The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 8 April 1995

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    25 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY EDITION SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1995 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 087/08/94 The Straits Times ISO YUAKS
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  • Article, Illustration
    BG Lee: Civil servants must be bold, creative
    682 1  -  Fresh approaches needed to compete By Chua Mui Hoong CIVIL servants must be bold, creative and courageous to work with ministers to rethink policies and come up with fresh approaches to issues, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said last Friday. He
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  • Article, Illustration
    Abbas Saad charged with conspiring to fix matches
    586 1  -  By Tan Ooi Boon SINGAPORE football star Abbas Saad was on Monday charged with conspiring to fix the results of soccer matches in the FAM Premier League last year. The charge is that Abbas, 27, together with Czech footballer Michal Vana, 31,
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  • Article
    Changes will be extended to teaching, other professional services
    367 1 THE changes that have taken glace in the Administrative ervice faster progression rates and competitive market pay will be extended to the teaching and other professional services, said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last Friday. The need to set realistic
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  • NEWS FOCUS
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      Handphone effects on equipment: 2 hospitals act
      553 2  -  By Pang Pit Kheng TWO hospitals here have rules to prevent handphones from interfering with medical equipment and two more plan to introduce measures soon. This is what a check with hospitals here revealed after Germany’s Health Ministry issued a warning to hospitals
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    • Article
      Insurance claims against lawyers total more than $5m
      422 2  -  By Brendan Pereira INSURANCE claims against lawyers alleged to be negligent totalled more than $5 million last year, more than the amount of premiums collected. This has forced insurance underwriters to increase premiums in the compulsory indemnity scheme for lawyers by between
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    • Article
      Body-inbag identified as S’pore PR man from HK
      334 2 Body-in-bag identified as S’pore PR man from HK Third grisly find in sea off Clifford Pier A DECOMPOSED body found floating in the sea off Clifford Pier on Saturday has been identified as Mr Chui To Yan, 38, a Singapore permanent resident from Hongkong. The body of the businessman was
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      New judge sworn in
      782 3 More short-term judicial commissioners to help High Court judges soon MRS JUDITH PRAKASH was last Saturday sworn in as a judge of the High Court. A Judicial Commissioner for the past three years, she took an oath before President Ong Teng Cheong, pledging to “do right
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    • Article
      MRT extension to airport viable now – lecturer
      327 3 MRT extension to airport viable now lecturer AN MRT extension to Changi Airport is economically viable now, says economics lecturer Dr Paul Yip. He argues it should be built right away. A study he carried out has revealed that a significant number of people going to and from the airport
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    • Article, Illustration
      Name-dropping woman cheated 17 people of $2.5m Claimed to be ex-OCBC chairman’s niece in scam
      468 3  -  By Yeow Pei Lin A WOMAN claimed to be ex-Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation chairman Tan Chin Tuan’s niece and cheated 17 people of about $2.5 million between June 1992 and January this year. In addition to
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  • HOME
    • Article
      Agrotech parks ready to export products
      442 4  -  Technique to grow virus-free orchids part of joint project By Leong Ching Ching SINGAPORE’S agrotechnology parks are almost fully developed and are expected to be running at full capacity by the end of this year. They are ready to export some of their products
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      Primary Production Dept produces ‘perfect’ orchid
      208 4 THE PPD has produced the "perfect” orchid: Virus-free, long-lasting and blemish-free. The department’s scientists spent two years testing different chemicals on the dendrobium, and in September last year managed to eradicate two main viruses that cause flaws. Now the PPD plans to commercialise the
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      NS for women ‘OK’ as long as it is voluntary
      595 4 Over half of women in poll applaud idea NATIONAL service for women? Fine, as long as it is voluntary, said just over half of 30 women interviewed when asked about having a sixmonth voluntary national service stint for women. The
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      Lock icon Man found smuggling 7.1 kg of heroin
      471 5 A DRUG smuggler, when caught at the Woodlands Checkpoint with five packets of heroin in his car’s spare tyre compartment on Wednesday morning, tried to pass it off as soap powder. But Customs officer Mohamed Wazir Yusof, 24, guessed the contents of the
