The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 6 April 1996

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    17 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY EDITION SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1996 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription(P) 008/08/95
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  • Article
    Harsher penalties for hardcore drug addicts soon
    521 1  -  They face up to 13 years’ detention and caning when Act is amended By Tan Ooi Boon HARDCORE drug addicts will face up to 13 years in detention and caning, starting next year. Changes to the Misuse of Drugs Act are being finalised,
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    Lock icon Graduating in style
    384 1 MADAM Tan Poh Chin had a polytechnic diploma when she finished her education 16 years ago, and she thought that was the end of it. She married, worked in the family business and did not dream for a minute that she would graduate from university one day.
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    SM doing well and can resume work gradually: Doctors
    260 1 SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew is recovering well after his second operation for a blocked heart artery and can resume work gradually, but on a light schedule for the next few weeks. This was the verdict of his panel of doctors,
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  • NEWS FOCUS
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      Lock icon NUH flexi-time scheme for nurses
      629 2  -  Plan for staff to strike balance between working and being mothers By Allison Lim MADAM P. Sharmila Rajni was all prepared to resign from her job as a nurse because she could not strike a balance between being a newmother and her job, which involved
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    • Article
      Paratyphoid fever surge: 91 infected in three weeks
      205 2 THERE has been a sudden rise in the number of people suffering from paratyphoid fever, said the Environment Ministry on Thursday. It urged those who have the symptoms prolonged fever, headache and diarrhoea to see their doctors immediately. Over the past three
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    • Article
      Woman raped and robbed in Westin Stamford Hotel
      304 2 A WOMAN was raped in a Westin Stamford Hotel room last month when she went there with a visiting friend from Hongkong. Two men are believed to have trailed the women, both in their 30s, when they returned to the hotel at
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      SAF shapes nature of society here, says Rear-Adm Teo
      474 2 ‘lt helps transmit values needed for survival’ THE Singapore Armed Forces plays a vital role in shaping the character of Singaporeans and the nature of society here, said Rear-Admiral (NS) Teo Chee Hean, Second Minister for Defence. As the SAF is
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      US-Asia relationship ‘more equal now’
      611 3  -  American idealism brought about change in Asia that enables this: BG Yeo By Chung Tsung Mien in Washington THE United States’ relationship with Asia is a more equal one today compared with the days when it “dispensed advice and favours” to Asia, said Information and
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      Bridging East-West gap
      149 3 BG YEO ON S PORE S ROLE “When 1 hear people talk about Singapore being at one end of the elash of civilisations between the East and West, 1 thought how strange that idea was, because surely if there is a very Westernised city in Asia, a
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      S’pore and Utah society have much in common: BG Yeo
      452 3  -  By Chung Tsung Mien. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Singapore and Utah share a common social dynamic which keeps the two societies going. Minister for Information and the Arts George Yeo has said. Both societies were driven by the need to
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      Lock icon CELEBRATING, IN PRAYER:
      138 3 CELEBRATING, IN PRAYER: Dressed in ceremonial scarlet robes, 42-year-old Lee Choon Huat guided a group of 20 Taoist devotees in prayer in a makeshift tent near the Aljunied MRT Station on Wednesday afternoon. It was the third time in the day he was doing it, as part
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      CPF Board files claims against Liang Palace
      414 3  -  Restaurant which closed after taking couples’ deposits By Ginnie Teo THE Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board has filed claims against Liang Palace Restaurant for not paying its employees’ CPF contribution. Last June, it took the restaurant to court for the same offence. The
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  • HOME
    • Article
      ENV to protect non-smokers despite new US findings
