The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 7 June 2003
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The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition
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Title Section27 2003-06-07 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition PACIFIC AREA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR Saturday, June 7, 2003 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subsription only MITA (P) 090/03/200327 words
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Article625 2003-06-07 1 CHEONG SUK-WAI - Hotels and other industry players which attract visitors will get a share of the money under a new scheme set up by tourism board By CHEONG SUK-WAI CONSUMER CORRESPONDENT SHOW the Government that you are able to woo tourists to Singapore’s shores, and it will625 words
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Article, Illustration279 2003-06-07 1 THE Special Olympics team has been given the green light to compete in tne World Summer Games in Dublin this month. The group of intellectually disabled athletes had been barred from taking part by games host Ireland, as the RepublicWONG KWAI CHOW - 279 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement58 2003-06-07 1 Housing Delays In Bukfing, Upgrading Main upgrading works at Marine Terrace have come to a halt, while the building of new flats in Punggol have been delayed page 5 Food Not Just The Usual Satay Tired of the common mutton, beef and chicken satay? How about ostrich, emu and crocodile?58 words
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PRIME
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Article, Illustration636 2003-06-07 2 NATALIE SOH - ssl NATALIE SOH WITH prayers, hymns and eulogies, about 1,400 mourners and the Who’s Who of Singapore’s medical leaders gathered last Sunday for an outpouring of remembrance and farewell to Dr Alexandre Chao. The near three-hour service gave the assembly of family, colleagues636 words
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Article264 2003-06-07 2 Ben Nadarajan - Ben Nadarajan FOR five minutes in court on Tuesday, beer promoter Low Ai Cheng, 48, insisted that she was no litterbug. The offending piece of tissue paper “fell” from her hand while she was with a friend at a New Upper Changi Road food264 words
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Article544 2003-06-07 2 NEO HUI MIN - Those at the front line of the battle against Sars will have their efforts and courage recognised, promises Prime Minister Goh Btt NEO HUI MIN THE numerous calls from the public for health-care workers to receive National Day honours have not gone unheard. All those who544 words
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Article81 2003-06-07 2 IN OUR report “Fee changes, choices for undergrads”, on May 31, we quoted Dr Ng Eng Hen, the Acting Manpower Minister and Minister of State for Education, as saying that Singaporeans who “go to the United States to study” get to “enjoy quite a substantial81 words
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415 2003-06-07 3 REBECCA LEE - SI A turns to mediation a day after wage-cut talks stall, but talks between airline and its pilots association remain inconclusive BtL REBECCA LEE MEDIATION talks between Singapore Airlines and its pilots’ union to resolve the dispute over proposed wage cuts began yesterday but ended415 words
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553 2003-06-07 3 KWAN WENG KIN - SM Lee: Japan must keep coming up with new products KWAN WENG KIN JAPAN CORRESPONDENT TOKYO Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew on Wednesday gave the Japanese a few pointers on how to remake their country, including creating unique products that others will clamour553 words
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Article, Illustration117 2003-06-07 3 THE contents were supposed to be fruit juice. But when the container truck drove through the Tanjong Pagar Scanning Station on Wednesday morning, images of bottle necks showed up on the scanner. That made the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers suspicious. When theyONC CHIN KAI - 117 words
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380 2003-06-07 3 YANNITAN - By YANNITAN THERE will no grand graduation ceremonies for National University of Singapore students this year. Instead of fanfare and crowds, the events will be quiet and small. However, students will graduate about two months earlier in July rather than September. The break from tradition,380 words
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HOME
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617 2003-06-07 4 LEE HUICHIEH - Iranian sisters joined at the head will be separated in Singapore next month, with international experts flying in to help out in LEE HUICHIEH DOCTORS here are going ahead with a high-risk operation to separate a pair of Iranian twin sisters joined at617 words
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Article, Illustration285 2003-06-07 4 ON JAN 23,1824, Sir Stamford Raffles wrote a letter to Mr John Maxwell, secretary of the board of trustees to the Singapore Institution, authorising him to push for the development of the school. That school became the Raffles Institution. The letter also survived and has passedAZIZ HUSSIN - 285 words
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423 2003-06-07 4 TAY CHENG KHOON - By’] TAY CHENG KHOON DEPUTY SPORTS EDITOR SEVEN premier league sepak takraw players were arrested by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) for suspected drug abuse last week. The CNB has confirmed the arrests and said that their instant urine tests had shown traces423 words
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399 2003-06-07 4 99,000 bids received for N-day Parade tickets on fist day New balloting system is hassle-free, but some still have grouses AROUND 99,000 requests for National Day Parade tickets were received on Wednesday, the first day of the new alloting system using phones, the Internet and AXS stations. Three in four399 words
