The Straits Times, 16 April 2004

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    29 1 The Straits Times BEST IN NEWSPAPER DESIGN IN ASIA Established 1845 J^*^aLpft^r^p*il 16, 2004 102 Pages m five parts mita (p) o_8/03/200 4 M Singapore Press Holdings publication Ov_/Ct.its
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    Lock icon Bulk of ideas to remake S'pore approved
    635 1  -  LAUREL TEO Panel is happy to have played 'midwife'; Govt accepts 60 of the 74 proposals to relax rules m many spheres of life Bu IT'S A SURPRISE 'We did not fight battles we were sure we could win. If we did, we
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    Lock icon Captors kill Italian hostage, free Japanese
    559 1 BAGHDAD Three Japanese civilians taken hostage by Iraqi militants a week ago were freed unharmed yesterday. But the killing of an Italian hostage and an Iranian diplomat the same day were grim reminders of the risks foreigners face m Iraq, where rebels are battling
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    63 1 It doesn't get much better for social golfer Chris Kam. The 41-year-old won a Mercedes-Benz E2OO Kompressor and a Mitsubishi Colt for his hole-in-one yesterday at Tanah Merah Country Club's Tampines Course. The ace came on the 160 m fifth hole during the ]ardi ne Cycle
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      86 1 A CAUL A DAY: Commuters are becoming more alert to suspicious objects left m train stations page a \-."m-m\i jii'l'Jii i_l 'IflM -WflfltHftHl-HI J -MM 1 mmmmHHmHE ______ft_R__-___-H-i ■MBHBH ll It VI bi^m-nufa-turer MM ;|^|flfl^fl^^H|M MF fl^^ 0 LHO V1 1 I MmWf-^ mW --Mr _H v|iP^_i__r ||^^B_H^k— I— I—
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      8 1 [See also Pages 18, 19 and ASIA: A2]
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      170 2 FEBRUARY RETAIL SALES HIT 52.18 SINGAPOREANS spent an estimated $2.12 billion m February, a 34.2 per cent increase from the $1.58 billion recorded m the same period last year. Figures from the Retail Sales Index also showed the biggest jumps m the amounts spent on cars, watches and jewellery
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      92 2 SAF CAN RISE TO THE CHALLENGE HOW would the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) fare if war breaks out? Columnist Anthony Paul notes some points m its favour. First, the tight bonding m SAF reserve units would motivate men to fight hard for their comrades. Second, m the SAF's only
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      86 2 KEPT IN THE DARK ABOUT BLACKOUT READERS have written m asking why there was no news on radio and television about the blackout on Tuesday night. One wants to know which source to rely on for important information, while another wonders why there were no updates on Channel News
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      66 2 NOT YOUR TYPICAL BOYBAND THE five members of Taiwanese band Mayday are known more for their irreverent Mandarin and Hokkien garage pop rock than their looks and dance moves. Yet few acts can boast a longevity and following as rock-solid as Mayday's. The band was m town last weekend
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      152 2 Valuair gets licence to fly out of Changi VALUAIR yesterday became the first Singapore-based budget carrier to get a licence to fly out of Changi Airport, paving the way for its maiden flight early next month. The Transport Ministry is expected to inform the airline m the next few
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      96 2 Hopes of getting new liver dashed MADAM Tang Siew Wah thought that her four-year wait for a donor liver was over when she went m for transplant surgery on Wednesday. But when she awoke from the anaesthesia, she found that the procedure had not been carried out as the
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      104 2 Anger over US shift m M-E policy US PRESIDENT George W. Bush said Israel could keep some of the Arab land it captured m 1967, sparking outrage from Palestinians. He also said Palestinian refugees must settle m an eventual Palestinian state essentially ruling out their right of return to
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      81 2 SOME RETAILERS SAY NO TO DINERS SOME businesses have stopped accepting Diners Club cards from customers, after several merchants complained about late payments from the cam company. Among those that have stopped accepting the cards are an Italian fashion label that retails at Paragon and a petrol station dealer
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      87 2 SAUDI ACCUSED OF CYBER-TERROR A SAUDI doctoral candidate at the University of Idaho is on trial m the United States over his alleged role as the webmaster and "money man" ror a worldwide Internet network, which sought to finance and recruit fighters for violent holy war abroad. The prosecution
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      133 2 TUNG SEEKS HK ELECTORAL REFORM HONG Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa yesterday proposed to China that Hong Kong change the way it picks its leader and legislators m 2007 and 2008. Yet his report to the National People's Congress Standing Committee was not specific about changes and instead,
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      74 2 LAST-MINUTE MAGIC FROM GREECE? WITH just four months to go before the start of the Olympic Games m Athens, Greece, fewer than half of the competition facilities have been completed. The Greeks are famous for being procrastinate >rs, and this has caused concern for the International Olympic Committee. Its
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      224 2 MAIN Prime 3,4,6 World 9-17 Editorial 20 Commentary 20,21 Forum 22,23 HOME Home Hl-H9 Tech Science H10,H11,H14 ASIA/SPORTS/ MONEY Asia AI,A4 China A2,A3 S-E Asia A5 Malaysia A6 Sports A7-A9 Money... All-Al6 LIFE! Cover story L4,L5 Music L6,L7 Mailbag L 8 This Weekend L9-Ll3 Comics Ll4 Cinema guide Ll5-Ll7 What's
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      Lock icon World s lirst 'disappearing' stent from NTU
      704 3  - World s lirst 'disappearing' stent from NTU CHANG AI -LIEN The breakthrough heart stent dissolves completely, healing patients faster; it is also a potential commercial goldmine Bu SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT 2 INVENTIONS Biodegradable heart stent, with up to 20 layers of drugs that can be time-released. Frictionless micro-pump that can, say,
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      Lock icon LTA raids Turf City car dealers in scrap rebates scam
      426 3  -  CHRISTOPHER TAN By SENIOR CORRESPONDENT LAND Transport Authority (LTA) enforcement officers swooped down on car dealers m Turf City on Wednesday after a tip-off that some were forging documents to get scrap rebates from the Government. The afternoon raid, which
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      Lock icon 'Osama' offers Europe truce on Arab TV
      397 4 Pull out troops and we give you peace, says audio tape DUBAI A purported audio tape by Osama bin Laden aired on Arab television yesterday offered a truce to Europeans if they pulled troops out of Muslim nations, but vowed to continue fighting
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      657 4  - Commuters are more alert to suspicious items GOH CHIN LIAN From hardly once a month, SMRT now receives daily calls; new panel to boost security for public transport system Bm SAFETY FIRST Posters (right) at all train stations, asking commuters to report suspicious items left behind on trains or m
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      Lock icon CJ Yong sworn in for two more years
      82 6 C J Yong sworn in for two more years CHIEF Justice Yong Pung How (right), 77, was sworn m as Chief Justice of Singapore by President S R Nathan yesterday at the Istana, witnessed by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. CJ Yong, who has held the post for 14 years,
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      Lock icon Pro-Roh Uri Party sweeps South Korean elections
      470 6  -  LEE TEE JONG Its strong showing is an indication the majority of the electorate wants the impeachment of the President withdrawn Bm FOR THE STRAITS TIMES SEOUL A seven-month-old political party eclipsed its bigger conservative rival m yesterday's parliamentary election, sweeping 152 out
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      608 6  - Retirees too can now get credit cards EDNA KOH Banks allowed to issue cards to the cash-rich who have no regular income By FINANCE CORRESPONDENT ASTONISHING though it may seem, if someone has $100,000 m the bank, it's been the case m Singapore that if they do not have a
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      163 3 TOASTMASTERS AWARENESS MONTH 1 7th 1 8th APRIL 2004 SINGAPORE DISCOVERY CENTRE I A Programme Highlights ■> Guided Tour for School Children ____P 9Bl#^^^^^H Fun Speech Workshop ■^■■^^^^^1 Official Ceremony the Discovery Theatrette Quiz. Talks, Essay Family ■■_H__^^^^H Photo contest results ■■■■H^^H Screening of Past World L#lCCl#iiK_____l Championship of mmmMmmkmßMMMm
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      515 9 AMERICA'S Family man m public, jihadist m private BOISE (Idaho) A Saudi doctoral candidate at the University of Idaho hid his true agenda as webmaster and "money man" for a worldwide Internet network that sought to finance and recruit fighters for violent holy war abroad, according to prosecutors
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      221 9 Intelligence services 'slow to grasp threat of AI-Qaeda' WASHINGTON- United States intelligence services failed to recognise the emergence of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network until more than a decade after it was founded. According to findings released by the commission investigating the Sept 11 attacks, they downplayed a tide of reports
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      Lock icon Little girl found in ravine 10 days after car crash
      275 10 MORENO VALLEY (California) A five-year-old girl found m a ravine survived for 10 days on dry noodles and Gatorade while remaining near her dead mother following a car crash, relatives said. Ruby Bustamante was m good condition on Wednesday at
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      Lock icon Israel entitled to some Arab land: Bush
      581 10 Palestinian leaders denounce US policy shift on land seized during Six-Day War and militants warn of renewed bloodshed WASHINGTON In a radical US shift m Middle East policy, President George W. Bush said Israel could keep some of the Arab land it captured
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      Lock icon US business opposes curbs on outsourcing
      654 14 U S business opposes curbs on outsourcing Top lobby warns the US will pay a heavy price if Bills to restrict outsourcing are adopted and vows to fight such moves 'While there are various estvnates on the number of jobs moved overseas, it remains, by all accounts, a small percentage
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      Lock icon Man held for 'fetch axe' act with dog
      95 14 Man held for 'fetch axe' act with dog BERLIN German police detained a man and confiscated an axe he was throwing for his dog to retrieve, the authorities said on Wednesday. "Every time the dog obediently fetched the axe and returnea it to its master," police m the western city
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      353 14 LONDON Dont knock your friends they could save your life. Heart attack survivors with a close friend, relative or lover to confide m are half as likely to suffer further heart attacks within a year as patients without a shoulder to cry
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      698 15 Waiter, there's a wonton in my minestrone Italians are feeling out of place as their neighbourhood becomes home to Rome's fast-growing Chinatown GROWING INFLUENCE: The reach of the Chinese has entered even the realm of politics, as this electoral poster m Rome shows. Other areas of influence include real estate,
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      Lock icon Howard scraps Aboriginal commission
      207 15 Howard scraps Aboriginal commission SYDNEY Australia has abolished its main Aboriginal body, saying an experiment m self-determination for the impoverished community had failed. Prime Minister John Howard said the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) had become obsessed with symbolic issues, rather than delivering basic services to communities m
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        92 15 A BIGGER European Union will have to operate at two speeds m core areas for proper functioning, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder warned yesterday. Speaking to Germany's DPA news agency two weeks before the bloc's May 1 expansion, he named a number of areas
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        75 15 CANADA has halted the main operation of one of its biggest seal culls m years after hunters raced towards a quota allowance of nearly 250,000 carcasses m 48 hours. But an animal advocacy group accused some of the 13,000 hunters of "terrible cruelty" towards their
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        77 15 CIVIUAN LOOK FOR ROYAL AIRCRAFT SPECIAL aircraft used by Britain's royal family could be repainted for security reasons, the Ministry of Defence said. These jets and helicopters now have big Union Jack flags painted on their red tail fins. A ministry spokesman said on Wednesday: "We are looking at the
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        57 15 THE ruling African National Congress was on track to secure a twothirds majority m Parliament yesterday m South Africa s third post-apart-heid election. With 37 per cent of the vote counted, the ANC has won 66.88 per cent. A two-thirds majority would allow it
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        148 16 FACE ON COVER RESEMBLES HIM BERLIN German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has forced the withdrawal of a novel m which a disgruntled pharmacist kills the chancellor. Mr Schroeder took out an injunction on the grounds that the face on the book's first-edition cover resembled him, the
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        96 16 LONDON The inventor of the World Wide Web, Mr Tim BernersLee, has won a prestigious award which comes with a prize of a million euros (Ss2 million). The "Father of the Web" has been named the first winner of the Millennium Technology Prize by
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        47 16 Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner has left hospital after spending six days under meaical care for stomach bleeding. Andrew Kuras, an 81 -year-old former World War II Nazi prison camp guard, has been stripped of the United States nationality which he obtained by subterfuge by concealing his past.
