The Straits Times, 19 April 2004

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    32 1 The Straits Times Established 1845 BEST IN NEWSPAPER DESIGN IN ASIA •W A Singapore Press Holdings publication (D\J Cents M Onday April 19, 2004 •66 Pages m five parts mita (P) 048/03/2004
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    Lock icon Government working to keep cost of living down
    576 1  -  REBECCA LEE Close watch being kept on inflation; ComfortDelGro not raising fares 11 SmiMBAKWffIEIKCHAHgOra II THE PRIME MINISTER HAS INDICATED THAT THE CHANGEOVER WILL TAKE PUCE THIS YEAR. HE SAID THAT HE Will MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT AFTER THE FIRST-QUARTER RESULTS ARE KNOWN.
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    Lock icon Crowds rage over Hamas chiefs killing
    541 1 Crowds rage over Hamas chiefs killing America refuses to condemn Israel for Saturday's assassination, m sharp contrast to reactions elsewhere GAZA CITY Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and their sympathisers took to the streets across the Middle East yesterday, m angry demonstrations against Israel's assassination of Abdel Aziz Rantissi, the
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      133 2 MAHJONG KEEPS SENILITY AT BAY TWO university professors are recommending a regular game of mahjong to keep senility at bay. This, trying to outdo game show contestants and physicalactivity force older people to think and analyse. Lowering the level of bad cholesterol could also help them retain their memory,
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      101 2 LUCRE, LIFEBLOOD AND THE NKF PATIENTS at the National Kidney Foundation have to co-pay for dialysis, hold down jobs and stick to tneir diet or pay more. Staff, sourced from the best abroad, are fined for coming five minutes late. Call it hard-nosed, but it is rules like this
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      80 2 DREAMS OF FIVE SO SELFISH THE hopes of five tertiary students for the future, revealed m a recent Straits Times feature, not only chilled Mr Nelson Ang Beng Ho's spine, it also sent shivers to his heart as well. It is all fine and good to have dreams, he
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      65 2 HOW TO HE HAPPY THE issue closest to the heart of internationally renowned Zen Buddhism master Sheng Yen is that people no longer feel secure or happy, despite their money, status and health. The remedy, says the influential religious leader m China and Taiwan, is having the right attitude.
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      141 2 MON EY NOL, analysts differ on freight rates THE head of Neptune Orient Lines' (NOL) container shipping arm APL, Mr Ron Widdows, expects demand for container shipping to continue to out-pace supply, even as industry watchers say otherwise. They forecast a sharp drop m freight rates which rose 20 per
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      91 2 Appeal of ACS THE new private artu of the ACS schools, ACS (International), will take m 200 students (or a start. They will sit for an international version of the General Certificate of Secondary Education, which is similar to the O levels, after years. It is unlikely the school,
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      86 2 Help floods m for kampung MORE than 50 people, including students and grassroots leaders, yesterday helped villagers at Lorong Buang Kok build a footbridge and picket fence along a stream that runs through the kampung. The stream is the main reason the place nicknamed "kampung of hitching up sarongs"
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      72 2 NO GUARANTEE YOUR MONEYS SAFE THE Monetary Authority of Singapore has made clear it should not be assumed it will step m to save financial institutions, including banks, that get into trouble. In a treatise released today, it explained that a "zero-failure regime" is "neither feasible nor desirable". This
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      64 2 VIAGRA KILLED WOMAN'S MARRIAGE A WOMAN whose husband began demanding sex almost every night after taking Viagra has asked for a legal separation because she finds him too demanding now. It is believed to be Britain's first divorce case related to the pill. A marriage guidance counsellor says she
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      151 2 WENZHOU'S SPIRIT SUCCESS THE chairman of China's top menswear company, which has branches m New York and Milan and annual sales of 450 million yuan (Ss92 million), was a school dropout. His rags-to-riches story is typical of the quick-witted entrepreneurs from Wenzhou, an isolated area m China ringed by
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      67 2 SHAQ PIPS YAO MING THE second-seeded Los Angeles Lakers managed a scrappy 72-71 victory over the seventh-seeded Houston Rockets after Shaquille O'Neal produced the goods when it mattered. With 17.4 seconds left on the clock, he managed a rebound and dunk, right over Yao Ming's outstretched arm, m the
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  • PRIME NEWS
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      Lock icon S'Pore brands set to tickle taste buds in Malaysia
      531 3  - S'Pore brands set to tickle taste buds in Malaysia KELVIN WONG IE Singapore initiative, to bring overseas mall operators here to see what is on offer, set to pay off for local businesses Ih, O ALTHOUGH XL IS FAMOUS FOR t GOOD FOOD, IT IS MOSTLY SAKAE STREET FARE. BUT
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      Lock icon TAKING A SLOW BOAT FROM CHINA
      97 3 TAKING a quick trip back to the present, adventurer Axel Brummer leaves his Chinese junk Kublais Khan II during a stop at Boat Asia at Sentosa yesterday. The 37-year-old German is spending about a year and a half retracing Marco Polo's 13th century journey
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      Lock icon British university setting up China campus
      387 3  - British university setting up China campus ALFRED lEE Nottingham U first such venture, but more expected to follow Bu FOR THE STRAITS TIMES LONDpN An English university is to open a campus m China, giving 4,000 Chinese students a British degree education with cutprice fees. Nottingham University will become the
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      570 4 US closes highways into Baghdad Aim appears to be to stop convoy ambushes BAGHDAD The United States military command has abruptly closed long stretches of two strategic highways, further isolating this edgy capital and raising the spectre of supply shortages. The closure appeared to confirm the effect of two weeks
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      Lock icon NKF to hold third show on Wednesday
      384 4  - NKF to hold third show on Wednesday HO AI LI MKDIAKKPOKTKR FOR the first time m 11 years, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) will hold a third show m its annual fundraiser over television. It will be shown live on Wednesday on Channel 8, from Bpm to 9pm, and will
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      Lock icon Pawnshops sprouting up amid surging business
      646 6  -  SERENE GOH Despite a hefty $2m m paid-up capital, the forecast is that three new shops a year will open m the coming years §X PAWNBROKERS loaned $1.3 billion to Singaporeans last year and the business is surging, so much so that four new
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      Lock icon A PAWNSHOP WITHOUT BARS
      283 6 THE back room of Heng Seng Pawnshop is a web of high-tech operations. Valuers take digital images of items pledged, and categorise them. Items are then sealed m plastic bags and stored m a cabinet that contains multiple units of moving shelves adapted from those used
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      Lock icon Malaysian NS trainer accused of raping girl in camp
      283 6  - Malaysian NS trainer accused of raping girl in camp LESLIE LAU IN KI.M.AI.IMI'IH MALAYSIAN police have arrested a National Service trainer accused of raping a 17--year-old girl at a camp m Setiu Terengganu. The arrest will no doubt increase pressure on the authorities to review the fledgling programme for youths,
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  • WORLD
