The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 6 January 2001

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  • Title Section
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    19 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Saturday January 6,2001 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA 072/08/2000
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  • Article
    Lock icon S'pore grew a robust 10.1%
    511 1  -  Economy did well last year, outdoing the 4.5-6.5% growth forecast, says PM Goh By 1 JACKHEE THE Singapore economy grew at a rapid clip of 10.1 per cent last year, well above expectations at the beginning of the year. Giving the good news in his
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    Lock icon Sim Wong Hoo makes it $1m
    302 1  -  By BRAEMA M ATH I COMMUNITY CORRESPONDENT THE Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund has shot past the sl-million mark, thanks to a surprise donation from Creative Technology boss Sim Wong Hoo. On Dec 29, with only two days to go to the close
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      44 1 Lifestyle Matchmade In Cyberspace Couple exchange vows six months after meeting on the Internet in SDU-run high-tech matchmaking service. PACE 8 Sports SEA Games Hope Fourteen-year-old Singapore-born but England-based Tarquin Wong is a rising gymnast and he hopes to represent the Republic. page 9
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon Four-pronged plan to help Malays compete
      337 2  -  Malay MPs’ plan to focus on four key areas will help community meet challenges of new economy By SITIANDRIANIE MALAY Members of Parliament are firming up a blueprint to help the Malay-Muslim community move ahead in the new economy. The plan focuses on four
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      Lock icon 'FORGIVE ME FOR BEING UNFILIAL'
      93 2 Terence was caught selling slabs of heroin to a drug dealer in January 1997. He was found guilty of drug trafficking and was sentenced to death. He lost his appeal against the conviction and was hanged in early 1999. Two days before his execution, 1
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      Lock icon GRAPHIC TALES:
      54 2 GRAPHIC TALES: A collection of exp eriences from drug addicts and the people who knew them, the stories in Broken Mirror, a new book, are told with raw honesty. The tales of tragedy and triumph are told from various perspectives from the addicts themselves to their family members,
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      Lock icon Child's death from HFMD-linked virus
      461 3  -  Enterovirus 71 found in samples taken from four-year-old who died mid-week after developing high fever, ulcers and rashes By SHARMILPAL KAUR A VIRUS associated with hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has been identified in post-mortem samples taken from the four-year-old boy, Chua Jun Hao,
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      Lock icon Hols turned nightmare
      393 3  -  By_ DEBRIE GOH IT BEGAN as a holiday visit to grandparents in Johor. It ended in tragedy with the death of a four-year-old child. Chua Jun Hao, who died on Wednesday of suspected hand, foot and mouth disease, had gone to visit his grandparents over Christmas. With
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      Lock icon IDA postpones 3G auction to the second quarter
      548 3  -  *L By DENESH DIVYANATHAN TECHNOLOGY REPORTER CITING overwhelming interest from potential bidders, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore has decided to postpone its 3G auction till the second quarter of this year. It was to have released details of the auction guidelines
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  • HOME
    • Article
      Lock icon Courts won't help recover gambling debts
      466 4  -  Ruling spells doom for the ‘play-nrst-pay-later’ gambit used by junket operators to lure rich gamblers to casinos abroad By TAN 001 BOON ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR JUNKET operators who offer “play-first-pay-later” service to draw well-heeled gamblers to casinos abroad may find it very risky to
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      Lock icon Aussie expat killed in Newton attack
      236 4  -  bil JULYN KANG AN AUSTRALIAN expatriate died alter he was stabbed and hit on the head by five or six men drinking beer at Newton food centre early Wednesday. Police said the 39-year-old computer analyst had gone pub-crawling at Clarke Quay with a 19-year-old
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      Lock icon Married, but they know not how to do it
      360 4  -  LIANG HWEE TING ABOUT 60 couples turn up at Dr V. Atputharajah’s clinic every year with a somewhat unusual problem they either do not like sex or do not know how to do it. Their numbers have not dropped despite better
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      Lock icon 15 Falungong members charged over gathering
