The Straits Times, 27 January 1998

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    13 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1998 60 CENTS MITA(P) 114/12/97
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    Lock icon $5 million Toto jackpot draws Pre-Chinese New Year punters
    89 1 IT IS a tradition to gamble during Chinese New Year and for some people, what better way to do it than withagameofToto. Hundreds of punters queued around the NTUC outlet at Block 701 in Ang Mo Kio Central yesterday afternoon to
    TAN SUAN ANN  -  89 words
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    Lock icon EDB aims to match 1997's $8.5b investment
    704 1  -  Narendra Aggarwal Yong Slew Min Board to ensure working capital for smaller firms By and SINGAPORE'S new investments grew 5 per cent to $8.5 billion last year and the Economic Development Board hopes to maintain the level this year despite the regional financial
    FABIAN CHAN MIN FAY  -  704 words
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    Lock icon Clinton again denies 'sex with intern'
    437 1 WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton yesterday again denied that he had had a sexual affair with a former White House intern or encouraged her to lie about it under oath. At a White House event on education, the president repeated his denial of the affair
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    Manager ordered SGH tests, but did not pay
    620 1  -  Elena Chong By THE manager of the Singapore General Hospital's Obstetrics and Gynaecology Centre asked her staff to conduct expensive medical tests for her husband's private medical laboratory, but did not pay for them. Angela Ho-Piong Teck Nyong, 42, was chief scientific
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    Take region's crisis in stride, says PM
    551 1 MR GOH CHOK TONGS FESTIVE MESSAGE THE Year of the Tiger will be a "testing year" for Singaporeans, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, saying they should take the regional economic turbulence in their stride. In a message for the shared celebrations of
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    Rupiah closes at 12,950 to US dollar
    127 1 SOUTH-EAST Asian currencies were mostly steady while stock markets showed some strength as the festival holidays approached. The Indonesian rupiah dived 15 per cent early yesterday but had recovered most of its losses to close at 12,950 to the US dollar. The Singdollar
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  • NEWS FOCUS
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      Lock icon Indonesia's succession issue vital to Asian recovery, says Dr Tan
      662 2  -  Dominic Nathan By in Wellington UNLESS the issues of political succession and stability are resolved in Indonesia, the markets will stay volatile and this will hamper any recovery in the Asian economies, said Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tony
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      Lock icon Go vegetarian, Indian poll candidates advised
      184 2 NEW DELHI A health group has advised candidates in the coming Indian elections to follow a vegetarian diet to cope with the stress of weeks of exhausting campaigning, a newspaper reported yesterday. The privately-funded Heart Care Foundation said candidates should "follow a strict low-fat
      AFP  -  184 words
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      Club's jackpot cashier stole $22,000
      320 2  -  Karen Wong HE USED COINS TO PLAY ONE-ARMED BANDIT By A CASHIER working in the jackpot room of Serangoon Gardens Country Club pocketed $22,000 worth of coins and used them to play the jackpot machines. Lim Jing Meng, 39, who pleaded guilty, was jailed 15
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      Indonesian tycoon 'cleared of allegations'
      487 3  -  Derwin Perelra By in Jakarta PROMINENT business tycoon Sofyan Wanandi (below) said after meeting Indonesian intelligence officers yesterday that he had been cleared of allegations that he had links with a banned group suspected to be behind moves to destabilise Indonesia ahead of the presidential
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      China softens conditions for talks with Taiwan
      437 3  -  Mary Kwang By China Correspondent BEIJING China yesterday stated explicitly that it did not demand that Taipei recognise the Beijing central government as the government of China as a prerequisite for the reopening of cross-strait political dialogue. Mr Tang Shubei, vicechairman of the
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      Lock icon Sweet news as mandarin prices hold
      283 3  -  Yong Slew Min By' HERE'S some juicy news for buyers of mandarin oranges the usual price hikes in the run-up to the Chinese New Year are absent this time round. Despite a drop in imports, firices nave held steady due o abundant harvests and
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      Husband of OUB officer charged
      213 3  -  Tan Ooi Boon By THE husband of a senior Overseas Union Bank branch officer, who went missing last month after she allegedly misappropriated fixed deposits amounting to about $10 million, was charged in the district court yesterday in connection with the crime. Teo Choon Beng,
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      293 2 T&&SHOP wishes all customers a Happy Lunar New Year and Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri. All Teleshops will be closed at 4pm today and business will resume as usual on 31 Jan '98. imWHiIJ- 'Anchorpoint Tel: 475 31 16 *Ang Mo Kio Central Tel: 455 8151 Beletlier Tel: 256 3769 'Bedok
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Sri Lanka races to rebuild bombed shrine
      568 4 Minister vows to have it ready for Independence Day event COLOMBO Sri Lanka yesterday vowed to restore its holiest Buddhist shrine ravaged by a Tamil Tiger suicide bombing in time For a visit by Britauvs Prince Charles to mark the 50th anniversary of
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      British teachers will be allowed to use physical force on unruly pupils
      341 4 LONDON British teachers are to be given the right to use physical force against unruly pupils in the government's first attempt to find a substitute for a smack or a rap with a ruler. They are to be
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      Lock icon Buddha's tooth enshrined in temple
      112 4 THE Temple of the Tooth (left), which was damaged by a Tamil Tiger guerilla bomb, is also known as the Dalada Maligawa. Buddha's left canine tooth is enshrined there, making it one of the most sacred places in the world for Buddhists. The temple, built
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      Sonia Gandhi to contest elections, says report
      154 4 NEW DELHI Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, widow of for mer Prime Minister Raiiv Gandhi, would contest the coming general election in India, the United News of India reported yesterday. She would stand for a par liamentary seat in Amethi, the constituency in the northern
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      Lock icon One million turned out for Republic Day Parade
      105 4 NEW DELHI About one million people lined the streets of New Delhi yesterday as India celebrated Republic Day, coinciding with its 50th year of independence. The city centre was sealed off for the annual military and cultural parade, involving 7,000 troops and
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      Lock icon Billboard support for Bill in Israel
      52 6 "WE SUPPORT you, friend" says a billboard featuring US President Bill Clinton in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv. An Israeli advertising agency posted this and other billboards at key intersections on Monday. All of them expressed support for Mr Clinton, mired in sex scandals.
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      Lock icon Clinton advisers gear up to wage 'three-front war'
      668 6 Political front I .eading the defence in this area is Mr Mickey Kantor, the former US Trade Representative, and an old Clinton friendHe will serve as political adviser. Civil front Mr Robert Bennett, whohasbeen defending Mr Clinton in the Paula Jones sexual-misconduct
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      Lock icon President and intern 'caught in act'
      551 6 Witnesses tell American networks about couple's intimate encounters 'Starr and his staff will spend their bullets and their money pursuing this from a much more intelligent angle than going after a 24-year-old girl/ -Mr William Ginsburg, Ms Lewinsky's lawyer. WASHINGTON The investigation into President
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      Watch Presidents address live
      41 6 SINGAPORE Cable Vision will telecast live President Bill Clinton's State of the Union Address tomorrow. SCV said it would begin airing the "eagerly anticipated speech" over CNN International (Channel 14) and Worldnet (Channel 51) at 10 am.
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      Counsel Starr has tracked Clinton since Whitewater
      366 6  -  Louise Branson BY in Washington INDEPENDENT counsel Kenneth Starr has long been President Bill Clinton's nemesis. The White House has for the last three years accused him of a political witch-hunt as he has investigated possible past corruption by the President at a
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      Lock icon Italy finds pizza and salami logo in bad taste
      143 8 LONDON Italy, home of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the best fashion designers in the world, has expressed outrage at a pizza and salami logo served up for it by Britain. It has lodged formal complaints with London about the
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      Asian economies can learn from NZ reforms, says Tony Tan
      589 8  -  Dominic Nathan By in Wellington if they are determined enough to pursue these necessary programmes, after all the difficulty and pain of restructuring, the economies will be more competitive.' Dr Tony Tan on why countries in the region should t
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    • PEOPLE
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        Lowdown on celebrities' body language
        62 8 FAMOUS couples' bodies tell us more than they want us to know. At least that is what Ms Maxine Lucille Fiel, who claims to have coined the term "body language'', said as she analysed the jutted hips and tilted heads in photographs of celebrity pairs
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        Kennedy and Bessette: 'Drifting apart'
        65 8 The way John Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette interact "marks them as drifting apart and the rift is serious". Ms Fiel notes Bessette's lack of tenderness while walking with Kennedy when he had his arm in a cast. They don't hold hands. "If they can
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        Oprah and Stedman: 'Still going strong'
        55 8 Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham are "very comfortable with each other", Ms Fiel said. With few ego problems, Graham lets Winfrey have the spotlight. Graham genuinely loves her, Ms Fiel notes. When he hugs her, "his arms encircle her, and with clasped hands and
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        Kathie and Frank Gifford: 'One-sided affair'
        47 8 Kathie Lee Giff ord is the lover, and Frank Gifford the beloved, Ms Fiel claims. In one photograph, "she's got her arms wrapped high around Frank's neck, almost inaheadlock. "Kathie Lee awaits Frank's earthshaking kiss. Only problem is, Frank doesn't deliver."
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        In transition
        50 8 'SUZUKI METHOD' FOUNDER DIES: MrShini chi Suzuki, founder of the "Suzuki Method" of teaching music to infants, died yesterday of heart failure at his home in central Japan. He was 99. JAZZ MUSICIAN BOWS OUT: Hungarian-born jazz musician Attila Zoller died on Sunday in Vermont. He was 70.
