paintings have a sense of melancholy
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      220 20 LOS ANGELES Singer Christina Aguilera topped an Internet poll for this year's Tacky Taste Awards conducted by E! Online, and actress Julia Roberts made the list for wearing a "tasteless" T-shirt. The entertainment website said "hundreds of letters from several continents poured in" naming Aguilera for
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      106 20 SYDNEY Singer Dannii Minogue, who was quoted in reports to have made comments with far-right leanings, said her remarks, told to Britain's GQ magazine, were taken out of context. She said she was considering taking legal action against the British National Party (BNP), which had adopted her
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      134 20 LONDON X-Files star Gillian Anderson has been given the biggest roasting since Madonna took her first curtain call in British theatreland. Anderson, who is famous for playing TVs well-known alien-hunter, is playing a married woman in West End in Michael Weller's play What The Night
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