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Title Section20 1996-04-13 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY EDITION SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1996 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 008/08/9520 words
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Article, Illustration694 1996-04-13 1 Govt takes ‘great exception’ to opposition slurs on subsidies PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said last Saturday that the Government "took great exception” to the opposition’s slurs that it was not subsidising health care for the poor, and pledged that public hospitalsPicture by ALPHONSO CHAN. - 694 words
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609 1996-04-13 1 Pang Gek Choo - Clean public toilets An appreciation of music By Pang Gek Choo PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said on Sunday that it would probably take 15 to 20 years of sustained effort to make Singapore a more gracious society ana spelt out two markers609 words
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Advertisement11 1996-04-13 1 High Court orders Lingle to pay $lOO,OOO to SM: Page 2411 words
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NEWS FOCUS
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625 1996-04-13 2 Felix Soh - But 40 incidents recorded this year in the region By Felix Soh ONCE a hotbed of piracy, the Malacca Straits is now free of maritime robbers because of increased joint patrols by Singapore. Indonesia and Malaysia. But the scourge of piracy in625 words
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Article, Illustration495 1996-04-13 2 Koh Buck Song - By Koh Buck Song THE Singapore Festival of Arts goes online for the first time this year, reaching a worldwide potential audience for what looks like a grand event. At the festival’s launch at the Westin Stamford hotel onPicture by ALBERT SIM - 495 words
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468 1996-04-13 2 Ng Wei Joo - By Ng Wei Joo NEARLY 300,000 Singaporeans have expressed an interest in becoming Internet subscribers within the next year, a recent survey of computer users found. The survey by survey Research Singapore noted that about 291,000 Singaporeans use the Internet. This number468 words
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689 1996-04-13 3 Geraldine Yeo - Contractors to appoint full-tinie on-site engineer By Geraldine Yeo THE Land Transport Authority is reviewing all safety measures relating to construction near MRT lines in the wake of Monday’s accident near the Paya Lebar MRT station. As an immediate step, it will require an689 words
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Article, Illustration472 1996-04-13 3 Leong Chan Teik - Dr Tony Tan’s visit to Brunei By Leong Chan Teik in Bandar Seri Bengawan DEPUTY Prime Minister Tony Tan has offered Singapore's help, where possible, to Brunei's efforts to modernise its armed forces. He had conveyed this offer to Brunei’s Sultan472 words
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Article, Illustration413 1996-04-13 3 CORRUPTION worsened in Asia during the past year but Singapore maintained its reputation as a "corruption-free haven in a region in which shaay practices are all too common", an annual survey has found. The 1996 survey by the Hongkong-based Political and Economic RiskTimetgraphics; Sourer Asian intelligence - 413 words
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HOME
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517 1996-04-13 4 Indrani Nadarajah - By Indrani Nadarajah THE Health Ministry will set up a $50 million one-stop cancer centre at the Singapore General Hospital next year, said SGH chief executive officer Lawrence Lim. The seven-floor centre will house specialists in cancer surgery, radiotherapy517 words
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Article, Illustration565 1996-04-13 4 Tan Hsueh Yun - 1996 National Achievers’ Award By Tan Hsueh Yun AFTER working 15 years as a nurse. Madam Junaidah Taijo, 38. became a property agent and made it big. She sold 105 HDB flats last year and earned $420,000 in gross commissions. The mother of three yesterdayPicture by GEORGE GASCON. - 565 words
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Article, Illustration507 1996-04-13 4 To get 14 years if he appears before CJ again A 16-YEAR-OLD habitual car thief was warned by Chief Justice Yong Pung How on Tuesday that he would receive the maximum 14 years of corrective training if he appeared before him again.507 words