      350 4  -  By KARAMJIT KAUR CRIME CORRESPONDENT ALL 15 Falungong practitioners arrested on New Year’s Eve were charged in a magistrate’s court on Tuesday with illegal assembly and obstructing police officers from carrying out their duty. The 15, still in their bright yellow Falungong T-shirts, were
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      Lock icon Students with dyed hair get the boot
      400 5  -  iIL THERESA TAN IT WAS back to school for most students this week, but some of them were sent home in search of some black hair dye. During the holidays, they had either dyed, tinted or bleached their crowning glory, turning themselves into
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      Lock icon Louis Lim helms biomedical research
      472 5  -  The don, a well-known scientist, heads the board overseeing and coordinating public-sector biomedical advances in S’pore *L CHANG AI-LIEN A VETERAN with more than 30 years’ experience in biochemistry and molecular biology is heading Singapore’s Biomedical Research Council (BMRC). Professor Louis Lim, a pioneer who
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      Lock icon PM Goh returns to a new Fullerton
      305 5  -  ĔZ BRAE VIA MATH I IN THE *****, a young Goh Chok Tong went to work at the Fullerton Building by the Singapore River. He wrote economic papers for the Economic Planning Unit of the civil service. For lunch, he would head to
      CHEW SENG KIM  -  305 words
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      Lock icon Painter impaled on fence
      147 5  -  By) K.C. VIJAYAN A 38-YEAR-OLD painter was impaled by a 50-cm vertical spike on Tuesday morning when he apparently lost his footing and landed on a fence guard rail. The spike went in through the upper part of Mr Lee Kew Huat’s left thigh and penetrated
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      Lock icon Religious leaders must guide followers: PM
      403 6 They should curb and admonish overzealous followers or the Government will step in, he says RELIGIOUS leaders were reminded of the need to be alert to overzealous followers who may threaten Singapore’s religious harmony. The message, came from Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who
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      Lock icon Sentosa misadventure
      160 6  -  By KARAMJIT KALR CRIME CORRESPONDENT THE little girl who drowned at Sentosa’s Fantasy Island lost her life because the water slide was not safe. That tragedy could have been averted if the adventure ride had been maintained properly or closed when tears and cuts were discovered in the
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      Lock icon Meet the intrepid underwater bomb squad
      560 6  -  By CHAN KAY IVON IT TOOK Staff Sergeant Lye Chai Meng 11 minutes to descend 30 m underwater, something that he would normally be able to do in a fraction of that time. And for the most part of his descent down a rope
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      Lock icon Ordinary people, extraordinary commitment
      314 6  -  BIL PAULINE LEONG THREE grand old dames who do outstanding voluntary work among the elderly and sick were honoured publicly on Wednesday. The Good Samaritan Award, which seeks to recognise and encourage public spiritedness here, was granted by the Rotary Club of Singapore. The overall winner
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      Lock icon SJI old boy heads Raffles Junior College
      320 7  -  §IL TRACY QUEK WHEN Mr Winston Hodge was a student at St Joseph’s Institution (SJI) almost 30 years ago, Raffles Institution (RI) was the archrival down the road. Both boys’ schools were in Bras Basah Road then, and the students, fiercely loyal to
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      Lock icon CJ clears the air on trespass law
      1040 7 Chief Justice Yong Pung How has not only built a world-class judiciary for Singapore, but he has also made legal history by becoming the most productive judge here. In the past five years alone, he has written 384 judgments, or about 17.5 per
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      Lock icon Matchmade in cyberspace by SDU
      618 8  -  It is wedding bells for couple who exchanged their first e-mail six months ago as national Cupid agency finds its 4,660 th mark Bu LAUREL TEO THEY chose the dawn of the New Year to solemnise their marriage, just six months after they exchanged their
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      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 Tarquin is SEA Games hope
      366 9 GYMNASTICS Pommel horse is the pet event of England-based rising star SINGAPORE may have a South-east Asia Games medal prospect in the form of gymnast Tarquin Wong, who was born here but lives in England. The 14-year-old, who has been training since the age of
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      Lock icon Liverpool not welcome here
      334 9 SOCCER FIRST, the good news. English Premiership side Liverpool is embarking on an Asian tour in May and is keen on Singapore being one of the three stopovers. The Reds are also planning to visit Hongkong and Thailand. But here is the bad news. Liverpool fans
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      Lock icon 'Missing' Latiff ends his silence