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      374 7  -  MASSOUD A. The Gulf state is well on its way to becoming a 'must' destination on the global tourism and business map Hu DERHALLY FOR THE STRAITS TIMES DUBAI Barely a week passes without yet another major project being announced m Dubai, the most bustling of the federation of
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      439 7 Looking to the future Clear strategy to diversify the economy away from oil, which accounts for 40 per cent of revenues but will run out by 2010. Free zones to encourage foreign investment, including Dubai Internet City, Media City, Health Care City and Dubai
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      410 8 IT'S DEATH BY KILLING OR CANCER. IF IT'S CAROL APACHE (HELICOPTER), I PREFER TO BE KILLED BY Abdel Aziz Rantissi, after taking over as Hamas leader last mon by an Israeli I With all four founders assassinated, the militant group could now be controlled from
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      Lock icon Strike earns Sharon crucial support for Gaza withdrawal
      546 8 Strike earns Sharon crucial support for Gaza withdrawal JERUSALEM The assassination of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantissi seemed to benefit Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday when he won crucial support for his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip. Education Minister Limor Livnat, who has a strong party
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      453 9 ts leave Hamas dership vacuum J OR CANCER. IF IT'S CARDIAC ARREST OR AN r I PREFER TO BE KILLED BY AN APACHE.' r taking over as Hamas leader last month. He was killed m an air strike by an Israeli helicopter gunship on Saturday. yeh, Siam and Zahar are
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      Lock icon Hamas' new paramount figure a hardline militant
      377 9 Hamas' new paramount figure a hardline militant DAMASCUS Khaled Mashaal, who has emerged as the paramount figure m Hamas following the assassination of Abdel Aziz Rantissi by Israel, is a hardline militant who favours a military solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conThe Damascus-based Mashaal, the head of Hamas' political bureau, said
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      Lock icon US defends Rantissi killing amid anger in Europe and Mid-East
      455 9 US defends Rantissi killing amid anger in Europe and Mid-East WASHINGTON The White House on Saturday defended Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantissi, while European and Middle Eastern governments slammed the killing. "Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorist attacks," the White House said m a
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      Lock icon Viagra giving some couples a hard time
      318 10  -  ALFRED LEE One woman m Britain is seeking a divorce because she cannot cope with her husband's new-found sexual aggression FOX TUP. STRAITS TI.MKS i LONDON In Britain's first Via-gra-related divorce case, a woman m her early 50s has sought legal separation from
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        114 10 TORONTO The death of Quebec entertainment industry luminary Micheline Charest while undergoing cosmetic surgery has renewed debate about the risks of such procedures. Ms Charest, 51, was the founder of Cinar animation company that produced award-winning cartoons and was ranked as one of the most
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        Lock icon Laos' prince showcases his heritage ARTIST AND EMBROIDERER
        142 10 Laos' prince showcases his heritage ARTIST AND EMBROIDERER WASHINGTON Decades after he left for France, after the monarchy was ousted by communists, Laos' Prince Nithakhong Somsanith continues to promote his country's heritage m the West. The 45-year-old artist and embroiderer travels extensively around the world to promote the Laotian art
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        Lock icon PRINCE WILLIAM MAKES A SPLASH
        92 10 CARDIFF Prince William, 21, the eventual heir to the British throne, made his debut for the Scottish national universities water polo squad. But despite his efforts, his team lost both its games one to Wales and one to Ireland m the annual Celtic Nations tournament
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        104 10 LONDON Russian tycoon and soccer club owner Roman Abramovich is the richest man m Britain, according to a new list. The Sunday Times said Mr Abramovich, 37, who bought the London club Chelsea for £30 million (Ss9o million) last year, is worth £7.5 billion,
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      81 10 Saudi billionaire Prince Al-Walid bin Talal and a Morgan Stanley-led consortium are set to win a bid to buy the London property development Canary Wharf. Socialist leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was sworn m as Spanish Prime Minister by King Juan Carlos on Saturday. Quoteworthu We can build roads, have
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      Lock icon Iraq crisis spawns new brand or leaders with tew US ties
      597 11 THE AMERICANS HAVE SIDELINED US BECAUSE WE DONT ACCEPT THAT THEM PRESENCE HERE IS LEGITIMATE. TINS STANCE GAVE US LEVERAGE IN THE STREET/ Islamic Clerics Committee spokesman Mohammed Bashar Al-Faidhi Sunni clerics and two Governing Council members are gaining
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      Lock icon Reconstruction on hold amid uprisings
      394 11 Reconstruction on hold amid uprisings Contract workers confined to their quarters as Iraqi insurgency bites hard BAGHDAD A fierce insurgency m Iraq is isolating the US-appointed civilian government and stopping the Amer-ican-financed reconstruction effort as contractors hunker down against waves of ambushes and kidnappings. The crisis, which has stirred support
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      107 11 US MARINES battled a large force of insurgents near the Syrian border yesterday, reported an embedded journalist from the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Five US marines and at least 10 Iraqis were reported killed m the clash. The righting at Husaybah appeared to be a new
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      Lock icon Germans' killing: Group apologises
      110 11 A GROUP linked to Iraqi insurgents has apologised for the apparent killing of two German elite security officers, according to a German television maker yesterday yesterday. Spiegel TV, which is linked to the news magazine Der Spiegel, cited the group saying the convoy would have escaped
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      108 11 SENATOR John Kerry has aimed a new volley of criticism at President George W. Bush's handling of the situation m Iraq. Mr Kerry said the President's failure to "internationalise" the conflict has made the United States less safe and cost it credibility and momentum. "Our stubborn,
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      92 11 THE Shi'ite Dawa party said yesterday that it would try to peacefully settle the standoff between the United States-led coalition and radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr m the holy city of Najaf. A spokesman for Sadr's office m Najaf, Qais al-Khazaali, said on Saturday
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      161 7 Viagra Blues SiSS Heritage Mission Sewn Up X, To The Rescue P*^P^ The love pills are wrecking some marriages Years after he left Laos, Prince Nithakhong Ifpal mm A group of Sunni clerics is emerging as new l^V as some wives cannot cope with their faOPSSB Somsanith continues to promote
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  • COMMENTARY ANALYSIS
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      806 12  - M-E chessboard trashed new game needed THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN By THF N'KWIORKTIMKS AT FIRST, I thought I'd write a column that just ripped President George W. Bush for declaring that the United States after decades of neutrality has decided to oppose the right of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel
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      576 12 The Straits Times Suffer the poor child MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2004 IN THE past week, the courts have heard testimony about parents who slashed their children with a chopper, burnt them with an iron, and made them lick floors all because they were doing poorly m school or at work.
