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Title Section19 2001-06-23 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Saturday June 23,2001 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA 072/08/200019 words
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Article567 2001-06-23 1 EDNA KOH - If cash-and-shares offer comes off, DBS Bank will become Asia's third biggest bank outside of Japan and Australia By EDNA KOH FINANCE CORRESPONDENT THE pace of Singapore’s big banking shake-up quickened dramatically yesterday when DBS Group Holdings launched a $9.4 billion hostile bid for567 words
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Article, Illustration325 2001-06-23 1 CHAN TSE CHUEEN - B}L CHAN TSE CHUEEN SHE is an international age-group swimming champion and a performing pianist and violinist. But what Lee Ning, 11, really wants to be when she grows up is a medical doctor like her mother, Koo Xian Yeang. “I want to be a paediatrician,”325 words
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Advertisement57 2001-06-23 1 The sniffer dog team and police at the Woodlands checkpoint made two dramatic heroin finds in two days this week, both were hidden in BMWs page 7 Takeover bid Turbulence Over Australasia Takeover bids by Singapore Airlines and SingTel have ruffled feathers in Australia, setting SIA and Qantas on what57 words
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PRIME
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Article342 2001-06-23 2 LAUREL TEO - Flat-rate rise benefits those who are paid less, and is in line with NWC call for cautious approach Bq, LAUREL TEO FROM the most junior clerk to the head of the Civil Service, every civil servant will get a monthly pay rise of $3O342 words
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Article, Illustration336 2001-06-23 2 ALVIN CHIANG; and K.C. V1JAYAN - B y ALVIN CHIANG and K.C. V1JAYAN A 24-YEAR-OLD man with no history of serious medical problems died mysteriously on Sunday night, two days after being admitted to the National University Hospital complaining of pain in his knee. The sudden death of full-time336 words
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264 2001-06-23 2 SUSAN LONG - By SUSAN LONG POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE US is likely to remain the pre-eminent world power for up to the next five decades, according to Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. This is not just because of its technological edge, but also because of264 words
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Article115 2001-06-23 2 FORMER US Secretary of State James Baker had a special message from President George W. Bush about the American leader’s recent meeting with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Mr Baker told Senior Min- ister Lee Kuan Yew he had spoken to Mr Bush on the115 words
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Article, Illustration290 2001-06-23 2 KRISTBOO - BIL KRISTBOO COME New Year’s Day, Singapore’s two landmark hotels in the Marina Square area will officially get new names, a new chief and a multi-million dollar face-lift. The four-star Westin Stamford and the five-star Westin Plaza will be branded as Raffles International hotels290 words
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427 2001-06-23 3 KERRY-ANNE WALSH - Singapore and Aussie ministerial delegations say they are aiming for agreement to help fast-traclc regional trade by October By KERRY-ANNE WALSH IN CANBERRA AUSTRALIA and Singapore are aiming to have a historic free-trade agreement in place by October the issue has dominated wide-ranging bilaterial427 words
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Article381 2001-06-23 3 KAREN WONG - *L KAREN WONG THE wife of Teo Cheng Kiat, the crooked employee who embezzled nearly $35 million from Singapore Airlines, has been charged in court almost one year after Teo was sentenced to 24 years’ jail. Maureen Tan Lay Bee, 50, faces eight charges of381 words
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Article, Illustration387 2001-06-23 3 SANDRA DAVIE - ?}L SANDRA DAVIE JUST a few years ago few people would have heard of Radin Mas Primary in Bukit Purmei, Peixin Primary in Yishun or Rulang Primary in Jurong West. Now, every July, parents are forming long queues at these schools trying to get387 words
