The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 3 May 1997

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY EDITION SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1997 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA <P> 156/08/96
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  • 896 1  -  Every child to have access to computers By M. Nirmala GOING to school will never be the same again, with the Government spending $2 billion to make learning with computers a way of life in the classroom. By the end of the six-year
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  • 792 1  -  Court allows deletion of offending remarks from record By Warren Fernandez SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan ’lew told the High Court on Monday that he believed opposition 'member Tang Liang ung was being underwritten by someone or some agency in his efforts to cause
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 661 2  -  Boon Heng on possible change to labour laws By PangGekChoo SINGAPORE workers should oe allowed to draw up individual contracts with tneir em plovers that will supersede the collective agreements se cured bv their unions Suggesting this possible change to the labour laws on
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    • 558 2  -  $84,000 holiday included a flight on the Concorde By Karamjit Kaur FOUR years ago. artist Des Phillips was told he had a rare form of cancer and was given a few weeks to live. Today, not only is he very much alive, but
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    • 576 2  -  By Elena Chong A POLICE constable who lifted the skirt of a woman and touched the breast of another in a police station was sentenced to 18 months' jail and six strokes of the cane on Tuesday. The court heard that Wilbur Lim Keng Tiong,
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    • 573 3  -  Minister asks airline for strong, loud and clear response to challenges By Rav Dhaliwal THERE will Le an intense battle for the booming regional aviation market and Singa pore Airlines, which is already facing a formidable challenge from other carriers, has to gear up
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    • 121 3 FROM A TINY AIRLINE The staff of Mala} an Airways at that time w ere pioneers, doing things the way pioneers do. I know of one traffic controller who had to fill in as a member of the cabin crew at the last moment because
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    • 459 3  -  Four others involved have to pay $17.86m By Lim Seng Jin AN UNEMPLOYED man was fined a record $9.25 million for smuggling two tonnes of cigarettes from Batam in the space of 2 ‘/2 months. Fong Weng Liong, 42. who was also jailed for
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  • HOME
    • 529 4 Price for abusing court process and whipping up emotions in Malaysia Testimony by SM to strike out Johor remarks JUSTICE Lai Kew Chai ruled on Monday that Mr Tang Liang Hong must pay the price for whipping up emotions in
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    • 400 4 MR TANG Liang Hong has denied tak ing “even a cent” from any political group, and revealed that he has appointed fugitive lawyer Francis Seow as his spokesman. In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service aired on Wednesday, the defeated Workers’
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    • 480 4 Regrets putting his lawyers in a bad light LAWYER Tang Liang Hong has offered to withdraw completely his remarks that his two Singapore lawyers dared not file one of his affidavits in the High Court. He said yesterday he regret ted that the remarks might
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    • 732 4  -  No deeper motive for leaving S’pore, he says By Ahmad Osman MR TANG LIANG HONG on Tuesday challenged Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew to produce evidence and name the person or agency he believed was backing him to damage Singapore. He also dismissed
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    • 864 5  -  Moves to maintain medical standards By Indrani Nadarajah THE Health Ministry will be implementing more 'stringent checks and audits on doctors in a move to ensure that Singapore’s high standards are not tarnished by a few black sheep in the profession. Announcing the
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    • 243 5 LIMITS will be set on how much private hospitals can charge patients who use their Medisave funds to pay their bills, said the Health Minister, Mr Yeo Cheow Tong, on Sunday. This is to help ensure that health care remains affordable well into
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    • 551 5  -  By Mary Kwang China Corresponaent SUZHOU Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has given progress at the China-Singa pore Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) the thumbs up, stating that the project’s teething pe riod was now over. Mr Goh. in a half-hour press conference
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    • 208 5 A THIEF literally leapt into the arms of the law when he jumped from the third storey of a flat while trying to escape from the police. The 21-vear-old had snatched a waist pouch containing more than $4,000 from a hawker stall
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    • Article, Illustration
      627 6 Ex-dental nurse who conned three out $660,000 gets five years' corrective training A RETIREE of 70 was conned into parting with his life savings of $450,000 to a dental nurse, because he believed her when she swore on the Bible and on the health of her three children
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    • 421 6 Under the $2-billion IT masterplan for schools, students will move from learning how to use computers to learning with computers. Students Students will move from being passive to active learners. They will learn how to source for information, apply what they have learnt to solve problems, and think
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    • 349 6 AT THE age of 11, some primary schoolchildren are already learning how to cultivate a good eye for colours and taking in other finer points of grooming and social etiquette. First Impressions, an image-building consultancy, has been running these classes for
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    • 471 7 ‘Low crime rate, more policemen’ MORE Singaporeans feel safer now than they did five years ago, a police survey last year has found. Some 86 per cent of respondents said the general security of Singapore was better now than in 1991.