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679 1996-04-13 5 Chung Tsung Mien - Reports by Chung Tsung Mien in New York SINGAPORE should learn to position itself skilfully as an interpreter of Asia for Americans, said Information and the Arts, and Health Minister George Yeo. Describing Singapore as the “softest landing” into Asia679 words
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Article, Illustration672 1996-04-13 5 NEW YORK The Young People’s Action Party’s (YP) two-week trip to the United States has helped its members to see beyond the stereotypes as well as to better understand the country’s political process, said YP chairman George Yeo. It had also672 words
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202 1996-04-13 5 THE Young PAP (YP) plays an important role in helping the People’s Action Party win over younger voters and in reflecting the aspirations of this population segment to the ruling party. Making this point on Thursday last week, Brigadier-Gen-eral (NS) George Yeo, who202 words
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499 1996-04-13 5 Lee Siew Hua - They enter as tourists, then work illegally By Lee Siew Hua Thailand Correspondent THAI gangsters who slip into Singapore as tourists are reportedly extorting money from their countrymen, according to Thai labourers and job brokers. A special report published on Wednesday499 words
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Article, Illustration959 1996-04-13 6 Leong Chan Teik - It will tilt while taking bends at high speed ‘Like sitting in a plane during landing’ By Leong Chan Teik A FAST train planned to run between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore by the turn of the centurv is likely to have an unusual feature:Timesgraphics - 959 words
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Article, Illustration550 1996-04-13 6 Hau Boon Lai - By Hau Boon Lai MISUNDERSTANDINGS between Asians and Americans occur because of a poor understand ing of each other’s style of government and communication, said a group of US Congressional staff members here on Wednesday Citing the recent US-China tension in the Taiwan StraitPicture by STEPHANIE YEOW. - 550 words
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515 1996-04-13 7 Indrani Nadarajah; and Sandra Soon - Most start in their late teens or early 20s, survey shows By Indrani Nadarajah and Sandra Soon MORE Singaporean women are smoking, most of them picking up the habit in their late teens and early 20s, a Health Ministry survey shows. The Survey on Cigarette515 words
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Article, Illustration325 1996-04-13 7 LAUNCH OF SONG FEST 96 A COUNTRY which sings together stays together, said National Arts Council chairman Professor Tommy Koh. Speaking at the launch of the biennial song festival, Song Fest 96, at Clarke Quav on Saturday last week, he recalled his visit toPicture by CHEW SENG KIM. - 325 words
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Article, Illustration390 1996-04-13 8 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong met a special visitor on Friday last week. Former Indian cricket captain Kapil Dev flew in from Bom bay specifically to say a big “thank you" to him. The gesture was in return for390 words
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319 1996-04-13 8 Tracy Lee - By Tracy Lee A WOMAN who was trying to avoid jail went to court with a new hairstyle, pretended to be her friend and handed in a forgea medical certificate. But an alert policewoman recognised Mary Lau Poh Hong, 28. as the319 words
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Advertisement192 1996-04-13 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 fo you wherever you may be, once a week. So,192 words
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Page 8 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1243 1996-04-13 8 RADIO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME SCHEDULES 1100 1400 Hours (GMT) 9530 KHz (31M 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 12201,243 words
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SPORTS
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946 1996-04-13 9 Tay Cheng Khoon - S7LE&GUE By Tay Cheng Khoon EVERYONE involved with the S-League should be vigi lant against soccer bookies and match-fixing. Or else, warned its adviser Mr Mah Bow Tan on Wednesday, “the project will fall flat on its face no matter what946 words