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      Lock icon The NKF: Controversially ahead of its time
      1124 12  - The NKF: Controversially ahead of its time SUSAN LONG By SEMORWRITER Controversy stalks the National Kidney Foundation, with critics lambasting its fund-raising methods, brazen self-promotion and work practices. Is the NKF just a cutting-edge charity ahead of its time, or is there A RETIRED contractor who wants to be known
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      Lock icon Humble beginnings to major charity in 35 years
      505 12 1969: Nephrologist Khoo Oon Teik, whose brother died from kidney failure, sets up the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) out of an attic m Singapore General Hospital. 1973: NKF launches its first major campaign to create awareness of kidney disease and to persuade
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      Lock icon Signs look promising for Nato-like Asian security framework
      756 13  -  SUNANDA K. OATTA-RAY lOR THKSTH.MTSTIMKS WILL the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) take the bull by the horns and try to develop an Asian security framework on the lines of the Conference on Security and Cooperation m Europe or even Nato? Japan's suggestion
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      Lock icon Chink in spiffy armour: financial secrecy
      1686 13 'Many Singaporeans prefer not to work for charitable organisations, so we po overseas to mre. NKF honorary treasurer Loo Say San on how the NKF tried to break away from the third-tier* image charities suffer from Just because we're a charity doesn't mean we
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      482 14 Student Hopes For The Future IT WAS chilling to read the Insight report, "My Spore will be one where..." (ST, April 10), on the hopes of five tertiary students for the future. It not only chilled the spine but sent shivers into
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      250 14 Power blackout: Singapore Power was there. WE REFER to the letters to the Forum page (ST, April 16). SP Power Grid has standard operating procedures to deal with both localised and major power supply incidents. When the electricity supply was interrupted last Tuesday at 11.30pm, our priority was to restore
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      443 14 WE REFER to feedback on the Forum page ("Why keep the people m the dark?"; ST, April 16) MediaCorp recognises the importance of our TV and radio stations as main sources of timely information, especially when news breaks m an emergency. As the
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      51 1 The Straits Times home AN EYE FOR COMFORT 'The engineering students told me the items were useful, especially the eye mask, which is soothing after you've been reading for hours/ Nanyang Technological University student Jean Huang, 23, who helped to organise 1 ,200 goodie hags for students Monday, April 19,
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      Lock icon Very few cases of soldiers catching bug
      169 1 WITH skin abrasions or wounds the most common way for the melioidosis bug to enter the bloodstream, soldiers m the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) are at high risk of contracting the disease because of their close contact with soil and water, and the
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      Lock icon Cleaner recounts his brush with soil disease after chest pains, breathing problems sent him to ICU
      438 1  - Cleaner recounts his brush with soil disease after chest pains, breathing problems sent him to ICU ALEXIS HOOI 1 teel like if has come tto me.' Mr Sulai man (left) WHEN Mr Sulaiman Mohammed Ridzwan had chest pains and difficulty with breathing, he did not think it was serious enough
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      Lock icon Income's new plan covers melioidosis
      173 1 INCOME launched this month what it says is the first insurance plan that covers 13 infectious diseases, including Sars, bird flu and the soil disease melioidosis. An annual premium of $100 will get those between 18 months and 55 years old S l5O a day
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      Lock icon Volunteers help tackle kampung's flood woes
      460 2  -  ALEXIS HOOI To make area safer during floods, 40 of them help villagers build a picket fence and footbridge for a stream l±l WITH 40 volunteers from across the island, villagers at flood-prone Kampung Lorong Buang Kok took the first step yesterday m making
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      Lock icon Tragedy strikes couple on way to funeral
      397 2  -  K.C. VJJAYAN H,, CKIMF. COKRI SPONDKNT AN ELDERLY couple on their way to attend a funeral over the weekend were involved m a tragedy of their own, when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a bus. The man died and his wife
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        1009 8  -  SUMIKOTAN ST HOME LEARNING CENTRE the I STORY AS A single woman, Popular Bookstore's assessment l>ook section isn't quite what you'd call my weekend haunt. But last Sunday, I found myself spending more than an hour at the Bishan store. It was culture shock. It's
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          158 10 MORE than 280 Secondary 3 students from Holy Innocents' High School got a taste of adventure activities at Kota Tinggi m Malaysia at a five-day camp held earlier this month. Students had to trek 6km up a mountain with their team mates, cross a river
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          169 10 THIRTY-SIX students of Bukit Panjang Government High put on a performance of the Indian epic Ramayana m Chinese opera-style at Victoria Theatre on Saturday. The Ramayana is the story of the trials Prince Rama faces as he tries to rescue his abducted wife, Sita. The
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      303 8 PROJECT WORK CHOOSE a topic to write an essay on. In your writing, make as much use of the techniques discussed m today's lesson as you can. DEPT OF ENGLISH LANG UAGE Subject-verb agreement "THE only thing English about him, besides his clothes and shoes, were his numerous dogs." What
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      41 1 The Straits Times asia COURTING DISASTER 'I foresee that this court will just be comical and insult the suffering souls of the victims. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, Wasting a planned UN-backed tribunal of surviving Khmer Rouge leaders Monday, April 19, 2004
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      721 1  - TV love tale stirs passion i n Japan for S Korea KWANWENGKEV Fans of Winter Sonata, which is on air for the third time, are learning the Korean language and flocking to the country Bu JAPAN CORRKSPONDKNT TOKYO College student Miho Murakami has just returned from a short holiday m
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        825 2  - Abdullah's helping hand tor the poor REME AHMAD WAR ON POVERTY IN MALAYSIA It's our obligation and struggle to eradicate poverty/ Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi By IN kl Al AllMl'l l\ OFFICE assistant N. Rahmat lives with his wife and three children m a tiny apartment; the living room is
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        125 2 Build more cheap housing. The price range of RM35.000 (5515,560) to RM42.000 for each low-cost unit is still too high for the poor. Train the poor for better-paying jobs. A computer centre set up m a fishing village m Kedah is one example of taking technology
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        154 2  -  Four out of every 100 households m Malaysia are labelled as poor, df these, 264,000 people just manage to scrape by. Another 50,600 are even worse off; they are the "hardcore poor". Most of the poor are fishermen and farmers, including the orang asli aborigines and single
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          91 2 Vice-Premier Wu Vi leaves for the United States today to co-host the Sino-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen arrives m Beijing today and will sign 15 bilateral pacts on infrastructure. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov will arrive m Beijing tomorrow for a four-day
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          9 2 The government will release unemployment figures on Thursday.
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          18 2 The High Court will announce today when the vote recount for the presidential election will be held.