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        Meanwhile
        56 8 PAVAROTTI MAKES EARLY EXIT: Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti was forced to bow out early from a benefit performance at New York's Metropolitan Opera on Sunday night after suffering a dizzy spell. HIP OP FOR BRITAIN'S QUEEN MOTHER: Britain's Queen Mother, 97, has undergone a successful hip replacement operation yesterday
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        68 8 It could have two names: the Hun Sen-Le Figaro Rest Stop, or if Le Figaro wants to compromise, the Le Figaro-Hun Sen Rest Stop.' Cambodian strongman Hun Sen who was awarded 30,000 francs (559,000) in damages in a libel suit against the French newspaper Le Figaro. He said he will
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    • WORLD FILE
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        Lock icon TIMELY EXIT
        86 10 More than a dozen Pakistani bus passengers escaped unhurt when they got onto break their Muslim religious fast just before a bomb blew up the vehicle, reports said yesterday. The blast occurred on Sunday at a bus stop in the city of Jhelum in Punjab province, where two
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        Lock icon ANCIENT TECHNIQUE
        86 10 A 4,000-year-old mummy indicates that ancient Egyptians started using embalming techniques about 1,000 years earlier than previously believed. Mr Ulrich Weser of the University of Tabingen in Germany and his colleagues examined the bones of a man unearthed in Giza in Egypt in 1914. They found that the
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        Lock icon SEA RESCUE
        59 10 Seven people were rescued off the west Australian coast yesterday, a day after their fishing boat capsized in bad weather, police said. The seven were on a chartered fishing expedition when their vessel, the Chatham Bell, overturned. This triggered an electronic radio beacon which was detected in the
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        Lock icon KENYA BOILING OVER
        73 10 Anger is mounting in Kenya over the government's inability to contain ethnic violence ravaging Rift Valley's Laikipia district as the reported death toll rose to 50, newspapers reported yesterday. The violence erupted on Jan 14 when armed raiders, suspected to be Turkana, Pokot and Samburu cattle herders,
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        Lock icon LANDING HAZARD
        74 10 Air-traffic controllers in New Delhi yesterday complained that they had been operating "blindly" over the past two days as their main radar was not operating because of a technical snag. They said that flights to and from the busy Indira Gandhi airport were being delayed because the control
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        Lock icon 23 HINDUS KILLED
        56 10 Gunmen kilted 23 Hindus in the restive Indian Mate of Jammu and Kashmir at the weekend in an attack ahead of India's Republic Day celebrations, the authorities said yesterday. The attack took place on Sunday night at Ganderbal, a village 27 km from Srinagar, the summer capital
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      Lock icon Top US executives go for cash compensation as firms cut back perks
      469 10 NEW YORK More and more American executives are getting fewer perks than they used to in the 80s, although this trend has been hidden by the wave of money companies have allowed to wash over their top officers.
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      Lock icon Flexible spread of extras for the busy boss
      190 10 NEW YORK Mr Doug Geoga, 42, the president of the Hyatt Hotels Corp in Chicago, drives a company-leased 1989 Oldsmobile Cutlass and gets a company-paid membership in a no-frills gym. But he receives little else in perquisites. When he stays at a
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      Lock icon Wheel and deal... it's a dog's life
      70 10 Wheel and deal it's a dog's life pictures. AT AN outdoor pet market in chilly Moscow, a dog keeps warm under a blanket and scarf (left). Many Russians buy dogs at outdoor markets, even in the heart of winter. In Havana, Cuba, his cousin takes a leisurely ride on the
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      Lock icon Hanson attacks choice of Viet as Aussie of the Year
      378 10 SYDNEY Anti-Asia MP Pauline Hanson revived the race debate here yesterday, condemning the choice of Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman and Vietnamese refugee Tan Le as Australians of the Year as politically motivated Olympic silver medallist Freeman, seen by many as
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      Lock icon Di mark for approved souvenirs
      252 10 LONDON The signature of Diana, Princess of Wales, reproduced in the royal colour purple, will be the official logo on souvenirs that have been approved by the memorial fund set up in her name. The Princess Diana Memorial Fund, established after her death to funnel
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      138 6 How to arrive at 65 worldwide destinations from Singapore. Need help arriving at the answers for the puzzle? Here is an alphabetical list of all the 65 worldwide destinations we fly to from Singapore, with all the letters in the right order. Good luck with the contest! ADELAIDE HONG KONG
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      269 7 Guess where we fly to. And win one of 3 trips for two in the Qantas Hong Bao Contest. j Below are anagrams of all the 65 destinations we fly to from Singapore. To win one ofthese exciting free trips for two to the Qantas destination of your choice, simply
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      70 10 i, LEGRAMDPALACE V^ 5 Unveiling One Of Singapore's Grandest, Most Luxurious Banquet Restaurants We ore open throughout Lunor New Yeor Lunch 1 1 .00am to 3.00pm Dinner 6.00pm to 1 1 .00pm Prosperity "M^^Yu-Sheng Prosperity Specialities I^L Set Menus. Grand luxurious dining halls WK with over 100 tables. 390 Havelock
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      355 10 JGAPORE Windy with passing showers in WSM High: Sunset today: the afternoon. 33 7.19 pm I nu/ Sunrise tomorrow: 1:1 24 n6am For an update on the local weather, call 542-7788 For detailed current weather, call 542-3983 AIR QUALITY PSI (24-hr reading uo to 4 om yesterday): 32 (Good) Abidjan
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  • EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Here's a chance to take a photo with Hashimoto
      94 11 HAVING a picture taken with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto is a snap these days if one does not mind the camera trickery involved. A "Print Club" instantphoto machine (right) at the Tokyo headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Partyaliows a Hashimoto
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      Pork popular in HK this New Year
      225 11 HONGKONG Different dishes will be on the table this Chinese New Year as bird flu and mad-cow disease, together with a scare over poisonous fish, have led shoppers to improvise some traditional festive treats. The South China Morning Post yesterday quoted a butcher
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      Lock icon HK to appeal ruling that may see influx of mainland children
      536 11  -  Wang Hui Ling By Hongkong Correspondent THE Hongkong government yesterday said it would appeal against a court decision that would see more mainlandborn children with the right to live in the Special Administrative Region (SAR). The Court of First
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      Model worker in $15m graft case
      458 11  -  Mary Kwang By China Correspondent China's Tobacco King implicated in biggest case of its kind BEIJING The Chinese Communist Party has exposed a 70-million-yuan (Ssls million) corruption and embezzlement case involving a prominent model worker and manager in one of the country's most lucrative
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    • EAST ASIA FILE
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        Lock icon 'RE-SCHEDULE TALKS'
        73 11 North Korea has asked that four-par-ty peace talks scheduled for Feb 12 in Beijing be postponed until after the inauguration ot the new government in the south, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said yesterday. "We think they want to wait until after the inauguration of the new
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        Lock icon COSTLY TIME CAPSULES
        83 11 Japanese authorities have lost interest in two time capsules buried in Osaka, one of which had been due for a costly recovery in 2000, a newspaper said yesterday The two capsules, buried in 1971, were given to the Education Ministry. One was to be unearthed in 2000
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        Lock icon MIGRANT INCOME
        53 11 China's migrant woricers will Dimg an estimated 74 billion yuan (SSI6 billion) to their rural families over the Chinese New Year vacation, the Labour Ministry said yesterday. A ministry official said 37 million migrant workers were employed in major cities and each was expected to return home with
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        Lock icon SEOUL-TAIPEI TIES
        62 11 Taiwan yesterday welcomed an initiative by South Korea to mend fences damaged when Seoul switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beying in August 1992. The Taiwanese Foreign Ministry confirmed that Seoul hadsent a dele- gation to the island in the middle of this month, but declined to reveal
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        Lock icon GANGSTER SHOT
        35 11 Three men shot and injured a 70-year-old Japanese gang member, Keizaburo Aoki, his wife and his driver while they waited at a traffic light in Tsukuba, north-east of Tokyo, police said yesterday. AFP
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        DELAYS DUE TO SNOW
        58 11 Two hundred thousand travellers waited for trains at southern China's Guangzhou station on Sunday night after heavy snowfalls on the line to Beijing caused weekend-long delays. At the Guangzhou Baiyun airport, 36 internal flights were delayed due to bad weather and more than 6,000 passengers were
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Transport deal scuttles strike in Philippines before it even begins
      426 12  -  Luz Baguioro By in Manna But 2 cities crippled by protest against price hikes A TWO-DAY nationwide transport strike called by militant unions lost steam here yesterday even before it began, following a deal struck between an association of jeepney
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      BACKGROUND
      152 12 THE strike was aimed at forcing the government to roll back fuel prices to levels prevailing before the country was swept by the regional currency turmoil in July last year. Oil companies raised oil prices by an average of 52 centavos (two Singapore cents) a litre on Jan 16
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      Lock icon Hun Sen will not meet Ranariddh
      171 12 PHNOM PENH Cambodian strongman Hun Sen yesterday repeated his categoric rejection of a meeting with deposed Co-Premier Prince Norodom Ranariddh in Thailand to discuss a proposed ceasefire. He made the comments when, after attending a pariiamentaiy session, he was questioned about an as yet
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      Lock icon Medan Customs seizes rupiah above allowed limit
      250 12 JAKARTA Indonesian Customs officials seized a total of 271 million rupiah (5537,400) from six air passengers on Saturday, invoking a rarely enforced law that had limited the amount of money that could be taken out of the country to 50,000 rupiah. The Jakarta
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      Thai troops told to buy own boots
      434 12 Cash-strapped military may end up looking ragged BANGKOK Thailand's mUitary is concerned about what the economic downturn is doing to the way its soldiers look. Enlisted men have had to buy their own boots and the military-owned firm which produces uniforms may have
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      Lock icon Jakarta to spend $290m on projects to create more jobs
      350 12 JAKARTA The Indonesian government would spend 1.8 trillion rupiah (Ss29o million) on labour-in-tensive projects to alleviate growing unemployment in the country, a minister said yesterday. The money had been earmarked in the Budget for the fiscal year starting in April,
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    • REGIONAL FILE
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        Lock icon WRONG MOVE
        65 12 A survey of Bangkok residents has found more than half disapproved of the authorities' use of force last week to crush a protest by car factory workers who demonstrated over wages, the Bangkok Post reported yesterday. The survey of 2,738 people by the Suan Dusit Rajabhat Institute found