      435 4  -  ‘lrrefutable fact’ that second-hand smoke is harmful By Dominic Nathan THE Environment Ministry’s position on protecting nonsmokers here remains unchanged despite new research in the United States showing that the effects of second-hand smoke were overstated. In one of its strongest statements
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      Youth dies while trying to save drowning girlfriend
      365 4 A 17-YEAR-OLD youth died in his bid to save his girlfriend from drowning on Sunday. Rohaizat Awang and Norhaslinda Sahbudin, also 17. were swimming off Changi beach at about noon when they drifted to deep water and she experienced difficulties. A friend
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      Court reinstates Hilborne who was struck off under new rule
      554 4  -  Revoking of SICC membership By Elena Chong RETIRED lawyer Kenneth Hilborne has won his suit against the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) for striking him off the register in 1991. His name was removed when a new rule in 1988
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      Barber wins application to set aside order to evict him
      490 5  -  By Elena Chong A BARBER has won an application to set aside a Tenants’ Compensation Board (TCB) order to evict him from his rent-controlled shophouse in Upper East Coast Road. Mr Pakari Kothandapani. 65. has been running a barber shop
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      Lock icon FOUND: Wallet lost in Sentosa lake
      322 5  -  By Dawn Tan FOR Hongkong tourist P.S. Karunaratna, it was not an April Fools’ joke. A wallet he dropped into a lake in Sentosa three months ago was found last Friday, and returned to him on Monday. Mr Karunaratna, 42, dropped it into the
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      Unneeded treatment gets doctor 3-month suspension
      261 5 A PAEDIATRICIAN has been suspended for three months by the Singapore Medical Council for giving unnecessary treatment to an eight-year-old boy. Dr Gary Tan Siew Geok was found guilty of performing an unnecessary colonoscopy on the boy, who was then recovering from pneumonia. This
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      Call to exploit IT faster so civil service can benefit
      422 5 INFORMATION technology (IT) must be exploited faster to help the civil service to carry out and set policies, said the chief of the National Computer Board and National Computer Systems (NCS). Mr Lim Swee Say said this on Monday at
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      Lock icon More teens attempting suicide: NUH
      581 6  -  By Leong Ching Ching PSYCHIATRISTS at the National University Hospital have seen a sharp rise in the number of teenagers who attempt suicide, with many doing so around examination time. Last year, it helped 36 youngsters under 18 who tried to take their lives, up
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      Lock icon Seized: Heroin worth $70m from container
      461 6  -  By David Miller IN the largest single heroin seizure in Singapore's history, officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) confiscated 72 kg of top-grade heroin hidden inside a container on Sunday. The drugs, which have a street value of more than $7O million. were
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    • Article
      Navy chief on need for close defence ties
      148 6  -  By Ho Wah Foon SINGAPORE and Malaysia need to maintain close defence ties in order to make the region a stable place for investment. Outgoing Navy chief Kwek Siew Jin said this on Monday when he called on his Malaysian counterpart, Vice-Admiral
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      Hit-and-run cabbie jailed one week, fined $8,000
      356 6 A TAXI-DRIVER, 58, ran down a 56-year-old man while speeding along Jalan Bukit Merah on March 14. He tried to escape but was foiled when another driver swerved in front of his taxi, blocking his way. Teo Khee Kha pleaded guilty before District
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      No asset market bubbles in S’pore, says Dr Hu
      491 7  -  By Tan Kim Song THERE are no asset market bubbles in Singapore, unlike what happened in Japan, Finance Minister Richard Hu said on Friday last week. The high prices in the private property market here were mainly a result of strong
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon ACS pupil, 11, invents cutlery-sorting device
      269 7 SCHOOLBOY Eugene Beh Shin Ming felt sorry for the canteen vendors who had to sort out the cutlery in the bins by hand. So, the 11-year-old pupil of Anglo-Chinese'School (Barker Road) thought up a way to separate the cutlery from the plates as they
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      11 SAF women officers off to conquer mountain