      583 9  -  SOCCER *L ELGENKUA PLEASE leave me alone. That was footballer Ahmad Latiff Khamarudin’s plea when Timesport finally caught up with the footballer who has been “missing” for three weeks. His plea is to the press, which he cites as the main reason for not making
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Race over 1,650 km to deliver kidneys
      375 10 The Star/Asia News Network PETALING JAYA A distance of about 1,650 km and a deadline of 24 hours did not stop a team of medical staff from removing the kidneys of a brain-dead child in Kota Kinabalu and transplanting them on time in
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      Lock icon Police forced me to strip, says woman
      287 10 KUALA LUMPUR A housewife has told a government hu-man-rights panel holding an inquiry into police brutality that she was ordered to strip naked and made to stand and squat 10 times while in police lock-up. Mrs Norazimah Mohamed Noor, 25, who is a
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      Lock icon Probe by rights panel a test of its independence
      587 10  -  Inquiry into police abuses in dispersing opposition rally puts the new Human Rights Commission on trial By LESLIE LAU IN KUALA LUMPUR SOMETHING unprecedented is taking place in Malaysia an inquiry into alleged police brutality. But observers said it is not
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      Lock icon WET START:
      48 10 WET START: Downpours brought misery to thousands in Terengganu, Kelantan, east Pahang and Kuala Lumpur last weekend. Hundreds were forced to move to evacuation centres as rivers burst their banks, with some villagers hoisting chicken coops to safety. Waters started receding on Monday. BE RITA HARIAN
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Thaksin's party will be the one to beat
      628 11  -  By. JAMES EAST STRAITS TIMES THAILAND BUREAU BANGKOK The Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party could hardly have chosen a more prestigious location for Thursday night’s final rally in Bangkok, ahead of today’s election. Sanam Luang, the Royal Parade Ground, sits in the
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      Lock icon 13 die as bomb blasts rock Manila
      520 11  -  About 100 others wounded in five blasts last Saturday, four of them simultaneous. Suspicion falls on Muslim rebels By YEOH EN-LAI and ENRIQUE SORIANO IN MANILA A WAVE of deadly explosions rocked the Philippine capital Manila last Saturday, in an orchestrated attack, killing
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      Lock icon Jakarta: No VAT for Batam
      242 11 AFP JAKARTA The Indonesian government has decided to maintain Batam as a freetrade zone, reversing a decision to impose value-added tax on the industrial island, a report said on Thursday. A decision made last year to impose value-added and luxury taxes on the island, which
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  • COMMENT
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      Lock icon Thuggery in the air
      579 12 THURSDAY JANUARY 4, 2001 EACH time there is an air-rage incident, as with the British Airways flight which nearly crashed over North Africa last week, the tendency in the industry is to look for remedies which are more reactive in nature than preventive. The British airline
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      Lock icon Let 2001 be placid
      589 12 MONDAY JANUARY 1, 2001 ON THIS day last year, much of the world was just glad that the millennial changeover passed with no calamity. It may never be ascertained whether the “00” hysteria was a masterly put-on, but it sure had earthlings of an assumed technological
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      Lock icon Release Singapore from old mindsets
      886 12  -  SATURDAY WITH CHUA LEE HOONC MATCHING subject and mood to occasion has always been one of the more difficult tasks of a columnist. What would be appropriate in this space today, the sixth day of the third millennium? What you are going to get, while
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  • COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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      Lock icon Fundraiser exceeds targets as need and giving snowball
      851 13  -  MY VIEW By DOMINIC NATHAN SHE looked to be in her 50s, spoke well and was smartly dressed. She walked into The Straits Times newsroom, took out her chequebook and said matter-of-factly: “I want to donate $5,000 but I want to remain
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      Lock icon Going to the market? Wait a minute
      727 13  -  HEART TO HEART ASAD LATIF THE British humanist Raymond Williams once criticised politicians who made “long-term adjustments to short-term problems”. He had in mind those whose wavering, sail-trimming or outright renegacv threatened to delay, slow or sink the socialist voyage from within, even
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  • INSIGHT
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      Lock icon Do early noises signify looming GE?