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      Researchers from around the world for cancer meet here in October
      265 5 PROMINENT cancer researchers from around the world will be in Singapore this October as part of an international conference on the disease. The 12th Asia Pacific Cancer Conference, hosted in Singapore for the second time, is organised by the
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    • Article
      Internet abuzz with ‘talk’ of hanging of Filipino maid
      436 5  -  Gossip and insults fly in digital kopitiam By Jimmy Yap THE gossip is hot in this kopitiam. But there is no coffee, just talk. And you cannot drop in on the discussion, except by joining the newsgroup soc.culture.singapore, a discussion on
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      99 officers receive promotions this year
      699 6  -  Administrative Service promotions By Chua Mui Hoong A BUMPER crop of 99 Administrative Service officers is being promoted this year, after wide-ranging changes promising faster promotions and higher pay were introduced last year. Highlights of this year's promotions. which number 1 1 2 times
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      Ex-Dynasty revamped with New York chic
      312 6 Marriott Hotel opens for business AFTER a nine-month $4O-million refurbishment, the Singapore Marriott Hotel opened to an enthusiastic Orchard Road lunch-time crowd on Monday. Several former Dynasty Hotel regulars who used to eat there gave the thumbs-up to the bright, spacious lobby, where a
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      Systematic renewal of top brass vital for SAF: Lt-Gen Ng
      413 6  -  By Mathew Pereira SYSTEMATIC renewal of the top leadership in the SAF is vital to keep the commanders young and also to attract and keep talent in the force. The Chief of Defence Force, Lieutenant-General Ng Jui Ping, said that
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      Contractor acquitted of molest
      650 7  -  Police investigations in case left much to be desired, says judge By Lim Li Hsien A DISTRICT judge on Monday called for more careful police investigations in molest cases after he acquitted a man of molesting a mooel. Renovation contractor Ho Joo Kwee was found innocent
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      Weekend car offender jailed 3 weeks, fined
      446 7 AN ARMY captain was sentenced on Tuesday to three weeks’ jail and fined $2,000 for using an altered supplementary licence on his off-peak car. Vijayanderan Nagaiingam, 26, was fined another $6,000 for driving without a valid supplementary licence during restricted hours at 7.30
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    • Article
      Woman granted $15 m in divorce settlement
      568 7 A SINGAPORE woman was granted a $l5 million divorce settlement on March 29. It is believed to be the most awarded by the Singapore courts in dividing matrimonial assets. But Madam Lim Poh Choo, 54, had actually asked for more than $4O million,
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      Liquor for under-18s: Six outlets hauled up
      415 8 FOUR nightspots and two hawker stalls which served alcoholic drinks to underaged patrons had to execute bonds of between $5,000 and $lO,OOO on Tuesday to ensure they comply with Customs regulations in future. Dada Entertainment and Exclusiv 56. both in Boat Quay, and
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      $125,000 raised for kidney patients in charity run
      300 8 ABOUT 12,000 people took part on Sunday in a run to benefit kidney patients. The event, the Lifeforce Reebok Run ’95. was flagged off by the Minister without Portfolio, Mr Lim Boon Heng. Organised by the National Kidney Foundation, it raised about
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Page 8 Miscellaneous Column 1
      1249 8 RADIO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME SCHEDULES 1100 1400 Hours (GMT) 9530 KHz (3IM BAND) MONDAY 1100 News m Brief/Weather Forecast (Asia Pacific) 1105 Frontiers 1120 Business Market Report 1130 Full News 1138 The Front Page 1140 Take Five 1145 Business world 1200 News in Brief 1205 E Z Beat 1220
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  • SPORTS
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      Joscelin wins two more events, but no record
      339 9 SWIMMING JOSCELIN YEO did not rewrite any more national records over the last two days of the Australian Open swimming championships in Perth last weekend. She won the 200 metres individual medley B final in 2 min. 21.03 sec. on Sunday and
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      Wong throws record double
      429 9  -  American-based student sets new national marks for hammer and shot SINGAPOREAN STRONGMAN REWRITES RECORD BOOKS ATHLETICS By Hakikat Rai JAMES WONG rewrote his own Singapore shot putt and hammer records at a meet in Texas, United States, on Sunday. In a faxed message to the Singapore
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      Briton ready to support Geylang’s league effort
      417 9  -  SOCCER By Shirlynn Ho-Pereira IT MAY be the final Premier League season for local clubs, but at least one of them, Geylang International, is still ready to go out with a bang. The six-time champion is hoping to recruit another foreign player to
