The Straits Times, 17 March 2006

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  • 814 1  - Living costs, jobs are top concerns of young voters Lynn Lee Many also want MPs who can meet their material needs, ST survey shows By Other highlights Eight in 10 have never voted in a General Election. Of those who did, over seven in 10 will stick to the same
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  • 635 1  - It's an accident, rules coroner Tracy Sua COUPLE FOUND DEAD IN CAR By DEATH TRAP "It is clear to me that both deceased persons met by mutual agreement on that night...Little did they know that they would sadly suffer death by an unsuspecting fatal inhalation of a lethal level of
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  • 1054 1  -  Dylan Boey |»UPFRONT By WITH his boyish looks and blackrimmed collegiate glasses, Jay Quek could pass for a student fresh from class. He would be the first to tell you that his student days at the Raffles Design Institute helped shape him into a fashion
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  • UPFRONT
    • IN A FLASH
      • 54 2 Bikers' road deaths The death toll on Singapore roads came down last year, but the 95 motorcyclists who died made up the bulk of the 173 road deaths. PAGE HI High-tech weavers Women who used to sew fabrics for a living have been successfully retrained to sew high-tech replacement
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      • 20 2 Marriage commitment Never mind the five Cs; where marriage is concerned, there is only one C: Commitment. PAGE Hl6
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      • 28 2 Hawkish US stance US Secretary of State Rice m Australia to discuss China's emergence, has left her hosts reeling after her hawkish words on China. PAGE 16
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      • 27 2 Mob justice The worst thing that could happen to a Thailand of honest persuasion is to have an elected leader removed by street justice. PAGE 22
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      • 23 2 CEOs' compensation Making disclosure of links between CEOs' pay and targets mandatory will enable shareholders to assess the board's performance. PAGE 22
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      • 47 2 Russian visit Russian Prime Minister visited India with nuclear energy and space cooperation high on the agenda. PAGE 8 Chen to join rally Taiwan president Chen said he plans to join a rally this weekend to protest China's threat to use force against Taiwan. PAGE 9
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      • 26 2 First m action Singapore's badminton mixed doubles pair Aaron Tan and Liv Fan became the first athletes m action af the Melbourne Games. PAGE HlB
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      • 36 2 TV losing out on ads Advertising expenditure fell 8 per cent last year, but newspapers' share of the pie rose. TV and radio were the two biggest losers, according to Nielsen Media Research. PAGE H2B
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      • 53 2 In yesterday's report "Memory Devices To Buy Taiwanese Module Maker", we said Memory Devices' acquisition of TwinMOS is expected to be completed by the third quarter of next year. The company has clarified that it was referring to this year's third quarter. We are sorry
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    • 253 2 SECTION ONE Prime 3-4 Asia 6-13 World 16-21 Review 22-25 Insight 26-27 FYI 28 SECTION TWO Home H1-H15 Forum H16 Sports H17-H22 Obituaries H23 Money H24-H30 LIFE! Music L1O-L13 Events&TV... L22-L23 W< aA I"^ E^te GREY PRAWNS ■L km I r"~~"""""^ 'NTUC I S^ I W W (Medium) sin^aporcs very
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  • PRIME
    • 846 3  - Chee found guilty of contempt of court Paul Jacob Attack on integrity of the judiciary was 'deliberate and he was aware of consequences 1 By Deputy Political Editor OPPOSITION politician Chee Soon Juan was yesterday found m contempt of court for accusations he made last month about the integrity and
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    • 549 3  -  Lee Su Shyan By Companies Correspondent DISGRACED China Aviation Oil (CAO) former boss Chen Jiulin was no victim of a hard luck story, but rather a spinner of facts and plots who "would have done any part-time whodunnit novelist proud".
