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Title Section19 2001-06-02 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Saturday June 2,2001 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA 072/08/200019 words
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Article, Illustration73 2001-06-02 1 THE annual Singapore Arts Festival opened with a big bang literally—at Fort Canning Park on Thursday night, when drummers from Taiwan put on a high-octane show of percussion music. Two thousand revellers braved wet-weather warnings to attend the three-hour extravaganza featuring 12 acts from sevenTHOMAS WHITE - 73 words
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437 2001-06-02 1 SALMA KHALIK - Raising of caps on claims also affects Kidney dialysis and HIV drug regimens, among others By SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT MORE Medisave money can now be used for the treatment of some serious illnesses, including cancer, and to help couples conceive. For a437 words
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Article225 2001-06-02 1 PAULA McCOY; and STEPHANIE YAP - By PAULA McCOY and STEPHANIE YAP SALES of nicotine gum may get the go-ahead here. The existing blanket ban on chewing gum covers nicotine gum, which can help smokers quit the habit. This will be the subject of a policy review by the Health Sciences225 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement60 2001-06-02 1 Food trends \o>\ Hello, Instant Chicken Ri A bottled paste turns the popular Hainanese chicken rice into a quick-fix meal one of the innovative products on show at food expo. PAGES M ALAYSIA Paper Buy-out Stirs Passions MCA’s purchase of Nanyang Siang Pau newspaper group divides the Chinese community over60 words
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PRIME
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Article, Illustration397 2001-06-02 2 ALETHEA LIM - Chief Justice says long jail terms and preventive detention should not be for violent criminals alone ALETHEA LIM COURT CORRESPONDENT PREVENTIVE detention or long jail terms with no chance of early release for good behaviour should not be restricted to offenders with a history397 words
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318 2001-06-02 2 LESLIE LAU - By LESLIE LAU IN KUALA LUMPUR JOHOR plans to ban Singa-pore-registered cars with unpaid traffic fines from entering the country, after its month-long campaign to get drivers to pay up met with poor response. But Johor Baru Mayor Johari Suratman said his proposal318 words
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Article, Illustration425 2001-06-02 2 CHONG CHEE KIN - §!L CHONG CHEE KIN YOUNG and promising national soccer player Sulaiman Hashim was bludgeoned to death early Thursday morning in a vicious attack at Boat Quay. The 18-year-old striker for the national under-18 squad in the Prime League and two of his friends were425 words
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307 2001-06-02 2 KOH BOON PIN - By KOH BOON PIN CONSUMER CORRESPONDENT THE day might come when tourists will visit Singapore not to shop or sample the local fare but to attend a world-class concert or a celebrated arts show. This is if plans by the tourism board to establish Singapore307 words
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672 2001-06-02 3 LESLIE KOH - Strike a balance between safeguarding identities and the neeu for social integration, minister tells Islamic forum By LESLIE KOH RELIGIOUS leaders can help maintain social cohesion while communities tiy to balance the need for social integration with the need to retain their separate identities,672 words
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Article, Illustration472 2001-06-02 3 TAN 001 BOON - By TAN 001 BOON ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR A MALAYSIAN businessman filed a US$lO million (SslB million) suit against the Crown Prince of Johor, alleging that the prince owes him money for his help in a major oil-explora-tion project in Indonesia. The lawsuit was launched because472 words
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Article, Illustration342 2001-06-02 3 AHMAD OSMAN - bil AHMAD OSMAN AFTER 30 years, the Workers’ Party has a new leader in Mr Low Thia Khiang, 45. Mr Low, who is also MP for Hougang, was elected the party’s new secretary-general on Sunday. He replaces veteran opposition politician J.B. Jeyaretnam, 76, whoTERENCETAN - 342 words
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HOME
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Article, Illustration71 2001-06-02 4 WHAT’S this plane doing here? Firefighters worked hard amid the pouring rain on Sunday morning to put out the blazing rear-end of a light aircraft near Block 18 at Holland Drive. But no, it was not an urban disaster just a civil-emer-gency exercise Exercise Vulcan 11. The massive71 words