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Article, Illustration566 2003-06-07 5 LEONG PIK YIN - IN MARINE TERRACE *fiL LEONG PIK YIN A HOUSING Board main upgrading project in Marine Terrace has had three changes of contractors since work began in December 2001, and now work has stopped. Residents of the nine blocks involved say they are fedWONG KWAI CHOW - 566 words
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Article537 2003-06-07 5 LEONG PIK YIN - Contractor stops work after running into financial difficulties; about 560 flat buyers forced to look for alternative housing Bt/J LEONG PIK YIN ABOUT 560 applicants who booked one of tne new Punggol 21 flats have been forced to look for alternative housing because the construction537 words
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460 2003-06-07 5 THERESA TAN - Bjl THERESA TAN NEWSMAN Travel, a tour agency known for its coach tours to Malaysia and package holidays to Asian destinations, has closed down, leaving some customers in the lurch. It is the largest of the 11 tour agencies that have shut shop460 words
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664 2003-06-07 6 TAN TARN HOW - America needs to cultivate its friends so that its pre-eminence does not lead to unilateralism, Mr Lee tells security conference By TAN TARN HOW AMERICAN global pre-emi-nence must not lead to unilateralism or it may end up with fewer allies as countries664 words
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489 2003-06-07 6 WILLIAM CHOONG - Bjl WILLIAM CHOONG EMERGING from their highpowered pow-wows, top government officials usually present a united front on issues ranging from drug trafficking to terrorism. At the top security conference, however, delegates saw a bout of verbal jousting between the defence chiefs of489 words
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Article, Illustration188 2003-06-07 6 S'PORE’INDIA FTA CRUCIAL SINGAPORE’S proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with India is important not just because it would strengthen bilateral relations but it will also serve to increase the links between India and South-east Asia. The proposal, which goes by the formal name of Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca),TAN SUAN ANN; WONG KVVAI CHOW - 188 words
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442 2003-06-07 6 FELIX SOH - Bxl FELIX SOH YOU may call it a talkfest. Or a wordfest. But after three days of verbal exchanges, speeches and presentations of papers, the second Asia Security Conference was actually more substantial. Some significant trends on security in the region and the442 words
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Article, Illustration606 2003-06-07 7 CAMILLA CHIAM - Satay Club at Clarke Quay will reopen this month with ostrich ana emu satay, international cuisine and a wine bar too By' CAMILLA CHIAM WAITRESSES on in-line skates will be serving satay at the new-look Satay Club at Clarke Quay, when it reopens later606 words
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Page 7 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1061 2003-06-07 7 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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COMMENT
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Article579 2003-06-07 8 WEDNESDAY June 4,2003 IT has been uplifting how Singaporeans opened their hearts and wallets to the Courage Fund, started to honour health-care workers in the fight against Sars. Indeed, spontaneous support coming in lean times from small shopkeepers, multinational corporations, overseas Singaporeans to the expatriate community579 words
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Article542 2003-06-07 8 FRIDAY June 6,2003 THE hoary subject of an Asean security alliance was given its due airing at the just concluded Asia Security Conference. Just as predictably, the conclusions offered up such as the views of a group headed by Mr Douglas Hurd, a former British foreign secretary542 words
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Article, Illustration990 2003-06-07 8 LYDIA LIM - THE WAY I SEE IT By LYDIA LIM THE seniority-based wage system is like an escalator. If you stand on it long enough, you’ll eventually get to the top, without having done much more than let your hair grow grey. This was an990 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration699 2003-06-07 9 CHRISTOPHER TAN - By CHRISTOPHER TAN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT INVESTORS banking on a windfall from ComfortDelGro Corp’s maiden attempt at the rail business might be in for a sobering ride. Its subsidiary SBS Transit, which has been appointed to run the NorthEast Line (NEL), won’t see699 words
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921 2003-06-07 9 DAVID HOEY - By DAVID HOEY DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT THE name Shangri-La may conjure up visions of ageless bliss, but the slate of topics discussed at the defence talks over last weekend at the luxury hotel of the same name in Singapore was anything but soothing. Nightmare scenarios921 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration2051 2003-06-07 10 SIA has been losing more than $6 million a day and says it not only has to cut wages but also reform its wage structure to beat the intense competition it was already facing even before the Sars scare. REBECCA \SLofthe Political Desk takes a2,051 words
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Article, Illustration1025 2003-06-07 11 PAUL JACOB - Enough doom and gloom let's celebrate THINKING ALOUD By PAUL JACOB OVER the course of last weekend, there were a sizeable number of people out there popped the champagne... or had a celebratory beer. It doesn’t really matter what the drink was. The event was the real cause. Because the1,025 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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Article, Illustration386 2003-06-07 12 DEVI ASMARANI - BALI BLASTS DEVI ASMARANI THE STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Muslim militant Imam Samudra went on trial on Monday on charges of masterminding last years Bali nightclub bombings. The 33-year-old faces death by firing squad if the court finds him guilty. The trial is386 words