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    • 574 4  -  Chang Ai-Lien Bird flu outbreak forces move, but there are enough frozen supplies here to last a month By Meng Yew Choong ALL duck imports from Perak Singapore's major supplier were suspended yesterday following an outbreak of bird flu there. The Agri-Food
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    • 119 4 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh (right), are ushered into Raffles Hotel by its general manager Robert Logan (left, wearing red tie). With her are Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen (second from right) and his wife Ivy
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    • 440 4  -  Alfred Siew By WHEN Mr Christopher Lim, 31, came home from a business trip on Sunday, he walked off the plane to a father's worst nightmare a wake for an infant son he had yet to see. For almost a month,
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  • ASIA
    • 707 6  -  Kwan Weng Kin LDP study group wants next PM to mend ties with China, S. Korea By Japan Correspondent In Tokyo CONCERNED that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has allowed political relations with China and South Korea to rupture, some ruling party politicians are demanding that
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    • 626 8  -  P. JAYARAM Energy deals top the agenda as Russia's two top leaders visit its Asian neighbours, India and China Nuclear energy aside, PM Fradkov's visit will try to boost bilateral trade By India Correspondent In New Delhi RUSSIAN Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov began
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    • 480 8  -  Tracy Quek By China Correspondent In Beijing WHEN Russian President Vladimir Putin meets his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao m Beijing next week, their talks will focus on energy deals, especially the possibility of a pipeline carrying Siberian oil to China, as well
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    • 161 8 Beijing IN A case of life imitating reality television, a 20-year-old woman m China has launched a national song-and-dance competition offering a unique top prize her hand m marriage. The twinkle-toed bachelor will not only get to marry the woman but will also
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    • 201 6 Adoption fuels abductions A wave of foreigners pouring into China to adopt Chinese babies has led to a rise m baby-kidnapping. PAGE 10 <^^fe IF&M Sevenge FREE ADMISSION JPO©B a lid SE\fSRA@E Exliibition In Town Is MOW ©M 888 °Jj® r Halls of Great Bargains, Exclusive Discounts, 2 Free Gifts,
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  • CHINA
    • 383 9 Taiwan's ruling party hopes 10,000 will march tomorrow to denounce 'military threats' Taipei TAIWAN'S pro-independence President Chen Shui-bian said yesterday he would join a mass rally tomorrow to protest against what he called China's military threats to the island. Mr Chen, who angered
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    • 305 9 Taiwan may put troops back in th e Sparatlys Taipei TAIWAN is considering sending troops back to the disputed Spratlys archipelago the oil-rich region over which several Asian countries, including China, claim sovereignty the Defence Ministry said yesterday. Taiwan withdrew troops from Taiping, one of the biggest islets in the
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    • 101 9 Residents of Yuechi county, south-western China's Sichuan province, gathering to help recover a sunken boat on Wednesday. At least 28 people drowned when the vessel capsized m the river, while 12 others were rescued, said a county official. The boat, which belonged to a farmer,
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 642 10 Demand from foreigners turns unwanted girls into valuable goods Dongguan (Guangdong) FOR generations, girls m rural China have been left to die m the cold or abandoned on doorsteps while families devote their scant resources to nourishing boys. But over the past decade, a
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    • 291 10 Seoul SOUTH Korea's Health Ministry yesterday revoked permission for disgraced scientist Hwang Woo Suk to conduct embryonic stem-cell research after revelations that his most high-profile work was based on forged evidence. The ministry previously said it was planning the move, and Professor Hwang reportedly
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  • INDIA/SOUTH ASIA
    • 325 11 Money to be made in rural India Firms reach out to villagers as incomes rise and urban markets become saturated Cholleru (India) WITH its open sewers and mud-walled homes, the impoverished farming village of 2,200 m southern India did not look like fertile territory for business. But Ms Srilatha Kadem
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    • ASIA QUICKLY
      • 53 11 TOKYO: Japan will carefully consider any application by Taiwanese ex-president Lee Teng-hui to visit, instead of barring it outright, as insisted by Beijing, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said yesterday. Japan had, m the past, granted tourist visas to Mr Lee, infuriating China each
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      • 47 11 TOKYO: The mayor of Iwakuni city yesterday demanded the withdrawal of a plan to e"xpand a nearby US Marine base after local voters gave the proposal an overwhelming thumbs-down. The Tokyo-Washington deal was to relocate about 50,000 US troops m Japan. REUTERS
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      • 46 11 SEOUL: Thousands of South Koreans have filed a class-action damages suit against the country's biggest Internet game developer, NCsoft, over stolen identities, officials said. The 8,574 plaintiffs are seeking one million won (551,600) each, according to online law firm Lawmarket. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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      • 75 11 JAYAPURA (Indonesia): Protesters hacked four security guards to death after clashes broke out during a demonstration yesterday to demand the closure of a US-owned gold mine m Papua province. It was the third day of violent protests against the mine, run by New Orleans-based
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      • 59 11 HANOI: King Norodom Sihamoni, 52, yesterday began the first visit by a Cambodian monarch to Vietnam m over a decade, aiming to ease historically tense relations between the neighbours. Communist Vietnam invaded Cambodia m 1978 and occupied it for a decade but today, the neighbours
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      • 53 11 BANGKOK: Militants killed six Muslim men m a raid on a government office m Thailand's rebellious Muslim south yesterday m revenge for the death of their leader last month, officials said. At least five gunmen attacked during a council meeting m the Pado area
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    • 71 11 STARTED m late 2000, Project Shakti has extended Hindustan Lever's reach into 80,000 of India's 638,000 villages, on top of about 100,000 served by conventional distribution methods, according to director of new ventures Dalip Sehgal. The project accounts for nearly 15 per cent of rural