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          40 2 North and South Korea will hold threeday talks on economic cooperation m the South Korean town of Paju from tomorrow. The Constitutional Court will hold a fourth hearing on the impeachment trial of President Roh Moo Hyun tomorrow.
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          44 2 Singapore's Minister of State for Health and Transport Balaji Sadasivan is m Pakistan till Friday and will meet f>olitical and business eaders. Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali will leave on Wednesday for a nine-day tour of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, China and Hong Kong.
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          22 2 Former president Joseph Estrada (above) celebrates his 67th birthday today. Law enforcement agencies will sign a counter-terror agreement with Australia tomorrow.
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          49 2 The Golkar party will hold a convention tomorrow to choose its candidate for the July 5 presidential election. Foreign Minister Hasan Wirayudha will leave for Beijing on Sunday, then head to North Korea to invite Pyongyang to attend an Asean security meeting from June 29 to July 2.
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          63 2 Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi will deliver the keynote address at a four-day Asia Media Summit that begins today. The Organisation of Islamic Conference will hold a foreign ministers' meeting on Thursday to discuss Palestine and Iraq issues. The seventh Asean Health Ministers' meeting m Penang starts today. Vietnamese Prime
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        906 3  - Enterprising Wenzhou has world at its feet GOH SUI NOI Its family-based cottage industries have grown into multimillion-dollar empires, thanks to its people's can-do attitude By THE STHAITS TIMES CHINA BIKK.U BEIJING In his second year of senior high school, Mr Chen Xiaoxiang, who lived on a small island of
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        413 3  -  Goh Sui Noi BEIJING After more than 20 years of development, Wenzhou's enterprises are hitting a bottleneck and many of their founders know this. "No matter how well I do m China, I feel that we are still a weak business, our foundation
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        39 3 REUTERS A visitor to the newly opened Space Travel Theme Park m Beijing taking a turn on the astronaut training device yesterday. China plans to launch two research satellites this week, according to the official People's Daily.
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        211 3 TAIPEI Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian urged the opposition to calmly accept his election victory instead of challenging the result like a baseball team refusing to "end the game" after losing. He made the appeal at a weekend rally m Taoyuan. The remarks came after
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        105 3 Taiwan in WHO bid for 8th time TAIPEI Taiwan is planning to renew its bid to join the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an observer despite seeing seven previous attempts blocked by China, an official said yesterday. Taiwan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Richard Shih said the island would apply for membership
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      529 4  - Voting in Indian elections to be fully electronic V.K. RAGHVNATHAN More than a million voting machines will be used to record the picks of 650 million voters with the push of a blue button Htl INDIA CORRKSPONDKNT NEW DELHI In the world's largest electronic voting exercise, a blue button will
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      275 4 NEW DELHI The Election Commission has ordered the prosecution of a senior aide to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on bribery charges after 22 women died m a stampede for free saris. The stampede m Lucknow marred Mr Vajpayee's reelection campaign m
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      252 4 Minister's wife robbed day after crackdown TAIPEI The wife of Taiwan's new Interior Minister was robbed at the weekend, just one day after her husband Su Chia-chyuan declared an all-out war against criminals, officials said yesterday. Mr Su, who was appointed Interior Minister earlier this month, launched a campaign on
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      213 4 SEOUL North Korean leader Kirn Jong II left for Beijing yesterday for a summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao to discuss the North's nuclear weapons programme, South Korea's state-run television reported. KBS-TV, citing Chinese diplomatic sources, said a special train carrying Mr Kirn's
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      361 4 Chlorine tanks blown up to stop deadly leak BEIJING Firefighters yesterday used armourpiercing grenades to blow up three gas tanks and stop a deadly chlorine leak m south-western China that has forced thousands to flee. At least seven containers of chlorine leaked fumes and three containers remained at the site
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        68 4 A MUSEUM on sex culture m ancient China reopened yesterday after being relocated from Shanghai to Tongli m Jiangsu province, an ancient town 80km away from the metropolis. The museum, which was founded by Professor Liv Dalin of Shanghai University and displays over 4,000
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        60 4 AROUND 300 people yesterday marched through Hong Kong to demand public housing rent cuts after a court ordered the government to review rental fees, police and news reports said. The protesters said the 10 per cent proposed reduction by the Housing Authority was
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        63 4 JAPANESE police have arrested 11 people, including the former head of a major meat wholesaler, for a beef labelling scandal linked to the mad-cow outbreak. The suspects allegedly mislabelled 573 tonnes of beef as domestically produced even though 94.5 tonnes of it were imported, m
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        56 4 HONG KONG Customs officials arrested five people for allegedly ordering marijuana by mail from Canada with a local market value of about HK$2.l million (*****,000), officials and news reports said. The cannabis was m boxes purporting to contain ginseng tea. Importing marijuana carries a maximum penalty of
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        65 4 CHINESE police yesterday shot and killed the driver of a stolen truck after he crashed into more than 20 vehicles and injured eight people on a Beijing highway, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Yang Wei allegedly stole the truck m a suburb, hit
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        762 5  -  SHEFALI REKHI Increase m piracy m S-E Asian waters may be sign of militant groups practising to hijack ships to be used as weapons *L Importance of waterways Over a quarter of the world's trade, half of its oil and much of its liquefied
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        209 5 KUALA LUMPUR Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be released m the "next several days", United Nations envoy Razali Ismail said yesterday. The Nobel peace laureate has been under house arrest since last May her third such
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          51 5 TRAIN services to southern Thailand were suspended yesterday after a railway worker was shot m Narathiwat province of the Muslim-majority region. The man was shot by two men on a motorcycle as he travelled to work on a bicycle. He died later m hospital.
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          62 5 POLICE said yesterday they had netted 17 bombs and scores of home-made guns, knives and bows and arrows m an extensive search of Indonesia's restive Poso district, which is plagued by attacks on Christians. Hundreds of police conducted door-to-door searches and combed fields m the
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          56 5 SUSPECTED communist guerillas fired a grenade into a building housing the offices of multinational oil giant Shell m Manila's financial district of Makati yesterday. The attackers slowed down m a taxi near the building and then opened fire with a grenade launcher and assault
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          38 5 THE death toll during Thailand's traditional New Year holiday has risen to 590, but the figure is down from last year, thanks to a road safety campaign, the government said yesterday. AFP
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        396 5 PREPARING FOR V-P POST JAKARTA Indonesia's popular Welfare Minister, Mr Jusuf Kalla, yesterday said he would resign from the Cabinet to be the running mate for presidential front runner Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. He did not set a date for his resignation. "I accepted Mr Bambang's
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        325 6 Ministry to help jobless graduates find work Government agencies offer temporary jobs; attachments for undergrads and lecturers among schemes mooted KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government is taking steps to reduce the number of unemployed graduates m the country. The Higher Education Ministry is proposing several schemes to do just that.
