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Title Section20 2002-07-06 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Saturday, July 6,2002 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 098/03/200220 words
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378 2002-07-06 1 SUE-ANN CHIA - Not only are there fewer jobs, but they also have to compete with the unemployed from last year’s batch By SUE-ANN CHIA FRESH graduates will face tougher competition in the job market this year. Besides fewer jobs, they will also be vying for378 words
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Article, Illustration89 2002-07-06 1 PYTHON IN IOTH'TLOOK TOILET: Officers from the Clementi Police Station caught a 2-m-long python in the toilet of Mr Tan Kok Chye’s lOth-floor Housing Board flat on Thursday after it gave them the slip two days earlier. The snake was first seen in the Block 112,LIANHE WANBAO - 89 words
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Article298 2002-07-06 1 AHMAD OSMAN - Bn AHMAD OSMAN MORE than 121,000 jobs will be created over the next five years as new investment projects come on stream. That is higher than the number of jobs lost in the last five years more than 90,000. Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong made298 words
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Article191 2002-07-06 1 SUE-ANN CHIA - Btt SUE-ANN CHIA COMPANIES are re-starting their hiring engines, but their recruitment programmes are staying in first gear for now. A recent survey also revealed that the number of retrenchments has decreased, while an earlier poll showed that pay packets are expected to increase. Mercer Human Resource191 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement57 2002-07-06 1 Promises of BMWs and lots of money have got students in tertiary institutions jumping on the multi-level marketing bandwagon. page 7 Dunman Students Make DNA (fit In one month the team came up with the DNA extraction kit, 20 to 30 times cheaper than those in the market. It may57 words
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PRIME
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619 2002-07-06 2 M. NIRMALA; and KRIST 800 - Fallout from America’s weakening dollar and depressed stock market could hit S’pore’s upturn, DPM Tan warns By M.NIRMALA and KRIST 800 DARK clouds on the economic horizon may slow the recovery Singapore is experiencing, warned Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan on Sunday. He said619 words
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Article, Illustration68 2002-07-06 2 WELL DONE, DOC It took Dr Allen Yeoh, 37, a specialist in child leukaemia, three years to come up with a method of assessing the recovery rate of stricken children. For that, he received a Singapore Youth Award. Dr Yeoh’s work enables young patients at higher riskWONG MAYE-E - 68 words
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532 2002-07-06 2 GOH CHINLIAN - Higher repair costs forces NTUC Income to go for hike By GOH CHINLIAN MOTOR insurance premiums are expected to go up by 5 per cent or so a year for the next two to three years. For NTUC Income, which insures about 230,000532 words
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283 2002-07-06 2 THAT conflict-of-interest issue in Temasek Holdings’ appointment of Ms Ho Cning came up for mention again on Sunday. This time, it was Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Ms Ho’s husband, who was asked by reporters to comment on the issue. Mr Lee,283 words
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430 2002-07-06 3 SHARMDLPAL KAUR - China national then withdrew money and fled to Malaysia a SHARMDLPAL KAUR IT TOOK just one hour for the hacker who broke into the computers of 21 DBS Internet Banking account-holders to move $62,000 of their money into his own DBS430 words
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Article, Illustration781 2002-07-06 3 CHUALEEHOONG - But Singapore prefers to keep package of outstanding bilateral issues intact; both sides will meet again in August in the Republic CHUALEEHOONG IX KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA on Tuesday signalled an intention to de-link the price of the water it currently supplies to SingaporeAP - 781 words
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234 2002-07-06 3 DENESH DIVYANATHAN - By DENESH DIVYANATHAN THE Government has decided not to challenge the High Court’s dismissal of its $3BB- lawsuit against SingTel. When the deadline came on Monday, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) said that it was “disappointed” with the court’s May234 words
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HOME
