The Straits Times, 31 December 1999
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Title Section24 1999-12-31 1 The Straits Times r* nCIHy December 31, 1999 168 Pages in eight parts mita (P) 034/12/1999 iV A Singapore Press Holdings publication \J\J Cents24 words
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602 1999-12-31 1 M. NIRMALA - Teachers to get fast, frequent promotions M. NIRMALA Immediate pay rise for some under adjusted salary scales; engineering graduates to get higher starting pay s*. EXTRA EDITION TOMORROW: Watch out for two editions of The Straits Times on Day One of the new millennium. We will be publishing a late602 words
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Article, Illustration82 1999-12-31 1 Head bowed, each punter scrutinises his Toto slip to see if his is the one with the magical combination of numbers that spells $10.5 million. Dozens gathered at Singapore Pools' office in InternationalPlaza yesterday to witness the draw, which began at 5.30 pm. Within 10 minutes,AZIZ HUSSIN - 82 words
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Article408 1999-12-31 1 DOUGLAS WONG - DOUGLAS WONG IN KUALA LUMPI'R INVESTORS biting their nails as today's deadline loomed for the transfer of Clob shares to Malaysian authorities received a lifeline yesterday from Malaysia's Prime Minister. Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad said that Malaysia may extend the temporary nominee status of408 words
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PRIME NEWS
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Article, Illustration532 1999-12-31 2 Hijack Day 7: A good day of negotiations' Exchange of hostages for prisoners raised, Afghan minister says, but key question is: Where will hijackers go? KANDAHAR The Afghan Foreign Minister yesterday raised the possibility of an exchange of hostages for imprisoned Kashmiri militants as the hijacking of an Indian AirlinesAFP; AP; Reuters - 532 words
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259 1999-12-31 2 Three days of clashes on Halmahera had left 265 people dead. At least 360 buildings wefe razed. JAKARTA Fresh ethnic and religious clashes erupted in Indonesia's ravaged Maluku Islands yesterday, raising the death toll from almost a week of fighting to at leastReuters; AFP; AP - 259 words
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239 1999-12-31 2 LONDON An intruder stabbed former Beatle, George Harrison, four times in the chest in a pre-dawn attack at his home near London yesterday. A police spokesman said Harrison, 56, was in hospital in a stable condition after fighting off the intruder at his home in Henley-on-Thames.Reuters - 239 words
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Article44 1999-12-31 2 IN OUR report, Panpac deeper in the red at halftime, on Wednesday, we used a file picture which is no longer valid. Three magazines FHM, car and etc now belong to Emap Singapore. We are sorry for the error.44 words
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Article, Illustration521 1999-12-31 3 CHANG AI- LIEN - CHANG AI-LIEN SINGAPORE Y2K nerve centre swings into action Working round-the-clock to monitor glitches worldwide, the Y2K team here, will keep Singapore updated on what, if anything, goes wrong B'l "WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS FOR THE PUBLIC NOT TO MISINTERPRET NORMAL GLITCHES AND ASSOCIATE THEM WITH Y2K."AP - 521 words
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243 1999-12-31 3 BRITAIN NO FEAR IN SINGAPORE SHOPPERS in Singapore need not fear a similar glitch because banks do not use Racal swipe-machines. The Association of Banks in Singapore said all creditcard equipment have been tested and found Y2K compliant. The Monetary Authority ofAP; AFP - 243 words
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Article, Illustration596 1999-12-31 4 DENNIS CHAN - DENNIS CHAN That is double last year's figure and creates 50 billion-dollar firms, and... bull party is not over yet, analysts say *L AMID all the New Years Eve revellers popping bottles of champagne tonight, corporate chiefs have more reason than most toST GRAPHICS - 596 words
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253 1999-12-31 4 Unpaid $58bill cripples Hotmail sendee LOS ANGELES- Microsoft Corporation, the software giant worth an estimated USS6OO billion (***** billion), said on Wednesday its free e-mail service had been partially crippled because it forgot to pay a US$35 bill. Some users of Microsoft's Hotmail service were unable to access their accountsReuters - 253 words
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WORLD
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Article, Illustration41 1999-12-31 6 Everything tasted good and so I ate "Every year I seemed to gain a few more kilograms. I ate everything that tasted gooa and oecause pretty much everything tasted good to me, I consumed incredible amounts of food." REUTERSREUTERS - 41 words
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704 1999-12-31 6 Germany's Foreign Minister reveals that after his wife left, he cut out fatty food, took up jogging and lost 37 kg BERLIN He was fat and flabby, ate four big meals a day, drank countless bottles of wine, lost his breath walkingReuters - 704 words
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Article, Illustration47 1999-12-31 6 Midnight jogging clears my nead There is no better way to clear your head. I used to head for the bars after a long, hard day, but now I know that I can find relaxation running for an hour on half-empty streets at midnight." REUTERSREUTERS - 47 words
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PEOPLE
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Article, Illustration202 1999-12-31 9 Eye damage maybe permanent BAD NEWS FOR KUMARATUNGA LONDON Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga said she has been toll by doctors she is likely to be permanently blind in one eye following a suicide bomb attack. "Medically, the doctors say I can carry on, but probably I have lost theAFP; REUTERS - 202 words
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Article121 1999-12-31 9 MEXICO CITY When exiled former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari visits his homeland, he seems to rattle the country literally. He returned to Mexico from his home in Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday to visit relatives for the third time this year. And for the thirdAP - 121 words
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Article, Illustration82 1999-12-31 9 LONDON Notorious child killer Myra Hindley, 57, is back in jail after being released from hospital on Wednesday. She was taken to hospital on Tuesday after failing ill in her cell, although details of the sickness have not been released. Since 1966, she hasAFP - 82 words
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73 1999-12-31 9 BUENOS AIRES An Argentine judge has indicted Victoria Henao, 39, the widow of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar for allegedly running a gang which laundered drug money. He froze US$lO million (Ssl7 million) of her assets. He also indicted her son, Juan Pablo, 22,Reuters - 73 words
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Article65 1999-12-31 9 Mrs Tipper Gore, the wife of US Vice-President Al Gore, left John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, some 24 hours after having undergone surgery to remove a lump in her thyroid gland. Sarkis Soqhanalian, an international arms dealer convicted of smuggling high-technology weapons to Iraq and labelled a "Merchant of65 words
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Article50 1999-12-31 9 Quoteworthy This day was worth living for, and I will never have to be ashamed of my life. Alexander Nikitin, a former Russian nav> captain, after a court in St Petersburg on Wednesday acquitted him of charges that he had revealed state secrets while working for a Norwegian environmental group50 words
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Article, Illustration360 1999-12-31 9 Electricity and phone links to a million households cut off 170,000 homes without drinking water PARIS Reeling from an unprecedented series of storms, France has declared a state of natural disaster in two- thirds of the country and mobilised 6,000 troops to help clear up theAFP; Reuters - 360 words
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Article, Illustration579 1999-12-31 10 Russia's Threat To Chechnya THE POSSESS MUCH MORE POWERFUL MEANS OF DESTRUCTION THAN WE HAVE SO FAR USED. THEY SHOULD BE QUITE SIMPLY ELIMINATED. THERE'S NO OTHER SOLUTION.' General Anatoly Kornukov, Russian air force chief, referring to the Chechen rebels as 'committed assassins who willAFP; Reuters; AP; REUTERS - 579 words
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WORLD FILE
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81 1999-12-31 10 TOY RECALL BIGGEST IN U.S. HISTORY BURGER King's recall of 25 million Pokemon balls after a child reportedly suffocated is the largest toy recall in US history, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Wednesday. It was too early to tel how many balls had been returned sinceReuters - 81 words
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56 1999-12-31 10 THE hair-dye bottle may be history after researchers for the first time changed the fur colour on albino mice using gene therapy. A team at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia achieved this by correcting a mutation in a gene in the hair follicle, accordingAFP - 56 words
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Article82 1999-12-31 10 THE US Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology on Wednesday gave the world a more accurate timepiece. Newatomic clock NIST F-l is now the primary frequency standard for the United States and will contribute information to the atomic clocks worldwide that define theNew York Times - 82 words
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Article58 1999-12-31 10 ZIMBABWE is likely to delay parliamentary elections until after June 2000 from the expected date of March, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday. He said this would allow them to be conducted under a new constitution and give time for aReuters - 58 words
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Article59 1999-12-31 10 ANCIENT human remains have been found in western Cyprus by a University of Edinburgh archaeological team, said the department of antiquities on Wednesday. Unearthed in 1994, the oldest remains to be found in Cyprus were of a child who lived about 8300 BC. andAFP - 59 words
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64 1999-12-31 10 A BID by ex-government scientist Lee Wen Ho, 60, to be released has bee i rejected by US district judge James Parker, who ruled that he must stay in jail until his trial on charges of illegally copying US nuclear weapons data. The judge onReuters - 64 words
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Article220 1999-12-31 10 Casino bomb threat gunman killed BRISBANE Australian police shot and killed a gunman who took two men hostage in a casino and threatened to blow it up, a spokesman said yesterday. "Sadly, police were forced to use lethal force," Queensland police spokesman Brian Swift said of the shooting which happenedAP - 220 words
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DAWN OF NEW MILLENNIUM
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597 1999-12-31 12 THE GLITCH: 2000 read as 1900 LONDON The Y2K bug is a legacy from programmers in the 70s and 80s, who knew that conserving the then scarce memory by shortening year dates to two digits would cripple data processing if not rectified beforeReuters - 597 words
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Article, Illustration165 1999-12-31 12 FOR the new millennium, that is. For some, that spells party time; for others, it is the dreaded computer bug. From Austria to Thailand, people are busy preparing for this very special New Year, with unique products like a one-of-a--kind 2000 contact lens, or a candy thatAFP - 165 words
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Article, Illustration49 1999-12-31 13 AFP Official assurance does not get any louder than this banner at the airport in Jakarta. AP Armed with futons, many workers in Japan are ready to stay overnight in their offices. XINHUA One of the few things that will not be affected by the bug a candy dragon.AFP; AP; XINHUA - 49 words
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79 1999-12-31 13 BEIJING China has a millennium gift for world leaders chunks from what was once Tiananmen Square, the political heart of the country and centre of student-led demonstrations for democracy crushed by the army in 1989The Society of Chinese History is sending chunks of theReuters - 79 words
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82 1999-12-31 13 MOSCOW Russia's Y2K supremo said the world's largest country was fully prepared for the New Year and the millennium computer bug would not bite. Western nations have identified Russia as one of the countries most at risk when Jan 1, 2000, arrives.Reuters - 82 words
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71 1999-12-31 13 WASHINGTON The US military will shut down some of its Internet sites this weekend during the rollover to the Year 2000 to protect against computer hackers, a Pentagon spokesman said. Tuere is no across-the-board Pentagon directive that all defence department websites be takenReuters - 71 words
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73 1999-12-31 13 LONDON Plans for London's New Year's Eve bash were thrown into chaos yesterday as organisers admitted that two-thirds of the invited guests for the extravaganza at the new Millennium Dome had not received their tickets. Only 3,000 of the 10,000 tickets for the exclusiveReuter; AFP - 73 words
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Article83 1999-12-31 13 NEW YORK Website operators and people who run computer systems will be watching for more than the Y2K bug on New Year's Eve: They will be on guard for viruses and other mischief spread by hackers looking for some start-of-the-millennium attention. The threat has promptedAP - 83 words
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94 1999-12-31 13 APIA (Samoa) A village in the South Pacific island of Samoa will claim its place in history as the last territory to sec the sunset in 199.9. Hundreds of people, including at least six wedding parties, have flocked to the tiny villageReuters - 94 words
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Article583 1999-12-31 13 Rooftop sharpshooters, police helicopters, bomb-sniffing dogs Americans are security-obsessed on the eve of the millennium SEATTLE In cities across the United States, officials are pledging that security will be extraordinarily tight for millennium celebrations which are starting to look more jittery than joyful. AReuters - 583 words
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INDIAN AIRLINES HIJACK
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Article, Illustration157 1999-12-31 16 Ring of steel A TANK, dozens of soldiers, a rocket launcher mounted on a truck and a truck carrying a USmade anti-aircraft Stinger missile have been deployed around the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in Kandahar. An armoured personnel carrier that has been there since the plane arrived has also beenAP; REUTERS - 157 words
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236 1999-12-31 16 Rebel leaders condemn the hijacking JAMMU (India) Three detained separatist leaders in the troubled north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir have condemned the hijacking of an Indian Airlines aircraft in a statement handed out by prison officials on Wednesday. "It is an inhuman act and nobody on earth willReuters - 236 words
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CORRESPONDENTS' LOG
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Article71 1999-12-31 18 HIGH POINTS of 1999 BEING held at gunpoint in East Timor, the interminable images of a dead child in Japan, an icy celebration at midnight in Beijing and the collapse of an entire mountain in Taiwan. As the year draws to a close, the 14 correspondents in The Straits Times'71 words
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Article, Illustration110 1999-12-31 18 kdjkgjktjg TO WITNESS the collapse of an entire mountain must qualify as an experience of a lifetime. What was, to me, even more awesome was the discovery' of survivors of such an earthshaking event. On Sept 21, a huge earthquake rattled Taiwan, leaving more than 2,000 dead.110 words
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Article, Illustration110 1999-12-31 18 kdfsgooskg IN THE space of a week, I have heard two senior politicians express their love for Taiwan thus: "I love this piece of land." Not, "I love my country". Taiwan's 22 million people are mostly of the same race, but they do not see themselves as one110 words
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Article, Illustration106 1999-12-31 18 dfohgkrtkholbvn MACAU'S return to Chinese rule on Dec 20 closed China's unhappy colonial chapter and allowed Beijing to focus on another longstanding goal: reunification with Taiwan. Yet the way in which the Macau handover was marked in China detracted from the stateliness of the106 words
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Article, Illustration96 1999-12-31 18 ;ok., MRS KIMI Hasegawa, 91, blushed visibly when she answered my questions at a home party for members of the Nagomi (peace of mind) old-folks group. "Look! Hasegawa-san is unusually talkative today. It must have been some time since she had a young man by her side,"96 words
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Article, Illustration99 1999-12-31 18 l;gfhkjfgyhjtr IT WAS a landmark decision made more palpable by the tears and anguish on the faces of mainlanders at the news that their legal battle for residency in Hongkong had come to nought. Thousands of mainlanders had hoped that a Hongkong court ruling would allow them99 words
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Article, Illustration105 1999-12-31 18 vbjlgl;j THE toddler stumbles towards the camera, her cherubic face filling the screen. Too young to voice her wishes properly, it is nonetheless clear she wants to be carried. The nationally-televised footage from a home-made video is the only moving image left of two-year-old Haruna Wakayama. She was found105 words
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Article, Illustration120 1999-12-31 19 ■■M THERE was no shortage of news in Malaysia during the past 12 months the jailing of a former deputy prime minister, the outbreak of a virus that killed 100 people and decimated the pig-rearing industry, and an acrimonious election in which two states fell120 words
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Article, Illustration130 1999-12-31 19 gfjhlgf THEY had cast their vote and now, tired but still wearing smiles of hope, trudged back up the hill under the noon sun. The entire hamlet had started walking down to Liquica soon after midnight so they could be first in line when the polling station130 words
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Article, Illustration105 1999-12-31 19 dfkyhty THE twists and turns of the Clob saga in 199J) have seen top political leaders make strong declarations and a colourful cast of characters offer a variety of proposals. But beyond the broader politick and financial implications of the freeze on billions of105 words
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Article, Illustration122 1999-12-31 19 ydfyskkyse THE muzzle of the AK-47 stared at me in the face as I cringed with fear in the heat of the night. We were held up on a road winding from the East Timor border to West Timor's capital of Kupang. My driver said122 words
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Article, Illustration85 1999-12-31 19 ;lp[5op57 US TRADE Representative Charlene Barshefsky had a dead look on her face when the World Trade Organisation talks in Seattle failed. Her inability to steer the WTO towards a new millennium round was a particularly piercing symbol r.f President Bill Clinton's creeping irrelevancy and sadness. In his85 words
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Article, Illustration96 1999-12-31 19 gfhkltlrkyot THE image of thousands of people standing in driving rain and a sea of confetti during a pro-democracy rally in Manila in August. This was, for me, this year's most memorable event. Their presence at the rally was brought about by an issue that continues to polarise96 words
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Article, Illustration111 1999-12-31 19 dfslkyhlklvbn 1999 belonged to Thailand's King Bhumihol Adulyadej. His 72nd birthday united the nation, giving every Thai a cause to celebrate despite still living in difficult times. As someone who has lived in this country for a long time, I thought I was familiar enough with111 words
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Article, Illustration105 1999-12-31 19 ymm I STOOPED below the lintel, bending into a small sauare stone room with a low smoke-blackened ceiling and big old bells hanging in rows. Inside the sanctum of this 500-year-old Krishna temple in Hyderabad, the priest chanted a prayer tor me, the flame from an oil105 words
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Article, Illustration40 1999-12-31 20 AP Hantao, a frontier guard in Wushu township in China's remote north-eastern Heilongjiang province, calls his family with a TV phone while his comrades give encouragement. The guard post had its first TV telephone installed on WednesdayAP - 40 words
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Article543 1999-12-31 20 MARY KWANG - MARY KWANG The huge homosexual population is one of the factors hampering the fight against the spread of Aids in the mainland, says a professor H,, CHINA CORRKSPONUKNT UPHILL BATTLE ACCORDING to Professor Dai Zhicheng, China faces a tough fight against Aids because: Blood trafficking is543 words