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Malaysians go to polls on April 25
      667 10  -  By Kalimullah Hassan in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S ninth general election will be held on April 25 in the peninsula and staggered over two days April 24 and 25 in Sabah and Sarawak. The Election Commission said yesterday that nomination day will be on
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      Lock icon Front likely to field almost all the top office-bearers
      512 10 Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Almost all members of the federal Cabinet, mentris besar and chief ministers would be retained to contest the general election, sources in the ruling National Front coalition said. A top NF source said Umno. the dominant partner in
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      Mahathir: I’m ready to stay on as PM
      150 10  -  By Ismail Kassim KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday that he was willing to continue as premier if he was needed by the people. Speaking to the press in Kota Baru a day after announcing the
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      Lock icon Mahathir denies any cover-up in forex losses
      447 10 NST, AFP. KUCHING Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said there was no cov-er-up of foreign-exchange trading losses by Bank Negara, the Malaysian central bank, in its 1994 annual report. Dr Mahathir, reacting on Tuesday to allegations made by a senior
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      Lock icon Couple acquitted because of lack of evidence
      580 11 Khalwat case Bernama. KOTA BARU The Chief Kadi’s Court on Thursday dismissed the case against former PAS Youth deputy chief Mohamad Sabu and housewife Norma Abdul Halim, saying there was insufficient evidence to prosecute them under the religious law. Judge Datuk Haji Daud
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      Lock icon Johor Sultan’s birthday celebrations postponed
      124 11 lie holiday in Johor. Bernama. JOHOR BARU The Johor government has postponed celebrations to mark the 63rd birthday of the ruler, Sultan Mahmood Iskandar. Mentri Besar Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced this on Tuesday. However, that all mosques in the state held prayers as usual
      lie holiday in Johor. — Bernama.  -  124 words
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  • ASEAN
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      Ramos under pressure to announce his stand
      432 11  -  Commission’s report on hanging of Filipino maid By Leticia Perez in Manila PRESSURE mounted yesterday on President Fidel Ramos to announce his stand immediately on the controversy over the hanging of a Filipino maid in Singapore after reports were leaked that a presidential
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      Sex-scandal monk quits, but insists he is innocent
      473 11  -  By Lee Siew Hua Bangkok Correspondent DISGRACED monk Phra Yantra Amaro Bhikku left the monkhood last Friday, ending a sex scandal which hd prompted a near-crisis of faith in Buddhist Thailand. But the defiant Yantra, 43, said he would continue preaching and
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      Indonesia honours S’pore navy chief Rear-Admiral Kwek
      204 11  -  PAUL JACOB. REPUBLIC of Singapore Navy chief Kwek Siew Jin was on Thursday conferred the Indonesian navy’s highest award by President Suharto for his contributions to strengthening ties between the two countries, and the two services in particular. Rear-Admiral Kwek, who arrived here
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  • COMMENT / Pick of the week’s editorials
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      Watch it Russia
      661 12 APRIL 8, 1995 THE novelty has worn off and the Americans are increasingly becoming disillusioned with the new democracy in Russia. It is just as well that the Clinton administration re-examine the way it deals with its former Cold War adversary. Much was made of the vaunted
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      Self-help is the best help
      636 12 APRIL 7. 1995 IT CALLS for no great imagination to realise that Singapore would probably be flooded with foreign workers, including maids, if the matter were left to the simple operation of demand and supply. If the levy system were altogether removed, the number of
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      Staying lily pure in mud
      635 12 APRIL 4, 1995 AFTER the launching of the Walt Disney satellite broadcast centre here, Singapore has opened one more window to the world through which both opportunities and headaches could enter. Even as the nation welcomes the panoramic view, it remains squeamish about the dirt
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      Let’s keep unsolicited junk mail out of letter-boxes
      731 12  -  By Sia Cheong Yew EACH time I receive a pile of junk mail in the post. I am reminded of the kacang puteh man of old. In those days, one could trade stacks of unwanted paper, usually old school exercise books, with
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  • INSIGHT A LOOK AT THE ISSUES OF THE DAY BY THE STRAITS TIMES POLITICAL DESK
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      Is discipline in schools on the decline and a cause for concern?