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    • 337 11 MUMBAI THE lure of Bollywood is irresistible for aspiring Indian movie stars, but more and more white foreign actors are being drawn by the promise of high-profile roles and a launch pad for their careers. Foreigners have featured m Bollywood films
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • THAI POLITICAL CRISIS
      • 1081 12  -  Nirmal Ghosh NEWS ANALYSIS Perceived abuse of power sees former political and academic supporters turn on Premier By Thailand Correspondent In Bangkok EMBATTLED Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra evokes visceral sentiments among segments of the Bangkok elite and Thai society. Although he is the
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      • THAI CRISIS QUICKLY
        • 88 12 IN A country famous for its traditional massage, it was only a matter of time before masseuses got involved m the attempts to oust the Premier. Now, The Nation newspaper reports, a makeshift massage parlour has been set up at a bus stop near Government House
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        • 74 12 THE size of the protests against the Prime Minister seems to depend on who you talk to. The People's Alliance for Democracy claimed half a million people turned up for a march to Government House on Tuesday, The Nation reported. But one demonstrator reckoned there were only
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        • 83 12 THAILAND'S Rural Doctors Society has called for anti-Thaksin doctors to take turns attending rallies to attend to any protesters who need care. Society president Pongthep Wongwatcharapaiboon was quoted by The Nation as saying: "They have shown support for democracy by declaring their demands for Thaksin's removal. "So
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      • 343 12 Bangkok PRIME Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned m a defiant mood from the provinces yesterday, scotching any idea of stepping down temporarily m the face of demands from thousands of protesters massed outside his office here. After switching a meeting from his office
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      • 298 12 Bangkok DOUBTS have been cast on whether Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is legally entitled to groom a successor while m his current caretaker role. His appointment of Mr Chidchai Wannasathit to the post of first deputy premier on Tuesday sparked
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
    • 620 14  -  Dcvi Asmarani Locations with already established industries will be the first to take off, says Jusuf By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta INDONESIA plans to speed up the development of special economic zones (SEZs) and will take steps to get these
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    • 342 14  -  AZHAR Ghani By Indonesia Bureau Chief In Jakarta SINGAPOREAN investors, urged by Indonesia to set up businesses that create jobs instead of just buying stakes m existing companies, are exploring several such options. One interesting area is the country's resource-based
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    • 436 14  - KL sets up 1 .9 b public transport fund to soften fuel price hikes Leslie Lav By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur FACED with intense public pressure over the sharp fuel price increases, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has set up a special trust fund worth RM4.4 billion (Ssl.9 billion) to
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    • 315 14  -  Carolyn Hong By Malaysia Correspondent In Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA Airlines will soon cut its domestic flights down to a handful of selected key destinations to stem its heavy losses. The rest of the domestic destinations will be operated by low-cost carrier Air Asia.
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    • 356 14  -  Ben Nadarajan By A SINGAPOREAN who was the right-hand man of a Malaysian tycoon was found stabbed to death at his Kuala Lumpur home on Wednesday night. A topless Mukhriz Ibrahim was found sprawled face-down m the living room of his apartment by his nephew,
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  • WORLD
    • 547 16  -  Roger Maynard Rice's comments about China unnerve Canberra, which does not want to undermine its strong ties with Beijing PHOTO: By Australia Correspondent In Sydney AMERICAN fears about China's growing military might dominated yesterday's visit by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice m Sydney, exposing Australian
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    • 414 17 Operation nabs 27 worldwide who shared child porn for own purposes Chicago A PAEDOPHILE chatroom that used to broadcast child sex abuse live over the Internet has been busted, US officials say. Worldwide, 27 people have been charged m connection with their activities
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
      • 88 17 TEHERAN: A top Iranian official has said Teheran is ready to open talks with the United States over Iraq, marking a major shift m Iranian foreign policy a day after a top Iraqi leader called for such talks. Mr Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator and
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      • 67 17 BAGHDAD: Iraq's parliament met briefly yesterday for the first time since it was elected m December but talks on forming a national unity government remained deadlocked and little was done to avert a slide into civil war. The session met only a constitutional deadline, and with no
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      • 73 17 POZAREVAC (Serbia-Montene-gro): Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic can be buried m the yard of his family home, officials ruled yesterday. The local authorities m Pozarevac, his home town east of Belgrade, approved the decision after a request from Milosevic's family. Milosevic is to be buried today, a
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      • 84 17 TRIPOLI: Libya and f rance signed an accord on Wednesday on peaceful nuclear research, the first deal of its kind since Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi abandoned efforts to build weapons of mass destruction m 2003. The protocol covers research and the use of nuclear technology m
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    • 657 18 Abbas condemns attack and accuses Britain and US of complicity Jerusalem PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned Israel's raid on a West Bank prison and seizure of a militant leader as an unforgivable crime aimed at humiliating his people. Tuesday's raid has undercut the
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    • 341 18 AHMED Saadat, the target of an Israeli raid on a West Bank prison, is a radical leader and veteran of the Palestinian uprising. He has vowed to "fight or die" m the effort to free his people from Israeli occupation. Since early 2002,
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    • 282 18 Baghdad UNITED States forces yesterday launched what was termed the largest air assault on Iraq since the US-led invasion, the American military said. US troops, joined by the Iraqi army, targeted insurgent strongholds north of the capital m a strike named Operation Swarmer.
