The Straits Times, 5 April 2004

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    28 1 The Straits Times BEST IN NEWSPAPER DESIGN IN ASIA Established 1845 M OndaV April 5, 2004 74 Pages in five parts mita 048/03/2004 W~AShiaai)6refpris Holdings publication OvJ Ct-nts
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    Lock icon JI leader's words show threat is alive
    620 1  - JI leader's words show threat is alive M. NIRMALA 'RELEASE ME. I WILL GO AND TALK TO MY FRIENDS AND TELL THEM NOT TO ATTACK YOU/ Jl leader Ibrahim Maidin made this offer to intelligence officials here Detainee's offer to call off attacks drives home vital role of inter-racial networks
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    Lock icon A JOB WELL DONE
    88 1 LAU FOOK KONG After two months of being on his toes all the time, Captain Joey Wong gets a handshake and a pat on the back upon touching down after his return to Singapore yesterday. He was in a Singapore Armed Forces contingent which helped provide
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    Lock icon SIA, cargo arm recruiting pilots
    470 1  -  KARAMJIT KAUR 100 CAPTAINS, FIRST OFFICERS SHOW INTEREST TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) and its cargo arm are looking for experienced pilots and more than 100 captains and first officers from the SAS Group the largest Nordic airline are interested. Interviews began a week ago
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      159 1 GUARDING STRAITS; (7S ttY//^,s' £o ,9^/j J Marines to Malacca Straits but will Jakarta, KL agree? page 4 P^TPP^a^Pv^ I llm^ UnCIGrDdICI and SUSDGCtS J Ik I, *^K 1 ■J^P^^l P^Pj l jh p^ 1 ft a fl^ *^§^^^pj 1 l^v 2 v"» L II IJH 9 J PL A
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      181 2 GETTING TO BOTTOM OF ROADWORKS OFTEN, a road appears to be worked on shortly after the last holes have been closed. This has led people to ask the Cut Waste Panel: Why is the work on roads not better coordinated? According to the Land Transport Authority, even though it
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      89 2 HISSING INGREDIENT IN U.S. BOOH SINCE the recession started in March 2001, output per hour in America has risen at an amazing annual rate of 4.6 per cent. It has also taken jobs away, but held down price increases and kept inflation down. Latest data from the Federal Reserve
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      80 2 WINNERS NAVE THE RIGHT ATTITUDE SUCCESS in life is dependent on and marked by several things, and obtaining a degree is not one of them, writes Ms Lena K.K. Soh. Sound character is one, cherishing family and friends and being there for them another. So is pursuing excellence and
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      77 2 L IFF! STARCK OPENS KEY TO THE WEST ARCHITECT and design guru Philippe Starck wants to see a revolution in Asia, one that will take the continent back to its due place in design. Asian designers are in chains, he says. They are squeezed by marketing to copy, though "the
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      115 2 S. Africa wins S'pore Sevens SOUTH African rugby captain Marc de Marigny capitalised on a loose ball to score the winning try yesterday in the Standard Chartered Singapore Sevens final. He managed it in the eighth minute of sudden-death extra time in a hard-fought game that ended with a
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      96 2 MONE Y Barter exchange to make a comeback A SINGAPORE company is planning to relaunch the country's first barter exchange. Its members will exchange products and services rather than pay for them with cash. The deals will be assisted by brokers, and the members there are about 100 now will
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      97 2 Secret Swat team THEY call themselves The Flying Fish and are such a hush-hush unit, few had heard of their existence until the elite Police Coast Guard unit helped nab ojic of the armed robbers who had landed on Pulau Tekong while fleeingfSflpm the scone of their crime in
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      77 2 AVIVA EXPLAINS NKF DEAL AVTVA'S deal with the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is to come up with custom-designed products to meet the needs of NKF's donors, patients and those who have used its health-screening sessions, the leading British insurer said. It also added that it has not bought NKFs
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      66 2 EUROPE PROTESTS PENSION CUTS THOUSANDS of people in Berlin, Rome and Paris took to the streets over the weekend to protest reforms in pension and social welfare plans by their governments. The protests were called by trade unions, old-age pensioners' groups and anti-globalisation movements. But European governments believe they
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      132 2 BASK LAW: REASSURANCE BY CHINA THE draft interpretation of Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, is in line with the law and consistent with the pace of constitutional development on the island, China has reassured Hong Kong. The standing committee of the mainland parliament, the National People's Congress, will
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      79 2 TOO MANY GAMES DEFEAT ARSENAL'S star scorer has hit out at the number of games the team is having to play in the wake of its 0-1 FA Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester United. The team was in the running for a triple, but is now in contention for
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      133 2 MAIN Prime 3-6 World 7-11 Editorial 12 Commentary 12,13 Forum 14 HOME Home Hl-H6 Education H7-HlO ASIA/SPORTS/ MONEY Indonesia... AI,A2 China A3,A4 Asia A5 S-E Asia A6 Malaysia A7 Sports AB-AlO Money... Al2-Al6 LIFE! Cover L4.L5 Arts L6 Television L7 Comics L8 StraightTalk... L8 What's On Ll2 TV guide Ll3
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      Lock icon SAF men make it through enemy fire
      502 3  - SAF men make it through enemy fire KELVIN WONG Being shot at in the air and threatened on the ground were part of the dangers the C-130 crew sent to Iraq faced constantly THIS WAS BY FAR THE RISKIEST EXERCISE WE UNDERTOOK, AND THE FIRST TIME WE WERE OPERATING IN
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      Lock icon GETTING WET... FOR THE SANE OF ART
      64 3 JOYCE FANG Local batik artist Sarkasi Said believes in immersing himself in art. He conducted a Movement Life painting session at Bugis Junction yesterday by encouraging children to play at a fountain to derive inspiration from water and its movement. Then, while still
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      Lock icon All systems go for Indonesian polls today
      435 3  -  DERWIN PEREIRA Parliamentary elections likely to draw about 147m voters B,j INDONF.SIACORRKSrONDKM JAKARTA About 147 million Indonesians vote today in parliamentary elections as they brace themselves for a long wait before a new government is sworn in. After today's poll, there will be
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      Lock icon Andy Lau bags acting prize at HK Film Awards
      461 4  -  FOONG WOEI WAN lh, HEAVENLY King Andy Lau has been named Best Actor at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards for the second time in his two-decade acting career. He bagged the prize for slipping on a rubber suit to play
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      Lock icon US wants Marines to guard Malacca Straits
      498 4 But questions remain on whether move can get regional support WASHINGTON The US plans to deploy Marines and special forces on high-speed vessels along the Malacca Straits as part of its counterterrorism initiative to help South-east Asian countries. Admiral Thomas Fargo, the top
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      Lock icon Chinese women grads send sexy photos to land jobs
      206 4 Chinese women grads send sexy photos to land jobs BEIJING Some Chinese women graduates, trying to overcome discriminatory hiring practices, are sending out revealing pictures of themselves to prospective bosses in their desperation to find work. "Besides the traditional scenarios of visiting job fairs and mailing out resumes, some female
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      559 6 Cornered in a flat during raid, alleged mastermind and three accomplices set off blast, which also kills a policeman MADRID The suspected mastermind behind last month's train bombings blew himself and three accomplices up after police cornered them in a suburban apartment on Saturday. Serhane
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      Lock icon Powell admits intelligence on Iraq was flawed
      528 6 WASHINGTON US Secretary of State Colin Powell has admitted that the "most dramatic" part of his pre-war presentation to the United Nations on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was based on flawed intelligence. He said the information on mobile biological weapons laboratories used