      1934 14 Listening to some teachers, principals and, yes, even Members of Parliament, one would think that many of today’s students are an ill-bred lot and that discipline in the classroom has become a serious problem. Is it? Wang Hui
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      Admin Service high-flyer scales benchmark grade before 32
      1219 15 CHUA MUI HOONG talks to Miss Yong Ying-I, 31 Vfe, the high-flying Administrative Service officer who has made it to superscale G before the age of 32. Grade G is the entry point of the Superscale, which is for the most senior
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      Spare a thought for older, middle-rung employees
      1171 15  -  THINKING ALOUD Leslie Fong THE scenes from the movie. Disclosure, which have stayed in my mind are not those of Demi Moore forcing herself on Michael Douglas but the ones at the beginning showing the latter almost panic-stricken about losing his job. The
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  • MONEY
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      SES MAIN BOARD
      7107 16 INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL Transaction Data: Aoril 7.1995 1995 Curr Last Vol Oay Gr's Nat M Cap Wt Avg High Low Company Traded Sale +Of000 High Low Div P/E $mil Prica 482 388 m l s Acme 50c 426 cd ♦a 93 426 426 22 5 89 5873
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      Malaysian election rally turns out to be anti-climax
      308 17 THE long-awaited Malaysian election rally turned out to be an anti-climax as the enthusiasm fmled out after the initial announcement on Wednesday. Brokers said this was due to the large number of stale bulls in the market who have been caught at
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      DAY-TO-DAY INDICES
      85 17 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Indei fel 19.37 points on the week to 2073.75. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 2074 65 (-1847) 77.235m ($223 689m) Tuesday 2074.05 (-0 60) 66.881m (J191.501m) Wednesday 2101.16 (+27.11) 190 90m ($439 409m) Thursday 2095.07 (-6.09) 217.55m ($493 768m) Friday 2073 75
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      French-Singapore Business Council launched in Paris
      196 18 THE French-Singapore Business Council was launched on Monday in Paris at a function attended by Singapore Minister for Trade and Industry Yeo Cheow Tong. The council, which brings together top private-sector business representatives of the two countries, aims to promote bilateral trade and investment
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      CORPORATE RESULTS, DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      3511 18 CORPORATE RESULTS Net F,arn F.HS Date IT IT IT IT ompan) ann <>m) tSnt) (cts) (cts) Vcma Mar 21 I* 65 44b 41.518 4 7 .8 31 .3 AISH’ Mar 31 1 1.473 0.843 2.42 0.42 Vlliancc Tech Vlar 30 P I.380L 1 564L ■Vmcol Mar
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      Some buyers wasting no time in booking HDB resale flats
      581 18  -  They fear sellers will jack up prices under new valuation policy By Ann Williams SOME buyers are rushing to book HDB resale flats, for fear that the Housing Board’s new valuation policy will lead sellers to raise their prices soon.
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      MasterCard in talks for Maestro-Nets link-up
      466 18  -  By Chan Sue Meng SYDNEY Mastercard is set to link up its Maestro network with Nets, a move that could mean a major breakthrough for the American card issuer into Singapore’s debit card market. The tie-up will allow MasterCard’s Maestro members overseas to pay
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      Canadian firm opens S’pore regional office
      130 19 CANADA’S largest engineering company, SNC-Lavalin. has opened a regional office in Singapore to spearhead its drive into East Asia In the Republic, it is partnering Sembawang Engineering to tender for the Light Rail Train (LRT) systems in Bukit Panjang and Buona Vista. It is
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      HONGKONG
      456 19 Friday April 7 HKS ASM Pacific 5.15 i 0.150 Allied Ind Inf'l 0.34 unch Allied Oversea 0.54 unch Asia Sec Int 2.70 -0.12 Bank of EA 21.20 unch C P Pokphand 2.38 0.05 CDL Hole: 3.30 0.10 Cafe Oe Coral 1.83 -0.03 Cath Pac Air 11.70 -0.25 Century City
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      UNIT TRUSTS
      371 19 Manager's prices for April 8 10 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.57—1.66 The Savings Fund 1 41—1 49xd S pore Prog Fund 0.58-0.62 S’pore Sec Fund 0 94-1 00 S pore Invest Fund 1.10—1.17 S pore Equity Fund 0 71-0.75 Credit Lyonnais Int'l Asset Mgt Cl Asia-Pac Gr
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      Banks face tougher conditions, expect lower earnings growth
      689 19  -  By Koh Keat Kian BANKS will be operating under a tougher environment this year and earnings growth is expected to fall to about 15-17 per cent instead of last year’s 22 per cent. For the following year, views are mixed however, as