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    • 57 19 PHOTO: PHOTO: PHOTO REUTERS MOST UNEXPECTED: Mr Berlusconi lost out to his rival Romano Prodi m a key TV debate. AFP MOST CHALLENGING: The protests against the new labour laws are the biggest issues facing Mr Villepin. AP MOST EMBARRASSING: Mr Blair had to rely on
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    • 551 19 Labour MPs desert Blair in school reform vote IN BRITAIN London BRITAIN'S Tony Blair was forced to rely on opposition votes to pass his flagship school reforms through Parliament, exposing the Prime Minister to the charge that he has lost control of his party. The outcome on Wednesday was embarrassing
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    • 239 19 IN FRANCE Paris FRENCH students were marching again m the capital yesterday against a new labour law as Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin scrambled to bolster unity within government ranks. President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday backed his embattled prime minister m the face of the mounting
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    • 234 19 IN ITALY Rome ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's hopes of retaining power were dealt a blow when two main allies criticised him for a lacklustre performance m a key television debate before national elections next month. Four snap opinion polls said opposition leader Romano Prodi
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
      • 189 20 A BOGUS surgeon, knov/n as "the Butcher of South Beach", has been jailed after pleading guilty m Miami, Florida, to disfiguring patients, including a male bodybuilder who was given breasts. Reinaldo Silvestre (right) was convicted of aggravated battery and practising medicine without a licence after he
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      • 98 20 UN CHIEF Kofi Annan has selected German Achim Steiner to take over the helm of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Mr Steiner, director of the World Conservation Union (WCU), will succeed fellow German Klaus Toepfer as UNEP executive director. An Oxford University
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    • 404 21  - New UN human rights body created Betsy Pisik General Assembly votes overwhelmingly m favour despite US objections By Straits Times US Bureau In New York THE United Nations General Assembly has overridden objections from the Bush administration to create a new human rights body by a vote of 170 to
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    • 295 21 cil, which should formally come into being by the end of June. The US and many of its Western allies had wanted a smaller body elected by two-thirds of the General Assembly. This would create a higher membership threshold that countries such as Iran and
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    • Article, Illustration
      84 21 The charred remains of a calf and a cow lie on the scorched earth near the US town of McLean, Texas. Stiff winds made the job harder for weary firefighters who had been battling the raging wildfires for three days. The fires, which started on Sunday, have swept
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    • 139 21 Prophet cartoons: No charges against Danish daily Copenhagen DENMARK'S top prosecutor will not press charges against Danish newspaper JyllandsPosten, which first published the Prophet Muhammad cartoons. Prosecutor-general Henning Fode stressed that there were limits to Denmark's freedom of expression laws but found the newspaper did not violate them. He said
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    • 32 16 Prison raid 'unforgivable' Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas condemns Israel's raid on a West Bank prison as an unforgivable crime. PAGE 18 T^ra I I **'^J*"iQjii^ J £0 I AIF ■r lug m
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  • REVIEW
    • 405 22 FH "1 HREE weeks after the opposition Democrat Party and a civJL ie coalition mobilised Bangkok's middle-class support to force Mr Thaksin Shinawatras resignation, the prime minister remains secure if a little rattled. One day he said he would consider stepping aside "temporarily" to ease
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    • 749 22  - A $13.55 b QUESTION Ivan Png SINGAPORE'S EXPENDITURE ON R&D By For The Straits Times IN MID-FEBRUARY, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang announced Science Technology Plan 2010 (STP2OIO). To quote the plan, "STP2OIO aims to sustain in-novation-driven growth by strengthening R&D capabilities m both public and private sector".