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453 2003-06-07 12 WILLIAM CHOONG - §1 WILLIAM CHOONG HUNTED down and sent packing by Western governments, Al-Qaeda’s focus has now shifted back from the West to the Middle East. But if the global terrorist network is not clamped down in that volatile region, Southeast Asia will soon feel the heat,453 words
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Article, Illustration657 2003-06-07 12 SHEFALIREKHI - The Sars epidemic is abating and Asia now gears up for another battle reviving a tourism industry reelingfrom the devastating impact BtL SHEFALIREKHI WITH the battle against the Sars bug now seemingly in control, Asia is abuzz with a new campaign to win tourists back.REUTERS - 657 words
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MONEY
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645 2003-06-07 13 WITH so much liquidity sloshing around the market, the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) surged 90.3 points on the week to 1,439-25 on hopes of a second half recovery. The rally was paced by a 28.28 per cent jump in average daily turnover which645 words
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Article125 2003-06-07 13 WEEK'S TOP RISES Cents Volume ChODBeCW091US$.... ***** 275.7 1.5 500 Creative T 25c 1330 170.0 14.7 4,485,800 SPH 1840 170.0 10.2 12,002,000 SPH100 1840 160.0 9.5 404,900 B Sembawang 1200 100.0 9.1 13,000 UOB 1210 100.0 9.0 17.393.000 DBS Grp 1070 90.0 9.2 25,138,000 SIA 50c 1050 90.0 9.4 18.680,000125 words
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Article132 2003-06-07 13 WEEK'S TOP RISES Cents Volume Mediastream 5c 2.5 150.0 1.5 41,272,000 BBRHIdqs 5c 2 100.0 1.0 54,058,000 Benefun20k HKIc 2 100.0 1.0 59,240,000 El-Nets 1c 2 100.0 1.0 114.029,000 KingWan W*****4 1 100.0 0.5 215,000 LSM 1C 2 100.0 1.0 311,058,000 Yongnam 20c ...3.5 75.0 1.5 31,771,000 Inno-Pac 1c 6132 words
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Article75 2003-06-07 13 Straits Times Index The Straits Timas Inda* rosa 90.3 paints on tha waak ta 1,439.25. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1,380.72 (*31.7) 1.55b (813.13m) Tuesday 1,378.39 (-2.3) 1.18b (672.96m) Wednesday 1,401.20 (+22.8) 846.15m (531.73m) Thursday 1,427.61 (*26.4) 1.49b (990.32m) Friday 1,439.25 (*11.6) 980.33m (540.81m) BT-SRI Index The BT-SRI75 words
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Article, Illustration608 2003-06-07 13 HUGH CHOW - CVC Asia Pacific and JP Morgan Partners Asia come out tops with joint bid of s22om, beating rivals’ offers By HUGH CHOW THE publisher of Singapore’s Yellow Pages directories is being sola to a consortium of private equity investors for some $220608 words
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564 2003-06-07 14 AUDREY TAN - Slew of stronger economic data from US plus stock market rallies raise hopes of Singapore seeing firmer recovery soon B .y. AUDREY TAN ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE now looks poised for a stronger economic rebound in the second half of this year, given an564 words
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Article, Illustration458 2003-06-07 14 AUDREYTAN - Btl AUDREYTAN SESDAQ-BOUND bakery chain Bread Talk Group hopes to raise $6.4 million in its newly launched initial public offer (IPO), to expand its bakery business overseas and diversify into other food and beverage businesses. Its first stop will be Shanghai,BUSINESS TIMES - 458 words
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574 2003-06-07 14 AUDREY TAN - §1 AUDREY TAN BANKS in Singapore wrote off $15.6 million in credit-card debt in April the highest monthly amount on record that they have failed to recover from borrowers. The bad debts are being run up by professionals and businessmen alike, as the574 words
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FORUM
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296 2003-06-07 15 AS A Singapore citizen studying abroad, I was disturbed by the reaction of local businesses to the country being taken off the World Health Organisation’s list of Sars-affected areas. Is mass shopping really the kind of reaction that we want to see from Singaporeans296 words
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Article299 2003-06-07 15 I REFER to Mr Bryan Wee’s letter, “Why celebrate Sars all-clear by shopping?” If I understand him correctly, he feels that by encouraging Singaporeans to indulge in a “six-week shopping spree”, we are adding insult to the injury suffered by those who have lost299 words
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Article, Illustration309 2003-06-07 15 I REFER to senior correspondent Christopher Tan’s commentary, “Will SBS become the SQ of the subway?” The issue which I would like to take up here is his speculation that commuters might not mind paying higher fares should the new North-East MRT309 words
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559 2003-06-07 15 WE REFER to Ms Rebecca Lim Sin Mei’s letter, “Stress? Wait till you hear about children in China” (ST, May 21). She said that the Singapore education system should maintain its level of stress or raise it to be comparable to that of559 words
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502 2003-06-07 16 M. MRMALA - Aim is to help reverse declining number of users. They will be ranked on factors sucn as course attendance and use of premises Btl M. MRMALA ALL 110 community centres and clubs here will soon be ranked on how effective they are in502 words
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Article, Illustration562 2003-06-07 16 TANHUIYEE - Vans will sell drinks and food in carparks in the city area every morning Bu TANHUIYEE PEOPLE in the city will be able to get their morning cuppa and a packet of nasi lemak at a carpark from next month. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) isMALCOLM MCI.EOD - 562 words