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245 1999-12-31 20 Taiwan's 29th diplomatic catch: Palau TAIPEI Taiwan has established formal diplomatic relations with the Pacific island nation of Palau, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Palau is the 29th ally to recognise Taiwan, Foreign Minister Chen Chien-jen said at a briefing. The two sides would soon exchange embassies, he said. HeAP; AFP; Reuters - 245 words
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Article, Illustration609 1999-12-31 22 KWAN WENG KIN; Kwan Weng Kin - China will be Asia's No. 1 economy in 50 years: SM KWAN WENG KIN Kwan Weng Kin w The Senior Minister also rules out cultural conflicts between Asian and Western countries as predicted by American professor Huntinqton JAPAN CORRKSPONDENT CONNECTIVITY: Great, hut CONNECTIVITY, where "everybody is connected to everybody else"609 words
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360 1999-12-31 22 GANG VIOLENCE IN MACAU MACAU In a grisly discovery that has raised concerns about Macau's gang violence resuming under Chinese rule, police yesterday recovered the body of a man who had been stuffed into a bag after his head andAP - 360 words
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Article119 1999-12-31 22 Power cut in Tokyo a sabotage? TOKYO Electricity supply to 6,4-00 households in Tokyo was cut when a fire broke out at a power substation in what police suspected was a result of sabotage. The fire broke out on Wednesday, destroying a bundle of communication cables in the Tokyo ElectricAFP; AP - 119 words
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170 1999-12-31 22 HONGKONG The ViceMayor of Xiamen has been arrested in connection with a 5510.6-billion smuggling case, the third high-ranking official in the Chinese city to be nabbed so far. Zhao Kerning is suspected of using his authority to conduct smuggling activities and to approve loans and170 words
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190 1999-12-31 23 Pollution in HK hits all-time high HONGKONG A haze shrouded Hongkong yesterday, with air pollution hitting a record high as slow winds failed to disperse pollutants spewing out of vehicles and drifting in from factories in southern China. General air pollution in(U'xes registered some of their worst levels since theAP - 190 words
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Article81 1999-12-31 23 HONGKONG'S Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa has pledged to clean up the air, saying the pollution damages Hongkong's image as a world-class city and deters foreign investors from relocating here. The government will spend the eguivalent of US$3.8 billion (SS6.3 billion) in a 10-yearAP - 81 words
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338 1999-12-31 23 Trio say they were ordered to take revenge on shop owner, but their Molotov cocktails killed one man and injured three other passers-by HONGKONG Three teenagers have admitted firebombing a video shop by hurling Molotov cocktails in a revenge attack that killed338 words
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200 1999-12-31 24 SEOUL South Korean prosecutors yesterday indicted three women for perjury, including the wives of two former Cabinet ministers, wind'ng up a prolonged probe into a clothes-for-lob-bying scandal. "All of them had either hidden or distorted the truth," said Mr Shin Kwang Ok, head ofAFP - 200 words
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Article, Illustration464 1999-12-31 24 HAU BOON LAI - Miscarriage dims Japan's hope for millennium heir HAU BOON LAI Reports say Princess Masako had an operation yesterday to remove the dead foetus and that she was expected to be hospitalised for up to a month By 1\ TOKYO DOCTORS said yesterday that Crown Princess Masako had suffered a miscarriage,AP - 464 words
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75 1999-12-31 24 FUMIHIRO Joyu, a senior member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, who was freed from jail this week, has expressed remorse for his crimes, the cult said in a statement yesterday. He served a threeyear sentence for perjury and forgery. He has also relinquished anAP - 75 words
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Article58 1999-12-31 24 TAIWAN President Lee Teng-hui has appointed Mr John Chang, the disgraced former secretary-general of the Presidential Office, as senior adviser to the President, a spokesman said. The appointment was effective from Dec 23, the day Mr Chang stepped down from his position, following his involvement in58 words
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56 1999-12-31 24 THE second black-box flight recorder from a Korean Air cargo plane, which crashed near London last week, has been recovered. The flight-data recorder was found in the main crater of the crash site. It is to be taken for analysis to the Farnborough headquartersAFP - 56 words
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55 1999-12-31 24 FOUR workers died and 11 people were taken to hospital after poisonous gas leaked at a chemical plant in Dalian in China's Liaoning province. The owner of the plant and eight policemen who went to rescue the workers were among those injured, the South55 words
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79 1999-12-31 24 DEATH SENTENCE FOR SEVEN DRUG DEALERS THREE gang members, who bought heroin and other drugs from outside China and sold them in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, have been sentenced to death, the Workers Daily newspaper reported yesterday. They were among seven people who sold 204 kg of illegalAP - 79 words
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Article, Illustration388 1999-12-31 25 BBBE&BWBK^BfBJMB] Bv^BVABk ejBBjMBBgrBK 8888 BS Iff IB 1 Bf\^Bjs'^Bß^BßK BB. B^BJB^BjB^B^BJB^B^h^B^B^B^B^BJBJB^BJB^BJ vhl;mkdryr AFP Jakarta attributes the plunge to political uncertainties and the regional economic crisis but is confident investments will rise soon JAKARTA Foreign investments approved by the Indonesian government plunged 22 per centAFP - 388 words
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255 1999-12-31 25 Indonesian exporters still need S'pore JAKARTA Singapore is still an important transhipment point for Indonesian exports, a senior transport official said. The Director-General for Sea Communications, Mr Agus Rudyanto Ruwadi, told the Suara Pembaruan newspaper that Singapore's port facilities are needed as Indonesia is short of container ships. Singapore is255 words
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Article, Illustration429 1999-12-31 26 Vice-President will meet potential investors there, says leader in defence of her visit, which many Indonesians have slammed as being improper JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday dismissed criticism of the upcoming trip by Vice-Presi-dent Megawati Sukarnoputri to Hongkong, saving that the429 words
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Article69 1999-12-31 26 MEGAWATI 'No sense of crisis?' ACCORDING to the Indonesian Observer, Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri's trip had been criticised by many people. It quoted legislator Yasril Ananta Baharuddin as having said that she should consider the problems at home as her priority, instead of taking a vacation. He reportedly said: "I think69 words
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Article, Illustration41 1999-12-31 26 SEVEN months ago, Frenchman Jean Claude Levandowski, 51, met Ms Yolravee Laophet, 35, in Thailand. Today, the two, seen here kissing below Bangkok's Amazing Love statue, will join 2,000 other couples in a mass wedding REUTERSREUTERS - 41 words
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120 1999-12-31 26 MANILA President Estrada has vowed to be less "casual" after a poll showed that his popularity had dived to an all-time low. Although insisting that he is "not bothered" by his plummeting popularity, the President said he has resolved to be "more120 words
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Article58 1999-12-31 26 VIGILANTES in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh have killed two alleged robbers in separate incidents in the latest in a wave of mob violence. One man, accused of holding up a taxi driver, was seized From police and beaten to death. Another was killedAFP - 58 words
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40 1999-12-31 26 PHILIPPINE President Joseph Estrada yesterday warned revellers against greeting the new millennium with firecrackers, although he said hospitals were ready for emergencies. New Year's Eve celebrations are often marred by gory accidents involving firecrackers. AFPAFP - 40 words
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50 1999-12-31 26 AT LEAST 12 people, many of them students, died and nine were critically injured on Wednesday when a college minibus and a sixwheeled truck collided in north-east Thailand. The students, from a technology college, were on their way to a volleyball game. AFPAFP - 50 words
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51 1999-12-31 26 THAI police launched a manhunt on Wednesday after three armed men stole more than 29 million baht (Ssl..i million) from a car operated by a bank in the town of Ayutthya. Police said the suspects included the driver of the bank car.AFP - 51 words
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44 1999-12-31 26 A LANDMINE-sniffing dog, stolen by his handler and sold to a Phnom Penh pet shop, has been rescued before he could be sold. It is not known howmuch the shop wanted for the US$3O,OOO (S$50,100) dog. ReutersReuters - 44 words
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176 1999-12-31 27 CANBERRA Australian troops fired warning shots in the air on Wednesday after Indonesian army (TNI) soldiers fired shots near East Timor's western border, the Australian government said yesterday. "Two TNI soldiers on the West Timor side fired shots close to civilians," a spokesmanReuters - 176 words
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Article, Illustration281 1999-12-31 27 EDMUND TEE - EDMUND TEE /in IN LIQUIDO, EAST TIMOR A BABY bawls in the arms of her mother, who waits in line for her turn to present the child to a doctor. Ahead of her, people who have been seen by tne doctor leave holding their medicineSONIA TAN - 281 words
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Article285 1999-12-31 27 We're not sulking: Malaysia After earlier offering to send 1,500 troops to join a UN peacekeeping force in East Timor, Malaysia has said now that it will send only a token unit KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia said yesterday that it would make only a token contribution to the new United NationsAFP; Reuters - 285 words
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Miscellaneous548 1999-12-31 29 WEATHER TOOAY: Partly cloudy and occasionally windy HAZE WATCH hefc Sfe =£5 Clear CfcrWctart KteC Showers Idcbimg ZtfNC Showers Prague -7HC Flurry ,32 with periods of showers over most areas in Ha.e reading taKen on Dec 30 V^ nL Ocean W Cloudy C0^.... Z^ jj, Jjjj^ tfjc Clear Pusa,^.... JJJ548 words
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337 1999-12-31 30 He asks them not to be overzealous in pursuing their cause and in alienating all traders by overly pressuring them KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday ticked off non-government organisations (NGOs) for being overzealous in pushing for a boycott ofBernama - 337 words
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Article, Illustration99 1999-12-31 30 THESE dried crocodile penises could cure impotence and bolster low sex drive, claimed an Indonesian trader. But before he could make good on his sales pitch, ne was arrested by the Kedah state police on Wednesday, in the town of Changlun near theTHE SUN - 99 words
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Article, Illustration88 1999-12-31 31 HARAKAH'S circulation outstrips that of the two main Malay language dailies and is more than 100,000 higher than that of The Star, Malaysia's top-selling English daily. Its circulation shot up from 80,000 before the sacking of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to 366,000. The88 words
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336 1999-12-31 31 JOHOR BARU The Johor government is hoping to draw five million Singapore tourists to the state with the implementation of a Smart Card at the Johor immigration checkpoint. The Malaysian daily, Nanyang Siang Pau, reported yesterday that the authorities in Johor Baru were336 words
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79 1999-12-31 31 JOHOR BARU Johor Customs officers have launched an operation to prevent people from taking out four controlled items condensed milk, cooking oil, wheat flour and sugar at the Causeway. Under present regulations, no one is allowed to take out more than 2 kg ofBernama - 79 words
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Article47 1999-12-31 31 16 MALAYSIANS KILLED IN CRASH SIXTEEN Malaysians, believed to be performing their minor pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, were killed in a road accident near Madinah yesterday. A Malaysian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the pilgrims were travelling in a bus whenrit skidded and plunged into a ravine. BernamaBernama - 47 words
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Article46 1999-12-31 31 HEALTH Ministry officials have seized dangerous skin whiteners and other cosmetics worth an estimated RM200.000 (5587,895), following complaints about skin irritation and other problems. Reports said the Philip-pine-made products, were seized on Wednesday from 10 outlets in the Klang Valley. AFPAFP - 46 words
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50 1999-12-31 31 SELANGOR has blacklisted 22 luxury cars found to have been brought into the country or assembled locally using forged documents. A Road Transport Department spokesman said in Shah Alam yesterday that 15 of the cars were imported while the rest were assembled locally. BernamaBernama - 50 words
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Article42 1999-12-31 31 A BARISAN Nasional component party, Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia, has frozen two of its divisions and their 15 branches in Penang. The move follows a threat by the chairmen of the two divisions to resign from the party. BernamaBernama - 42 words
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Article53 1999-12-31 31 THE Malaysian Navy's most modern frigate, the KDJebat, docked for the first time at the naval base in Lumut, Perak, yesterday after almost a month s journey from Glasgow. The ship was built at Scotland's Yarrow Shipbuilding Ltd under an arms deal signed with BritainBernama - 53 words
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534 1999-12-31 31 BRENDAN PEREIRA - BRENDAN PEREIRA Opposition party warns of backlash after directive to sell tabloid only through its offices or by subscription lit. IN KUALA LUMPUR OPPOSITION party PAS has agreed to limit the sale of its bestselling newspaper, Harakah, which was accused of534 words
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523 1999-12-31 32 M. NIRMALA - A principal should have: Vision, passion, action M. NIRMALA Education Minister Teo Chee Hean urges school principals to go forth and inspire those they are responsible for *l PEOPLE POWER: Rear-Admiral (NS)Teo The people business Tou are in the business of people. You work with people, through people, for people.523 words
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Article, Illustration315 1999-12-31 32 AT 36, Madam Poon Chew Leng is one of the youngest educationists to be appointed principal. The Tampines Secondary principal is using this to her advantage: She has told her teachers that she does not have all the answers and will learn from others. As sheALAN LIM - 315 words
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Article, Illustration306 1999-12-31 32 HO KA WEI - HO KA WEI I±L MR ERIC Lim who heads the new Meridian Primary in Pasir Ris wants to deliver an education that is meaningful, fulfilling and enjoyable. He said: "Only if education is fulfilling, then learning can take place. If it is not meaningful, it's notJOSE RAYMOND - 306 words
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Article, Illustration434 1999-12-31 33 JOANNE LEE - 6Toto winning tickets JOANNE LEE Between them, they share the record $10.5 million top prize in the Millennium Draw, yielding $1.7m each Hu HOLDERS of six Toto tickets won millions of dollars yesterday in the Singapore Pools' record $10.5 million Millennium Draw. The six tickets yielded $1,752,016 each in theJOSE RAYMOND - 434 words
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Article, Illustration317 1999-12-31 33 BEN NADARAJAN - BEN NADARAJAN in A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy choked to death on some jelly in his Yishun home on Wednesday. Muhammad Alwi Rubai was being fed some jelly by his older brother in their family flat in Yishun Ring Road when he collapsed suddenly after choking317 words
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Article280 1999-12-31 33 YEOH EN- LAI - YEOH EN-LAI Hu THE Central Narcotics Bureau is investigating a claim by a Malaysian youth that he was punched by anti-drug officers after he was picked for a random urine test at the Woodlands Checkpoint. Machine operator Soh Chin Sheng, 18, alleged that he was280 words
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Article, Illustration149 1999-12-31 34 BLOCKS 23 and 24 in Sin Ming Road now look like a single, long block. An upgrading project completed recently joined them with a multi-purpose hall tnat residents of both blocks can use for weddings and other events. Blocks 22 and 25 were also part of thisWANG HUIFEN - 149 words
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331 1999-12-31 34 KAREN WONG - KAREN WONG The two cases are the first in a series of prosecutions, following a major graft probe into lorry escorts I*l TWO Cisco police constables were charged in a district court yesterday with taking numerous bribes from trans-port-comDany drivers in return for not331 words
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Article249 1999-12-31 34 BEN NADARAJAN - BEN N ADARAJ AN By A DIRECTOR of a pre-served-food company fell to his death from a platform, while doing a warehouse stock check on Tuesday. Mr Lim Hoe Huat, 62, had arrived at about 9 am at his office in Pandan Ix>op. His firm,249 words
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Article, Illustration225 1999-12-31 34 Jail and fine for clerk in graft case A CLERK of works took bribes from a sub-contractor in return for being lenient when inspecting structural works at the new Woodlands Checkpoint project, a district court heard yesterday. Loh Yew' Teck, 33, who pleaded guilty to corruption, was jailed six weeks225 words
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Article, Illustration401 1999-12-31 35 SAMAXTHA SANTA MARIA - SAMAXTHA SANTA MARIA Work on the project to test stability and safety of model aircraft and another R&D centre to start next year 'There are other wind-tunnel facilities in China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia, but Singapore's will have the highest speed capability,' Mr401 words
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Article, Illustration99 1999-12-31 36 While others party all night long on New Year's Eve, wheelchair athlete William Tan will be pushing himself in a gruelling 12-hour journey from sunset to sunrise. Dr Tan, 42, a medical researcher who lost the use of his legs through polio, will be doing aJULYN KANG - 99 words
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Article, Illustration368 1999-12-31 36 KOH BOON PIN - KOH BOON PIN Taimali gets the nation's first rays of the new year and a dance by sun worshippers is the prime art offering *!L AS A child, Ong Keng Sen feared life in the year 2000 would be like that in Aldous368 words
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104 1999-12-31 36 MOTORISTS with parking coupons valid for 1997/1998/1999 can exchange them for new ones, because they will no longer be valid from Jan 1. To do so, they can go to the Housing Board (HDB) carparks section at Block 187, #02-348, Ixirong 6 Toa Payoh; all104 words
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Article, Illustration47 1999-12-31 37 About 500,000 people are expected at Singapore's biggest New Years Eve party tonight. Here's your guide to the party layout ana facilities. G. CHANDRADAS Missing their bedtime to party, these kids will join PM Coh singing Auld Lang Syne. $our«sAFRAG. CHANDRADAS - 47 words
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Article, Illustration1143 1999-12-31 38 The Friday Interview NO REGRETS If I have to shut my eyes now, I will not feel I have left life with certain things still undone. As far as my conscience goes, I have done my best and I can't do better than this.1,143 words
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1198 1999-12-31 38 Q: You have lived 100 years. What are the secrets of your long and healthy life? A: A peaceful mind and a loving heart. You love all creatures, good and or bad. If they are naughty, they need love even more. People1,198 words
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Advertisement1134 1999-12-31 32 Bribed Clerk Jailed r r A clerk of works is jailed six weeks and tint d $800 wf for taking bribes from a sub-contractor in return %w for being lenient. pace 34 I ff Taxi Fare Table J I A) The first Ikm or less $2.40 j Come the first1,134 words
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Advertisement38 1999-12-31 32 Mm 1 I•■ 1 1 M J (M H^9l Revelry In The Streets j What is in store tonight for about A^Bf yK half-a-million people on Orchard Road, at O 3k Singapore's biggest bash. pace 37 1 Kmh38 words
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Advertisement1384 1999-12-31 34 NOTICE I NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF THE ¥10,000,000,000 17a PER CENT. CONVERTIBLE BONDS DUE 1998 I (THE "BONDS OF YAOHAN JAPAN CORPORATION (THE "COMPANY"). I The meeting of the holders of Bonds ("Bondholders") convened on 6 December 1999, was declared to be I adjourned to 14 January 2000, being a1,384 words
