The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 8 February 2003
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Title Section24 2003-02-08 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition PACIFIC AREA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR Saturday, rebnuuy^zoo3 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 098/03/200224 words
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Article, Illustration779 2003-02-08 1 TAMMY TAN - Economic blueprint spells out need for short-term pain to position Singapore for long-term growth by keeping costs down Bu TAMMY TAN DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR THE architects of Singapore’s new economy want workers to wait at least two more years for779 words
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Article434 2003-02-08 1 WENDYTAN - Bu WENDYTAN THE Government handed out almost $3B million to 29,000 children last year in a renewed quest for more babies. But the gift under the baby bonus programme, introduced in April 2001, did not reverse the downward slide in the number of births.434 words
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Advertisement63 2003-02-08 1 Biggerslice Ex-wife Now Wants Another s3sm Five years after getting a whopping sl7m as divorce settlement, Madam Sandra Ng is going to court to ask for more ss2m to be exact. pace 4 Topseeding Susilo Ranked Bth At All-England Rising Singapore star puts an end to five decades of waiting,63 words
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PRIME
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Article, Illustration548 2003-02-08 2 DEVI ASMARANI; and SHEFALIREKHI - Jakarta police detain man thought to be the local terror network head and wanted over plot to crash hijacked jet into Changi Airport By DEVI ASMARANI IN JAKARTA and SHEFALIREKHI in SINGAPORE INDONESIAN police made one of their most significant arrests in recent months548 words
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Article, Illustration304 2003-02-08 2 ARLIVA ARSHAD - By ARLIVA ARSHAD IN TANJUNG PINANG, BINTAN POLICE in Bintan have picked up two Indonesian nationals believed to be the local contacts of Jemaah Islamiah Singapore chief Mas Selamat Kastari, who was nabbed here on Sunday. Officers were tight-lipped about theAZIZHUSSIN - 304 words
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364 2003-02-08 2 ARLINA ARSHAD - ARLINA ARSHAD IN TANJUNC PINANG, BINTAN OFFICERS from Singapore’s Home Affairs Ministry on Wednesday had their first face-to-face encounter with the detained head of the Singapore branch of Jemaah Islamiah (Jl) but few details emerged about the questions they put to him. At364 words
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372 2003-02-08 2 JAKARTA Detained Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir is willing to be confronted with key suspects in the deadly Bali bombing, a supporter has announced. Police have said Bashir is the spiritual leader of the Jemaah Islamiah (Jl) regional terror network which372 words
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Article, Illustration67 2003-02-08 3 FANN'S U.S. DEBUT: Singapore actress Fann Wong kicked off her entrance into the American market in style. She sharea the limelight with co-stars Jackie Chan (left) and Owen Wilson at the US premiere of the new action comedy, Shanghai Knights, on Monday in Hollywood. The film, theREUTERS - 67 words
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451 2003-02-08 3 DENESH; DIVTANATHAN - By DENESH DIVTANATHAN TECHNOLOGY REPORTER THEY want to take on their rivals in the global arena. But a lack of top talent, time and money has stood in the way. But now, tech-intensive small businesses will find it much easier to grow further, faster. No451 words
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498 2003-02-08 3 GOH CHIN LIAN - Major-General Ng Yat Chung, who joined the SAF in 1979, will be filling the post as part of a periodic high-level reshuffle Bl GOH CHIN LIAN THE Singapore Armed Forces is getting an injection of new blood at its top levels. The498 words
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556 2003-02-08 3 SANDRA DAVIE - By SANDRA DAVIE EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT INDEPENDENT schools which have yet to devise new programmes for their students are now deciding whether and how they should play catch-up. St Joseph’s Institution and Methodist Girls’ School say they too are considering allowing students556 words
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HOME
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Article607 2003-02-08 4 SALMA KHALIK - Insurer hikes premiums as patients get higher payouts in claims; some specialists likely to charge more By SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE doctors will have to pay more to insure themselves, as more unhappy patients are taking legal action and succeeding in collecting bigger607 words
