The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 10 June 2000

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  • Title Section
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    19 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Saturday June 10,2000 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA 074/08/99
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  • Article
    Lock icon Broadcast licences for SPH, print licence for Media Corp
    515 1  -  Media industry here will be freed up only gradually, with controlled competition introduced. Review of ban on satellite dishes next Sil CHUA MUIHOONG SINGAPORE’S media industry is to be liberalised, the government announced last Tuesday. Unlike the free-for-all competition unleashed by
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE IN TREMORS:
    64 1 SINGAPORE IN TREMORS: Hundreds of residents from East Coast to Yio Chu Kang fled their apartments after feeling strong vibrations on Monday morning. The tremors, believed to be caused by an earthquake in Indonesia, lasted a few minutes but no one was hurt. This boy waits at
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  • Article
    Lock icon SPH sets up TV unit
    430 1  -  *L SALMA KHALIK SINGAPORE Press Holdings on Thursday announced its third new venture in as many days, this time a $5O-million company to lead the group’s move into broadcasting. It has set up SPH MediaWorks, which will run its broadcasting business, and has recruited Mr
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      58 1 He Makes $12,000 A Month Enterprising student Afian Anwar, 18, has set up a dating website, which has garnered 1.8 million page views per month. page 3 Banking Over 280,000 Accounts Closed The POSBank and DBS accounts were closed in the six weeks after Singapore’s largest bank made known its
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  • PRIME NEWS
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      Lock icon Four illegal immigrants hid in car boot
      322 2 THE woman could hardly walk when she was ordered out of the car boot where she was caught hiding in a desperate attempt to leave Singapore illegally. Three male immigration offenders were also hidden in the Malaysian-registered Proton Wira when it was stopped
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      Lock icon $60 for test papers of top schools
      480 2  -  Parents of primary pupils are paying for them so their children can practise exam questions set by Singapore’s top schools Bt,* SANDRA DAVIE Additional reporting by ANGELINE YONG and KAREN LEE EXAM papers from top primary schools are in such demand that they
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      Lock icon Singapore all set to be a major media hub
      362 2  -  *2. PAULINE LEONG SINGAPORE is on its way to becoming a major media hub, with no fewer than 17 licensed satellite broadcasters setting up shop here over the past five to six years. This has also spun off related service businesses
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  • HOME
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      Lock icon Big pay rise for legal service
      581 3  -  From July, officers’ yearly pay could jump by as much as 40 Eer cent, to prevent them from eing lured by private sector By. ALETHEA LIM LEGAL service officers can look forward to fatter performance bonuses and as much as a 40-per-cent jump in
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      Lock icon He makes up to $12,000 a month
      637 3  -  Elil STEVE DAWSON LIKE Dorothy’s home in the Wizard Of Oz, it was as if a dot.com nerve centre from Silicon Valley had been ripped from its foundations and deposited, ever so calmly, in Bedok. Wearing an old sweat shirt and paint-stained jeans,
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      Lock icon Step into S'pore's 1st Internet Home soon
      422 3  -  *L EDMUNDTEE SINGAPORE’S first “e-home” will allow its owners to make online appointments at a nearby clinic, activate the air-condi-tioner from the office and keep tabs on their car or the front door via Web cameras. The four-room Bishan flat, owned by a
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      Lock icon Breaking up is easy to do
      634 4  -  Marriage is hard work and more couples are throwing in the towel, often within the first five years, statistics show iIL WENDYTAN HEARD about the bride who ditched her husband right after they registered their marriage because he didn’t give her a bouquet? Or
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    • Two leaders in the dock
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        Lock icon No. 1: SAF major on molest rap
        229 4  -  Bn KAREN WONG A 35-YEAR-OLD man was charged in a district court last week with molesting an 18-year-old girl in the women’s toilet of an Orchard Road building. Christopher Tan Eng Chong, a major in the Singapore Armed Forces, allegedly pushed her against
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        Lock icon No. 2: School V-P jailed for indecent act
        317 4  -  KAREN WONG A VICE-PRINCIPAL of a secondary school w'as jailed three weeks for touching the penis of another man while they were in a public toilet in Sentosa. Ng Tiat Seng, 51, who is with Thomson Secondary School, was found guilty of
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      Lock icon National health check-up for older folks soon
      399 4  -  §1 SALMA KHALIK A MAJOR national healthscreening exercise for everyone aged 55 years and above kicks off in 13 constituencies on July 9Volunteers will go door-to-door later this month to explain the programme and to sell subsidised “tickets" for the check-ups. The exercise,
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      Lock icon $1.5b plan for public services to go online
      509 5  -  Civil service transforming into an e-Government, which people and businesses can interact with virtually *IL EDMUND TEE A $1.5 BILLION effort will be made to move commonlyused public services online and have the civil service use infocomm technologies to work better, faster
