The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 24 June 2000

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  • Title Section
    Lock icon Masthead
    19 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Saturday June 24,2000 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) lElsewhere by subscription only MITA 074/08/99
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Miracle baby
    324 1  -  ARLINAARSHAD MADAM Linda Woo has kidney failure and lupus, and never thought she could have a baby safely. Doctors said her baby had a 50-50 chance of being born alive. So Paul Jay Ng, born six weeks premature at the Singapore General Hospital in February, seems a miracle.
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  • Article
    Lock icon We can't afford to lose scholars, says BG Lee
    507 1  -  A brain drain of high-calibre people will hurt S pore, unlike China with its vast talent pool il SITIANDRIAME CHINA can afford to have only one top student return for even 7 three or four it sends abroad, but Singapore cannot.
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      62 1 Living sl4m man in HDB flat Mainboard-listed company Adroit’s founder spurns the trappings of the CEO life by living in a five-room Housing Board flat in Tampines. page 5 E DUCATION Doctor Supply UQ r* Cy 9 Shortfall in doctors reopens the thorny issue of the 200-student cap for the
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  • PRIME NEWS
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      Lock icon SingPower grabs $2.2b Aussie deal
      550 2  -  Biggest ever overseas deal by a GLC pips Hongkong’s Li Kashing in race to take Aussie transmission grid network Bit TAMMYTAN SINGAPORE Power (SP) has outbid Li Kashing’s Hongkong Electric with a As2.l billion (552.2 billion) offer to acquire Australia’s largest transmission grid network the
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      Lock icon National Day highlights
      378 2 A GIANT computer screen, huge dancing robots and a “human castle” will take over the Padang on Aug 9. No, it is not the set of a science fiction movie, but just part of the display planned for the public at this year’s National Day Parade. Some
      PICTURES: LAU FOOK KONG  -  378 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Banks must spin off non-financial businesses
      485 2  -  Bu IGNATIUS LOW THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced new rules requiring Singapore banks to separate their financial and non-finan-cial activities in three years' time. The move is aimed at getting banks to concentrate on their core business and reduce the risk
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  • HOME
    • Article
      Lock icon US questions relevance of GLCs
      487 3 The agent of change should be market-driven forces not the state, it charges in a report SINGAPORE has taken “bold steps in the right direction” towards a knowledge-based economy (KBE), but the strength of its government-linked companies (GLCs) and the govern-ment-controlled media monopoly may work
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    • Article
      Lock icon Killer blaze: Suicide and manslaughter
      469 3  -  By ALETHEA LIM ROLLED-UP newspapers, blisters on the vinyl flooring, traces of petrol these roused suspicions that the fire at the Ang Mo Kio flat which claimed six lives may have been arson. And on June 16, a coroner’s court passed a verdict of manslaughter
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      Lock icon Haunted by screams
      595 3  -  bil YEOH EN-LAI FOR two weeks after he helped rescue four people from a blazing three-room flat, Mr Murugaya Rajoo had nightmares every night. The voices of the people he pulled out of the fire came back to haunt him night after night. It affected him so
      JOYCE FANG  -  595 words
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      Lock icon Oh my, Naomi, it’s so Singapore!
      230 4  -  ALFRED LEE IN LONDON ONE of the world’s leading milliners, Mr Philip Treacy, is giving Singapore a big boost by designing his new range of famous hats in the style of Singapore orchids. Mr Treacy, 33, who makes hats for the Royal family and
      REUTERS  -  230 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Tanglin Club feud: $150,000 award
      577 4  -  Architect defamed former V-P out of'personal spite, ill-will and vengeance’, judge rules §!L ALETHEA LIM A FORMER vice-president of the Tanglin Club was awarded slso,oooin total damages last Monday in his defamation suit against a club member. Lawyer Chandran Arul, 65, had sued architect Victor
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    • Article
      Lock icon S'porean pilot killed in plane crash
      301 4  -  Bu KOH BOON PIN A SINGAPOREAN pilot, Mr Faizul Mohamad Ibrahim, 29, was one of two men who died when their plane crashed into the South China Sea last Sunday morning, about 100 m from Mersing. Mersing, a town on peninsular Malaysia’s East Coast,
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      Lock icon THE JUDGMENT
      63 4 ‘Obsessed with the belief that Arul was witch-hunting him, he set out single-mindedlu to destroy his character and reputation and to get rid of him from all office in the club... If that is not malice, I dont know what is. —JC Chan Seng Onn, In finding for
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      Lock icon This man's worth $14m but lives in an HDB flat
      688 5  -  Adroit’s prime mover spurns the trappings of the CEO lifestyle, diverting money into his business *IL LEE SU SHYAN TO MOST people, the lifestyle of a chief executive officer of a listed company conjures up a very swanky image indeed.