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        Lock icon PLANE CRASH
        48 12 A Philippine Air Force OV--10 plane crashed in the southern province of Davao del Norte yesterday, injuring the pilot, a local radio station reported. It was not immediately known why the twinengined, propeller-driven plane crashed in the rural town of Asuncion, radio station DZMM reported. AFP
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        Lock icon GUN BATTLE
        61 12 At least three people were killed and 32 injured in a gun battle on Sunday between Myanmar security forces and Muslim insurgents on the Bangladesh Myanmar border, the Dnaka-based Independent newspaper reported yesterday. The shooting erupted when Myanmar forces challenged members of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation who were
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        Lock icon Hanoi rejects blame in border spat with China
        138 12 VIETNAM yesterday rejected China's claim that Hanoi was the guilty party in the latest instalment of their centu-ries-old border dispute. A Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman said her government stood by its claims that China had encroached onto Hanoi's territory when it altered
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        44 12 Cambodia's Parliament yesterday approved the electoral commission that will oversee July's scheduled polls after a month of rancorous backroom debate that threatened to postpone the vote. The assembly approved the commission by a vote of 70 to 15, with three abstentions. AFP
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        79 12 A blaze broke out in a Japanese factory located in the Tan Thuan export processing zone outside Ho Chi Minn City, causing damage estimated at US$l.5 million (552.6 mil- lion), an official said yesterday. More than 300 firemen in 33 fire trucks were mobilised on Sunday when the
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        74 12 About 300 Cambodian garment workers marched on the US Embassy and the office of the European Union in Phnom Penh yesterday, urging boycotts of clothes made by exploited Cambodian workers, who allegedly have had to work seven days a week without overtime pay. Opposition politician Sam Rainsy, who
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  • MALAYSIA
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      433 13 Avoid contest at divisional level for the sake of party unity, says Mahathir KOTA BARU Election of party leaders at Umno divisions may be made through consultation, rather than contest, to maintain party unity, Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. He
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      365 13 SUNGAI SIPUT (Perak) The toll charges for the Ma-laysia-Singapore second crossing wm be discussed at the next Cabinet meeting on Feb 11, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said yesterday. He said that the Cabinet paper pertaining to the
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      331 13 Jul a KOTA BARU The wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Datin Seri Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, yesterday advised local women to turn half their jewellery into cash and keep the money in the bank,
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      102 13 KUCHING Job-seekers from Sarawak are expected to flood neighbouring Brunei after the coming double festivities, lured by the relativelystrong Brunei dollar. Those seeking jobs in the sultanate are mainly from the border towns of Min, Limbang and Lawas. A Malaysian expatriate, Mr Seman Endawie, who
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        65 13 A 19-year-old youth was charged yesterday in the Magistrate's Court in Petaling Jaya with the murder of his mother and attempting to kill his father at their home in Subang Jaya on Jan 20. Lim Meng Zhu was arrested on Jan 21 when he surrendered at
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        HIGHER CHARGES
        65 13 Treatment charges at the Universiti Hospital in Petafing Jaya have shot up by 150 200 per cent since it was corporatised recently, the Malaysian Trade Union Congress has said. The Star yesterday quoted MTUC president Zainal Rampak as saying that the government should look into the matter as
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        51 13 The government will monitor the prices of goods, which are expected to increase after the double celebrations, said Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Megat Junid Megat Ayob. He said the government would ensure that increases were minimal and did not affect the various narties adversely.
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        56 13 The Kelantan government will present an attractive programme to attract tourists in its visit Kelantan Year 1998 campaign, to be launched after the Han Raya festival. The Kelantan State Culture, Tourism, Youth and Snorts Committee Chairman Abdullah Yaakob said in Kota Baru that 22 events had been prepared
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        50 13 Sun picture. ROCK, a six-month-old Bengali tiger cub, simply loves to play with her keeper, Mr Awal Siddique. She is also the darling of the privately-run Bukit Jambul Orchid, Hibiscus and Reptile Garden in Penang, and visitors there cannot resist playing with her too!
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        BLOOD SHORTAGE
        59 13 Several hospitals in the country are facing a shortage of blood in view of the fasting month and the festive period and have urged donors to help supplement the deficit. The Sun yesterday quoted Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng as saying that the shortage will be felt
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        FIRE DEATHS
        50 13 Two children died in a fire at a squatter colony in Sabah that left 300 people homeless, state police said. The Star said yesterday that the fire raged through the squatter colony in the Seguntor industrial estate in Sandakan on Sunday when most of the residents were asleep.
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      159 13 THE object of their desire was sweet enough sugar. So it was push and shove all the way to get into this Bernas Mart store in Kuala Selangor when it opened on Sunday at 4 pm. The crowd had waited for hours and some people had even
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      Not enough foreign workers switching to jobs on plantations
      279 13 Not enough foreign workers switching to jobs on plantations KUALA KANGSAR The government is unhappy that only 1,000 of the 50,000 foreign workers who are supposed to be redeployed to work in estate plantations have taken up the offer, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Tajol Rosli Ghazali said. The Sun yesterday
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      Asian Aerospace show will see smaller crowds
      579 14  - Asian Aerospace show will see smaller crowds Rav Dhaliwal By But organisers are still optimistic BIG GUNS American aerospace company Lockheed Martin will take up about 500 sq m, more than 2Vfe times the 180 sq m it took at the previous show. It will build its own pavilion. American
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      B1 bomber to fly in Asian skies for first time
      339 14 FIRST ASIAN FLIGHT THE sleek American Bl bomber will take to the skies for the first time in Asia. It will be one of 15 or so aircraft taking part in the flying display m this year's Asian Aerospace show.
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      38 14 After four years smooth-flowing traffic Pictures by Hassle-free motoring: Motorists using the junctions of Holland Road/Farrer Road (right) and Bukit Timah Road/Adam Road (above) had a congestion-free drive even during the rush hour yesterday morning. TAN SUAN ANN
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      Hassle-free rush hour, thanks to 2 interchanges
      450 14  -  Karamjit Kaur By FOR the first time in more than four years, motorists using the junctions of Holland Road/Farrer Road and Bukit Timah Road/Adam Road to get to work had a hassle-free drive during the rush hour yesterday morning. Traffic from all directions
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      463 15 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) is advising contractors who need to close a lane or divert traffic on high-speed roads, induding expressways, to use a shock-absorbing device to cushion vehicles should a collision take place. Called the Truck Mounted Attenuator, the device has aluminium
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      BG Lee: Be prepared for rough economic weather ahead
      1037 15 The severe economic turbulence in the region will mean some rough times ahead, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned in a television interview on Sunday. Below are excerpts of his answers to questions on the regional currency turmoil and the
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      Student dies in car crash in new underpass
      433 16  -  Sebastian Tong By HOURS before he was to leave for further studies in Australia, Mr Jeremy Chia, 22, was killed in a car accident on Bukit Timah Road early on Sunday morning. Both he and a friend were flung out onto the
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      OTHER ACCIDENTS
      238 16 ANOTHER man died in a road accident early on Sunday morning, bringing the toll on Singapore roads to at least seven fatalities in a fortnight. Five of the fatal mishaps have happened on expressways or on expressway slip roads. In the latest crash, a 44--year-old Indian national was
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      Immediate help for needy accident victims
      360 16 ACCIDENT victims from low-income families, who need immediate help and support, can turn to the Crisis Aid Programme just formed by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Singapore. It aims to help these accident victims Eay for surgery, Hospitalisation costs, or ousehold expenses.
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      150 16 It' s a zoo up there BIRDS fly over the Chinese Garden at Jurong, tigers prowl, dragons swoop and carp swim in the sky above. The animals are giant balloons tied loosely to the ground to allow them to sway about in the air. They will float in the sky
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        POLICEMAN SHOT
        94 16 A police officer died after he was found with a gunshot wound in his head. Sergeant Lye Leong Chee, 25, was found by police inside a locked toilet cubicle of the World Trade Centre at. about 8.30 pm on Friday. He had been shot in the head. Police
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        SALE OF VIDEOS
        107 16 Businesses wishing to sell videos in temporary stalls at pasar malam and trade fairs may now apply for temporary video licences to do so, said the Board of Film Censors. This would create greater flexibility for the video business and give small enterprises some scope for selling
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        LICENCE SUSPENDED
        130 16 The licences of a food stall in dementi West and a restaurant in Far East Plaza have been suspended for two weeks by the Environment Ministry. The two food outlets had accumulated at least 12 demerit points over a 12-month period under the ministry's demerit point system. The
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        POSBANK CLOSURE
        95 16 POSBank branches will close at 3 pm today and over the three days of the Chinese New Year and Hari Raya Puasa holidays, from tomorrow to Friday. POSBank said its customers should be able to obtain cash from over 670 of its automated teller machines throughout the island
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      Scholarships to Australia being offered
      145 16 A TOTAL of 15 scholarships to selected Australian colleges and universities are on offer from the Rotary Club of Changi. The club, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is offering awards for foundation and diploma programmes, as well as undergradu- ate and postgraduate
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      Putting ideas from youngsters into practice
      599 17  -  Jason Leo w By Funds and expertise to back young people with ideas for community projects SPRUCING UP PLANS are afoot to spruce up the council's Youth Park at Somerset Road to make it a 'gathering point for young people': By June, the park
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      124 17 Clockwise, from top left: Born on Dec 30 last year and still yet to be named, this baby male pygmy hippopotamus sleeps next to his mother Mina. Zeeny, a proud mother and resident zebra in the Singapore Zoological Gardens, was conceived here six years ago.