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      Lock icon Killer litter — this time it’s a 5-kg sack of rice
      492 5  - Killer litter this time it’s a 5-kg sack of rice KARAMJIT KAUR A 63-YEAR-OLD woman who quarrelled with her husband after they had had a couple of beers, threw 7 two ketchup bottles and a sack of rice at him. They did not hit him. But the bottles and 5-kg
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      Lock icon Tremors rock large parts of S'pore
      389 6  -  Hundreds flee flats from East Coast to Yio Chu Kang after feeling vibrations believed to be caused by Indonesian quake By LIANG HWEE TING and CHONG GHEE KIN SINGAPOREANS were woken from their sleep by strong tremors which shook parts of the island on
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      Lock icon Regional quakes not a threat
      352 6  -  KARAMJIT KAIR WHEN big earthquakes hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, it is not surprising that the tremors are felt in Singapore. Over the last decade, such tremors have been reported here every two years on average. The last was in April 1998, said Mr
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      Lock icon Newspaper for hip and opinionated
      503 7  -  Interaction with readers a key feature of Project Eyeball, which goes online next month, and hits the streets in August Two New SPH Papers... Bil CHUA MUIHOONG NEWS with an edge that is what Singapore Press Holdings’ latest newspaper, Project Eyeball, will offer when launched
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      Lock icon Free tabloid to hit the Streats in September
      577 7  -  Bij LYDIA LIM A FREE morning tabloidsized newspaper for commuters will hit the streets in early September. Available at news stands and fast-food outlets from as early as 6.30 am, Streats named for its promise of providing a treat to the work-
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      Lock icon Free Mediacorp tabloid by year-end
      384 7  -  ...And A Rival Tabloid *L IRENE NG NEWS to go that is what readers will get when govern-ment-owned television outfit Media Corp and its three new partners launch their free morning tabloid by the end of this year. The paper, called Today, will be distributed
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      Lock icon You will get a job – if you invest
      627 8  - You will get a job if you invest A man said he was promised a post with a commodities company if he invested. He did and lost his life savings SIL JULYN KANG IT SEEMED to be the answer to his prayers when wheelchairbound Said Hussen Said Mahdar, 48, saw
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      133 5 1 Is m University of Leeds Beginning July 2000, executives from the region will be able to sign up for our well-regarded Leeds MBAs in International Business, Finance General which will now b e fully taught in Singapore by Faculty from the Business School over a four-day teaching block. For
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      1062 8 RADIO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME SCHEDULES 1100 1400 Hours (GMT) 6015 KHz (49M BAND) 6150 KHz (49M BAND) MONDAY 1100 News 1109 Business Market Report 1115 Arts Arena 1130 News 1135 Wired Up 1145 Newsline 1200 News/Weather (AsiaPacific) 1210 E Z Beat 1230 Business Market Report 1235 The Written Word
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon She opens her heart to China athletes
      642 9  -  Sports psychologist from China not only helps them in sports but also counsels them on their personal problems ĔH CHAN TSE CHUEEN SOMETIMES, all it takes is a simple “How are you?” to open the emotional floodgates, according to sports psychologist Zhao Jinhong.
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      Lock icon Pakistan ace may play for S'pore
      529 9  -  SQUASH ĔIL CHAN TSE CHUEEN AMJAD Khan, a nephew of former great Jansher Khan, wants to play for Singapore. The world No. 19, currently Pakistan’s top squash player, arrived from Peshawar last week to discuss terms with the Singapore Squash Rackets Association. SSRA president
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      Lock icon Separate bathrooms soon
      336 9  -  SOCCER By ERNEST LUIS THE Singapore Sports Council will separate the Queenstown Stadium’s bathrooms, which rival teams now have to share. This is to prevent a similar incident like the one on May 19, when Tanjong Pagar’s Nicodeme Boucher punched Singapore Armed Forces FC’s Tan Kim Leng
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon No one paid for holiday, says CJ
      436 10  -  By BRENDAN PEREIRA, MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Chief Justice Eusoff Chin denied being reprimanded by the government for improper behaviour and threatened to sue anyone who alleged that his family’s holiday in Netv Zealand had been sponsored by a prominent lawyer. He
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      Lock icon Daim is Umno treasurer again
      541 10  -  By naming him as Umno treasurer for a 6th consecutive term, Mahathir has squashed speculation of a growing rift BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad last Tuesday re- appointed Tun Daim Zainuddin as the treasurer of Umno for
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      Lock icon Ling to remain, with even stronger hand
      545 10  -  By LESLIE LAU IN KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN Chinese Association (MCA) president Datuk Seri Dr Ling Liong Sik announced last Wednesday that he would remain as a Cabinet minister, ending tw'o weeks of political manoeuvring which seem to have strengthened his position in the
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Criticise but don't impeach: Gus Dur
      518 11  -  Relations between President and estranged central-bank governor turn acrimonious, raising possibility of impeachment By SUSAN SIM and ROBERT GO STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA The face-off between President Abdurrahman Wahid and his estranged central bank governor escalated into a full political scrum last Wednesday.