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    • 407 8  -  By Raoul Le Blond THE Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has nabbed eight Singaporeans who returned from Ba tarn after taking Ecstasy. They were caught at the World Trade Centre ferry terminal and tested positive for the drug. Replying to queries from The
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    • 245 8  -  By Joanne Lee FANCY having a 3m long python hissing in your ear while it wraps its thick reptilian body around your neck? No need to make a trip to the zoo. just head to the cable car station at Mount Faber. A group
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    • 223 7 GAIN A STRATEGIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION I Leeds was rated 7th in research power amongst the UK's top universities in the recent Research Assessment Exercise of the UK's 191 institutions. The Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies taught in Singapore, made available to the region via
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    • 183 7 Home Delivery weekly! A crisp summary of the week's major happenings in Singapore. Politics, business, the economy, investment opportunities, executives appointments... and highlights on Malaysia and the Asean. A convenient tabloid airmailed to you wherever you may be. Yes! Every week. Subscribe now. And be at home with the ST
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 1116 8 RADIO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME SCHEDULES 1100 1400 Hours (GMT) 6015 KHz (49M BAND) 6155 KHz (49M BAND) MONDAY 1100 News 1109 Business Market Report 1115 Arts Arena 1130 News 1135 The Front Page 1138 E Z Beat 1145 Newsline 1200 News/Weather (Asia-Pacific) 1205 E Z Beat 1220 Business Market
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  • SPORTS
    • 389 9  -  Bv Santokh Singh HOCKEY NEWLY APPOINTED national hockey coach P.A. Raphael has one aim this year to regain tor Singapore’s men the Southeast Asia Games silver medal that he helped Thailand steal from the Republic in 1995. The 47-year-old former Thai national coach
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    • S-League boss Moore quits
      • 634 9  -  By S. Murali A DAY after Timesport reported his resignation, an angry Douglas Moore dismissed suggestions that he was quitting over a tiff about television rights for S-League matches. The chief executive officer of the S-League told Timesport on Thursday: “To
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      • 623 9  -  Two versions why chief executive officer resigns By Santokh Singh DISAGREEMENTS over the handling of the S-League’s running saga with a local television station may have been the final straw that led to the decision by Douglas Moore to quit
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      • Article, Illustration
        28 9 Kwek: Called an emergency board meeting for Monday. ‘I am not surprised as it has been in the air for some time now.’ John Koh, S-League secretary.
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    • 479 9  -  World Cup soccer qualifier: Singapore 0 Kuwait 1 By Tay Cheng Khoon BOTTOM-LINE watchers are not wrong in pointing out that it was Kuwait which collected die three points after beating Singapore 1-0 in the World Cup qualifier at the National Stadium last Saturday. But the
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 532 10  -  Lim Guan Eng may lose seat in Parliament By Brendan Pereira in Kua'a Lumpur THE Democratic Action Party’s Lim Guan Eng was found guiitv of sedition and maliciously printing false news by the Malacca High Court on Monday, and is in
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    • 269 10 NST KANGAR A lorry driver aged 49 was sentenced to a total of 48 vears' jail anil ordered to be given 24 strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to raping three 12-year-old girls. But Sulaiman Bidin will onlv serve 16
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    • 582 10  -  By Brendan Pereira. KUALA LUMPUR For clerk Rashid Abdul Yusof, it is a race against time every weekday and has been so for the last nine months. After work, he hops on his scooter and heads for home, a
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    • 661 10  -  By Brendan Pereira i r D eta'ing Jaya MALAYSIAN Pnme Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Wednesday expressed regret at a Straits Times article which portrayed Johor Barn as crime-infested but said that his government would not pursue the
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 549 11  -  0: Why must Golkar win every time? By Susan Sim naonesia Correspondent JAKARTA As an opposition party staged a show of force with well-attended allies and motorcades in the capital on Tuesday and the et*orts of another came unck ruling-party eader 1
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    • 538 11  -  Clampdown to last till presidential contest in ’9B Run-up to Indonesian elections By Derwin Pereira in Jakarta IN A move signalling the resolve of the Indonesian Armed Forces (Abri) to quell unrest a top military officer has said
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    • 131 11 INDONESIAN President Suharto (right) giving his blessings to his youngest son Hutomo Mandala Putra and Solo princess Ardhia Pramesti Regita Cahyani at their traditional Javanese wedding ceremony in a park in east Jakarta on Wednesday. Political leaders took the morning off to attend the wedding.