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Advertisement196 1999-12-31 34 BIEAK FAST The TOLLYJOY Millennium Carnival j 27 Dec '99 (Mon) 2 Jan '2000 (Sun) i||p|lp Jk W& Free goody bags to be given away W Free balloons for children J^T^ ltK/m^ Up t0 75% discount on a Tollyjoy baby products Newly launched Tollyjoy products at introductory Prices Assorted clearance196 words
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Advertisement125 1999-12-31 36 LAST CALL FOR WISHES TODAY is the last day for sending in your entries for the OUB-ST millennium wish contest. Log on to www.oub2ooo.com.sg to submit your millennium wish for someone to get $10,000 by 6 pm today. If yours is the winning entry, you might win $3,000 for yourself125 words
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Advertisement616 1999-12-31 37 /ft\ COME CELEBRATE |te Line I IT^^ iVI 1* Ml Im 111 Slil JK^fflSl fji^./g-' ""j^^V^^^^^y J^v w*E ii ii Iy hi Hiiii I 7 -**^^v/ HBH4PHH l fMi3lDecemlier99atNTUC Sjß t n° p^^JCir Vu9 till H 1 1^1 lifestyle World Downtown East Carnival Co c m p o S, n616 words
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758 1999-12-31 39 AVI MACHLIS - AVI MACHLIS A new multimedia concept that uses 3-D graphics lets Net users interact with a virtual match, and is set to revolutionise sports websites By FINANCIAL I IMI S 'IT IS A SUPERB RECREATION OF SPORTS THAT NOBODY ELSE HAS...IT ALLOWS CONSUMERS TO758 words
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Article649 1999-12-31 40 IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season649 words
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Article, Illustration757 1999-12-31 40 FELIX SOH - FELIX SOH EYE ON THE WORLD By SOMEONE once said that life can be divided into two equal parts the horrible and the miserable. For many people, 1999 was indeed that kind of a year. From Mother Nature's furore (there was757 words
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Article, Illustration999 1999-12-31 40 TOM PLATE - 'Natural humility' lost and regained TOM PLATE By I.OSANCKI.KS TIMKS VENTURING forth on the eve of the millennium to make grand predictions or sweeping declamations about any region or people is a fool's mission at best. This is especially true of Asia, a region that is the graveyard of the999 words
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Article, Illustration870 1999-12-31 41 MICHEL CAMDESSUS - MICHEL CAMDESSUS THE world economy is embarking on the new millennium on a distinctly positive note. Yet, this is perhaps the last thing one might have expected a little over a year ago, when economic r«nd financial crises raised the spectre870 words
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761 1999-12-31 41 ROBERT J. SAMUELSON - Why the Great American Boom may go bust ROBERT J. SAMUELSON flu. TIIK WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON Every year, I confess my sins (or some of them) even though the exercise is becoming increasingly repetitious. My main sin this year was the same as the last: to doubt the Great American761 words
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465 1999-12-31 42 IRKFKR to the letters, "How to shake up taxi services (ST, Dec 25) by Mr Tay Lin Siau and 'Taxi services here still have long way to go" (ST, Dec 29) by Mr Sebastian Tan. I thank both writers for their views on and suggestions465 words
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446 1999-12-31 42 I THANK Mr Tay Lin Siau for his observations and suggestions as expressed innis letter, "How to shake up taxi services" (ST, Dec 25) and Mr Sebastian Tan for his feedback in "Taxi services here still have long way to go" (ST,446 words
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Letter, Illustration213 1999-12-31 42 I WAS very surprised to be caught in a traffic jam along Kim Seng Road and then, a flood in dry weather at about 11 am last Thursday. It was only through the next morning's papers that I found out it was due toSTEPHANIE YEOW - 213 words
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260 1999-12-31 42 I REFER to the report, "lawyer beaten up by phone pest" (ST, Dec 28). The investigation revealed that Mr Gerald Khor had told a group of youths to turn on their mobile phones during a film screening at GV Plaza. At the260 words
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202 1999-12-31 42 Changes stiff being made to M1's bills I REFER to the letter, "Credit -card number still reflected" (ST, Dec 28) by Mr Nick Fellows. We would like to assure Mr Fellows that our plan to modify the presentation of the credit-card number in our bills is very much in progress.202 words
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Article, Illustration617 1999-12-31 43 THOMAS KOH - SOCCER Clubs receive $2. 5m hongbao THOMAS KOH o S-League Tournament Basic subsidy: $350,000 Subsidy for club managers: Subsidy for a premium player: $50,000 Subsidy for fund-raising projects: $8,000 Subsidy for hiring of stadiums: $30,000 Subsidy for field maintenance: $12,000 Subsidy for group insurance: $30,000 SUB-TOTAL: $512,500 Football Development General617 words
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Article, Illustration358 1999-12-31 43 KELVIN PHANG - KELVIN PHANG S-LKAGUE players can expect wage restraints to continue for the next five to 10 years, said Football Association of Singapore chief operating officer John Koh. This is because the four-year-old league is still growing and cannot afford to go358 words
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Article196 1999-12-31 43 GOLF SCOITS DALE (Arizona) All-conquering American golfing duo Tiger Woods and David Duval sparkled here on Wednesday in the first round of the USs.'l.s million (555.81 million) World Challenge to share the lead by three shots. Woods and Duval, ranked first and second in theAFP - 196 words
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Article113 1999-12-31 43 SOCCER ROME AS Roma has struck a deal with Seiie A rival Perugia to buy Hidetoshi Nakata and will try to coax the Japanese midfielder to Rome early next month, Italian media reported yesterday. The Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper said Roma would pay around .'JO billion lireReuters - 113 words
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Article299 1999-12-31 43 THOMAS KOH - THOMAS KOH LEE MAN HON looks set to soar with the Eagles in the coming S-Ix:ague season. Geylang United has expressed a strong interest in signing the 25-year-old former international soccer midfielder. And the feeling is mutual. Said Geylang club manager Adrian Quek yesterday: "Our299 words
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329 1999-12-31 43 DEFENDER Aide Iskandar is only '23 years old but he has already been promoted to the rank of "senior" by Singapore coach Vincent Subramaniam. So is goalkeeper Rezal Hassan, 24. That the duo have been given the additional responsibilities shows how young the329 words
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THE LATE NEWS
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Article57 1999-12-31 43 CHELSEA'S French defender Frank Leboeuf faces a lengthy ban after it was announced yesterday that he had been charged with misconduct by the Football Association over his actions when he was sent off against Leeds. The 31-year-old was dismissed during Chelsea's 0-2 defeat by Leeds in57 words
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Advertisement98 1999-12-31 43 No Change In Style SS^SB Arsenals Patrick Vieirawill not change his combative style even alter a S^^H^ S**% seven-match suspension. pack 44 <88O^^ '»t 12"to84" B,ancoMarble: OOV p> 12 to 84 Table. 4 Marble 90cm x 170cm |jsy I Lion (1 Pair) 7 1 Stools Italian Bianco i,| if' From:98 words
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Advertisement94 1999-12-31 43 Winning Streak The Los Angles Lakers register their L Oth consecutive vvin in style as the) '^■jkt^jP^ jj^l crush the Phoenix Suns. pk;k4s ||f^ MILLENNIUM 2000 SPECIAL LEATHERMAN WAVE $124.00 MAGLITE- ML-368-BK-2AA $19.20 ••••••••••••••A-******** ncccp 3 VAty OUA^f, urrtß (31/12/99 to **********) MUST BUY 2 Men 2 Door Paul London94 words
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Article, Illustration604 1999-12-31 44 Wise way to stand up for England SOCCER Chelsea's local player sparks cosmopolitan side to win LEADING SCORERS 18 goals; Kevin Phillips (Sunderland) 14: Alan Shearer (Newcastle United) 13: Andy Cole (Manchester United) 11: Michael Bridges (Leeds United), Dwight Yorke (Manchester United) 9: Dion Dublin (Aston Villa), Steffen Iversen (TottenhamReuters; REUTERS - 604 words
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Article170 1999-12-31 44 f I 1 f I Pts ieeds 20 14 2 4 34 22 44 Man Utd 19 13 4 2 50 25 43 Arsenal 20 12 3 5 36 20 39 Sundertand 20 11 5 4 35 24 31 Liverpool 20 11 4 5 31 17 37 Tottenham 19170 words
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Article286 1999-12-31 44 7 don't want to change my style of football as that is my quality, that's the best thing in my game, so I'm going to keep it. Vieira, after returning from a seven-match ban LONDON Arsenal's French midfielder Patrick Vieira vowed on Wednesday not toAFP - 286 words
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244 1999-12-31 44 GENEVA Fifa president Scpp Blatter on Wednesday appeared to be backing away from his proposal for a soccer World Cup to be held every two years, twice as often as at present. In an editorial in the world soccer body's monthly Fifa News,Reuters - 244 words
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Article218 1999-12-31 44 RIO DK JANEIRO Rivaldo on Wednesday told the media in north-eastern Brazil he would be staying at Barcelona till 2003 when his contract finishes at the Catalonian club. The news will disappoint Manchester United, Parma. Roma, Inter Milan and La/.io, which "was reportedly ready toAFP - 218 words
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Article, Illustration332 1999-12-31 44 Seedorf joins Italy's prodigal sons in Serie A ROME In signing for Inter Milan, Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf has joined a growing group of toreign players who cannot resist a return to the Italian League. Seedorf returns from Real Madrid three years after he left Genoa club Sampdoria. He joinsReuters; AFP - 332 words
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Article354 1999-12-31 44 LIVERPOOL Liverpool played down talk of its English Premiership title challenge on Wednesday despite emerging from its seventh successive home victory after the 3-1 win over Wimbledon on Tuesday. Victory took Liverpool's run to just one loss in 12 games its best run for fourAFP - 354 words
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SPORT IN SHORT
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Article107 1999-12-31 44 SACHIN TENDULKAR'S India reeled under a triple blow after being thrashed by 180 runs in the Scond Test against Australia in Melbourne yesterday. Each of the 11 players were fined 5 per cent of their match fees for slowover rates during the five days of107 words
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Article67 1999-12-31 44 JAPAN'S World Cup soccer captain at France "98, Masami Ihara, ended weeks of speculation about his future by announcing he would play for Asian club champion Jubilo Iwata next season. The 32-year-old central defender, who has won a record 123 caps for his country, had the67 words
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Article43 1999-12-31 44 DENMARK'S Richard Moller Nielsen was on Wednesday named coach of the Israel soccer team. The contract of the former Finland and Danish coach, who succeeds Shlomo Sharf, is for two-and-a-half years and he will earn US$l million (Ssl.7 million).43 words
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Advertisement113 1999-12-31 44 Ist PRIZE: $1,500,000 and 24,572 OTHER PRIZES WORTH $2,100,000 Net proceeds from every Singapore Sweep ticket you buy will go towards building The Esplanade Theatres On The Bay. So get your tickets today and together, let's build The Esplanade! SINGAPORE SWEEP DRAW NO. 01/2000 Date Time: Wednesday, 5 January 2(M)0.113 words
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Advertisement109 1999-12-31 44 Draw No. 1453/ 1999 Thu. 30 Dec 1 999 Group 1 Prize $10,512,098 Group 2 Prize $2,171,432 [*****17 20 24 41 Add. No. 1 28 I WINNING INFORMATION FOR DRAW NO. 1453/1999 Group 1 Prize: $1,752,017 each 6 Winning Share(s) Group 2 Prize: $40,971 each 53 Winning Share(s) Group 3109 words
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Article224 1999-12-31 45 BADMINTON Copenhagen Masters finals Men's singles: Peter GadeChristensen (Den) bt Poul-Erik HoyerLarsen (Den) 15 11 15-11. Women's singles: Camilla Martin (Den) bt Tang Chunyu (Chn) 11-9 11-9. BASKETBALL NBA: Indiana 116 Atlanta 89. Charlotte 109 Milwaukee 105, Cleveland 96 Washington 94, Miami 109 Orlando 106, Detroit 91 Chicago 77,224 words
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Article, Illustration513 1999-12-31 45 BASKETS ALL They produced at least seven wonders of the whirl for I Oth straight win LOS ANGELES The Ixds Angeles Lakers produced at least seven wonders of the whirl on Wednesday, and also about 15 other clunkier moments in their National Basketball Association game. So,New York Times; AP - 513 words
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Article243 1999-12-31 45 ATLANTA The Indiana Pacers used a 40-10 third quarter to bury the Atlanta Hawks 116-89. After falling behind by 10 at half-time, the Pacers had 19 points from Reggie Miller in the third quarter, when they out-scored Atlanta's second-half total of 39. In Charlotte, Sam Cassell hadReuters - 243 words
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Article175 1999-12-31 45 WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division *LL_** San Antonio 20 10 .667 Utah 18 10 .643 1 Denver 15 12 .556 )tt I Minnesota 12 14 .462 6 Houston 9 20 .310 10 v, Dallas 9 20 .310 10', Vancouver 6 22 .214 13 Pacific Divuion W L Pet M175 words
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Obituary, Illustration137 1999-12-31 46 Ong Lai Swee Age: 67 Passed away peacefully on 29 Dec 1999 Sadly missed by Wife TerYahHoo Sons Ong Kheng Hock Daughter-in-law :Ng Kam Oi Ong Kheng Huat Ong Tiam Chye Daughters Ong Ai Tien Sons-in-law Lim Tan Seng Ong137 words
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Obituary, Illustration315 1999-12-31 46 BUfl "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.... Yea, though I walk K&flj H r I through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For you I 1 M are with ?ne; Your315 words
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Obituary, Illustration148 1999-12-31 46 SIM TECK SOON AGE: 84 passed away peacefully on Wednesday 29/12/99 sadly missed by family and loved ones. Wife: Lim Zge Moey Sons: Daughters-in-law: Alan Sim Kim Chuan Mabel Yeo Sim Cheng Sim Kim Hock Judy Tan Yam Hiang Daughters: Sons-in-law: Sim Annie Andrew Er Choon Heng Susan Sim Soo148 words
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Obituary, Illustration122 1999-12-31 46 LOW NGAK PIEOW Age: 76 passed away peacefully on 29 Dec 99, sadly missed by family and loved ones: Wife: Tay Meow Tiang Sons: Daughters-in-law: Lau Peng Sing Ho Moh Ying Low Peng Khoon Chong Chow Yong Low Peng Lim Soh Kim Lian Daughters: Sons-in-law: Low Yong Chey Chee Ming122 words
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Obituary, Illustration213 1999-12-31 46 I "Surely goodness and love will follow me ill the days of my life and I will dwell In the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:6 CHEONG YIN PENG Age: 45 Years Old was called home to be with the Lord on 30.12.99. Sadly missed by loved ones. Husband:213 words
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Obituary, Illustration156 1999-12-31 46 VICTOR THIO Age: 70 was called home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, 29th December 1999, leaving behind loved ones. Wife: Marie Chan Sons: Daughter-in-law: Thio Seng Kee Mok Sou San Freddy Teo Charlie Thio Anthony Thio Daughters: Sons-in-law: Alice Thio Andrew Soh Margaret Thio Kelvin Wong Grandchildren: Sabrina156 words
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Obituary, Illustration135 1999-12-31 46 r Jesus slid,' I am the resurrection, and he who II believes in Me will live. I even though he dies. John 11:25 LAWRENCE LEW CHONG FAH AGE: 87 Was called Home to be with the Lord on 29/12/99. Sadly missed by loved ones. Body restlnq at Blk 21 Bedok135 words
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Obituary, Illustration61 1999-12-31 46 M. SINNATHAI Age: 62 passtd away peacefully on 30 December 1999 Husband: P. Kulandaivelu Mother: Ramaiyee Sons: Palaniyappan Palay, Ganesan, Subramaniam, Kharthiqesan Oauqhttrs: (Saraswathi. deceased), Valliyammal j Daughters-in-law: Letchmi, Pushpa, Rajeswari, Imelda. Umadevi Son-in-law: Mathialagan Brothers, Sisters, Sisters-in-law, Grandchildren Relatives. Corteqe will Itavt Blk 739 i Woodlands Orel* I*o3-399 on61 words
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Obituary, Illustration187 1999-12-31 47 852 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 852 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 852 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fp THE FAMILY OF THE LATE ~HB FUNG CHENG TIM called home to be with the Lord on 25 December 1999 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Bishop Wong Kiam Thau, Rev. Kenny Yeo, Rev Or Kanq Ho Soon, Rev Or187 words
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Obituary, Illustration89 1999-12-31 47 »p^ The family of The Late HENG PIN ZHI Departed on 28-12-99 to be with our Dear Lord Jesus Wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, and colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance, donations, wreaths and condolences during their89 words
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Obituary, Illustration107 1999-12-31 47 Mary Ang Teck Luan Born into eternity to be with the Lord Jesus Christ on 20th December 1999 We, the family of Mary Ang, would like to acknowledge and thank you for your friendship, prayers, attendance, assistance, condolences donations and wreaths during our recent bereavement. Fr.107 words
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Obituary, Illustration145 1999-12-31 47 Maria Lee Gek Nee Lee Gek Noi Born into eternity to be with the Lord Jesus Christ on 21st December 1999 We. the family of Maria Lee, wish to extend our deep appreciation to all friends, business associates, colleagues and St. Joseph Dying Aid Association who145 words
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Advertisement28 1999-12-31 47 MORE OBITUARIES I have lost my souVs companion, A life linked with my own; And day by day I miss her more, As I walk through life alone.28 words
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Obituary, Illustration119 1999-12-31 48 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to the family of the late MICHAEL GEORGE CLAYTON (Executive Director, Clipsal Industries (Holdings) Limited) Departed: 17 December 1999 From The Management Staff of Felten Guilleaume AG A-3943 Schrems Austria Y lth Ottptst Symptthy t119 words
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Obituary, Illustration321 1999-12-31 48 8S6INMEM0RIAM 836 IN MEMORIAM 836 IN MEMORIAM 856 IN MEM0RIAM 856 IN MEMORIAM WONG FOOK HONG Departed 31 Dec. 1989 Since the day you left, our hearts are sore As time goes by we miss you more Your wise advice and gentle face No one can ever fill your vacant321 words
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Article99 1999-12-31 49 SINGAPORE Phy,lcal <Ss> Thu WM *»Obar *****-*****.18 *****-*****.88 100 <) m 1551-1642.85 1550-1641.82 50 Qm 776-832.24 775-831 21 20 gm 310-344.02 310-344.02 5 qm 78-101.97 78-101.97 16-36.05 16-36.05 Bullion coins (Ss/ox) Thu w*d S'por* bullion coin 511 505 511-505 Canadian m«plt leaf 511-505 511-505 Australian nugq»t 492-525.30 491-524.27 ÜBS99 words
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Article1676 1999-12-31 49 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Dec 31, 1999] Managers' prices (Ss) LEGEND: AM prlc»« art Indicative t.c.pt fof t E« R/nqgit Ast.ti Broadly Olvarilflad (CPF Approved); I Narrowly Focusod (CPF Approval); Lowtr mWk "La to I M«Hurn Risk i. M.dlum to SiWoaV f oP l nd#d: CPF i.^.M'^.S of U n.t.. NA-1,676 words
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Article178 1999-12-31 49 Foreign Currency Note Rates (9am. Dec 30) Buying OD Selling Singapore dollars to one unit of foreiqn currency Australian dollar 1.0760 1.0910 Canadian dollar ***** 1.1580 NZ dollar 0.8590 0.8770 Sterling pound 2.6830 2.7110 US dollar 1.6610 1.6720 Singapore dollars to 100 units of 'oreign currency Austrian schilling 12.05178 words
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Article41 1999-12-31 49 Crude palm oil (M$/tonne) Jan 00 1190 (South) R.fin»d palm oil (USS/tonn»l RBO Palm Oil Jan 00 335.00 (seller) Feb 00 335.00 (seller) RBO Olein Jan 00 360.00 (seller) Feb 00 360.00 (seller) RBD Stearin Jan 00 257.50 (seller)41 words
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Article20 1999-12-31 49 Closing prices (US$/troy 01) W«l Thu Singapore 5.22-5.24 5.35-5.38 Tut wed Ne* York S.ZO 5.22 5.36 5.38 Sourer ROTHSCHILD20 words
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Article12 1999-12-31 49 Closing prk»s (M$/kllo) KL Tin 22.33 <*O 80) Turnover 104 (*15)12 words
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Article266 1999-12-31 49 fdgkmsdkrjy Rubtur Futures (Closing prices) RSS I <Tonn«v S ctnt»/k<j> Month H,qh Low S.tl Vel Open Int Jan 00 105.00 FebOO 106.50 900 Mar 00 t09.50 100 Apr/Jun 00 116.00 Jul/Sep 00 120 00 Oct/Dec 00 123.00 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) J»r>00 60.50 60.50 61.00 190 1550 FebOO266 words
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Article369 1999-12-31 49 Dec 30, 1999 1 Eurodollar 3-Month deposit (100 implied interest rat*) Op»n High Low Sttt Cft Ve« Jan 00 94.0600 94 0600 94.0600 94.0600 450 Feb 00 93.950 0 Mar 00 93.870 93.875 93.865 93.875 2748 Act Vol (Wtd 5134 Open Int <W»d ***** Sing Dollar369 words