      1070 14 Singapore needs to go to the polls only by August next year. Yet, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong outlined the ruling party’s electoral strategy last month. Why this early noticer ASAD LATIF sniffs out all the probabilities MR CHAN Soo Sen uses an unbeatable
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      Lock icon 2001 will be marked by the e-word
      1902 14  -  THINKING ALOUD By CHUA MilHOOXG STRANGE things have been known to happen in the world in the crossover period from one millennium to another, and from one century to another. There is something about the double 00s in the Gregorian calendar that sparks
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  • MONEY
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      Lock icon Languishing stocks roar back to life
      272 16 SINGAPORE shares began the new year on a dismal note but they managed to end the week higher thanks to a stroke of financial mastery by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on Wednesday The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) rose 47.99 points over
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      Lock icon DAY-TO-DAY STOCK INDICES
      71 16 Straits Times Index The Straits Times Index rose 47.99 points on the week to 1,974.82 points DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday BT-SRI Index 1896.28 (-30.55) 1861.52 (-34.76) 1920.75 (+59.23) 1974.82 (+54.07) 153.4m ($220.2m) 251.9m ($402.8m) 427.5m ($790.5m) 294.4m ($704.5m) The BT-SRI Index rose 17.69
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      Lock icon CORPORATE RESULTS
      2368 16 Company Date ann Net* TY <$m) LY <$m) EPS TY LY (cts) (cts) ASTI Sep 05 i 6.182 2.476 4.69 2.39 ABR Hidgs Sep 19 1 2.343 0.491 131 0.26 ACE Dynamics Sep 05 1 0.537 0.517 0.5^ 0.63 Acma Sep 29 1 4.088 6.114 2.4C 3.70 Adroit
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      Lock icon APPROVED ISSUES
      164 16 BONUS ISSUE ExBooks ACC Company Ratio date close Paymt NoelGifts one-for-two Jan 8 Jan 11 NA Allied one-for-two Dec 20 Dec 26 NA Strike one-for-one Dec 6 Dec H NA RIGHTS ISSUE ExBooks Acc Company Ratio date close Paymt China Motion one-for*four Dec 13 Dec 18 NA OTHERS
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      Lock icon COMPANY MEETINGS
      191 16 Company Place Date Time Hong Leong E Finance 9 Raffles Place #61-00 Republic Plaza S'pore (*****9) Jan 31 11.00am Parkway E The Lecture Theatre Level 3 Gleneagles Hospital 6 A Napier Road S'pore (*****0) Jan 18 11.00am Brilliant Mfg A 21 Ubi Road 1 S'pore (*****4) Jan 18
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      Lock icon DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      425 16 Payment Ex Books Pay (cts) date close date Asia Power USSc F US0J29TEDec 26 Jan 2 Jan 10 AP Breweries F 9N Feb 28 Mar 5 Mar 16 Avimo 20c F 4.3 Mar 15 Mar 20 Mar 28 Avimo 20c F 1.7TE Mar 15 Mar 20 Mar 28
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      Lock icon PROPOSED ISSUES
      161 16 Company Description Spore Reinsurance The company announced that SGX had given in-principle approval for the proposed sub-division of each existing ordinary share of S1.00 each into 5 ordinary shares of $0.20 each. Flairis Tech Proposed Bonus Issue of 113.912,510 new ord shares of par value $0.10 each on
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2463 17 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' prices (S$) UNIT TRUSTS Aberdeen Asset Mot Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNC Fd 0.858 0.902 Global Technology Fd!** 0.916 C 963 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.847 0 890 American Opport Fd 0.322 0.969 Continental Euro Eqty Fd!** 1.180 1.240 Japan Eqty Fd!** 1220 1.281
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      Lock icon CURRENCY
      169 17 Foreign Currency Note Rates (9am, Jan 5) Buyinq OD Selling Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 0.9770 0.9910 Canadian dollar 1.143C 1.1670 NZ dollar 0.7690 0.786C Sterling pound 2.5940 2.6210 US dollar 1.7300 1.7410 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.90
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      Lock icon CPF investors: 56% make losses
      417 17  -  Some 278,000 members made less than the benchmark 2.5% interest, totting up losses of s4B4m for the last financial year *L HUGH CHOW NEARLY three in five people who took advantage of the Central Provident Fund’s (CPF) Investment Scheme last year more than a quarter
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      Lock icon Don’t bottom-fish for stocks as yet
      352 17  -  AZHAR KHALID MARKETS CORRESPONDENT THINK the stock market has bottomed out and it is time to go fishing for bargains? Think again. Market experts believe investors should be holding on to their cash at least until the end of this month as the worst
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      Lock icon SGX SECURITIES TRDG: MAIN BOARD
      3820 18 Transaction date: Jan 5,2001 MULTI INDUSTRY 52-Wk Hiqh Low Curr 1 Vol Day Gr’s Net M Cap Wt Avg Company Traded Sale ♦or'000 High Low Div P/E Smil Price 158 65 m c Acma 50c 69 -0.5 23 69 68 5 8.6 119.7 11.6 580.6
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      Lock icon BONDS, LOANS & WARRANTS