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      Green message going to HDB heartland
      376 17 "We hope to make them realise the importance of reducing waste and encourage them to recycle things like paper, aluminium cans, glass bottles, and to buy green-label products." Mr Christopher Pang. SINGAPORE'S first group of green volunteers plans to bring the environmental message to
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      52 17 Those interested in becoming a green volunteer can call the Singapore Environment Council on 337-6062 or email secnet@singnet.com.sg 9898j Festive Opening Hours I All our stores including Kimisawa will close at 4.50 pm today and remain closed on January 28, 29 and 50. Business hours will be as usual on
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      Cuba looks elsewhere
      657 18 CUBAN President Fidel Castro was overheard telling Pope John Paul II in Havana during the papal visit last week: "I, too, your Holiness, have health problems What the communist leader most certainly did not tell the Pontiff is that, unlike the latter, his own health problems were
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    74 18 "It reminds me of the Titanic. Lots of power. Big. Sexy. Thinks he's invulnerable, like the builders of the ship. And here is this 21-year-old iceberg." Washington psychiatrist James Lieberman on US President Bill Clinton. "You cant orchestrate this stuff. You can't make it up. There tea God." Lucianne Goldberg,
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      Crisis has dented Asian pride
      766 18 Some tightening their belts but others looking for scapegoats The Economist As more people lose their jobs, and once-regular {mrchases become unaffordable, the temptation to blame breigners will become more acute. Western politicians and commentators, prone to gloat over the bankruptcy of 'Asian values', and
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      Asia will bounce back
      949 18  -  David Howell By The West has underestimated region's economic resilience and strength LONDON New depths of juvenility have been plumbed by British press commentators in their writings on the current Asian scene. The general tenor of many of these articles has been that the Asian miracle
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      144 18 CASE IN POINT The Hongkong economy is still extremely strong, with markets functioning smoothly, the dollar link solid and investment expanding. Economic activity will be boosted by large-scale infrastructure investment in rail links, port facilities and the completion of the gigantic new airport Emigration is at a 10-year low.
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      Counsel's get-Clinton mission is disturbing
      878 19  -  William Raspberry US Presidents alleged affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky By The Washington Post It ought to make us just a little nervous that Mr Starr (or anyone else) should have so much authority, backed by so much time and so much
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      1016 19  -  Janna Malamud Smith By Unfortunately, we seem to be creating a standard of IruthfuT self-disclosure for all would-be leaders that is neither socially desirable nor psychically possible. We are trying to make hard and fast rules about intimate truth-telling, and they are absurd even
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      945 20 Asian currency crisis Without firm demonstration of the c»mmitment, capacity and courage necessary for self-activated and self-reliant reforms, I am afraid that much-needed rescue funds from the international community are unlikely to be forthcoming. I REFER to the letter by Dr Augustine Tan
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      454 20 Accidents involving stationary vehicles Even the most alert driver cannot take evasive action if he is not given sufficient time to react. HAVING read your reports of yet more fatal road accidents involving stationary vehicles (ST, Jan 23 and 24), I must
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      120 20 IN YOUR Jan 24 report on an accident involving a parked vehicle on the expressway, I noticed from the picture in your newspaper that the rear end of the water-tanker was high and the car was pinned under it. This is like sliding
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      89 20 VEHICLES parked on the roadside without adequate warning signs pose a real danger to road users. In many countries, at least half a kilometre of road warning signs are laid out wherever there are obstacles ahead. Besides traffic cones, police tapes are erected as warning
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      163 20 ON MANY occasions, I have had near-collisions with emergency road-repair or tree-cut-ting crews. Often, there were insufficient warning signs for motorists to take appropriate action. Signs were placed only at the last moment when motorists would be confronted suddenly with the obstacle.
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      276 21  -  Joe Dorai SOCCER Bv FORMER Danish international Klaus Steruk has failed to come to terms with S-League newcomer Gombak United. The club was pleased with what it saw of the 27-year-old defensive midfielder but he wanted more than the maximum $6,000 salary
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      561 21 FORMER world No. 1 Andre Agassi, on a comeback trail after a disastrous last season, was stopped in his tracks by Spain's Alberto Berasategui in the fourth round of the Australian Open yesterday. The American had looked like he was cruising
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        43 21 THE Singapore Lawn Tennis Association has a new president S. Uthrapathy, who was vice-president before the recent annual general meeting, has now taken over the top post. Former tennis chief Andy Choi has opted out because of work commitments.
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      Lock icon Asian challenge all snuffed out
      279 21 ASIA'S challenge in the women's singles competition vanished as every one of the continent's players lost in the fourth round yesterday. Indonesia's Yayuk Basuki, No. 24 in the world and the highest-ranked Asian, was humiliated 0-6, 0-6 by world No. 1 Martina Hingis. Basuki was
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      SCORES AND STATISTICS
      747 21 AMERICAN FOOTBALL Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego: Broncos 31 Packers 24. ATHLETICS Karlsruhe Indoor Games (winners only) Men's 60m: Davidson Ezinwa (Nig) 6.565ec. 200m: Sergej Ossowitsch (Ukr) 20.75. 800m: Robert Chirchir (Ken) 1:45.89. 1,500m: W. Schabunin (Rus) 3:37.88 3.000m: Haile Gebrselassie (Eth) 7:26.14 (world record). 60m
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      Selangor will not play opener against Warriors
      298 21  -  S. Murali By MALAYSIA Cup champion Selangor will not play Singapore Armed Forces FC in the SLeague curtain-raiser on April4. And it has little to do with financial arrangements. Selangor will not be invited for the National Stadium game because it has agreed
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      Lock icon Williams sisters on manhunt
      167 21 THE flamboyant Williams sisters want a battle of the sexes and have challenged two male professionals. The hard-hitting pair are intent on testing their progress against the men something they do regularly at home in Florida. They strolled into the Association of Tennis Professionals office at
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      163 21 IT COULD have been Sir Cliff Richard's big day, but for once he was not singing in the rain. As hardy fans waited under umbrellas and leaking skies for play to resume at the Australian Open yesterday, the impromptu star of Wimbledon's rainy days stayed
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      Chinese coach to handle women's squad
      249 21  -  Chan Tse Chueen GYMNASTICS By WAN LJYUAN, the former coach of the Vietnamese gymnastics team, has been contracted by the Singapore Amateur Gymnastics Association (Saga) to train the national women's team. The 50-year-old Chinese from Yunnan province will work closely with na- tional women's
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      Lock icon Beckham engaged to Spice Girl Adams
      228 21 SPORTSPEOPLE Its just what I wanted and it was a big surprise/ 1 Adams, flashing her ring against a fur-trimmed bag that matched her fur-trimmed black leather coat LONDON Spice Girl Victoria Adams and England's soccer star David Beckham announced their engagement on Sunday
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      Lock icon Inter boss blasts off-form Ronaldo
      224 21 ROME Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti fired his first broadside at Ronaldo on Sunday, after the Brazilian Med yet again to find the target in a 1-1 draw with Empoli in their Serie A match. Moratti paid US$3O million (Sss3 million) for Ronaldo last summer
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      Lock icon Seasoned Martens vows to go on and on and on
      416 22  -  Shirlynn Ho-Pereira By MELANIE MARTENS would make a great advertisement for the battery mat claims to go on and on and on. Yesterday, Singapore's most popular and gifted hockey player vowed to play on and on and on. Even though
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      737 22 Minnow Stevenage stages comeback to force replay SOCCER English FA Cup LONDON Irrespective of how it fares in the replay, semi-profes-sional Stevenage Borough earned a niche in FA Cup histoiy when it held Premier League Newcastle United to a 1-1 draw at home in
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      133 22 P WDLF APts. Juventus 17 11 5 139 14 38 Inter Milan 17 11 4 232 15 37 Udinese 17 10 4 333 25 34 Lazio 17 9 4 430 15 31 Parma 17 8 5 431 19 29 Fiorentina 17 7 6 436 20 27 Sarnpdoria 17 7
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      Lock icon Man United given plum home tie in Round Five
      327 22 Man United given plum home tie in Round Five LONDON Manchester United's hopes of landing its third League and Cup double in five seasons were given a major boost on Sunday when it landed a plum home tie for the fifth round of the FA Cup. The fact that its
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      Lock icon Juve on top for first time
      231 22 ITALIAN LEAGUE ROME Juventus coach Marcello Lippi praised his side for never losmg its head after a 3-1 victory over Atalanta which took the reigning champion to the top of Serie A for the first time this season on Sunday. With the Italian championship
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      Lock icon English football clean, says official
      249 22 LONDON Premier League spokesman Mike Lee claimed on Sunday that the inquiry into illegal payments from the transfer of players proved that English football was essentially "clean". Former Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough, Ronnie Fenton, Steve Burtenshaw and Forest were all charged last week after