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      Lock icon Massive protests over pension cuts
      534 7 Germans pour onto the streets to slam Schroeder's Agenda 2010; demonstrators are out in force in Rome and Paris as well BERLIN Nearly half a million Germans, many waving labour union flags and blowing whistles, paraded exuberantly through Berlin and other German cities in the
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      911 8 Rice in the hot seat The credibility of the Bush government's counter-terrorism policy hinges on her testimony before the Sept 11 panel Clarke's charges FORMER White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke ignited a political firestorm last month when he appeared on 60 Minutes to discuss his new book, Against All
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      979 8 Blair in the firing line British PM allegedly knew that Bush intended to attack Saddam but kept insisting that 'no decisions had been taken' Meyer's disclosures BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair will almost certainly now be reqrettinq his decision to invite the former ambassador to the United States, Sir Christopher
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      Lock icon Job data gives Bush campaign a boost
      142 9 WASHINGTON Buoyant job growth figures for March have boosted President George W. Bush's campaign and momentarily shifted the spotlight from the administration's inability to prevent the Sept 11 attacks. Latest polls indicate a tight race between the President and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry,
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      Lock icon Iraq war turned Islamic fighters against US
      347 9 WASHINGTON The USled invasion of Iraq has accelerated the spread of Osama bin Laden's anti-Americanism among once local Islamic militant movements, senior intelligence officials at the CIA and State Department now acknowledge. This in turn has increased the danger to the United States
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      Lock icon 24 die as cleric's followers clash with troops
      414 9 'THE IRAQIS HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS IN PEACEFUL MEANS, AND THIS IS DEMOCRACY, BUT RESORTING TO VIOLENCE IS REJECTED.' Mr Massud Barzani, the rotating president of Iraq's interim Governing Council NAJAF (Iraq) At least 24 people, including four Salvadoran
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      483 10 Chirac out to pacify Putin over Nato expansion The French President tours top secret space centre during his trip, which comes a day after Schroeder's visit KRASNOZNAMENSK (Russia) French President Jacques Chirac became the first Western leader to see a top secret Russian space centre as he made a flying
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      354 10 It says it has not breached deal to halt uranium enrichment TEHERAN Iran insisted yesterday that it was not hiding any of its nuclear facilities from United Nations (UN) inspectors, and that its re- sumption of work on a key part of the nuclear
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        43 10 KUWAIT AIMS TO EASE SUNNI-SHI'ITE TENSION THE Kuwaiti government if planning to take stern "legal" action in a bid to curb growing communal tension between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims, a leading Islamist lawmaker said yesterday after a meeting with the prime minister. AFP
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        79 10 BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair was drawn into a simmering row yesterday over immigration after a newspaper claimed he struck a politically advantageous deal with Bucharest to relax controls on Romanians entering Britain. However, a spokesman denied a claim in The Sunday Telegraph that
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        Lock icon ITALY CRACKING DOWN ON ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS
        68 10 ITALIAN Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said Italy would take a hard line against Islamic extremists and their sympathisers but ruled out introducing special laws to give police wider anti-terrorist powers. He was speaking in a newspaper interview yesterday, after the arrests on Friday of
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        47 10 ISRAELI nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has formally asked to renounce his citizenship as a way to prevent the government from confining him to the country after his release from prison on April 21, Israel's Channel Two TV reported on Saturday. AP
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        Lock icon Taiwanese news anchor bounces back
        195 11 RECOVERS FROM TRAIN CRASH TAIPEI Popular Taiwanese news anchorwoman Tanya Liu Hai-juo, who was severely injured in a train crash in Britain nearly two years ago, says she has recovered and hopes to be back on the air soon. "I am so glad to be
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        Lock icon CAMPBELL GIVES SHOW A GOOD RUN
        89 11 LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair's former spokesman Alastair Campbell ran 16km to reach his one-man show on time after his car got stuck in traffic. The Telegraph of London said he abandoned his chauffeur-driven vehicle and ran off the motorway. The former marathon runner
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        Lock icon BRITON CLAIMS LINK TO QUEEN VICTORIA
        106 11 LONDON A British man made a legal appeal to have the body of his grandfather exhumed in a bid to prove his predecessor was the illegitimate grandson of Queen Victoria. Mr Nicholas Locock, 75, plans to have DNA tests done on the corpse of
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        79 11 WASHINGTON Barely six months after lunching with US First Lady Laura Bush, acclaimed British novelist lan McEwan was denied entry to the United States for 36 hours in a wrangle over visas. He finally arrived in Seattle minutes before he was due to appear before
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        64 11 British television presenter Anna Richardson is set to file a £100,000 (S$308,000) libel suit against California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger this week, alleging he molested her during an interview. Sweden's Prime Minister Goeran Persson is not stepping down from his post, but he is planning to be a farmer after he
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        54 11 Quoteworthy C A 12-year-old gets fidgety and looks at his watch and yawns and carries on after three hours in tlie same seat. Mr Richard Crotty, defending his son Tyler who appeared to have fallen asleep as he stood next to L S President George W. Rash while he addressed
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      Lock icon Texan jury acquits killer mum on insanity grounds
      472 11 The woman, who smashed the skulls of two sons aged six and eight, will be admitted to a maximum-security hospital TYLER (Texas) A woman who claimed God ordered her to bash in the heads of her sons was acquitted of all charges
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      Lock icon Aussie PM expects tough fight for fourth term
      221 11 SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister John Howard said his conservative government would have to fight hard to win a fourth consecutive term, as newspapers speculated yesterday he may go to the ballot box as early as August. "I think that it's going to
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        592 12 A GAUNTLET has been thrown down to the civil service to keep up with times. But for some, the challenge Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean issued to public servants would evoke the JL J^. old, old feeling of deja vu. He told them last week at their
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      766 12  -  THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN TH K N E WYORKTIMK S Bu MEXICO CITY Because it happened so peacefully, it's easy to forget Mexico in one decade has gone through two remarkable revolutions. One of the oldest one-party governments in the world was easea out
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      1659 12  -  MICHAEL J. MANDEL BUSINKSSWF.KK IN THE Sorcerer's Apprentice fairy tale, a fledgling magician enchants a broom to carry his water for him. Unfortunately, he hasn't learnt how to make the broom stop and the flood nearly sweeps him out into the street. That, in a
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      Lock icon The value of doctors in research
      1311 13  -  CHANG AI-LIEN By SCI H\CECOHRESPOSDKST the small, talented elite who choose to have two such demanding careers know that there are trade-offs and it will never be a bed of roses. it is a conscious decision to forgo the house with a swimming pool,
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      Lock icon Should one go on a paper chase?