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      Lock icon Survey finds few young people accept gays
      553 5  -  b<l IRENE NG MOST young Singaporeans hold negative attitudes towards homosexuals and are generally quite conservative on the matter, according to a recent academic survey. In the study, most students polled said that they would feel upset if they discovered that their child,
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    • Article
      Lock icon Futuristic high-technology court debuts
      139 5 THE Supreme Court has built a futuristic Technology Court in its complex at St Andrew’s Road, the second since July 1995. The $1.9 million court uses a state-of-the-art audio-visual system which allows evidence to be stored on video cassettes, digital video discs and VCDs. Evidence can
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      Lock icon Are curbs on doctor supply too stringent?
      1055 6  -  Shortfall in doctors reopens issues of the cap on intake of medical students and the limited number of approved varsities SPOTLIGHT: MEDICAL QUOTA By YAPCHUEN WEI THE Health Ministry’s (MOH) review of the doctor shortage has focused attention again on the quota of
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      Lock icon S'pore team takes on Sabah race
      293 6 IT IS a race that has reduced grown men and women to tears. Half the participating teams do not complete the gruelling 500-km Eco-Challenge every year. But Team Singapore Power is determined to fight to the end in Sabah, Malaysia, this August. The group
      YEN MENGJIIN  -  293 words
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      Lock icon Colonel in sex case demoted
      384 7  -  Decorated top army medical officer admits to making sexual advances to married subordinate By ELENACHONG and CHAN KAY MIN SINGAPORE’S chief army medical officer was on June 16 demoted from colonel to major after he admitted making sexual advances to a married woman subordinate. Low
      STEPHANIE YEOW  -  384 words
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      Lock icon Internet survey finds more working from home
      364 7  -  *L EDMUND TEE TELECOMMUTING appears to be taking root here. About one in 11 people in a survey by the Nanyang Technological University said that he now worked from home during the day instead of going to the office. But these people are
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      Lock icon Cop says 'No' to $100,000 bribe
      415 7  -  §1 SELINA LUM WHAT would you do if you were offered $lOO,OOO to look the other way? Staff Sgt Somasundaram Mookaiah, 38, faced this situation at a car park in Clementi West on March 13, when a man suspected of harbouring illegal immigrants thought
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      Lock icon PM Goh's a grandpa
      108 7 Chua Lee Hoong in Berlin PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong and Mrs Goh have become grandparents. Their first grandchild is a girl, four months old, with both a Christian name, Emma, and a Chinese name, Yi Xian. The news broke during an informal dinner that Singapore
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      Lock icon Convict longs to return home
      537 8  -  After six years in a Philippine jail, former shipyard worker plans a fresh start and counts the days to his release Bn YEOH EN-LAI AFTER six years of high fences, guard dogs and wardens, Jeremiah Osmond, 42, is longing to be back in Singapore. The
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      Lock icon Over 100 S’poreans in jails abroad
      193 8 MORE than 100 Singaporeans are believed to be behind bars overseas. A substantial number are jailed in Thailand, according to a Bangkok Metropolitan Police officer. More than “100 from Singapore” are in the nation s prisons, he said. Singaporean detainees overseas include former SIA
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Lock icon Page 8 Miscellaneous Column 1
      1061 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 This King is queen of the waves
      561 9  -  Only eight, but Jane King is already a wakeboarding champion in an adult category Bn GERARD WONG DO NOT let her size or age fool you. Peixin Primary School student Jane King may be 1.45 m tall and three weeks shy of her
      PICTURES: BRYAN VAX DER BEEK  -  561 words
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      Lock icon Leslie Kwok pins his hopes on Hawaii stint
      586 9  -  SWIMMING §IL CHAN TSE CHLEEN SWIMMER Leslie Kwok will spend the three months before Olympics in idyllic Hawaii working hard. The 27-year-old left on Wednesday for the University of Hawaii (UH), after enrolling in. a programme tailored for sprinters like him. And
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Little chance of non-Malay becoming PM
      516 10  -  By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT TALK about a storm in a teacup. When Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said last Saturday that a Chinese or Indian could be the chief executive of the country one day, he was stating a legal fact. Nowhere in the
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      Lock icon Killer pig virus resurfaces in Perak
      576 10 Farms with infected pigs will have to destroy entire stock; farmers and workers being tested for virus, warned not to smuggle animals out AFP, AP, Bernama KUALA LUMPUR The Nipah virus, which killed more than 100 Malaysians last year, may have resurfaced with the
      – AFP,; AP,; Bernama  -  576 words
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      Lock icon Sodomy case comes to abrupt halt
      289 10 ANWAR'S TRIAL AP, AFP KUALA LUMPUR The sodomy trial of Malaysia’s former Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim came to an abrupt halt on Wednesday after more than a year of testimony, spread over 108 hearings. The defence team said it had formally rested its case.