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      Lock icon Indonesian province jolted by quakes again
      391 11  -  B H YEOH EN-LAI IN BENGKULU TWO earthquakes hit the al-ready-devastated province of Bengkulu in Indonesia on Thursday morning, sending residents fleeing for safety and causing more injuries. The first jolt, which measured 6.2 on the Richter scale, occurred at around 6.45 am Indonesian
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      Lock icon Philippines tightens security after blasts
      547 11  -  By UJZBAGUIORO PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT MANILA Philippine authorities announced the deployment of policemen in schools and universities along with tightened security at Manila’s international airport to prevent terrorist attacks in the wake of a wave of bombings last Sunday after a two-week lull. Philippine National Police
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  • COMMENT
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      584 12 WEDNESDAY JUNE 7, 2000 BEYOND commercial exploitation and the wider choice consumers will get, the opening up of Singapore’s media sector announced last Monday is bound to affect society in ways that cannot be fully envisaged yet. If this sounds pretentious, we need make no apologies. It
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      Lock icon Sleepless in Manila
      615 12 TUESDAY JUNE 6, 2000 SUNDAY’S bombing incident at Manila International Airport was clearly calculated to show the authorities that the forces of terror are capable of hitting at the most sensitive areas. Although the damage was light and no one was hurt, its psychological impact on a
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      Lock icon When application of equal misery isn't fair
      719 12  -  SECOND LAST WORD B'J SIA CHEONG YEW WHEN do people find it easiest to accept the principle of equal misery? One obvious occasion must be during a national crisis. For most Singaporeans, the recent economic downturn comes readily to mind as one occasion
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  • COMMENT / PERSPECTIVE
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      Lock icon Give less to middle class, more to working class
      1061 13  -  THINKING ALOUD By ASAD LATIF POVERTY is powerful. Its power is obvious in poor countries. A worker struggling to make ends meet is retrenched. He goes home, says nothing to his wife, kisses his children good night, and hangs himself later.
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      Lock icon How to reach you? Let me count the ways
      1168 13  -  MY VIEW By HELEN CHIA I DON’T know about you, but I have given up trying to update my address book. Yes, in this age of Palm Pilots and the Internet, I still keep an address book. It was a gift
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  • INSIGHT
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      Lock icon Keeping the madrasah relevant in the new age
      2530 14 As the controversy over the future of madrasahs simmers down with the Prime Ministers reassurance, AHMAD OSMAN takes a look at what happened, why it happened and what the issue says about relations between the Malay-Muslim community and the Government. JOIN in
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      Lock icon Do not shut our eyes to the poor
      1278 15  -  LAST WEEK IN POLTITICS CHLA LEE HOONG THE other day, a colleague told me the story of a rookie journalist in the newsroom who had just returned from studies overseas on a Singapore Press Holdings scholarship. One of her assignments involved a
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  • MONEY
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      Lock icon S'pore market upbeat this week
      275 16  -  Azhar Khalid THE Singapore market was ebullient this week with active bu>dng of blue chip stocks. Investor sentiment was riding high at the back of US economic figures, suggesting that the country’s pace of economic growth has finally slowed down and inflationary pressures eased. The
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      Lock icon DAY-TO-DAY STOCK INDICES
      76 16 Straits Times Index The Straits Times Index gained 132.21 points on the week to 2042.61. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1982.43 (+72.03) 492.6m ($1.032b) Tuesday 2001.72 (+19.29) 436.1m ($738.8m) Wednesday 2034.87 (+33.15) 535.4m ($912.2m) Thursday 2060.27 (+25.40) 437.6m ($775.9m) Friday 2042.61 (-17.66) 326.4m ($528.5m) VT*SRI Index The BT-SRI
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      Lock icon CORPORATE RESULTS
      1977 16 Company Date ann Net earn TY LY <$m) <$m) EPS TY LY (cts) (cts) ACE Dynamics Mar 23 P 0.797 0.758 0.90 0.99 Allgreen Mar 22 P 97.189 261.67L 10.1 36L Amara Hldgs Mar 28 P 2.252 2.122 0.39 0.37 Asia Food Mar 27 P 37.042 140.927 3.58