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Article, Illustration700 2003-02-08 4 ELENACHONG - Former spouse of construction king says the sum was too low By ELENACHONG COURTS CORRESPONDENT THE one-time tai tai who was awarded a whopping $l7 million for her divorce settlement in December 2001, will go back to court this month toFRANCIS ONG - 700 words
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558 2003-02-08 4 ELENACHONG - By] ELENACHONG COURT CORRESPONDENT AN ASSISTANT engineer who used an Internet chatroom to find young girls to rape, was on Tuesday sentenced to 23 years’ jail and the maximum 24 strokes of the cane. Raymond Pok, 26, posed as a heartbroken teenager558 words
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Article, Illustration557 2003-02-08 5 WONG SHER MAINE - Btt WONG SHER MAINE A JADE seal inscribed with “Lee Kuan Yew” and a fur hat that the Senior Minister wore are among the Lee family’s possessions to be auctioned for charity. It has not been decided which charity the auction will557 words
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356 2003-02-08 5 GRASSROOTS leaders have started knocking on doors to distribute special forms to the 9,791 poor Singaporeans who missed out on their Economic Restructuring Shares (ERS). With the list they received from the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board in hand, Whampoa grassroots leaders went356 words
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336 2003-02-08 5 GOH CHIN LIAN - Btj GOH CHIN LIAN THE number of Singaporeans making the Haj pilgrimage this year has hit an 11-year low. The sharp drop has more to do with the gloom in the property and jobs market than with the fear of war336 words
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543 2003-02-08 5 DAWN WONG - Singapore Tourism Board expects last months arrivals to continue the trend that began in September *L DAWN WONG TOURISTS flocked to Singapore last year, and fears of an impending war between the United States and Iraq are unlikely to stem the543 words
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BILATERAL TIES
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Article2252 2003-02-08 6 "Some treaties might be so fundamental to the very existence of states that they simply could not be dispensed with, whatever political differences might arise. For example, the new island State of Singapore was dependent on Malaysia for its water supply; the treaty under which Malaysia had to2,252 words
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Article, Illustration530 2003-02-08 7 M. MRMALA - Malaysian PM’s cavalier attitude’ to negotiations prompted former diplomat to write to Straits Times §1 M. MRMALA FORMER Singapore diplomats rarely comment on the politics at their previous postings. But the way Malaysian leaders have been speaking about the water dispute prompted Mr K. Kesavapany,530 words
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336 2003-02-08 7 TWO Cabinet ministers have pointed out that relations between Singapore and Malaysia are not at an impasse. Both Mr Lim Boon Heng and Brigadier-General (NS) George Yeo made the point at separate events last Saturday, Chinese New Year’s Day. Trade and Industry Minister336 words
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525 2003-02-08 7 REME AHMAD - By REME AHMAD IN KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPOREANS’ poor sex drive, the country’s “rising crime rate” and the thousands of its people who flocked to Malaysia over Chinese New Year zoomed into the Malaysian media’s focus on Singapore over last weekend. Private525 words
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306 2003-02-08 7 JOHOR BARU The price of the raw water that Johor supplies to Singapore has nothing to ao with the Republic’s sovereignty or principles of separation from Malaysia, said Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman. Singapore leaders were wrong to try to create confusion306 words
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Article639 2003-02-08 8 SHAHID A ARIFF; and GRACE CHUA - Commuters, industry observers fear fare hikes and say rules unlikely to solve grouse of not being able to get cab when needed By SHAHID A ARIFF and GRACE CHUA could even lose their licences. It looks good on paper, but some commuters, MPs and639 words
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Article, Illustration699 2003-02-08 8 TRACY QUEK - Owned by Spore architect Tay Kheng Soon, it draws nature lovers §1 TRACY QUEK AN EIGHT ha plot of forest and swamp land in Johor is becoming a hot spot for Singaporeans wanting to escape the urban jungle and experience a real one. CalledENRIQUE SORIANO - 699 words