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504 2001-06-02 4 IRENE NC - BG Lee says heartland concerns will be addressed, along with those of special-interest groups, by a broad Vision’ and tangibles By IRENE NC POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE old, the young, the women, the different ethnic communities all these groups and more can expect something specific504 words
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Article440 2001-06-02 4 ALETHEA LIM - in ALETHEA LIM FOR two years, a man harassed a woman with love notes, gifts and marriage proposals, a district court heard last Saturday. They did not know each other though the man, Seah Cheng Kim, a 41-year-old cabby, claimed he had been a classmate440 words
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Article128 2001-06-02 4 THE man who stalked a woman for two years was placed in the custody of the Institute of Mental Health on Wednesday. A district court found that cabby Seah Cheng Kim, 41, did harass the woman and insult her modesty, but it acquitted him because he128 words
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371 2001-06-02 4 SANDRA DAVIE - By SANDRA DAVIE EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT LATER this year, National University of Singapore engineering undergraduate Daniel Tan may attend classes not only at NUS, bujt. a l so at the Nanyang Technological University or the Singapore Management University. If he does so, it will371 words
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Article, Illustration542 2001-06-02 5 LAURELTEO - Decision follows poor take-up of apartments since scheme began three years ago, says minister LAURELTEO MORE Singaporeans can apply for studio apartments designed specially for the elderly as the Housing Board has relaxed its rules. Previously, these flats, each with a 30-year lease, were offeredALAN LIM - 542 words
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231 2001-06-02 5 ALETHEALIM - By ALETHEALIM COURT CORRESPONDENT THE courts are expected to mete out longer jail sentences to repeat offenders now, to prevent them from causing more harm to society. Criminal lawyers say this is likely to be the case for the next few years, as231 words
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Article, Illustration366 2001-06-02 5 EMILIA IDRIS - By. EMILIA IDRIS SOME of them can barely see, some speak with difficulty and a few struggle to walk upright. But together, this group of 45 special athletes displayed true grit and drowned the Temasek Polytechnic Sports Complex with song and cheer onTANSUANANN - 366 words
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Article345 2001-06-02 5 SALMA KHALIR - By SALMA KHALIR HEALTH CORRESPONDENT IT WILL be easier for elderly sick people from low-income families to get basic health care from next month onwards. There will be 72 more family clinics that they can go to and be charged subsidised rates. This brings to345 words
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529 2001-06-02 6 LEA WEE - §1 LEA WEE SINGAPOREANS thirsting for eco-tourism can look forward to making day trips to the Southern Islands, which could become a national park in the next few years. Eco-tourism development will get priority there, says the Singapore Tourism Board, and other developments like529 words
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Article, Illustration461 2001-06-02 6 AIJRTHEA LIM - By AIJRTHEA LIM COURT CORRESPONDENT A BANGLADESHI worker was on Tuesday found not guilty of the gruesome murder of a fellow worker whose head was cut off and dumped in a trench about 300 m away. The High Court found that there was insufficient evidence461 words
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219 2001-06-02 6 COMMUTERS would soon have to pay more for train and bus rides, if transport operators’ proposals to raise fares are approved. The Public Transport Council (PTC) on Tuesday confirmed that it was “deliberating” on bus and train operators’ applications for fare revisions. The Business219 words
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407 2001-06-02 6 LYDIA LIM - Billion-dollar network housing f>ower cables and water pipes will ree new downtown at Marina South of disruptive roadworks By LYDIA LIM WORK starts this month on a billion-dollar network of tunnels that will free the new downtown at Marina South of traffic407 words
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151 2001-06-02 6 SINGAPOREAN Ng Khen Kay, 46, was shot dead by two men while walking to a discotheque in Johor Baru last Saturday morning. He had just got out of a car in front of the nightclub in Jalan Abdullah Tahir at about 3.15 am, when151 words