      1234 19 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Transaction date: Jan 5,***** 52-Wk High Low Company Last Sale ♦orVol '000 Day High Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Wt Avq Price 48.5 1.5 s Acma W*****4 1.5 -0.5 22 1.5 1.5 1.5 2 2 26.5 2.5 s AIITech W*****7 3 4 3 31 18 s Amtek
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      Lock icon SGX SESDAQ
      1152 19 52-Wk High Low Curr Last Company Traded Sale ♦orVol '000 Day Hiqh Low Gr's Div Net P/E M Cap $mil Wt Avg Price MANUFACTURING 200 71.5 c AS Auto 10c 77 unch 293 78 76.5 10 N 30.8 101.1 75 82 30 c ASJ Hldgs 20c 51 3.8
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      Lock icon US broker may partner SIAS
      383 20  -  By IGNATIUS LOW FIN ANCE CORRESPONDENT THE Securities Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS) may tie up with a US brokerage to secure a dealer’s licence. “We have been informally approached, via a third party, by a US firm which is very active in the Hongkong
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      Lock icon US Fed rate cut sends Asian bourses soaring
      622 20  -  Regional markets, from S’pore to Seoul, with the exception of Tokyo, post gains after weeks of losses due to surprise US action By AZHAR KHALID MARKETS CORRESPONDENT IT WAS as if US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan had waved a magic wand.
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      Lock icon No middlemen for Special Account investments
      464 20  -  By IGNATIUS LOW FINANCE CORRESPONDENT CPF members using their new-ly-won right to invest their Special Account savings in a range of safer financial instruments from Jan 1 this year will not need to open investment accounts with the “middleman” banks, as often required in
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      1084 21 The Straits Times Weekly Edition wmmm H Wildlife Reserves Singapore Pte Ltd JURONG BIRDPARK SID&hPOPE ZOCXOGtCHL Gflßoens *!> ADVERTISING PROMOTIONS MANAGER The Advertising Promotions Manager will be involved in advertising, joint promotions and, most importantly, organising promotional events/ activities for the Zoo and Night Safari. He/She will also be involved
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  • FORUM
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      Lock icon Intervene early to avert suicide
      531 23 THE report, “Girl jumps to death over PSLE results” (ST, Dec 30), should prompt concern as it is a child suicide which is related to education. Enough has been said about the national bias towards achievement and the pursuit of excellence. However, more needs to
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      Lock icon SGH should cut long waiting times
      377 23 I READ that Singapore General Hospital has raised the fees charged at its specialist clinics. The specialist clinics should first review their efficiency and service if they want to charge more. I visited a specialist clinic twice last month, both occasions by appointment, but
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      Lock icon Bee invasion: Why no help?
      134 23 I READ with concern the report, “Bee alert!” (ST, Dec 30). The couple, whose HDB flat was invaded by bees, could not get immediate help from the police nor the Pasir Ris Town Council both considered by most people as an instant source of help
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      Lock icon Let Liverpool play, FAS
      213 23 AS A Liverpool fan, I was dismayed to read the report, “Liverpool not welcome to play in Singapore” (ST, Dec 29). The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) talks about it having a moral obligation to Tiger Beer, but what about its moral obligation to the football
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      Lock icon TV fee: Some uses are not justified
      186 23 I RECEIVED recently a pamphlet attempting to explain the need for the $llO television licence fee. This was done by listing the public-service broadcast programmes that have benefited from such fees. To me, funding health-related, local sports, children’s, art and ethnic programmes which
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    Lock icon Record 7.6m visitors last year
    555 24  -  Last record was in 1996 when arrivals hit 7.29 million. Tourism operators credit STB with quick recovery from economic crisis By KRISTBOO OVER 7 .6 million visitors streamed into Singapore last year. They set a new record in tourist arrivals and, going by past expenditure
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    Lock icon SMU offers double first degree
    344 24  -  Bu JANE LEE TWO degrees in four years is the carrot that the Singapore Management University is dangling before its current and would-be students. Singapore’s third university is offering them a chance to graduate with a double bachelor’s degree in business management and accountancy. SMU
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    Lock icon LET’S DANCE:
    126 24 LET’S DANCE I The turn of the year was the night of the revellers with Singaporeans hitting the streets to celebrate at mega bashes or at more modest neighbourhood affairs. A crushing crowd turned up in Sentosa for an all-night-long sand-and-foam party (above). No less festive but less
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