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    • 989 22  -  Dennis Chan By Deputy Money Editor THE legendary American investor Warren Buffett recently said many companies spend far too much money on undeserving chief executive officers (CEOs). He was, of course, referring to the penchant among board members of American companies to reward top
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    • 1382 23  - Lessons from the collapsed American ports deal Youssef M. Ibrahim Both the US and the UAE must take responsibility for failing to lay the groundwork properly By In Dubai ON THE first day of the firestorm involving Dubai's purchase of a global port management company, I phoned my friend Rashid
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    • 974 24  -  John R. Bradley By Senior Writer In Qom (Iran) IRANIANS confused about whether the Hidden Imam is at last preparing to return from occultation to save mankind now have a special hotline for information m this holy city. More than 160 specially trained staff
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    • 704 25 THE SINGAPORE FOREIGN SERVICE The last of five excerpts from the new book, The Singapore Foreign Service: The First 40 Years, describes the formation of Asean as a platform for regional cooperation. The book, written by former journalist Gretchen Liv, is published by Editions Didier Millet
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  • INSIGHT FRIDAY
    • 87 26 PEOPLE ft POLITICS They count as among the more vocal Nominated MPs m Parliament. Both are academics but raise very different issues m the House. Li Xueying catches up with NMPs Ivan Png and Ong Soh Khim and ask if non-elected parliamentarians can represent Singaporeans PHOTO: PHOTO CAROLINE CHIA LIM
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    • 1544 26 IVAN PNG He raises prickly issues party MPs may not ONG SOH KHIM She is not there to keep quiet IN 1990, a young President's Scholar dug into his savings and withdrew over $100,000. With that money, Ivan Png paid up the remaining five years of his eight-year
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    • 1147 27  - Confessions of a voter wannabe Chua Mui Hoong FRIDAY MATTERS By IJeputy Political Editor AS A political reporter, I'm ashamed to say that my core skills as a functioning citizen m a democracy have not been tested: I have never voted m a general election. Like eight m 10 of
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    • 882 27  -  Laurel Teo »THEPOST-65ERS By THERE it was glowering at us from our inbox. An e-mail from a huffy reader demanding to know: "Why are there only good comments from the residents about the PAP MPs?" That was two weeks ago. Following the latest upheavals
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    • 157 26 How to spur contest? Two sets of figures say it all: Of the 82 PAP MPs, 30 have never faced a contest. Among the 25 PAP rookies, 18 were unopposed m 2001. PAGE 27 WAREHOUSE ■!I 19/ i Frl SU A from $IO.OO^I 1 1 10 am 6pm S3 M
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    • 8 28 E.Y.I. THE STRAITS TIMES FRIDAY MARCH 17, 2006
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      • 550 2  - Ex- soccer star gets ban, fine for drink driving Elena Chong By FORMER Malaysia Cup football star Quah Kirn Song was fined $2,400 and banned from driving for 18 months yesterday for drink driving. The 54-year-old Football Association of Singapore director of competitions pleaded guilty to the offence committed along
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      • 521 2  -  Chong Chee Kin Money dispute may be behind the abduction of two Indonesian businessmen here By FOUR men accused of kidnapping two Indonesian businessmen last Friday were charged m a district court yesterday and remanded m police custody for a week. The
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      • 588 2  -  Stephanie Yap By THE authorities here are investigating a collision between an outrigger canoe and a Police Coast Guard patrol boat m the waters off Sentosa on Sunday. Three of the six crew members of the canoe belonging to the
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      • 351 2  -  Selina Lum By FOR the two years they shared a one-room rental flat m Bendemeer, Chew Thiam Huat never quarrelled with 64-year-old Soh Chiang Tarn. Then out of the blue, on Aug 21 last year, 48-year-old Chew took a hammer and bludgeoned his
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      • 319 2  - Blender death: Still no answers for family FrankieChee By TWO days after his death, Mr Ng Twa Teck's family still has no answers as to how he fell into an industrial blending machine at his workplace. The police are investigating the case as an unnatural death. Singapore Civil Defence Force
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      • ST VOTERS SURVEY
        • 554 4 First survey on Singapore young voters, m the run-up to the general election, shows how they are likely to vote. Sim Chi Yin reports THE vote matters to most young Singaporeans, with seven m 10 keen to cast their ballot m the coming
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        • 153 4 EDUCATIONAL qualifications of a candidate are not a major factor when the young assess opposition parties here. About 35 per cent put it as one of their top three considerations, a Straits Times survey shows. What most of them want m an opposition
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        • 410 4  -  SIM CHI YIN IT MANAGER Jerry Chia, 34, trusts the newspaper m his hand more than a fleeting TV snippet for his daily dose of local news. To keep up with local politics, he would rather read a page of
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      • ST VOTERS SURVEY
        • 413 5  -  Lynn Lee By FINANCIAL consultant Dennis Ng, 25, can rattle off the list of unit trusts and other financial products that his company, a local bank, has to offer. But ask him who his MP is, or what ward he lives m, and
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        • 79 5 "I'll vote the party that can give me what I need and see as important. Jobs, housing, amenities near my home and a good transport network are just some issues that are crucial to "I'm happy with what my MP has done so far m my
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        • 342 5  - Better-educated look beyond material needs LYNN LEE YOUNG Singaporeans who earn more and have a higher level of education are likely to expect political parties and MPs to go beyond providing for just their material needs. While concerns such as jobs and cost of living preoccupy most m their age
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      • 412 8  -  Chong Chee Kin Dangerous driving charge reduced if he pleads guilty, leaving election option open By NON-CONSTITUENCY Member of Parliament Steve Chia is mulling over a new offer by the prosecution to reduce his dangerous driving charge, knowing the decision will affect his political