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451 2001-06-02 7 LIANG HWEE TING - Six workgroups formed for integrated diagnosis, treatment and management of diseases and conditions on top-10 killer list *L LIANG HWEE TING PATIENTS suffering from cancer, heart disease, hypertension, stroke, diabetes and asthma will get better all-round care in future from medical teams that will451 words
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Article246 2001-06-02 7 LIANG HWEE TING - BtJ LIANG HWEE TING A NEW $2O-million-a-year Health Services Development Fund will be used to manage patients’ illnesses from the time they are admitted to hospital and even after they are discharged. The aim is to keep healthcare costs under control for the long term246 words
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Article, Illustration208 2001-06-02 7 HUMAN SMUGGLING FIFTEEN illegal workers were caught trying to leave Singapore in two secret compartments at the back of a cargo lorry, the largest single group of illegal workers detected this year. The eight women and seven men were gasping for breath inGEORGE GASCON - 208 words
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Article, Illustration403 2001-06-02 7 INSPECTOR Richard Wong came across the largest amount of cash he had ever seen last year $450,000 of it. The thick stacks of notes, ill-gotten gains, were packed neatly away in a steel safe in a condominium apartment in Suffolk Road. The apartmentGEORGE GASCON - 403 words
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Article, Illustration392 2001-06-02 8 KOH BOON PIN - A family-run firm is selling a bottled paste that will help serve up Hainanese chicken rice in a jiffy, and minus the cholesterol KOH BOON PIN CONSUMER CORRESPONDENT HOW would you like to enjoy a plate of Hainanese chicken rice without the cholesterol that392 words
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176 2001-06-02 8 DEBBIE GOH - iIL DEBBIE GOH IN ITS latest bid to attract women, the Army Recruitment Centre is picking them up at a disco. It held its first women’s recruitment seminar for the year last Saturday at China Jump, a disco-cum-pub and restaurant at Chijmes in Victoria176 words
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Page 8 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1060 2001-06-02 8 RADIO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME SCHEDULES 1100 1400 Hours (GMT) 6015 KHz (49M BAND) 6150 KHz (49M BAND) MONDAY 1100 News 1109 Business Market Report 1115 Arts Arena 1130 News 1135 Wired Up 1145 Newsline 1200 News/Weather (AsiaPacific) 1210 E Z Beat 1230 Business Market Report 1235 The Written Word1,060 words
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SPORTS
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Article, Illustration333 2001-06-02 9 CHAN TSE CHUEEN - SWIMMING Btj CHAN TSE CHUEEN THE O-LEVEL examinations finally out of the way, swimmer Rebecca Heng is back in the pool with a vengeance. The 17-year-old breaststroker, who left on Thursday for the South-east Asia Age-Group Championships in Kuala Lumpur, is set to333 words
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282 2001-06-02 9 CHANTSE CHUEEN - HOCKEY in CHANTSE CHUEEN SIX woman hockey players from Mongolia have been given Singapore citizenship, making them eligible for September’s South-east Asia Games in Malaysia. Recruited by the Singapore Hockey Federation under the Singapore Sports Council’s foreign talent scheme, they arrived more than282 words
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Article, Illustration374 2001-06-02 9 JEFFREY LOW - SOCCER By. JEFFREY LOW SOCCER CORRESPONDENT PROMOTIONAL stunts, there are many. But what Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee pulled off on Monday was indeed a great way to fly the flag of Singapore football. Five times he tried to create aLIANHE ZAOBAO - 374 words
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268 2001-06-02 9 PEH SHING HUEI - Funding affected for gymnastics, boxing, jogging and skating, which failed to make the grade ASSOCIATIONS Bu PEH SHING HUEI BOXING and gymnastics have been “axed” by the Singapore National Olympic Council. The SNOC last week rejected the applications made by the Singapore Amateur Boxing268 words
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MALAYSIA
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Article, Illustration581 2001-06-02 10 LESLIE LAU - But senior party members question the wisdom of using their prized asset, Star Publications, to secure financing By LESLIE LAU IN KUALA LUMPUR THE Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) on Thursday concluded the controversial deal to buy out the Chinese-lan-guage Nanyang Siang Pau newspaper groupAP - 581 words