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        45 16 iQuoteworthy This man is only tangentially a bxmnessman. What he does is exploit himself. 9 Michael Wolff, media columnist for Vanity Fair, saving billionaire entrepreneur Donald Trump is thriving at what he does best selling himself with his hit NBC reality television series, The Apprentice.
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        122 16 MOSCOW An unglamorous schoolgirl has become a feminist icon m Russia after one of her friends entered her for an online beauty pageant. Alyona Pisklova (not her real surname), 15, won 40,000 votes double that clinched by her nearest competitor making her the runaway
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        91 16 NEW YORK A Sotheby's auction house employee has been accused of stealing property belonging to tne late John F. Kennedy Jr, including a hand-drawn card he made for his father, the slain US president, when he was two years old. Patrick Gallagher, 50, of
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      737 18 THE BATTLE IN FALLUJAH Routine supply mission turns into fiery rescue operation that highlights insurgents' tenacity FALLUJAH It began as a routine supply mission to the front lines m a volatile but largely becalmed city. It ended as a fiery and chaotic rescue mission, with a small force of US
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      Lock icon S'pore reaffirms support for US on Iraq
      215 18  - S 'pore reaffirms support for US on Iraq NEO HUI MIN By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES LONDON Singapore continues to support the United Statesled coalition effort to stabilise Iraq despite the recent surge m violence. Foreign Minister S. Jayakumar said here yesterday that those behind the violence were seeking to
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      Lock icon Saudi fatwa calls for use of all means to halt killing of Muslims
      314 18 Saudi fatwa calls for use of all means to halt killing of Muslims RIYADH Saudi Arabia's religious authority issued a fatwa urging Muslims to use "all means to stop what it called "the fierce onslaught" on Muslims by "occupation forces" m Iraq. What Muslims m Iraq are being subjected to
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      76 18 THE First Secretary of the Iranian Embassy m Iraq was gunned down m central Baghdad yesterday by unknown assailants, an Iranian diplomat at the scene said. State television m Teheran identified the diplomat as Mr Khalil Naimi. The head of a visiting Iranian Foreign Ministry delegation,
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      124 18 THE PHILIPPINES ruled out withdrawal of its small contingent of soldiers and police from Iraq yesterday despite violence and a spate of abductions there, but said it may evacuate civilian Filipinos. President Gloria Arroyo, a staunch US ally, had said a day earlier that the mounting
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      115 18 IRAQI violence will top the agenda when foreign ministers of 25 current and future European Union (EU) member states meet m Ireland today. "The situation has derailed so completely, the instability is so profound now that we have to get international support to deal with
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      Lock icon THE BATTLE IN NAJAF
      494 19 THE BATTLE IN NAJAF Firebrand cleric, under siege from US troops and the top ayatollah, may pick political survival over a nght to the finish BAGHDAD Cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, facing 2,500 American troops and under pressure from Iraq s top ayatollah, may have chosen political survival over a hero's last
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      359 19 HANDOVER OF POWER BAGHDAD Senior United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has proposed that the USappointed Iraqi Governing Council cease to exist on June 30 and said the United States should surrender sovereignty to a "caretaker" government of respected Iraqis. The new government
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      289 19 UNITED NATIONS The United States is tiring to shore up its military operation m Iraq with a new UN resolution to provide wavering countries with political cover to make troop contributions. But key Security Council members reacted coolly on Wednesday to the
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      839 20  - Suns in the East will outshine the West TOM PLATE for thp: straits times NEW YORK From the perspective of the Atlantic coast, Asia seems a very, very long plane ride and several colossal conceptual leaps away. Europe, on the other hand, is but a half dozen or so time
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      951 21  - You a be mad to test the Singapore fortress ANTHONY PAUL AHEAD IN ASIA Bu SINGAPORE has a poorly kept military secret, if the city's taxi drivers, who often double as driving-seat generals, are to be believed. A visitor taking a taxi from Changi Airport will sometimes be told the
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      851 21  -  VTKRAM KHA NNA By BUSINESS TIMES FOR MANY COMPANIES, THE CHOICE IS NOT BETWEEN KEEPING JOBS IN SINGAPORE AND MOVING JOBS TO CHINA AND MALAYSIA, BUT BETWEEN GROWING AND NOT GROWING OR BETWEEN BEING PROFITABLE AND BEING LOSS-MAKING. IN A recent survey
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      142 22 Show 'errant' motorists the proof I AM glad the Malaysian police have made it easier for Singaporean motorists to pay their traffic fines. However, for speeding offences, unless they can produce evidence m the form of a photograph or a summons signed by the motorist, it would not be fair
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      511 22 Ensuring Singapore Continues To Be Vibrant Hub For Business And Tourism A NTHONY Jjk Hawkins and m Anthony fl Prakasam m their .JL JL letter, "Sale of Sats may be bad for SLA and Singapore" (ST, April 12), have misunderstood the Government's position with regard
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        80 22 I lost my SERVKE.SMGTELiiostmy Sing Tel mobile phone while m Hong Kong on March 17.1 called Sing Tel and spoke to one Elena, who told me that Sing Tel would send me a SIM card by courier. Another staff member, Mabel, then sent me an express letter via Fedex.
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        93 22 I write to thank Dr Sharmini Nair and the staff of XX Women's and Children's Hospital. I had been suffering from acute pain for about nine years and, during the March school holidays, decided to put an end to it. I saw Dr Sharmini, who sent me
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      334 23 Gain beckoned. and Marbeck went for it I REFER to the report, "Beckham's Singapore girl an ordinary model" (ST, April 13). It is a fact that the synergy of celebrity and an intense curiosity about celebrity creates a lucrative market. Ms Sarah Marbeck, like others before her, has capitalised on
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      216 23 Why slap a girl over an accident in the vark? I LAST Sunday, I took two friends from Hong Kong for a stroll along the East Coast Park. We noticed a man on in-line skates speeding recklessly. On the same lane, a girl with a bicycle stopped at the side
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      42 1 A BOON TO ALL THE LEMON BUYERS It shows that if a person really bought a lemon, he has legal redress. Mr Leslie Phua, lawyer for Madam Florence Wee, who took Performance Motors to court successfully over the defect in her BMW
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      475 1  -  SALMA KHALIK She waited four years for organ Readied for surgery on Wednesday Liver given to cargo worker at last minute HEALTH CORRESPONDENT MADAM Tang Siew Wah, 53, had waited four years for a donor liver when sne went m for transplant surgery on Wednesday morning.
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      402 1  -  VIVI ZAINOL Sal ma Khali k Bu Additional Reporting by MR SULAIMAN Mussein, who had a life-saving transplant operation on Wednesday, is unconscious but m stable condition at Gleneagles Hospital. He will be moved later to National University Hospital. His wife, Madam Radiah Abdul Rahman,
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      132 2 Workers from Redline Logistics give this 500 kg bronze sculpture of a lion leaping over a globe a rub-down at the Singapore Expo, before next week's Food and Hotel Asia 2004 exhibition. Pa Pa Lion, as it is affectionately known, has become a symbol of culinary
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      423 2  -  KARAMJIT KAUR Final hurdle is official nod for flight plans; budget carrier has also narrowed its search for a CEO BM THAN SPORT CORRESPONDENT IT'S all systems go for Valuair which got the official nod yesterday to start flying out of Changi Airport. With air
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        143 2 SINGAPORE'S newest incineration plant for handling medical waste will use sophisticated technology such as a Global Positioning System for waste collection trucks and an online medical portal to deal with new hazard s such as Sars. This 24-hour plant will be SembCorp Environmental Management's most
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        88 2 FROM Monday, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) will operate from 2, Lengkok Bahru, near Jalan Bukit Merah. Its Cantonment Road premises will be returned to the Housing Board, a CPIB spokesman said. Complaints of corruption can be made m person at the new oftice, which is
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        117 2 THE Singapore Info map portal, www.sg, has been given a brand new look with animated graphics, a calendar of arts and lifestyle events, and a Bites of the Week section giving snippets of the week's breaking news. The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts aims
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      553 4  -  DAR YL LOO Three projects go on sale officially this weekend and more are m the pipeline as developers get bullish *L HTE CANT WAIT MEFNULY. WE'VE ALREADY COMPUTED OUR SHOWFIAT, SO HERE'S NO REASON TO DELAY THE LAUNCH.' Mr Desmond Woon, executive director of Ho
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      313 4  - Diver fails to surface after fixing tanker GOH CHIN LIAN Bu MR YUSOF Kadis was a freelance commercial diver who loved his job. He wouldn't give it up even after an underwater welding accident last year left him with a burnt face. Today, he should have been leaving for a
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      432 5 Cash registers were working overtime as shoppers spent over $2b m February, up 34 per cent from last year's figure SINGAPOREANS are returning to their favourite pastime shopping. They spent an estimated $2.12 billion m February, according to statistics from the Retail Sales Index,
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      931 5  -  SERENE GOH STB's Pamelia Lee, who launches book, also announces her retirement Hi SINGAPORE'S GEMS From Instant Asia to Perfecting the Jewel to nurturing true Singapore gems, Mrs Pamelia Lee has seen it all. Here are some excerpts from her book. THE 1970s AND
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      506 6  -  LEE HUI CHIEH Study shows rise m number of men under 45 years old getting it; family history and lifestyle cited as contributing factors Bk, A GROWING number of people under 45 years old are suffering heart attacks, and most of them are men,
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      134 6 SINGAPORE'S army and the Royal Brunei Land Forces held a joint live-firing exercise yesterday using armoured fighting vehicles m the Safti live-firing area. The war games are part of Exercise Maju Bersama, one of several exercises the army conducts with tho Brunei forces every year.