      – AP,; AFP  -  289 words
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      Lock icon WHITE MARVEL:
      59 10 WHITE MARVEL Malaysia's first white tiger cub, bom recently in Kuala Lumpur, being cuddled on Wednesday by Ms Peggy Sheum. Only one out of every 10,000 tigers is bom white, even if both parents are white. White tigers owe their unique colour to a recessive gene known as
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon 'Shoot the trouble-makers
      497 11  -  Indonesian minister Kwik calls for tougher measures as sectarian violence keep investors away By MARIANNE KEARNEY STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Co-ordinating Economics and Finance Minister Kwik Kian Gie, lamenting that on-going sectarian violence and social conflict was damaging Indonesia’s fragile economy and investment climate, called for
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      Lock icon Jakarta bank chief detained
      396 11  -  By ROBERT GO STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Indonesia’s latest political skirmish reached feverish pitch on Wednesday when the Attorney-General’s Office detained central-bank governor Syahril Sabirin over his alleged involvement in the Bank Bali scandal. Mr Syahril was formally named a suspect in the politi-cally-charged case
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      Lock icon 'We won't stop other govts from paying ransom'
      530 11  -  THE ABU SAYYAF KIDNAP By LUZ BAGUIORO PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT MANILA While the Philippines itself is sticking to its noransom policy, it will not prevent other governments from paying for the release of their nationals held by Abu Sayyaf gunmen in a southern
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  • COMMENT
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      Lock icon Slave trade returns
      590 12 THURSDAY JUNE 22,2000 THE horror of the 58 Chinese nationals who suffocated in a sealed truck trying to get into Britain through Dover is not going to slow down the modern-day slave trade. This is the bald truth. The sooner it is acknowledged by governments of prosperous
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      Lock icon For space, go studio
      613 12 TUESDAY JUNE 20,2000 LATER in the year, a new trend in housing an ageing population will undergo evaluation when the first tenants move into their Housing Board studio flats. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said last weekend that future construction would depend on sales of
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      Lock icon Baffled by the Big One at Arts Festival
      885 12  -  SECOND LAST WORD By ALAN JOHN STANDING in the spanking new atrium of the Singapore Institute of Management off Clementi Road on Saturday night, I wondered what we’d got ourselves into on the way to the Arts Festival. What a fiercely powerpacked
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  • COMMENT / PERSPECTIVE
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      Lock icon Don’t overplay civilian role in emergencies
      1114 13  -  MY VIEW By. GEOFFREY PEREIRA DO YOU remember the main headline on the front page of The Straits Times yesterday? Have you learnt cardiopulmonary resuscitation and do you remember how to administer it? According to one report in The Straits Times last year, 400
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      Lock icon Must passion come with a bottom line?
      1088 13  -  THINKING ALOUD By SONNY YAP INCREDIBLE as it may seem, a word more associated with Italian arias, Latin lovers and Romantic poetry has entered the Singapore lexicon and become the flavour of the season. In official speeches, cocktail conversations and media interviews these
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  • INSIGHT
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      Lock icon Are ministerial visits still relevant in Internet age?