      972 14 Should one go on a paper chase A Matter Of Degree YES I REFER to the letters "It doesn't pay to go on a paper chase" by Mr Seah Liang Chiang (ST, March 26) and "Go for a degree, or more, Singaporeans" by Mrs Venetia Pereira (ST, March 24). Forty
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        127 14 MY husband and I, Canadians and many years retired, have spent five months in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Malaysia. We have had many wonderful experiences but nothing like our introduction to Singapore. On March 1, we flew from Kuching to Johor Bam where we took the Causeway
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        123 14 ON DEC 17 last year, my foreign student girlfriend, who had had hign fever for the past four days, was referred to the Singapore General Hospital accident and emergency department. When she arrived, Dr Kei Pin Lin suspected she had dengue and wanted to admit her
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        81 14 I WAS in Übi Road 3 on March 11 when an anxious Chinese national approached me and asked me where he could take a taxi to Changi Airport to catch his flight. Due to the flood, the main road was closed. I approached Officer lim Chee Hwee
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        119 14 I WAS riding my motorcycle along Farrer Road to Holland Road on March 13 when suddenly the engine stalled. I realised it was out of fuel and had no choice but to push it up the slope to the nearest petrol station. After a few metres, a lorry
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        84 14 I WOULD like to thank Mr H.S. Chiang of Tibs No. 61 for making my journey home as dry as possible. I usually cycle to ancf from school at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, but on March 8, it rained for more than 12 hours. That meant I
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      56 1 The Straits Times home THIS TIME, IT'S FOR REAL 7 was like a father, in some ways, to all these voting talents. Now, Tin a father, full-stop. Veteran recording executive Jimmy Wee, who used to nurture local music talent in the 1980s, on using his experience to raise his newty-adopted
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      378 2  -  ARLIN A ARSHAD Bu THERE'S a new man at the zoo. Dr Ken Gold, 46, has joined the Singapore Zoological Gardens as general curator, a new position that puts him in charge of the veterinary and zoology departments. Dr Gold visited the zoo in January
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      141 2 LOCAL investors can now make more savvy investment decisions with the Business Times' Investment Guide. The 28-page full-colour special will go out with tomorrow's edition of the Business Times. It was launched last September, and the second issue has profiles of 27 companies listed on the
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      824 2  - Handful of unions prefer to go solo SUE-ANN CHIA Fiercely independent, these unions are the remaining few which shun coming under the NTUC umbrella Hu INDEPENDENT: The five THE five unions, out of 68 registered here, that have shunned the NTUC umbrella: Singapore Transport-Vessels Workers' Association Set up: November 1946
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      523 3 He takes off in $160,000 silver sports utility vehicle as salesman gets out to switch places with him NOT EVERYONE'S A CONMAN We cant assume that everyone who wants to test-drive our cars is a potential con man. Otherwise, we wouldn't sell many cars'
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      471 5  -  M. NIRMALA Despite receiving criticism, Inter-Racial Confidence Circles show they have played a role in defusing tension around S'pore Rc)>(»ls hi/ BENEATH the surface of what is largely a picture of harmonious relations here, community leaders in several constituencies have unknown to the public
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      296 5 Unknown to many, IRCCs have handled and defused many tense situations in neighbourhoods A wedding and a funeral LAST May, a potential conflict arose between a Chinese and a Malay family in Clementi. The Malay family were holding a wedding dinner at the void deck of Block 202, Clementi
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      567 5 Groups urged to connect with the young Intruders would have been detected You have to realise that between Pulau Tekong and lohor is only about 500m... They take a powerful speed boat in two minutes, they're across. We will know they have come but we may not be able to
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      57 5 HOW HWEE YOUNG To mark the end of the Arts House No More Walls opening festival, percussion artist Collin Bogaars leads a parade from Raffles City to the Arts House. The 500 or so marchers included students, Singapore percussion groups and members of the public banging drums.
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      1055 6  - ROCK ROLL SERENE GOH Hu MOVING ON 'The party's over but I'm not going to sit down and do nothing, not as long as I can move. Mr Wee MUSIC PALS: Mr Wee. seated, is with (from left) Gita, a member of Indonesian jazz band Cherokee; Grammy-winning jazz musician Bob
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        947 7 TAKING the private rather than mainstream school route to a diploma or degree is losing its stigma of being "second class", going by what students and employers tell The Straits Times. Where once, private schools were tarnisned by fears of
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        809 8 Degree in counselling from private school will enable pastor to serve needs of congregation, and help them cope with challenges they face PRIVATE STUDENTS: WHO THEY ARE The locals Most are adults working either full or part-time, and want to upgrade themselves, get a
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        486 9 II PRIVATE SCHOOLS: THE COURSES Here are some attractive courses you can take at private schools SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDY DESIGN THE RafflesLaSalle Institute offers 60 scholarships for students to study design at its colleges in Shanghai and Beijing, each worth half a student's tuition
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        533 10 Refuting claims that their teachers are not up to scratch, private schools say job applicants are screened carefully 'Textbooks are not enough to conduct lessons. Most of our students are working professionals and they expect their teachers to impart some knowledge to
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        352 10 A PRTVATE school aiming for the Singapore Quality Class (SQC) award has to fulfil criteria in at least nine areas. These include offering educational programmes from recognised universities, conducting frequent surveys of students to evaluate teachers, adequate classrooms and Internet facilities. The
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        201 10 PRIVATE schools offering diploma and degree programmes can apply for the Singapore Quality Class for Private Education Organisations award. Administered by Spring Singapore, the award is given to schools that offer quality programmes, and nave experienced teaching staff, extensive research and self-study facilities, among other things. For more
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      42 1 The Straits Times asia HTFORTAT INTERFERENCE 'Should we in return express great concern when Washington elects its mayor r Tycoon Gordon Wu slamming the United States for interfering in how Hong Kong elects its chief executive after 2007 Monday, April 5, 2004
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        607 1  - Tension simmers in Poso DEVI ASMARANI Recent Muslim-Christian riots have polarised this former Golkar stronghold and its voters along religious lines By IN POSO CENTRAL SULAWESI D-DAY FOR INDONESIANS Some 147 million voters across Indonesia go to the polls today. The Straits Times correspondents were on the ground on the
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        511 2 LAUREL TEO IN JAKARTA With the three-day 'cooling period' in place, all's quiet on the streets as campaigning has ceased since Thursday SAVE for a few torn remnants of party stickers on lamp posts and trees, there are haraly any signs that a
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        326 2  -  ROBERT GO By l.\ AJfcIM.Y TAXI driver Syamsul Karim was in a defiant mood. The wiry 54-year-old declared brazenly that he would vote for the Indonesian Democratic PartyStruggle (PDI-P). "People are too harsh on PDI-P. We need to give Ibu Mega more time to
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        99 2 GENERAL Wiranto, a possible presidential candidate from the Golkar Party, gave student protesters the slip in Surabaya on Saturday. The former chief of the Indonesian military was taping a talk show on the campus of Airlangga University while dozens of students from various groups in
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        80 2 FIRST results from Indonesian parliamentary elections today are expected to be released some seven hours after close of polling, an election official said. More than 595,000 polling stations will open from 7am to lpm to allow Indonesians to vote for the national parliament, provincial and
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        33 2 AFP A. woman couldn't hold back her tears during a mass prayer in Jakarta, where she and fellow Muslims prayed for good leaders for Indonesia ahead of today's voting.
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        92 2 VOTER cards for the legislative election are being sold openly for up to 250,000 rupiah (Ssso), candidates said. Concern for the Nation Functional Party (PKPB) candidate Probosutedjo claimed he bought some voter cards from an unidentified seller. "At first I couldn't believe that
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        112 2 FORMER president Suharto will use his right to vote in a polling booth near his residence in Cendana, Central Jakarta, in today's legislative elections, his half-brother Probosutedjo saidAsked what political party the former president would choose in the election, Mr Probosutedjo said he did
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        547 2  - Solo likely to back Megawati all tne way MAFOOT SIMON By IN SOI.O ALONG the dimly lit lane near Balapan train station, a middle-aged woman, her face plastered with make-up, is struggling to understand the new voting system of the Indonesian legislative election which her friend is explaining to her.
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        252 2 ASIANS THIS WEEK 1 April 5-11 1 CHINA Singapore's Minister of State for Trade and Industry Raymond Lim is in Zhejiang till Saturday to strengthen ties. The National People's Congress votes tomorrow on "draft interpretations" of Hong Kong's mini-Constitution on how it will choose its leader. TAIWAN I Miff Mil
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        594 3  -  TSCHANG CHI-CHU Efforts include publicising aid from Japan to China and bringing in sumo wrestlers and Kabuki actors 11l K STRAITS TIM IS chinabhrf.au BEIJING When Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoriko Kawaguchi ended her routine visit to Beijing yesterday
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        170 3 HONG KONG Hone Kong activists urged Beijing yesterday to deploy military forces to a chain of disputed islands tnat both China and Japan claim as their territory. Protest organiser Lo Chau said 11 demonstrators marched to the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Hong Kong offices. They chanted slogans
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        381 3 BEIJING Booming bilateral trade notwithstanding, China and India would not arrive soon at a free-trade agreement (FTA). They must first resolve many political issues as well as India's an-ti-dumping duties on Chinese goods and high manufacturing costs in India, according to experts here.