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Article184 1999-12-31 49 Transaction date: Dec 30, 1999 I k 52 w 11 Curr Lal Vo> °*v Cro N m -»p Hlqh Low Company Traded Salt *or- '000 High Low div H P/C Smil HONGKONG STOCKS 365 173 COL (2000) HK23O 8 78 4550 4 Cathay Pac 20c HK72O 265 6184 words
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Article402 1999-12-31 49 Dec 30, 1999 1 HK$ ASM Pacific 13.80 -0.20 Bank of East Asia 21.60 0.10 C P Pokphand 0.23 0.02 Cat* De Coral 3.13 0.13 Cathay Pacific Airways 13.85 O.IS COL Hotels 3.10 0.45 Century City Infl 0.31 0.03 Cheung Kong Holdings 98.75 1.75 China Motor Bus 51.00402 words
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Article3484 1999-12-31 49 Transaction date: Dec 30, 1999 i AaiutlKt tor mw i»»u«». Pu v»lu» MSI unl.n oth«rwl»» <p*clfi*<>; P/C ratios «r« not *d|ust*d lor currtncy dlffortncts. 1999 Last voi Ntt High Low Company Sal* (000) p/c INDUSTRIALS Consumer Products 440 255 Ajinomoto 320 10 4 20 3 174 46 Angkasa3,484 words
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Article102 1999-12-31 49 Contract tfitt: I D« 30, «*>■ On* 3 6 9 12 V«lu« Unit mth mths mths mths mths Ctli d*t« US$ 5V U 5"/u SV. 5'V» 6V u 3'V. 04/01 AS 4V.. 47. 57. 57, SV. 3 05/01 NZ 47, 5'V. 5 1 SV. 57. 3 05/01102 words
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Article74 1999-12-31 49 CHIDE PRODUCT PRICES Crudt/Product Month* CrinQt Prlc* (USS) BBL BRENT BLEND Jan 0.69 25.23 25 28 WEST TEXAS lnt»rm Jan 0 65 26.30 26 34 DUBAI FATCH F»b 0 87 23.11 23 16 TAPIS BLt NO Jan 0.90 24 85-24.95 MINAS Jin -0.10 23.85 23.95 NAPHTHA (CIF Jap) -5.50/-6.00 236.5074 words
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Article4342 1999-12-31 50 S2-Wh Curr Lett V«X Day Or'» Nat M Cap Wt Avq Company Trad* ♦<*- 000 High Low Dlv% P/E $mll^ Price 182 67 me Acmasoc 119 *2 205 It9 116 10 9.8 196.9 117 84 25 c Alh*nc» Ttch 48.S 76 49 46 40 484,342 words
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Article267 1999-12-31 50 Leong Chan Teik - 31 counters hit all-time highs Leong Chan Teik MARKET REPORT STOCKS closed the year at an all-time high, buoyed by an overnight record close on Nasdaq and investor optimism of a post-Y2K rally next week. The Straits Times Index rose 6.89 points to 2,479-6. In the broader market, gainers led267 words
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Article50 1999-12-31 50 B»n«fun HKIOc ne 000 qoo Kingboard USIOc ***** 000 CltyD«vGSCWO1O223 49 *****0 CMC Global 5c ***** 000 Oli6i.L«CW*****5 Z 4511)000 m* ntkor hki5c 33.319:000 iC f HKIOc 32 si4 000 G^ S mtl Lta 20c 26 55 3'oOO Cn-» Toll 20c "4 113 000 0-:»'. DB.CW*****7 23 *****050 words
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Article67 1999-12-31 50 I Sing foreign stocks. Vtlut caiculttta using Mondays ttchanot rttts TURNOVER COOO) Main Stsdaq Total Muitl Ind 15.383 15 383 Mjnuf«cturing 414.031 69.203 483.234 Ccmmfrc* 20,005 4 SB4 ***** Tpt/Stor/Comm» 45.245 991 ***** fln*nct 20,690 ***** Construction 29.047 ,3,743 42 790 Prop»rti«» ,8,764 ,8 764 Hot.ls/Rjts 3.713 65867 words
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Article1481 1999-12-31 50 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS 1 mm^^^^m Transaction date: Dec 30, 1999 STOCK PRICES LCCCND Strtttt Times Index Stocks M buyma-ln t, JfiU!!?*.""?" 011 Stocks •ppr*v«dun4*f'CPrinv*itm«ntsS«h*nw T«-t«tmpt»«l«yM«>d .dt.-dlvld.nd cc! cum ««Mihml ct conditional tr* e2 eu"l1!SJlL l *fu* ««cumk««utl«i«i« co eum offer rdiicumdlvldondtx-tn c«ca cum dhrtdond cum »H StNo Stock codt MMter1,481 words
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Article1159 1999-12-31 50 52-** Cyrr Last v<x Day Gfi N.t M Cap wt Avq Hl* Low Com»t"y Tr«<*d SUt 'OOP MH> L— Mv» P/C $mh Me* MANUFACTURING 218 85.5 c• AS Auto 10c 185 uoch 1719 191 183 lON 211.2 185 137 54 c ASJ Hldqs 20c 85 unch 14 85 84.51,159 words
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Article, Illustration466 1999-12-31 51 CORNELIA TAN - CORNELIA TAN Demand is likely to be hit unless buyers can get cheaper financing, says Jones Lang LaSalle Ivj PRIVATE home prices may rise even higher next year than the 1O to 15 per cent forecast by the industry, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)466 words
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393 1999-12-31 51 NEW YORK US stocks rose to records and the Nasdaq Composite Index closed above 4,000 for the first time ever on Wednesday, eight weeks after topping the 3,000-mark. It marked the first time since April 21 last year, that the four major USBloomberg News; Reuters - 393 words
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451 1999-12-31 51 'Thailand, even with its currency getting stronger recently against the US dollar, is fairly competitive in the region, particularly in the making of electronics, computers and cars.' Seamico analyst JefF Earhart BANGKOK Production at Thailand's factories climbed to its highest level since the middle ofBloomberg News - 451 words
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376 1999-12-31 51 IT ACTION PUN SINGAPORE'S logistics industry is gearing up for its next frontier, e-logistics, and the Trade Development Board (TDB) has announced it is forming an IT action plan to aid the new push. The IT plan for the logistics industry is376 words
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247 1999-12-31 51 Qualcomm's value rockets US$30b in a day LOS ANGELES Another day, another US$3O billion (5549.8 billion) for Qualcomm. The developer of mobile telephone technology saw its value rising by more than 30 per cent, or US$3O billion, on Wednesday after a bullish analyst report said the meteoric stock could hitReuters - 247 words
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Article, Illustration8 1999-12-31 51 ALAN GREENSPAN FLAVOUR OF THE YEAR RAYMOND LEERAYMOND LEE - 8 words
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244 1999-12-31 51 NEW YORK Most of the world's major bond markets dropped this year, and many investors expect further losses next year as economic growth points towards accelerating inflation and more central bank interest rate increases. "We're still in a bear market," said Mr TimothyBloomberg News - 244 words
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375 1999-12-31 51 BUYOUT Taiwan firm, which now owns 30 per cent of TSMC- Acer Semiconductor Manufacturing, will buy the remaining 70 per cent stake. The buyout will boost its output of eight-inch equivalent wafers by 200.000 next year to three million. TAIPEI TaiwanBloomberg News - 375 words
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Article, Illustration374 1999-12-31 52 LOSING ITS SHINE? IN A year when headlines seemed to point to Singapore's disk drive industry churning out fewer drives, figures will soon show that the situation is quite the contrary. Preliminary figures compiled by industry research firms show that Singapore actually enjoyed aDAVID KWEK - 374 words
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787 1999-12-31 52 WILLIAM CHOONG - WILLIAM CHOONG Analysts say higher value-added activities will take over from disk drives as a pillar of the industry Reports bv WHEN disk-drive maker Seagate Technology closes its disk-drive component plant in Tuas at the turn of the millennium, it will mark a787 words
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Article, Illustration316 1999-12-31 52 EARLY SHUTDOWN SEAGATE Technology will close its Tuas disk media plant by Monday several months earlier than projected. Seagate, the world's biggest disk-drive maker, declined to disclose the number of workers who would be affected by its decision. Replying to questions from The StraitsWANG HUIFEN - 316 words
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Article, Illustration468 1999-12-31 53 RAVI VELLOOR - Bank counters surge as merger talk pops up again RAVI VELLOOR Shares of OCBC and OUB hit new highs as investors see a tie-up between the banks as a sure thing "IL BILLION-DOLLAR CLUB SHARKS in OCBC Bank and Overseas Union Bank (OUB) soared to record highs yesterday as theST GRAPHICS - 468 words
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Article, Illustration326 1999-12-31 53 LEONG CHAN TEIK - LEONG CHAN TEIK CLOB IMPASSE *L THE Singapore firm which is offering a Clob solution has stopped accepting registrations from investors following news that the Commercial Affairs Department is looking into its offer. Receptionists at Collective Custodial Services were telling callers yesterday that the companySTEVEN LEE - 326 words
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464 1999-12-31 53 Extracts of a press conference Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad gave yesterday on the Clob issue. He spoke to reporters after a conference on religion in Sungei Besi, outside KL Q: Will CDP's nominee status be extended? A: I don't know. I think464 words
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374 1999-12-31 53 IGNATIUS LOW - IGNATIUS LOW lin CONTRACT manufacturer CAM International Holdings yesterday reported net tangible asset (NTA) backing per share slipped into negative territory for the year ended Sept 30 even while net loss narrowed to $9.33 million. The NTA backing per share was minus374 words
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Article66 1999-12-31 53 CASA Holdings' net profit for the year ended Sept 30 ballooned 16 times to $3.75 million from $235,000 in the previous year, boosted by higher turnover, successful rationalisation of its business and cost control. Turnover rose 23.6 per cent to $74.9 million. A first and66 words
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Article82 1999-12-31 53 SINCERE Watch's net profit for the six months ended Sept 30 surged nearly six times, to $2.83 million, helped by better cash and inventory management as well as increased marketing and promotional activities. The net profit was 484 per cent above the level of the82 words
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Article83 1999-12-31 53 CONTRACT manufacturer Goldtron has reported that net losses narrowed to $1.35 million for the six months ended Sept 30 from the fig- ure of $1.88 million it notched up a year ago. Extraordinary losses of $7-09 million resulted in a bottom-line loss of $8.52 million.83 words
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Article68 1999-12-31 53 MARINE parts maker Metalock (Singapore) has reported a net loss of $1.03 million for the six months ended Sept .30, and expects to incur losses in the second half as well. It had a net profit of $1.74 million previously. Turnover fell 38 per cent68 words
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Article58 1999-12-31 53 TRI-M Technologies has reported a net loss of $2.33 million for the six months ended Sept 30. This is compared to a profit of $1.21 million in the same period last year. Turnover slumped 55 per cent to $11.37 million. Ix>ss per share was 7.75 cents,58 words
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269 1999-12-31 53 S'pore Exchange grills Inno-Pac about KL deal INNO-PACIFIC Holdings, which runs restaurant chains, was yesterday questioned by the Singapore Exchange (SGX) again over its arrangement with a Malaysian firm. The SGX, in a statement submitted by its trading management vice-presi-dent Keith Heah, fired a list of questions at the company269 words
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Article, Illustration565 1999-12-31 54 CHEE JANN PERNG - CHEE JANN PERNG Some analysts see 3,000 mark within reach next year but others sound caution over high values of shares By THE BEST AND THE WORST THE Singapore share market ended trading for the millennium with a Dang yesterday. The widely-watched Straits TimesADAM LEE - 565 words
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Article53 1999-12-31 54 TOP RISES Mil Dec3 jJJ 2.479.58 (+6.89) Dt<3o Onto PacificCentury 2390 WO.O 4.4 BSembawang 1700 50.0 3.0 StarCruistsWc 1020 40.0 4.1 Chart SemiCond 910 35.0 4.0 JlTHWgsiOc 580 35.0 6 4 GEHldgs. 1940 30.0 U City Dev 50c 975 25.0 2.6 Tri-MSOc 150 22.0 17.2 OCBC 1530 20.0 1.3 DatacraftlOc53 words
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Article, Illustration682 1999-12-31 2 TEO PAU LIN - Eating Air goes to Holland HK TEO PAU LIN Festival Fillip The $800,000 homegrown movie has been selected for screening at the prestigious Hongkong and Rotterdam international film festivals »!L SINGAPORE film has scored another coup. Eating Air, a movie about Ah Beng motorcycle delinquents, has been selected for screening682 words
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Article, Illustration476 1999-12-31 2 ELISABETH GWEE - ELISABETH GWEE Model-singer bares it on two magazine covers H'l SHIRLEY YEE'S belly button gets double exposure this month. The 25-year-old modelsinger appears on both the January covers of Citta Bella and Go magazines in similar sexy midriff-exposing outfits. The cover ofCITTA BELLA; AFP - 476 words
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Article, Illustration239 1999-12-31 2 Good response from the community tojournal WRITE, a literary journal for budding Chinese writers, will be launched today. To be published biannually, the inaugural issue of prose and poetry focuses on the perplexities of growing up. Since January, when the idea was239 words
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Article93 1999-12-31 2 THE President's Charity Art Exhibition raised $223,000, 1 1 /2 times more than what it had expected. Mr Robert lau, the organising chairman, describes it modestly as "a little better than we had hoped". Half of this money, from 52 pieces of artwork sold plus93 words
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Article, Illustration150 1999-12-31 2 FORMER Hongkong actor Keung Jung Peng, who often played a baddie in Cantonese movies during the '50s and '60s, has died. The China-born actor, who battled against cancer for 12 years, was 78. He died in a Hongkong hospital after he had a heart150 words
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Article104 1999-12-31 2 LOS ANGELES Jodie Foster is not coming back for seconds of The Silence Of The I^mbs. She has decided not to reprise her Oscar-winning role of FBI agent Clarice Starling in Hannibal, the sequel to the 1991 movie. Spokesman Jennifer Allen said on TuesdayAP - 104 words
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Article, Illustration177 1999-12-31 2 STILL wondering whether Soundblaster inventor Sim Wong Hoo really thinks that marriage sucks? Find out on page 127 of his new book, wnich will be launched at leading bookshops here today. Titled Chaotic Thoughts From An Old Millennium, it is a 266-page hodgepodge of 56 articles177 words
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Article, Illustration112 1999-12-31 2 A CAR that Hongkong singer William So was in on Tuesday hit a young fan, breaking her legs and pelvis. At least 200 fans were outside So's hotel as he left in his Mercedes Benz for a concert in Chengdu, Sichuan. The fan, a Miss Xu,112 words
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Article, Illustration596 1999-12-31 3 I REFER to the article Zoe Long It's Time To Go (Life!, Dec 23) on Zoe Tay's sexy outfit in relation to her "declining popularity". I feel the press has been flogging a dead horse featuring over and over again pictures and comments on her outfit596 words
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Article452 1999-12-31 3 Don' t judge Hicks, judge nerbook CH E R I A N GEORGE'S pick of the '90s icons is agreeable, especially his take on Bonny Hicks (Excuse Me, Was I A Shock, Life!, Dec 23). But I was disturbed by his detached, albeit favourable, analysis of her influence. It rekindled452 words
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Article117 1999-12-31 3 ZOE TAY ought to be ashamed of herself for indecently exposing herself in public (Zoe Long It's Time To Go, Life!, Dec 23). What bad taste and what a poor role model for our youth in Singapore. This, to me, is reflective of the117 words
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Article175 1999-12-31 3 I REFER to the letters Stop, I Want To Get Off This Silly Ride (Life!, Nov 26), Yes, We've Been Taken For A Phony Ride (Life! Dec 17) and Criticise Spin, Not The Ride Home (Life! Dec 24) by Cheryl Lim. I agree175 words
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Article, Illustration1232 1999-12-31 4 Kelvin Tong - Kelvin Tong These are strange days. After the disco-and- war movies of the 70s and the blockbusters of the '80s, cinema in the '90s is in limbo FIVE years ago, Kathryn Bigelow said all there was to be said. In her brilliant piece of techno- noir,1,232 words
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Article, Illustration736 1999-12-31 4 THELMA AND LOUISE 0991) (Available on video, VCD, LD and DVD) WHILE it is ironic that the most popular grrrl-power film is made by a man Ridley Scott Thelma And Louise remains a road movie that many women swear by. A big part of736 words
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Article, Illustration1145 1999-12-31 5 Chris Ho - Chris Ho Pop Retrospective POP LIFE 1 It's been a year of pop revivals. But instead off playing back the same old songs like a bad record, we've re-invented the classics 1999 is the year we embraced three previous decades of pop movements in one go.1,145 words
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Article, Illustration724 1999-12-31 5 SIAN E. JAY - SIAN E. JAY ART CELEBRATION: AN EXHIBITION OF RECENT SCULPTURES by Delia Prvacki Sculpture Square Until Jan 12 B^ VISITORS who enter the main exhibition hall at Sculpture Square now will find themselves walking into a beautiful cobalt-blue sky in which a myriad stars twinkle.724 words
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Article, Illustration997 1999-12-31 6 Monica Gwee - Monica Gwee Millennium Trap While 500,000 people whoop it up at tonight's Millennium Swing, those of us living a stone's throw from party street will be in Stuck Street I^HAT to wear to a millennium street party? I mean, what matches a raincoat? i Better still,997 words
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Article, Illustration38 1999-12-31 6 REUTERS Carolyn Landesman, a certified balloon artist, positions balloons in the Sky City Theatre auditorium in Auckland, New Zealand, on Wednesday. Landesman is filling the 700-seat theatre with 45,000 balloons in preparation for the millennium celebrations.REUTERS - 38 words
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Article, Illustration129 1999-12-31 6 'He would make tiny fart noises and sound effects. But he was a great co-worker/ Actress Sigourney Weaver (left) on working with Home Improvement's Tim Allen (right) on the set of sci-fi movie Galaxy Quest The aaaaaaah! Just let it all go/ Rirß star Kelts on her129 words
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Article, Illustration655 1999-12-31 12 LI XUEYING - Taking snide asides with Grace LI XUEYING Pop Chick Slanty cat eyes, broad cheekbones, a pert nose and a very wide smile. Not a raving beauty, but one who will not have audiences puking in disgust Hu Her love life 'My love interest has not appeared. My career is veryTAN SUAN ANN - 655 words
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Article, Illustration57 1999-12-31 1 Master chef Lee Tuck Seng presents Chefs Specialities, a special menu with dishes like baked Canadian codfish prepared in Japanese style, steamed bamboo clam in black bean sauce and fried rice with shark's fin, conpoy and vegetable. MAPLE GARDEN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT, Amara Hotel, 16557 words
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Article, Illustration57 1999-12-31 1 The eight-course Alison Grand Menu includes dishes like deepfried slipper lobster in spiced salt, Buddha Jumps Over The Wall, Sichuan peppercorn chicken and braised sea cucumber with black mushrooms. LIU HSIANC LOU SICHUAN RESTAURANT, Alison Hotel, 101 Victoria Street/T* 431-1888/MtaHr Till Jan57 words
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Advertisement547 1999-12-31 6 241 PHONES/ FAXES/PAGERS/ SPECIAL NUMBERS EXPRESS REPAIRS handphones, pagers coinphones. Trade in Good Offer. 567-5677/ *****77 USED GSM SALES! STV, SGH6OO, 8110, 388. 688, 8700. Trade in at j your doorstep. Tel. 276-8865 244 PRINTING/ COPYING SERVICES 2-CTS. ONLY A4 photocopy, lami- nate A4 $1.20. printing, namej cards, invoices, letterheads,547 words
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Advertisement1740 1999-12-31 6 303 AUDI FOR SALE 303 AUDI FOR SALE Audi Premium Automobiles Sales: 841 1183 61 Übi Avenue 2. #01-1 1 Automobile Megamart. Singapore *****8 Parts Services: 473 1 183 27 Leng Kee Road. Singapore *****8 305 BMW FOR SALE 305 BMW FOR SALE j*/"^^^k 11 1 J I 1 11,740 words
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Advertisement937 1999-12-31 6 310 DAIHATSU FOR SALE BEAUTIFUL '81 MODEL Charade COE 7/00 Tax 3/00. Aircon./ hi fi/ intenror $2200 neg. *****82 6/'9l CHARADE. AUTO. Selling very cheap 519.1K nett! CjII: *****83 312 FIAT FOR SALE DOWNPAYMENT $6K DRIVEAWAY. Weekend Converted 5/95 Fiat i Uno I.OIE. Red. Low mileage. Loan $35K. $650 x937 words
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Advertisement1218 1999-12-31 6 316 HONDA FOR SALE MIO '93 CIVIC ESi 3 units Depos't only $7K. New 15m. s/rims. tyres. CO changer 1 owner OMV $18K Trade-in/ test drives are welcome Eric *****857 MIO '90 CONCERTO 1 6EXi (Auto) New 5 yrs COE Beautiful 2K paint/ tax/ 4 disc brakes. Best condition. Must1,218 words
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Advertisement905 1999-12-31 7 316 HONDA FOR SALE 316 HONDA FOR SALE 316 HONDA FOR SALE 316 HONDA FOR SALE 316 HONDA FOR SALE *J&y& Celebrate the New Millennium m »u t o*k>b.i.e; http:iiwwwaml.com.sg fl Ifl J« H «J J iifaeC tfflßfiKtaßh \VSF., I—EGAMARTJ 80 used car dealers with up to 2000 cars and905 words
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Advertisement596 1999-12-31 7 317 HYUNDAI FOR SALE 317 HYUNDAI FOR SALE KrIFTI Visit our New Showroom at: Z^LSi 61 Übi Awe 2 #01-06 Automobile mi|il Megamart Tel: 347-7878 YOUR CHOICE FOR THE MILLENNIUM RICKY TAY MOTOR TRADING The New Sonata authorised dealer 2.OGLS| r(P2) Hvunoni\ Special Promotion Package Low Investment Scheme s 0596 words