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        265 6 Worshippers returning to shunnea BN mosque KOTA BARU In Kampung Kemahang, about an hour's drive from Kota Baru m Kelantan, people have been warned against praying m a mosque built by the Barisan Nasional (BN). The group giving the warnings often directs the crowds to another mosque m a religious
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        307 6 Other Malay songs with English words are olacklisted SUNGAI PETANI (Kedah) The classic hit Madu Tiga about three wives by singer P. Ramlee has not been banned by Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) although English words are interspersed throughout the song. But the station will
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          48 6 POLICE have detained two suspects aged 28 and 21 m the murder of discotheque manager Nigel Samson. His body was found on March 28 with his head wrapped m a jacket and his hands tied behind his back. —The Star/Asia News Network
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          41 6 EVERY household m Terengganu will be provided with clean treated water by 2015. The federal government has allocated RM4OO million (Ssl76 million) for building reservoirs and water treatment plants and replacing old pipes. Bernama
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          49 6 THE Navy will escort commercial ships travelling through Malaysian waters if there is a high risk of a pirate or terrorist attack on them. Protection would be offered to "high-risk" vessels that want assurances of safe passage, said Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak. —AP
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          45 6 VIETNAM S Prime Minister Phan Van Khai will make an official three-day visit to Malaysia from Wednesday. His trip is at the invitation of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi who visited Vietnam m January, said the Vietnamese Nhan Dan newspaper.
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          36 6 A TAXI driver was found murdered m Senai, Johor, on Saturday. Mr Lee Tian Tiong, 55, was found lying face down m an oil palm plantation. The Star/ Asia News Network
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        527 7 BIRMINGHAM Newcastle, who played 80 minutes with 10 men, drew 0-0 at Aston Villa yesterday as both sides missed the chance to move above Liverpool into fourth place m the English Premiership. Defender Andy O'Brien, who started the match m place of the injured Titus
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        208 7 ROME Inter Milan boosted their hopes of a Champions League spot next season by defeating Bologna 4-2 at the San Siro yesterday. The win saw them leapfrog Parma into fourth m Serie A. They achieved it without leading scorer Christian Vieri, who refused
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        234 7 LONDON The battle is now for second spot and it will all boil down to the ChelseaManchester United match next month. United manager Alex Ferguson thinks their May 8 contest could well become the play-off for the English Premiership's second spot and automatic
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        647 8 HFFHH He beats Yao to score winning point as Lakers win scrappy affair 72-71 LOS ANGELES They hardly looked like championship material but the Lakers managed to hang m there and Shaquille O'Neal produced the goods when it mattered. Thanks to O'Neal's rebound and
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        243 8 Indiana 104 Boston 88: Jermaine O'Neal had 24 points and 1 1 rebounds m the Pacers' impressive win over the Celtics m Indianapolis. Ron Artest also had 24 points for the Eastern Conference top seeds, who scored 35 points m the second quarter to overwhelm the eighth-seeded Celtics.
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        408 8 CRICKET Pakistani inquiry on loss to India KARACHI Pakistan cricket chief Shaharyar Khan launched a scathing attack on the national team yesterday following their historic series defeat by India, accusing the players of "carefree unprofessionalism". Announcing plans for an inquiry into the series defeat the first by India on home
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          90 8 FORMER Brunei national football coach, Karim Bencherifa, will become Tanjong Pagar's third coach this S-League season, starting on Saturday against Sinchi FC. The Moroccan replaces interim coach Swanai Ahmad, who took over from Moey Yoke Ham just one game into the season. Bencherifa watched
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          41 8 KENYANS dominated the Ixindon Marathon yesterday, with both men's champion Evans Rutto and women's winner Margaret Okayo finishing first on their debuts m the event. Rutto finished m 2hr 6min 18sec whil" won m 2:22:36. AFP
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          74 8 DEFENDING champion Mark Williams held off Dominic Dale and the stress of becoming a father on Friday to win 10-7 m Saturdays first round of snooker's World Championship m Sheffield After Williams led 6-3 at the end of the opening session, Dale won
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          75 8 LAN Thorpe, the world's top 400 metres swimmer, looks set to compete m his pet event at the Athens Olympics despite being disqualified from it last month, said The Guardian. Craig Stevens, a 1,500 m specialist, had finished second to qualify m the trials.
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          65 8 THE Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has confirmed a three-month ban given to Spain's Olympic vault champion Gervasio Deferr and stripped him of all titles won m a threemonth period after a drug test revealed traces of cannabis, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) said
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          95 10 JAPANESE stocks are likely to take a breather this week after recent gains as investors focus on corporate earnings at home and m the US. Analysts said technology stocks such as Canon and Sony could face some selling early m the week as investors brace for another batch of
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          62 10 A SELL-DOWN m the past week that saw Malaysian share prices tumble 2.4 per cent may spur some bargainhunting m the days ahead but little fresh buying is expected amid fears of an interest rate hike, an analyst said last Friday. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Composite Index
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          53 10 THE Indonesian stock market is expected to fall this week as high stock prices and political uncertainty after the April 5 legislative election dampen sentiment, an analyst said last Friday. The Jakarta Stock Exchange Composite Index closed on Friday at 776.57, down 3.05 points on the previous week's finish
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          49 10 THAI stocks are expected to surge this week, bolstered by the release of banking and finance sector first-quarter earnings, analysts said last Friday. The Stock Exchange of Thailand Composite Index soared 20.81 points or 3 per cent over the two-day trading week to close last Friday at 712.20.