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      • 822 8  -  Sue-Ann Chia CHEFS CONTEMPT OF COURT CASE By CHEE Soon Juan deliberately sought to undermine public confidence m the judiciary when he mounted a "scurrilous attack" on its integrity, said Second SolicitorGeneral Lee Seiu Kin. He knew he would be cited and punished for contempt
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      • 929 8  -  Ken Kwek By IT WAS the dramatic moment of the hearing's afternoon session when opposition politician Chee Soon Juan turned from being forceful and assertive to quiet, emotional and tearful. Making a defence of his statements about the judiciary, he said
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      • 521 10  -  Meng Yew Choong Biomed industry seeks older workers to make intricate products By SHE spent 20 years sewing clothes, but now Madam Ivy Cha stitches to save lives. The 42-year-old mother of two is now a specialist sewer for components of replacement heart
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        91 10 It was raining concrete blocks at Ridgewood Condominium m Mount Sinai Drive early yesterday. No one was hurt but a car was damaged when about 20 large blocks crashed through a temporary con- struction fence from a neighbouring construction site. The blocks tumbled down a slope, and
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      • 179 10 THE Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army, General Joginder Jaswant Singh, called on Acting Minister for Defence and Minister for Manpower Ng Eng Hen at the Ministry of Defence yesterday morning m the middle of a joint military exeicise between the two
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      • 687 11  -  Tracy Sua COUPLE FOUND DEAD IN CAR Families not told of their meeting outside Plaza Singapura By Tanya Fong THE series of text messages from mobile phone records revealed that the fateful meeting of 33--year-old Jerome Peck and 19--year-old
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      • 393 11  -  David Boey By IF ODOURLESS carbon monoxide gas from the running engine was the culprit, the rust holes m the 13-year-old Suzuki Swift's floorboard were its accomplices. Four holes, each about half the size of a 10-cent coin, are believed to have allowed deadly carbon
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      • 414 11 Mr Jerome Peek and Miss Linda Gian were found dead m his Suzuki Swift. Ben Nadarajan explores the potential risks of spending too long a time m a ear. Don't leave the engine running Wind down the windows Be careful of that new car Carbon monoxide
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      • 445 11  -  Li XUEYING By MANY Chinese employers who do not hire Malays or Indians often cite the language barrier as the reason. Such discrimination can as Malay community leader Yang Razali Kassim put it lead to feelings of marginalisation which, m turn, "can be
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      • 397 15  -  Lim Wei Chean Spore company part of record 138 halal exhibitors at major regional trade show By A SINGAPOREAN food manufacturer is tapping into the growing multi-billion-dollar halal food market with chicken pau or buns and chicken dumplings. KG
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      • QUICK NEWS
        • 183 15 SINGAPOREANS can expect two four-day weekends next year, as public holidays bunch up with Saturdays and Sundays. The first one will come at the turn of the year, courtesy of Hari Raya Haji falling on Dec 31 this year, a Sunday, and New Year's
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        • 133 15 SINGAPOREANS spent more m retail shops but less on food m January, compared to the month before, according to latest figures from the Singapore Department of Statistics. Overall retail sales m January were estimated at $2,896 billion, up 3.21 per cent on December's $2,806
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        • 81 15 RETIRED Justice M.P.H. Rubin, 66, has been appointed Singapore's High Commissioner to three African nations the republics of Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. He is now the High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa and will be resident m its capital, Pretoria. He presented his
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    • FORUM
      • 306 16 WHETHER a marriage stands or falls depends solely on one's commitment to it. It had been so m the pasi and it is still the same today. I have counselled many different people with many types of marital problems and one misconception often
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      • 377 16 I REFER to the letter, "Join hands to help young couples with marital woes" (ST, March 4), by Mr Kamalarajan Malaiyandi Chettiar. The Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) agrees that it is important for young couples to acquire skills and
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      • 78 16 For more readers' views, log on to http://www. straitstimcs.asial .com. sg/forum. Access to online letters is free. Prompt payment eases cashflow problems for small businesses >> It's wrong not to recognise qualifications of some foreign doctors Proficiency m English doesn't make it a mother tongue Don't denigrate those
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      • 484 16 I AM baffled by the procedure concerning road accidents. Recently, while riding my motorcycle I was hit by a taxi driver who did not stop at the stop line when pulling out of Orchard Turn. He proceeded to drive straight across lanes 1,
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        • 62 16 I WRITE to share an unexpectedly pleasant experience with Singapore Post. On Feb 22 my family received a postcard posted two days earlier at Changi Airport, bearing neither the unit number nor the postal code of our flat m Block 931, Yishun Central 1. Such an expeditious delivery of
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        • 64 16 I LOST my wallet at IMM Building on the afternoon of March 2 but it was returned to the Information Desk within 20 minutes. I offered the man who found it a little reward but he very politely declined. I would like to thank him and the other
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        • 96 16 ON JAN 31 my family went to Great World City for lunch when my daughter had a nosebleed. We approached the KFC outlet and got some ice and napkins. The nosebleed continued for a good 15 minutes. The manageress came over several times to ask if
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      • 353 16 I SEE contradictions m the Ministry of Education (MOE)'s arguments against using quotas as a way to boost racial integration m schools (ST, March 13) and the Government's recent arguments against the "racial time bomb" of the Workers' Party. In his reply
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      • 96 16 ON TOTAL Defence Day, Feb 15, my son was rushed to Changi Hospital's Emergency Room after he collapsed m school during an In-Place Protection exercise. Forty students and two teachers were confined m their sealed classroom with no electricity and little ventilation.