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Advertisement2113 1999-12-31 7 329 MERCEDES FOR SALE 325 MERCEDES FOR SALE j^HpiHHBI^ Mprr Pfjpv fl^K/*"*\ > r I I C C 159 SIN MING RD #01-05 AMTECH BUILDING '90 MERCEDES 200E (Converted E200). Leather seats. S/nms. New auto transmission. COE 1/2010. Low downpayment. 7 yrs. loan avail. Asking $99,800 0.n.0. Lot 72 Kallanq2,113 words
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Advertisement639 1999-12-31 7 323 MERCEDES FOR SALE 6/95 BENZ E220 coupe Silver 8/95 Bcnz E2OO auto, silver 5/93 Benz 190E auto, 4-dr. Blue. Accident free. H/p: 9666-6055 587.8K ONLY! 3/'B9 Benz E2OO. Fully converted. Injection. COE 11/2008 S/rims. Very beautiful cond. Trade in. Call *****77. 9/96 MERCEDES C2OO Elegant 3/'95 Mercedes ClBO Elegant639 words
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Advertisement886 1999-12-31 7 325 MERCEDES FOR SALE '96 MERCEDES C2OO auto 1 owner S/rims. Hifi Snowroom condition. Tel: 292-3000 1 OWNER. 6/'9B BENZ E2CO Bidded no. Full option/ C&C svc Showrm. cond. *****886 Focus MUST VIEWI NICE NO. 1 owner. 2/97 C2OO auto, full service by C&C. 777-2328/ 9708 3987 SC2 PLATEI 1886 words
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Advertisement954 1999-12-31 7 Vehicles 326 MITSUBISHI FOR SALE BEAUTIFUL '80 LANCER. COE 2002 (3 units). New paint/ tax, s/rims Nice interior Oeposit $1800 Mthly $426 x 15 mths. Call *****21. NEW MODEL '92 Lancer 13 GLXi (M) White. OMV $*****. Power Steering. No Repair Needed *****19 JUNE I SEPT. 96 Mitsubishi Lane er954 words
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Advertisement1548 1999-12-31 8 Vehicles 328 NISSAN FOR SALE 326 NISSAN FOR SALE New NEO Engine EBD Twin Air Bags Afi S Leather Seat ALTOMEGA (S) PTE LTD I 291 ChantM Road Between Telok Kurau Still Road) Buy Sell AH Vehicles Nissan Japanese Scrap COE 1 OWNER 1/'9B March I.OGL. Twin airbag. ABS. New1,548 words
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Advertisement739 1999-12-31 8 332 PEUGEOT FOR SALE 8/93 PEUGEOT 405GR1. 1.6 manual. OMV $15K. Worth to buy. No repair needed Cheap $32. 8K. Loan avail. Low deposit $BK. 285-6613 '96 PEUGEOT 4C5 GRi (M). 1 Owner. Black. OMV *****1. Fuel Injection. 1 Yr Warranty Beautiful. *****19 8/'96 PEUGEOT 306SR. F/accesso nes. Downpayment $BK,739 words
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Advertisement886 1999-12-31 8 336 RENAULT FOR SALE 2/'93. CHAMADE 19. 18. Auto Leather seats. S/rims. $31 800 OMV $12,941 Call *****894 CHEAP '91 RENAULT 2 OGTXi. Auto. Deposit $4K. OMV $17.5K. Al cond $20,500. High Trade-in. *****89 3/'9l RENAULT 1.1 Campus 5. Manu al. 5-dr. Very good cond. Regularly agt. maintained. Call 344-6511886 words
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Advertisement802 1999-12-31 8 341 SUBARU FOR SALE 4/91 SUBARU VIKI MBO. Well kept Green. $14,500. View: 18 Übi Rd 4 #0107 Henly. *****12/ *****872 2/'9l LEGACY I.BGL, well kept, black. View. No. 18 Übi Rd. 4 #0107 Henly. *****12/ *****872 1991 NEAR LEGACY I.BGL Auto. Tax 5/00 Maroon, s/nms. 3 owners Tip Top802 words
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Advertisement822 1999-12-31 8 344 TOYOTA FOR SALE I Guaranteed |The li^TJDeat! Used Cars PjJjJ Immediate Transfer: TJEB^R I Settlement S^^K I Flexible viewing rvv9^W I I KA HUP VEHICLES TRADING I BEST DEAL FOR ALL TOYOTA MODELS Afl lands PARF or VOIWARf Japanese used cars/ Off PeakV Continental *****18 Mr Ong [Day/ Night)822 words
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Advertisement1549 1999-12-31 8 346 VOLKSWAGEN 346 VOLKSWAGEN 346 VOLKSWAGEN 346 VOLKSWAGEN FOR SALE FOR SALE FOR SALE FOR SALE I Get behind the wheels of one of the best built Volkswagen ever at Alpine's two convenient locations. '^~A .JLp^ If r CSS2ESSE& Übi 3477V57 Novena 353-7117 For the ultimate Bora (I*6 and 2.31,549 words
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Advertisement591 1999-12-31 8 351 CLAS C IC/VINT AGE CARS 68MGB SOFTTOP WIREWHEEL COE 2002 ConverteJ free. Leaded petrol. Excellent. 9835-5414 '73 MiNI 1275GT/ Fully rebuilt/ COE 2002 near/ enthusiastic. Genuine buyer call 247-8968/ 9639-7678 352 LUXURY CARS 6/91 LUXURY CITROEN XM V6. per feet, silver, leather electric seats, good Hi-Fi, $12K only. *****780591 words
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Advertisement648 1999-12-31 9 36^ CAR GROOMING CAR SHINE POLISH at your own time doorstep convenience. Pis. call our mobile squad 9691-971 r,' *****570/ 9742-7329 for appt CAR POLISHING/ UPHOLSTERY Cleaning. Open 7 days wk. 9 6pm. Tel: 782-2030 for appointment. SPRAY PAINTING, grooming bo dykit. G'teed workmanship satisfaction. John 9690-6027 for appt. 367648 words
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Advertisement366 1999-12-31 9 HIGH PRICE FOR SCRAP CARS HP *****111 L L j NEW/ USED CAR/ Scrap Car Spe cialist. Highest in Town. All Model 0/ SZ/ PB/Commercial All Welcome. Call *****66/ *****55. HIGHEST OFFERI CIVIC, Accord. Concerto/ Corolla, Corona/ Astina. I SI2K SI3K. Call *****333 now!!! ATTRACTIVE CASH FOR all PARF/ used/366 words
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Advertisement568 1999-12-31 9 382 VEHICLES FOR HIRE NEW CARS FOR long term. 1.0 cc to Mercedes. Daily/ Weekly/ mthly./ weekend package. Also for M'sia use. Call Venus *****70/ 5098 LINKS RENTAL: PICK-UPS. 10 ft., Van (special offer $35 Box Van mm. 1 day). 713 Clementi West. St. 2 «01 121. Tel: 778-3363. NO568 words
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Advertisement888 1999-12-31 9 383 VEHICLES WANTED 383 VEHICLES WANTED ALL VEHICLES OFFER EXTRA $2500 112 East Coast Rd. Katonq Mall 881-16 VIEW AT YOUR DOORSTEP We pay extra high prices for all models of car. Loan insurance available Consignment of cars welcome Cash payment No obligation, free quotation EXPRESS DEALS AUTO TRADING »Tefc888 words
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Advertisement752 1999-12-31 9 357 LORRIES FOR SALE YONG CHUAN MOTOR TRADING BUY SELL LEASING ALL COMMERCIAL VEHICLES '99 Nissan Cabstar 10' diesel '98 Mitsubishi 10' Chllltr. '98 Mitsubishi L3OO van petrol '98 Ford Econ van 2.5 diesel, sdr. '98 Nissan Cabstar 10' diesel '97 LOV Pilot Van. Diesel '97 Isuzu NHRSSE IO ft.752 words
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Advertisement1723 1999-12-31 9 Vehicles 391 VANS FOR SALE 391 VANS FOR SALE 391 VANS FOR SALE 391 VANS FOR SALE 391 VANS FOR SALE HYUNDAI Hl OO VAN \Jk\ SPECIAL \Zy ISSSHSSL Mercedes-Benz -h™-- The new Mercedes-Benz Vito Van AT ?L A £?S IVE meets Euro II standards (CDI engine) DAILY 9.30am to1,723 words
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Advertisement309 1999-12-31 9 FAT BOY 1340CC. Harley Davidson. 06/97. Top cond. Fully accessorized. Low mileage. Well priced at $28,500. Please call *****174 BELWIN MOTORS PTE Ltd opens on j Sun. liam-3pm. Free gift with evi ery purchase on motor cycle. Trade-in welcome. Call 295-1900. i WE SPECIALISE IN all new and used bikes.309 words
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Advertisement593 1999-12-31 10 Properties 402 DOl-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST PTE APTS RENT PooTrlr^ View r^< ANCHORAGE PENTHSE/ GROUND f" Luxurious 4/ 3/ 2/ 1 studio. Pool view. Resort MRT/ supermarket. Happy New Year! David 9413-6122 D.OB MERGUI CT. Near city/ KK/ S goon. 2 bdrms. 2 Attached bath F/furn. F/aircon. Well kept. $1500. immed593 words
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Advertisement434 1999-12-31 10 *****9-10 ORCHARD/ 404 009-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTE APTS -RENT PTE APTS -RENT I LEONIE CONDOTEL I ——FOR LEASE—— ORCHARD DELUXE SEAVIEW APARTMENTS IMMEOIATE OCCUPATION In district 9. at Leon* Hit) Rd/Grange Rd. just off Orchard MRT station Apartments and penthouses with panoramic CBO skyline and harbour view.434 words
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Advertisement445 1999-12-31 10 lamb Etl^iH TIARA/ PATERSON TWR. High fir Nicely renovated. 1300 sq.ft. 3+l/ 2700 sq.ft. 4+l F/furn. F/aircon. $4.8K up neg. *****799 Dorothy. REGENCY PARK. 3+l rm. Enjoy nature. 2250 sq.ft. Cairnhill Plaza. 4+l rm. High fir. 2820 sq.ft. S7.BK. Immed.! Pg: 980-99-888 Alex HSR KENTISH GREEN CONDO. New. Near Little445 words
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Advertisement575 1999-12-31 10 404 DO9 10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTE APTS RENT SPANISH VILLAGE. 1650 sq.ft. 3 rms. Renovated/ 1200 sq.ft. 2 i rms./ Studio. H/p. 9834-3996 SRA D.09 PATERSON TWR. 4+l. 2650 i sq.ft. Renovated. P/furn. Immed. $4800 Page Owner *****-584 D.IO HOLLAND Hill Mansion. 1950 sq.ft. 3+l rms. P/furn. F/facilities. $3,500575 words
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Advertisement975 1999-12-31 10 40tJD11& 21 NEWTON/ BT TIMAH/ CLEMENTI PTE APTS RENT NEAR NOVENA MRT. 2-room apt Furnished. $1600. Aircon. Newly renovated. Hp: 9670-1862 (Owner) D.ll MORIMASA GDN. 3+l. Balcony 1872 sq.ft. Facilities. Future MRT. $4 SK. Jan 9493 2820 ERA D.21 GOODLUCK GON. 3 rm. F/furn/ aircon. 1750 sq.ft. Amenities. Ouiet. Convenient975 words
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Advertisement819 1999-12-31 10 412 Dl7-18 CHANGI/ PASIR RIS PTE APTS RENT <io LOW RENTAL <r<r DON'T MISS 111 Please cell <t<t 782 8861 Ban <t-b 2+l Azalea Park $1500 3+l Melville Park $1800 3+l Eastpoint Green $2300 CHANGI VILLAGE COUNTRYSIDE Studio. Furn./ aircon. Short/ long term. Strida *****89/ *****322 EASTPOINT GREEN. 2+l/ 3+l.819 words
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Advertisement1001 1999-12-31 10 420 HOUSES FOR RENT D.lO SEMI-D. 4-BDRMS. D .05 Faber Drive bunglw./ s/pool. 0.17 corner terr. 4+l. All exquisitely renovated i with gdn. Others avail. 9731-5262 i FOOD'S GOOD AT 0.15. Amazing I beautiful house in the East. Okoku 440 9788/ 9304 6239 Patrick NEAR AMERICAN SCH. Corner terr. 2500/1,001 words
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Advertisement946 1999-12-31 10 4X2 HUDC/ HDB APTS FOR RENT 5-RM. SEMBAWANG APPROVED Blk 312. Near MRT/ Sun Plaza Unfurn $900. Immed. 9539-4800 Agt. $600 ONLYI TAMAN Ho Swee 1 rm./ 1 hall. Unfurn. Near MRT/ shops Avail. 10 Jan. 9-*****64. $880 ONLY! DOVER Rd 2 rm./l hall. Furn. Near Singapore Poly/ shops immed.946 words
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Advertisement932 1999-12-31 10 426 ROOMS FOR RENT MILCHEL A COMFORTABLE loving home for foreign students. Pis. contact: 9680-3467 ROOMS AVAILABLE IN all areas for all races. Immediate stay at reasonable rates. Call: 244-1797. T. PAYOH/ AMK Rms. for students (guardianship), couples, singles long short term. 9407-9929 CB FEMALE FOREIGN STUDENT! Aircon rm. in932 words
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Advertisement718 1999-12-31 10 ■440D01-08 CITY SOUTH-WtST HOUSES SALE 0.05 NEW LISTING! Spnngwood in ter. terr. 4 bdrms. South facing. Near park ***** 600 Highgate WEST COAST PUCL 1985/ 2500 sq ft. Near amenities/ mkt. Call: 468 6906/ Pg 9407 4029 agt 441 001-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST PTE APTS SALE NORMANTON PK. NEAR NUS/ NUH/718 words
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Advertisement708 1999-12-31 11 445 DO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND HOUSES -SALE Pb^H^lH kiti^r I MAI E»T A T t It Bess Location MOONBEAM TERR. BEAUTIFUL 2' storey Semi.D. 5 rm. Approx. 3600/ 2300 sq.ft. F hold. Convenient pte. niche. *****936 CB D.09 SOPHIA RD. 788/ 1500 sq.ft D.09 Niven Rd. 872/ 1600 sq.ft. F'hold.708 words
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Advertisement855 1999-12-31 11 446 DO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTE APTS SALE D.09 YONG AN Pk 4+l 3229/ 3434 sq.ft. Face pool. Very high fir. Panoramic view. F/renovated. Tenanted. $920 p.s.f. up. HB 9317 8237 D.lO HOLLAND VICINITY. 2550 sq.ft s+l. Spacious layout. Direct pool view. F/facilities. View to appreciate. HB 9525-9570/ 9317-8237 D.09855 words
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Advertisement828 1999-12-31 11 451 Dll 21 NEWTON/ BTTIMAH/ CLEMENTI PTE APTS SALE MAPLEWOODS. NEW LISTING! 4+l. 1893 sq.ft High fir. Best spacious layout. Fhold. Beautiful resort living. $1.75M. Pg 9200-5815 DW BIRMINGHAM MANSION. NEW. Mins. to Novena MRT/ Orchard. Fhold. 3 rms. High fir. Unblocked. Pool. Foreigners eligible. 9221-5508 JOT SELANTING GREE/t. NEXT828 words
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Advertisement624 1999-12-31 11 456 Dl2-14 BALESTIER/ MACPHERSON/GEYLANG PTE APTS SALE S92OK NEG! VIEW Fri Sat, Sun 2 spm! Shan Court. F'hold. 1916 sq.ft. High fir. 4-rms. Beautiful quiet. Move-in. Walk to MRT. 9260-7377 BIRCHWOOD MANSION. 1260 sq.ft F'hold. 3 rms. 8 yrs. old. Tenanted. Near shpq./ amenities. Convenient. Asking S66BK. *****147 CR. D.14624 words
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Advertisement1892 1999-12-31 11 Properties 465 Dl7-18 CHANGI/ 465 Dl7-18 CHANGI/ 465 Dl7-18 CHANGI/ 465 Dl7-18 CHANGI/ 465 Dl7-18 CHANGI/ 465 Dl7-18 CHANGI/ PASIRRIS PASIRRIS PASIRRIS PASIRRIS PASIRRIS PASIRRIS HOUSES -SALE HOUSES -SALE HOUSES -SALE HOUSES -SALE HOUSES SALE HOUSES -SALE The Straits Times Classified PROPERTY GUIDE PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL _A -City South West J>}-211,892 words
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Advertisement478 1999-12-31 11 470 Dl9-20 SERANGOCN/ THOMSON HOUSES SALE D.20 SEMBAWANG HILLS. F hold S/storey terr./ semi-d./ bunglw 2100-3988 sq.ft. $950,000 upwards. Rolf *****11/ *****721 D.20 BRAND NEW 2 I storey inter terr. with attic. 5 bdrms./ toilet Cpp. St. Nicholas Girls Sch. N.E facing. SI.IBM neg. 9411-1188 ERA 0.19 TAI HWAN Cres.478 words
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Advertisement761 1999-12-31 12 Properties 471 Dl9-20 SERANGOON/ THOMSON PTE APTS SALE 10AM.-6PM. THOMSON IMPERIAL Ct Just TOP. 2' 3 bdrms. 1270 1647 sq.ft. Hotel ambience roof top gdn. Showflat »02-09 *****878 D.19 FORTUNE PARK. F hold MRT Condo. facilities. 3+l. Face pool. Ouiet. SBOOK. Agt. 9701 5398 NEW LISTING) FAR Horizon Gdn. 1152761 words
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Advertisement1083 1999-12-31 12 476 D22-28 WEST NORTH PTE APTS SALE SEASONS PARK TWR. 2 1292 sq.ft. 3+l. Low fir. Pool view. Windy (rental avail.) 9730-3338 ERA D.26 SEASONS PK. New listing Stu dio with gdn. Approx. 1076 sq.ft. F/facilities. Price neg. 9326 4481 SEASONS PK. 3*l. mid fir. 1294 sq.ft. F/facilities/ MRT, 21,083 words
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Advertisement992 1999-12-31 12 492 HDB APTS FOR SALE (ANG MO KIO) 4 'NG' BLR. 301. 426. Upgraded. high *lr MRT. Beautifully renovated. Early move-in. *****905 OMH 4 NG OR. to dr. Blk. 415 AMK. High floor Marble floor. Near MRT/ amenities. Pg. 9556-9227 Agent 5 'A' CORNER Blk 253. 5 yrs. 4 bdrm.992 words
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Advertisement584 1999-12-31 12 "•SSS3B3SBS 1 •"Sfi&SSBSf "•SMSSSSSa 1 —m&88&& "•aaBKRSB 1 -"iSSTSKSSf The Straits Times Classified PROPERTY GUIDE (HDB ESTATES) Classification Codes HDB Estates 1a 502 Geylang/Eunos/Macpherson Kallang Whampoa Note: The numbers in the map are Classification Codes for advertisement bookings. 516 Toa Payoh Potong Pasir 77i/s may not be reproduced in any584 words
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Advertisement632 1999-12-31 12 49« HDB APTS FOR SALE 496 HDB APTS FOR SALE 496 HDB APTS FOR SALE 496 HDB APTS FOR SALE 496 HDB APTS FOR SALE (BUKiT BATOK) (BUK)T BATOK) (BUKIT BATOK) (BUKIT BATOK) (BUkVt BAT6k) *> v jAUMDirectors Managers wish toUSfUnHour valuable WltJlM&for the support they have given for the632 words
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Advertisement444 1999-12-31 12 N.S. facing. Well kept. Near MRT/ sch./ shops. Valued. 9706-1559 4 <9 BLK 323 Bt. Batok, low fir. Simpie renovation. Amenities/ MRT/ shops/ sch. *****100 REA. 5 'A' PT. Blk. Bt. Batok Blk. 172. Lift level. High fir. Good facing. Windy. Valued. To view. Pg. 9309-9339. 497 HDB APTS FOR444 words
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Advertisement456 1999-12-31 12 497 HDB APTS FOR SALE (BTMERAH/QUEENSTOWN/ TELOK BLANGAH 4 'A' CORNER with recess. Bt Purmei. High fir. Unblocked. Move-in cond. Desmond 9706-8844 S? 4 T DR. to dr. Kim Tian. Blk 129. Low fir. F/renovated. Amenities. Can contra. Melvin *****584 ERA 4 'S' BLK. 102 Henderson Cres. #01. Dr-to-Dr. N.S.456 words
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Advertisement531 1999-12-31 12 500 HOB APTS FOR SALE (CHOA CHU KANG/ BUKIT PANJANG) 4 'A' BLK 116 Teck Whye. Next to corner. High fir. Unblock. Move in. Near LRT/ shpg./ mkt. Valuation S2I4K. Contra 765-4930 RE/MAX. PANORAMIC 4 'A 1 BLK. 544 CCK. Midflr. Unblocked. Windy. 101% move-in! Lambang Shpg. Ctr. All enquiries531 words
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Advertisement530 1999-12-31 12 900 HDB APTS FOR SALE (CHOA CHU KANG/ BUKIT PANJANG) 4 'A' BIX 413 CCK. High fir. Windy. Marble fir. Move-in. Amenities/ MRT. View to Offer! BAY *****961 4 'A' BLK 419 Fajar Rd. Mins walk to LRT. Convenient. Well kept. Renovated. No contra. *****288 JG 4 'A' CCK blk.530 words
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Advertisement965 1999-12-31 12 501 HDBAPTS FOR SALE (CLEMENTI/ WEST COAST) 4 'NG' CLEMENTI Blk 321 2 mins MRT High fir Face N.S. Move in cond. Designer renovated. Near amenities Call *****873 No agts 4 'NG' CORNER BLK. 373 High fir. Renovated. Move-in 3 mins MRT/ terminal/ ctr Must view. Co-broke welcome 9312 2795965 words
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Advertisement3821 1999-12-31 13 BIZ HDB APTS FOR SALE (PASIRRIS/CHANGI) LOW CASHI Exec. Apt corner Blk. 586 (2 units). 2 mms. walk to MRT/ Whitesand. 5 yrv Can contra. Unblock. Pg 9200 2946 ERA ■^mJ W-y S4lOK+! 5 T Corner 806. Big square hall. Privacy of rooms. 129 sq.m. Beautiful house. Christian family. Unblocked3,821 words
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Advertisement496 1999-12-31 13 512 HDB APTS FOR SALE (PASIRRIS/CHANGI) 4 'A' PASIR RIS Di» 421 Near ame nities park View to oiler!! Rahim Hassan, Noons 9324 8239 4 'A' PASIR Ris Blk. i 36/ Exec. Apt. Blk. 113. Just 5 yrs Reiovated. Move-in. Amenities. 9595 2121 agt. 4 'A' BLK. 750 Pasir Ris496 words
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Advertisement259 1999-12-31 13 314 HDB APTS FOR SALE (TAMPINES/ SIMEI) EXEC. APT. 495E, nicely renovated. Early move-in. Valued 5452K Must se'.l Low ;ash 146 sq m Razak/ Anuar *****020 HSR EXEC MAIS. BLK. 940 Tampmes. Low fir. Renovated Near bus-stop, amenities. *****681 www. axpo.com/property/amrinjofri EXEC. MAIS. BLK. 860 Tampmes High fir. Move-in. Marble/259 words
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Advertisement974 1999-12-31 14 Properties Travel Guide 514 HDB APTS FOR SALE (TAMPINES/SIMEI) 4 'A' CORNER Tampines. Blk 276. Mid fir Lift level. Nice designer's decor. Walk to MRT. Valued S26BK. Pg. 9302 1944 ET Co 4 'A' BLK. 358/ 322 Tampines. Renovated, marble fir. high fir. Un blocked. Opp. Cold Storage. Must view!974 words
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Advertisement929 1999-12-31 14 514 HDB APTS FOR SALE (TAMPINES/SIMEI) 5 YRS. BLK. 317 5 T. Nicely renovated. Well kept. Move in. Unblock. Near Tampines Mart. *****912 AT 516 HDB APTS FOR SALE (TOA PAYOH/ POTONG PASIR) EN-BLOC T. PAYOH 3 T corner blk. 137. 100% move in. unblocked. Eligible for 4/ 5 rm.929 words
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Advertisement879 1999-12-31 14 517 HDB APTS FOR SALE (WOODLANDS/ SEMBAWANG) JUMBO CORNER BLK. 420 «03 100%) move-m. Valued. Near amenities All races. 9522-3937 NC. JUMBO FLAT BLK. 142. Marsiling. High fir. Near MRT/ amenities. All races. Pg *****190 Eastview PT. BLK. 216. Marsilmg. High fir. Sea view. Marble/ Aircon/ Bright/ Windy/ Open hse.879 words
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Advertisement1057 1999-12-31 14 518 HDB APTS FOR SALE (YISHUN) EXEC. APT. BLK. 791. Yishun. Lift level. Renovated. Price neg. All races. Must sell. *****12 SKV LOW CASHI CORNER 4 A blk 784 Low fir. MRT/ amenities. Contra. Co-broke. 9201-5192 Aden SG. LOW CASH! 4 NG Blk. 740/ 4 A 762. 784. 864/ 51,057 words
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Advertisement933 1999-12-31 14 525 HOUSES WANTED (RENT/ BUY) CALL 9555-5554. MR Teo to buy semi-d (err. D.lO, 11, 15, 19. 20. New/ old. High budget. No agt. PROFESSIONAL SMALL family ur gently want all areas 2 to 5- r rrv Owner pis. call 9730-5980 526 PRIVATE APTS WANTED (RENT/ BUY) HAPPY MILLENNIUM TO933 words
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Advertisement680 1999-12-31 14 934 OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT TELOK BLANGAH HOUSE. «01-O6 Area: 1806 sq.ft. Independent airconditioned Suitable for all trades Rent neg. Contact Mr. Chan: 250-7198 ORCHARD TONG BUILDING. High floor. 1390 sq.ft. $5.50 p.s.f. neg. Chinatown Trengganu Street. 974 sq.ft. f> 52.50 p.s.f. neg. Immed. Pis call: 440-6633 X 11 D.02680 words
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Advertisement791 1999-12-31 14 537 SHOP SPACE FOR RENT 537 SHOP SPACE FOR RENT RIVERSIDE POINT I Prime Shops Offices For Leasllf I Next to ClarVe Quay MRT Station I Atm sizes from 97 to 40C4 sq.ft I Arts and related trades I Antiques Ethnic Furniture Collectibles 1 Retro Lifestyle fashion I Weekend flea791 words
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Title Section23 1999-12-31 1 The Straits Times Established 1H45 Jan 1, 1001 to Dec 31, 1999 76 pages in three parts %B A Singapore Press Holdings publication23 words
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Article, Illustration450 1999-12-31 1 TAN TARN HOW - TAN TARN HOW Dec 31, 1999 THE biggest news today as the millennium draws to a close is this: Planet Earth is still here and is now truly a global village. It has become so, thanks to television, telephony, satellites, the450 words
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557 1999-12-31 1 CHUA LEE HOONG - CHUA LEE HOONG Move Signals The Start Of Decline Young Emperor's edict to halt all voyages is seen as a sign of China turning inwards, reversir^ his father's policy of demonstrating his power !h, Sept 7, 1424 BEIJING The new emperor557 words