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Article349 1996-04-13 9 Cecilia Chan - Pepsi and YHS are the latest contributors to S-League By Cecilia Chan THE S-League has raised 80 per cent of its targeted budget of $lO million. It reached this milestone when PepsiCola International and Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd pledged $1.2 million over three years on Monday. The349 words
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Article490 1996-04-13 9 time for all of us.” By Tay Cheng Khoon - By time for all of us.” By Tay Cheng Khoon. S-LEAGUE chairman Kwek LengJoo went to Suntec City on Tuesday to receive a $650,000 sponsorship cheque from Tiger Beer. But, thanks to the soccer skills of his deputy Patrick Ang, he returned home490 words
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Article508 1996-04-13 9 Mahmood Gaznavi - By Mahmood Gaznavi CRICKET GOOD cricket can attract good crowds. The Singer Cup triangular in volving world champion Sn Lanka. Pakistan and India was ample evidence that cricket is able to develop into a big game in Singapore. Despite stiff ticket prices, which ranged between508 words
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MALAYSIA
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384 1996-04-13 10 Bemama KLUANG The Malaysian Constitution would be amended to define the Sunni sect as the official Islamic faith of the country, said the Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday. PMO Minister Datuk Abdul Hamid Othman said the move would help lessen divisions– Bemama - 384 words
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570 1996-04-13 10 Bemama. KUALA LUMPUR The Urn no headquarters has decided to tighten the party's electoral process to curt) money politics and abuse of power in the run up to the October party polls, party secretary-general Datuk Mohamed Rahmat said on Tuesday. AllBemama. - 570 words
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447 1996-04-13 10 JOHOR BARU Some 1,000 foreigners, mainly Singaporeans. who bought houses here before a levy requirement introduced by the Malaysian government came into force, are in a fix as the properties have not been transferred to them. A report in The447 words
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212 1996-04-13 10 -AFP. NST. PENANG Before Malaysian motorcyclists get their licences, they will soon have to visit a hospital ward to witness the horror of road-acci-dent victims. The authorities here said they were resorting to scare tactics to cut the country’s high road-accident rate.-AFP.; NST. - 212 words
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Article, Illustration225 1996-04-13 10 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian film actress Puteri Salbiah Megat Razali, or better known as Puteri Salbiah, was arrested in a raid by Selangor religious officers for allegedly committing khalwat or closeproximity with an unidentified man. According to a report in Harian Watan, the Selangor Islamic– Harian Watan picture. - 225 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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468 1996-04-13 11 Paul Jacob - CJ wants accusation probed thoroughly By Paul Jacob Indonesia Correspondent JAKARTA Indonesia’s Chief Justice has ordered an investigation into allegations that a former Appeals Court judge here might nave been bribed to overturn a High Court decision last year, newspapers here reported on Thursday. A468 words
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394 1996-04-13 11 Armed forces build-up will be done gradually: Suharto Reuter JAKARTA President Suharto said on Tuesday that Indonesia would boost its military strength gradually but neighbouring countries need have no fear. “We prefer to prevent war by building up peace, mutual understanding and co-operation,” heReuter - 394 words
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296 1996-04-13 11 Reuter. MANILA The Philippines has bqcome the world’s second biggest source of marijuana after Mexico, producing about US$l.4 billion (Ss2 billion) worth of the narcotic each year, a senator said on Sunday. Senator Ernesto Herrera said the Philippines’ brisk production of marijuana, speciallyReuter. - 296 words
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Article, Illustration630 1996-04-13 11 Paul Jacob - By Paul Jacob Indonesia Correspondent JAKARTA A leading Indone sian daily has expressed support for the view outlined by Singa pore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong that economic development must be complemented by progress in social behaviour and personal development. Kompas, which630 words