      2553 14 Last Sunday, National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan toured Bukit Panjang in the sixth ministerial visit of the year apolitical tradition that goes hack to 1962. Have these walkabouts outlived their usefulness in the age of multimedia communications? LYDIA UM finds out
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  • MONEY
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      Lock icon Market drifted directionless
      285 16  -  Chee Jann Perng IT WAS yet another uneventful week for the Singapore stock market as it continued its consolidation above the 2,000 level for the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI). Both institutional and retail investors were still on the sidelines ahead of the US Federal Reserve’s Open
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      Lock icon CORPORATE RESULTS
      2181 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 Alexandra Jun 20 P 4.018 0.436 13.4 1.45 Allgreen Mar 22 P 97.189 261.67L 10.1 36L Amara Hldgs Mar 28 P 2.252 2.122 0.39 037
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      Lock icon APPROVED ISSUES
      194 16 BONUS ISSUE ExBooks Acc Company Ratio date close Paymt UE one-for-three Jun 28 Jul 3 NA PohLian one-for-two Jun 29 Jul 4 NA L-Jacob one-for-two Jul 3 Jul 6 NA ASA Ceramic one-for-five Jul 6 Jul 11 NA St Trdg one-for-five Jul 6 Jul 11 NA SM Summit
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      Lock icon COMPANY MEETINGS
      251 16 Company Place Date Time SIA A E The Westin Stamford Westin Plaza 2 Stamford Rd Olivia Rm 4th Level Jul 15 10.00am SATS A Les Oiseaux Room Marina Mandarin Hotel 6 Raffles Boulevard Level 5 <*****4) Jul 14 3.30pm ST Engg E Oleander Suite Level 2 Holiday Inn
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      Lock icon PROPOSED ISSUES
      77 16 Company Description SC Global SGX had given in-principle approval the proposed subdivision of each existing ord shares of $1.00 par value into two ord shares of par value $0.50 each, subject to the approval of Company's shareholders. Datacraft Proposed offer of not less than 13,280,212 and not more
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      Lock icon DAY-TO-DAY STOCK INDICES
      75 16 Straits Times Index The Straits Times Index rose 22.11 points on the week to 2034.31. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1996.18 (-16.02) 286.6m ($395.7m) Tuesday 2010.08 (+13.90) 310.8m ($456.9m) Wednesday 2029.34 (+19.26) 265.1m ($403.4m) Thursday 2028.62 0.72) 229.4m ($645.1m) Friday 2034.31 5.69) 271.6m ($529.0m) BT-SRIIndex The BT-SRI Index
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      Lock icon DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1169 16 Payment (cts) Ex date Books close Pay date ABR 5c b 0.25 Jun 26 Jun 29 Jul 13 ACE Dynamics 20c F 0.05 Jun 19 Jun 22 Jul 5 Acma 50c F 1.25 Jul 7 Jul 12 Jul 28 Ailgreen 50c F 2.5 Jun 5 Jun 8 Jun
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      1735 17 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Jun 24,2000 Managers' prices (S$) UNIT TRUSTS Aberdeen Asset Mqt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global Technology Fd!** 1.500 1.575 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.910 0.956 American Opport Fd 1.082 1.137 Continental Euro Eqty Fd 1.288 1.354 Japan Eqty Fd!** 1.534 1.612 Asian Fixed Income Fd 1.004
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      Lock icon MPH goes regional with China link-up
      311 17  -  Bu DOUGLAS WONG MAINBOARD-LISTED MPH turned the first page on its regional expansion on Thursday by taking a 16.3 per cent stake in China’s largest private bookstore chain for $3.6 million. Its Internet subsidiary MPH Online.com which made the investment has an option to
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      Lock icon S'pore bankers support reforms
      373 17  -  Analysts see move as beneficial as banks can use proceeds from sale to bolster their-bottom line Ĕ!L EDNAKOH ALL five locally listed Singapore banks support the Government’s directive that they separate their financial activities from non-financial ones, saying that it is “a step in the right
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      Lock icon Name change in the works for bank
      299 17  -  *L EDNA KOH WILL Keppel Tat Lee Bank called by any other name still sound as solid? That is a question that will be asked of all the bank-linked groups that have to split financial from non-financial activities. For Keppel Tat Lee, the
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      Lock icon SGX SECURITIES TRDG: MAIN BOARD
      3891 18 Transaction date: Jun 23,2000 MULTI INDUSTRY 52-Wk Curr Last Vol Day Cfs Nat M Cap WtAvg High Low Company Traded Sale ♦or--000 High Low Div P/E Smil Price 182 83.5 190.7 64 26 118 cd unch 68 118 117 5 14.8 204.8 119 25.5 21
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      Lock icon SGX SESDAQ
      1274 19 52-Wk High Low Curr Last Company Traded Sale ♦orVol '000 Day High Low Gr's Div Net P/E M Cap $mil Wt Avg Price MANUFACTURING 218 98.5 C •AS Auto 10c 111 -1 476 112 110 10 N 44.4 145.8 in 91.3 52.7 c ASJ Hldgs 20c 65 xbi