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        643 4  -  MARY KWANG By IIO\<: M>\(; CORRESPOND! VI Committee to submit one-page-long interpretation of the charter tomorrow CHINA, in a move to calm Hong Kong residents, said that an impending interpretation of legal provisions for political reform in the territory would be fair
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        515 4 They come in search of better hospitals and future for their kids A mum's wish 7 want my child to be educated here, I want him to be seen as just a normal Hong Kong boy. Ms May Lee, 27,
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        361 4 TAIPEI Some 15 protesters were injured and around 120 arrested by riot police early yesterday in the worst violence to erupt since the controversial presidential ballot on March 20. Meanwhile, President Chen Shui-bian yesterday returned to his southern home town for the
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        245 4 BEIJING Giant pandas show little interest in sex behind bars, but China nevertheless is looking forward to a baby boom this year with 10 females already pregnant and 23 in heat. "China expects a record number of baby giant pandas to be
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        562 5 Kumaratunga' s alliance conies out tops Sri Lankan Polls Her party wins the most seats but fails to clinch absolute majority, complicating efforts to resume peace talks with rebels COLOMBO The political alliance led by President Chandrika Kumaratunga won the largest number of seats in Sri Lanka's parliamentary elections, forcing
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        508 5 With ex-First Lady at helm, it courts young and women BUSAN (South Korea) As young computer warriors battled all around her, 52--year-old Park Geun Hye grimly gripped the Xbox controller. In vain, she struggled to keep her electronic car from banging the walls of
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          71 5 A GROUP of 23 North Korean defectors has flown into Seoul through a third country, escaping the hunger-stricken communist regime, the South Korean government said yesterday. A total of six men and 17 women mostly labourers and students entered South Korea on Friday,
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          71 5 A FORMER Hong Kong Catholic priest suspected of sexually abusing a boy almost 30 years ago has been charged with indecent assault, police said yesterday. The former priest, 53, who was named only as Lee, was arrested in February. In the same month, former
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          61 5 BEIJING has issued a new regulation threatening to punish the large number of people flocking to the city to petition the government over social injustices. Shouting slogans, stopping government vehicles and surrounding offices of the Communist Party and the government are now considered illegal and
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          43 5 A MODERATE earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 jolted north-eastern Japan yesterday. Police said one person suffered a minor injury. The quake was centred about 40km underground off the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture, about 100km north-east ofTokyo. AP
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          58 5 MAOIST rebels fighting to overthrow Nepal's monarchy bombed three houses including one belonging to the royalist interior minister, police said yesterday. Interior Minister Kamal Thapa was not in the house, which he is renting to the government's revenue service, when it was bombed late on
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        171 5 SEOUL North Korea has told China it is willing to give up all its nuclear facilities in return for undisclosed "corresponding measures", South Korean reports said yesterday. North Korea disclosed its position when Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing visited Pyongyang last month, Yonnap
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        268 5 KARACHI At least 10 gunmen stormed into a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi early yesterday, killing five policemen and wounding one after demanding the officers recite Islamic verses, police said. One of the attackers died in the shootout near
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        581 6 Hotels in Til south beef up security after blast With thousands of tourists expected for Songkran festival, hotels are hiring more guards and seeking police help BANGKOK Hotels in south Thailand have said that the recent bombing of a tourist entertainment district has jolted them into strengthening security for next
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        138 6 TOLL OF VIOLENCE Thaksin's popularity hit BANGKOK— The Thai government's failure to quell violence in the predominantly Muslim south has dented Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's popularity, poll showed yesterday. Support for his 38-month -old government fell to 58^8 per cent at the start of this month, according to Assumption University's
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        288 6 MANILA President Gloria Arroyo said the United States military had been training Philippine soldiers to defend the Spratly islands against China until she asked them to shift the focus to fighting the Abu Sayyaf extremist group. It was the first time that a
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        151 6 YANGON Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) urged the military rulers yesterday to release democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and three other leaders before inviting it to join renewed talks on a new Constitution. The call followed remarks by Myanmar Foreign Minister
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          87 6 BANGKOK governor Samak Sundaravej has declared the Thai capital a suspected birdflu epidemic zone in a move to control poultry movements in the wake of a possible repeat of the outbreak. The Livestock Department ordered that all provinces and Bangkok be declared suspected bird-flu epidemic
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          86 6 THE Philippine power industry must act now or face a nationwide electricity crisis by 2007, a senior executive has warned. First Generation Holdings president Federico Lopez said the sector was not attracting much-needed investments to bankroll additional capacity to avert crippling blackouts. Since new
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          59 6 A TOWN mayor in the central Philippines was gunned down on Saturday in the midst of campaigning for the May 10 national ana local elections. Mr Francisco Montero of Tarangan town in Samar province died after gunmen on a motorcycle shot him at close range
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          69 6 CLASHES between government troops and communist guerillas left at least six people dead in the Philippines over the weekend despite progress in peace talks between the two sides. Government and rebel negotiators ended a round of talks on Saturday in Norway with a
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        498 7  -  LESLIE LAU Instead of turning attention to party elections, the Premier cites poverty and corruption as biggest tasks at hand I\ Kl AI.AI IMPI R UNDER the watch of Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi, Umno, the ruling party so used to years of political infighting and
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        156 7 KUALA LUMPUR Foreign governments are preparing to improve tertiary education links with Malaysia, following the setting up of the Higher Education Ministry. Britain, Australia and India, in welcoming Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's move to split the former Education Ministry in two, described
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        345 7 Although JI is crippled, its offshoots are a danger, he says PEKAN (Pahang) Although the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) has been crippled, the people must remain vigilant for splinter groups involved in militant activities, Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak said. He said the government
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        283 7 JOHOR BARU Johor is confident that Singaporeans will continue to visit tne state despite the implementation of a scanning system at the Causeway and Second Link. The Automatic Vehicle Scanning System (AVSS), which was installed on Thursday to trace Singaporean motorists who have about
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        356 7 School keeping quiet about son's death, says father SEREMBAN A week has passed since his son was killed but Mr Ibrahim Maadsah says he is still in the dark over his death. He says the school authorities have still not briefed him on the events leading to the death of