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351 2001-06-23 3 LIM HONG LING; and PHILIP ALLEN - By LIM HONG LING and PHILIP ALLEN SINGAPORE’S first experiment with open bidding for certificates of entitlement (COEs) drew to a close on Wednesday. The magic number was $28,471. That is what the 671 successful bidders will pay. It had been due to351 words
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HOME
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348 2001-06-23 4 LEONG WENG KAM - By] LEONG WENG KAM A CONTROVERSIAL book on relations between ethnic Chinese in Singapore and those in Johor Barn is likely to be a hot topic among participants at the international conference on Chinese communities here and in Malaysia next weekend. Entitled348 words
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Article, Illustration403 2001-06-23 4 KARAMJIT KAUR - He receives $25,000 compensation from the British government for being interned by the Japanese during WWII Bui KARAMJIT KAUR ABOUT a month ago, Mr Jimmy Chew received a pleasant surprise in the mail a letter from his bank informing him that more than $25,000403 words
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Article, Illustration330 2001-06-23 4 CHAN KAY MIN - Bui CHAN KAY MIN FOR the first time in its 27year history, 142 Squadron of the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) has won Best Fighter Squadron Award in the armed forces’ Best Unit Awards. The squadron, which flies the A4SU Super Skyhawk fighter-bomber, wasALAN LI M - 330 words
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258 2001-06-23 4 A MAN struck his mother on the head with the handle of a fruit knife and threatened to throw her from their 21st storey flat off North Bridge Road. They were at home on March 1 when Madam Lee Jiak Hua, 61, saw258 words
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516 2001-06-23 5 GRACE SUNG - By GRACE SUNG EUROPE CORRESPONDENT PARIS Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tony Tan has underlined the important role played by France in enhancing the operational effectiveness of Singapore’s armed forces. “We have very high respect for French engineering capacity and regularly buy military516 words
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498 2001-06-23 5 SALMA KHALIK - By SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT THE exodus of specialists from the public health sector continues, in spite of the measures taken in the past year to stem the outflow. In the first three months of the year, 15 specialists quit, compared with 12 in498 words
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Article, Illustration451 2001-06-23 5 CHONG CHEE KIN - Gim Lens; Monksfield criticised the Singapore Cricket Club’s no-maids rule; her husband’s also banned for six months By CHONG CHEE KIN A WOMAN who slammed the Singapore Cricket Club publicly over its no-maids policy has been banned from the premises. Her husband, a full member451 words
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Article542 2001-06-23 6 ELENACHONG - Student warned 15-year-old girl that he would expose her sexual exploits unless could be her pimp BtL ELENACHONG AN UNDERGRADUATE sent threatening messages to a 15-year-old girl over the Internet. He also stated he would be her pimp after she turned down his request542 words
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Article, Illustration589 2001-06-23 6 KOH BOON PIN ixicmirD r>r\DDreiir - B y KOH BOON PIN ixicmirD r>r\DDreiir\ CONSUMER CORRESPONDENT A BID by a private-bus association to start feeder-bus services may have been nipped in the bud. In a letter to Monday’s Straits Times’ Forum, the Public Transport Council (PTC), said: “Standalone589 words
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291 2001-06-23 6 MATCH-FIXING THE final chapter in the S-League match-fixing saga closed on Tuesday with a man jailed for giving false information to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. Cedric Edward, 31, a salesman, admitted faxing a letter with false information to the bureau director on July291 words
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Article94 2001-06-23 6 CHEMICAL levels in water collected near the spot where a tanker leaked a dangerous corrosive off Pulau Übin have been found to be within safe limits. But Singaporeans are advised not to fish or go into the sea off the east coast until after further testing.94 words
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463 2001-06-23 7 KRISTBOO; SG tzeyong; and TERENCE POON - Taxi passengers say they would benefit more from better service than from Net-enabled cabs KRISTBOO, SG tze yong and TERENCE POON WE WOULD rather have a cabby who helps us with our bags than an Internet service on wheels, said most commuters straw-polled463 words