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543 2002-07-06 4 LAUREL TEO; and AHMAD OSMAN - MP Tan Soo Khoon is leading the call in Parliament, wants to draw Government’s attention to ‘unhappiness on the ground’ LAUREL TEO and AHMAD OSMAN THE higher bus and MRT fares kicked in on Monday, but a group of MPs543 words
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Article, Illustration299 2002-07-06 4 LAURELTEO - Bu_ LAURELTEO IN A 30-MINUTE ceremony at the Istana on Tuesday, President S. R. Nathan handed the nine Nominated Members of Parliament their Instruments of Appointment, which came in large cream envelopes. Six of them were new faces. They comprise two businesswomenGEORGE GASCON - 299 words
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483 2002-07-06 4 AHMAD OSMAN - By. AHMAD OSMAN FORMER Fateha Muslim group chief Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff was fined $6OO on Monday for trespassing at Tanglin police station in Kampong Java Road on May 1. He will decide this week whether to appeal against his conviction for the offence and483 words
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245 2002-07-06 4 Ahmad Osman - Ahmad Osman POLICE are investigating whether former Fateha chief Zulfikar Mohamad Shariff committed criminal defamation in several articles posted on the Internet. Police officers were in his Tampines flat on Tuesday at around 10 pm. Later that night, they visited his family’s food-catering business in245 words
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Article, Illustration531 2002-07-06 5 SELINA LUM - Former NMP Gerard Ee is new chief of National Council of Social Service, which evolved from organisation his father led By. SELINA LUM THE late philanthropist Ee Peng Liang was known as the Father of Charity who spent over 50 years championing the cause531 words
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528 2002-07-06 5 CHANG AI-LIEN - The creature may show scientists how liver cancer develops By CHANG AI-LIEN SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT AN AMBITIOUS new project has brought together one of the biggest scientific teams here to study the zebrafish, in the hope that the tiny, transparent creature528 words
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311 2002-07-06 5 SLIM 10 distributor TV Media was on Tuesday slapped with three charges of selling the weight-loss pill to other retailers without applying for a licence to sell it wholesale. The company could be fined up to $5,000 on each charge of contravening311 words
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RAFFLES TOWN CLUB SUIT
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Article, Illustration718 2002-07-06 6 ELENA CHONG - Some 5,000 people bought memberships at ‘discount’ but found club oversold, overpriced and overcrowded, says lawyer BiL ELENA CHONG IT WAS like a dream come true for nearly 5,000 people. At a “significant discount” of $28,000, they would be a member of Singapore’s “most718 words
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577 2002-07-06 6 ELENA CHONG - Club’s lawyer rips apart company director’s affidavit and says motive seems to be to take over the club By ELENA CHONG A 55-YEAR-OLD company director who was a prime mover in the class-action suit against Raffles Town Club was accused on Tuesday of577 words
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515 2002-07-06 7 f SHARMILPAL KAUR - National Environment Agency will handle almost all functions of the Environment Ministry, short of setting policies §r f SHARMILPAL KAUR FROM Monday, most matters green and clean has come under the new National Environment Agency. The agency will manage such things as pollution,515 words
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Article, Illustration648 2002-07-06 7 ARLINAARSHAD - Students get drawn by promises of BMWs and lots of money’ BR ARLINAARSHAD TERTIARY students are jumping on the multi-level marketing (MLM) bandwagon, selling everything from cosmetics to health supplements and mattresses. They are finding that the campus is the perfect hunting ground forENRIQUE SORIANO - 648 words
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390 2002-07-06 7 FROM this Monday, how much you pay for community hospital services depends on what you and your family members earn. Patients at hospitals run by voluntary welfare organisations (VWOs) currently receive a subsidy of 50 per cent, while people on public assistance390 words
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480 2002-07-06 8 CHANG AI-LIEN - It includes a minimum of 18 basic transactions a month and removal of minimum balance requirement if a service fee is imposed *L CHANG AI-LIEN SINGAPORE’S consumer watchdog has come up with a wish-list for banks to consider when setting up basic banking services480 words
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Article, Illustration912 2002-07-06 8 ALETHEALIM - By ALETHEALIM COURT CORRESPONDENT THE girl said she had been molested, but she contradicted herself so many times that the judge said he would have to be “extremely gullible” to believe her. Her mother changed her tune several times too, and the judge describedGEORGE GASCON - 912 words