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        970 8  - Sevens heaven as South Africa win title in rain... ...while the fans sing and dance on CHIA HAN KEONG Chia Han Keong RUGBY Hit Exciting end to a day or upsets as Springboks beat Argentina in extra time THE heavens threatened to end the Standard Chartered Singapore Sevens prematurely yesterday,
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        462 8 SOCCER WASHINGTON Chants of "Freddy, Freddy" echoed throughout the stadium whenever a DC United player missed a scoring chance early in the second half. Finally in the Gist minute, with DC leading 2-1, the moment arrived. Flashbulbs popped amid the roars as 14-year-old soccer prodigy Freddy
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        543 8 ROME Italian league leaders AC Milan were held to a 1-1 draw at Modena yesterday, allowing Roma, who won 3-0 at Lecce, to close the gap to nine points. Jon Dahl Tomasson gave Milan a first-half lead, only for Nicola Amoruso to deny the
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        506 9 SOCCER Gunners' remaining matches (Premiership matches unless stated) Tomorrow: Chelsea (home, Champions League quarter-finals, 2nd leg) Friday: Liverpool (h) Sunday: Newcastle (away) April 16: Leeds (h) April 25: Tottenham (a) May 1: Birmingham (h) May 8 Fulham(a) May 15: Leicester (h) To be arranged Portsmouth
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        583 9 Paphitis could run naked in London after 1-0 FA Cup win over Sunderland MANCHESTER (England) Miflwa 1 1 chairman Theo Paphitis is set to be held to his promise to run naked througn the streets of London, following the Lions' 1-0 FA Cup
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        258 9 LONDON Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri believes his team have hit top form in time to knock Arsenal out of Europe. The Blues, who beat Tottenham 1-0 for their fifth consecutive win on Saturday to close the gap to league leaders Arsenal to four
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        Lock icon Owen's brace helps Reds steamroller Blackburn
        410 9 LIVERPOOL Liverpool powered past Blackburn 4-0, rattling in three goals in the first 24 minutes, to reclaim fourth place in the English Premier League yesterday. Michael Owen scored twice, first beating Brad Friedel with a low shot and then unleashing a fierce drive, with
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        1245 9 r n Monday's Expert reviews the best races from Kranji last Friday night Race 1 QUICK FIRE made up for his unlucky run last week by scoring narrowly, j Although it was his first victory from i 15 starts, the performance suggested he will be
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        Lock icon Beckham denies affair with ex-PA
        287 9 SPORTSPEOPLE LONDON Once more, there was a report on the state of David Beckham's marriage in fact this time, the newspaper alleged that he had an affair. And not surprisingly, once more, there was an emphatic denial from the England captain. Yesterday, the Real Madrid
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        Lock icon England's first win in Carribean in 36 years
        212 10 LONDON British newspapers heaped praise on Matthew Hoggard (right) yesterday, after the fast bowler's hat-trick inspired England to their first Test series triumph in the Caribbean since 1968. He triggered a West Indies collapse which handed England an eight-wicket victory in the
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        Lock icon Schumacher reigns in Bahrain desert
        755 10 MOTOR RACING STANDINGS Bahrain GP: I Michael Schumacher (Ger) Ferrari Ihr2Bmin 34.8755ec 2 Rubens Barrichello(Bra) Ferrari, 1 .3675ec behind 3 Jenson Button (Eng) BAR 26.687 4 JarnoTrulli (Ita) Renault 32.214 5 Takuma Sato (Jpn) BAR 52.460 6 Fernando Alonso (Esp) Renault 53.156 7 Ralf Schumacher
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        Lock icon Pakistan desperate to stop India in 2nd Test
        508 10 CRICKET LAHORE Inzamam-ul Haq's Pakistan will pull out the stops to gain a series-levelling win in the second Test against India starting at the Gaddafi Stadium here today. India, buoyant after the emphatic innings victory in the Multan Test last week that
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        Lock icon Tiger slump? That's not how he sees it
        495 10 GOLF DENVER Tiger Woods jokes or snaps to reporters that he slumped so badly last year, it earned him a fifth consecutive PGA Tour Player of The Year award. And, he points out to those wondering what has happened to his game
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          81 10 DIRK Nowitzki scored 34 points and Antawn Jamison added another 22 for the Dallas Mavericks in their 124-103 win over the Phoenix Suns in a National Basketball Association game on Saturday. Amare Stoudemire had 20 points and 13 rebounds for Phoenix, who lost for
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          Lock icon RE-TESTING PLAYERS' URINE SAMPLES FOR THG?
          71 10 URINE samples from Barry Bonds and six other professional baseball players were not destroyed and could be re-tested to see if they contain a designer steroid, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Saturday. The seven players are among dozens of athletes who testified last
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          Lock icon TEENAGE ELAINE SHOCKS OLYMPIC SWIMMERS
          65 10 AMERICAN teenager Elaine Breeden churned to the lead in the final metres ofthe 200-metre butterfly at the Counsilman Classic grand prix swim meet in Indianapolis and went on to defeat a field that included defending Olympic champion Misty Hyman. The 15-year-old won in 2min 11.31sec.
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          Lock icon SORENSTAM CLOSER TO RETAINING TITLE
          95 10 ANNIKA Sorenstam, the best woman golfer in the world, moved a step closer to claiming her third career title at the Office Depot Championship in Los Angeles on Saturday after carding a two-under-par 70. She worked her way through a round that included five birdies
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        925 10 BASKETBALL NBA: New York 86 Philadelphia 75. Golden State 103 Cleveland 100. Miami 97 Chicago 83. Dallas 124 Phoenix 103. New Orleans 94 Portland 81 CRICKET TMrt Ttst hi BrMfttm. Barhadas: West In dies Ist innings 224 (R Sarwan 63 A flintoff 5 58) England Ist innings
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        582 11 TENNIS After an eight-month lay-off, Serena Williams wins comeback tournament and shows she is still the best KEY BISCAYNE (Florida) Serena Williams skipped, grinned and blew kisses, perhaps a little surprised to be a champion so soon after an eight-month lay-off following last year's Wimbledon
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        1048 11 TAN YEO TEE Ag.: 87 passed away peacefully on 4 April 2004, leavinq behind loved ones. (Husband: Ng Teng Hee, deceased) Sons: Spouses: Ng Beng Cheng Lim Lee Fong, Mary Ng Beng Chuan, Bill Loh Puay Hia, Grace Ng Beng Chiang, Steven Tan Chin Fong, Rosie Ng Beng Soon, Jerry
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        Lock icon Nikkei expected to keep up rally
        606 12 ROUND-UP Overseas markets STOCKS in Japan are likely to gain on rosy domestic economic prospects after hitting a 22-month high in the past week, barring further gains by the yen against the dollar, brokers said. The market is watching whether the Japanese authorities will
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        Lock icon SECURITIES TRDG TURNOVER
        114 12 TURNOVER COOO) VALUE fOOO) m»ti Sdq Tof I M»ln Sdq Total Multllnd 14,719 14,719 29.194 ***** Manufacturg 289,384 53.831 343.215 293.379 12.277 305.656 Commerce 65,310 15,376 80.686 75.888 4.651 80 539 Tpt/Stor/Com 121.282 456 121.738 216.782 426 217 209 Finance 29,638 507 30.145 103.034 327 103.361 Construction
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        140 12 MAIN SDO TOTAL Up Dn Unch Up On Unch Up On Unch Multilnd 954 000 954 Manufacturg 103 27 23 23 13 16 126 40 39 Commerce 33 18 16 12 5 4 45 23 20 Tpt/Stor/Com 17 58 2 0 0 19 5 8 Finance 21
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        41 12 Chwn> Straits Tim«s lnd»* 1680.45 *9.75 BT 08/OS 119.00 *124 00 BT CADI -*****.00 +137.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 *12.00 UOBStsdaq 113.95 *1.37 UOB Blue Chip 675.02 *4.50 STI Futures 1877 *15 SIMSCI 228.24 *1.11 SiMSCI Futurts 227.30 *0 80