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209 1996-04-13 11 -AFP MANILA Manila airport is resorting to hi-tech scarecrows in its latest effort to keep birds out of the path of commercial aircraft, Philippine aviation officials said on Monday. The airport zone, hemmed in by Manila Bay, Laguna Lake and nearby salt beds,-AFP - 209 words
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COMMENT / Pick of the week’s editorials
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Article709 1996-04-13 12 APRIL 12. 1996 IN SOME ways. Singapore has been lucky. Asian in essence. Western by influence, the city-state has been able to derive the greatest benefits from being situated at the crossroads of civilisations as much as of trade routes. It is a microcosm of Westernised Asia,709 words
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Article714 1996-04-13 12 APRIL 10 1996 JAPAN has confirmed its maturing on the Asia-Pacific stage. Cabinet Secretary Seiroku Kajiyama's reference to problems that fall into "the area of Japan United States security coopera tion. as well as Japan's individual self-defence” broadens the scope for an active role714 words
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Article673 1996-04-13 12 APRIL 8 1996 IT WAS disturbing to hear psychiatrists at the National University Hospital report a sharp rise in the number of teenagers who attempt suicide. The number of young persons under 18 whom it helped last year was 36. up from only four673 words
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Article, Illustration644 1996-04-13 12 Yeong Ah Seng - By Yeong Ah Seng THE Environment Ministry tells us that Singapore’s overall air quality is well within the safety limits set by the World Health Organisation. We are breathing clean air, so it seems, which is reassuring. But644 words
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COMMENT/ANALYSIS
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Article, Illustration1053 1996-04-13 13 Tan Sai Siong - By Tan Sai Siong SELL-OUT new property projects. Angry crowds being turned away after lining up since the crack of dawn, only to De told that a handful of units is available. The public perceives that the choicest units are all1,053 words
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1031 1996-04-13 13 Sumiko Tan - By Sumiko Tan THE electoral system, Mr Lee Kuan Yew said recently, is like a game of dice. “Every time you have an election, you are throwing three or four dice. If it comes up with aces each time, you stay on top. If you1,031 words
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INSIGHT A LOOK AT THE ISSUES OF THE DAY BY THE STRAITS TIMES POLITICAL DESK
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Article, Illustration1470 1996-04-13 14 Welfare where does Govt’s role end and the VWO’s begin? Is the Government passing too much responsibility for social ana welfare services to voluntary welfare organisations (VWOs)? PangGek Choo and Wang Hui Ling take a look at the “many helping hands” approach which became a bone of contention during the1,470 words
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Article385 1996-04-13 14 DEFINE voluntary welfare organisation (VWO): it is a body which provides direct welfare services to the community on a voluntary basis. There are now about 130 VWOs affiliated to the co-ordinating body, the National Council of Social Service (NCSS), and about 30 more are said to385 words
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Article, Illustration1148 1996-04-13 15 “CPI X”. “CPI X”. These formulae have been bandied about during discussions on the privatisation of Singapore Power and health-care costs. What do they mean, and what is the mysterious “X*? Chua Lee Hoong gets to the bottom of it.1,148 words
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Article, Illustration1088 1996-04-13 15 Asad Latif - Thinking Aloud Asad Latif FOR someone whose most memorable political encounters often take place with taxi-drivers, those mobile purveyors of public opinion who, with Falstaffian wit and humour, dispense the truth as liberally as they do malicious rumour, it is sad1,088 words
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MONEY
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Article7482 1996-04-13 16 INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL Transactic in Dati 1095/« High Vol Day Qr’a N«t HIM V» Avg Low Company Traded Sale Of000 High Low Div P/E $mll rncf ASE NTS10 200 US 11.2 2996 214 165 Acer 50c US 181 unch 43 185 181 5 ON 421 494 4167,482 words