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      US report raises concern over new patent law in Singapore
      455 19  -  By Douglas Wong THE United States has recognised the continued improvement in Singapore's protection of intellectual property rights (IPR), but cited “significant concerns’’ over the Republic’s new patent law which came into effect in February The chapter on Singapore, in
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      CURRENCY
      153 19 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Buying 00 Selling US dollar 1.3927 1.4097 Sterling pound 2.2208 2.2763 Australian dollar 1.0167 1.0483 Canadian dollar 0.9955 1.0193 NZ dollar 0.9060 0.9378 EC unit 1.8881 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 14 1525 14.7797
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      ASIAN CURRENCY UNITS
      116 19 Contract data: 7/4/9S CURRENCY 1 MTU 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALI VALUE DATE 'JSS 5 1 2 54 54 54 54 44 11/4/95 A$ 6'% 74 74 74 74 54 11/4/95 NZS 8. 84 84 84 8 7 11/4/95 STG 54 6 64
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      Strong Sing $ worries local firms
      629 20  - Strong Sing worries local firms Shipping companies will be the worst hit: DBS Investment Research commentary Greenback turmoil By Goh Soo May THE strong Singapore dollar will have a significant negative impact on the results of local companies. But the situation is not disastrous yet, said analysts who believe the
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      Handphone owner rate here higher than HK’s
      361 20  -  By Tammy Tan NEARLY' eight out of every 100 Singaporeans now own a handphone, which is a higher penetration rate than that of its closest regional competitor, Hongkong. Latest industry estimates show that Singapore, with about 220,000 handphone subscribers, has edged past Hongkong,
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      Lock icon Shakeout in regional forex rates
      506 20  -  Sing stages single-digit retreat against yen; other Pacific Rim currencies worse hit By Louis Beckerling THE long march by the Japanese yen against the ailing US dollar has led to a shakeout of regional currency exchange rates. The Singapore dollar alone among Pacific Rim currencies
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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      Page 21 Advertisements Column 1
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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      Page 22 Advertisements Column 1
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  • FORUM
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      License smokers: That’s one way to check the habit
      443 23 THE ills of smoking are well documented. In Singapore, various measures are in place to reduce the effects of smoking and discourage it from being taken up but none of these appears to reduce the number of people who take up
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      Many women want equal rights, not equal obligations
      284 23 IT WAS a proposal for women to serve six months of a far less physically demanding form of national service, without reservist commitments and with corresponding recognition extended. On top of that, the proposal was for an entirely voluntary service. Yet close
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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      50 23 MAKING AN ISSUE OF THE MAJOR ISSUES The Straits Times Weekly Edition. A crisp summary of the week's major happenings in Singapore. Politics, business, the economy, investment opportunities, executive appointments... And highlights on Malaysia and Asean. A convenient tabloid airmailed to you wherever you may be. Every week. The StraitsTlmes
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    Ministry to do more to strengthen family ties
    516 24 Programmes will focus on promoting togetherness THE Ministry of Community Development will do more to strengthen Singapore families. Instead of concentrating on mending broken families, it will pay more attention to helping families to stay well and avoid problems. Its welfare division
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    Zouk MD, two executives and patrons on drug charges
    478 24 One faces death if found guilty ZOUK Discotheque’s managing director, Lincoln Cheng, 47, was charged in court last Saturday with drug possession. He is alleged to have had 125 Upjohn tablets, a controlled drug, in his apartment in The Colonnade, in
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    Mah: Get set for more telecommunication licences
    563 24 FURTHER liberalisation of the telecommunication industry was announced last Saturday, with the latest steps benefiting both individuals and businesses. Listing these at the official opening of the TAS Building at Robinson Road, Minister for Communications Mah Bow Tan said the Telecommunication Authority of
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