      447 8  -  Novice climbers aim to achieve a first for S’pore By Thomas Lee MOST of them have never seen snow, let alone climbed a mountain. But that is not stopping 11 Singapore Armed Forces women officers from trying. The novice climbers left for
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      Changes needed to allow more women to join workforce
      493 8  -  Forum on women’s role in the 21st century By Chua Lee Hoong MAKE changes to the traditional arrangements at home, work and school to allow more women to join the workforce. This was the unanimous call of three women panellists at
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      186 7 Home Delivery Weekly A crisp summary of the week's major happenings in Singapore, the newspaper covers news from politics, to business, to investment opportunities and others. What's more, it also offers news on Malaysia and Asean. A convenient tabloid airmailed to you wherever you may be, once a week. So,
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      1246 8 RADIO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME SCHEDULES 1100 1400 Hours (GMT) 9530 KHz (3IM BAND) MONDAY 1100 News in 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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      Lock icon Ticket rush as S-League fever strikes
      425 9  -  By Joe Dorai FROM Malaysia Cup fever to SLeague fever. This was the scenario on Sunday when thousands of fans queued from early morning to purchase the 51,200 tickets that went on sale for the S-League opening ceremony at the National Stadium on April
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      Zarinah goes back on quit decision
      302 9 BADMINTON SINGAPORE’S top woman shuttler Zarinah Abdullah has reversed her decision to quit competitive badminton. The 24-year-old will make her return at the Seiko Asian Championships in Surabaya from April 17-21. She had quit in a huff a fortnight ago following the Singapore National
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      Marathon runner Yvonne Danson’s world ranking drops from 16 to 42
      388 9 ATHLETICS ATLANTA Olympics-bound marathon runner Yvonne Danson’s world ranking has dropped from 16 to 42. The Singaporean’s personal best of 2hr 30min 56sec, logged during last year’s Boston Marathon, saw her rise to No. 16. But since she has
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      SSC, Pools and STC to discuss betting
      346 9  -  By S. Murali LEGALISED betting for soeeer will take its first step on Monday when offieials from the Singapore Sports Council, Singapore Pools and the Singapore Turf Club meet to discuss the feasibility of setting up a system for the S-League. Said SSC
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  • MALAYSIA
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      KL ready to change laws to woo foreign IT brains
      555 10  -  By Ho Wah Foon in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA wants to be a regional centre of information technology (IT) and is prepared to change its laws to woo foreign brains, according to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. “The government
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      Parenting classes a ‘must’ for civil servants
      323 10 KUALA LUMPUR All Malaysian civil servants will have to undergo compulsory parenting classes in a move to combat juvenile delinquency and related social problems. National Unity and Social Development Minister Datin Paduka Zaleha Ismail was quoted in The Sunday Star as saying her
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      Lock icon Malaysia to keep 50% of land under forest cover
      472 10 Two-thirds of land now covered with trees: Mahathir Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has emphatically undertaken to ensure that at least 50 per cent of its land area remained under permanent forest cover, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said last
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      Lock icon Malaysian Indians dirt poor? Rubbish, says Samy Vellu
      425 10 Reuter. Bernama KUALA LUMPUR A leading Malaysian Indian politician on Thursday dismissed a comment by former Australian Gover-nor-General Bill Hayden that Malaysia's ethnic Indians were "largely dirt poor”. Speaking in Ipoh, Malaysian Indian Congress president Datuk Seri S. Sarny Vellu said that
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      Lock icon Govt has no plans to abolish ISA, says minister
      300 10 Bernama.' KUALA LUMPUR The government had no plans to abolish the Internal Security Act (ISA) as it was still needed to safeguard the stability and security of the country’s multi-racial population. Deputy Home Minister Datuk Megat Junid Megat Avob told Parliament
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Thailand imposes $280 limit on tourist imports