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345 1996-04-13 17 Trading throughout the week was dominated by fears of a stocks and bonds sell-off in the US following higher-than-expected US job fig ures for March released last Fnday. The US Labour Department had reported that non-farm payrolls lumped 140,000, which345 words
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Article76 1996-04-13 17 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Index fell 12.44 points on the week to 2384.04. day close TURNOVER Monday 2365.17 (-31.31) 57.605m ($165.894m) Tuesday 2382.131+16.96) 52.417m ($169.309m) Wednesday 2389.981+7.85) 74.675m ($272.34 7m) Thursday 2384.75 (-5.23) 86.986m ($316.055m) Friday 2384.04 (-0.71) 75.593m ($257.152m) BT MGA Index The76 words
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Article, Illustration514 1996-04-13 18 Ahmad Osman - More service firms to get cheap loans By Ahmad Osman A CENTRE to help local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to grow and upgrade would be set up by a statutory board launched on Monday by Trade and Industry Minister Yeo Cheow Tong. It514 words
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Article1011 1996-04-13 18 Company Data ann Not torn TV LV <$m) ($m) CPS TV tV (ctsl (cts) AISB* mor 29 1 1.448 1.973 1.4 1.9 Aiiionc# Tocn Mor 26 P 7679L 1.380L Amstooi* Mor 28 1 58.760 74.338 5.1 66 ANA HotOlS Mor 29 P 3.795 3.392 79 7.1 Asiomotru Mor1,011 words
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Article1562 1996-04-13 18 t >aymant (> Book! Pay <H> data dota dftt# ABN-Amro Sfl F 40h May 6 NVA May 20 ABR HldQS 5C r 3 Jun 28 Jul 4 Jul 16 Acma 50« F 15 Jull Jul 5 Jul 18 Aicom F 6TE JUI 2 Jul 8 Jul 22 Amtak1,562 words
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Article292 1996-04-13 18 OTHERS Caw» my ClRatM data Books Acc dosa Raymt YTL Corp Adpjstmantt of up to Ftp 2 71.654in now T$Rl contaquant to ttw Bonua nut on tna posit of l additional TSR for avory 2 austinq TSBs noM. Fab 16 NY A Oanong Bna Rtgnts issuo of Mar292 words
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Article144 1996-04-13 18 Company Rights issue Alliance Toch Four 3 wrts-for-ten op $1.00 Amcol One-tor-two $2.05 Freight Links Two 1 wrt-tor-tour V $0.72 Liang Court Two-for-five @> $1.08 MMC Tnree-for-tive M$2.00 OCBC One-tor-ten S3.00 OCBC Foreign One-for-ten $5.16 S'pore R* One-tor-two $1.30 Westmond Two-tor-fiye M$3.00 Company f Resources One-tor-five Flextech One-tor-two144 words
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Article149 1996-04-13 18 Company Mom Oat* Tim* Koppol Financ* C Board Room. Koppol Flnanco Ltd, to Hoa Cniang Rd •00-00 Koppol Toworj, (*****S) Apr 8 10.00am Humo mot E Conforonco Room, Lovot 5. Wtima Hong Loong, 19 Jin Porak. ***** Kuala Lumpur Aprs 2.30pm Frolght Link* t 62 Ton Guan Ra.149 words
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Article156 1996-04-13 19 ECONOMIC Development Board chairman Philip Yeo became the co-chairman of the joint working committee of the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park from Wednesday. Mr Yeo, who is also honorary chairman of the consortium developing the park, replaces outgoing co-chairman Wong Hung Khim. This is the second156 words
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Article445 1996-04-13 19 Friday April 12 HK$ ASM Pacific 7.45 -0.050 Allied Ind Int'l 0 41 -0.01 0 54 1 95 0 05 Bank of EA 26 20 -0.05 C P Pokphand 3 42 -0 12 CDl Hotel 4 60 -0.05 Cafe De Coral 2.27 -0.02 Cath Pac Air 12 70 -0.25445 words
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Article450 1996-04-13 19 Mgrs’ prices, April 15 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.82-1.92® The Savings Fund 1 71—1.81xd® S pore Prog Fund 0.72-0.77® S'pore Sec Fund 1.07-1.14® Spore Invest Fund 1.22-1.29® S'pore Equity Fund 0.85-0.90® Credit Lyonnais Infl Asset Mgt CL Asia-Pac Gr Fund 2.720-2.860- CL S'pore Gr Fund 2.620—2.755* CL450 words
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560 1996-04-13 19 Jean Chia - Bankers see secondary market equity issues as a feature of 1996 By Jean Chia SINGAPORE-LISTED companies have proposed to raise close to $1 billion through rights issues so far this year, double the total amount raised during the whole of last year. Eight560 words
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510 1996-04-13 19 Colin Tan - By Colin Tan PEPSI-COLA International and Yeo Hiap Seng are exploring possible joint ventures in South-east Asian countries, a move which will steer them into head-on competition with locally listed soft drink giant Fraser Neave (F&N). The plan will510 words