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      Lock icon APPROVED ISSUES
      214 16 BONUS ISSUE Company Ratio Exdate Books close ACC Paymt ASJ Spore Reins UE PohLian L-Jacob ASA Ceramic St Trdg one-for-two one-for-ten one-for-three one-for-two one-for-two one-for-five one-for-five Jun 21 Jun 21 Jun 28 Jun 29 Jul 3 Jul 6 Jul 6 Jun 26 Jun 26 Jul 3 Jul 4
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      Lock icon COMPANY MEETINGS
      232 16 Company Place Date Time Straits A 9 Battery Raod Jun 30 11.30am Trading E #21-00 Starits Trading Building (*****0) Asia Food A 118 Pioneer Road Jun 30 11.00am E Spore (*****8) ASA E 80 Raffles Place Jun 29 10.00am Ceramic #10-01 10B Plaza 1 Bridge Rd (*****4) Tye
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      Lock icon PROPOSED ISSUES
      59 16 Company Bonvests Hldgs Description Proposed a bonus issue on the basis of one ordinary share of $0.50 for every ten existing shares held. SGX has granted in-principle approval. WBL Corp Proposed rights issue of up to 34 million warrants in conjunction with a proposed issue of S$100 million
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      Lock icon DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1494 16 Payment (cts) Ex date Books close Pay date ABR 5c b 0.25 Jun 26 Jun 29 Jul 13 ASJ Hidgs 20c b 0.75 Jun 6 Jun 9 Jun 16 ACE Dynamics 20c F 0.05 Jun 19 Jun 22 Jul 5 Acma 50c F 1.25 Jul 7 Jul 12
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      1734 17 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Jiin 10,2000 Managers' prices UNIT TRUSTS Aberdeen Asset Mat Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global Technology Fd!** 1.429 1.501 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.922 0.969 American Opport Fd 1.097 1.152 Continental Euro Eqty Fd 1.314 1.380 Japan Eqty Fd!** 1.533 1.610 Asian Fixed Income Fd 0.994 1.025
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      Lock icon Car insurance premiums going up
      601 17  -  Many insurers, hit badly by losses in the highly competitive business, are struggling to break even ĔIL LEONG CHAN TEIK REELING from losses from their motor business, some insurers have raised premiums on coverage for cars by 10 per cent in recent months. This is
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      Lock icon Release of Clob shares
      290 17 AFX-AsiX KUALA LUMPUR Shares formerly traded on Singapore’s Central Limit Order Book International (Clob) will be released on a 13month staggered basis from June 26, with trading of the released shares to begin from July 3, a Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange spokesman said. The Malaysian Central
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      Lock icon SGX SECURITIES TRDG: MAIN BOARD
      4238 18 Transaction date: Jun 9,2000 MULTI INDUSTRY 52-Wk Curr Last Vol Day Gr*s Nat M Cap Wt Avg Hiqh Low Company Traded Sale ♦or■ooo High Low Div P/E $mil Price 182 84 101 21 124 cd ♦6 218 128 118 5 15.5 215.2 119 c Alliance
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      Lock icon SGX SESDAQ
      1273 19 52-Wk High Low Curr Last Company Traded Sale ♦orVol '000 Day Hiqh Low Gr's Dlv Net P/E M Cap $mil Wt Avg Price MANUFACTURING 218 98.5 c AS Auto 10c 122 -i 900 124 115 10 N 48.8 160.2 122 137 79 c ASJ Hldgs20c 90 cbi 3.8
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      Lock icon BONDS, LOANDS & WARRANTS
      1530 19 BONDS, LOANDS WARRANTS Transaction date: «ton 9,2000 52-Wk High Low Company Last Sale ♦orVol •ooo Day High Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Wt Avg Price 80 16.5 S Acma W*****4 22 +2 613 25.5 19.5 22 23 20 59 7.5 s AIITech W*****7 18 0.5 15 9 53 12 s
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      Lock icon CURRENCY
      150 19 (9am, Jun 9) Buying OD Selling Singapore dollars to one unit Of foreign currency Australian dollar 1.0030 1.0170 Canadian dollar 1.1530 1.1780 NZ dollar 0.7970 0.8150 Sterling pound 2.5860 2.6130 US dollar 1.7160 1.7270 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.82 12.07 Belgian franc 4.030
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      Lock icon WAR OF WORDS
      89 20 STARHUB'S CONCERN ‘Regulation is ineffective if it takes too long for anti-competitive behaviour to be addressed. By the time the issue is resolved the competitor complaining about the behaviour could have been forced to exit the market Star Hub’s statement SINGTEL'S CONCERN ‘SingTel notes that treating a
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      Lock icon Star Hub wants SingTel on tighter leash