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Article, Illustration350 2001-06-23 7 SELINA LUM - TWO HAULS OF HEROIN fit SELINA LUM POLICE dogs sniffed out nearly 3 kg of heroin hidden in a car that was about to enter Singapore through the Woodlands Checkpoint. The drugs were in the dashboard of a blue BMW driven by a 34-year-oldPICTURES: SEAH KWANG PENG - 350 words
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Article, Illustration195 2001-06-23 7 A 59-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested for trying to smuggle heroin into Singapore across the Causeway the second BMW-driving drug suspect arrested in two days. The unemployed Singaporean, driving a white 728 i BMW, was stopped by Central Narcotics Bureau officers last Saturday195 words
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Article238 2001-06-23 7 MURDER OF YOUNG LION A MAN has been charged with ganging up with five others to bludgeon a young national soccer player to death. Muhamad Hasik Sahar, 21, unemployed, is the first to be charged with the murder of Mr Sulaiman Hashim, 18, in South Bridge238 words
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237 2001-06-23 7 SEAMAN Jamaston Manulang, who was badly burned in last Friday’s fuel-barge explosion, died at the Singapore General Hospital on Tuesday afternoon. The 25-year-old Indonesian who is from Medan, had been fighting for his life for the last five days. He was unconscious when he was237 words
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Article, Illustration534 2001-06-23 8 TRACY OUEK - Star American student says six years at Pei Hwa Presbyterian put him on the path to success *L TRACY OUEK HE WAS the only Caucasian pupil in school and, with his short-cropped blond hair, William Horn stood out at Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary.ENRIQUE SORIANO - 534 words
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211 2001-06-23 8 A 12-YEAR-OLD boy who set fire to banners, shoe-racks and other household objects and threw objects including a concrete slab from a Housing Board flat has been put on probation for 30 months. He must go on prison visits, and when he turns 14,211 words
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Page 8 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1061 2001-06-23 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 Word1,061 words
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SPORTS
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Article, Illustration622 2001-06-23 9 GERARD WONG - Troubled Stags take action after sinking to the bottom of the S-League, new signings likely SOCCER Bu GERARD WONG TAMPINES Rovers chairman Teo Hock Seng has lived up to his nickname of “Teo Hock Sack” by firing Stags coach V. SivaJingam and three players. Although Teo,622 words
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225 2001-06-23 9 CHAIN TSE CHUEEN - SWIMMENG ftL± CHAIN TSE CHUEEN THE hat-trick of national records proved elusive but even the 0.19-second miss could not mar Gary Tan’s night at the South-east Asia Games swimming trials. The 19-year-old had earlier smashed the 200-m back- stroke and 200-m Individual Medley national225 words
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Article176 2001-06-23 9 ATHLETICS THE Singapore Amateur Athletic Association nominated a 13-man squad for September’s South-east Asia Games on Tuesday and then arranged major lead-up training stints and competitions for them. The SNOC will decide on the final SEA Games squad by July 3. SAAA president Loh Lin Kok said176 words
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SPORT IN SHORT
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Article50 2001-06-23 9 SINGAPORE launched a four-woman assault on the Philippines Open Masters qualifiers (overseas pool). National bowlers Yap Seok Kim, Jesmine Ho, Alice Tay and Jennifer Tan finished second, third, fourth and fifth respectively, behind Malaysia’s Lai Kian Ngoh after the first block of games on Tuesday.50 words
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Article27 2001-06-23 9 NATIONAL bowlers Shaun Ng and Remy Ong are almost certain to qualify for the Philippines Open Masters after impressive displays in Manila on Wednesday.27 words