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        131 6 THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) opened a regional office m Manila yesterday, m a bid to establish a stronger presence m the Philippines, which contributed more than 176,000 visitors to Singapore last year. A visitor information centre will provide information on what Singapore has
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        141 6 THE People's Association Youth Movement (Paym) will launch a blood drive campaign from today. It aims to draw some 1,000 new donors annually. < Paym, with grajsroot organisations, will r_m 65 blood drives this year m a bid to boost the small pool of
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        112 6 BE ON your best behaviour when on buses or trains: SBS Transit is on the look out for gracious commuters who will be rewarded with a heartshaped pewter key chain. As part of its Gracious Movement campaign, SBS Transit staff on buses and trains will give the
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      604 8  - BMW owner gets $95,000 for faulty car SELINA LUM She wins case after appealing against earlier court verdict that awarded her only about $34,000 Bm 'It's a good learning process and I think both car owners and manufacturers now Know their legal rights when it comes to latent defects. Madam
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      203 8 A DOG left unleashed m the void deck of a block of flats ran towards an elderly woman and caused her to fracture her spine. Now, the owner of the black miniature pinscher is $400 poorer after she was fined by a magistrate's
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      336 9  - Dip in number of serious crimes, youth offenders K.C.VHAYAN Gi v ing the encouraging figures at the opening of a police seminar. Ho Peng Kee reminds the audience to be mindful of terror threat Hu SERIOUS offences are down, so is youth crime, good signs after two years when both
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      179 9 2-IN- 1 BULLET -PROOF VEST AND LIFE JACKET THIS body-hugging bullet-proof vest doubles as a life jacket and will replace the two-piece suit now used by the Police Coast Guard. About 400 pieces of the British-made suit were bought for the coast guard for $500,000. The British Special Forces, the
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        66 9 A WAREHOUSE'S office at 500 Jetty Drive m Loyang was burgled over the long Easter weekend. About $14,000 cash was reported missing by a managing partner on Monday morning. When he entered the place, he found the office ransacked and the drawers of all four tables forced
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        90 9 A 60-YEAR-OLD housewife saw a thief stick a piece of bamboo through a metal door grille and pull out a handbag from ncr living room on Tuesday afternoon. As she came out of her _sth-floor flat m Block 2 Rochor Road to accost the culprit, he
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        73 9 CENTRAL Narcotics Bureau officers nabbed three men suspected of drug trafficking at Block 250A Compassvale Lane m Sengkang on Wednes- day. They found two packets of ketamine and rive Ecstasy pills on one of them, a 24-year-old unemployed man. A raid on the residence
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        51 9 A FOUR-MONTH-OLD baby admitted to XX Women's and Children's Hospital with a fractured skull prompted the hospital to alert the police two weeks ago. The baby, who was put under intensive care, is now m a normal ward. Police are investigating the cause of the
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        92 9 A 59-YEAR-OLD housewife was robbed of her purse containing $300 m a lift at Block 484 C Choa Chu Kang Avenue 5 on Monday at about 2pm. Two men followed her into the lift at the ground floor and as it moved towards the
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      449 10 FOR staff nurse Amutha Murigasin, going back to school full-time three years ago was a "rejuvenating" experience. But the 44-year-old, who will graduate from Nanyang Polytechnic with a diploma m nursing m July, was the only unionist who opted to upgrade her
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      566 10  - Parents prefer nearby infant care to maids VIVI ZAINOL MCDS survey finds majority plump for such facilities, after their own relatives, to care for their babies By 'I'VE HAD TO CVT DOWN OH SPENDING. OTHERS MAY NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD IT. I'VE COUSINS WHO CANT AFFORD TO PAY FOR
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        603 11 Real Networks seeks music alliance with Apple In an e-mail, its chief makes direct appeal to rival firm's counterpart to gang up against giant Microsoft NEW YORK Real Networks made a direct appeal last week to Apple Computer, its Internet music rival, suggesting the two companies form a common front
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        233 11 Hackers breach powerful US research networks NEW YORK Hackers have broken into some of the world's most powerful computer clusters m recent weeks m an apparently coordinated cyber attack targeting researcn and academic institutions. Although officials played down the seriousness of the threats, some security experts warned such a break-in
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        143 11 SAN JOSE Apple Computer is investigating complaints that its iPod Mini is prone to static and other sound distortions w_en playing back music. The diminutive music players sometimes generate the noise when users touch areas around the headphone jack, according to a handful of reports
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      27 14 SB TTT: 1 1 E _i > ft __-_Ii .iim .;f la _r_H-_' li-H6i---i-_- a ('IS .il -M I dMiC 1 _»p[ _^__rn___-_-^. _4' AFP
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      462 14 BIG QUAKE to hit southern California by Sept 5 Professor claims he can predict quakes accurately; 2 out of his 3 predictions have been borne out LOS ANGELES A United States geophysicist has set the scientific world ablaze by claiming to have cracked the holy grail accurate earthquake prediction and
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        256 14 LONDON The hugelydamaging El Nino weather pattern can be predicted further ahead than previously thought, new research shows. But economists say it will still be difficult to avoid the billions of dollars m damage caused by the phenomenon, which occurs when the eastern and
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        270 14 FEMALE CHIMPS ARE FASTER LEARNERS LONDON Young female chimpanzees learn certain hunting and gathering skills from their mothers much faster than their male counterparts which prefer to spend their time playing, researchers say. In a study of wild chimps from the Gombe National Park m Tanzania, researchers found distinct sex-based
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      16 1 Friday, April 16, 2004 The Straits Times asia Friday, April 16, 2004 The Straits Times money
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      39 1 CHINESE COPYCATS It's like the whole bootleg DVD thing. In China today, copying gets you ahead/ New Yorker Ray Pagnucco, on why the Chinese are using iconic American monikers such as Manhattan and Park Avenue to sell their properties
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      Lock icon Malaysia abandons 'costly' Asiad bid
      622 1 Government says money to be spent on event could be better used to promote sports programmes for Malaysians KUALA LUMPUR In yet another departure from mega showcase projects, Malaysia has decided not to bid for the 2010 Asian Games, citing the high cost involved m
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        Lock icon Tung seeks changes in HK election system
        568 2  -  MARY KWANG But his report to Beijing gives no specifics and lays down conditions that may hold back democratisation Bm HONG KONG COIMESFONDENT CHIEF Executive Tung Chee Hwa yesterday proposed to Beijing that Hong Kong change the way it picks its leader and
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        310 2 FAST TRAIN, SLOW BUSINESS SHANGHAI Suffering from a lack of riders, Shanghai's levitating airport train slashed ticket prices by one-third yesterday, the train's operator said. One-way tickets on the world's only commercial magnetic-levitation train service have dropped to 50 yuan (S$10) from 75 yuan,
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        216 2 Beijing stops approving sites for enterprises BEIJING China has halted new development zones across the country by clamping down on rampant land abuse by local officials m the latest bid to tame runaway investment, state media said yesterday. "Since last year, rectifying the land market by using the 'iron hand'
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        224 2 HONG KONG Several high-ranking People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Taiwan, it was reported yesterday. According to the Chineselanguage Sing Pao Daily News, those arrested included the head of the PLA Air Force Command College,
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        496 2 FIRST, HE THOUGHT ABOUT GOING TO ISRAEL MY SON DONTTEU. ME ANYTHING ABOUT GOING TO IRAQ UNTIL THE DAY HE IflT. HE WAS VERY DEPRESSED ANO DIDN. SAY MUCH. BUT HE WAS NOT SCARED.' Mr Li Zei-ggui. father of Mr Li Gulping PINGTAN
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        621 3  - US 'bound by law to sell arms to Taiwan' JASON LEOW Taiwan Relations Act requires Washington to make sure Taipei can defend itself, US Vice-President tells protesting Chinese CHINA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING Vice-President Dick Cheney yesterday said the United States was obliged to sell Taiwan military equipment for selfdefence under a
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        59 3 RUTERS A Chinese acrobat from a troupe known as The Old Tianqiao (Bridge of Heaven) uses qigong, or internal energy, to keep a bowl attached to his stomach despite the efforts of four men to pull it away. The troupe wants to revive the traditional folk art that
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        343 3 RUFFLED RELATIONS BEIJING A brawl over exports of low-cost Chinese TVs to the United States threatens to cast a pall over trade talks m Washington next week, increasing friction between the two giant economies. The use by the US of antidumping duties, such
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        582 4  - Uri Party's victory a boost for Roh LEE TEE JONG South Korean Polls Results show voters want to reinstate President, who can use parliamentary majority to push through his reforms NEWS ANALYSIS By FOR THE STRAITS TIMES SEOUL To Mr Roh Moo Hyun's supporters, the message is loud and clear:
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        120 4 Uri chief on the 'fast' track SEOUL Even before the official results were out, Uri chairman Chung Dong Young, who has been fasting since Monday night, was whisked away for a medicalcheck-up. He launched the hunger strike three days before the polls to atone for disparaging remarks against older voters.