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    • 269 11  -  By Edward Tang Thailand CorresponGent PHUKET The foreign ministers of Singapore and Thailand have endorsed the approach adopted by their senior officials, who met here on Wednesday, on ways to strengthen civil service co-operation between the two countries. The final report was expected to
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  • COMMENT / Pick of the week's editorials
    • 703 12 MAY 3 ’997 THK scale of the Labour Party’s victory it' the British general election gives it an overwhelming mandate and an equally overwhelming responsibility to reshape the country's destiny. British voters have left no one in doubt of their preference for Labour leader Tony Blair
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    • 711 12 MAY 1 1997 IT IS arguably true that if the European Union <EU> took a tougher stance on Iran this week b\ suspending ministerial ties with it. it diluted its message by deciding that ambassadors re called trom Teheran could re turn if their governments
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    • 695 12 APRIL 30 1997 MYANMAR'S admission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is a delicate issue for the grouping What is in question is not Asean's policy of constructive engagement towards the country, which remains the most practical way. over the long term, of bringing
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    • 728 12  -  By Yeong Ah Seng IT HAS been a headv month for Sing Tel which experienced serious competition for the first time ever and saw its share price tumble to an all-time low The fact that the new kid in town. Ml.
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  • COMMENT/ANALYSIS
    • 1268 13  -  By Cherian George SOON after he announced it last vear. Prime Minis ter Goh Chok Tong's plan to launch Community Develop ment Councils was dismissed by the opposition as nothing more than a political ploy to entrench the ruling party. If there
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    • 895 13  -  By Ravi Veloo THE Singaporean is a strange sort of lover. He will give you his heart, but damned if he will give you his kidnev. At least that is the message w r e got when a doctor revealed at a recent
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  • INSIGHT A LOOK AT THE ISSUES OF THE DAY BY THE STRAITS TIMES POLITICAL DESK
    • Singapore-Malaysia economic competition
      • 701 14 There is more to the Singapore-Malaysia row than meets the eye. This is what a number of observers oelieve, as they look at the state of relations between the two nations from a wider perspective. Apart from strategic issues such as water, airspace and railway land,
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      • 594 14 Can KL’s $5b 'total airport pip Changi International? Airport EVEN as vou read this some 1100 airport employees from Subang airport in Kuala Lumpur are learning now to handle a new airport system called Tams. Tams or Total Airport Management Svstem. is the high-tech MSSOO million Ss2Bs million) computer network
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      • 705 14 Information technology CRITICS dismiss it as a publicity piov, a futuristic concept that maxes for good headlines but bad bottomiines. An empty bowl without any fruit. Proponents swear ov it as Malaysia's gateway to the Information Technology (IT) age. propelling the country towards developed
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    • 1285 15 What with the university fee hike, public transport fare increases and the 10-per-cent service charge scam, the spotlight has swung to the Consumers Association of Singapore. How should it react to these events? What is its role?