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41 2001-06-23 9 SINGAPORE won two silver and two bronze medals at the Golden Rackets Table Tennis Championships in Vietnam last weekend. The team was without the bulk of its national players, including Jing Junhong and Li Jiawei.41 words
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MALAYSIA
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Article, Illustration483 2001-06-23 10 BRENDAN PEREIRA - You haven’t arrived yet, he tells Malaysia’s Malays, in blistering summary of the community’s ills By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has questioned the Malay community’s drive to succeed and accused them of being lazy and ungrateful to the government. OpeningREUTERS - 483 words
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Article179 2001-06-23 10 PRIME Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Umno was not engaging in selective prosecution by exposing a number of its senior leaders for alleged involvement in vote buying. He said the party wanted to send a warning on the dangers of “money politics” in the current drive179 words
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Article, Illustration492 2001-06-23 10 LESLIE LAU - POLICE WERE TRYING TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE GROUP HAD UHKS WITH OSAMA BIH LADEN. By LESLIE LAU IN KUALA LUMPUR SIX members of an extremist militant group planning to wage a holy war for an Islamic state and who were responsible for a seriesBERITA HARIAN MALAYSIA - 492 words
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Article262 2001-06-23 10 LESLIE LAU - By LESLIE LAU IN KUALA LUMPUR IN WHAT appear to be copycat abductions, pirates with links to the Abu Sayyaf rebels have attacked six Malaysian vessels off Sabah, kidnapping several people on board for ransom. The abductions occurred recently, Malaysian police said. The police rescued262 words
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Article121 2001-06-23 10 Bernama KOTA BARU A man who rushed to a clinic after being informed that his son had been stabbed to death was himself attacked by a group of men. Abdul Hadi Hamzah, 48, said his son, Ahmad Nasirudin, 18, died after being stabbed in byBernama - 121 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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306 2001-06-23 11 EDWARD TANG - By EDWARD TANG THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK An emotional Thaksin Shinawatra has told a packed courtroom that his political career and the nation’s interests should not be destroyed by an oversight over the declaration of his assets. The Thai Prime Minister al- so argued306 words
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270 2001-06-23 11 ARTURO BARIUAD - By ARTURO BARIUAD STRAITS TIMES PHILIPPINES RUREAU MANILA Cautious about making another blunder, the Philippine authorities yesterday offered a 5-million-peso (S$180,000) reward to anyone who could produce the body of an Abu Sayyaf leader who had reportedly died more than a week ago.270 words
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Article, Illustration530 2001-06-23 11 DEVI ASMARANI - Jakarta police crack down on demonstrators, public transport strike leaves thousands stranded By DEVI ASMARANI STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU THOUSANDS of people were left stranded in Indonesian cities earlier this week after pub-lic-transport operators went on strike, in protest against 30 per cent fuel-priceAFP - 530 words
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261 2001-06-23 11 MARIANNE KEARNEY - By MARIANNE KEARNEY STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Indonesia’s army chief has hit back at President Abdurrahman Wahid’s recent attempts to gain support for declaring emergency law, arguing that the armed forces could disobey commands if the order violated the law or the261 words
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COMMENT
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Article518 2001-06-23 12 MONDAY JUNE 18,2001 A QUARTER of randomly selected baby food and milk products in Thai supermarkets has tested positive for genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), according to Greenpeace activists who picketed food multinational Nestle’s Bangkok headquarters last week. Such food products contain organisms that have been modified genetically518 words