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450 2002-07-06 8 IGNATIUS LOW - Don’t quit Net banking because of hacking cases, says DPM Lee ONLINE BANKING By IGNATIUS LOW FINANCE CORRESPONDENT DO NOT be put off banking online because a hacker gained access to 21 Singapore bank accounts. This advice came from Deputy Prime Minister Lee450 words
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Article, Illustration526 2002-07-06 9 KRISTBOO - Japanese retailer’s pullout, after 19 years in S’pore, comes amid concerns of ‘unpredictable’ market conditions in retail scene KRISTBOO JAPANESE retailer Daimaru is pulling out of Singapore, and will shut all three of its department stores by March next year. The pullout, after 19STEPHANIE YEOW - 526 words
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Article, Illustration716 2002-07-06 9 K.C. VUAYAN - Soon-to-be-launched David’s Diary gives answers to such questions By K.C.VUAYAN WHY is a hood placed over a drug trafficker’s head just before he is hanged? And did you know deathrow inmates have to be weighed because the length of rope used716 words
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Article, Illustration626 2002-07-06 10 TAY SHF AN - It's cheaper... Costs $3O, instead of $2OO to $5OO for commercial kits ...and works faster too Test takes 30 minutes, compared to one to four hours ®!L TAY SHF AN DUNMAN Secondary School has come up with a DNA extraction kit that itHOW HWEE YOUNG - 626 words
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Page 10 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1061 2002-07-06 10 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 Word1,061 words
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SPORTS
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Article, Illustration390 2002-07-06 11 BENNADARAJAN - He succumbs to pressure during quarter-final against China’s Bao Chunlai to fall 12-15, 6-15 BADMINTON By BENNADARAJAN A MOMENTARY lapse of concentration cost Singapore’s Ronald Susilo a place in the Malaysia Open semi-finals in Penang last Friday. The defeat was even harder for Susilo toTHE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK - 390 words
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Article, Illustration263 2002-07-06 11 WORLD Cup fever turned into a betting boom in Singapore, with Singapore Pools raking in about $5OO million over the past month, The Straits Times learnt on Monday. That was more than double what it had expected. While punters focused on the action263 words
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Article, Illustration703 2002-07-06 11 MARC LIM - S-LEAGUE SOCCER iIL MARC LIM WAS it appropriate for S-League club officials and even a playing captain to go off to South Korea and Japan to watch World Cup matches while their teams were toiling at home games?703 words
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COMMENT
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Article591 2002-07-06 12 THURSDAY July 4,2002 DEPUTY Prime Minister Tony Tan has warned of dark clouds on the economic horizon which may slow the recovery Singapore is currently experiencing. “There is no reason as yet to change the 2 per cent to 4 per cent growth rate as projected by the591 words
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Article580 2002-07-06 12 FRIDAY July S, 2002 MANY doubtless hope a letter in the Forum page on Tuesday, headlined “Stop justifying, and listen to the people”, would be made required reading in all government offices. If it is not, or waved off as just another instance of whining by an580 words
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Article, Illustration843 2002-07-06 12 TAN TARN HOW - bil TAN TARN HOW THE outcry over the bus and MRT fare hikes suggests an undercurrent of public feeling that the Government did not anticipate and still does not seem to understand. It fails to see that the commuters’ frustration goes843 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration948 2002-07-06 13 ANDY HO - MY VIEW By ANDY HO LET there be organ markets. Patients are dying for want of transplants while we resolutely refuse to acknowledge that human biological materials (HBMs) are, in fact, already commodities. Yes, value is created whenever HBM is donated.948 words
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793 2002-07-06 13 nth ASAD LATIF - HEART TO HEART with nth ASAD LATIF THIS is an age of economic diasporas. China and India, to name two obvious examples, gain from the wealth, expertise and experience of their far-flung diasporas. The Singapore diaspora is a nascent one. Singaporeans who work793 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration2327 2002-07-06 14 The regulation and training of Muslim religious teachers came under parliamentary scrutiny recently. What kind of training is required to teach in a multi-racial environment r What is the nature of Islamic education anyway? Our correspondent ASAD LATIF examines these issues. USTAZ ZhulkefleeTAN SUAN ANN - 2,327 words