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Article321 1999-12-31 1 LESLIE FONG - LESLIE FONG THE Millennium Special which you now hold in your hands is like no other we hope. While other newspapers and magazines have been falling over each other in rushing out lists ranking the top 10 or 100 events or personalities this century, we321 words
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203 1999-12-31 1 JULYN KANG - Singapore sold for 60,000 Spanish JULYN KANG H'l Aug2, 1823 SINGAPORE The JohorRiau Sultanate signed Singapore away to the British for 60,000 Spanish dollars in a treaty yesterday. A 12-gun salute was fired as Sultan Hussain Mohamed Shah and his chief minister, Abdul Rahman, put their signatures to the pact203 words
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Article, Illustration516 1999-12-31 2 CHING CHEONG - CHING CHEONG By Dec 22, 1978 BEIJING In a dramatic turnabout, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) yesterday said it would shift its focus from political revolution to economic development and open up to the world. The change is seen as a personal triumph516 words
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Article904 1999-12-31 2 ASAD LATIF - ASAD LATIF Five hundred Indians die in a battle at Plassey as a 50,000-strong force is defeated by 2 v ooo British troops Bu June 24, 1757 PLASSEY (Bengal) A hugely-outnumbered Knglish force defeated the divided troops of an Indian ruler here yesterday in a historic battle904 words
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Article237 1999-12-31 2 JULYN KANG - JULYN KANG li'i Oct 22, 1925 KATHMANDU (Nepal) A member of a British expedition to the mountains here has claimed to have sighted the famed "abominable snowman" of the Himalayas, also known as the yeti. For want of a faster camera, Greek photographer N.A. Tombazi said he237 words
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Article, Illustration828 1999-12-31 2 ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM - ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM Ik April 7, 1930 DANDI (Gujarat) The leader of India's anti-colo-nial movement, Mohandas K. Gandhi, launched a nationwide civil disobedience campaign yesterday when he scooped salt from a beach here. That simple act of defiance has left the British828 words
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Article, Illustration25 1999-12-31 3 Rewarded for betraying his people, Bengal's Mir Jafar is placed on the defeated Nawab's throne. Here, he meets British commander Robert Clive.25 words
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Article412 1999-12-31 3 JANADAS DEVAN - Atomic bomb destroys Hiroshima JANADAS DEVAN 'The impact was so terrific that practically all living things were literally seared to death. All the dead and injured were burned beyond recognition. Tokyo radio §z Aug7, 1945 GUAM A single bomb of unprecedented destructive power destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima yesterday.412 words
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Article, Illustration661 1999-12-31 4 July 17, 1853 GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY: Flotilla sent to Japan THE threat was made by Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, commander of the fleet, who requested that the Japanese government accept a letter from US President Millard Fillmore and respond within a month.661 words
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Article136 1999-12-31 4 JULYN KANG - JULYN KANG Hi, Mayi, 1823 SINGAPORE Singapore has declared slavery illegal despite the thriving slave trade everywhere else in the world. Behind the move is Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. He has issued a regulation which prohibits slavetrading here. He declared that no one136 words
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455 1999-12-31 4 SUSAN SIM - SU SAN SIM Bu May 20, 1908 BATAVIA A group of Javanese youths today set up an association aimed at encouraging Dutch East Indies natives to unite into a national community. Called the Budi Utomo, the group may signal the dawn of a455 words
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Article444 1999-12-31 6 GERALDINE HENG - Western forces overrun Holy Land GERALDINE HENG After an arduous three-year journey, Western Christian forces overrun Jerusalem, killing Muslims and Jews, and torturing Eastern Christians B« July 16, 1099 JERUSALEM Christian forces overran Jerusalem yesterday in what might be called a Crusade to rid the Holy I .and of Muslin—444 words
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Article, Illustration287 1999-12-31 6 Geraldine Heng - Geraldine Heng FOR the East, the two greatest heroes in the story of the crusades are Baibars, the Mamluk ruler of Egypt who rid the Levant of the last European occupation forces in 1291, and Salah ad-Din Yusof, known to the West as287 words
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Article, Illustration941 1999-12-31 6 Geraldine Heng - How the West was won and lost Geraldine Heng THE FIRST CRUSADE (1096-99) THE FIRST CRUSADE THE First Crusade of 1099 ended in spectacular success. Eventually, four crusader "states" the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Principality of Antioch, and Counties of Edessa and Tripoli were established on conquered territory, constituting the firstJALEHA HASHIM - 941 words
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Article402 1999-12-31 8 11th to 15th century South-east Asia: Champa Kingdom in South Vietnam gradually absorbed by Dai Viet Kingdom in North 1012 (China): Rice introduced 1024 (China): First paper currency issued 1045 (China): First use of movable printing type 1096-1272: The Crusades 1096 (Italy): First university established at Salerno 1100s: Thai402 words
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Article, Illustration1233 1999-12-31 8 Pressed on all fronts and with its dreams of conquest shattered, an aggressive Japan was all but defeated by the time the atomic bombs were dropped, forcing its unconditional surrender, JANADAS DEVAN reports ON AUG 6, 1945, when the US dropped theJALEHA HASHIM - 1,233 words
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Article, Illustration518 1999-12-31 8 The girls are incomparable Hou ought to learn that the girls of the province of Catai are beyond others pure and keep the virtue of modesty. They do not skip and dance, they do not frolic, they do not fly518 words
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Article, Illustration337 1999-12-31 10 FARIDA ALATAS - FARIDA ALATAS Turks triumph with inventions of gigantic cannons firing explosive shells made of gunpowder, and a mobile tower higher than the city walls Bg *We had all been dreading this day for years. Just when we began to think that it would not happen, we337 words
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Article247 1999-12-31 10 Ziya Gokalp (1876-1924) FAMOUS TURKS A TURKISH professor of sociology, he developed the intellectual basis for Turkish nationalism. He preceded Ataturk. The latter actually put into practice the ideas of the former through fiis policy of laicisation of Turkish life. Gokalp was born in Diyarbakir and was the son of247 words
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Article, Illustration286 1999-12-31 10 HE was a soldier, nationalist and statesman and dedicated his life to the building of the Turkish republic. The Grand National Assembly of Turkey bestowed upon him the title Ataturk (Father of the Turks) in recognition of his service to the Turkish nation. Like Gokalp, Ataturk286 words
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364 1999-12-31 11 THE Ottoman Turks were not regarded merely as a threat to Europe. They were also a source of knowledge. From the 15th century, Ottoman envoys spent long tours of duty in Europe. Given that Islam became identified with the Turks and "Turk" became synonymous with364 words
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Article, Illustration988 1999-12-31 11 FARIDA ALATAS - FARIDA ALATAS h;jiwe,t ghtopiuy But the significance of the Ottoman Empire qoes beyond that. It also made great economic and cultural contributions to world civilisation By NEWS ANALYSIS THE Ottoman Empire is important to history because it was one of the few Eastern powers which made significantJALEHA HASHIM; FABIAN CHAN MIN-FAY - 988 words
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Article, Illustration971 1999-12-31 12 ASAD LATIF - Crippling cost of colonialism ASAD LATIF NEWS ANALYSIS By It brought Europe and other continents into a single world system but at tlie terrible cost of crippling Asia, Africa and the vast majorities of the Americas COLONIALISM is the act through which Europe brought other continents into a single world971 words
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Article242 1999-12-31 12 JULYN KANG - Suez Canal is finally open JULYN KANG *L NovlB, 1869 SUEZ CANAL It has taken 10 years and claimed the lives of 125,000 workers, but the Suez Canal is now finally open for business. Yesterday, Egyptian viceroy Khedive Ismail officially launched the 163-km canal across the Isthmus of Suez connecting242 words
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Article175 1999-12-31 14 1600 (England): East India Company founded 1601 (Indonesia): First East India Company voyage to At jeh and lava 1602 (Netherlands): Dutch East India Company founded 1603 (Japan): Tokugawa shogunate established 1608 (Italy): Miooscoix devised 1609 (Germany): Kepler's theory of planetary motion published 1619 (Indonesia): Dutch found Batavia (Jakarta) 1633175 words
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Article, Illustration284 1999-12-31 14 HE ONCE declared himself the punishment of God. Judging from the millions of people he killed, the countless cities and cultures that he destroyed, Genghis Khan could hardly have been accused of exaggeration or arrogance. The stocky nomad-turned-general is possibly the greatest empire-builder innistory.284 words
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Article702 1999-12-31 14 LESLIE KOH - LESLIE KOH Mongol officials try to deny it, but rumours that the general has died on the battlefield are rampant after his unexplained disappearance Bu Augl2 1227 KARAKORUM (Mongolia) Mongol officials yesterday tried to quash rumours that their leader Genghis Khan had died on the battlefield while directing702 words
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Article909 1999-12-31 14 LESLIE KOH - LESLIE KOH NEWS ANALYSIS /<>, GENGHIS Khan did die, but his kingdom did not at least not for another hundred years or so. Officials were indeed covering up his death apparently from a hunting accident or typhus perhaps in fear that vassal cities would rebel. They909 words
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Article, Illustration385 1999-12-31 15 THE Germans thought they were being besieged by flesh-eating one-eyed monsters when the Mongol calvary first approached the gates of Europe in the *****. They were filled with dread as the first Orientals they had ever seen came thundering in. The first sign of the invasion would385 words
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Article304 1999-12-31 15 Other great empires THE Mongol empire ranks as the greatest which mankind has ever seen in both modern and ancient history. Its only worthy parallels can be found perhaps in the Roman and British empires. No other Asian empire has come close to achieving what the Mongols did. Even Timur304 words
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Article, Illustration765 1999-12-31 16 The property market is abuzz with activity. With more land sales and supply of units, prices are also expected to remain attractive. The outlook for the property market is sunny. The economic recovery has created confidence among developers and the market is coming alive again. Prices765 words
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Article, Illustration326 1999-12-31 16 The overwhelming advantages ot using lWetCias arc well-known. Today, eight out of 10 new HDH house holds use PoweKlas and six out ot 10 new condominiums install piped gas and more and morehouseholds are turning to piped gas tor their water heaters as326 words
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Article, Illustration1551 1999-12-31 17 BARRY D. STEBEN - BARRY D. STEBEN Loyal to the emperor and focused on sovereignty, the samurai reformers learn from the West to become a modern, industrialised nation-state NEWS ANALYSIS "•I JAPAN'S Meiji Restoration in 1868 was certainly one of the most momentous events in world history in1,551 words
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Article, Illustration689 1999-12-31 18 KAO CHEN - KAO CHEN Angry mob ransacks and burns Communication Minister Tsao Rulin's house and gives the Ambassador to Japan a severe beating r,,, May 5, 1919 BEIJING Simmering public anger at the government and Japan's colonial ambition towards China boiled over yesterday as a student protest689 words
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1544 1999-12-31 18 KAO CHEN - KAO CHEN NEWS ANALYSIS 1800-1850 1803-15 (Europe): Napoleonic Wars 1814-15 (Europe): Congress of Vienna, following Napoleon's defeat; French monarchy restored 1814 (Britain): First effective steam locomotive built 1821 (England): Faraday invents electric motor 1823 (Britain): Babbage devises an "analytical engine",1,544 words
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Article747 1999-12-31 19 KAO CHEN - KAO CHEN He is a prime force of the May Fourth Movement in China, promoting political awareness, attacking the state and pushing for democracy Bg 1850-1900 1851-64 (China): Taiping rebelboa almost topples Qing dynasty 1851 (Britain): Gnat Exhil)ition of the Works and Industry of all747 words
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Article, Illustration171 1999-12-31 19 CHEN'S ALARM CLOCK: This is the New Youth magazine, which Chen Duxio the prime force behind the May Fourth Movement founded in 1915. The famous progressive magazine started the New Culture Movement which he led. It was dedicated to the ideological awakening of171 words
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571 1999-12-31 20 KUK CHEN - KUK CHEN It also has to open its trading ports to foreigners and lower trade tariffs under a peace treaty which it signs after losing the Opium War to Britain *l Auq 29, 1842 NANJING The Opium War officially ended today with the signing here571 words
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200 1999-12-31 20 Kao Chen - Kao Chen THE only hero in Chinese eyes to emerge from China's defeat in the Opium War is Imperial Commissioner Lin Tse-hsu. Knowing that opium smoking had been banned many times before without success, he decided instead, to cut off the supply. This200 words
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Article, Illustration1487 1999-12-31 20 KAO CHEN - KAO CHEN NEWS ANALYSIS By THE Opium War of 1840-1842, although neither particularly long nor destructive, is a major turning point in Asian history. It marked the first major clash between China and the West, and the beginning of Western imperialist aggression in1,487 words
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Article, Illustration580 1999-12-31 20 Kao Chen - Kao Chen V uiii.icjc jiuc yivco III OUUII OIICI. OPIUM: A burning issue CHINA'S tea, silk and porcelain had Jvays been coveted in Europe since trade between them began but the Chinese never cared much for foreign goods. That was until opium came along. Up580 words
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Article, Illustration1188 1999-12-31 22 CUING CHEONG; Ching Cheong - CUING CHEONG Ching Cheong China according to Mao is poor and full of irony where a leap forward meant two steps back but a meeting in 1978 led by Deng turns back the tide NEWS ANALYSIS By Three giants who changed country's destiny THREE political giants1,188 words
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Article, Illustration440 1999-12-31 23 Many countries are shocked by the news and some condemn the blast, but Beijing says that it would never be the first to use a nuclear weapon Octl7 f 1964 BKIJING China yesterday exploded its first atomic bomb, becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.440 words
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594 1999-12-31 23 EDMUND TEE - First Asian N-bomb re-shapes geopolitics EDMUND TEE NEWS ANALYSIS ON THAT Saturday afternoon in 1964, China showed it had at least the know-how, if nothing else, to build a nuclear weapon despite the withdrawal of Soviet help in i960. In the process, it garnered immense national pride, bolstered its regional594 words
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Article200 1999-12-31 23 Edmund Tee - Edmund Tee NATIONS with nuclear capabilities and date of first test: United States: First nuclear-bomb test by US and world was conducted on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert Soviet Union: Aug 29, 1949 Britain: )ct 3, 1952, aboard the frigate 1 1200 words
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Article, Illustration564 1999-12-31 24 HAL BOON LAI - HAL BOON LAI Hundreds reported dead as the South cannot match the tanks of the North, which says it wants unification. US troops in Japan placed on high alert By IN TOKYO June 26, 1950 AMERICAN troops in Japan were placed on highUSIS; REUTERS - 564 words
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Article, Illustration1124 1999-12-31 25 BAD BOON LAI - BAD BOON L AI From ruins to boom Hiroshima, reduced to rubble (left) in the wake of the atomic bomb in 1945, emerged from its-ashes to become a modern, thriving city. It could be seen as a symbol ot a Japan which bounced backAFP; REUTERS - 1,124 words
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Article, Illustration559 1999-12-31 26 JOANNE LEE - Emperor sends traders fleeing JOANNE LEE Move to ban sea trade and foreign travel is seen by many as the government's attempt to establish an imperial business monopoly Oil May 28, 1372 Trading off culture 'These merchants are trading off bits of our culture to the barbarians. This has to559 words
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1055 1999-12-31 26 JOANNE LEE - JOANNE LEE NEWS ANALYSIS By THE mass exodus of Chinese traders from the mainland, due to the ban on foreign travel at the end of the 14th century, was just one of many vacillations in the empire's policy on maritime commerce.1,055 words
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Article, Illustration445 1999-12-31 27 Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, Japan World's longest suspension bridge It was opened to traffic on April 5, 1998. The 3,91 1 -in Akashi Kaikyo bridge links the city of Kobe in the I lyogo Prefecture with Awaji-shi ma island. To withstand the fast swirling tidal waters445 words
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Article275 1999-12-31 27 NATALIE SOH - NATALIE SOH New and improved rice varieties, the result of concerted research efforts, have increased yields many times and averted the threat of food shortages Hn Dec 9, 1982 MANII.A Three decades after a worldwide effort to increase rice yields began, a "green" revolution is in275 words
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263 1999-12-31 27 Natalie Soh - Cambodia opens world's largest temple Natalie Soh Aug7, 1945 ANGKOR (Cambodia) The world's largest temple complex was opened here yesterday amid great celebration by the Khmers. But the monarch who commissioned the Hindu complex did not attend. "Our King, Suryavarman, died before the temple was completed. "He would have been263 words
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Article, Illustration320 1999-12-31 29 JULYN KANG - JULYN KANG Most of the victims live in coastal villages on Java and Sumatra that are destroyed by giant tidal waves which followed the massive eruption *L Sept 2, 1883 JAKARTA More than 36,000 people have lost their lives since Krakatoa erupted a week320 words
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336 1999-12-31 30 SHARON SIDDIQUE - SHARON SIDDIQUE More than 19,000 soldiers and several hundred ships are involved today in the most ambitious assault yet on the Portuguese fortress at Malacca '111 July 11, 1629 If Sultan Iskandar Muda succeeds in capturing Malacca, he will control both ends of the336 words
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Article, Illustration803 1999-12-31 30 Sharon Siddiquk - Presiding over Aceh's Golden Age Sharon Siddiquk Sultan Iskandar Muda is political strategist and and arts patron 1900-1945 Early 1900s: Greatest extent of British empire 1900-01 (China): Boxer Rebellion fails to expel foreigners 1901: Commonwealth of Australia established 1903 (United States): First powered (light 1904 (Russia): Trans-Siberian railroad built 1904-05803 words
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Article, Illustration283 1999-12-31 31 [Frwro/VujfStl time, analysts say, it is doubtful that he will allow European merchants to establish permanent settlements in his territory, although he will allow them to continue to trade. A powerful Aceh is also likely to continue to push the process of conversion to Islam in theSOH CHEE KIONG - 283 words
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1025 1999-12-31 31 SHARON SIDDIQUE - SHARON SIDDIQUE NEWS ANALYSIS By Muslims spread their faith through trade routes in the region THE grand fleet which Sultan Iskandar Muda launched against Malacca on that fateful day in 16*29 was destroyed by bad weather, and the timely arrival of a Portuguese fleet from1,025 words
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265 1999-12-31 31 Sharon Siddiquk - Sharon Siddiquk THE world's great religions entered South-east Asia from the Indian sub-conti-nent via the Straits of Malacca. Religious conversion was tied to the establishment of trading networks. Hinduism was the earliest arrival, followed by Buddhism, Islam and finally, Christianity. Earlier arrivals were displaced,265 words