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Article, Illustration514 2001-06-02 10 BRENDAN PEREIRA - By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR A High Court judge on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of two opposition leaders being held under the Internal Security Act, and said that “it was high time” that Parliament reviewed the law which allowed for detentionREUTERS - 514 words
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Article, Illustration318 2001-06-02 10 JOCELINE TAN - By. JOCELINE TAN IN KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN Chinese Association vice-president Datuk Chua Jui Meng was known as the “dark horse” of the party. The Health Minister kept to the political sidelines throughout the year-long tussle be- tween his party’s two top guns, No 1318 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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Article, Illustration552 2001-06-02 11 DERWIN PEREIRA - Parliament backs move Filibuster by President’s party of supporters fails to prevent massive vote in favour of his departure from office By DERWIN PEREIRA STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid lost the fight to stave off impeachment after an overwhelming majority of legislators formally backedAP; REUTERS - 552 words
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421 2001-06-02 11 EDWARD TANG - By EDWARD TANG THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK Night entertainment in the Thai capital is in for a major shakeup, with a move by the government to relocate bars, massage parlours and other sleazy forms of nightlife to outer-city areas away from residential estates, temples and421 words
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Article225 2001-06-02 11 ARTURO BARIUAD - PHILIPPINES RESORT RAID By ARTURO BARIUAD STRAITS TIMES PHILIPPINES BUREAU MANILA The United States has joined the manhunt for Abu Sayyaf bandits who are holding three US and 17 Filipino hostages. The US is boosting Manila’s search operations that have so far failed to detect225 words
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COMMENT
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Article586 2001-06-02 12 WEDNESDAY MAY 30,2001 INDONESIAN President Abdurrahman Wahid had intended to declare an emergency on Monday, but backed down for lack of military and Cabinet support just before he was to go on nationwide television. This disclosure comes from his Coordinating Security Minister. Instead, he issued a586 words
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Article550 2001-06-02 12 TUESDAY MAY 29,2001 THE Government’s civic programme to strengthen family bonds will have $5O million of targeted funding for com-munity-education programmes over the next five years. This detail, given by Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan last week, is unlikely to set alight an issue that is550 words
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1045 2001-06-02 12 WITH CHUA LEE HOONG - SATURDAY WITH CHUA LEE HOONG THERE is something about Singapore that seems to pique foreign observers especially those of Anglo-Saxon extraction and who work in the me- dia. Questions they won’t think to ask anybody else pop to the forefront when they try1,045 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration1070 2001-06-02 13 CHUA MU IHOONG - MY VIEW By CHUA MU IHOONG XIAN, yawned my colleague Tan Tarn How in this space last week. Singaporeans are bored and boring, was his thesis. Reading it, I agreed, yawned in tandem, turned the page in a xian fashion andLUDWIG ILIO - 1,070 words
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Article807 2001-06-02 13 WITH ASAD LAT1F - HEART TO HEART WITH ASAD LAT1F THE Third World was once a place where people cried: “Yankee, go home and take me with you”. That joke made a serious point. Citizens of the Third World protested furiously against American actions on their soil, but807 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration2074 2001-06-02 14 Singaporeans were taken by surprise when MrJ.B. Jeyaretnam said he was stepping down as secretary-general of the Workers’ Partly after 30 years. Does this mark the exit of the country’s best-known opposition politician? Or is it a tactical move because of his legal wrangles? SeniorPROJECT EYEBALL - 2,074 words
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Article, Illustration1664 2001-06-02 15 WARREN FERNANDEZ - THINKING ALOUD By WARREN FERNANDEZ SATURDAY, Sept 8. Wouldn’t that be an auspicious date to hold the next General Election? Indeed, that seems to be the date that is now being bandied about as the likely day for the coming polls. Little wonder,1,664 words
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MONEY
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265 2001-06-02 16 A LACK of good news, a fresh spate of corporate earnings warnings in the US and a gloomy outlook on the economic front all contributed to the lacklustre Singapore market this week. Even the buoyant mood of the past week in the penny stocks are265 words