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Article545 2001-06-23 12 WEDNESDAY JUNE 20,2001 MALAYSIAN police reports that pirates have added kidnap to their “traditional” activity of preying on merchant shipping are alarming, although perspective is advised. In boardings of Malaysian craft in Sabah waters in recent weeks, pirates believed connected with the Philippine Abu Sayyaf rebels reportedly545 words
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Article949 2001-06-23 12 hCHUA LEE HOONC - SATURDAY With h CHUA LEE HOONC AT A dinner party I attended last Friday, satiated with dou-ble-boiled herbal chicken and popiah, a visiting professor from Copenhagen burst forth with an exclamation he had made earlier that evening: “Singapore is so Chinese”. No, don’t jump to949 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration970 2001-06-23 13 TAN TARN HOW - MY VIEW TAN TARN HOW IT IS a well-known fact of human development that most people who start to learn a language after a certain age cannot ever attain native speaker mastery of it. This so-called “window” period is reckonedLUDVVJG ILIO - 970 words
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Article831 2001-06-23 13 WITH ASAD LATIF - HEART TO HEART WITH WITH ASAD LATIF MANY Asians are consumed by an interest in the US as the land of free speech, free trade and free love. Ordinary Americans, however, hardly reciprocate that interest. A US scholar who suggested that Americans’ fascination was limited831 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration2111 2001-06-23 14 Political parties here and elsewhere go to great lengths to woo young voters, especially those under 30. But do they care? And how real is their apathy towards politics? Our political correspondent YAP CHUM WEI finds out. POLITICS? What politics? That, it seems, sums2,111 words
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1520 2001-06-23 15 WARREN FERNANDEZ - Is the NUS ‘gifted programme elitist? THINKING ALOUD By By WARREN FERNANDEZ YOU could have seen it coming. As soon as I heard the National University of Singapore had plans for a “gifted programme”, dubbed the University Scholars Programme to help stretch some of its best students I sensed the1,520 words
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MONEY
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293 2001-06-23 16 A BROAD—BASED rally in the market at the end of the week lifted shares slightly higher after being weighed down by economic concerns mid-week. Investors bargain hunting for heavyweight stocks after they had been oversold, provided much of the support to the Straits293 words
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Article2103 2001-06-23 16 Company Date ann Net earn TY LY ($m) (Sen) 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 7.9 L A EM Evertech 29-Mar P 9.693 8.673 3 2.7 Alexandra 12-Jun P 0.109 4.019 0.36 13.4 Amara 28-Mar2,103 words
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Article123 2001-06-23 16 BONUS ISSUE ExBooks ACC Company Ratio Pat* close Paymt HuanHsin one-for-four 27-Jun 02-Jul NA Delgro one-four-one 08-Jun 13-Jun NA RIGHTS ISSUE ExBooks Acc Company Ratio date close Paymt Presscrete one-for-one @>$0.10 08-Jun 13-Jun OTHERS ExBooks Acc Company Ratio date dose Paymt Wing Tai 150,000 1.5% RCCPS of US$1,000123 words
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Article138 2001-06-23 16 Company Place Oat* Time S'pore Finance E Grand Ballroom 1 Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel 392 Havelock Rd S’pore (*****3) 17-Jul 4.00pm LHT Hldgs A 27 Sungei Kadut Street 1 S'pore{*****5) 29-Jun 3.30pm Asplal Corp E 55 Ubi Avenue 1 »07-11 Ubi Building S'pore(*****5) 29-Jun 9.30am PNE Ind E138 words
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Article124 2001-06-23 16 Company Description L&M The Board of Oirectors of L&M Group Investments Ltd Is proposing a capital reduction to be carried out by the Company to reduce the par value of each ordinary share in the capital of the Company from SS0.50 to SSO.IO. MAE Enqq The Board of124 words
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Article74 2001-06-23 16 Straits Times Index The Straits Times Index rose 10.78 points on the week to 1,716.88 DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1713.72 7.62) 392m ($570.1m) Tuesday 1701.61 (-12.11) 430.4m ($514.1m) Wednesday 1684.8 (-16.81) 445m($614.7m) Thursday 1685.93 1.13) 611.3m ($748.4m) Friday 1716.88 (+30.95) 552.1m ($744m) BT-SRI Index The BT-SRI Index74 words