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        500 4 The seven-month-old Uri Party turned the tables on South Korea's largest opposition party, the Grand National Party (GNP), yesterday hxi sweeping more than half the seats m the 1 7th National Assembly. A look at how Uri's ivin will affect several key issues and policies PRESIDENT ROH'S
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          63 4 CHINA has replaced the head of its biggest oil producer, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), after one of its subsidiary's wells spewed poisonous gas m December, killing 243 people. The Cabinet on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Mr Ma Fucai, former general manager
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          58 4 HONG Kong said yesterday it would resume imports of live chickens from mainland China on a trial basis from Tuesday, about a month after China declared victory over the deadly bird flu virus. Imports were suspended at the end of January when Beijing confirmed
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          56 4 INDIA'S ruling Hindu nationalists on Wednesday sacked Prime Minister AtaJ Bihari Vajpayee's election campaign manager after 21 people were killed m a stampede at a function to mark his birthday. Mr Lalji Tandon, who was Mr Vaipayee's pointman m Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh state, was
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          74 4 CHINA urged Canada yesterday to rectify its mistake" and cancel plans to allow Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to visit the country. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan repeated China's position that the Dalai Lama "is not merely a religious figure"
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          52 4 ONE Chinese policeman was killed and four others were injured when a bomb exploded early yesterday while they were sleeping at a police station m the northern city of Taiyuan. The bomb went off at Xiangshui town m Taiyuan's Fushan county, bringing down the two-storey
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        355 4 COLOMBO A renegade Tamil Tiger commander fled his jungle base after executing a man he accused of being part of the 1991 suicide bomb assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, a Tamil website claimed yesterday. The Tamil Net website alleged
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        720 5  - Indonesians prefer military next president DEVI ASM ARAM With the military's improved image, surveys show voters want a strong leader to handle security issues Bu THE STRAITS TIMKS INDONESIA BUREAU SURABAYA (East Java) Indonesians prefer a military figure to be their next president amid concerns for security and political stability
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        225 5 Mega tells govt: Don't discriminate against Chinese JAKARTA President Megawati Sukarnoputri called for an end to official discrimination against ethnic Chinese amid a row involving two Olympic gold medallists. She was responding to complaints by Mr Alan Budikusuma and his wife Susi Susanti that they had been asked to produce
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        156 5 JAKARTA Construction of what is billed as the world's tallest tower began m the Indonesian capital yesterday. Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso oversaw the start of work on the Jakarta Tower m the Kemayoran district on the site of the city's former airport. The tower will stand
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        441 5 Wring, wring. .wet phones do not dampen revelry THAI WATER FESTIVAL 1 ACTUALLY PUT IT MA PLASTIC BAG AND BED IT VERY TIGHTLY... MAYBE I SHOULD LEAVE IT AT HOME NEXT YEAR. BUT THEN, HOW CAN I KEEP IN TOUCH WITH MY FRIENDS?' Songkran reveller Somphob Komol malai, on his
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        354 5 JAKARTA The political party of former president Abdurrahman Wahid may sue tne election commission if it requires a presidential candidate to be a sighted person. The National Awakening Party (PKB) said the requirement would violate a law on presidential polls. The General
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        514 6 Uniformed groups for all secondary students Compulsory participation will help students become physically and mentally stronger and prepare them for National Service, says Najib KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will not merely power ahead with its National Service programme. It will next require all secondary school students to join at least one
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        56 6 BERITA HARIAN MALAYSIA Batik makers like Ms Wazura Abdul Hadi, 24, working on a handmade piece in Kota Baru, have been given a boost by the new administration's decision to encourage traditional industries. Malaysia's nearly one million civil servants have been told to don batik apparel
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        337 6 PROBLEM OF UNSOLD LOW-COST HOUSES KUALA LUMPUR On Wednesday, Malaysia's Premier did not just veto a plan to sell surplus low-cost houses to the rich. While restating that such homes should be solely for the needy, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi also mooted changes
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        185 6 THE Kel an tan state government, controlled by the Islamic PAS party, has reversed an order banning mannequins at textile shops and shopping malls. An official said the order had been issued by the municipal council but did not receive the state approval needed for
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          57 6 THE Malaysian Cabinet has increased the monthly flying allowances of air force pilots by between RMI.IOO (Ss49o) and RM3,500. Deputy Premier and Defence Minister Najib Razak said allowances would now be on par with commercial rates, which addresses a sore point that had emerged
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          48 6 SOME 1,500 foreign women are m Malaysian prisons for prostitution, a conference on human trafficking was told on Wednesday. Chairman of the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) Abu Talib Othman said foreign women duped into prostitution should be pardoned and repatriated, not charged. AFP
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          42 6 PAHANG'S plan to hold elections for village heads will apply only to "problematic villages. In other villages, heads will continue to be appointed by the state government, with the support of elected representatives and district offices. Bernama
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          47 6 PUBLIC university students may soon graduate with an additional "competency qualification" to equip them with skills for employment. Higher Education Minister Shafie Salleh cited the example of accountancy students being skilled also m computers and related areas. The Star News Network Asia
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          70 6 THE Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday threw out opposition politician Ezam Mohamad Nor's conviction and two-year prison sentence for leaking state secrets. The conviction had led to the Keadilan leader being barred from recent elections. He was found guilty m August 2002 of distributing copies of
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        44 7 ONE-CUP WONDERS To be regarded alongside the likes of Real Madrid and AC Milan, we need to win it again. Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs, believing his team must capture the Champions League title again to go down in history as a great side
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        456 7  -  MARC LIM GOLF BY WHOEVER said that skills were needed to hit it big m golf obviously did not know Chris Kam. The 41-year-old carded a 36-over-par 108 for his round yesterday, but still came away a happy and richer man. The 24-handicapper bagged one
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        574 7 CRICKET Dravid's 270 sets up India for historic win RAWALPINDI (Pakistan) Rahul Dravid hit a magnificent career-best 270 the thirdhighest score by an Indian batsman m 72 years of Test cricket to put India on course for a historic Test series win against Pakistan yesterday. Dravid batted for more than
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        666 7 BASKETBALL Three-pointers m double overtime help Lakers top Pacific Division PORTLAND (Oregon) The face of the play-offs changed m a flash on the final night of the NBA season, and that face belongs to Kobe Bryant. A spectacular three-point-er forced overtime, then an even more unlikely
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        Lock icon Gunners will not relent in title chase
        661 8 SOCCER LONDON As Arsenal close m on a second English Premier League title m three seasons, the big question is if they can remain unbeaten for the entire campaign. Arsene Wenger's men will move 10 points clear at the top, with five games
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        496 8 Unsuccessful Forlan and Kleberson may make way for new blood MANCHESTER The Manchester United careers of Diego Forlan and Kleberson are almost over. Yesterday, reports said the club will listen to cutprice offers for the South Americans m the summer to free up transfer
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        362 8  -  CHIA HAN KEONG By A 12-GOAL match usually means a thrashing as m Geylang United's 10-2 walloping of the Young Lions m last year's S-League. But a 6-6 draw? That is a rarity. But it happened last night at the Choa Chu
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        357 8 LONDON A ye.ar ago, three Serie A teams reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, prompting talk of a great revival m Italian football. This season, there are no Italian clubs left anywhere m Europe, after Marseille eliminated Inter Milan m Wednesday's
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        952 8 BASEBALL mmmk Ittapt: NY Yankees 5 Tampa Bay I. Chicago White Sou 10 Kansas City 9. Minnesota 10 Cleveland 6. Detroit 5 Toronto 3. Oakland 9 Tenas 4. Anaheim 6 Seattle 5 Baltimore at Boston (postponed ram) Natiiaa) Lmjbk Houston n st Louis I, Chicago Cubs 8
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        1051 9  -  RUSS BAKER OLYMPICS Slow work and problems ahead of Olympics, but the city has managed before Hu WORRIERS cite terrorists, construction delays, traffic chaos and other mega-prob-lems as potential obstacles for the summer Olympics. But, if the Athens Games go down the tube, it
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        211 9 NEW YORK Peter Ueberroth, who headed the successful 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, said on Wednesday that ne believes this year's Athens Olympics will be "great". Preparations for the August event have been chaotic, with fears raised that it will be targeted by terror groups.