      673 20  -  Newcomer says SingTel’s dominance in many areas is not recognised fully by regulator and this prevents healthy competition SIL TAMMY TAN NEWCOMER Star Hub wants the industry regulator to be given more teeth to address anticompetitive behaviour more effectively, and has even suggested
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      Lock icon Telecommunications giant to pump $260m into network
      454 20  -  I^DENESH dtTyanathan SINGTEL will invest $260 million this financial year to upgrade and expand its domestic network, a third of which will go towards broadband access for high-speed Internet services. The total investment planned for the year ending March next year will be
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      Lock icon SOON: CHEAP INTERNET CALLS
      194 20 SINGTEL will tap new customers with a bargain-basement Internet phone service in the next few months. Its innocuous name vOl9 masks the real threat that the service poses to players such as Mediaßing and Innomedia because it does not require users to have computer hardware and
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      809 21 if! The Straits Times Weekly Edition «T7>sl SInGAPORt ZOOLOGICAL Gflßoens MARKETING IVIAIMAGER {INTERNATIONAL] We require a top notch manager to market the Zoo and Night Safari to international tourists as well as to sell the two attractions as venues for incentive and corporate functions. The successful candidate will have to
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      1190 22 ira I Respond And Serve The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore offers a wide range of career opportunities for those who share our vision of maintaining a tax system that's fair to the people and attractive to investors. We invite suitable applicants for an exciting and rewarding career as IT
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  • FORUM
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      Lock icon Support Muslim kidney-donor move
      213 23 I REFER to the report on the Muslim Kidney Action Committee (MKAC) event at the Darul Aman Mosque, “Mosque to back kidney-donor move" (ST, June 3). I was one of the people at the mosque during Friday prayers. I strongly support this effort by the MKAC
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      Lock icon MORE SUPPORT
      47 23 THERE should no longer be any doubts among Musims about supporting the proposal to make Muslim Singaporeans automatic kidney donors. I hope more people will come forward since the proposed law does not go against the teachings of Islam and what is permissible in Islam.
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      Lock icon Gambling is bad, legal or illegal
      167 23 I REFER to Mr Asad Latif s report, “Should there be more gambling outlets?” (ST, May 31). The Government should just ask a simple question: Is gambling good or bad? If it is bad, then should it not try to educate, dissuade, and finally
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      Lock icon No advice on night of tremors
      335 23 I AM disappointed with the way the authorities handled the tremors situation on June 5. My immediate reaction, upon feeling the tremors, was to evacuate our flat at Waterloo Street with my family. However, 45 minutes after the tremors, there were still no reports
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      Lock icon Communication could have been better
      478 23 I REFER to the letters on the tremors of June 5. The police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) have in place crisis-management plans for various emergency scenarios that may arise, including earth-tremor incidents. These plans involve the activation of relevant government agencies that
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    Lock icon 280.000 POSBank, DBS accounts closed
    394 24  -  The accounts were closed in the six weeks since Singapore’s largest bank made known its intention to start charging fees §IL EDNA KOH Fl?)W many POSBank accounts can one have? For one woman, it was 17 and counting. DBS said the woman opened the joint
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    Lock icon 45 bank branches closed, with another 12 to go bu July
    374 24 IF YOU think queues at your DBS or POSBank branch seem to have grown longer these days, you may not be imagining things. DBS Bank last week confirmed it had shut down 45 branches since its merger with in
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    Lock icon SAF commandos are world sniper champs
    161 24 TWO teams of Singapore Armed Forces commandos emerged overall champions at the first World Sniper Championships in April, beating teams from the US, Britain and the Netherlands. Firing under windy condi- tions in the Arizona desert at targets as small as matchboxes, they beat
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