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Article73 2001-06-02 16 Straits Tines Index The Straits Tiaws Index Ml 37.34 points on the nook to 1,549.78 DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1676.55 (-11.2) 401.1m ($271.6m) Tuesday 1682.25 5.7) 399.2m ($318.5m) Wednesday 1662.74 (-19.51) 396.7m($359.8m) Thursday 1657.05 5.69) 377m ($420.5m) Friday 1649.78 7.27) 346.7m ($348m) BT-SRI Index The BT-SRI Index73 words
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Article2112 2001-06-02 16 Company Date ann Net Mm TY LY <$m) <$m) EPS TY LY (CtS) (cts) ACE Dynamics 15-May F 0.182 0.799 0.18 0.9 Acma 31-Mar P 6.522 12.989L 3.8 7.9L AEM Evertech 29-Mar P 9.693 8.673 3 2.7 Amara 28-Mar P 0.918 0.813 0.16 0.14 ASA Grp 28-Mar P2,112 words
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Article127 2001-06-02 16 BONUS issue exBooks Acc 8 Company Ratio date dose Paymt Eastgate one-for-five 04-Jun 07-Jun NA HiapMoh two-for-four 05-Jun 08-Jun NA Delgro one-four-one 08-Jun 13-Jun NA HuanHsin one-for-four 27-Jun 02-Jui NA RIGHTS ISSUE ExBooks Acc Company Ratio date dose Paymt BBR Hldgs one-for-one 04-Jun 07-Jun Presscrete one-for-one *$0.10 08-Jun127 words
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Article57 2001-06-02 16 Company Place Date Tima PentexSchweizer c 55 Penjuru Road S'pore *****0 18-Jun 3.00pm Lum Chang E 38 Kim Tian Road Tian Plaza S'pore<*****Z) 08-Jun 10.30am Prsscrete E 31 Chengi South Avenue 2 S'pore (*****8) 06-Jun 430pm Sunlight E 150 Ubi Ave 4 S'pore (*****5) 06-Jun 10.00am A: AGM,57 words
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Article204 2001-06-02 16 Company Description Wah Shing Proposed Renounceable Rights Issue of 478,745,600 and a maximum of 907,200,000 new ordinary shares of HK$0.01 each at S$0.025 for each rights share, on the basis of two rights shares for every one existing share of HK$0.01 held in the capital of the company204 words
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Article1123 2001-06-02 16 Payment ft*» Ex dete li P«v dete ABR 5c b 0.25 04-Jun 07-Jun 21-Jun ACE 20c b 0.05 14-Jun 03-Jul Acma 50c F 0.25 08-Jon 13-Jun 23-Aug Achieva 5c F 0.2 14-Jun 19-Jun 03-J«i Aligreen Prop 50c F 3 05-Jun 08-Jun 25-Jun ApoHo Ent F 03 04-Jun 19-Jun1,123 words
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Article2936 2001-06-02 17 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' prices (S$) UNIT TRUSTS AfcardMn Asset Mat Asia LM Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNC Fd 0.764 0.803 Global Technology Fd!** 0.670 0.705 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.780 0.820 American Opport Fd 0.861 0.905 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 1.062 1.116 Japan EqtyFd!" 1.243 1.306 Asian Fixed Income2,936 words
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Article173 2001-06-02 17 Foreign Currency Note (9am, Jun 1) Buying OD Rates Selling Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 0.9080 0.9210 Canadian dollar 1.1650 1.1900 NZ dollar 0.7330 0.7570 Sterling pound 2.5560 2.5820 US dollar 1.8050 1.8170 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.02173 words
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Article, Illustration417 2001-06-02 17 LOH CHEN YI - Worse-than-expected figure for April is the second month this year of negative growth Bu LOH CHEN YI SINGAPORE’S industrial production shrank a worse-than-expected 0.8 per cent in April compared to the same month last year, largely as a result of the US economic slowdown. This is417 words
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Article3330 2001-06-02 18 Transaction date: Jun 1, ***** MULTI INDUSTRY 52-Wk Vol Day Gr*s Net M Cep Wt Avg High Low Company Traded Sale ♦orooo High Low Div P/C 5mil Price 143 35 C Acma 50c 38 cd -1 664 39.5 38 0.5 10 65.9 39 8.7 8.53,330 words
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Article950 2001-06-02 19 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Transaction date: Jun 1, ***** 52-Wk High Low Company Lost Sole ♦orVol '000 Day High Low Last Quote Buyer Seiler Wt Avg Price 37 0.5 s Acma W*****4 ...0.5 0.5 1 15 2.5 s AIITech W*****7 3 1.5 3 31 13.5 s Amtek W*****0 ....20 -0.5 9950 words
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Article1276 2001-06-02 19 52-Wk High Low Curr Last Company Traded Sale ♦orVol '000 Day High Low Gr*s Div Nat P/C M Cap $mll Wt Avg Price MANUFACTURING 168 43 C AS Auto 10c 60.5 ♦2.5 279 60.5 58 10 N 24.2 79.4 61 82 30 c ASJ Hldgs 20c 48.5 3.81,276 words
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Article230 2001-06-02 19 FINANCE 52-Wk High Low Company Curr Last Traded Sale ♦orVol Day Gr*s M Cap Wt Av '000 High Low Div NAV $mil Prk -***** ***** 6890 555 6060 545 s IS DJ US Tech s IS MSCI Spore US6080cd US545 *****0 ***** ***** ***** s SPDRS US*****cd -160230 words