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          94 9 SINGAPORE won more medals from last December's Vietnam South-east Asia Games, after it was confirmed some finswimmers from the host country had tested positive for doping. Leslie Kwok, who was third m the 50--metre apnea, gets the silver medal after Pham Toan Thang was stripped of
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          58 9 DUTCH soccer international Marc van Bommel wants to move to English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur next season. The 26-year-old PSV Eindhoven midfielder, who has also attracted interest from German side Schalke, told Sky TV: "Spurs are interested and I am interested. They are a big
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          86 9 THORPE CLEARED FOR 400 M FREE AUSTRALIAN swimmer lan Thorpe will defend his 400 metres freestyle title at the Athens Olympics m August if team-mate Craig Stevens pulls out of the event. Thorpe, the world record-holder, was disqualified when he lost his balance and fell m the water during last
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      683 9 The Family of the Late TAN PENG CHUA called home to be with the Lord on 9 April 2004 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, colleagues, church groups and business associates for their kind assistance, attendance, support, prayers, condolences, donations and wreaths during
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      676 10 1 With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences To Our Director, S.I. Group of Companies Ay aJ MT Mr Sunny Lim Saa Tee on the demise of his Beloved Mother r__r_ A IK T "__r___ ___r^_ "__r^_ a m. -r __r^* lAV R TTTT .HT A TVlf^ A/^I OJE_i.II/ XlXA.l^lv_T _r-.__^_r^
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        237 12 WASHINGTON The number of Americans filing initial claims for jobless benefits rose to 360,000 last week, a 30,000 increase that was the biggest m more than a year, a government report showed yesterday. The Labour Department said while issuing its report that claims tend to
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        203 12 NEW YORK Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms' first-quar-ter earnings m the United States almost doubled to US$B billion (5513.4 billion), putting them on track for their second-most profitable year, according to Securities Industry Association (SIA) estimates. Pre-tax
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        75 12 Yesterday's close: 11,800.40 (Down 297.78 points) The benchmark Nikkei Stock Average closed down nearly 2.5 per cent as the selling of shares m banks and other recent gainers by foreign investors triggered more profit-taking. Active trading boosted volume on the First Section to a record
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        372 13 iPod sales add shine to Apple's earmngs LOS ANGELES Apple Computer said on Wednesday that its sec-ond-auarter net income grew Dy more than three times to US$46 million (Ss77-7 million) as it sold more iPods m the latest quarter than Macintosh computers, highlighting the runaway success of the portable digital
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        288 13 Higher sales buoy gains of AMD, Texas Instruments ATLANTA Texas Instruments (TI), whose semiconductors power over half of mobile phones sold last year, said its first-quarter profit more than tripled as chip demand drove the biggest sales increase m at least a decade. Another tech heavyweight, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD),
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        583 13  -  TSCHANG CHI- CIU Bt, THE STRAITS TIMES CHINA BUREAU Little sign of slowdown may see Beijing government take more steps to cool economy BEIJING Despite efforts to cool loan growth, China's economy surged a stronger-than-ex-pected 9-7 per cent m the first quarter, fuelled
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        103 14 A TEAM of Indian entrepreneurs and members of the Confederation of Indian Industry, led by its president Anand Mahindra (first from left), called on Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the Istana yesterday. They discussed economic and political developments m India and the region, as
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        500 14  - PSA profits swell to $683 m on global economic recovery HUGH CHOW A pickup m world trade and contributions from its Belgian unit boost earnings by 22% By SINGAPORE'S No.l port operator, PSA International, enjoyed a 22 per cent surge m year-on-year net profits to $682.7 million last year, as
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        463 14  -  AUDREY TAN Bu STARHUB and seven other telecommunications companies have hit out at a bid by Sing Tel to declassify itself as the dominant player m some parts of Singapore's international services market, saying it still has enough monopoly power to force out
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        551 15  -  AZHAR KHALID Profit Overstatement And Earnings Warning Accounting error throws doubt on its core business but investors stuck with shares due to trading suspension Bu Death knell issues tend to be the virtual kiss of death to a stock, since it calk into question the
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        657 15  -  AZHAR KHALID TAKING STOCK ..7 MARKETS CORRESPONDENT RISING concerns over interest rate hikes m the United States and a lacklustre performance m regional markets dragged the Singapore bourse lower for the fourth straight day. Dealers said investors believed an overnight report which showed that
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        169 15 ECS HOLDINGS has been appointed as distributor for Toshiba's latest range of personal computer (PC) notebooks for the China market, a deal that could raise the mainboard-listed company's revenue by as much as US$BO million (*****.2 million). In a statement
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        330 15 S 'pore a 'major node for Russian firms to plug into Asia' SINGAPORE is the perfect base for Russian companies seeking to expand into South-east Asia, Trade and Industry Minister George Yeo said during a visit to Moscow this week. Calling on the two countries to boost business relations, Briga-dier-General
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          74 15 THREE listed companies controlled by the family of the late billionaire Khoo Teck Puat said yesterday they were cooperating fully with a Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) investigation into Mr Khoo's underdisclosure of his stakes m the firms. In separate filings to the Singapore Exchange, Goodwood Park
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          66 15 ELECTRONICS firm Asian Micro Holdings has won a lawsuit brought against it by minority shareholders of two subsidiaries who claimed that they had suffered under the company's "oppressive conduct". Tne High Court threw out the action brought by minority shareholders of A-P Precision Plastic and A-P
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          81 15 SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) said it filled more space m its planes last month a second month of gains as travel and the economy recovered from the Sars epidemic last year. The company filled an average 70.9 per cent ot its combined passenger and cargo capacity, compared
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          101 15 ELEVEN central banks and monetary authorities m the Pacific region said preliminary studies into creating a fund investing m Asian localcurrency sovereign debt have been concluded. The executives meeting of East Asia and Pacific central banks, which includes the Monetary Authority of Singapore, said the Asian
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        285 15  -  DENNIS CHAN Bu ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) yesterday reported a 15 per cent increase m net income for distribution to $45.5 million. Revenue for the year ended March 31 was up 7 per cent at $65.9 million. Net property income rose
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      162 2 FILM-MAKER Toh Hai Leong's Zombie Dog has been passed uncut under an R2l rating. The 60-minute mockumentary that critiques the "food, sex and TV culture of Singaporean society will premiere as part of the Singapore International Film Festival. Zombie Dog has been rat- ed R2l for
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      131 2 SYDNEY Singer Kylie Minogue has been immortalised m one of Madonna's songs. The Material Girl has written her into her classic hit, Vogue. She changed the spoken verse of the 1990 song by including Minogue and Britney Spears names m it. Website news.com.au reported the news
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        82 6 THE must-have CDs of the last few weeks: SCISSOR SISTERS Scissor Sisters (Polydor) Five New Yorkers glam it up for a disco-relic exercise AW C'MON/NO YOU C'MON Lambchop (City Slang) Alt-country gems from Nashville's most twisted TWO WAY MONOLOGUE Sondre Lerche (Virgin) From Norway with love comes this
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        227 12 spa by the se. Look out for a little slice of Bali on Singapore's shores m two weeks' time. That is when Bali Spa, a Singaporean-owned business, opens its doors at Bi y Splash! to let m customers, the sun and a view of the big, blue sea. "It'll be
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        360 12 beach, blanket, blues If concerts m the park and weddings by the beach no longer get you excited, Singapore's first concert by the beach just might. The Robben Ford Band, a jazz and blues band from the United States, performs at Big Splash! tomorrow evening. Held beside the big water
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        136 20 Farm's a slimming spokesman IS FANN WONG fat? Do pigs fly? But the actress all 1.71 m and 50kg of her has just signed up as the spokesman for Xanda slimming pills. Apparently, she gained weignt while filming m China recently. It was winter, the shoot was strenuous and she
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      180 19 Channel! AM PM 2.00 Space 1999 (Drama) (Last episode) 3.00 MacGyver (Drama) 4.00 Life, Camera, Action! 4.30 Entertainment Tonight 5.00 Invasion America (Animation) 6.00 Alternate Routes (Reality) A young man shows an Australian backpacker the funky side of New York while she contemplates life after her tourist visa expires. 6.30
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      220 19 Channel U AM 10.00 ShowBiz 11.00 Glorious Food! PM 12.00 Delicious Food All Over China (Infotainment) 1.00 The Martial Arts Chronicles (Drama) 1.30 Rising Dragon 2.30 ShowBiz (Entertainment) 3.30 Heroes Of Shaolin (Drama) 4.30 Strokes Of Life (Drama) Qiuyue plans to make Shihua think that he is responsible for her
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      195 19 v /d| L 5^yr^9 BELLY BELLY GOOD Join Apple Hong and Chen Hung as they uncover Singapore's best-kept food secrets. Channel H, 8pm CNA AM 6.02 Asian Home News 6.30 Prime Time Morning 8.30 Through Asian Eyes 9.00 Asia Today 9.33 Amazing Asia 10.00 World Today 10.34 In The Pink
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      203 19 TODAY'S TELEVISION CHOICE VIEWS Central AM 9.00 In Our House (P) 9.30 Enqie Benjy (P) 10.00 Stuff (S) 10.30 Dragonball 2 PM 1Z.00 Fingertips (S) 12.30 Sesame Street (P) 1.30 Book Of Pooh (P) 2.00 Disney's PB J Otter (P) 3.00 Y?(S) 3.30 Disney's Ducktales 4.00 Hey Arnold! (S) 4.30
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      1663 19 Channel 5 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE PREVIEW 2003/2004 AM 6.00 Backyard Cookin 6.30 Primetime Morning 9.30 Code Red (Variety) 10.30 Wheel Of Fortune USA 11.00 This Small Space 11.30 Dessert Circus PM 12.00 Shop The World 1.00 Days Of Our Lives 2.00 Third Watch 3.00 Mutant X 4.00 Bionic Woman 5.00
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        430 3 VARNISHING OF DOORS, sofa, cabinets. Changing of locks, hinges handles. 9362-0669 DIRECT FTY OFFER! Laminated Kitchen Cabinet $68 pfr. Wardrobe $158 pfr. Call 9783 8227 IRI HOUSE CLEANING/ CLEANCOAT SERVICES PTE LTD Carpet steam clean Upholstery steam clean of fabric sofas dlninq chairs Leather seats clean, condition apply protection Anti-bacterial
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        588 6 rtyr El STALLS FOR I RENT/SALE Xl Foodcowrt '**^-Kmmm\T mm \Jm M Urn Outdoor m Aircon »V_~ (Tl mtm*} II p. 2H-<iyoon ANG MO RIO Ind PK 2. Blk 5008. Canteen stalls for rent lor Nasi Padang, Western food. etc. Heavy human traffic. 9384 1668 VARIOUS FOOD STALLS available at
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        768 6 KfjfS BMWFORSALE 12/00 318IA 1 owner Black Omv $29k Coe $35k ***** km Elec trie Seats Multi-Funtion Steering $89k *****121 Peter 12/01 BMW 318 i. 4 dr. Al cond Multi-function steering. Steptronic. Askng $59.8 K. Only today! Call *****002 Car Times 2 UNITS. REPOSSESSED 89 BMW 520 i Auto. COE
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        919 6 Bl HONDA FOR SALE W[fi HONDA FOR SALE 1 PHj *s__*^__^!!il_______ 2 4 vTec < 7 seater) FREE: roe^ ale B|y^s'"JJl2i Leather vwtf 8 9 Yl lr A,,ovs PP Sterec^^^ AIM owner 'loo% Loan BUY -BEII- SCRAP all types of body CD EC DE-REGISTRATION SVC rIICC VALUATION All Makes Model
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        523 6 Bn HONDA FOR SALE SCU PLATE. HONDA Odyssey Sil ver. 1 owner. Excellent cond. New tyres. Call owner 6532-6600 2/02 VT1 1.5 Auto OMV $20K low deposit/km.lowner. Agt sve/war- j ranty.leather.s6o.BK. *****667 i 5/2002 HONDA STREAM 1.7 L i OMV $*****. COE $*****. i owner. Ask $*****. *****948 8/03 ACCORD
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        1195 6 RH HYUNDAI EOR SALE Bffl HYUNDAI FOR SALE BRI HYUNDAI FOR SALE BRI HYUNDAI FOR SALE [7|T3 Results of April 2004 Pjjjl HV-H Ist Open Bidding Exercise For COE La__J COE price Quota Bids Cars (1 600 cc and below) Taxi $26,689 3,386 Cars (1601 cc and above) $28,001 949
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        480 6 BM MAZOA FOR SALE IST OWNER SPORTY silver mid 02 323 S auto ABS Full bodykit/ 17 rims, fog light, leather, reverse sensor, agt maintained/ warran ty. 100% accident free High trade m. *****420/ *****111 •92 MAZDA 121 auto. 10 yrs COE Mthly instalment $300 $0 downpayment. Family 2nd car.