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        33 12 BiO-Trtat MK4OC 242.665.000 Mem 5c 137,045.000 UnittdTAC USl5c 96.720,000 IPCO 20c 82.658.000 NOL 80.278.000 SlngT»l 15c 78,565.000 UniFibtr 10c 72,016.000 KLW Hldgs 2c 54,966.000 COSCO Corp 20c 53,551.000 Sp»»dyT*ch 5c 49.134.000
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        3922 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS 1.12/1.18 ABU Am Asset Mft (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty?" 0.738/ Star Europe Bond 1.254/ Star Europe M 1.055/ Star Asian Tiger Eqty 0.914/ Star Asia Bond 1.322/ Star Asm Balanced 0.962/ Star Global Technology Fumf- 0.236/ Star Brtv Finance Japan f undT* 0.84/ HuKi Strategy Fd 1.02/
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        412 12 ABN AmroßankNV 5.25 ABSA Bank Limited 5.5 Agricultural Bank Of China 5.5 ANZ Banking Group 6 American Express Bank 5 Arab Bank PLC 5 Banca Di Roma 5.5 Bangkok Bank 6 Bank of America NA 5 Bank of China 5.5 Bank of Communications 5.5 Bank of East
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        Lock icon Yen hits high on recovery hopes
        413 12 Yen hits high on recovery hopes REVIEW Currencies THE yen hit a four-year high but the Australian dollar is expected to lose ground. JAPANESE YEN: The yen hit a four-year high last week on growing expectations about Japan's economic recovery, and the view that intervention by the authorities may not
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        628 13 France and Germany back Frenchman Jean Lemierre while Holland, Austria and Belgium prefer Spanish Rodrigo Rato IN THE RUNNING PUNCHESTOWN (Ireland) France and Germany backed European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) president Jean Lemierre to head the International Monetary Fund (IMF) against Spanish Economy
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        Lock icon Bankrupt Air Canada should be given more time: E & Y
        343 13 Bankrupt Air Canada should be given more time: E Y Walking away HONG KONG-BASED tycoon Victor Li's Trinity Time Investment pulled out of the rescue deal on Friday but said it could still join the carrier's revamp iff its labour structure changed. MONTREAL Insolvent Air Canada, whose Hong Kong-based benefactor
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        Lock icon ECB drops objection to global accounting rules
        390 13 PUNCHESTOWN (Ireland) The European Central Bank (ECB) is no longer worried over planned global accounting rules, top European Union (EU) officials said on Saturday, raising hopes Europe could endorse the standards before the end of the year. The ECB had voiced concern over
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        Lock icon Jobs boom sparks speculation of US rate rise
        505 13 'There is a chance we could see the first rate hike in Naroff Economic Advisors' Mr Naroff, suggesting a possible rate hike when the FOMC meets in August WASHINGTON A jobs boom in the United States has ignited speculation that key interest
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        452 13 Central bank ready to adjust rates if needed PUNCHESTOWN (Ireland) The European Central Bank (ECB) has assured finance ministers worried over sluggish growth that it is flexible and stands ready to change interest rates if needed. ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet said on Saturday that he shared the European Union's (EU's)
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        656 14  - S'pore and Iran set sights on free trade SOH WEN LIN Ground-breaking mission to Iran stirs up FTA interest, and leads to MOU between business chambers of both countries Bn IN TEH K RAN THREE days into a groundbreaking trade mission here is making up for almost three decades 01
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        491 14 EXCEEDING TARGET TOKYO Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Heizo Takenaka forecast yesterday that Japan's growth would easily clear the government target of 2 per cent, and may reach 3 per cent in the year ended March 31. 'The government has revised its forecast
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        374 14 Red-hot Aussie property market down SYDNEY The hopes of young Australians who despaired of ever being able to afford a home have been raised by evidence that prices are at last stabilising in what has been one of the world's hottest property markets. But the bad news for some is
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        432 14 NEW DELHI Indian Finance Minister Jaswant Singh says the country's economy is poised for "explosive growth" of more than 10 per cent within a decade and could exceed the 8.1 per cent growth estimate for the year ended March 31. "It is not wishful thinking," he
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        1029 15  -  LORNA TAN COMMENT By Go through any unit trust brochure and chances are that you will find yourself straining to read the fine print that includes warnings and disclaimers Passing the squint test Most of the information in unit trusts brochures in Singapore
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        Lock icon Strong US jobs data to fuel S'pore stocks
        579 15  -  COLIN TAN TAKING STOCK By M.\nki:rsc(Uiii 1: srovo r With the long-awaited US jobs turnaround finally showing up in employment data, analysts say the last piece of the puzzle is in place and any doubts about a full-on recovery will be laid
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        71 15 WEEK'S TOP RISES Cents Venture Corp2sc 2030 130.0 6.8 SPH 1920 70.0 3.8 OCBC 1250 60.0 5.0 SIA2OO 1150 60.0 5.5 SIASOC 1150 60.0 5.5 GreatEastsoc 1220 50.0 4.3 SPH 100 1910 50.0 2.7 UOB 1370 50.0 3.8 CMSRmbi 890 40.8 27.1 Keppel Corp 50c 735 40.0 5.8 JSHUSScSOO 520
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        78 15 WEEK'S TOP RISES Cents BakerTech2oc 18.5 48.0 6.0 Benefun2ok HKk 2 33.3 0.5 Wee Poh 0.5c 2 33.3 0.5 CMSRmbi 890 27.1 40.8 Goldtronsc 2.5 25.0 0.5 Penguin WO5lOlO 5 25.0 1.0 KLW Hldqs W*****6 6 20.0 1.0 Sunlight W*****4 3 20.0 0.5 SIADBSeCWOSOIO7.. 18.5 19.4 3.0 Rowsley Ltd 2.5c
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        79 15 WEEK'S TOP FALLS Cents Noble Grp HKIOOc 470 30.0 6.0 Spore Land 392 12.0 3.0 DBSBk6%NCPSIO.. ***** W.O 0.1 F&N 1440 10.0 0.7 GP Bat 80c 380 10.0 2.6 Sp Land W*****3 172 9.0 5.0 Haw Par Corp 492 6.0 1.2 Mobileone2oc 142 6.0 4.1 OKPIOc 14 6.0 30.0 STI
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        78 15 WEEK'S TOP FALLS Cents OKPIOC 14 30.0 6.0 Inno-Pacic 3 25.0 1.0 PSLHldgsiOc 6 25.0 2.0 Teamsphere WOB 7 22.2 2.0 See Hup Seng W05 16 20.0 4.0 Jade Tech 1c 4.5 18.2 1.0 STIOBSePWO4I2O3.. 27.5 17.9 6.0 ChipEngS W*****1 2.5 16.7 0.5 GulTech W*****7 2.5 16.7 0.5 HuaKoksc 5
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          Lock icon THE HOUR GLASS NAMES NEW MD
          79 15 KENNY CHAN: Appointed as managing director of The Hour Glass with effect from Thursday last week. He was previously its chief operating officer. Mr Chan took over from Mrs Jannie Tay, who stepped down from the position on Wednesday. Mrs Tay will continue as
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          24 15 LJM JUI KHIANG: Resigned as Adroit Innovations' chief executive of the financial service sector with effect from Wednesday last week.
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          Lock icon GRP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STEPS DOWN
          67 15 GLENN ANG: Resigned as GRP executive director and from his executive position in the company with effect from March 27. The company also said that Ms Iris Sim had been appointed as acting chief executive, also with effect from March 27Her responsibilities will include implementing
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          Lock icon NATSTEEL EXEC VICE-PRESIDENT LEAVES
          62 15 KAUKO KARVEVEN: Resigned as Natsteel's executive vice-president for construction products division with effect from Thursday last week. He had been with the group since 1985 and had been instrumental in building up the company's precast concrete business. NatSteel deputy president Chong Wai Siak will be assuming
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          Lock icon NEW COO FOR CITIRAYA
          89 15 RICHARD JACOB: Appointed as chief operating officer (COO) of Citiraya Industries, a leading provider of recycling and processing services for electronic waste, with effect from this month. Mr Jacob will report to chief executive Ng Teck Lee and will oversee the group's operations and spearhead its
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          46 15 ANDY LUONG: Appointed as Norelco Centreline Holdings' chief operating officer with effect from Thursday last week. He takes over from Mr Lee Tiam Nam. Mr Luong has also been appointed as an executive director of the company, also with effect from Thursday.