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      555 23 Broncos' veteran quarterback ends his winless streak in Super Bowls AMERICAN FOOTBALL SAN DIEGO It might have taken a lifetime of football to S complete the journey, but John Elway has the exclama- tion point his stellar career lacked, and Denver, the city that demanded
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      225 23 of 7:30.72 set in February 1996. The feat overshadowed a number of other strong performances at the meet, which included Ukrainian Anzhela Balachanova's 4.33m in the women's pole vault the best ever by a European. Davidson Ezinwa and Osmond Ezinwa of Nigeria took first
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      Derby undergoes changes
      423 23  -  RACING By Maicoim Bastians THE Singapore Derby, the longest race in the Republic, is to change to conform to international standards. It will be shortened from 2,400m to 2,000m and reserved only for four-year-olds, who will carry 57kg. Fillies will carry 55.5kg. The race will carry stakes
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      SATURDAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD
      549 23 2.15 RACE 1 C4 1200m (SC) 1 AdaGaya(l) Kam 57 2 Royal Assembly (3) Saifudin 56.5 3 Superquest (9) Sam 56.5 4 NurelvGold(7) 'Huzairi 55.5 5 DawnKool(s) Au 54 6 BullcreekCharm(6) Wan 53.5 7 Winning General (2) 'Sim 53 3 ShenFeng(B) Poobalan 52.5 9 RepoArchU)
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      Compassion and just punishment dished out by STC stewards
      412 23 SINGAPORE REVIEW THE no-nonsense attitude and discreet compassion as shown by the stipendiary stewards at Bukit Timah last week augured well for racegoers. Take for example jockey John Arokiasamy, who was almost caught napping aboard winner Win Master in Race 3
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      706 23 NBA BASKETBALL CHICAGO Karl Malone and the Utah Jazz did something on Sunday they could not do during last year's NBA Finals beat Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls at home. Malone collected 35 points and 11 rebounds to help send the Bulls to a
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      Lock icon Bryant set to make history
      146 23 NEW YORK Although he does not even start for his own team, Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant will take a place in the record books when he becomes the youngest starter in NBA All-Star Game history. He will be 19 years, five months old
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      Lock icon Baker-Finch calls it a day after five-year dry spell
      313 23 GOLF BRISBANE Former British Open champion lan BakerFinch announced his retirement from tour golf, ending more than five years of despair and an endless series of cuts. "I have hung up my clubs and given up serious practice," he said in
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      193 23 SCOTTSDALE (Arizona) Sweden's Jesper Parnevik lit a victory cigar walking up the 18th fairway of the TPC here on Sunday, anticipating fully his first victory on the USPGA Tour. The Swede enjoyed a threestroke lead in the Phoenix Open and his approach shot was safely on the green
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  • OBITUARIES
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      111 24 QUEK SOO KENG Age: 66 years passed away peacefully on 26th January 1998 leaving behind loved ones: WIFE: CHEONC YU CHEE SONS: DAUGHTER-IN-LAW: QUEK HONG LIAT, RICHARD FOO KIM TUAN, JANET QUEK HONG SHENG, ROY QUEK HONG CHYE, FRANCIS DAUGHTERS: SONS-IN-LAW: ANNA QUEK WONG KENG DINA
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      292 24 850 Deaths 850 Deaths EK ONKAR DHAN KAUR W/O LATE P. KISHEN SINGH GILL (Village Ghalab) AGE 83 passed away peacefully on 25. 1.98, leaving behind beloved Sons DaughtorsJnJaw Ganjh Singh Gill (USA) Sukhjlwan Kaur (USA) Harbans Singh Gill Dial Kaur Pritam Singh Gill Jaswan Kaur Daughfors Sons-in-law Jangeer Kaur
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      127 24 CHAN YOOT MEI AGE: 83 passed away peacefully on 26 January 1998, leaving behind loved ones. Son: Chan Kum Hon, Alan Daughter: Chang Bee Eng, Beatrice God-son: God Daughter-in-law: Lau Wai Cheng, Johnny Loh Sook Chan Grand-son: Leong Kong Foong, Mark Grand-Daughters: Grand Son-in-law: Leong Chee Bing Leong
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      308 24 am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in me, though he John 11:25 DR. EDWARD DUDLEY LONG AGE: 77 was called Home to be with the Lord on 25th January 1998, leaving behind loved ones: Wife: Margaret Chay Kwai Heng Sons: Daughters-in-law: David John Long Ho
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      51 24 AUM SAI RAM The Family off the late RENU BAI thanks all relatives and friends for their thoughts and kindness during their recent bereavement. Atma Shanti Pooja will be held at the Sivan Temple. Geylang East on Friday, 30th Jan at 7.30pm. Plaaaa treat this aa a personal
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      47 24 The Families of the Late Mr. Mrs. Wang Wen Han Departed on 17 Jan. 98 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives and friends, colleagues and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement.
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      41 24 The Family Of The Late GAN EE TAI Departed on 23-1-98 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, colleagues, business associates for their kind attendance, assistance, condolences, donations and wreaths during their recent bereavement.
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      151 24 MORAWAKEGEY SRIYALATHA PERERA AGE: SO Daughter of the lata Simon 81 Li»»ie Perora passed away peacefully on 25/1/98 Sadly miaaad by loved ones. Brothers: Dayananda (Piyasena, deceased) Chandrasena Sirisena (Donald) Gamini (Sonny) Sisters-in-law: Mallica Piyawathie Sallie Dorothy Janet Sisters: Somawattie Manel Brothers-in-law: Jothika Perera Eddy Fernando Nephews: Nimal
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      71 24 MARY NG SIAM KEOW Departed 23/1/98 wish to express their heartfelt thanks to: Doctors Staff of Assisi Hospice and Alexandra Hospital. Rev. Fathers Nicholas Chia, A. Renckens, Anthony Hutjes, Fabian Van Lieshout Felix Supanto. Prayer groups of St. Joseph Dying Aid, Church of Christ the King, Church of
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      98 24 The FwnHy Of The Late TAN HEE WOO Departed on 20/1/98 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, wreaths and donations during their recent bereavement. am, Uie Family of tne Late DARIUS UM MAO HAO Age.
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  • The Straits Times Money
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      HONGKONG
      310 25 January 26, 1998 HK$ ASM Pacdfc 4 35 unch AMedlndlnri 0.54 AfcedO srssa 0.30 +0.02 Asia Seem tt44 +0.03 BankorEA 13.40 +0.50 C.P Pokphand _..1.32 +0.12 CTX Hosel 2.30 +0.10 CassDeCoral 1.42 unch CashPacAir 6J» +0.50 CeMuryCSy 1.03 -0.01 Cheung Kong 37.70 +0.10 ChmaOght 42.30 +0.70 Chma Motor Bus
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      TOKYO
      344 25 January 26, 1998 YEN MM Engineering 128 +17 AdvamestCorp SS2O 4-200 MSsukoshi _444 +24 Aanomoto 1380 +60 Milsumi Elec 1980 +20 Akei Electric 183 +18 Mortnaga 183 +3 tom* 815 +55 MurataMtg 3710 70 AeehiChemlnd 570 +18 J*";---— !2£ Jich AsaNGlass 727 +83 St^T^Sl* 'SK BhoCnty-tMaubNN 1940 +70 Ngfc
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      BANK RATES
      305 25 BUSMESS LOANS Local Entorpnse Finance Scheme iLEFS) and Local Enterprise Finance Overseas Scheme (LEFSO) loans are available from 30 banks and finance houses Export Factoring 1 year 3 I V Domestic Factonng 1 year 6 1 Equpment and Factory loans up to 4 years 6 Equ^xnent and Factory
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      CRUDE & PRODUCT PRICES
      77 25 CRUDE PRODUCT PRICES CRUDE. PROOUCT MONTH* CHANGE PRICE (US$) BBL BRENT BLEND Fab -011-011 1474-1479 WEST TEXAS Uterm Feb -0 32 0.32 15.56 15 60 DUBAI FATEH Mar -025-0.25 12.55 12 60 TAW BLENO Feb -0 20-020 15 15 15.25 MMAS Feb -020 -0.20 13.90— 14 00 KAPMTHA (Of Jap)
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      Lock icon KL stocks rise on investment hopes
      98 25 OVERSEAS MARKETS ROUND-UP MALAYSIA'S key stock index gained for the first time in three days after comments last week by Morgan Stanley Asset Management chairman Barton Biggs raised hopes that foreign investors may be returning. The benchmark 100-stock Composite Index rose 10.94 points, or
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      Lock icon HONGKONG
      129 25 Hongkong stocKs rose tor a second day, as Bank of East Asia rallied 3.9 per cent after reporting a 10.8 per cent rise in 1997 net profit, in line with expectations. Hongkong's third-biggest listed bank's profit report followed disappointing results by International Bank of Asia on Friday. Banks are
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      OVERSEAS INDICES
      36 25 Jen 26 Change KL Composite 569.51 +10.94 Hang Seng 8973 86 +53.66 Nikkei Average *****.33 +284.22 Australian All-Ord Dow Jones (Fri) *****4 -30.14 FTSEIOO(Fri) 5181.40 —71.70 Jakarta Composite 471.71 +20.73 Thailand SET 424.51 +164
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      96 25 Japanese stocks rallied yesterday on hopes for further government action to bolster tne economy while the yen got a boost against the dollar from the sex scandal engulfing US President Bill Clinton. The Nikkei Stock Average closed the session up 284.22 points at 17,073.33, rising above the 17,000 line
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      Lock icon JAKARTA
      100 25 Indonesia's benchmark stock index rose to its highest since Nov 7 as shares of government-controlled phone companies PT Telkom and PT Indosat surged. The rally took place as investors took advantage of the difference between the companies' dollar-denominated American Depository Receipts that trade in New York and its rupiah
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      Lock icon BANGKOK
      62 25 Thai share prices closed 0.4 per cent higher yesterday in lacklustre trade amid selected buying in blue-chip banking stocks, analysts said. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index ended 1.64 points firmer at 424.51, while the SET-50 index added 0.22 point to 31.67. AFP THE Australian Stock Exchange was
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      GOLD PRICES
      101 25 SINGAPORE Physical (Ss) Fri Mon Kilobar *****-*****26 *****-*****.81 100 gm 1647—1725.25 1689-1769.54 50 gm 825-868.29 846-889.92 20 gm 329-^353.29 337—361 53 5 gm 82—95.79 84—97 85 1 gm 16-2575 17-2678 Bullion coins (Ss/oz) S'pore bullion coin 525-531 541—547 Canadian maple leaf 525-531 541-547 Australian nugget 526—550.02 540-564 44
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      CURRENCY
      171 25 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to on* unit of foreign currency Buying 00 Selling USdollar 1.7305 ***** Starting pound 2.8901 2.9939 Australian dollar 1.1498 ***** Canadian dollar 1.1836 1.2241 NZdollar 1.0040 1.0505 EC unit ***** Singapore dollar* to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 13 7252 14.5003 Belgianfranc 4.6991