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Article165 1996-04-13 19 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Buying 00 Selling US dollar 1 3980 1.4140 Sterling pound 2.0924 2.1434 Australian dollar 1.0931 1.1274 Canadian dollar 1.0229 1.0467 NZ dollar 0.9343 0.9663 EC unit 1.7626 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 12 9596165 words
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Article122 1996-04-13 19 Contract date: April 12,1996 CURRENCY 1 MTH 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE US$ 4 7 i 4% 5 5 5 4 Vi 16/4/96 AS 6v« 6% 7'i 7 Vi 7'i 5vi 16/4/% NZ$ 8’i 8% 8w 8 Vi 8vb 7 '/4122 words
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585 1996-04-13 20 Kalpana Rashiwala - Buy will help speed up expansion Reports by Kalpana Rashiwala MR KWEK Leng Beng’s CDL Hotels International is eyeing parts of the 85-hotel Meridien global chain, which was acSuired recently by Granada roup as part of its recent hostile takeover585 words
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Article, Illustration422 1996-04-13 20 EIGHT of the 23 New Zealand hotels owned by CDL Hotels International are being eyed by regional hotel investment groups seeking to cash in on the sector’s attractive yields. Any sale that materialises would'be the homegrown global hotel group’s first property sale.422 words
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357 1996-04-13 20 INTRODUCTION of the Goods and Services Tax in April 1994 was achieved at a low cost: the 37,000 GST-registered businesses incurred average additional expenses of $4,340 each in the first year of its operation, according to a study. These expenses included both start-up357 words
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443 1996-04-13 20 STRONG demand for land for custom-de-signed buildings in Jurong Town Corporation’s (JTC) International Business Park has prompted the industrial landlord to give up about two-thirds of the land earmarked for its own development. The 40-hectare business park was planned originally with443 words
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652 1996-04-13 23 Independent, impartial judiciary is ultimate check for the system PARLIAMENT recently enacted laws to make it an offence for a person (1) to allow his telephone to be used to make nuisance calls to the 999 emergency telephone service and (2) to appear652 words
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591 1996-04-13 23 ‘...if a pupil is serious about achieving some standard of the language, then he must commit things learned to memory/ 1 REFER to Ms Cindy Lit’s letter “Language-learning needs reappraisal" (see this page) in whicn she expressed surprise and591 words
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417 1996-04-13 23 I REFER to the reply by Mr Wong Yew Kwan “Memory work plays big part in study of Chinese language” (above) to Ms Cindy Lit-Tan’s letter “Lan-guage-learning needs appraisal” (right). I believe that Mr Wong has misconstrued the intention of Ms Lit-Tan’s417 words
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272 1996-04-13 23 WHENEVER I come across economic hardship in less-developed countries and high unemployment in some developed countries, I wonder about tne many eager and sometimes desperate foreigners who descend on Singapore just to work. Unfortunately, in contrast, there is a272 words
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156 1996-04-13 23 AFTER having left school many years, I recently had the opportunity to get in touch with the education system again through the tutoring of a Primary 5 student in Chinese. What surprised me was that few things have changed: for instance there was still (spelling). However, what156 words
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Article, Illustration670 1996-04-13 24 335 will be hired to take over non-teaching duties ALMOST all schools will have school administrators to lighten the workload of principals and teachers by the end of the year. The Education Ministry will spend about $l2 million to engage 335 administrators, who willTimesgraphics - 670 words
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858 1996-04-13 24 Chung Tsung Mien - American academic ‘appeared intent on continuing damage’ By Chung Tsung Mien THE High Court on Thursday ordered American academic Christopher Lingle to pay Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew $lOO,OOO in damages as compensation for a libellous article he had written. Justice858 words