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Article626 2001-06-23 16 Payment Ex (cts) date Books close Pay date ACE 20c b 0.05 11-Jun 14-Jun 03-Jul Acma 50c F 0.25 08-Jun 13-Jun 23-Aug Achleva 5c F 0.2 14-Jun 19-Jun 03-Jul Amara 20c b 0.4 11-Jun 14-Jun 29-Jul Allgreen50c F 3 05-Jun 08-Jun 25-Jun Apollo Ent F 0.5 04-Jun 07-Jun626 words
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Article2900 2001-06-23 17 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' prices (S$) UNIT TRUSTS Aterdeen Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNC Fd 0.740 0.778 Global Technology Fd!** 0.631 0.664 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.746 0.784 American Opport Fd 0.840 0.882 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 0.998 1.049 Japan Eqty Fd!** 1.185 1.245 Asian Fixed2,900 words
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Article173 2001-06-23 17 Foreign Currency Note Rotes (9am, Jun 22) Buying 00 Selling Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 0.9330 0.9460 Canadian dollar 1.1840 1.2090 N2 dollar 0.7440 0.7670 Sterling pound 2.5640 2.5910 US dollar 1.8150 1.8270 Singapore dollars to 100 un*ts of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.18173 words
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Article484 2001-06-23 17 LOH CHENYI - Plunge in electronics shipments results in the worst showing for Singapore since the Asian crisis fit/ 1 LOH CHENYI THE clouds over Singapore’s external trade performance darkened last month as key non-oil domestic exports slumped by 9 per cent to their worst showing since the484 words
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Article166 2001-06-23 17 PUNTERS’ dreams of a big, cash-rich foreign electronics company buying Omni Industries have come true but they may not reap the big windfall they hoped for. The world’s No 3 electronics contract maker, Toronto-based Celestica, is acquiring Omni in a $1.6 billion cash-and-shares deal in166 words
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Article3918 2001-06-23 18 Transaction date: Jun 22,2001 MULTI INDUSTRY 52-Wk Curr Last Vol Day Gr's Net M Cap Wt Avg High Low Company Traded Salt ♦or'000 High Low Div P/E $mil Price 41.5 133 41.5 40.5 0.5 10.9 72 41 41 8 c Alliance Tech 13 10.7 103,918 words
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Article972 2001-06-23 19 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Transaction date: Jun 22,2001 52-Wk High Low Last Company Sale ♦orVol '000 Day High Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Wt Avg Price 37 0.5 s Acma W*****4 0.5 0.5 1 15 2.5 s AIITech W*****7 ..3 1 3 42.5 13.5 s Amtek W*****0 35 -1.5 522 36972 words
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Article1268 2001-06-23 19 52-Wk High Low Curr Lost Company Traded Sola ♦orVol 000 Day High Low Gr** Dlv Net P/E M Cop $mil Wt Avg Price MANUFACTURING 40.5 31 C AP Oil 5c 34 -0.5 1167 35 33.5 8.7 29.8 34 168 43 C AS Auto 10c 59.5 ♦0.5 525 60.51,268 words
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Article236 2001-06-23 19 FINANCE 52-Wk High Low Company Curr Last Traded Sale Vo) Day Cr*s ♦or- '000 High Low Dlv M Cap WtAvg NAV $mil Price ***** ***** s DiamondsUS***** ♦60 ***** ***** 6890 5630 s IS DJ US Tech US5700 555 530 s IS MSCI Spore —...US530 ***** ***** S236 words
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Article, Illustration524 2001-06-23 20 EDNA KOH - By EDNA KOH FINANCE CORRESPONDENT DBS GROUP Holdings and OCBC Bank, Singapore’s two largest banks by market capitalisation, have not ruled out buying other local banks, fuelling growing speculation that more consolidation in the sector is on the way. Even as OCBC awaited524 words
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510 2001-06-23 20 NICHOLAS FANG - Singapore carrier does not intend to sell 25% stake to Qantas; it wants to increase Air NZ stake DOGFIGHT FOR AIR NZ By NICHOLAS FANG TRANSPORT REPORTER SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has won crucial backing from Air New Zealand (Air NZ) to lift510 words
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Article, Illustration276 2001-06-23 20 DENESH DIVYANATHAN - By DENESH DIVYANATHAN TECHNOLOGY REPORTER NATIONAL pride appears to have reared its ugly head in Australia over plans by Singapore Airlines (SLA) and Singapore Telecom (Sing Tel) to take stakes in corporate Australia. Raising concerns in a recent interview, Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon suggested276 words