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      SICOM FUTURES
      295 25 January 26, 1998 Rubber Futures (Closing prices) RSS I Contrad Tonnes (S cents/kg) Month High Low Sett Vol Open Int Feb 98 137.00 150 Mar 138.25 300 Apr 140.50 4000 May 142.75 4225 Jun 144.75 3700 Jul/Sep 158.00 156.00 ***** 450 4845 RSS 3 Contract (US cents/kg) Feb
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      ASIAN CURRENCY UNITS
      112 25 contract gate: January go, jjwg ONE 3 6 9 12 VALUE UWT MTH MTH MTH WITH MTH CALL DATE US$ 5 5 5 s'/,, s'/,, 4V, 6 2/2/98 A$ 4% 4H 4% 4 3 /ti 4% 3H 2/2/98 NZ$ B'/„ 8H T% TVk 7V. n. 2/2/98 STG
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      TIN
      11 25 Closing prices (MS/kilo) KL Tin $23.10 (-0.33) Turnover 120 (+2B)
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      KUALA LUMPUR
      3318 25 Transaction Date: January 26, 1998 I 1 ®Adju«tedtornewl«auea; Par 55 MBl unl—a otharwlee apedfled; P/E rattoe are not adjueted tor currency dWlarencea. 1998 Last Vol Net High Low Company Sale (000) P/E INDUSTRIALS Consumer Products 245 180 Ajinomoto 238 28 1 132 106 73 Angkasa 89 4 16
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      CLOB INTERNATIONAL
      1727 25 Transaction Date: January 26. 1998 1997 98 Curr Last Vol Day Div Net M Cap High Low Company Traded Sale +or- '000 High Low P/E $mil 478 28 m s AISB 50c 06 +1.5 961 90 82.5 5.0 39.3 88.2 137 12 5 m s AMDS 50c 20.5
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      SILVER
      20 25 Closing prices (USS/voy <a) Singapore 5.800-5810 5970-5.990 Thu Fri New York 5 790— 5.800 5.950— 5 970 Source, fktfiscnk)
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      SIMEX FUTURES
      373 25 January 26, 1998 Brent Crude Open High Low Sett Est Vol Mar 98 14.74 0 Apr 1488 0 May 1508 0 Act Vd (Fri): 54. Open Int (Fri): 760. Spot US Dollar/Japanese Yen Open High Low Sett EstVol Mar 98 126 72 126 72 ***** ***** 0 Act
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      PALM OIL
      36 25 Crude petal ott (Ml/tonne) Feb 98 2.550.00 (South) IMned petal 08 (USSrtonne) RSDPatnOtf Feb 98 587.50 (setter) Mar 582.50 (setter) RBOOlem Feb 98 595.00 (setter) Mar 587.50 (setter) RBO Steam Mar 98 535.00 (setter)
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      HOTELS
      230 26 1997/98 Curr Last Vol Day Gr't Net MCapWtAvg High Low Company Traded Sale +or- 000 High Low Div% P/E $mil Price 378 12S e ANA Hotels 130 160 62.3 134 94 5 59.5 Alliance Tech 60 22.2 49.5 62 155 70 ml Apollo 85 31.5 8 7.2 83 4000
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      SESDAQ
      816 26 1997/98 Curr Last Vol Day Gr's Net MCapWtAvg High Low Company Traded Sale +or- 000 High Low Div P/E Smil Price 186 76 eABRHIdgsSc 115 30 164.3 S1.1 113 448 76 e AS Auto 10c 150 +6 287 155 144 15.0N 12.5 171.3 142 129 48.5 eASJHidgs20c 50 +1
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      PROPERTIES
      257 26 169 115 AuttralandASOc A 130 7.5 377.5 3160 745 mt BSembawang 755 unch 22 760 750 35.0 5.5 181.2 76S 146 39 mt BonvwtsSOc 45 -1 16 46.5 45 6.0 4.2 95.1 46 1900 1000 mt C Properties 1120 70.0 16.5 336.0 1398 252 85 mt CentrepointSOc 102 cd
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      INDICES
      71 26 January 26 Change ST Industnals 1256 30 -3.53 ST Finance 2403.73 -12 75 ST Hotels 1542 94 +1.37 ST Properties ***** —6 95 BT Composite 1080 37 +3 43 BT-MGA ***** +3.64 BT-SRI 563.67 +220 BT 08/OS +304 +271 BT CADI -***** +56 BT 06V +*****34 +*****2 DBS CPF
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      SCOREBOARD
      63 26 MAIN CLOB Up Dn Unch Up Dn Unch Industrial 77 61 37 40 8 4 Finance 10 13 4 11 0 3 Hotels 6 2 13 0 0 Properties 4 9 1 16 0 3 Plantations 0 0 0 6 3 0 Mining 0 0 0 10 1 BLW
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    • MARKET REPORT
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        Lock icon Chinese New Year rally stays elusive
        332 26 THE usual Chinese New Year rally failed to materialise yesterday as institutional investors were sidelined ahead of the three-day holiday. Uncertainty over US President Bill Clinton's political future in the tight of the latest sex scandal helped Asian currencies firm against the greenback yesterday,
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      TOP ACTIVES
      33 26 Renong Bhd 50c 14,106,000 Rekapacific Bh 6,426,000 SingTel 15c 5,266,000 Keppel Landsoc 5,052,000 MBf Capital 4,695,000 STEngglOc 4,160,000 Wing Tai 25c 4,156,000 City Dev 50c 4,017,000 Promet 3,988,000 UOB Foreign 3,787,000
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      TURNOVER (READY)
      47 26 Total Market Mon Fri Industrials 85.849m *****9m Finance 25.547m 32.843m Hotels 2.842m 2 251m Properties 27.131m 35.208m LoansStocks 11.021m 10.214m Plantations 3.600m 4.623m Mining 923,000 717,000 Total volume 156.914m 258.885m Total value in S$ 260.849m 600 553m Sesdaq volume 4.948m 4.694m Nasdaq volume Nil Nil
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      BONDS LOANS & WARRANTS
      1669 26 BONDS LOANS WARRANTS All shares quoted have par value of $1 unless otherwise specified, bi trading in this stock is restarted to buying-in market only. Adjusted for scrip/rights. N Tax-exempted dividend. P/E ratios reflect the last annual p— amam results. P/E ratios and Gr Vld of foreign chares are adjusted
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      UNIT TRUSTS
      681 26 Mgrs Prices, January 27 Aberdeen Asset Hot Asia Ltd Keppel Basic Fd» 0710-0745 Schrodsr Spore Trust 086-090* Aberdeen S'pora GrFund 0818-0861" Keppel Onentrusi Fd 0.695-0730 Schroder Wwide Property 085-0896 Aberdeen Select Portfolio (stNAV) Keppel New Equit Gr Fo 0.850-0890 Schroder Gkxai Em Fo 113-119* Asian Fixed Income Fund
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      Lock icon Confidence in Japan's Finance Ministry shaken further
      512 27 Two officials charged with taking bribes from banks TOKYO Public trust in Japan's Finance Ministry, dented by years of alleged policy missteps, took a fresh blow yesterday when prosecutors arrested two of its bureaucrats on charges of bribe-tak-ing from major banks. The latest
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      Lock icon Compaq buys Digital for $17b
      235 27 NEW YORK Compaq Computer Corp has agreed to acquire Digital Equipment Corp Tor a combination of cash ana stock worth US$9.6 billion (5516.8 billion) in the biggest acquisition in the history of the computer industry, the companies said yesterday. Compaq, which manufactures personal computers, will
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      Lock icon Weak Asian demand slows down PC sales growth to 15%
      589 27 MOUNTAIN VIEW (California) Worldwide personal computer (PC) shipments rose about 15 per cent last year, less than expected, as the popularity of cheap computers was not enough to offset declines in Japan and disappointing growth in Asia, according to two
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      Lock icon Toshiba to farm out production to Taiwan companies
      366 27 TOKYO Toshiba Corp yesterday said it will consign eventually about 2 per cent of its computer microchip production to Taiwan companies, following in the footsteps of Fujitsu and Mitsubishi Electric. It is cheaper to have the semiconductors the brains and memories of
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      Lock icon Global telecoms pact to take effect from Feb 5
      361 27 GENEVA An agreement by 72 countries to increase international competition in the US$BOO billion (Ssl.4 trillion) global telecommunications market will come into force on Feb 5, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said in a statement. The date, proposed by Japan and
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      Lock icon New Intel chip is 10% faster
      204 27 SANTA CLARA (California) Intel Corp said it will introduce a new processor for personal computers that is 10 per cent faster than its fastest chip and later this year will unveil processors that target specific market segments. Intel's newest chip, a 333--megahertz Pentium II
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        Lock icon BNP AWAITS WORD
        77 27 Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) is awaiting a response from liquidators to its offer to take over the flagship Hongkong and China equity arms of the failed investment bank Peregrine Investments Holdings. "There has been no progress. We don't know when a decision will be taken and
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        Lock icon NORTHWEST'S ALLIANCE
        88 27 Northwest Airlines Corp said it will buy 14 per cent of Continental Airlines Inc shares and form an alliance, allowing both airlines to compete with larger rivals. Minneapolis-based Northwest, the nation's fourth largest airline, will buy 5.26 million shares Continental shares and warrants to purchase 3.04 million shares
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        Lock icon AT&T DOES WELL
        65 27 AT&T Corp yesterday posted better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings despite flat revenues as the nation's largest long-distance company benefited from its cost cutting efforts. AT&T reported fourth-quarter income from continuing operations of U551,323 billion (552.32 billion) or 81 US cents a share on a diluted basis, compared with
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        Lock icon BILLION-DOLLAR BUY
        75 27 Dalgety PLC said it has sold its Food Ingredients division for £335 million (Ss9Bs million) m cash to Kerry Group pic and plans to return a major part of the proceeds to shareholders. The company said the food ingredients and Spillers flour milling operations are to be acquired
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        Lock icon CLUB MED CUTS PRICES
        71 27 Club Mediterranee SA will cut prices by an average of 5 per cent to boost attendance at its holiday resorts after a record loss in 1997, a company director said in Paris. The official confirmed reports that the company will incur a 1.3 billion franc loss
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      Lock icon Tie-up with Fujitsu a boost for Sony
      203 27 TOKYO Sony Corp's semiconductor alliance with Fujitsu will provide Sony with a badly needed technological edge in the development of chips for use in next-genera-tion consumer appliances, analysts said yesterday. They said the alliance, which was announced last week, was a boost for
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      Delifrance chalks up 22% rise in interim earnings to $5m
      403 29  -  Yeow Pei Un By SembCorp lifts stake in cafe chain to 76.1% CAFE chain Delifrance Asia yesterday reported a 22 per cent increase in half-time net profit to $5 million. And hot on the heels of that news, diversified shipping
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      Lock icon L&M requests for trading suspension
      380 29 SPECIALIST contractor L&M Group Investments yesterday asked for trading in its shares and warrants to he suspended pending an announcement A local bank's institutional dealer said the move could be related to a change of control in the mainboard-listed company. L&M officials declined to comment.