      368 11 BANGKOK Thailand has started imposing its 5.000-baht (Ss2Bo) restriction on tourist imports as it seeks to compete with Singapore and Hongkong for a slice of the money '1 hai tourists would have spent in overseas shopping. The 5,000-baht import restriction came into effect
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      Now military wives told: Vote for Golkar in next polls
      535 11  -  By Paul Jacob Indonesia Correspondent JAKARTA Army chief R. Hartono, unperturbed by criticism over his open call for military support of the ruling Golkar in next year’s general election, has now told wives of the rank and file to vote
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      Lock icon Where elephants must work or face death
      282 11 AFP. WAY KAMBAS (Indonesia) Indonesia is teaching elephants to play soccer, basketball and other circus tricks in an effort to make them "productive” and save them from encroaching development. Way Kambas, in the southern region of Sumatra island, is the first and most
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      Indonesian haj flights using Batam, not Changi
      376 11  -  Move saving the country up to $2 m By ties at Hang Nadim. By Paul Jacob. JAKARTA National carrier Garuda has begun to use Hang Nadim airport in Batam instead of Changi as a refuelling point for Saudi Arabia-bound haj flights in a
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      Jakarta increases transport fares
      417 11  -  By Paul Jacob. JAKARTA Indonesia announced across-the-board increases in domestic air, sea and land-transport fares on Wednesday, arguing that service providers had been bit by higher fuel, salary and other operating costs. Transport Minister Harvanto Dhanutirto said that the increases the highest being a jump of
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  • COMMENT / Pick of the week’s editorials
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      G-7 at sixes and sevens
      665 12 APRIL 5, 1996 THOUGH the statement that the Group of Seven (G-7) issued at the end of its two-day meeting in the French town of Lille was not as obviously protectionist as it might have been if the French had had their way. its welcome
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      Going home without tears
      683 12 APRIL 4. 1996 NOT for the first time, a high Vietnamese official has said his government would keep its side of the bargain in accepting back the 33.000 boat people still in South-east Asian camps who do not qualify for asylum in third countries. This was
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      Hongkong in perspective?
      655 12 APRIL 3. 1996 THE sight of thousands of Hongkongers making a lastminute bid for British National Overseas (BNO) passports last week, as the deadline for their issue approached, was certainly an impressive one. What made the queues appear even more significant was that the BNO does not
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      Forget about the V-chip, just teach your child well
      821 12  -  By Sonny Yap WHAT can the Government do to promote social graciousness? How can it inculcate an appreciation of the arts? What measures can it take to stem juvenile delinquency? Can it study the relationship between the quality of child care
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  • COMMENT/ANALYSIS
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      Don’t let fuss over tariff hikes block much-needed change
      1109 13  -  By Tan Sai Siong WE SINGAPOREANS are funny when it comes to money, our money. We may rush to buy homes at over $l,OOO per square foot and are grateful to secure a unit. But we will kick up an almighty
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      Should Govt be sole provider of everything?
      1000 13  -  By Chu Lee Hoong IF BREAD and butter form one cornerstone of politics in Singapore, then bricks and mortar must form another. Ever since the first post-indepen-dence parliamentary election, the quest for a roof over one’s head has always featured prominently in the
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  • INSIGHT A LOOK AT THE ISSUES OF THE DAY BY THE STRAITS TIMES POLITICAL DESK
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      Town councils’ coming of age
      884 14 The recent move by town councils to take over the provision of essential maintenance and computer services from the Housing Board has been described as a “coming of age in the evolution of town councils” by National Development Minister Lim Hng Kiang. But what does
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      Uncertain if new move will serve PAP well
      732 14 Opposition mps welcomed the move to devolve power from the Housing Board to town councils when the idea was first mooted in 1985. The two opposition MPs in Parliament then, Mr Chiam See Tong and Mr J. B. Jeyaretnam. believed this would