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498 2001-06-23 20 WILLIAM CHOONG; and DENESH DIVYANATHAN - By WILLIAM CHOONG and DENESH DIVYANATHAN IN ANOTHER blow to Singapore’s weakening disk-drive industry, US giant Maxtor Corporation is retrenching 700 staff over the next two weeks in what is believed to be the biggest mass layoff this year. The job losses represent498 words
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Advertisement1111 2001-06-23 21 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Seize This Rare Opportunity In The Life Sciences Industry CANCER THERAPEUTICS RESEARCH GROUP (CTRG) The CTRG is a co-operative cancer research group comprising the National University Hospital National University of Singapore, Sydney Cancer Centre, Johns Hopkins-NUH International Medical Center and Chinese University of Hong Kong.1,111 words
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Advertisement996 2001-06-23 22 Yes, you can make that ifference Senior Officer (Resource Development Division) The Resource Development Division ensures that the economy is supported by a globally competitive energy market and adequate supply of industrial land, competitively priced and equipped with worldclass supporting infrastructure. As a Senior Officer with the Resource Development Division,996 words
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FORUM
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Article191 2001-06-23 23 Looking at the programmes on Kids Central, I am disappointed to find fewer classic, educational programmes like “Barney and Friends”, “Blues Clues” and “Sesame Street”. These are greatly missed by my three-year-old daughter, who enjoys such programmes. They impart sound family and social values. Instead, in191 words
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Article114 2001-06-23 23 I CAN’T agree more with Mr Kenneth Michael Jobes, “Fewer crashes if headlights are on” (ST, June 16), on how many motorists don’t use headlights. I deplore this ignorance of the need for headlights when driving in the early hours, at dusk and in rainy weather.114 words
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317 2001-06-23 23 I REFER to the letter, “Provide employers incentives to start flexi-hours” (ST, June 13), by Mr Ng Lee Meng. Mr Ng suggested that the Government study the various industries and recommend appropriate flexi-hour structures and award tax rebates to employers who adopted them.317 words
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Article, Illustration249 2001-06-23 23 I REFER to the article, “Exam blues during June holidays” by Ms Shahida Ariff. Miss Koh Sauk Keow, principal of Yio Chu Kang Secondary, seems confident that this method can help her students work. Has she given thought as to whether this could be249 words
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Article391 2001-06-23 23 THE Public Transport Council (PTC) would like to thank all your readers for their feedback on the recent fare-revision exercise. Any proposal to increase public-transport fares is bound to be controversial. The PTC recognises this and, in every fare application review, tries to balance391 words
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Article368 2001-06-23 24 SALMA KHALIK - Fresh fund-raising effort gets a slom boost with donation in memory of rags-to-riches pioneer By SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT NANYANG Technological University has hit its target of $5OO million for its endowment fund IV2 years ahead of schedule. The amount includes $417 million from368 words
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228 2001-06-23 24 WONG FEI WAN - *L WONG FEI WAN JAMES Gomez, the former executive director of activist group Think Centre, has been fined $l,BOO for drink driving and banned from driving for one year. He admitted driving while under the influence of alcohol on Jan 10. Before228 words
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Article192 2001-06-23 24 M. NIRMALA - *l M. NIRMALA TWO eminent scientists will come on board at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) this week in a boost to its effort to help Singapore become a major life-sciences hub. Based in the US, they join the university to chart its entry into the192 words
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Article, Illustration62 2001-06-23 24 ARMY'S ACTION HEROES l This year’s Best Combat Unit for the Army is, once again, the elite Ist Commando Battalion, led by commanding officer Mike Tan. The unit has won the annual award 17 times since it was introduced in 1974, but as Lieutenant-Colonel Tan pointed out:ALANLIM - 62 words