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    • COMPANIES IN BRIEF
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        DBS BANK OFFICIAL RESIGNS
        56 29 DBS Bank senior executive vice-president Oliver Tan Kok Kheng has tendered his resignation, the bank said in a statement yesterday. Mr Tan has been on part-time employment since Jan 1, 1996. Before that, he was on no-pay leave between September 1994 and December 1995. Today will
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        MAINBOARD DEBUT
        37 29 Shares and warrants of Freight Links Express, Kian Ho Bearings and Super Coffeemix will be listed on the mainboard of the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) next Monday, the SES said in circulars released yesterday.
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        KHONG GUAN UPS PROFIT
        151 29 Khong Guan Flour Milling has reported group net profit surged to $3.3 million for the six months ended Oct 31, 1997, from iust $36,000 in the previous interim period, helped by an investment income of $17.3 million. Turnover fell 55 per cent to $24.5 million. Khong
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        VICKERS RAISES STAKE
        51 29 Stockbroker Vickers Ballas Holdings said yesterday it had bought a further 2.25 million snares in its Indonesian associate PT Vickers Ballas Tamara for $1.7 million, raising its stake to 50 per cent from 35 per cent It paid about $1.7 million to Singapex Investments for the additional
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        Lock icon ADVICE ON RENONG OFFER
        159 29 Auditors Arthur Andersen yesterday advised shareholders of United Engineers (Malaysia) Bhd (UEM) to accept an offer of a put option on Renong Bhd shares made by Renong chairman Halim Saad. UEM said in November it had acquired a 32.6 per cent stake in Renong comprising 723
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        ASEAN FUNDS' LOSSES
        131 29 Asean Supreme Fund yesterday reported a US$3l.6 million (5555.3 million) loss for the six months ended Oct 31, 1997, compared to a profit of US$3Ol,OOO for the period from July 10, 1996 to Oct 31, 1996 as a result of the sharp fall in equity prices and
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      Stamford in the red on forex losses, fire
      235 29 Stamford in the red on f orex losses, fire THE regional financial turmoil and a warehouse fire sent Stamford Tyres' interim results into the red to the tune of $5.7 million, against a $1.1 million net profit for the same period a year ago. Turnover was also lower, tumbling 19
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      Lock icon Hour Glass confident of growth amid Asian turmoil
      317 29 THE Hour Glass, Singapore's luxury watch-seller, will stay profitable despite a retail slump made worse by Asia's currency crisis, managing director Jannie Tay said yesterday. We might be down but not out We will still be profitable," Ms Tay told Reuters in
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      F&N gets nod for Viet venture
      279 29 FRASER Neave (F&N) subsidiary, Co-ca-Cola Indochina, has been granted an investment licence to set up a US$25 million (5543.8 million) joint venture in Danang, Vietnam, to produce soft drinks. F&N company secretary lan MacLean said it was in the process of forming the joint-venture
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      Ekran subsidiary Wembley faces winding up petition
      340 29  -  Douglas Wong By Wembley has been embroiled in legal action to recover a M5129.7 million shortfall arising from an investment guarantee agreement. MALAYSIA'S fisted Wembley Industries, one of the Ekran Bhd subsidiaries involved in the deferred Bakun dam project, is facing a winding
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      Lion Teck Chiang in China telecom project
      254 29 MAINBOARD-LISTED Lion Teck Chiang yesterday said it had incorporated a new whol-ly-owned subsidiary, LTC West-Link Pte Ltd, to invest in a $52 million mobile phone project in the Chinese province of Shaanxi. LTC West-Link has taken a 49 per cent stake worth $16.3
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      TOP RISES (C)
      49 30 Cents Creative T 25c 3440 50 1.5 SPH Foreign 2210 50 2.3 lnchMotorsoc 184 24 15.0 Gentingssoc 430 20 4.9 OCBC Foreign 720 15 2.1 OUE 280 12 4.5 Straits Trdg 159 12 8.2 JMHUS2Sc4OO 420 10 2.4 Dovechem 85 10 13.3 UMW 96 8 9.1
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      TOP RISES (%)
      49 30 TOP RISES Cents UEWt9B 1.5 50.0 0.5 M Mosaics WtOl 23.5 38.2 6.5 HawParWt9B 10 25.0 2 Frt Links Wt99 12.5 19.0 2 LiangCourtWt 6.5 18.2 1 Multi-PWt9B 6.5 18.2 1 BerjayalWt99 20 17.6 3 PalmcoHldgs 35 16.7 5 Broadway 20c 14.5 16.0 2 Pan Paciftc2sc 45 15.4 6
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      542 30  -  Kalpana Rashiwala By Buyers can choose units when applying THE remaining 211 Yew Mei Green executive condominium (EC), units are to be sold on a first-come, first-served basis from late February or early March. Developer NTUC Choice Homes said buyers will be
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      404 30 THE Indonesian rupiah held its ground along with many other Asian currencies yesterday as a holiday mood set in and the greenback lost a bit of colour along with rising concerns over President Bill Clinton's ability to ride out the crisis over his
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      446 30 KUALA LUMPUR Malayan Banking Bhd, Malaysia's largest bank, said first-half net profit dropped a greater-than-expected 29 per cent, and warned that fiscal 1998 earnings will also be down from a year earlier. Maybank, as the company is known, said it earned a
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      66 27 Results of tender for iljle book-entry Government Bond 1998 due 1 February 2003 be issued on 2 February 1998 Tenor approx. 5 years Amount Offered Allotted *****,000,000 Amount Applied 551 ,502,369,000 Interest/Coupon Rate 4.125% p.a. Average Yield Price on Allotment 4.22% p.a. and 99.576% I Cut-off Yield and Price 4.35%
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      54 28 Ekran boss in the news Ekran Bhd boss Ting Pek Khiing is facing a winding-up petition against listed Wembley Industries, a 3-per-eent-i* owned unit of Ekran. t Ong Beng Seng selling again Bock Lock Slew Cracks are showing up in Hongkong's usually-prudent financial regulations. TheßusinessTimes S I N (i A
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      441 28  -  Derwin Pereira DEEPENING CRISIS By in Jakarta PRESIDENT Suharto yesterday asked the Australian government to issue export credit guarantees so that Indonesia could continue importing from Australia. Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer disclosed this to reporters after a 45 minute meeting with
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      408 28 RIGHT STEPS NEEDED SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew does not expect a dramatic political revolution in Indonesia because of the country's financial crisis, but has warned that if the right steps are not taken and the economy deteriorates, there could be
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      231 28 STYMIED WASHINGTON A fresh initiative launched by Washington to improve the global financial system in response to Asia's financial crisis has been stymied by a lack of new ideas and a lukewarm response from some key allies. Now the pressure is on US
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      165 28 TOP AUDIT JAKARTA The Indonesian government, with financial aid from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), plans to hire the world's six largest accounting firms to audit 120 privatelyheld Indonesian banks in a bid ta rebuild the country's banking industry, The Asian Wall
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      524 28 VAST INFLOW KUALA LUMPUR US Ambassador to Malaysia John Malott has come up with a Eroposal which he says will ring in automatically a vast flow of US dollars into Malaysia allow American companies to invest in the domestic
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      350 28 STRATEGY UNCHANGED SYDNEY ANZ Bank will not change its strategy despite becoming the first Australian financial victim of the Asian currency crisis in a lowering of its credit rating, a senior Dank official said yesterday. Australia New Zealand Bank Group Ltd chief
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      69 28 picture. Filipinos crowding a lottery betting station, hoping to become instant millionaires by winning tne jacKpot pnze of 150 million pesos (553.5 million) on Saturday. More and more people are trying their luck in tne national lottery as the only way to achieve the dream of
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        100 28 Thailand's Deputy Finance Minister Pichet Punvichartkul said the finance ministry will present a package to the Cabinet today, aimed at boosting the year to September 1998 budget revenue by 60 billion baht (Ss2.l billion). He said the measures include a cut of 30 billion baht in foreign currency
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        55 28 Ministers of the G7 group of industrial nations are likely to agree next month to intervene in foreign exchange markets to support the yen, Britain's Independent newspaper reported yesterday. The G7 was likely to aim for a range of 120 yen to 125 yen to the US
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        56 28 Daihatsu Motor Co, one of Japan's largest makers of mini-vehicles, said it will cut output by hall in Malaysia as part of efforts to cope with the economic crisis in Asian countries. The Osaka-based car maker will cut production of mini-cars vehicles with 660cc engines to 43,000 in