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404 2003-02-08 8 CHANG AI-LIEN - CHANG AI-LIEN SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT IN ANOTHER step towards helping diabetics throw away their needles, Singapore stem cell company ES Cell International has acquired the technology to transform stem cells into biological insulin-produc-ing factories. The company said that it planned to produce such cells in404 words
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Article, Illustration595 2003-02-08 9 ARLINA ARSHAD - A licence Approval To abide by m-cyde rales Battery-operated bikes are getting popular here, but many do not know some are classed as m-cycles Btt ARLINA ARSHAD BATTERY-POWERED bicycles are a cheap, fast and convenient way to scoot around. They don’t have to beWONG MAYE-E - 595 words
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Page 9 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1062 2003-02-08 9 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 Word1,062 words
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COMMENT
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Article574 2003-02-08 10 WEDNESDAY February 5,2003 THE Indonesian security authorities are to be commended for their despatch in arresting a terrorist suspect, the wanted Singaporean Jemaah Islamiah (JI) leader Mas Selamat Kastari. They had acted on information given by the Singapore police. The various operational and intelligence branches of the574 words
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Article596 2003-02-08 10 MONDAY February 3, 2003 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong has said he expects the Year of the Goat to be a pretty decent year, especially if the United States economy recovers as strongly in the second half of 2003 as many expect it to. The Prime Minister’s596 words
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1159 2003-02-08 10 If you were the Finance Minister. THE economy is recovering slowly from last year’s bad patch, but the future is still uncertain. The various economic growth forecasts clash. When will global demand pick up? Will there be war in the Middle East? Or another big terrorist attack in our region?1,159 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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1357 2003-02-08 11 IGNATIUS LOW - *L IGNATIUS LOW THE idea was a crowd-pleaser when it surfaced in a think tank’s report last month. Use the Government’s Budget surpluses to pay for big-ticket items like schools, carparks, MRT lines and hospital buildings, the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS)1,357 words
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930 2003-02-08 11 INARENDRA AGGARWAL - By I NARENDRA AGGARWAL ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY is the time when many Singapore businessmen’s thoughts turn to the nation’s upcoming Budget. Long nurtured by the State, they begin pondering what further help would be in store for companies when the new Budget is930 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration1704 2003-02-08 12 Malaysian politicians and newspapers have stepped up their offensive after Singapore made public all the exchanges with Malaysia in their protracted water talks. Our chief regional correspondent LEE KIM CHEN sieves through the verbal barrage to try and figure out what the Malaysians are1,704 words
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Article, Illustration1104 2003-02-08 13 BABA - BABA SAYANG, I suggest you read again that note from the school aDout the project you must complete by August. I know you have already told me that you are no longer required to do that project, as you are doing another which you must1,104 words
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792 2003-02-08 13 ANDYHO - By_ ANDYHO LUCKILY for Miss Tanya Liu, she was declared dead in a country with an opt-in organ donation programme. Otherwise she might be buried by now and her organs working away in other people’s bodies. Instead, the Taiwanese newscaster, declared792 words
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SPORTS
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Article, Illustration667 2003-02-08 14 JEFFREY LOW - Prestigious tournament seeding puts S pore back on world badminton map after five decades BADMINTON JEFFREY LOW RONALD SUSILO has been seeded eighth in next week’s All-England Championships the first time in a long, long while that a Singaporean is seeded in badminton’s oldest and667 words
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773 2003-02-08 14 MARC LIM - SOCCER Btj MARC LIM THEY are the new kids on the S-League block but they will be able to call the most modern and one of the country’s biggest stadiums, after the National and Jurong Stadiums, their home at Jalan Besar. They were773 words