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      Residents in opposition wards not worried
      590 14 Residents in the four opposition wards are not particularly worried that their town councils will be taking over the provision of essential maintenance and computer services from the Housing Board from June. Thirty-four of the 40 residents interviewed this week were confident that their
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      What the Govt-SDP debate on health care is all about
      1063 15 Parliament last week set up a Select Committee to look into the allegations by the Singapore Democratic Partv that health care is ‘‘hardly subsidised at all”. What is the debate all about? And what issues will it have to grapple
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      Cracking the income-gap problem the ITE way
      1134 15  -  Thinking Aloud Han Fook Kwang VINCENT Lu holds the key to the widening income gap problem. Never heard of him? Well, neither did I until we featured him on Wednesday last week as one of a growing number of students from the Institute
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  • MONEY
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      SES MAIN BOARD
      8020 16 INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL Transaction Date: April 4,1996 1996 Cu-r Last Vol Day Grs Net M CapWtAvg High Low Company Traded Sale Of000 High Low Div P/E $mil Price ASE NT$10 200 US 214 165 Acer 50c US 184 -t-4 141 184 181 5 ON 114 304 6
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      Investors again stay on the sidelines
      321 17 POOR corporate earnings by local companies and a speculative fervour in the Malaysian second board drew investors’ interest away from the local bourse. The stock market began the week with sporadic buying as investors again stayed on the sidelines digesting the last of the
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      DAY—TO—DAY STOCK INDICES
      88 17 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Indes rose 9.19 points on the week to 2396.48. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 2376.03 (-11 26) 65.797m (S*****9m) Tuesday *****1 10.22) 74 654m ($263 316m) Wednesday 2381 00 (+15 29) 78 343m ($263 665m) Thursday 2396 48 15 38) 73.643m
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      SPH takes indirect stake in Belgacom
      524 18  -  Newspaper group forks out s93m for long-term investment By Tammy Tan SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) has paid $93 million for an indirect 1.35 per cent stake in Belgacom, the Belgian telecommunications operator which Singapore Telecom bought into recently. The transaction involves SPH taking a
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      CORPORATE RESULTS
      1097 18 Company Data ann Net earn TY LV <$m) <$m> EPS TY LY lets! lets) abR Hldgs Mar 25 P 0697 2.007 16 4.* Acer Mar 25 P 31.030 ***** 22 8 27.2 Acma Mar 16 P 52.778 65 946 31.9 39 9 Alliance T#c6 Mar 26 P 7.679L
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      DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1147 18 Payment <%> E. date Books clot# Pay data ABR Hldgs 5C r 3 Jun 28 Jul 4 Jul 16 Acma 50« F 15 Jul 1 Jul 5 Jul 18 Amtell Eng 20« 1 7.5TE Apr 3 Apr 9 Apr 23 Asean Fd F 100TE Mar 19 Mar 25
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      APPROVED ISSUES
      321 18 OTHERS Company ExRatio data Books close Acc Paymt Kemayan Corp Bhd Offer for sale py Hwang- Jan 31 DBS Secs Sdn Bnd of the ngnts to allotment of 82,375.803 wts at an offer price of 53.7 sen per wt to the shareholders of the company on the basis
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      PROPOSED ISSUES
      146 18 Company Rights Issue Alliance Tocn four 3 wrts-forten 0» $1.00 Amcoi One-for-two $2 05 Liang Court Two-for-five $1.08 MMC Three-for-five M$2 00 Westmond Two-for-five <t> M$3.00 Company Bonus Issue E Resources One-tor-five Flextech One-for-two MMC Two-for-five ROC One-for-four S Coffeemix One-for-two San Ten One-for-five ST Auto One-for-five Company
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      Investment sales of properties hit record high
      646 18  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala INVESTMENT sales of properties hit a record $3.8 billion in the first quarter half the $7.6 billion achieved in the whole of last year, which was itself a record high. The bunrqier sales the highest quarterly figure yet came chiefly
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      POSBank cuts savings rate
      136 19 POSBANK is reducing its first-tier savings rate to 2.5 per cent from 2.75 per cent, from Monday. It said in a statement on Sunday that the second-tier savings rate remains unchanged at 2.25 per cent. The first tier refers to savings accounts with balances of up
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      HONGKONG