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          74 10 THE Standard Poor's (S&P) 500 Index declined for the fifth week m six after forecasts from companies failed to encourage investors that profit growth this year will justify further stock price gains. The S&P 500 lost 0.4 per cent last week to 1,134.61. The Nasdaq Composite Index declined
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          58 10 AUSTRALIAN shares are expected to struggle this week, with investors spooked by a profit warning; from Australia's largest bar k and the prospect of an earlier-than-expec-ted US interest rate rise, dealers said last Friday. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index finished the week down 33.3 points at 3,417.3 while the
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          49 10 PROSPECTS of rising interest rates are set to cast a shadow over London stocks again this week, taking the gloss off signs of an improvement m company earnings, analysts said. The FTSE 100 Index closed last Friday at 4,5375, up 47.8 points. Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg News Reuters AFP
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        439 10 REVIEW Currencies A SIA-PAClFlCcurren-Jl cies slid after the greenback strength- ened last week on the JL JL. release of strong economic data that suggested a hike m historically low US interest rates was m tne offing. But expectations of a hike were offset
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        500 11 US companies run risks in rush for India back-office pie NEW YORK/BANGALORE Major US companies are trying to leapfrog rivals by snapping up existing back-of-fice companies m India to keep up with the offshoring drive, rather than building their own operations from scratch. But consultants warn that m their rush
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        419 11 E&Y faces ban on new clients Six-month suspension slapped on the Big Four firm for working too closely with audit client People Soft WASHINGTON A judge suspended Big Four accounting firm Ernst Young (E&Y) last Friday from accepting new. SEC-registered audit clients for six months m a case involving software
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          66 11 MARKS SPENCER DRAWS INTEREST KOHLBERG Kravis Roberts Co and British billionaire investor Philip Green are among the possible bidders for Marks Spencer Group (M&S), Britain's largest clothing retailer, The Business said. Kohlberg, the world's biggest buyout fund, and Mr Green have become interested m M&S since the group's shares slid
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          84 11 NO GUILTY VERDICTS IN QWEST TRIAL A COLORADO jury failed to hand down a single guilty verdict last Friday m an accounting fraud trial of four former Qwest Communications executives, dealing the government a blow m a case viewed as the start of a sweeping probe of the regional telco.
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          52 11 quarter because of strong exports and consumer spending, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Saturday. "This is very high and shows how strong our economy is," he said m a weekly radio speech. Bloomberg News THAILAND'S economy probably grew more than 7 per cent m
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        538 12  -  EDNAKOH While financial stability is its goal, the central bank says a 'zero-failure regime' may lead to imprudent bank management Bu FIXAXCKCORKKSPOXnivNT MAS. DOES NOT AND CANNOT PROTECT CONSUMERS FROM THE RISK THAT THEIR INVESTMENTS WHi NOT DELIVER ANTICIPATED RETURNS.' A
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        265 12  -  Rachel Lin ITS not quite Apocalypse Now. t But the Global Brand Forum hosted annually by Singapore which this year will oe attended by luminaries such as Academy Awardwinning film-maker Francis Ford Coppola will focus on what organisers say is one of the world's most
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        158 12 NEW YORK The price of admission to Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting is at least U553,077 for the cheapest share. Billionaire chairman Warren Buffett just dropped it to US$2.5O (554.22) a pass, shipping included. Mr Buffett, the world's second-richest man, is offering tickets to
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        695 12  - More talk 01 China rate hike with further strong growth TSCHANG CHI-CHV CONTINUED INFLATION Bu THE STRAITS TIM KS CHINA BUREAU *We choose to cut off more liquidity m the market and try to see the change m those indicators m the second quarter.' Central bank chief Mr Zhou, on
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          71 13 A SUBSTANTIAL shareholder of VGO Corp, Mr Chen Jin Vi, has reduced his stake m the company by unloading 42.8 million shares or 11.12 per cent at 14.5 cents each m a series of married deals last Monday. The sale has reduced his shareholdings m the
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          66 13 TEMASEK Holdings pared its stake m Sunningdale Precision Industries last Monday when it sold 3.3 million shares on the open market at an undisclosed price through Century Private Equity. After the sale, Singapore's investment company holds a 15.2 per cent stake m the company or 48.5
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          78 13 APEX-PAL International said its chief executive, Mr Douglas Foo, had pared his stake by 15 percentage points by selling 16 million shares on the open market. The shares were sold at an average price of 31 cents each last Wednesday. After the sale, Mr
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          38 13 FUND manager Prudential Asset Management said that it had purchased 10 million First Engineering shares at $1.05 apiece last Monday. Prudential now owns 16.6 million shares or 8.2 per cent m the company.
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        768 13  -  AZHAR KHALID U.S. INTEREST RATE SUSPENSE TAKING STOCK MMiKV.TS COHHI SPONDENT TRADING on the Singapore bourse is expected to remain placid this week as skittish investors are likely to stay on the sidelines amid a lack of news flow and lingering concerns
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        643 13  -  LEONG CHAN TFIK Tapping on China's growing water treatment market, Dr Lin Yucheng's company will be worth $116 million Bu NEARLY 20 years ago, a young man from a small town m China embarked on a journey to make a name for himself
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        111 13 From researcher... Dr Un obtained his British PhD m applied environmental geochemistry through a Chinese government scholarship. Choosing from two job offers m Singapore one from the Nanyang Technological University and the other from the then Singapore Institute ol Standards and Industrial Research he picked the latter and became a
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          62 13 TAN YAM PIN: Appointed as chairman of power generation company PowerSeraya. He is a former managing director of diversified drinks and printing group Fraser Neave, and was chief executive officer of Asia Pacific Breweries the company which makes Tiger beer. He takes over from Mr Tan Tee
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          72 13 EDWIN SOERYADJAYA: Appointed as chief executive officer (CEO) of embattled Singapore-listed construction and engineering group I^rM Group Investments. He is also deputy chairman of the group. His appointment follows the resignation of Mr Edward Soeryadjaya, who left money-losing L&M on April 8. Meanwhile, chief operating officer Howard
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          53 13 BERNARD LEEz Made a director of property at Singapore's smallest listed property developer, Wing Tai Holdings. Mr Lee, 49, is a former managing director of fast-food chain McDonalds m Singapore. He took over from Mr Loo Soo Eng, who will retire on June 1 but remain
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          36 13 JASON VOW: Appointed as the new group financial controller of property and leisure operator Dragon Land. Mr Vow, 47, was a former group financial controller of generator setmaker and distributor VibroPower Corporation.
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          47 13 CHAN SHUN YUEN: Takes over as chief executive officer and executive vice-chairman of diversified construction group PDC Corp. Mr Chan, 25, is the son of PDC executive chairman Chan Yeuk Wai and sits on the boards of numerous companies both listed and private.
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        622 14  - NOL unit counters talk of plunge in freight rates HUGH CHOW APL chief challenges recent bearish forecasts, noting that analysts have underestimated the growth m demand for shipping services m the past Bu RUMOURS of an imminent demise m shipping freight rate hikes have been greatly exaggerated, reckons Mr Ron
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        581 5 12A97 320 lA. Green. 2 owners, accident free. *****0 km. 559.8K neg. Parf $31k *****677 06/01 BMW 318IA 1 owner. Light blue. OMV $31,051. View: 356 M Alexandra Rd. Tel 6475-5777 01/01 3201A BLUE. OMV $*****. 05/'O2 320 CAB, OMV $*****. 1 owner. PML svcd. 6462-5828 04/'2OOO BMW 5201A, black.
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        485 6 Bffl TOYOTA FOR SALE BRAND NEW CAMRY 2.4 VVTi. $0 dnveaway. Full option. Mthly $IK. Immed delivery. *****224 12/00 COROLLA I.S XLi. Auto. $57,000. Low mileage. 1 owner. 9455-2715. BRAND NEW TOYOTA Estima/ Harrier. Immed delivery. 100% loan. High trade m. 9798-1002 5/'O3 PICNIC 2.0 Auto. Borneo warranty. 1 owner.