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1400 2002-07-06 14 WARREN; FERNANDEZ - THINKING ALOUD By WARREN FERNANDEZ WITH the World Cup frenzy reaching fever pitch, an expatriate friend recently declared to me that one reason why he preferred working in Singapore to his hometown in India was the fact that every one1,400 words
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MALAYSIA
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427 2002-07-06 16 They say standard of English is higher in the Republic and have doubts about new language policy Sin Chew Daily/ Asia News Network, New Straits Times JOHOR BARIJ Parents in Johor Barn still prefer to send their children to Singapore schools despite a-- Sin Chew Daily/ Asia News Network,; New Straits Times - 427 words
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391 2002-07-06 16 New Straits Times JOHOR BARU An Umno politician has called on the Malaysian government to stop rich Johor parents from sending their children to kindergartens and primary schools in Singapore. Mr Osman Sapian, the state assemblyman for Kempas, saidNew Straits Times - 391 words
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Article, Illustration106 2002-07-06 16 New Straits Times END OF AN ERA: A Malaysian couple, Dr Kam Kiew Meng, 29, and his bride Sia Wei Wei, 26, had the honour of celebrating their wedding on board Malaysia Airlines' (MAS') final flight to the 37-vear-old Sultan Abdul Aziz Airport in Subang. TheNew Straits Times; BERITA HARIAN MALAYSIA - 106 words
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Article519 2002-07-06 16 BRENDAN PEREIRA - By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad apologised to his family for putting the ruling party ahead of them after repeated appeals by Umno officials persuaded him to postpone his retirement. Datuk Mokhzani Mahathir, 41, said that after the drama of519 words
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401 2002-07-06 17 Police advise banks to take all steps necessary to prevent fraudulent withdrawals projected to reach RMl6Om The Star/ Asia News Network, New Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR Senior bank officials called in recently by the police were advised to take steps to prevent fraudulent withdrawalsThe Star/ Asia News Network,; New Straits Times - 401 words
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Article, Illustration267 2002-07-06 17 New Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR A Wanita Malaysian Chinese Association annual general assembly ended on a sour note last Friday when the Sabah state chairman was slapped by the mother of a local branch head who allegedly wanted her daughter to be madeNew Straits Times; SIN CHEW DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK - 267 words
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388 2002-07-06 17 REME AHMAD - By REME AHMAD IN KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA’S language and literary agency, DBP, has a daunting task ahead to help translate into English mathematics and science textbooks within the next five months. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), a long-time publisher of school textbooks388 words
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521 2002-07-06 17 LESLIE LAU - But PAS’ assurance fails to convince non-Muslim leaders LESLIE LAU IN KUALA LUMPUR NON-MUSLIMS will be exempted from the controversial Islamic criminal law, or hudud, that the opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) plans to introduce in Terengganu. State Mentri Besar and acting PAS president521 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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Article, Illustration699 2002-07-06 18 MARIANNE KEARNEY - His shocking confessions at his murder trialembarrass the police, and are seen by analysts as a mockery of the courts By MARIANNE KEARNEY THE STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Tommy Suharto was all smiles as he told a Jakarta court that he spent atREUTERS - 699 words
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Article, Illustration504 2002-07-06 18 LUZ BAGUIORO - By LUZ BAGUIORO PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT MANILA In a country where 40 per cent of the population is poor, the mere suggestion of official corruption and impropriety raises eyebrows. In the past week, a public furore was stirred when pictures of mansions allegedly ownedTONY PIONILLA - 504 words
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MONEY