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          74 15 INVESTMENT company 2G Capital sold two million Accord Customer Care Solutions (ACCS) shares in the open market at 91.1 cents each last Thursaay. The move has reduced the deemed stake held by non-executive director Gay Chee Cheong to 5.88 per cent from 6.19 per cent
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          63 15 DATACRAFT Asia chief executive Bill Padfield sold 110,000 shares in the open market last Monday at US$l.3O each to raise fiinds for his wedding in May. The sale came less than a fortnight after he converted 220,000 options into shares at an exercise price of 72.5
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          Lock icon EDDIE CHNG IN FLEXTECH BUY
          46 15 FORMER Serial System chief executive Eddie Chng bought 100,000 Flextech Holdings shares last Monday. The acquisition raised his deemed interest in the electronics company to 5.89 per cent from 5.83 per cent previously. Flextech finished unchanged last Friday at 52.5 cents.
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          Lock icon WEE CHO YAW UPS UOB STAKE
          81 15 UNITED Overseas Bank (UOB) chairman Wee Cho Yaw bought 400,000 shares worth almost $5.3 million from the open market on March 26. The purchase, done at $13.20 each through an investment vehicle, lifted Mr Wee's deemed stake in the bank to 13.47 per cent
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          Lock icon INTERRA INVESTOR TRIMS STAKE
          68 15 INTERRA Resources substantial shareholder Prairie Heritage sold 27 million shares in a married deal on March 25 at 27-5 cents each. Three Interra directors, including chief executive Sugiharto Soeleman, are deemed to have an interest in Prairie. His direct stake was reduced to 14 per cent
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        751 16  -  NARENDRA AGGARWAL Insurer On $sM Tie-up: Proposed deal to custom-design products for donors and patients will not compromise privacy, it says liu SPEAKING for the first time about a sponsorship deal it has reportedly struck witn the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), leading British insurer
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        Lock icon Singapore firm attempts to revive barter exchange
        733 16  -  HUGH CHOW BarterXchange {)lans system where irms can swop goods and services without using cash By BIG BUSINESS IN THE U.S. Singapore's own fledgling barter market follows in the footsteps of similar ones such as the ITEX Corp in the US. According to
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      239 3 TOKYO A missing musical score composed by Johann Sebastian Bach was found in Japan, scholars said last Saturday, calling it an invaluable discovery for musicians and researchers around the world. The 1728 composition, called Wedding Cantata BWV 216, was found among the possessions of
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      646 14 Slimed at Nickelodeon Awards Favourite Movie: Finding Nemo Favourite Movie Actor: Jim Carrey Favourite Movie Actress: Amanda Bynes Favorite Voice From An Animated Movie: Ellen DeGeneres (Finding Nemo) Favourite Song: Hey Ya!, OutKast Favourite Television Show: All That Favourite Cartoon: Spongeßob Squarepants Favourite Video Game: Spongeßob Squarepants: Battle For Bikini
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        358 5 $0 DOWNPAYMENT! 5/'O2 Mondeo TA 5-dr auto. 1 owner. Black. 5 yrs warranty. PARF $15,090. Selling $71.8K. View: ttO2-19 AML Jia Leong *****832/ *****349 MTHLY $600* ONLY! $300 driveoff. End '01 Laser 1.6 manual. 1 owner. Leather, s/rims. Call 6464-8338 now! 2/'Ol l OWNER Ford Laser 1.6 auto. CD, s/rims.
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        652 5 EM MERCEDES '92 BENZ E2OO Converted. COE 4/'2OII. Deposit $2000. $576 x 84. Sell $*****. *****283 ORIG BENZ E2OO 11/93. 16 valve. I airbag. COE 11/2013. Wen kept. Beautiful cond. Tel: *****200 2000 BENZ SSOOL. Tax 9/04 with TMP free maintenance warranty from C&C. *****200 2000 BENZ S32OL. Beautiful no.
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        339 6 BTH VOLVO FOR SALE OWNER. 9/'OO Volvo SBO. OMV 547,901. COE $32,900 *****km. .ike new. Tax 9/04 Paper value JBSK. Price neg. 6467-2004 10/01 VOLVO SBO. 1 owner. Grey, ow mileage. Car phone. Agt svc. Mew tax. Accident free. 9851-1013 B/01 VOLVO SBO 2.4 OMV $*****. Excellent. Agt maintained. SO
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        704 6 GT7I MINIBUSES K^M FOR SALE OE 3/2014 TOYOTA H, aC e petrol. J4 10 seaters front back. Aircon. lew paint/ tax. Hiqh loan. Good ond. Can Rosson Nq *****033 /■Ol 2 OWNERS Nissan Urvan PA late. Pte Bus. 11 seater. Price eg. Tel: 6256 7600 BJTI PICK-UPS FOR SALE /'93
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        760 6 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTE APTS RENT rhe Claymore 4+ 1 3J4Bsqft SIOK Grange Res (New) 4+l $10K Scotts 28 3+l 1 204Ssqft SB.SK rong Ann Park 4+ISBK trdmore Pk 4+ 1 2885sqtt SI IK SlasOm |ade ?-i JOOOsqft SI2K rhe Balmoral 4+l 2900sqft SBK Leonie Cdn 4+ 1 2540sqV $i>K
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        631 7 BDO9-10 ORCHARD/ Wfifl DO9-10 ORCHARD/ Wflt\ DO9-10 ORCHARD/ Pffl DO9-10 ORCHARD/ Pffl DO9-10 ORCHARD/ Wflfl DO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND |IUJ TANGLIN,/ HOLLAND fcily TANGLIN/ HOLLAND mjjhM TANGLIN/ HOLLAND UllMl TANGLIN/ HOLLAND UljJ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTEAPTS-RENT I PTEAPTS-RENT PTEAPTS-RENT PTEAPTS-RENT PTEAPTS-RENT PTEAPTS-RENT JIMIBH pT6 pe r f'Y"'^"-^ D E^"^| PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL
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        303 7 ami 21 NEWTON/ BT TIM AH/ CLEMENT' PTE APTS RENT 100*i COMM TO ALL AGENTS AMARYLLIS (NEW) •1/2+l/3+l/4+l Newton/Novena MRT Most choice units avail fr 52.5K ROBERTSON 100 (NEW) 1 +study/2/3/3+l /3+balcony Mohd Sultan Free maid services 31 VINCE *****919 TONY 9007 7182 AMARYLLIS 2 BDRMS study. High fir. Mins
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        335 7 WlfH Dl5-16 EAST COAST PTE APTS RENT I [o [I I |I> tC^ j tX-1 il •4 1 Rms, 2099 sq ft Full condo facilities Near amenities Beautiful resort setting Tom Er 9758 6887 I Alfie Foo 9009 5577 h0dH00^^^*****37 COSTA DEL SOL, Bayshore, Costa Rhu, Mandarin Gdns, Peach Gdn,