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        785 6 7/"96 NISSAN PICKUP diesel. 2K paint. Tip top cond. COE till 4/2014. $Ik driveaway. Good buy. Call *****368 '94 NISSAN DOUBLECAB $24.8K '93 Nissan Ooublecab SIB.BK. 10 yrs. COE. New tax. P/steering $666 All-in. Call *****300 10/2000 ISUZU SINGLECAB Pick up 4x4 gear New model. 1 owner. '93 Nissan Ooublecab
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        737 6 _Sliiwt_ :~sz Jr nim I^YM»w_J*T*j_Ty"¥_^fJi7t_»l_l PENTHSE 6545 SQFT s+l rm $12K. i Regency Pk 3175 sqft. 3+l rms7K I Leonie Twr 3200 sqft 4+l rm $6K Eliz Hgts 2500 sqft 4+l $4K up I Rent/ Buy! Pg 9-80-99-888 Evon HM LODGE 1400 sq.ft., 3 bedrms, furnished, air-con with facilities. Rental
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        566 6 ifW D11& 21 NEWTON/ mjjjjA BTTIMAH/CLEMENTI J|_PTtAPTSJKNT^ IQ^Debenham; I Tie Leung NEW iKf LISTING fr? AMARYLLIS 4*l. HIGH floor. With open view of greenery pool Spacious interior with balcony pte lift. 9006 2181/ 9745 4443 THE TREVOSE CONDO, Trevosr Cres. Near Raffles Town Club. 2+l patio. 1467 sq.ft. Partial/ f/furn
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        685 7 ■HH D 5-16 EAST COAST P-E APTS RENT BAYSHORE PK/ MANDARIN Gdn. Sea view. 21 3/ 4/ s+l, penthse. j $12K up. *****933/ *****952 i MRT. TANAMERA 1625 sq.ft. 3+l. F/fac;iities. f/furn. f/aircon. Immed. 52.2 K. 900-88-617 DTZ I THE BAYSHORE/ PK 2/3/4rm/ Makena 3+l sea view/ Atria/ Villa Marina.
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        1366 7 PWjl HOUSES FOR RENT RWI HOUSES FOR RENT Located al Towner McNair Road (Mins from city) Near Hum Keng MRT Station, easy access to (TE Spacious 2/3/4 bedroom units With balcony, roof deck, courtyard and limber flooring From 2100 sq fl Drainna Yoo .9368 7949 Bfci^^f' 'r^k Cn y' F
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        879 7 WTf\ ROOMS FOR RENT NEAR ORCHARD MRT. New Master 1 rms. Cosy. F/furn/ aircon SCV. Laundry. Carpark. Aljunted MR i Apt. *****119/ *****990 Owner D.14 JLN MOLEK. Near Badminton 1 Hall. Terr hse. All newly furn. 4 1 bdrms with new aircon. Whole I hse or rm basis. 6334-3218 Goh
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        580 7 IHI btt^h/^u/ EJI D"& 21 NEWTON/ Rffl Oil &21 NEWTON/ Wftk DII S 21 NEWTON/ VRI Dll &21 NEWTON/ PRI Dll &21 NEWTON/ HI St/Tf Tl iil 6TTIMAH C C LEMENTI iil S;; 1^^ 1111 mm BT timah clementi 101 bt timah/ clementi mm bt timah/ clementi I l_^ E
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        485 7 Wftl 015-16 EAST COAST PTE APTS SALE D.J6 DAFFODILS. IDEAL for single/ couple. 2 rms. Ouiet. Face greenery. Must view. neg. Pool/ security. Amenities. 9670-5329 DW D.15 BRAND NEW. 3 units Seraya Breeze apt. off Haig Rd. F'hold. 21 3/ 4 bdrm. 9858-7174 Frank PARADISE PALMS. SEA/POOL view F/facilities. F'hold.
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        587 7 IRS HOB APTS FOR SALE RWI HOB APTS FOR SALE Iffl HDB APTS FOR SALE IfflVl HDB APTS FOR SALE mUg (ANGMOKIO) mUM (BEDOK/CHAICHEE) EJUJM (BISHAN) Wlli (BT MERAH/O'STOWN/ TELOKBLANGAH) 3 'NG' 624 AMK High fir. MRT. j 4 'NG' 602 Bedok Res *09. Lift 5 'A' CORNER blk 236
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        1018 8 BHDB APTS FOR SALE (BUKIT PAN JANG) 5 T CORNER 519 100% move m. 5T Blk. 164. 100% renovated. Near LRT/ shpg mail/ schs/ amenities. 9452-5870 NC PN NEW LISTI S T Jelapang. 517 #06. Spacious. Move-in. LRT. Unblocked. View to offer! 9452-6703 NR 3'A' BLK.IOB GANGSA, well renovated. Malay
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        1129 8 Hfl HDB APTS FOR SALE |^J (MARINE PARADE) BUYER NO COMMISSION. 4 I Blk 55. Move m cond. $310K neg!/ 5T 28. High fir. $460K neg! Tao Nan sch/ mall. *****206 HTN 3 T MARINE Dr 64 high fir. full sea view, simple big upgraded rm, $200K up *****373 Orion
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        774 8 Rfl ROOMS WANTED |^J :rend NEED RMS NEAR MRT m Tarnpines. Bedok, Tiong Bahru, Redhill, Bishan. T Payoh. o'town Jurong. AMK. Jas 9856-9228 HSR PROFESSIONAL/ STUDENT NEED common/ master rms m all areas. Owner pis call: *****829 URGENTLY NEED HDB/ Studio/ Condo. Common/ Master rm. Near MRT. New tel: *****
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        552 8 Rfl FACTORY SPACE |^U FOR RENT ÜBI VICINITY Warehouse/ light industry/ office 8237/ 18,000/ 27.000/ 54.000 sqft Excellent loading/ unloading for 40ft container 6m ceiling height/ 3 phase power Good corporate image Easy access to PIE/ ECP CO-BROKE WELCOME Wuan 9670-5550 PLAYFAIR RD, OFF MacPherson Rd. 1464 sqft. Immed. Security.