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      • 360 16 I REFER to the article, "Monitoring blood pressure, wristwatchstyle" (ST, Feb 25), and wish to clarify the following points: Dr Low Lip Ping's comment on continuous monitoring During the symposium, Dr Low presented strong clinical studies showing the importance and superiority of using 24-hour ambulatory
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      • 338 16 THE two separate incidents involving the use of firearms that Mr Tea Lee San ("Query on secret societies") and Mr Teo Kok Seah ("Shooting poser: How did culprits get hold of guns?"; ST, March 9) referred to are cur rently before the courts.
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        40 17 COUNTRY L Australia 3 5 4 12 Scotland 2 0 13 England 13 3 7 Canada 12 14 India 110 2 Malaysia 10 12 New Zealand 10 0 1 South Africa 10 0 1 Wales 0 0 11
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      • 122 17 Badminton: Mixed team (Ronald Susilo, Kendrick Lee, Hendri Saputra, Aaron Tan, Hendra Wijaya, Li Li, King Aiying, Jiang Yanmei, Liv Fan, Li Yujia) v Jersey Netball: Singapore v Jamaica Shooting: Men's 10m Air Rifle pairs (Ong Jun Hong, Zhang Jin), trap pairs (Lee Wung Yew, Choo Choon
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      • 779 17  -  Lee Yulin cvbv bnbvn bn The Sec 1 student keeps Spores flag flying after Yeo contracts gastric flu By Assistant Sports Editor In Melbourne AMID a sea of Australians, Canadians, Englishwomen and New Zealanders, Tao Li stood tall at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic
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      • 314 17  -  Alvin Foo TABLE TENNIS By I\ Melbourne SINGAPORE began their quest for table tennis golds without any hiccup yesterday. They won all their four team ties m the group stages at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. The women trounced New Zealand 3-0, while
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      • 167 17  -  ALVIN FOO "GYMNASTICS SINGAPORE gymnast Hoe Wah Toon competed for a place m the vault finals yesterday despite spraining his ankle at the beginning of the week. He did not qualify. He finished 14th out of 21 competitors on his Commonwealth Games debut
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      • C'WEALTH GAMES: MARCH 15-26
        • 489 18  -  Alvin Foo BADMINTON Susilo does not over-exert himself m his first match m seven months By In Melbourne SINGAPORE shuttlers Aaron Tan and Liv Fan set a record of sorts at the Commonwealth Games yesterday. They were the first among the 4,500 athletes competing
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        • 158 18  -  ALVIN FOO THE defending men's singles badminton champion, Malaysian Hafiz Hashim, was not selected for the Commonwealth Games because of his poor form. But Malaysia team member Wong Choong Harm said morale is still good. He said yesterday: "We've been eating well, sleeping
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      • 672 20 SOCCER His strike paves way for fellow forwards to end goal drought against Fulham Liverpool HIS misfiring strikers finally scored and he is committed to Liverpool until 2010, no wonder Rafael Benitez had a smile on his face. The Liverpool manager would not confirm
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      • 228 20 Rom i MIDDLESBROUGH'S passage into the Uefa Cup quar-ter-finals for the first time was marred by violence on Wednesday. The English Premiership side lost 1-2 to AS Roma for a 2-2 aggregate but went through on the away-goal rule. Before the match,
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      • 491 20 London WEST Ham manager Alan Pardew hit out at the FA Cup quarter-final schedule on Wednesday, after his side beat Bolton 2-1 to qualify. He is annoyed that the Hammers have to tackle Manchester City on Monday, barely 48 hours
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      • 324 20 Barcelona SPANISH soccer giants Barcelona claim they have reached a verbal agreement with Thierry Henry to join them m the summer. Arsenal will be furious with the reports as they are still m talks with the French striker to sign a new deal. Henry
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      • 582 21  -  Lin Xinyi SPORTS IN SCHOOLS Laguna golf club, with help from HSBC, gives students training and a crack at the course By YOUNG people inspired to take up golf by Mardan Mamat's Singapore Masters win last week might be deterred by the sport's
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      • 422 21 BASKETBALL All-Star Challenge: Girls' final: West bt South 29-28. West: Casselyn Goh, Chan Mm Ghee, Julie Chen, Chan Wan Yue, Jacmta Mak, Nur Hidayah Hamidon, Mok Ying Ming, Ng Kin Vi, Magdalene Kang, Phua Kai Vi, Tan See Yah and Tan Chai Luan. South: Valeric Loh, Natascha Phua, Liew
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      • 201 21 TOP players (left) from Singapore schools had their own version of the NBA All-Star game at the Singapore Basketball Centre yesterday. Organised by the Singapore Schools Sports Council, the All-Star Challenge featured some 100 basketball players from more than 20 schools m all four zones
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      • 182 21 PHOTO: PHOTO: PHOTO: PHOTO: PHOTO ALBERT SIM YOU GO: Hwa Chong Junior College's Wei Chong clashes for first base m a game against Raffles Junior College at the Padang yesterday. RJC won the SBSA-SRC Schools Softball Carnival tie 15-0. ALBERT SIM NO SWEAT: Andrianus Pra of