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    • 1245 15  -  Thinking Aloud Warren Fernandez ATRIP to Malaysia could cost vou between MS2O and MISO more if the Johor state government goes ahead with a proposal to slap a levy on Singapore visitors to the state The reason: Johor's streets are clogged
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  • MONEY
    • 364 16 Weekly share market review THE Straits Times Industrials Index <STII) flirted dangerously with the psychologically significant 2.000 level this week, as market sentiment turned bearish. For the week, the benchmark index ended just 0.37 points lower at 2,019.60. after dipping as low as
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    • 76 16 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Index dropped 3.37 points on the week to 2016.23. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1996.79 (-22 81) 57.858 ($215.61 lm) Tuesday 1990.20 (-6.59) 91.525 ($292.621m) Wednesday 2004.26 <♦ 14.06) 92.552 ($321.493m) Thursday Friday 2016.23 (+11.97) 115.072 ($351.427m) BT— MGA Index The
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    • 1298 16 Net earn EPS Date TY LY TY LV Company ann <$m> <5m> (eta) lets) Acer Mar 12 F 32 481 31.029 19.6 22 8 Acma Mar 19 P 40 588 52.778 24.5 31.9 Amtek Eng Mar 21 1 11.887 ***** 827 8.33 Apollo Mar 17 P 4232 5.252
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    • 145 16 Company Plac* Data Tima DBS Ban* A Maat.nq Am 3 IBtn storay DBS Bldg Towar 1, 6 Shanton Way (*****9) May K> 11.00am Samb Maotima E 59 Shipyard Ad Jurong (*****3) May 6 11.00am Transpac ndustriai Holdings A Tha Wostm Plaia Hotol 4th door Tho Indiana Room 2
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    • 244 16 RIGHTS ISSUE Company Ratio c«* dot# Books clot# ACC Paymt Kappal T T Twoforfour Apr 3 Apr 9 NYA BONUS ISSUE ExBoost Company Ratio data dosa OCBC Ona-for-fiva Jun 5 Jun 11 NYA OTHERS EsBooSs Acc Company Ratio data ClOM Paymt Kaopal Corp Wt97 Entttiamant to tha afliuttmant
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    • 209 16 Company Right* liiuo AISB Three-for-five <# RM5.50 Amcol One-for-two 9 $2.05 C Resources One-for-two $1.30 H L#ong Cred One-for-ten M$6 90 IPC Coprn Ona-for-flva 9 $0.30 MUI One-for-two 9 M$1.30 Mulpha Ona-for-four 9 M$1.60 Nippercraft One-for-four $0.28 PMI Three-for-two M$1.00 Pub Bk F Ona-for-flva MS3.30 OUB Ona-for-flva 9
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    • 1190 16 Payment Ex date Books close Hy date Artech Sys 5C D 4TE Jun 13 Jun 19 Jul 3 BAT 2K F 119 Apr 10 Apr 16 Apr 28 Boustead 50C 1 10 May 7 May 13 Jun 14 etc F 27 May 9 May 15 May 28 CAM
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    • 565 17  -  US securities watchdog seeks cooperation and help By Jean Chia SINGAPORE'S white-collar crime-buster, the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD;, and the Stock Exchange of Singapore <SES> are launching separate probes in con nection with the US authori ties' charges of insider trading bv Singaporean
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    • 537 17  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala THE Hong Leong Group has bagged the Boulevard Hotel for $4lO million a record price for residential land if the 130,535 sq ft freehold site is redeveloped into a condominium. The group was studying the possibility of building “very
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    • 145 17 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Buying OD Selling US dollar 1.4344 1.4508 Sterling pound Australian dollar 2.3064 1.1102 2.3630 1.1450 Canadian dollar 1.0268 1.0503 NZ dollar 0.9759 1.0097 EC unit 1.6487 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.6202 12.1310 Belgian
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    • 123 17 Contract date: May 03 1997 UNIT ONE MTH 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE US$ 57, 5 1 57,6 5*2 4>2 07/5/97 Ah 5 5'/ie 57:6 57, 5'4 06'5 97 NZS 5 5y„ 6 6 67, t 6 6-2 5 06 5
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    • 151 17 THE United Overseas Bank 'UOB) Group on Wednesdav launched its 12th unit trust, the United Greater China Fund. The Singapore-dollar fund has a minimum investment requirement of $lO,OOO. Subsequent purchases can be made in multiples of $l,OOO and dividends can be reinvested From April 28
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    • 436 17 May 03 1997 HK$ ASM Pacific 550 unch Allied Ind Inf 3 73 0 08 0 90 ♦001 Asia Sec int 3.33 0 03 Bank o«5A 26 65 0 25 2.23 •0 02 COL Hotel 3 48 unch 2 00 0 02 Cath Pac Air 11 75 unch Century
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    • 815 17 Abtrust Fund Mgrt Abtrust pore GrFd 0987—1 038" American Inti Assur AlA Unit linked Fund 1 031-1 086# AXALIfe •'ortressFund 0 980* Citicorp Invt Bank Citi Global Bond Fd Clti Asia Infrastructure Fd C iti Japan Fd 1.047-1.057* 1 09-1 14" 1 01-1 01" Credit Lyonnais Int 1