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Article241 2003-02-08 14 Marc Lim - SDLAT Marc Lim SILAT will make its Asiad debut in Qatar when Doha hosts the Asian Games in 2006. The decision to include the sport in the Doha Games was made last month, according to national silat coach Sheik Alauddin. He said he met241 words
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MALAYSIA
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457 2003-02-08 15 Home Ministry has told airports, radar stations and water ana power plants to remove them From these highly sensitive areas The Star/Asia News Network PUTRAJAYA Foreign workers are being used to guard some top security areas and installations in the country, the HomeThe Star/Asia News Network - 457 words
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499 2003-02-08 15 KUALA LUMPUR The opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia government in Terengganu has come under new attack as fresh allegations emerged that it has been spending about RM3 million (Ssl.4 million) of the religious tithes fund annually on 300 of its political campaigners instead499 words
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Article, Illustration426 2003-02-08 15 GEMAS It was a rude jolt at the end of the festive Chinese New Year weekend for passengers on board a Singapore-Ke-lantan train when six of its 11 carriages jumped tracks near here just before dawn on Monday. Ten of the 480 passengers on theNSTP - 426 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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411 2003-02-08 16 Human rights groups fear pressure to clear up the country's arug problem could result in the police acting as executioners AP BANGKOK At least 23 people were killed in drug-related violence last weekend, as the government launched a new no-holds-barred war– AP - 411 words
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Article, Illustration410 2003-02-08 16 DEVI ASMARANI - DEVI ASMARANI THE STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA A bomb blast on Monday near Indonesia’s national police headquarters has raised fears of new terrorist attacks in the country. No one was hurt in the explosion outside Wisma Bhayangkari, a building owned by the Indonesianap - 410 words
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Article382 2003-02-08 16 -AFP, Reuters KAM POT (Cambodia) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday denied inciting riots in which the Thai embassy and Thai-owned businesses in Phnom Penh were torched and looted. Instead, he said, he did his best, going without food for 26 hours as he-AFP,; Reuters - 382 words
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227 2003-02-08 16 Reuters BANGKOK Thailand said on Monday the cost of the damage from riots in Phnom Penh last week that destroyed its embassy and many Thai businesses was at least 1.8 billion baht (Ss73 million), almost double its original estimate. Commerce Minister Adisai Bodharamik announcedReuters - 227 words
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MONEY
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672 2003-02-08 17 WAR worries continued to mar global stock markets and the local bourse was not spared. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) fell 6.2 points on the week to 1,285.41 as jittery investors clambered to the safety of the touchline forcing average daily672 words
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Article126 2003-02-08 17 WEEK'S TOP RISES Cents Volume Sembcorp Log 25c 166 23.0 16.1 10,609,000 DelGro Corp 500... 245 21.0 9.4 3,656,500 Prima 462 18.0 4.1 54,000 Keppel Land50c.... 122 17.0 16.2 18,715,000 Sincere w 25c 120 13.0 12.1 126,000 ASF USIc 100 476 10.5 1.3 3,000 City Dev 50c 398 10.0 2.6126 words
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Article138 2003-02-08 17 WEEK S TOP FALLS Cents Volume PDC Coro 5c 3.5 -63.2 -6.0 1.716,000 Eastgate W*****1 4 -46.7 •3.5 46,000 Kian Ann W*****7 4 -38.5 -2.5 27,000 nifthal Tarh HKIr -33 3 -10 6100 000 Oculus 7.5c 5 -33.3 -2.5 54'000 Shining 15c 5 -33.3 -2.5 541,000 Nucleus Elec 5c 5.5138 words
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Article77 2003-02-08 17 Straits Times Index Th* Straits Tim*s Intel f*ll 6.2 points on th* w**k to 1,285.41. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday Market closed CNY Holiday Tuesday 1,296.59 (♦5.0) 204.91m (251.48m) Wednesday 1,291.89 (-4.7) 273.02m (253.59m) Thursday 1,287.63 (-4.3) 273.80m (295.38m) Friday 1,285.41 (-2.2) 209.89m (289.13m) BT-SRI Index77 words
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Article, Illustration440 2003-02-08 17 NARENDRA AGGARWAL - Senior officials from both countries to submit report on proposal before PM Goffs April visit to India, says Indian DPM *L By NARENDRA AGGARWAL ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT INDIA and Singapore are likely to start formal talks on a comprehensive freetrade agreement within the next few months,JAMES CROUCHER - 440 words