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        769 7 El MERCEDES J FORSALE 6/02 C2OOML KOMPRESSOR owne r Silver Omv $42K 17'nms VKOOL ***** km $116 K. *****121 '93 MERCEDES E200. 1 owner. 16 v Auto. New tax. Orig. COE 1/2013 Low mileage. 100% accident free. Loan avail. Can *****533 '86/92 230E SUNROOF, interior/ exterior fully converted to E220
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        496 7 El MERCEDES I J FOR SALE I 6/'O3, S2BO. Silver. Keylessgo. Brand new cond. 8,000 km. C&C t warranty. Call 9380-1243 Max t '84 200 AUTO Black engine. COE 3/2008. Expensive hifi. Engine 2 overhauled. Mint. 9029-3318 I 5/'9O BENZ E2OO. COE 2/2010. Deposit $IK. Mthly $596 X 60. Selling
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        611 7 P^_ NISSAN FOR SALE MAR 2001 SUNNY 1.6 Auto. Blue 2nd owner. New road tax. Askim $53,800. Call *****888. '2002 SUNNY 1.6 manual. Leath er. CD. hi-fi. Accident free, war ranty. Selling cheap! *****667 12/01 SUNNY I.SAT. Parf $12K. deposit. Mthly $600+ Agt war ranty 1 owner. Cheap! *****283 4/2002
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        580 7 Bffl PROTON FOR SALE 1 $0 DRIVEAWAY. IMMED Approval! Last 5 units, no paysiip needed! i 92 Saga I.3GL/ I.SGL $12.8 K. COE 08/ 2011. Mthly $238x7 yrs. Interest 2.2%. Odeon Katong I. #01-02. *****919 (daily 9-9pm) 12/'9l PROTON SAGA UGL AE. COE $***** till 8/ '2Oll. View to offer.
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        318 7 ffl RENAULT FOR SALE Bffl RENAULT FOR SALE Bffl TOYOTA FOR SALE A Alpine Motors I LALQ QOOR Authonsed deoltf of Kencwh I WT.U7 7770 Biggest m its tlassi Longest, Widest, Quietest $Mmm^mM mmammmm. s m* Push Start Burton 4 Powerful Brakes »'fi ILS^ Terms S Conditions apply fl»ro NCAP
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        1680 10 yrtyr BCT 001-08 IJ CITY SOUTH-WEST I PTEAPTS-RENT D.05 BAYVILLE. NEAR NUS/ Science Park 3+l rm. Balcony. Pool. VI furn. $1300! CER 9205-7385 ANCHORAGE 3-RM: 52.6 K. Craig dace. 2-rm $2K. Pearl Bank 2rm. $IK. MRT/ city. 9384 0738 CENTRAL GREEN 3+l, 4+l 1292 1824 sqft Facilities. Amenities. 52.5K/ $3
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        851 10 BDO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTE APTS RENT D.09 HORIZON TWR 2400 sqft 4+l high flr. Renovated/ Granqeford 1200/ 1750 sqft. 21 3 rm Well renovated. *****008 Mary _r^___________________P9____§J_i P__t__9 SERENADE AT HOLLAND. Open hse daily. 2/ 3/ 4+l/ penthse 1200-1900 sqft. All with balcony/ pte lift. Fr $2.7K-S6K. *****506 Dont
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        765 10 HDO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLANO PTE APTS RENT LE CHATEAU 2-RMS. 1100 sq.ft. F/furn with pte gdn. Nice decor. Near mrt Adrian 9127-4898 GRANGE RESIDENCES, BEST unit, full view, 4+l rms. 2800 sqft SOK ono. *****807 Hamoden D.09 KASTURINA LODGE, near Great World. 3 bdrm. S/pool •09. P/furn $2k. SPS *****282
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        992 10 012-14 BALESTIER/ Bflfl Dl 2-14 BALESTIER/ MACPHERSON/GEYLANG hUtf MACPHERSON/GEYLANG PTEAPTS-RENT m PTEAPTS-RENT £3 E CONVENIENT* LL XL RIOLS ;:pj \fc LIVINGaI IEFORDABLI K_\l 'J»fcMt W Brand nev. 2 3 bedroom apartments ir'Effli jE penthouses with hrcathtakinc \ie» "__l 3* m Swimming pool, jacuzzi. sauna, gym. lj*lß*3! 1 1 entertainment, sports
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        709 10 I 1 THE HEUCONIA New 3*l Apts/ Penthses Fully/ p/furn/ facilities Near Kembangan MRT Short term lease avail Full commission to agt Enjoy Free Stay At Resort Enquiries 9003-2229/ 6841-1285 ESCADA VIEW 3+1. '450 sqft High fir. F/aircon. Best unit. Facilities. Unblocked. Good rent. Near MRT Ivy 9144-2886 C&H D.14
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        883 11 Bl Dl 5-16 EAST COAST J PTEAPTS-RENT Near fJ] Mrt [is! EAST MEADOWS 2+l/ 3+ 1/ 4+l Sea. pool view. D manor 4+l/ Purbury 3+l. Full facilities $2K. Call Magdalene 9109-8087 PANORAMIC SEA VIEW. Sanctuary Green, f/furn. 4+l, 3+l. 2+l, brand new, designer decor, spacious, shuttle service. Cl *****7.'9 VILLA
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        1080 11 BH 015 -16 EAST COAST 'M PTEAPTS-RENT AMBERPARK/ MARYLAND PT/ St Patrick Gdn/ Rose Gdn. 3+l near Parkway. $14K up. *****005 Jo MRT! TOWNHOUSE/ CONDO 4+l (2700 sq.ft.)/ 3+l. WKh facilities. $1,600 up. 9855/003 Agt COSTA RHU ANCILLA blk. High flr Sc-a/ pool view. Well furn. F/air con. Pte lift.
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        881 11 HDI9-20 SERANGOON/ THOMSON PTE APTS RENT THOMSON VIEW 3+l cosy. Immed. high flr, quiet. 1/furn/ facilities. Nice decor. Unblocked Good facing. SI.7K Hp 9647 9755 PN GARDEN i BISHAN. 3+l. Pool view. 1250 sq.ft. 16th floor above. Next to Ai Tonq Sch. VI furn. neg 9647 9755 PN NEW LIST!
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        1488 11 HD22-24 _FI7I Q2Z 24 WEST lU WEST PTEAPTS-RENT J^J^AP^S^RENI^ Along Pasir Paniang Swimming pool and Near NUS maid service Excellent accessibility Short term lease via AYE available 3 Bedrooms Utility Asking 552.000 Paul Poh 9066 0792 Ashley Ho 9687 7154 Jerome Lee 9385 0188 HILLVIEW HGTS BLK 27. 3+l. F/furn.
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        1837 11 PJ|] HOUSES FOR RENT RW! HOUSES FOR RENT I 'Haled at limner McNair Road Mm' from city Near Koon Kenn MKT Station, easy access lo (TK Spacious 2/3 4 bedroom unils With balcony, roof deck, courtyard and limber floorinj! Krom 2um m-m DrainnaYeo 9368 7949 ChyiForg 9694 6037 SJ^HHt' Darren
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        1099 11 E HUDC/HDB APTS FOR RENT APPROVED 5-RM HOUGANG 362 Hit. Pto Corner. P/furn. unblocked view. Bright, breezy, vacant. MRT. Must View' *****188 DW 2+l WOODLANDS BLK. 575/ 860 F/lurn. Aircon. Lilydale Exec con do. Yishun 3+l. F/furn/ aircon. Near amenities 9169 2625 C&H 774 BEDOK RES View. F/furn $950. S'qoon
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        1832 11 El SERVICE Wffl SERvICE fl APARTMENTS Special Promotional Rates Monthly rentul from $2470 onwards for 2/3 bedrooms Locoted dt the hustle bustle of exciting Orchard and Scotts Road entertainment shopping belt 5-min walk to Orchard MRT. Next to Grond Hyatt Hotel Close to Mount Elizabeth Medical Specialist Centre With Wiae
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        1704 12 rrtyr H 001-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST PTEAPTS-SALE PASIR VIEW PARK 4+l. f'hold. 1862 sqft, serene peaceful. Simple comfortable. Iceal living. Michael 9004 0059 C2l FREEHOLD CONDO IN Pasir Pan lang. 1,582 sq.ft. 3 1. Near future MRT. Selected units 9 very special prices! Call *****905 m^m^t^'m lyT___A^_^ iifil *MW m mmwm
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        1020 12 H 009-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND HOUSES SALE ORCHID INN~* 2-storey bunglw. 6530 sq.ft. Big frontage. Sure sell! neq SIAN TUAN/ HUA GUAN Bunglw 9600 sqft W de frontage BT TIMAH BUNGALOW Elevated. ***** sqft. s+l, big pool. Valued S6.BM. Sell $6.5 M D.ll RAFFLES PARK 2/storey bunglw. lOC OO sqft
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        942 12 BDO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTEAPTSSALE MAPLEWOODS APT 1335 sqtt. J+ l. Pool view. MAPLEWOODS PENTHSE 3150 sqft 4+l+l Pool view. F/renovated CUSCADEN RESIDENCE 1250 sq.ft. j 2+1. 1465/ 1500 sq.ft. 3+l CUSCADEN RESIDENCE (Mini penthse) 2100 sq.ft. 3+l+l (New) ARDMORE PK Blk 9,11,15. 2885 sqft. 4+l, high flr FUTURA PENTHSE
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        844 12 H 009-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTEAPTS-SALE F'HOLD. EWE BOON Penthse 302 sq.m. 3+l. Spacious living/ din- ing/ roof gdn. Privacy. Urgent 1 View to offer: TRS 9450-9389 D.IO BEAVERTON CT. penthse with root terr./ spa pool. 6+3 F'hold 9200 sq.ft. Pte lift. F/renovated F/facilities. LPW 6534-5677 OPPORTUNITY EURO ASIA CT.