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        120 28 Indonesia's Ministry of Finance will discuss efforts to reform and restructure the nation's banking system at a press conference at 8 am Jakarta time today, the ministry said in a statement. Jakarta bankers expect the government will raise the minimum capitalisation requirement for banks to as high as
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        101 28 Air freight forwarders affected by the ringgit's decline said further rises in freight rates may push companies to ship out cargo via Singapore, The Sun reported. "Malaysia Airlines is the main culprit instigating other carriers to increase their rates when they should be supporting us," the chairman
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        113 28 Merrill Lynch Co is still reviewing a plan to buy branches of failed Yamaichi Securities Co and set up a retail brokerage in Japan, the company's Japanese subsidiary said. "However, at this point, no final decision has been made because a number of significant technical and infrastructure
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        59 28 Outbound travel from Thailand has slumped more than 80 per cent because of the country's economic crisis, travel industry sources were quoted yesterday as saying. "The outbound travel business is dying," Mr Anant Sirisan of the Association of Thai Travel Agents told the Nation daily. "More than 80
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        50 28 Motorola Inc officials have met executives of Total Access Communication (TAC) to discuss the possibility of buying a stake in the Thai telecom firm, reports said yesterday. Motorola was investigating swapping its debt for equity in Thailand's second biggest cellular phone operator, the Nation daily reported. AFP
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        353 1 Irene Ng I cannot sympathise with able-bodied Sugars W^d m& fl^l fl flfl Hfl |fnfl I I II fl I I Wh I i i^Vm^^i^H f fll' fl n'PnMMR Ijr^"* aa Ijmm t aam aaam aaa&ArmWml I ®i!"3fla^L ,a, j I l[*fl Alan lam: IhhIIIIHm /a wynner in j^^ •x'x*^^%^iaMß^-J
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        1445 2  -  REBECCA LIM CAREY-INGONONHEROWN in Taipei 'Everything that I have gone through has an impact on me as a person It made me gravitate even more to music 'cos it made me feel special instead of different in a bad way/ Mariah Carey,
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        680 2 PERHAPS the frost had gotten to Mariah Carey. Her performance at Taipei's Municipal Stadium in Taipei on Saturday night was as lifeless and soul-less as the dead of winter. About 30,000 people had braved the chilly winds and temperatures
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        79 2 GENEVE -—^f" jEI ■flB^?9 i^flflflflfll IflflV "'^Bflfl^fllv^flr^flfll I Ammmmmmmm^t^^SS/mVtJ^knf^ gU'. S^^^^V^ »HAPPY DIAMONDS Bijoux Available at leading jewellers worldwide. IN SINGAPORE Chopanl Boutique, 435 Orchard Road no. 02-36, Wisma Atria, Tel. 65/737 64 51, Fax 65/235 82 00. Dickson shops: The Promenade, Centrepoint, Suntec City Cortina shops: Lucky Plaza, Millenia
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        549 3  -  CHIN SOO FANG Alan Tam owns so many companies that he cannot remember how many HONGKONG singer Alan Tarn has always had the entrepreneurial spirit in him. Way back when he was with pop group Wynners more than 20 years ago, he
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        430 3  -  CHIN SOO FANG NO MATTER how big a star she is, it seems Anita Mui keeps singing the same tune. "Women need love no matter how successful they are," she said to reporters on Friday with a dreamy smile. "Men, their
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        232 3 ORCHARD CINELEISURE, where Star East is opening in July, is already home to Celebrities Asia, which seems to be working on a similar concept. Launched by famous Chinese TV chef Martin Yan, Singaporean movie producer and writer Chua Lam, and stars such
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        Hard lesson on jobs and skills
        1112 4 Britain hit by social tragedy created by a mix of unemployment, hopelessness, dole and other government benefits and fraud London Letter Irene Ng THE man, glowering in the shadows, rasps out as I race by: "Any change, please?" His tone is low, surly. He
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        452 4 SECURITY industry experts are betting that Ms Linda Tripp's clandestine taping of conversations with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky will be a big boon to the audio surveillance business. It should be as good for the business as the case of Boston au pair
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        272 4 THE HOUSE OF LIM GARFIELD W;} mW^S^ W,TH P COMMUNAL! I ...IT PROMOTES A SENSE OF UNITV WITHIN I |0F COURSE, THEN WOULD, CHILD. I DON'T THINK! I I I LOOKS LIKE mod WU PONT EATIN6 PRftCTICS DURING OUR REUNION DINNER,] THE MB L J THERE'S ftwto IN THAT PROFESSION
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        1182 5 ADVERTISEMENT The Okinawa Economic Mission Formulating Scenarios for Economic Self-reliance from Fresh Points of View The Okinawa Economic Mission, sponsored by Okinawa Prefecture, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., was held from August 28 to December 15,1997. The mission focused on studying concrete policies
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        1020 6 It took a while to put aside reservations and become involved in this new digital religion with its arcade-quality screen display Software Roundup FrancteChin MONSTER 30 (Diamond Multimedia) VOODOO, claimed to heal the sick and even raise the dead, is now injecting
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        244 6 VIPER V330 Diamond Multimedia IF YOU are not particular over arcade-quality game play but need high-resolu-tion display, Diamond Multimedia's Viper V330 is the card of choice. The card offers 128-bit acceleration on Windows. (To calculate the amount of data that the Viper
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        Slater has hard time with Hard Rain
        585 7  -  KELVIN TONG in Los Angeles CHRISTIAN SLATER was trying to come up with a metaphor to describe his character in his latest action thriller, Hard Rain. After staring at his fingernails with a maniacal smile on his face for what seemed like an
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        WORK MAKES WAY FOR BABY
        51 7 Kim Basinger gave up making movies more than a year ago to bring up daughter Ireland. Following the birth of her baby Lourdes, Madonna now sees herself as a mother first. Michelle Pfeiffer cut back on her workload to be with her adopted daughter Claudia
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        Lock icon Bond girl Hatcher takes break to bond with daughter
        641 7  -  Teri Hatcher TERI HATCHER is turning her back on acting just as she was about to break into the Hollywood big league, and all for the sake of her baby daughter. Best known as Lois Lane in the TV version of
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        Godzilla all set to eat up Hollywood
        1113 8 IF YOU think James Cameron pulled off movie magic by restoring the sunken Titanic to its maiden glory, prepare yourself for another ambitious illusion this year. With Godzilla, director Roland Emmerich will try to turn cheese into gold Yes, Japan's infamous B-movie monster,
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        Feast for the literary-minded
        224 8 IF YOUR movie tastes run towards literary fere, you are in luck. Tasteful filmmakers continued to raid the library for material and have come up with a pageant of wellbred dramas, both costume and contemporary, most of them directed by foreign filmmakers with international, Englishspeaking casts.
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        539 8 ACTORS learn to act by acting and by taking acting classes. But how do aspiring playwrights learn to write plays? For a few talented college playwrights, the WordBridge workshop at Eckerd College in St Petersburg, Florida, has become the place where they can develop their
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        279 9 At the nursery, plants are loaded into containers and driven CHOOKEYUN PMMB by L4U FOOK KON6 Cr*M MA EAST FLORA, Thomson tr seasons lime plants the most popular as they are hardy and more long-lasting. Also, people buy them because they believe that the plant will
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        712 9  -  LEONG WENG KAM Bargain-hunting art lovers snap up Chinese ink-and-brush paintings and calligraphy being offered at New Year festival market Everyday People 'TEN dollars going once, $10 going twice, $10 gone," shouted 22-year-old Raymond Lim through a microphone at a roadside stall selling Chinese ink-and-brush
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        273 9 Malay Made Easy Derivative Nouns Derivative nouns can be formed in several ways, namely by putting a) prefix pe b) suffix an c) affix pe an d) affix per an e) affix ke an a) The prefix pe can be attached to some nouns, verbs and a few adjectives. Examples
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        550 9  -  TUMINAH SAPAWI ALMOST a quarter of a century after the death of the legendary Malay hero, P. Ramlee, his movies still command a huge following. This includes the younger generations who were born after his time. Says a 17-year old teenager: "He was a
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        223 20 THE Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has been voted the most popular album of all time in a British survey. The landmark 1967 recording easily topped a Music Of The Millennium poll of 36,000 record buyers conducted for a television channel
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