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    • 8884 18 INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL T ransaction Date: May 03 1 997 1997 Curr Last Vol Day Gr s Net M Cap Wt Avg High Low Company Traded Sale ♦or000 High LOW Div PE Smil Price ASE NTS10 200 US 885 885 ASF USS0 01 100 US 865 88
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    • 564 20  -  Port is one of two in southern China allowed direct shipping links with Taiwan By Sim Wai Chew THE Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) has clinched a deal to manage and develop Fuzhou Port, one of two southern Chinese ports allowed direct shipping links with
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    • 430 20  -  3y Mary Kwang China Correspondent DALIAN Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has said that he would urge Singaporean businessmen to learn from their Hongkong counterparts in investing overseas. He also predicted that Singaporeans would be learning trom the Chinese in 30 years
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    • 451 20 29m shares for investors in Republic MAINBOARD-LISTED DBS Land wiil float 60 per centowned Australian subsidiary Austraiand Holdings on the Sydney ana Singapore bourses this month. The primary listing will be in Sydney and the secondary listing in Singapore. The
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    • 962 21 I The Straits Times Weekly Edition Share Our Vision Of The Future 8 DBS LAND WE'LL BUILD YOUR FUTURE At DBS Land, we constantly explore new horizons of challenge, tapping fresh opportunities and meeting higher goals. With assets of more than $7 billion, we aim to become the largest and
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    • 833 22 MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life and economic competitiveness ot Singapore. From Air Transport to Sea Transport, Land Transport to Telecommunications our Ministry' sets the policies and directions for Singapore. If you are a seif-motivated individual and are Keen to aeveiop a
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  • FORUM
    • 1102 23 Dialysis for kidney patients I REFER to the letter “NKF helps everyone, especially the needy" bv Mr T. T. Durai. CEO of the National Kidnev Foundation (NKF) (ST. April 19 1. As nephrologists, we recognise the important role whicn the
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    • 230 23 I REFER to Mr T. T. Durai’s letter (ST, April 19). It is com mendable that the National Kidney Foundation has not given in to the pressure of re during its charges just to stay “competitive”. If it subsidises its patients excessively, it will have
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    • 303 23 I REFER to Cherian George's article “Opposition MPs should get a role in CDCs” (see page 13), where he expressed the view of some that the Government has shaped the CDC concept with “partisan contour”, and his assessment that opposition MPs should be invited
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    • 370 23 Some Malaysians resent our presence Levy on Singapore cars entering Malaysia MR WARREN Fernandez's “Will second causeway be a bridge too far?" in his Thinking Aloud column (see page la) was not as tongue-in-cheek as one may think. Let s face it. We are
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    • 243 23 I REFER to the articles “Johor to propose entry levy on Singapore cars” (ST, Weekly Edition, April 26) and “Progress is not drying unaies in open” (ST, April 24). I was dismayed to read about the proposed levy. As the need to provide
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  • 441 24  -  Consortium signs deal for supplies from 2000 By Sim Wai Chew SINGAPORE will start using piped natural gas from Indonesia under a landmark agreement signed on Wednesday between a consortium of Singapore companies and Indonesian state oil company Pertamina Disclosing this in a
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  • 199 24 SHE may be 104 years old. but Madam Aminah Katarogani can swing with the best of them. The resident of the Pertapis Senior Citizens Fellowship Home was one of three ambassadors chosen to represent the beneficiaries from charities that receive funds from the Community Chest. Her face,
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  • 524 24  -  By Jean Chia THE multimillionaire chairman of Sin-gapore-listed Lum Chang Holdings, Raymond Lum Kwan Sung, has been charged by the United States authorities with insider trading in APL shares and making an illegal profit of US$l.3 million. He is the second Singaporean,
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