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        717 12 BDO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTEAPTS-SALE NEAR ACS/ SCGS. $450 psf. 2200 sq.ft. Resort pool view. Ouiet. F'hold. 4 rms. HB 922-22-999 MIRAGE TWR 1469 sqft. 3+l. Spacious. Good layout. Move m cond. F'hold. View to offer! 9686-2122 BDII 21 NEWTON/ BT TIMAH/ CLEMENTI HOUSES SALE OPEN HOUSE TREVOSE 6500/3000sq»t 4+l
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        816 12 BDII 21 NEWTON/ BT TIMAH/ CLEMENTI PTE APTS -$ALE HILLVIEW GREEN. GREENERY envi ronment. F/facilities. 999 yrs. 2 rm balcony aircon. Sell below purchase price. *****813 PN OPPORTUNITY SIGNATURE PK. TOH Tuck Rd. 3+l. 1420 sqft. Mid flr. F/facilities. F'hold. Morning sun. 100% move m. $740K neg. Steven *****891 NEWTON
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        784 12 H 012-14 BALESTIER/ KACPHERSOH/GEYLAHC PTEAPTS-SALE ALMOST SOLD! MOTIVATED Seller' Central Gr. 2+l+l. 3+l. Pool view. High fir. 1 mm to Aljunied MRT/ MGS. Rarely Avail! 9066-2844 GEYLANG HERITAGE LOR 34 1076/ 1227 sqft. 3+l. F'hold. Near Kong Hua Sch. 3 yrs old. Price neg Genuine seller! *****318 PN SSXXK TRELLIS
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        740 12 DDIS-16 EAST COAST HOUSES SALE Dont I Miss l_2 GRAY LANE. D-STOREY Bunglw F'hold. 6-rms. 5400/ 3800 sqft Squarish land, near MRT/ amenities. 9101-8595 |Jl|]||PJ|| *3 Excellent Location D.15 FRANKEL PRIME land 6307 sqft. Lothian terr. Wide frontage. F'hold. SE facing. Near Siglap Ctr, amenities. Edward 9009-0888 BRAND NEW MODERN
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        955 12 Wffl 015-16 EAST COAST I PTEAPTS-SALE EAST MEADOWS CONDO Tastefully renovated. 2-rm. 2 yrs old. Open view. No noon sun. Approx 860 sq.ft. Walk to MRT. 9815 5228 EMERALD EAST 9 Tg Rhu. F'hold. 6 yrs. 2+l. 926 sq.ft. Mid flr. F/facilities. MRT. Samuel 9380-3223 RE/MAX. www.eyohomes.com MANOARIN GDN. 1572
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        831 13 H 017-18 CHANGI/ PASIR RIS PTE APTS SALE ESTELLA GDN. F'HOLD. 2+l 1141 sqft. Pool view. Mins to airport. Beautiful hse. VI facilities. Hurry! Do not miss! 9107-1510 ERA 5399K! $399K! EASTVALE 3-bdrm 804. Face pool/ River view. 1055 sq.ft. Well kept. 5 mins to MRT/ Shpg Mall! Jon *****512
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        872 13 H 1.9-20 SERANGOON/ I THOMSON I NOUSES -SALE I te I 2 _fcr?____ df^ £^v ls_______________H!?-__Tr7W! FHOLD T»S. 1600/ 2000 sqft 4 A I moveMfend. 3+l. Renovated. r J n PerrflMrv Well maintained. C over (SMgpeaceful. Near MRT v BISHAN ijß SEMI-D. 5400 sqft. Park 3 cws. Near Rl/ Catholic/
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        860 13 B 019-20 SERANGOON/ THOMSON PTEAPTS-SALE AUREL PK 3 rms Mais. F'hold. OOC+ sqft c/w gdn. Next to pool luiet convenient. Good View 3 of er! Desmond 9109-8675 FT OMPASS HGTS. 3/ 2 rms/ studio. ooi view. Condo facilities, hpci./ MRT/ bank @> doorstep! lust view! neg. 9488-2407 KF EGI.NTVILLE 3+l
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        896 13 tf(J NORTH HOUSES OFF UPPER THOMSON Thong Bee Rd 3930/ 3000 sq.ft. s+l. 4 yrs old. F'hold. Can par" 4 cars. Beautiful. SUxM. HB *****788 GERALD CRESCENT 3-STOREY semi-d. Approx 3700/ 3000 sqtt. 5 rms. Looks brand new! Sq land Auction 21/4. Call DTZ 9238-7951 S-STOREY CORNER TERR. 999 yrs
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        886 13 RJfl D 25-28 NORTH SALE ROSEWOOD CONDO. 3*l. Mins to Causeway Pt, amenities 803 1173 sqft. Pool view. Below valua tion! SS3OK. Vincent 9436-3663 Must Vfew SELETARIS CONDO NEAR Yishun MRT. F'hold. 2* years. 1722/ 1636/ 1337 sqft. F/facilities Pool view. 9292-7000/ 9188-6988 WOODGROVE CONDO 1514 sq ft 1184 sqft.
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        1105 13 E HDB APTS FOR SALE (ANG MO KIO) 3 'NG'. SERIOUS seller. Blk 524. flr. Unblocked. 10 mins MRT/ near amenities. View to ofler. Urgent sale! 9457-7072 PN 3 'NG' 255 upgraded fees paid. Blk 625/ 540/ 534 Mid/ high flr. 3 r 174. Mid flr. Near MRT/mkt/ amenities. neg.
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        1045 13 EHDB APTS FOR SALE (BEOOK/ CHAI CHEE) ALL BEDOK!! 9001 4187 PN 3 'NG' 424. Low flr. MRT/ mkt. 3 'NG' Blk '15. High flr. Unblocked 3> 2-rm Blk 401. High flr, lift level 4 'NG' Blk 80 Low flr. f/renovated 5 T Pt 19 Valued $363 K. Low flr
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        2713 13 _____________n^_^__i__™^_^_^__M___"^r^________ f '^mtm\mm-?a^ JLmmW' IdGm Eft On home loans WRITTEN BY PEARLYN KOH Think about where your money wiH be coming from before you commit to a private property. When you are taking a home loan from the bank, there are other factors to consider besides the interest rates. Period
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        3168 14 Ml BHDB APTS FOR SALE (BUKIT BATOK) 3 'A' BLK 208. Lift level. High flr. 4 A' Blk 209. Corner. Recess s'A' Blk 201. High flr. Breezy Pool/ MRT!! Call 9022 0396. RH. 3 T CORNER Blk 504. Mid flr Simple. N.S. facing. Move m cord. All races. Walk to
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        889 14 BHDB APTS FOR SALE (BUKIT PANJANG) 4 'A' REAL Corner Blk 448 Bt Panjang. Mid flr. Beautiful renovation. Marble. Facing pk. Aircon. LRT. $230 K. Jolin 9127-9616 PN 4'A' BLK 244. 104 sqm. Top flr. Unblocked. Good layout. 101% renovated. Easy access convenient. Urgent! Van 9199-2885 PN 4 'A' CORNER
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        1079 14 BHDB APTS FOR SALE (CHOA CHU KANG) ••CLIVE 9857-0043 CBS. Low 4'A' corner 450 high flr $225K 5-rm Teck Whye Pt 156 $275K up 5 'A' 344. High flr. Al decor. MRT ______> I m mmwm m IJJIJJI DONT MISS! 4-A' Blk 634 CCX Mid flr. Design build. 113 sqm.
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        1030 14 Ejfjl HDB APTS FOR SALE (CHOA CHU KANG) 4 'A' 460. 552 High flr. Low 5 T 297, 251. Corner. Low Exec 164, 101. 9290-7378 PN 4 'A' BLK 679 CCX. High flr, windy, well kept. Mkt/ sch. Low Cash! Can co-broke FT 9630-1150 4 T BLK 401 high flr.
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        1006 14 EMI HDB APTS FOR SALE LJ (CLEMENTI/ I WEST COAST) 3 'I' BLK 6 Ghim Moh, high flr. Upgrading fee paid 1 rm. Renovated. No wesl sun. Call *****122 3 'NG' 374 4'NG' 301 dr to dr. High Flr 100% Move-in 100% Unblock Wind/ 9672-6428 3 'NG' 701. 811. West
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        1099 14 tHDB APTS FOR SALE (GEYLANG/EUNOS/ MACPHERSON) 31. BLK 41. Sims Dr. Low No contra. Mins. to Aljunied MRT. 9545 8427 4 'A 1 PINE Close (Old Airport Rd). 5 yrs. High flr. Windy. Mins to City MRT Mkt. 9068-6008 GP2I 4'A' SIMS DR 40. Below value! 100% move m. Spacious.
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        785 14 EMI HDB APTS FOR SALE L|J (HOUGANG/ S'GOON/ I YIO CHU KANG) CASH SBK ONLY! 4 A' Corner Blk 405 S'goon Central. High flr. 11l sqm. Unblocked. Mins to MRT. HDB value 5295 K. *****988 CBs CHEAPI NEW LISTING! 4 S blk 637 Hougang. High flr, NS direction, unblocked. Well
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        1202 14 EWI HOB APTS FOR SALE JU (HOUGANG/ S'GOON/ YIO CHU KANG) 4-A' 8LK.325 S'GOON Aye 3. Low flr. Well renovated. Move-in cond. Near amenities/ MRT. Valued. neg. 9450-5494 PN "4 'A' CORNER 419 417. Reno vated. NS facing. Mins to Houaang Mall/ MRT. $500 incentive. 5225K up! Urgent! *****993 PN
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        1321 15 HHDB APTS FOR SALE (HOUGANG/ S'GOON/ YIO CHU KANG) 4'NG 1 CORNER S'GOON N Blk 103. High flr. Overlooking landed property. Sure impress! *****176 4'NG' CORNER 8LK.411 Hougang 803. Near Hougang Mall/ Plaza. MRT. Convenient. 9007-9695. 4-NG' S'GOON N blk 127. Lift level. High flr. Unblocked view. Bright, quiet, private.
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        1023 15 HHDB APTS FOR SALE (JURONG) I X V _k_L ■iii iititi wamaMmma ft____J_L_fl__£2______l 3 'NG' 241. High fir. Marble. Mkt 4 'NG' 261. Any offer considered. 4 NG' 210. High floor. Unblocked. 5 T 258. Corner. 100% move m. 5 T 663 D/ 667 D. MRT. At value. Exec Mais
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        1275 15 Rfl HDB APTS FOR SALE I (JURONG) 4'A2' BLK 668 C. Low flr. Unblocked. 100% renovated. Walk to MRT/ shops. Sell cheap! Call Parry 9637-4450 CB 4 'A' 546. Corner. High floor. Unblocked. Windy. Serious seller 5 123 9. Pt Blk. High flr. Unblock cd. S3IOK. Jip 9477-2000 ERA 4
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        873 15 MfM HDB APTS FOR SALE KU3 (KALLANG/ WHAMPOA) ALL RACES. 3'NG' Blk 8 812. 811 St George's Lane. 100% renovated. Windy. Immed. neg. Call Parry 9637-4450 CB OPEN HSE SAT 2-spm. Corner d/storey terr HDB. 3014/ 1600 sqft. 3+l study 2 bath. Garden. Below value. 9060-6664 ERA POSITIVE CHANCE! Bendemeer
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        1136 15 B HDB APTS FOR SALE (PASIR RIS/ CHANGI) ACT FAST!!! CALL *****256 PN 4 A' Blk 190. 461. 470 Renovated 5 'A'/ T Blk 140/180, 560, 774 Exec Apt Corner Blk 156, 130, 457 BLK 749, 5 T low floor. Corner. Very well renovated. 100% move m. Near mall. sch..