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      Lock icon BONDS, LOANS & WARRANTS
      1534 19 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Transaction date: Jun 23,2000 52-Wk High Low Company Last Sale ♦orVol '000 Day High Low Last Ouote Buyer Seller Wt Avg Price 80 16.5 s Acma W*****4 ....18.5 -0.5 50 19 18.5 18 19 19 53.5 7.5 s AIITech W*****7 18 1 15 9 31 24.5 s
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      Lock icon CURRENCY
      159 19 (95m, Jun 23) Buying OD Sellinq Singapore doi'ars to one unit o' foreign currency Australian do"ar 1.0260 1.0-410 Canadian dot'ar 1.1620 1.1870 NZdol'ar o.seso 0.8260 Sterling pound 2.6080 2.6350 US dol’ar 1.7290 1.74C0 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schiMing 11.69 11.94 Eelg an franc 3.990
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      Lock icon Hyped Goh, Vickers merger fails
      599 20  -  Businessman Ong Beng Seng stays away from Vickers EGM but leads shareholders by proxy in saying ‘nay’ to merger Bit EDNA KOI! THE top brass at GK Goh and Vickers Balias put on a brave front on Monday after their proposed merger failed to get
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      Lock icon Three contrasting moods: Glum, jubilant, stoic
      114 20 *The amount of money spent is not the issue here. The time and opportunity lost in this whole transaction are more important... Chairman and founder Goh Geok Khim, when asked what GK Goh had spent on the merger bid We would like to thank
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      Lock icon Brokers rush to reassure, regroup
      596 20  -  By. DOUGLAS WONG SURPRISED at the result? Mr Ong Beng Seng was. But not the management of Vickers Balias and GK Goh who had started the day knowing that minority shareholder support for their merger plan was less than forthcoming. “Of course we’re disappointed,” said
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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  • FORUM
    • Was justice served?
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        Lock icon NO Colonel deserves stiffer penalty
        391 23 I READ with grave concern the report, “Colonel in sex case demoted”. The punishment meted out by the military court in the form of demotion and forfeiture of retirement benefits is far too lenient. The accused “hugged and kissed the victim, unbuttoned her blouse and
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        Lock icon YES He has paid the price for wrongdoing
        430 23 I READ with discomfort the letter, “Colonel deserves heavier sentence”, by Mr Francis Cheng Choon Fei. The colonel, a loyal servant of the nation, has served in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) for more than 17 years and received the Public Service
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      Lock icon Good case for walkabouts
      255 23 I REFER to the article, “Are ministerial visits still relevant in the Internet age?” When the Government wants to find out people’s reactions to its policies or what worries them, it is logical that the state should go to them. Thus, ministerial visits are useful; they
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      Lock icon Make university entry easier for mature students
      117 23 THE move by the Ministry of Education to let mature students sit for GCE examinations is a welcome one. I hope similar opportunities become available in universities here too. A friend who migrated to Canada enrolled in a university there as a mature
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      Lock icon Station US troops in North Korea
      96 23 THE talk of pulling out US troops from South Korea is premature. A different train of thought should be pursued. If North Korea is truly hurting, then there is a way out: Station US troops in North Korea, if it would accept them. Before
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  • Article
    Lock icon Republic's health system ranked 6th
    497 24  -  WHO’s first global analysis of health systems ranks Singapore ahead of Japan, the only other Asian nation in the top 50 Bi/ SALMA KHALIK SINGAPORE has the most effective health system in Asia, surpassing even that of Japan. It ranked sixth in the World Health
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    Lock icon Top US student tells Singapore: Thank You
    340 24  -  Bt/ SANDRA DAVIE SINGAPORE’S education system is again in the limelight in the United States this time because of a high-school student who said his early education here helped him to get a perfect score in his college entrance test. William Horn, who
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    Lock icon Jail, cane for trio who beat up lawyer at movie
    392 24  -  *L KAREN WONG THREE youths who beat up a lawyer who ticked off their friend for using his mobile phone during a movie were each sentenced last Wednesday to 15 months’ jail and three strokes of the cane. Teo Bee
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