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438 2001-06-02 20 NICHOLAS FANG - Singapore's carrier may sell its Air NZ stake in return for ownership of Aussie No. 2 airline By NICHOLAS FANG TRANSPORT REPORTER SINGAPORE Airlines’ long-standing aim of acquiring Australia’s No 2 airline Ansett has received a major boost, ironically from one of its438 words
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Article, Illustration549 2001-06-02 20 BRUCE CHONG - LONG QUEUE AT THE DEW Bit BRUCE CHONG SINGAPORE’S depressed property market may be showing signs of revival with a frenzy of interest in a new executive condominium project unseen in years along with the launch of this year’s first collective sale site. A longJOSE ENRIQUE SORIANO - 549 words
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419 2001-06-02 20 AZHAR KHALID - By AZHAR KHALID MARKETS CORRESPONDENT CAUTIOUS local investors seem to be shying away from betting that Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel) shares will rise 10 per cent, prompting Deutsche Bank to call off plans to issue call warrants on the stock. The German bank issued an419 words
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308 2001-06-02 20 NICHOLAS FANG - By NICHOLAS FANG TRANSPORT REPORTER SINGAPORE Airlines’ (SlA’s) plan to bag Australia’s No. 2 airline, Ansett, as part of a quid pro quo deal with Qantas has hit regulatory and political turbulence at the New Zealand end of the deal. The strongest resistence to308 words
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FORUM
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347 2001-06-02 23 I READ with interest how the National Healthcare Group (NHG) will be leading a large-scale, integrated, comprehensive disease-management plan, which will include primary and secondary health care for six major illnesses (“Battle plan against six major illnesses”; ST, May 24). Your paper also listed347 words
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Article, Illustration392 2001-06-02 23 I THANK Dr Andrew Peh (“Health plan must not overlook depression”; ST, May 26) for highlighting the importance and growing concern of mental illnesses in our local and global context. The National Healthcare Group (NHG) is aware of this major public health issue. One of392 words
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184 2001-06-02 23 IT IS absurd to read that SBS is asking the Public Transport Council (PTC) to allow it to raise bus fares. When it introduced TVMobile in its buses, didn’t it say that the advertising revenue would help it resist pressure to184 words
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380 2001-06-02 23 I APPLAUD the Economic Development Board’s (EDB) efficiency in getting nine world-class universities to set up their outposts here. However, I am disappointed by the type of universities selected. Seven world-class varsities specialising in medicine, the sciences, business and engineering are already here.380 words
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241 2001-06-02 23 Singaporeans often boast of being excellent in many areas, such as having the best airport, financial hub, information technology and producing maths wizards. However, one area that we dare not boast about and ought to be ashamed of are our dirty URA and241 words
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231 2001-06-02 24 SALMA KHALIK - By SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT JAMUNA, one of the Siamese twins who were separated recently, returned on Thursday to the operating theatre so surgeons could do more work on her scalp. On Tuesday, she and her sister, Ganga, had their wounds inspected and dressed231 words
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Article, Illustration293 2001-06-02 24 SAND takes on the shapes of legends and famous sites on Sentosa Island this month. From tonight until June 24, Sentosa will hold its third annual sand-sculpting event at Siloso Beach. It opens with a bang fire rockets and other pyrotechnics at 7.30 pmTERENCE TAN - 293 words
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Article, Illustration332 2001-06-02 24 CHANG AI-LIEN - *L CHANG AI-LIEN WHEN he was in junior college, John joined a gang, played truant and was a consistent F-student. In 1999, while he was repeating his first year, he was sentenced to 18 months reformative training for stealing computer parts. And everything changed.332 words
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388 2001-06-02 24 BRAEMA MATHI - As a reminder of the value of family life, Deputy PM discloses funding for five-year programme By BRAEMA MATHI COMMUNITY CORRESPONDENT EDUCATING the public on the value of family life got a $5O million boost last Saturday. The money half from the Government388 words