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Article343 1999-12-31 31 1950: North Korea invades the South: US-led United Nations forces drive back invaders; China enters Korean War 1951: Status quo antebellum readied in Korea; country dh ided along 38th parallel 1953: Mount Everest climbed 1953: Death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin 1954: First official suggestion of link between smoking343 words
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401 1999-12-31 32 RUSSELL HENG - RUSSELL HENG Americans and South Vietnamese are caught unawares as the communists launch an offensive in Saigon during the Vietnamese New Year >h Jan 31, 1968 IN A dramatic new offensive against South Vietnam, communist forces seized part of the United States Kmbassy401 words
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Article, Illustration101 1999-12-31 32 WAR has many faces and this montage of photographs from the Vietnam War (clockwise from left) captures most them death, torture, injury and the men and machines who make it happen. This villager (left), who fell to a South Vietnamese trooper's bullet, was just one of thousandsReuters; UPI - 101 words
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Article, Illustration1122 1999-12-31 32 RUSSELL HENG; Russell Heng - RUSSELL HENG Russell Heng NEWS ANALYSIS Bj The mail behind the campaign WHO was behind the Tet offensive, this bloody military adventure which historians believe marked the beginning of the end of US military involvement in Vietnam? Many had presumed the celebrated General1,122 words
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Article, Illustration421 1999-12-31 33 A nation is born 'From henceforth we are masters of our own destiny, and the welfare of this beloved land is our own responsibility... And so with remembrance for tf repast, and with confidence in thefuture, under the providence of God, we shall succeed. Prime Minister421 words
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227 1999-12-31 33 Emergency extended to rest of the country June 18 1948 KUALA LUMPUR The state of emergency against communist insurgency was extended last night to the whole Federation. The decision to extend the emergency powers regulations already in place in Perak and Johor to the rest of the country followed a227 words
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Article, Illustration2831 1999-12-31 34 CHEAH BOON KHENG - CHEAH BOON K HENG From Malaya to China, communism was a key factor in the politics of many Asian countries, winning some, giving up on some and still struggling in others NEWS ANALYSIS Chin Peng 0n... The CPM's struggle 'A lot of lives were sacrificed. But2,831 words
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326 1999-12-31 36 WONG FEI WAN - WONG FEI WAN The brother of the Sultan, Raja Abdullah, puts the idea to Prime Minister Bendahara that its escapades and achievements should be recorded May 13, 1612 7 have to put it together from stories told by old people of former times. Prime326 words
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Article, Illustration702 1999-12-31 36 Genealogies and mystical, supernatural anecdotes abound in it NEWS ANALYSIS Will the young accept it? Tin not sure how much young Malays accept the standard of the Annals. even though some older generation may think it's the proper way to behave. NUS Professor Wang702 words
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Article, Illustration257 1999-12-31 36 ZACKARIA ABDUL RAHIM - ZACKARIA ABDUL RAHIM By SOME claim to be descendants of a Chinese princess, some are slaves but all 4,884 residents of Malacca are now accounted for. This is the result of the first census conducted in this bustling Dutch-controlled port on Malaya's west coast. Reading257 words
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Article, Illustration602 1999-12-31 37 Singapore was on the map centuries before Raffles landed here. It just fell off it NATALIE $0H delves in the intriguing story of its seeminghj glorious past July 7, 1299 SINGA-PURA... 'This land shall henceforth he known as the Lion City Singa-Pura in Sanskrit/ Sri Tri602 words
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467 1999-12-31 37 IN 1928, excavations at Fort Canning unearthed evidence of a civilisation that may have flourished in Singapore around the 1300s. While digging a service reservoir on the hill, colonial engineers found ornaments that appear to date back six centuries. The jewellery included six diamond467 words
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Article, Illustration746 1999-12-31 37 1819: Singapore founded by Raffles 1923: Raffles left Singapore for last time 1824: Singapore ceded in perpetuity to East India Company by Sultan of Jonor 1826: Singapore incorporated with Malacca and Fenang into Straits Settlement 1840: Union Hank of Calcutta opened first bank in Singapore 1844:746 words
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455 1999-12-31 37 WHKN Sir Stamford Raffles landed on Singapore's shores in 1819, there were only about 1,000 inhabitants spread out across the island. This was a far cry from the bustling settlement which, as historical evidence suggests, existed as early as the 13th century. So455 words
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Article, Illustration887 1999-12-31 38 'WHAT HAS HAPPENED HAS HAPPENED. EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A PLACE IN SINGAPORE.' PM Lee Kuan Yew Dramatic turn follows secret signing of Independence agreement last Saturday by the two governments Aug lo, 1965 KUAIA LUMPUR Singapore yesterday separated from Malaysia, following a Constitution amendment approved887 words
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415 1999-12-31 38 July 19, 1967 LONDON Britain is to pull out of its bases in Malaysia and Singapore by the mid-*****, it was announced here yesterday. By 1971, 10,000 British troops would be withdrawn from Singapore and Malaysia, said a government White Paper. The415 words
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Article, Illustration352 1999-12-31 40 January 1819: First street built HIGH Street was constructed by the first town planner, Lieutenant Henry Ralfe of the East India Company, to create a meeting place for the signing of the preliminary treaty with Temenggong Abdul Rahman in 1819. 1819: First school established REVNATIONAL ARCHIVES - 352 words
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666 1999-12-31 40 JULYN KANG - 10,683 residents and counting JULYN KANG First official census turns up over 4,500 Malays, 3,300 Chinese, 1,800 Bugis and 750 Indians, among others »'l June 3, 1824 A SMALL fishing village no longer, over 10,000 people now live in Singapore, according to the first official census taken yesterday. Malays make666 words
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Article, Illustration92 1999-12-31 40 Jan 2,1824 The first issue off The Singapore Chronicle, the colony's first newspaper, hit the streets yesterday. Oct 2, 1835 The first issue of the Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Adviser was published yesterday. July 16, 1845Singapore's third local newspaper, called The Straits Times and Singapore92 words
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Article, Illustration1008 1999-12-31 41 JULYN KANG - JULYN KANG Sacked former Resident petitions company, and Sir Stamford rises to the challenge with a letter of his own UIL RAFFLES: How they see him Memorial to Raffles in Westminster Abbey: "Selected at an early age to conduct the British government's conquests in the1,008 words
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Article, Illustration329 1999-12-31 42 The engagement between the East and West which began with the Crusades in the first century of this millenium was often in the form of confrontation, sometimes war, as these pictures show. Not that the face-offs were always between the Occident and the Orient. While the English,TIEN CHUNG PING - 329 words
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Article, Illustration59 1999-12-31 43 A three-year-old child learning to aim a pistol, under the watchful eye of an unidentified militant Sikh inside the complex of the Golden Temple in Amritsai, India in April 1988. As of January this year, more than 25,000 people have died in the protracted campaign tor a Sikh59 words
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Article, Illustration34 1999-12-31 43 Brandishing a pistol, a Khmer Rouge soldier drives Phnoni Penh shopowners out oi their shops after the Cambodian government waves the white flag, marking the beginning of Pol Pot's brutal 1975-79 regime.34 words
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Article, Illustration68 1999-12-31 43 A young boy carrying an old man on his back as they join other refugees in making their way to Nha Trang, Vietnam. They fled from Quin Yon as communist troops marched into their town in March 1975. There are about 2.5 million Vietnamese living abroad, the bulk68 words
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Article, Illustration381 1999-12-31 44 REVOLUTIONARY! Many were encouraged to read after Gutenberg produced the first work from his printing press (right) the Latin Bible. The press had a series of blocks, each with an individual letter or picture. Ink was rolled over the type and the type was381 words
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Article536 1999-12-31 44 1009 1010 1144 1543 IN 1009, the Persian biologist, Avicenna, who was also known as Ibn Sina, wrote <ilQanun fi of-filih. or The Canon Of Medicine, a five-volume treatment of Greek and Arabic medicine. This work was so authoritative, it dominated the teaching of medicine536 words
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315 1999-12-31 44 The calendar that makes the world or most of it go round THE calendar by which today is the last day of the second millennium was adopted in 1582. It is called the Gregorian calendar after Pope Gregory XIII, and is the calendar system most widely in use today. It,315 words
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Article107 1999-12-31 44 THE first purpose-made toilet paper was commissioned around 1300 for use by members of the Chinese Imperial Court. But it was really a large handful one sheet was nearly 1 m sq so it had to be torn up for each use. Smaller pieces,107 words
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112 1999-12-31 44 EARLY Egyptians had toothbrushes of sorts a twig with one end frayed into fibres. But the toothbrush with bristles appeared in China around 1498. The bristles, which came from pigs, were attached to a bone or bamboo handle. The brush gradually found its112 words
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Article, Illustration396 1999-12-31 44 Of black powder guns and excreta bombs THE Chinese invented the rap-id-fire crossbow around 1100. The weapon proved devastating. One hundred soldiers armed with the weapon could fire 2,000 arrows in 15 seconds, over a range of about 80 m. Just in case the shower of arrows missed any vital396 words
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Article1936 1999-12-31 45 China was a colossus, way ahead of the West until the middle of the millennium, and then from the Ming dynasty on it closed its doors to the outside world and to progress. chua lee hoong reports. A PILE OF LOOSE SAND Where China had been the1,936 words
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Article609 1999-12-31 46 Be one or we'll expire FIVE hundred years ago, the two major powers in the world were the Ottoman Empire and Ming China, joined a little later by Mogul India. Between them, they dominated the high seas and much of the Euro-Asian landmass. Ming China, for instance, before it turned609 words
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Article, Illustration733 1999-12-31 46 CHUA MUI HOONG - Question is, will we still be here tomorrow CHUA MUI HOONG MY VIEW By THE world may end at midnight tonight. Really. Intellectuals through the ages believed that, fervently. Like the late Irish archbishop James Ussher, who devoted his life's study to toting up all the "begats" in the Christian733 words
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825 1999-12-31 46 AUGUSTINE H.H. TAN - AUGUSTINE H.H. TAN *L LESSONS FROM THE ASIAN CRISIS GOOD governance is a sine qua non for successful development. Countries in the region that haa better governance survived the crisis better. Honesty, integrity and talent are desperately neeaed in the public sector. If you825 words
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Article, Illustration1249 1999-12-31 47 SUSAN LANG - SUSAN LANG /^J The new world order will be akin to living in a global city, instead of the proverbial global village, satj historians. Like any city, the global city will liave rich ana poor sections, as well as safe and seedy areas.1,249 words
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Article, Illustration767 1999-12-31 47 NIRMALA PURUSHOTAM - The modern Asian woman a feminist variation NIRMALA PURUSHOTAM Bu PATRIARCHY was already well established before the dawn of the last millennium. But the outcry against it goes as far back as when it first arrived. It was only in the last century that feminism made it possible for women767 words
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Article, Illustration1234 1999-12-31 48 HO PENG YOKE - World was won with Chinese gunpowder HO PENG YOKE The East led the West in the first half of this millennium, but in the second, the tables are turned. These articles discuss why it was the West which gave rise to the scientific revolution, and trace how Asian inventions enabled1,234 words
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1219 1999-12-31 48 DAVID S. LANDES - Why the West surged ahead of the East DAVID S. LANDES lin IT IS CUSTOMARY TO SEE THE SO-CALLED SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AS THE WORK OF THE I7TH AND 18TH CENTURIES. IN FACT, EUROPEAN INQUIRES AND DISCOVERIES GO BACK FARTHER, TO THE MTH CENTURY, IN SUCH REALMS AS NAVIGATION AND WAR...1,219 words
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Article, Illustration1668 1999-12-31 49 ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM - Visionary in loincloth shows way ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM He sowed the seeds of change It was Gandhi's brand of determined-yet-peaceful resistance and his condemnation of colonial rule which established a blueprint for revolutionaries and nationalists in his own country and elsewhere. Si 'IT IS AMAZING AS IT IS HUMILIATING THAT LESS1,668 words
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Letter, Illustration750 1999-12-31 50 Auq 14, 1945 ...the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is indeed incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives. Should we continue to fight, it would not oruy result in750 words
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Letter, Illustration330 1999-12-31 50 Jan 5, 1971 SEPARATION: What two leaders wrote It has come as a blow to us that the peace and security of Malaysia can only be served by the expulsion of Singapore from Malaysia.' Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Toh Chin Chye I have330 words
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410 1999-12-31 50 Oct2, 1936 Extracts from a letter written btj Rabindranatli Tagpre to a friend in Endiindon tlie state of India under British rule. YOU know, and I have never tried to keep it secret from anyone, that of all the Western peoples410 words
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149 1999-12-31 50 Auq7 f 1965 Letter sent by Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman to Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Toh Chin Chye, urging him to accept Singapore's separation from Malaysia. MY DEAR Chin Chye, I am writing to tell you that I have given the matter149 words
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298 1999-12-31 50 AugB, 1965 Dr Tok Chin Chye's reply MYDEARTunku, I thank you for your undated letter which I received yesterday, explaining your position and your solution to the present difficulties that have arisen between the central government and the Singapore government. It is indeed298 words
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208 1999-12-31 50 Sorry, King George, thanks but no thanks Oct3, 1793 Excerpts from tivo letters Qing Emperor Qianlong sent to England's King George 11, who had sent an envoy, Ijord Macartney, to Beijing with gifts and requests for extension of trade rights. WE POSSESS all things. I set no value on objects208 words
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Article, Illustration656 1999-12-31 51 GODFREY ROBERT - GODFREY ROBERT OLYMPICS 1964 Tokyo Games seen as a milestone for continent Hu Oct2s, 1964 TOKYO The first Olympics hosted by an Asian nation came to a close here yesterday, and is heralded as a sporting and organisation achievement. The two-week event involving 4,000 sportsmen is656 words
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327 1999-12-31 51 1949 EIGHT Malayan badminton players, of whom two were Singaporeans, competed in the inaugural Thomas Cup finals in Preston in 1949 with little knowledge of the opposition. They were Wong Peng Soon, Ooi Teik Hock, Law Teik Hock, Teoh Seng Khoon, Chan Kon Leong,327 words
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Article67 1999-12-31 51 THIRTY-NINE years ago, on a cold September day in Rome, a determined Singaporean fought heavy odds to put the Republic on the world sports map. Tan Howe Liang, who often reminisces about the event, gave Singapore its only Olympic meaat a silver in weightlifting. He showed the qualities67 words
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Article536 1999-12-31 52 OLYMPICS It is not easy picking the greatest sports neivs events of the millennium. GODFREY ROBERT nevertheless gives it his best siiot 1896 THE ancient Olympic Games were held in Olympia, Greece, every four years from at least 7768C "until they were banned by Emperor Theodosius536 words
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459 1999-12-31 52 GOLF 1860 THE game of golfs origin has been a subject of controversy. Both Scotland and Holland claim to have introduced the sport or something similar to the game, at least. Scotland's King James IV, who had embargoed the game in 1491, later459 words
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Article, Illustration613 1999-12-31 52 Black Owens silences Nazi Germany 7 let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up. My foot is only a fraction of the time on the track. Jesse Owens (left) 1936 JESSE OWENS came to the613 words
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Article425 1999-12-31 52 A Cup of joy for Uruguay SOCCER 1928 TWO Frenchmen, Jules Rimet and Henri Dclaunav, conceived the idea of World Cup after the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris because they felt that the soccer tournament cannot be held within the confines of the Olympics. Also because many countries were turning425 words
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534 1999-12-31 52 BOXING 1719 IT IS said that the sport of boxing started off as a contest of skill and technique with the ancient Greeks. But it became brutalised because spectators showed an increasing taste for blood. The first organised bareknuckle fight in England was staged534 words
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512 1999-12-31 53 NARENDRA AGGARWAL - NARENDRA AGGARWAL ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS COMMENT Hi. THE last millennium has been full of wonders on the economic front. But to some, one of the biggest economic wonders of the last millennium has been the rise of a tiny island Singapore in the last two512 words
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Article705 1999-12-31 53 EDNA KOH - Banking same and yet different EDNA KOH Banks still function as a safe haven for money but are also offering far more complex financial products NEWS ANALYSIS Bff VAST changes have been wrought on the banking scene over the years. But one thing remains fairly constant about banks their role705 words
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Article, Illustration463 1999-12-31 54 Dutch East India Company chief orders massacre after islanders defy ban on trading nutmeg with the English July 6, 1621 HAN DA ISIAN DS -Thousands of nutmeg fanners were killed here yesterday by Dutch troops when they refused to obey orders on trading of the463 words
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681 1999-12-31 54 EDNA KOH - History tells it all no monopoly is forever EDNA KOH LESSON FROM THE PAST NEWS ANALYSIS IN EGYPT, cassia and cinnamon were essential for embalming. Confucius was saitl to have advocated the use of ginger. And in Kurope, pepper was highly valued as a meat preservative. The many uses of681 words
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Article334 1999-12-31 55 NATALIE SOH - NATALIE SOH The 'silk notes', which are backed by bundles of valuable silk yarn, are legal tender throughout the empire By July 6, 1271 CHINA'S Yuan Dynasty has issued a new form of official currency, using paper. Eschewing older forms of money used in other places334 words
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Article, Illustration213 1999-12-31 55 NOBEL ECONOMICS PRIZE Jan 23, 1998 STOCKHOLM India's Mr Amartya Sen yesterday became the first Asian to win the prestigious Nobel Prize for economics since it was first awarded in 1969. Mr Sen, 64, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, won the award "for his213 words
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Article, Illustration313 1999-12-31 55 DENNIS CHAN - DENNIS CHAN Bu Novl2, 1875 BOMBAY The Bombay stock exchange opened trading yesterday, becoming Asia's first stock market. Called the Native Share and Stockbrokers Association, it is a voluntary nonprofit organisation which will facilitate the trading of shares in British and Indian companies dealing313 words
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Title Section6 1999-12-31 1 Life! I ITTmTSTTTTnTTSQTnTSTTS 1^ vghtooolrt bpohktoph6 words
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Article, Illustration1243 1999-12-31 2 ONG SOR FERN - All I want to do is have some FUN ONG SOR FERN Give Me A Break! FROM A(RISTOCRAT) lh, I WANT my MTV. You may think this is just an ad slogan. But behind the assumption that everyone has a right to his music television lies a tectonic shift inIAHAN - 1,243 words