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        957 8 RW FACTORY SPACE RH FACTORY SPACE RQ FACTORY SPACE FACTORY HHHHHHHIIiHKiV?>Tii!fi Unit size from 3,000 sq ft to 1 0,000 sq ft Ideal for Dry or Semi-dry Food, Caterers, Confectionery etc Single-storey stack-up terrace allowing nM>c ~j all operations on one floor 6842 7275 Loading unloading at doorstep Q7QD HQRQ
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        850 8 |"%T| OFFICE SPACE "96-5453. 3 units avail. Offer 3 days. Cheapest classic office. Town area, near 2 MRT sch Carpetted. Welcome all enquiries day and night *J>/ CECIL St./ Orchard 2nn/ ,!2? le RdV Beacn Rd 500/ 800/1200/ 1500/ 2000/ 3000--10,000 sq.ft. Cheap! MRT. Immed. *****121/ 9213-4206 C2l RAFFLES PLACE
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        788 8 R7l SHOP SPACE RH SHOP SPACE |^U D |^y FOR RENT SHOPS FOR LEASE Property Area (sqft) Central Mall 800 5,000 Chinatown Point 280 12.760 City Plaza 248 6.070 Delfi Orchard 334 1.937 Fortune Centre 689 Golden Mile Complex 3.594 80AnsonRd 250 1.401 Katong Shopping Centre 3,53 1 Orchard Hotel
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        366 8 INT-L PLAZA HIGH fir office 2357 sqft for sale/ rent. Pis call Mrs Wong 6468-1133/ *****975 ADELPHI READY-MADE OFFICE/ School. 2100/ 4300 sqft. IRA: 6222-5055 no agents. PENINSULA PLAZA. SO2. 345 sqft, facing North Bridge Rd. 999 yrs. neg. Owner 9764-8848 F'HOLD. LOW COST. Balestier. 360 sqft Basement carpark. Main
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        932 9 E SHOP SPACE FOR RENT If^DebenhamJ I Tie Leung DONT 3|n MISS CITY PLAZA ttOI. 226 sqft. »O2 240-950 sqft. Good facing. Good traffic. Suits wholesale retail trading. neg. Connie 9108 3318 CLEMENTI BLK 442/ 449. Near MRT. 350/ 700 sq.ft. Suits cake shop, hp, ladies accessories, fashion, salon. *****822
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        623 9 ■SJS SHOP SPACE |jg|_FOR^ALE good! I DIALI AMK SHOPHSES. HDB 2 storey. Approx 1600 sq.ft. Very rare! Near Mkt. Suits all trades. Good investment!!! 9682 5756 DW URGENT) LOR 24A Geylang. Race Course Rd. Pre-war d-storey shophse. Facing rd side. F'hold. Rare! Henry 9679-3345 ERA T. PAYOH CENTRAL/ Henderson/ T.
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        561 9 Hfl WAREHOUSES/ KaUl STORAGE SPACE 0R RENT StorHub SELF STORAGE"! Monthly Or Yearly Rental MINI STORAGE RMS Changi/ Kallang. 98 sizes. 16 to 778 sqft. $88 p/mth. Hi-tech security. Personal lock. 24 hrs access. 6337-2000 BEST JURONG/ CHANGI etc *****/ *****/ ***** (Aircon)/ *****0 sgft. Excellent for MNC/ all options
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        1061 13 mm PROFESSIONAL WMI DESIGNCOURSES wEEi DESIGf COURSES CULINARY HOBBY CLASS CB5) by HwH^M|Wj«Hßm|h^ Food researcher Catherina Hosol 23/4 Frl 7pm or 24/4 Sat BQ,|^ll£jliUlULUlE 2.30pm: Teochtw Lor Ark Braised Duck. Full set, imspwtiow Rfl V^LILV^IL! Or-nee Yam Paste dessert. W?Xf}^ BAB IK Z^B 25/4 Sun 2.30pm: Wonders of Sg)Y 18
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        577 13 H^HJyIIIISS9^H Originating Petition No 3 of 2004 X In the Matter of the Companies Act, (Chapter 50) Revised Edition 1985 And In the Matter of TONG HUP SENG CONSTRUCTION CO PTE LTD (RC No *****378 D) rum it™* MgNT pctitic>m Notice is hereby given that a Petition for placing the
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        1226 13 Expression of Interest for E&P Knowledge, Information, Data Integration Solution The Reliance Group, India's largest Exploration Production (E&P) Operator m the private sector with the biggest gas find m India m three decades and among the world's largest gas discoveries m 2002 requires a world class IT systems and infrastructure
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        1343 13 BANKRUPTCY ACT (CHAPTER 2O) NOTICE TO CREDITORS TO FILE CLAIMS BKCY NO tC/PPNO NAME/ADDRESS 3930/1992 *****847E CHUA LIANG BENC 38 TANGLIN HALT ROAD #06-109 SINGAPORE *****8 1572/1997 51 1 ***** D )ASWANT SINGH 529 HOUGANG AVENUE 6 #02-263 SINGAPORE *****9 61 5/1999 *****972H IMRAN BIN MOHAMMED ISA 814 lURONG WEST
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        3838 14 G Admin Specialist SPA Cust Relations Officer $1 .3k Recep cum Admin Asst/Cust Svc Logistics Asst/Pdtn Operator Campaign Executive American MNC. Duties include Holland. Iyr frontline exp. Excellent $1.3k-sl.6k. 'O 1 levels. Recep West. Mm O 1 levels. Exp m 'O' levels with insurance cert pref. contract admin, secretarial/sales interpersonal
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        441 14 i^vTil SALES ***** Able to start work immediately Exp not necessary Gross salary $2,000 $4,000 Working hours: 12 noon -9:3opm (must work on Saturday) M'sians with 5 credits SPM are welcome <STUOfNTNi£O^ APPLY J (aWlOodv at 6733 7801 before 3pm for an appt I Basic pay Comm. PuWic I transport
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        509 15 'iJ^iliUJl 1 Qualification: I 'A' level and above I I Singaporean or PR I CD Manulife Financial I Call Eunice Goh at I I 9852 2272 or Email: I liza.sopha@manulife.com I 1 4918 River Valley Rd#0&O0 Valley Pt j Secondary education Class 3 licence Able to speak English, Mandarin Dialects
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        518 15 A well established Interior Design Firm requires Sate Executive With without Experience Thitning wHI be provided Interested cdl Cecila 10am-6pm6552 0078 42/44 Upp. Serangoon Rd. Singapore *****3 (NexttoPotongPasirMßT) Fast Expanding Company m Buklt Batok requires: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE (3 positions) Preferably with direct sales experience I Must possess own vehicle
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        852 15 RETAIL SUPERVISOR (CHANGI Air port). With experience m branded/ luxury apparel. Speaks Chinese. Pleasant. Start immed 3 rotating shift. $1.4 K. Pis call 6227-1775 x 8/ walk m: Int'l Plcza «23-O1 (Lie: B*****1G) CO. EXPANDING requires Sales/ Mktg Exec, and Admin Asst. income $2K-SSK above incentive. No experience required. Free
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