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756 2003-02-08 18 NARENDRA AGGARWAL - Improvements seen in new orders despite war fears, but businessmen still cautious about next six months, surveys show By By NARENDRA AGGARWAL ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE’S all-important manufacturing sector continued its mild expansion last month with an uptick in new orders marking 11 straight months756 words
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Article, Illustration439 2003-02-08 18 LEONG CHAN TEIK - Bjl LEONG CHAN TEIK THE man who helped lead the overseas forays of transport operator DelGro, and then, amid a reshuffle, took a new post with its bus subsidiary ahead of the impending big merger with Comfort, is now hopping off the bus439 words
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509 2003-02-08 18 BRYAN LEE - EDB expecting 2,500 more jobs in coming years, focuses on new industries Bjl BRYAN LEE ENZYMES that extend the shelf life of bread and cakes, shower curtains with artistic and innovative designs, and a handheld computer designed to bring computing to509 words
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Advertisement27 2003-02-08 17 Log on to chock prices Readers who want to see the latest stock-price and unit-trust listings can log on to the following websites: business-times.asial.com.sg www.asial.com www.fundssupermart.com www.singaporeexchange.com27 words
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226 2003-02-08 19 Letter To Singaporeans I AM a Malaysian student studying in the United States and have learnt recently about the water spat. To make sure I hear both sides of the stoiy, I read The Straits Times and, of course, our filtered Malaysian online dailies.226 words
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Article179 2003-02-08 19 THE Malaysian Prime Minister is very adept at diverting attention from their water antics, as well as loose war talk over Pedra Branca. He is now trying to drive a wedge between Singaporeans and their political leaders by suggesting that we had been kept in179 words
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422 2003-02-08 19 I REFER to the article, “Corneas a sticking point in transplant Jan 27), which brought up two issues on the proposed changes to expand the 1987 Human Organ Transplant Act to include corneas and livers for transplantation. Firstly, it mentions that a belief in422 words
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Article373 2003-02-08 19 Response To Mahathir I READ with interest Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s invitation to Singaporeans to visit and spend money in Malaysia an invitation I found to be dripping with sarcasm and insincerity (“No quarrel, come and spend, urges Mahathir”; ST, Jan 31). In the same373 words
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Singaporeans’ Take On Across-The-Causeway Buzz
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236 2003-02-08 19 PRIME Minister Mahathir Mohamad likened the exchange of letters between Malaysia and Singapore on bilateral issues to a Malaysian boy writing to his Singapore girlfriend (“Mahathir dismisses sovereignty issue and all talk of war”; ST, Jan 31), and chastised the girl for236 words
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176 2003-02-08 19 Singaporeans should not be fazed by the reaction of the Malaysian media and politicians to Foreign Minister S. Jayakumar’s disclosures in Parliament on the exchange of letters on bilateral issues. It is just more of the same. Unfortunately, most Malaysians do176 words
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Article152 2003-02-08 19 AS A Singaporean, I have the right to know why bilateral issues are still not resolved. Diverting attention? I am one of the 100,000 estimated by our Government who would be unemployed this year. But I do not buy Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s argument that our152 words
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Article, Illustration666 2003-02-08 20 LYDIA LIM - After signing agreement to send Pedra Branca issue to the world court, both foreign ministers trade point for point in press conference By LYDIA LIM IN KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE and Malaysia on Thursday signed an agreement to refer the Pedra Branca issue toLIANHE ZAOBAO - 666 words
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Article, Illustration592 2003-02-08 20 G. SIY AKKUMARAN - CPIB calls up at least 2 club officials and 8 footballers §}L G. SIY AKKUMARAN THE Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) has launched a massive probe into suspected match-fixing, calling up at least eight footballers and two club officials over Wednesday and Thursday.LAU FOOK KONG; TNP - 592 words