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Advertisement81 1999-12-31 2 77n.s collection of limited edition fountain pens bear the official mark of approval by the Central Committee of the Great Jubilee AD. 2000. 000 r wnayiiHni ]^^S fP kJ rttSiil J\d£l£fT Mother-of-pearl inlay wraps around the body, creating an elegant and delicate finish. 1»BILAEOM U )AJ)2000 .^^B^^fe^'3-1 V^^^^^^^'T. 7 181 words
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Article, Illustration155 1999-12-31 3 Jessica Tan - Jessica Tan m.iu.iiujw ■E9 BEIJiNG Town gossip has it that 15-vear-old Emperor Tung Chih was seen outside the walls of the Forbidden City late last night. Apparently, the teenager had escaped from the presence of his domineering mother, Dowager Empress Tz'u-Hsi, to enioy a night of155 words
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Article, Illustration176 1999-12-31 3 May 25, 1611 MUGHAL Empire Emperor Jahangir married his new love today. The richest and most powerful man of the mighty Mughal Empire has reportedly no fewer than 2O wives and a harem of more than 200 beauties collected over the years. The 42-year-olds latest176 words
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Article128 1999-12-31 3 1200s MONGOL EMPIRE The country is in shock today, after an unexpected act of forgiveness by the great Qaidu Khan. Just last week, the ruler and his family grieved the loss of his younger daughter vas brually bit- ;en to death by Apparently, she had128 words
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Article82 1999-12-31 3 1328 MAJAPAHIT KINGDOM Citizens are mourning the death of their beloved king, Jayanagara, who died suddenly today. Court officials report that stopped beating during an operation, which was described earlier by royal physicians as minor surgery. But friends of Jayanagara believe that his death was plotted by82 words
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Article, Illustration58 1999-12-31 3 FOR Life! s millennium cover, we wanted the new with something traditional the Chinese ink brush. And who better to do it than Cultural Medallion winner Chua Ek Kay. Accompanying the title Life!, done in Chinese calligraphic style, is a tong zi (kid) who is as much a58 words
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Article, Illustration845 1999-12-31 4 TAN SHZR EE - TAN SHZR EE How does a $7 mouth organ travel across space and time to become the accordion beloved of polka players? Here's a blow-by-blow account By THEY cost about $7 each today. And who knows how much they were worth 1,000 years ago perhaps they were made845 words
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Article, Illustration22 1999-12-31 4 The key to the origins of the harmonica (top), accordion (above) and sheng (below) are found in the humble khaen.22 words
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Article, Illustration774 1999-12-31 5 Helmi Yusof - TIME OUT Helmi Yusof Clock Watch TINE TRIALS: Which of these devices clocks in as the best? What do you want in a timepiece? A classy look, a working mechanism and years of wear without tear. So, which of these clocks will have you ticking? HOW TO SPEND IT WISELY774 words
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Article, Illustration1892 1999-12-31 6 MARRY ME? Con-juggle Bliss Will you (and you and you) No Asian would have blinked at the idea of one man, many wives, before the middle of this century, when a man's harems went the way of colonial governments and old philosophies, discovers CLARISSA 00H WEDDED BLISS IN ASIA CHINAGEORGE GASCON - 1,892 words
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Article88 1999-12-31 6 TRACING the beginnings of polygamy in the human race, historians have tied it to the genesis of patriarchy in primitive societies. Professor Gerda Lerner locates the first exchanges of women at the time when hunter-gatherer societies gave way to agriculture. There are three88 words
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Article, Illustration283 1999-12-31 6 THE word "polygamy by definition, refers to either a man or a woman having more than one spouse at a time. These days, when people bandy the word about, they are usually referring to "polygyny" the man having multiple wives. So what283 words
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Article, Illustration254 1999-12-31 8 KARL HO - KARL HO Miss Asia Millennium Five Asian beauties claw their way into the finals for the coveted title, according to a notorious philanderer Hu LADIES and gentlemen, welcome to the Ms Asian Millennium beauty pageant! I, Xi Menqing, notorious philanderer and aphrodisiac abuser in254 words
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223 1999-12-31 8 CONTESTANT N0 1: EMPRESS DOWAGER CI XI THE Empress thought it was an affront to her position if she were to speaK directly to the interviewer. So her high-pitched voiced chief eunuch relayed her answers instead. Ci Xi only nodded in approval to her messenger's words, spitting occasionally into ner223 words
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141 1999-12-31 8 SHE is the legendary beauty of Johor's Gunung Ledang, or Mount Ophir. Renowned for spurning the Sultan of Melacca's marriage proposal with a list of impossible requests. QWhat must a man do to win your hand in marriage? A Build two bridges between141 words
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Article121 1999-12-31 8 REMEMBERED as the '50s Hongkong movie icon who committed suicide. Qls ihcrc anything you want to say about love? A Every love story is a tragedy. Man and woman meet and fall in love, only to be broken up because one of them dies. Like121 words
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Article245 1999-12-31 8 THIS Asian-American actress plays stone-cold, femme fatale Ling Woo in Ally Mcßeal and a leatherclad dominatrix who enjoys inflicting and receiving pain in Mel Gibson's Payback. QW hat kind of men do you date? A The kind that likes me scratching them and licking their245 words
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Article258 1999-12-31 8 Steve Dawson - And the winner is. OOPS! The contest has been cancelled abruptly. Hantu Tetek, the well-en-dowed supernatural vamp of Malay folklore, was insulted that she was not invited to the contest. She strangled all the judges. CONSORT of Shah Jahan, a Mughal emperor who ruled India258 words
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Article, Illustration218 1999-12-31 9 1158 IF YOU are wondering exactly where it is that you are, ponder no longer. You may never feel lost again. Mariners in China and Europe have announced independent discoveries of a new navigational tool. The new gadget is known as a compass and isALAN LIM - 218 words
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Article, Illustration114 1999-12-31 9 What a load of junk 1488 THE next time you get the urge to sail all seven seas, junk it. You could do worse. The Chinese junk is receiving accolades aplenty from snipping experts, placing the vessel 400 years ahead of similar designs in the Western w.orld. Recent developments to114 words
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Article, Illustration120 1999-12-31 9 1986 AMERICAN software company, Microsoft, has had its initial public offering (IPO), 11 years after it was founded. The opening price for the Seattle-based company's today s exchange rate) per share. Wacky predictions of its performance in the coming years have been hopeful. One anonymous analyst120 words
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Article253 1999-12-31 9 1988 1999 WITH the Cold War apparently over, a network of com m eric an military is becoming lid in the United The computers, designed to speak to each other trom different corners of the country in the event of a nuclear war, are now becoming the253 words
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Article, Illustration224 1999-12-31 9 1900 CRAFTY colonials in India are thought to have invented a refreshing, alcoholic tipple that just may save your life. Known as gin, it began life as a medical beverage in the 18th century when juniper berries were soaked in alcohol. The restoration of weak constitutionsLUIS ASCUI - 224 words
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Article, Illustration172 1999-12-31 9 1218 THE yurt, a tent-like nomad's dwelling, has become a prominent player in the global mobile-home market. Genghis Khan's sweeping advance across the land mass from as far west as Russia to as far east as northern China, has spread the word about the unique tent design in172 words
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Article, Illustration189 1999-12-31 9 Surfs up, Raffles MY BOOKMARKS E-mail raffles® Tumasik.eom.sg SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES Administrator, founder of Singapore, employee of East India Company and proficient linguist WHEN it comes to the Internet, Sir Stamford is not really up to speed He said: "I come from a generation before computers became übiquitous and have189 words
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Article, Illustration305 1999-12-31 10 CHEONG SUK- WAI - CHEONG SUK-WAI Food, Glorious Food Sugar and spice and all things nice make Asia a good gourmet's paradise. The region's contributions to the stomachs of the world are legion *!L IF YOU are still stuck for ideas on how to make your last three square meals before the newALAN LIM - 305 words
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Article, Illustration368 1999-12-31 10 RICE is nice. So says the average Asian, who scoffs down more than 140 kg of it each year, as compared with the average Westerner's pecking at about 3 kg worth a year. But the staple grain had ignominious beginnings. China's fanners discovered it as368 words
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Article170 1999-12-31 10 RICE may be a staple in Asia, but it is used elsewhere only in "by-the-way" concoctions such as: PAELLA: This Spanish rice and seafood dish a cross between fried rice and rice salad is best eaten with spritzes of lemon juice to bring out the170 words
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Article284 1999-12-31 10 YOU might call it the case of Pasta vs Mian (Mandarin for noodles). Western cookbook authors still dispute the claim that Marco Polo introduced noodles to Italy, citing the ancient murals depicting the Etruscans, Italy's forefathers, rolling out what looked like sheets of284 words
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Article170 1999-12-31 10 AS mian and pasta are, essentially, convenient starchy bases to complement meat, vegetables and sauces, cooking with them is a matter of producing variations on the same theme. Listed here then are three enduringly appealing ways in which folks in the West have adapted noodles to170 words
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Article339 1999-12-31 10 THE tale of how spices travelled from East to West is one swashbuckler of a saga. Today, it may be hard to imagine that these tiny, unremarkable twigs, roots and seeds power-packed with intense flavour triggered bloody wars between East and West throughout 500 years of339 words
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Article150 1999-12-31 10 WHILE spices in Asian kitchens flavour savouries like tonguesearing curries, five-spice chicken and lontong, Western-trained chefs use them mainly in sweets. Spice-laden desserts that thrill foodies from Poland to Pakistan include: APPLE PIE: The crust-punctured apple pie in the movie American Pie may take the cake150 words
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Article, Illustration242 1999-12-31 11 1,001 nights of cheese SAY "cheese!" and one might have rhapsodic visions of snow-capped mountains, rolling green pastures and blonde milkmaids tip-toeing through the tulips. But it was sun-browned Asians who sported the world's first milk moustaches. As early as 8,500 BC, people in the Near East were chugging goat's242 words
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Article148 1999-12-31 11 CHEESE lends itself to all forms of culinary experimentation, like: CHEESECAKE: No one knows who first compacted cream cheese into a pastry crust. But there is a 1912 record of an unnamed actress who stood at a ship's rail in blustery New York Harbour,148 words
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Article, Illustration154 1999-12-31 11 Bean eating soya WHO would have thought that the Chinese creators of a mind-boggling array of soya-bean products once detested the beans on sight? Not that you could blame them. Digesting the innocuous beans made them break wind a whole lot. So, while Jung tribes north-east of China brought soya-beans154 words
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Article123 1999-12-31 11 WHILE Asia hcs a litany of soya-bean derivatives doufu (bean curd) and tempeh (fermented soya-bean patties) among them the beans are all but missing from Western cuisine. But America, at least, has one saving grace: New York restaurateur David Mintz. After five years of dishing up kosher123 words
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Article, Illustration1015 1999-12-31 13 TEE HUN CHING - TEE HUN CH ING We've come a long way baby, from the Chinese du dou to the French corset. But the question remains should the bra hide or flaunt women's curves? Hu IT MAY be only three letters, but the bra is engineering miracle, sexual revolution and fashion statement1,015 words
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Article, Illustration390 1999-12-31 14 CAT ONG - WORN OUT! no way! CAT ONG National Costumes Qipao, sari, sarong kebaya or mini. We, the citizens or Singapore, have worn them all, one way or another, for a century and more IF there is one lesson that you can learn from the end of yet another thousand years of390 words
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Article, Illustration262 1999-12-31 14 STREAM siren. Pei Pei packs new pow in Ah Ma's favourite qipao. It has been shrunk to a tiny top and micro-mini, a la Mandarin. MA: Pei Pei, Pei Pei, Ah Ma is coming to visit and she wants to see what you have done with her262 words
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Article, Illustration215 1999-12-31 15 LENGANG LENGANG SARONG BABY CARRIER! You can't use a blanket, it's too hot in this weather. You can't use canvas, it's too scratchy for baby. You can't use baby's nappy, it's not big enough. You can't use the tablecloth, it's too square and doesn't loop around the body comfortably. So,215 words
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Article, Illustration213 1999-12-31 15 A TINY top, a broad swatch of a skirt. But what a variety of head-turners from this traditional Indian costume. So, wear it every which way and swing, Subatra, swing. SUBATRA (ABOVE) TALKING TO HERSELF IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR: So, who's sari now? Not me. Look213 words
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Article, Illustration325 1999-12-31 15 LEGS, legs, legs got them? Then flaunt them. Got sm<x)th skin, show, lor? But your silky underwear do not. That is Mimi on minis. MIMI (MIDDLE RIGHT) ON THE PHONE TO HER BOYFRIEND, BENG HUAT: "Ah Beng ah, tonight go where pak tor, ah? I got325 words
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Article, Illustration196 1999-12-31 16 ELISABETH GWEE - ELISABETH GWEE Treasured Souvenirs Don't dismiss your humble feather duster. It's gone global. We show you 10 objects that transcend Oriental kitsch and have made it to Western homes Since souvenirs of the frivolous variety, like snow domes and plastic statues of landmarks, were invented only early this196 words
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Article, Illustration78 1999-12-31 16 FROM EAST: It wasn't only the pandas who lived on this chewy breakfast/lunch/dinner treat. The Chinese used it for garden furniture. The Southern Indians, too, were into elaborate bamboo chairs by AD 2 and 3. TO WEST: During the 1880s, no self-respecting household in England was complete78 words
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Article, Illustration138 1999-12-31 16 FROM EAST: When sitting on floors became a pain in the behind, the Turks moved on to this long-and-low upholstered seat. It took pride of place in most Turkish homes by the 16th century because of its multiple-seating capacity that no doubt came in handy when the entire138 words
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Article, Illustration132 1999-12-31 16 FROM EAST: Apart from allowing the Chinese to cook up an audible storm, this thin- walled pan was developed some 3,000 years ago as an energy-saving device. Its round bottom concentrates heat and allows food to be cooked quickly with relatively little oil. TO WEST: A must-have132 words
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Article, Illustration103 1999-12-31 16 FROM EAST: Lacquerware never failed to impress with its highly-polished surfaces and rich colours. As a result, it was reserved mainly for religious buildings and palaces. Lacquer work was first discovered in China as early as 4th and 3rd BC. TO WEST: One of the103 words
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Article, Illustration82 1999-12-31 16 FROM EAST: In Japan, the effect of seeing a mass of ornaments all at once is regarded as the visual equivalent of overeating. Which explains why the folding screen has been a regular feature in Japanese homes. For auspicious reasons, the Chinese also liked to82 words
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Article116 1999-12-31 16 FROM EAST: Recycling was already on the minds of the 18th-century Chinese. Rather than throw away a pile of fowl feathers, someone struck upon the idea of gluing the feathers to a stick, and voila! one of the earliest cleaning tools to come out of China116 words
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Article102 1999-12-31 16 FROM EAST: The ultimate in simple, portable, and unobtrusive bedding. This soft-padded mattress originated from Japan. Makes for quick and easy housekeeping because it can be rolled up and thrown in the closet when not in use. On the health side, its firm base is good for bad102 words
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Article, Illustration125 1999-12-31 16 FROM EAST: The first chopsticks may have been twigs used to spear food cooked over an open fire. There is evidence that chopsticks date back to the Shang dynasty (1766 BC 1122 BC). But some historians credit Confucius' influence with the widespread use of chopsticks in 551 BC.125 words
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Article, Illustration105 1999-12-31 16 Don't bead yourself up FROM EAST: More for decorative purposes than keeping out prying eyes or the sun, this form of decoration is from 19th-century India. It is fashioned out of a number of separate threads, on which beads of glass and wood of different sizes and lengths are strung.105 words
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Article, Illustration128 1999-12-31 16 FROM EAST: Porcelain has undergone a schizophrenic array of looks since it was first made during the Tang dynasty (618 907). It was at its finest in the Song dynasty (960-1279), decorated elaborately in the Yuan (1280-1367), predominantly blue-and-white in the Ming" (1368-1644), and128 words
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Article, Illustration2283 1999-12-31 17 HUA MUI HOONG - HUA MUI HOONG The End Of Days? Society has become so complex and fragmented that it is hard to make sense of it all. How do people cope? By selecting amnesia over anguish lin We no longer believe in Magic, but in Mammon and Machines. Many symbols that2,283 words
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Article, Illustration392 1999-12-31 18 FRANCIS CHIN - FRANCIS CHIN Tomes Of The Lost Raiders The pen is mightier than the sword, the samurai's sabre notwithstanding, and these seminal books illustrate the literary prowess of Asia Bg •w" "w* "Y HEN some- I one says American, you know he Y Y is talking about someoneHEDY KHOO - 392 words
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Article, Illustration628 1999-12-31 18 JAPAN SOME of the earliest and most beautiful literary works were written by women in Heian Japan at the turn of the present millennium. The supreme example is Tale Of Genji, the first significant modern novel (an extended prose narrative as distinct from the epicHEDY KHOO - 628 words
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Article, Illustration832 1999-12-31 18 It 's no Dream, this saga is real CHINA FROM the poetry- of Su dongpo and the epic novels of the Ming and Qmg dynasties, to the short stories of Lu Xun and the elegant En-glish-language book-essays of Dr Lin Yutang, one is spoilt for choice when selecting the important832 words
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380 1999-12-31 18 1,000 reasons to read tliese books INDIA AT FIRST glance, it appears that all of India's great books were written more than a millennium ago. But there has been a seemingly endless number of great poetic works written since. These include Treasury Of Well-Turned Verses, the love lyrics Song Of380 words
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Article129 1999-12-31 18 Where is my love? MIDDLE EAST THE POETRY OF RUMI By Jalal Al-din Rumi (mid- 1200s) RUMI (13th century) was born in Afghanistan but lived most of his life in Turkey. His poetry, however, belongs to the world. Lines of his poetry have the uncanny ability to create instant insights129 words
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Article, Illustration1359 1999-12-31 19 ONG SOR FERN - Prose CONS ONG SOR FERN Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun. Perhaps that's why Western writers' views of Asia were so clouded by imperialist leanings liu THEN AND NOW: How attitudes have changed THEN Writer Somerset Maugham's (right) description is most telling: the use ofALAN LIM - 1,359 words
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