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      • 19 21 The two articles below begin a weekly series about student athletes written by their fellow students
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      • 496 21  -  Jessica Walker By IT IS 6.55 am. She stumbles into the classroom with a stack of books cradled m her arms. A heavy bag is slung from a shoulder. One can see that she is struggling to keep herself awake. But
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      • 233 21  -  Ng Zhuo Yang By AN OUTSTANDING sportsman at the age of 14, Eugene Lee (right) gives stirring competitive performances. Excellent m golf and hockey, he was the jewel that Raffles Institution could not resist taking m the 2004 Direct Schools Admission
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      • 556 25 Continued pressures on input costs and higher energy costs cited by businesses Washington UNITED States economic activity increased across the country m January and February, with businesses feeling continued input cost pressures, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday. "Most districts characterised
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      • 261 25 Washington FEDERAL Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, m a response made public on Wednesday to a senator's question, said derivatives were being well-managed and had bolstered the economy's resilience to shocks m recent years. "Although no single factor accounts for this favourable performance, derivative instruments
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      • 71 25 March 16 China Milk HK5Oc 79.062.000 Global Voice 5c 35,877.000 UTACUSISC 29.078,000 MFSTech 10c 26,704,000 China Essen HK5Oc 26,368,000 Ferrochina 12c 24.596,000 China Cast USBc 19,678.000 Frt Links R 17,350,000 Gen Int USIOc 16,983,000 Macquarie 1c 16,334,000 China Sun HK25c 14,941,000 C&O Pharm HK25c 14,216,000 CapitalandDßeCW6oB2B 14.148,000 ShangTurbo
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      • 153 25 March 16 UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar ***** 1.2020 Can dollar ***** ***** Euro 1.9410 ***** Malaysian ringgit* 0 4372 0 4376 N2 dollar 1.0340 ***** Sterlingpound 2.8140 ***** US dollar
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      • 2358 25 Bonds, Loans Warrants TRANSACTION DATE MARCH 16 2OK SMMXX ra CWMEIKY UUT ro UM! HIGH LOW COOC COMPMY TUSU SAU MB 85 3 An*»eCorpWo9l??9 __4.5 unch 301 35 19 4481 tela Water W*****0 34 133 5 4106 J__trivelWloosl7 3 5 unci) 505 12 2 3795 tatronWo7o6o3 2 5 0 5
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      • 274 27 nil Malaysian nnggit and Chinese yuan ye day hit their strongest level since last lulv's cur rency reforms, helped by that the pace of their appreciation is likely to ipeed up m the coming months The yuan firmed to H 0.148 against the US
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      • 279 27 81-IJINC CHINESE fixed investment accelerated m the first two months of the year, underscoring strength m its largely export-driven economy that is fuelling calls for a stronger yuan. The strong annual investment growth m tixcd assets such as roads, power plants and apartment buildings m
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      • 572 27 Two of the world's largest minus could go for up to $51) Jakahi a INDONESIA'S largest listed mm ing group. Bumi Resources, is m talks to sell two Borneo coal mines that rank among the world's largest, m a deal that could
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      • 586 29  -  Goh Eng Yeow Investors concerned that drop m value may hit before Asia Network gets listed By SESDAQ-LISTED Sun Business Network's plan to list its Chi-na-based fibre optic network company, Asia Network Technologies, m London is making investors see red. Sun Business feels
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      • 475 29  -  AZRIN ASMANI TAKING STOCK By A MUTED performance by market heavyweights kept the local bourse trapped m a tight range for most of yesterday's session. But despite the relatively quiet trading environment due to the lack of fresn leads, China stocks continued to
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        • 240 29  -  GOH ENG YEOW IN A move likely to boost flagging investor interest, Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) announced that its chairman Cheng Wai Keung had bought one million shares of the container line on the open market yesterday. The move raised Mr Cheng's
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    • 592 30  -  AZRIN ASMANI Accounting body increases frequency of audit checks to once a year as part of review By Companies Correspondent MOST of Singapore's auditing firms will soon find themselves coming under closer scrutiny from the local regulator. The tougher new guidelines have
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    • 23 30 BUYING SELLING Australian dollar 1.1880 1.2020 Euro 1.9410 1.9630 Sterling pound 2.8140 2.8460 US dollar 1.6100 1.6280 Yen (100 units) 1.3697 1.3845
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    • 202 30  -  GRACE NG MEDIARING'S TAKEOVER OFFER PACIFIC Internet (PacNet) has responded to a US$lO5 million (*****.9 million) takeover offer from Mediaßing by appointing a financial adviser to explore alternative ways to maximise shareholder value. Breaking nearly three weeks of silence after being hit by Meaiaßing's surprise pre-conditional
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