      461 19 Wednesday April 3 HK$ ASM Pacific 7.45 0.05 Allied Ind Int'l 0.41 -0.01 Allied Oversea 0.55 -0.01 Asia Sec Int 2 12 0.05 Bank of EA 26.80 unch C.P Pokphand 3.80 0.07 CDL Hotel 4 60 -0 05 Cafe De Coral 2.30 unch Cath Pac Air 13.50 -0 05
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      Listed S’pore firms’ combined earnings rise 7.2% to $5.34 b
      965 19  -  First time in four years that single-digit overall growth is reported By Jean Chia EARNINGS of listed Singapore companies rose 7.2 per cent last year the first single-digit growth in four years. Net profit of the 156 companies surveyed was
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      UNIT TRUSTS
      555 19 Mgrs' prices, April 5 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1 81—1 92(« The Savings fund 1.71—1.81(« xd S pore Prog Fund 0.72— 0.77*» S pore Sec Fund I 07—1.14c, Spore Invest Fund 1.21—1 28*» S'pore Equity Fund 085-0 90«. Credit Lyonnais Int’l Asset Mgt Ct Asia Pac Gr
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      CURRENCY
      154 19 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to one unit ot foreign currency Buying 00 Selling US dollar 1.3946 1.4106 Sterling pound 2.1096 2.1613 Australian dollar 1 0780 1.1119 Canadian dollar 1.0195 1.0433 NZ dollar 0.9378 0.9699 EC unit 1.7785 Singapore dollars to 100 of foreign currency units Austrian schilling 13.1391 13.7358
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      ASIAN CURRENCY UNITS
      140 19 Contract data: April 4, 1996 CURRENCY 1 MTH 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE US$ 4 4 4"» 4 44« 4'4 4« 10 4 96 A$ 6 7 7 7' 5'. 10 4 96 NZS 8« 8 1 8’ 8V» 8'« 7'
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      First-quarter turnover on SES highest in 1 1/2 years
      632 20  -  Brokers point to inflow of foreign funds in January By Jean Chia SINGAPORE’S stock market volume in the first quarter of this year was the highest in 18 months, at 10.6 billion units worth $2B billion. Trading was propped up mainly
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      Singapore private home will cost a couple 6.6 years’ wages: Survey
      625 20 IT COSTS an ambitious young couple in Singapore 6.6 times their combined annual salaries to buy a private residential property, compared to 11 > times in Bombay and 24 times in Sydney. The comparison of housing costs to salaries
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      US praises S’pore for tightening copyright laws
      509 20  -  By Irene Ngoo THE United States has cited progress made by Singapore in strengthening its copyright protection and in the banking and securities sector. The 19% report on foreign trade barriers, released by the US Trade Representative (USTR) in Washington on Monday, noted
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  • FORUM
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      MOE sees the need to improve lot of teachers
      539 23 Package of measures on this will be announced soon I REFER to the letters “Lighten teachers’ admin burden and provide resources” by Ernest Abbott, “Working conditions more crucial than pay” by Tan Kam Ying, and "Mid-career professionals need enticement to become
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      Working conditions are more important than pay
      218 23 AT LAST, something is being done for the teaching profession. Most people feel that money is the solution to all the woes of teachers. It is, to a certain extent, but I feel that working conditions are more important. It is not very
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      Lighten teachers’ admin burden
      292 23 I READ with interest Ng Wei Joo’s article "It is more than just due that teachers seek” (ST Weekly Edition, March 30). It articulates many of the problems and difficulties that teachers face. I am not a teacher, but am married to one and have heard
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      Mid-career professionals need enticement to become teachers
      706 23 IN THE euphoria that surrounds the announcement that our teachers are finally to be given their due recognition, two points mentioned by Mr Lee Yock Suan seem to have been overlooked. One, the minister said that mid-career professionals were welcome to join the
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  • Article
    Admin help on the way for teachers
    461 24  -  Tighter recruitment process with new salary package By Sharon Vasoo TEACHERS and principals burdened with paperwork will have their loads lightened soon by administrators hired for the job. “This will allow them to concentrate on their jobs and the students,” said Education Minister
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    CJ Yong’s term extended for 5 years
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    Lock icon Legalised bets ‘one way to raise soccer funds’
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