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Article341 2002-07-06 19 INVESTORS surged back into the stock market with a vengeance at the end of the week after tip-toeing around the World Cup for the past month. The benchmark Straits Times Index rocketed almost 6 per cent for the entire week, with about half that341 words
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Article75 2002-07-06 19 Straits Times Index The Straits Times Index rose 88.6 points on the week to 1,641.5. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1550.36 (-2.6) 197.20m (203.50m) Tuesday 1552.73 (+2.4) 236.36m (334.36m) Wednesday 1583.14 (+30.4) 387.20m (478.22m) Thursday 1598.75 (+15.6) 425.69m (438.90m) Friday 1641.53 (+42.8) 575.79m (707.72m) BT-SRI Index The BT-SRI75 words
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Article, Illustration628 2002-07-06 19 EDNA KOH - But if size becomes a critical success factor, then MAS would have no choice but to let them 'marry somebody outside’ By EDNA KOH FINANCE CORRESPONDENT FOREIGN banks may be keen to acquire their local counterparts but Singapore’s industry regulator is not open628 words
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362 2002-07-06 20 DENESH DIVYANATHAX - IDA fines SingNet over ‘misleading advertisement By By DENESH DIVYANATHAX TECHNOLOGY REPORTER SINGNET has been slapped with a $2,000 fine by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) for an advertisement that was likely to “confuse or mislead” consumers. It is believed to be the first penalty imposed by the362 words
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Article, Illustration851 2002-07-06 20 DENNIS CHAN; Nicholas Fang - Newly-announced discount and rebate come at a time when they are facing higher fuel costs and falling freight rates DENNIS CHAN ASSISTANT MONEY EDITOR Additional reporting by Nicholas Fang Nicholas Fang SHIPPING lines have come out in praise of PSA Corps move to lower851 words
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299 2002-07-06 20 IGNATIUS LOW - By IGNATIUS LOW FINANCE CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE banks wrote off more than twice as much credit-card bad debt in May compared to the same month last year the result, bankers said, of rising unemployment and personal bankruptcies rendering more debts “uncollectible”. According to299 words
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FORUM
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691 2002-07-06 23 Finally, someone heard the customers’ cries. It has taken two years and the loss of two of the largest shipping lines Maersk Sealand and Evergreen Marine for the acknowledgement and response to come. PSA Corp chairman Yeo Ning Hong could still say PSA691 words
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653 2002-07-06 23 I REFER to Ms Cecilia Yip’s letter, “Ad went against fair competition” (ST, June 27). The advertisement involved a comparison between UFM 1003 and its rival stations, likening their radio frequencies to four-digit lottery numbers. The main objection raised by the Singapore653 words
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346 2002-07-06 23 IT IS heartening to know that DBS Bank has refunded the money hacked from customer accounts (“21 DBS, POSB online accounts hacked”; ST, June 29). It would probably be an eye-opener if we were to peruse the documents governing Internet operations in our bank346 words
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366 2002-07-06 24 Evidence now appears tainted, so airline won’t have to pay out THE Hongkong judge who found Singapore Airlines responsible for serving a passenger glass pieces in his pineapple juice has overturn- ed his decision because it was based on a document that is now366 words
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Article595 2002-07-06 24 IGNATIUS LOW - It draws a line between critical companies to keep, and others it may nave a smaller stake in or exit By IGNATIUS LOW FINANCE CORRESPONDENT TEMASEK Holdings will whittle down to zero, if necessary, its stakes in top govern-ment-linked companies (GLCs) like Sing Tel and DBS595 words
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Article, Illustration87 2002-07-06 24 Billboards are making a comeback. The modem incarnation of the big outdoor-advertising board is encased in an electronic video screen, and there are at least eight of them here. Billboards were banned in 1993 as they were seen as a blight on the city’s skyline. ButSTEPHANIE YEOW - 87 words
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Article, Illustration216 2002-07-06 24 A MAN pretended to be a detective, stole a cell phone and sold it right away, but he was caught within the hour because the phone rang. What Rahman Magundario, 39, did not know was that his teenage victim had programmed a unique216 words