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        1009 15 BH HDB APTS FOR SALE BiiJ^RtS^CHANGI) mafmftX Mid Flr. Move m cond. Llf Leve| Mjn MRT/ Whitesands. Dora 938 38-178 l n level Blk ,07 '2'- High 2_____S °*ncr nicely renovated. Sell below HDB value. *****681 4 'A' 105. Below value! High/ lift l!o. blocked Beautiful. Mkt. MXI, CC. polyclinic.
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        944 15 E HDB APTS FOR SALE (TAMPINES/ SIMEI) New List! 4 'A' 932 High flr. Lift level. MRT/ Ctr. View to offer! 5 'I' 486A Corner. Mid floor. 128 sq m. 100% move m cond. Selling cheap. S3OOK nett! Almost sold 5 T 715 Corner. High flr. Lift level. 100% move
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        821 15 Bl HDB APTS FOR SALE fl (TAMPINES/ SIMEI) aWaMm*. i^*\ Mtl lIT.TI I^^^_|._^ l__!.lJH>-_!!l!l:B ?.U:trl l:!J irrilll_.il __r_rr-iiil 4 'A' SIMEI Blk 223. Lift level. F/renovated. MRT/ amenities 3 A' Tampines Blk 883/ 259/ 235. Well renovated/ Simple unit. ___P"*^__ w m m JMk<* m f j ■<=>«__"'■ l* W
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        2258 15 yryrr Bl HOB APTS FOR SALE I (TAMPINES/ SIMEI) URGENT! 3'NG' TAMPINES 292/ 898. Exec Mais Blk 147. Near MRT. F/renovated *****656 PN S3IOK! 5T TAMPINES 4948 High flr. Unblocked. Renovated. Near shops. Must view! 9066-9666 3 'A' 259 804/ 203 807 Tampines MRT. unblocked, windy. Litt level. Early move-in.
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        1859 16 rrrtyryrty Rfl HDB APTS FOR SALE m^m (WOODLANDS) BERNARD WU 9290-7378 PN 4 'A- 519, 525, 528 S23OK up 4 'A' 506, 550, 552, 554. S2OOK+ 4 'A' 6818, 751, 718, 739 Corner 5 T 684A High flr. A1 decor 5 T 367, 364 Civic Ctr. MRT 5 T 537,
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        1090 16 RJJ HDB APTS FOR SALE l^M ,u,ft ni 4 'A' BLK 525. At HDB valuation! Design and Built. Ground floor. IC4 sq.m. Aircon. Privacy. Movein All welcome! LV 9851-1036 4 'A' CORNER Blk 745 Mid flr. Unblocked. Vacant. Near MRT/ Sch. 100% move m. Valued $5K consider. 900 800 59
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        1026 16 ■HI HOB APTS FOR SALE 4 -A' 8LK.679 802. Next to corner. Aircon. Renovated. Conve nient. Opp MRT. 9003-8877 MRN 4 'A' BLK 521. 5 'A' Blk 302. 5 J Blk 556. Renovated. Amenities From $240K ono. *****469 agt 4-RM BLK 809 106 sq.m/ Blk 546 110 sq.m. S6OK renovation.
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        1008 16 |SflH HDB APTS FOR SALE 2_y 3rm bik "8. i3i. J 4 R enovated. MRT. S neg. Call Parry 9637-4450 CB SISSK! YET NEG! Don't miss' 3 'NG' 774. Mid flr. Simple move-in Well kept Mins to sch/ amenities' All races! Andy 9756-2835 RH 5"5K VET NEG! 2 x 3-rms.
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        1187 16 Bjl HDB APTS FOR SALE fl (YISHUN) 4'A' $0K! BLK 343. #04. Just renovated beautifully. 3 aircons. 108 sqm. MRT. Sole agt 9027-1607 4 'A' 366. Corner NTUC/ mkt/ sch 4 'A' 296. Near MRT/ sch/ park 3 NG' 134. Lift level. *****379 4 'A' BLK 309. High flr. Renovated.
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        771 16 HI HDB APTS FOR SALE M (SENGKANG/ fl PUNGGOL) 5 T 255 #06. Corner. Renovated. 100% move m. 4 bdrms. Ouiet. Walk to LRT/ MRT. *****-676 5 T BLK 248 High flr. Renovated. Unblocked, windy. Mins MRT, Compasspoint. neg. 9670-1172 5T PT BLK 2238 Compassvale. 122 sq.m. Nice. Unblocked. High
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        1061 16 Wffl FACTORY SPACE Rfl FACTORY SPACE c DPCkJT |j^ mop.-,. Lower Rents, Act Now! QV. HOUSING ft _i T DEVELOPMENT H_J BOARD Website: www.place2lease.com For Enquiries: 6866 3076 Area 1518-1636 sqft M a Loading capacity 7 SKN/sq m I Ceiling height 3.8 m I Near amenities/expressway I Suitable for woodworks,
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        580 16 Bl OFFICE SPACE I FOR RENT GENTING LANE Fully fitted office with carpet and used furniture ready for occupation. j Various sizes from 1,100 sq.ft j Also big IT space with 4,700 sq.ft. computer raised floor and independent computer air-conditioning system. 1 Attractive rate from $1.00 upwards. Inttrtsttd, pltast call
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        1075 17 Bl OFFICE SPACE Rfl OFFICE SPACE J FOR RENT RENT 541 Orchard Road Retail tenants: Hermes, Zara, Esprit Starbucks Accessibility via public transport only 3 minutes walk to Orchard MRT station Convenient ample parking facilities Outside CBD 1268/ 1473 sqft. Fitted units. Good view. Attractive rental. For enquiries call owner:
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        927 17 D.07 GOLDEN MILE Complex. 100-260 sq.ft. $*****00. Furn/ Broadband/ MRT. 9662-2298 701 GEYLANG TEAMBUILD Bldg. #02. Lift. 1270 sqft. $1850 neg. Sale $428K ono. Agt 9171-4181 AL 1 A WELL RENOVATED office at Frankei Aye for rent. Pls contact 1 Mrs Yeo at tel: 6241-5078 I PARTITION RM 260 sqft.
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        1245 17 55 MARKET STREET r^.fc, SINSOV BUILDING |\V 14 -storey commercial building l W| with basement car park A I I 1 Prime location m the heart of Raffles Place 4 _Jt."^2 Site Area 6.575 sq ft >!_____ Net Lettable Area: 53. 1 1 1 sq ft __X _#^__!____^____B Short walk
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        1157 17 Rfl SHOP SPACE BWI3_ I __s!B *^1 Rare Unit SYED ALWI RD 2-storey corner shophse. Full frontage. 3012 sqft Currently food ct. Attractive rental. Edward *****888 -*^mmmmm I 1 mJ mim mtgA. m __rr___T_T__H ORCHARD. OPP MRT. t»01 150/ 300/ 1200 sqft. Good for tailor/ souvenir/ gifts/ money changer/ beauty/
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        629 24 A multi-national design consultant is currently r looking for the following to join our creative team: m Relevant experience m a design consultant company. g Good communication and presentation skills. Able to lead and guide a team of designers, jl Self-motivated and able to cope with pressure. Proficiency m detailing,
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        911 26 ___-----____-i B ADMINISTRATIVE/ H!FI ADMINISTRATIVE/ CLERICAL rirpirli An established dynamic company m Balestier Road dealing m up-market Building Products seeks the following suitable candidates for its expansion programme: ADMINISTRATIVE/ SHIPPING ASSISTANT GCE '0' level or its equivalent Mm. 2 years experience m similar capacity Good MS Office skills with knowledge
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        817 26 i Responsibilities 9 Develop machine conceptual design m Design of auto assembly machines and equipment g Requirements: Degree Diploma m Mechanical Engineering Knowledge m AutoCAD and Solid works Mm 2 years of design experience 9 EKSSSinEEnEEn I Project Key Responsibilities J Robotics and PLC programming Central Circuit Design T 0
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        471 26 Mffl TECHNICAL A Factory At Tuas South requires a) FRP lamlnators 2 b) General Workers 2 (only Singaporean) Interested please call Tel *****278 for an interview Company m the oil gas industry requires. 1) Processed Instrumentation Technicians Mm 3 yrs exprience 2) Instrumentation Fitter Mm 2 yrs experience 3) General
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        635 27 Bl TECHNICAL I I TECHNICIAN To service md food machines Strong Electrical background Class 3 licence Interview 9 263 Pandan Loop Tel: 6778 0561 or fax CV to: 6778 2212 J^ E -panding MNC requires •<r PRECISION MACHINIST <rW j ITC/ NITEC Hands-on experience an advantage Jurong East Fresh grads
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        716 27 B GENERAL PRODUCTION An Outdoor Advertisini MIRAGE PRODUCT invites Singaporeans/ PRs to ape 1) OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE Valid class '3' licence Graduates from ITE/ Poly are Young energetic Bilingual m English Mandari 2) OPERATOR Able to work OT Training will be provided For Position (1), pls email resume t or Fax:
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        1156 27 E WAREHOUSING/ iffl WAREHOUSING/ INVENTORY wwwrTnßV &c«fltox»/nEJtctran.cs ItOHlfl l| A fast growing electronic components Regional I il Sales Office invites aggressive, self- motivated I result-oriented candidates to apply for the fo^|whg: p Store Assistants I Immediate availability I Young, hardworking enthusiastic I Non-smoker preferred and able to work long hours
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        912 27 j oth£b ma Q [SISPORTSLINK We are an expanding retail chain shops operator m the sporting and consumer goods business. We are looking for suitable candidates to be part of our dynamic team: 1. Shop Managers/Assistant Shop Managers Mm 'O' level above a, Preferably with retail experience Able to work
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