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        449 7 DDIS-16 EAST COAST PTEAPTS-RENT 015 NEAR PARKWAY. Amberville. Seaview. High fir. 1600sqft. 3+l. Unfurn. $1200. HM 9699-7131 THE BAYSHORE RESORT facilities. 3+l f/furn. Nicely renovated. Pool view. SI.6K. *****338 agt SI.SK! KATONC MAIS. 4 rms. 1700 sqft. Convenient. Amenities. 6276-5557/ 9638-1278 CSP 52.5K! AMBER PT. 1800 sqft. 3+l. Full sea
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        241 7 BJJJI HOUSES FOR RENT WHjl HOUSES FOR RENT Located at Towner McNair Road M ins from city) Near Boon Kent; MRT Station. easy access to CTE Spacious 2/3/4 bedroom units With balcony, roof deck, courtyard and timber flooring From 2100 sq ft uiatnna Y«O 9368 7949 .'< f^L Chyi Feng
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        316 7 EMERALD HILL 3-storey conservatior shophouse with roof terrace 4+l bedrooms Carporch Fully furnished Kitchen 5 mins from Somerset MRT Call Owner *****688 <><><>BUNGALOWS<><><> Swiss Club. 2 storey, elevated top quality, excellent layout inground pool. 5 1 $171 Sunstt Hgts. 2 storey. 1100C sq.ft. 5 1. Pool. Big gdn. ...5111 Eng
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        917 7 Pffjl HOUSES FOR RENT CLEMENTI AVE 2. 3-Storey Corner terr. with roof gdn. s+2+ family. NUS/ Mkt/ Pk. *****649 Owner OPP. MRT. Renovated houses. 3/ 4+l rm. Nice gdn./ patio. $*****9000. 9459-1732 RIDOUT RD. S/STOREY black white bunglw. 3+l. Large patio gdn. S6.BK. *****557 APPC WORKERS OUARTER BALESTIER/ Serangoon/ Geyiang/
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        770 7 Iffl SERVICE fffl SERVICE my APARTMENTS ft^y APARTMENTS Special Promotional Rates £R[J Monthly rental from $2470 onwards for 2/3 bedrooms Located at the hustle bustle of exciting Orchard dnd Scotts Road entertainment shopping belt 5-mm walk to Orcha r d MRT, Next to Grand Hyatt Hotel Close to Mount Elizabeth
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        523 7 fasdsfa Rff| DO9-10 ORCHARD/ ■yyj TANGLIN/ HOLLAND HOUSES -SALE LONG AWAITED CAIRNHILL conservation with 3 carparks 2600/ 5000 sq.ft. Renovated. Potential for 7000 sq.ft. $3.68M. F'hold *****105. No Agts 6% RETURN FABULOUS Conservation house with fantastic finishes. 5000 sq.ft. $2.6M. F'hold/ MRT. IRA *****055 No Agts OAK AVE. *****/ 8000
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        788 7 Wftl Dl5-16 EAST COAST ■^U PTE APTS SALE THE CLEARWATER 2/ 3+l Pool/ reservoir view. Move-in. $40CK up. Buyers call 98-*****0 aqt D.15 BRAND NEW Condo. Just TOP. 2 bdrms. 1055 sq.ft. Spacious. F/facilities. *****343 ERA F'HOLD 1001 SO.FT. 2+l Poo'view »03 Temasek Pri/ Sec Sch. Renovated Best buy 9006
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        245 8 Rfl HDB APTS FOR SALE |^^(CHOACHU KANG) 5 'I' CORNER 678. High fir, f/renovated. Spacious, windy. No noon sun. sch/ MRT. *****755 McR 5-RM CORNER 678 high fir movein. Cheap! Any offer. Exec apt 133 Teck Whye, mkt/ cc. 9003 2394 B[!l HDB APTS FOR SALE KiUI (CLEMENTI/ ||MWestcoast) S25OK*!
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        596 8 IHDB APTS FOR SALE (GEYLANG/EUNOS/ MACPHERSON) 3 'S' BLK 49. Circuit Rd. New listing! Near mkt/ shops/ sch/ bus stop. All races. 9200-4240 NR 5-RM/ EXEC APT Jalan Batu. New fiat as resale. Near market/ food centre. Call 9389-6010 EMS Rfjfl HDB APTS FOR SALE ET*J (MOUGANG/S'GOON/ YIO CHU KANG)
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        658 8 Hfl HDB APTS FOR SALE ■^J (TAMPINES/ SIMEI) 3 'A' 925/ 297/ 4 A' 726 Tarn pines. High/ low fir. Renvoatec Well kept. Good facing. Ameni ties. Serious seller. 9183-7380 5 'A 1 8LK.127 Simei St. 1 803 Nicely renovated. F/aircon. Movi in cond. 10 mins. MRT/ amenities Motivated! Lawrence
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        817 8 E Efl H DB APTSFORSALE ADVANCE LINK: 6758-0638 Rebate 2.5%/ Grant $30K-S4OK YISHUN Jumbo 753, 666, 633x2. $0K Exec Mais 828, 824, 614. 277. MRT Exec Mais 391,326,361,351,325x3 Exec Apt 877, 824, 828, 791, 611 Exec Apt 606, 325, 391. $0K s'A' 848. 846. F/renovated. MRT IT 366, 257.850,835. MRT/NTUC
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        583 8 RH FACTORY SPACE Rll FACTORY SPACE Rll FACTORY SPACE V* Suitable for \^^L V* warehouse/office v& *f rect loadin 9 v W 11 *0 unloading bays W ittat W«^ \*f Minutes away Xrts& from MRT/ \?n\\ W^^^ expressways «W^J Attractive price V^Call 6842 7275 9386 6878 'Terms and conditions apply
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        569 8 a FACTORY SPACE Rfl FACTORY SPACE FOR RENT |^FORMW ifcr^J I M -H IP Lomer Rents Act Now! d<\ HOUSING DEVELOPMEN I \3D BOARD Website: www.place2lease.com For Enquiries: 6866 3076 PLAYFAIR RD, OFF MacPherson Rd. 1464 sgft. Immed. Security BBH Free parking. Convenient loca- ExPl FACTORY SPACE don. Suitable for
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        207 8 F BUILDING 1 20 Bideford Road (Next to Crown Prince Hotel) Affordable rental Office space from 250- 1500 sqft Flexible individual air-con control Walking distance to Orchard Somerset MRT ASIA PACIFIC ll'i>»ict\rn The fcmneis Certre «i#i o Difference RAFFLES PLACE A SI XTEC FILLY SERVICED OTFIf FS Inclusive of telephone,
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        1092 9 Rfl OFFICE SPACE Hfl OFFICE SPACE Kfl OFFICE SPACE |^J^RENT |EJ FOR RENT |ffi|K)RRENT feifiJS Call now!^ International Business Park (IBP) Close to Jurong East MRT station and bus interchange The Strategy s*^ 1 30sqm onwards Raised floor system S^l§§ Column-free layout Lx J^bES?*-*. The Synergy i J 142sqm onwards
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        913 9 Rfl OFFICE SPACE S INTERNATIONAL BLDG AT Rd. 689 sq.ft. 2 rms. P/furn. New carpet. Move m. S3 80 psf neg. immed, sole agt Leona *****001 PENINSULA PLAZA UNITS 0712/ 07-30 (516 sq ft). 07-35 (355 sq ft) and 08-07 (609 sg ft) available for rent. Pis can 6416 1317/8.
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        428 9 WTfl SHOP SPACE RE] SHOP SPACE |^U FOR RENT |^U FOR RENT Near Orchard MRT Station Basement One, from 151-2,682 sq ft Possible to subdivide Suitable for medical ctr, commercial school, spas, karaoke, enrichment ctr, language school etc Available from April 2004 Daniel Wong 9639 3879 Priscilla Low 9101 6778
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        653 9 Peoples Pk Complex. Heavy human traffic. 400 sq.ft. Act fast! Sin Ming 52.5K/ $3K! 800/ 1600 sq.ft. Renovated. DW 9007-3310 THE VILLAGE CENTRE. Shop space for lease at corner of South Bouna Vista Rd Pasir Panjang Rd. 247 2045 sq.ft. Rental neg. Call Owner *****688 ORCHARD PLAZA, 804-29. Good location,
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