The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 17 November 2001
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Title Section21 2001-11-17 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Saturday, November 17,2001 J 7 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA 304/03/200121 words
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Article, Illustration611 2001-11-17 1 LAURELTEO - Five new mayors will lead beefed-up councils to carry out grassroots welfare programmes and help in job placements By LAURELTEO SINGAPORE will be divided into five districts, down from the present nine and each to be managed by a super community development councilJOYCE FANG - 611 words
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Advertisement60 2001-11-17 1 Leisure Revitalising Chinese Garden Restaurants, a foodcourt and tram rides through the park, which will be lit by nearly 200 lamps, are among the plans for a revamped leisure spot, page h P ROPE RTY Nuovo Success Buoyed by the success of the Nuovo executive condominium, which is 98% sold,60 words
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PRIME
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474 2001-11-17 2 TAN 001 BOON - Beginning early last month, more than 25 people have sent letters containing talcum powder to various organisations here By TAN 001 BOON ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR MORE than 25 pranksters here and abroad have tried to create an anthrax scare in Singapore by sending anonymous474 words
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432 2001-11-17 2 MARGARET PERRY - Bn MARGARET PERRY OSTEOPOROSIS has long been considered a woman’s illness but new research shows that in Singapore, more men than women are affected by the brittle-bone disease. Researchers at the National University of Singapore were surprised when a study of 608 local healthy432 words
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Article106 2001-11-17 2 NEPALESE twins Ganga and Jamuna, who were surgically separated here about six months ago, will fly home with their family tomorrow morning. The 18-month-old girls, bom joined at the head, were separated by doctors at the Singapore General Hospital during a 97-hour operation in April. Said106 words
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Article, Illustration433 2001-11-17 2 DAWN WONG - By DAWN WONG UNTIL six years ago, the library was just a place people visited to browse, pick up a few books and get them stamped on the way out. Others would go there to sit for a while and flip through a magazineLAU FOOK KWANG - 433 words
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Article, Illustration394 2001-11-17 3 TOMMT WEE - *2. TOMMT WEE A PREGNANT woman is in hospital with severe food poisoning after eating at the new-ly-opened Food Street in Chinatown. Madam Vivien Ng, 29, her husband and her mother all experienced stomach pains and other symptoms of foodJOHN COSGROVE - 394 words
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631 2001-11-17 3 ASAD LATIF - SM Lee was responding to civil society group The Roundtable, which had called for changes to the electoral system Bil ASAD LATIF STRAIGHT textbook West-ern-style democracy, being preached by non-govern-mental organisations, would not work in Singapore, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said last631 words
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407 2001-11-17 3 LIANG HWEE TING - *L LIANG HWEE TING SECONDARY school children can no longer use the excuse that they have no time to visit the dentist. Starting next year, the Ministry of Health will provide free dental services in secondary schools. By the end of next year, eight407 words
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HOME
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Article440 2001-11-17 4 ALICIA YEO - Approved size cut by one to two square metres, giving builders more flexibility when designing housing projects *IL ALICIA YEO DEVELOPERS will have more room to play with now that bomb shelters will be made smaller. This is because mandatory bomb shelters in each housing440 words
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536 2001-11-17 4 JULYN KANG - ĔIL JULYN KANG MORE than 4,800 disgruntled Raffles Town Club members are going to court to get back the $28,000 each paid to join the club. They said they joined because of the club’s claim to be exclusive, but found out later that membership536 words
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Article, Illustration495 2001-11-17 4 NEO HUI MIN - *L NEO HUI MIN NEE Soon East temple folks and Hungry Ghost Festival organisers will no longer be asked for donations upfront when they apply to hold the annual festival. They can also see their MP directly to apply for festival permits ifLIANHE ZAOBAO - 495 words
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Article, Illustration372 2001-11-17 5 ASAD LATIF - §IL ASAD LATIF CREW changes have to be made for “RSS Singapore” to continue on its journey, Minister for Community Development and Sports and Minis-ter-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Abdullah Tarmugi said at a farewell dinner for three retiring Malay-Muslim MPs on Wednesday night.HOW HWEE YOUNG - 372 words
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436 2001-11-17 5 CHANG AI-LIEN - in CHANG AI-LIEN AFTER winning top honours for growing vegetables from temperate climates in sunny Singapore, Associate Professor Lee Sing Kong has set his sights even higher growing trees faster and cheaper. The dean of graduate programmes and research at the436 words
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377 2001-11-17 5 MARGARET PERRY - Special ultrasound scan checks for Down’s syndrome and other Eroblems, but many do not now about it or give it a miss §1 MARGARET PERRY MANY pregnant women here are missing out on a simple but important procedure to detect birth defects in377 words
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214 2001-11-17 5 A SINGAPORE doctor is working towards a safer and faster way of detecting conditions like Down’s syndrome and hereditary blood disorder thalassaemia in unborn babies. The technique uses foetal cells taken from a maternal blood sample and avoids the risk of miscarriage posed214 words
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372 2001-11-17 6 CHANG Al-LIEN - By CHANG Al-LIEN MORE than 150 engineers at Seagate Technology International have come together to develop a host of cheaper but high-end hard-disk drives for personal computers and consumer products. Called the U-Series, the product has already captured 35 per cent of372 words
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398 2001-11-17 6 LEONG WENG RAM - More businessmen are going for courses on Chinese history, philosophy, politics and even poetry so as to do well in China *L LEONG WENG RAM BEING able to speak Mandarin is not enough for many Singapore businessmen who want to do well in China.398 words
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Article, Illustration525 2001-11-17 6 SALMA KHALIK - By SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT DEEPAVALI on Wednesday was more than just a festival of lights for Mr Thanvanthri Nadesen Veerappan, 55. It was also a celebration of life for being Singapore’s first lung-transplant patient. But it has not been a smooth roadLIM SIN THAI - 525 words
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Article, Illustration150 2001-11-17 7 SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Jared Chua is among a group of volunteers who have been helping to fold and pack clothes for refugees in Myanmar since October. This is the second year that the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Singapore has organised a clotnes-collection drive for refugees. The clothes willWANG HUI FEN - 150 words
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459 2001-11-17 7 KOH BOON PIN - By KOH BOON PIN CONSUMER CORRESPONDENT THE cruise industry here, once sailing on the crest of a wave, has entered some choppy waters. Business this year has dipped 8 per cent in the wake of the slowing global economy and the Sept 11 terrorist459 words
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408 2001-11-17 7 SIM CHI YIN - August pay used in calculations may have been inflated for some; review will take 4-6 weeks Bn SIM CHI YIN ABOUT 8,000 Singaporeans have appealed to the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board for a larger allotment of New Singapore Shares (NSS). According408 words
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Article257 2001-11-17 7 MADAM Wong Kwai Keng, 46, is unemployed and has shared a rented room of a three-room flat with her husband and sev-en-year-old daughter for four years. Her new four-room Housing Board flat in Punggol was ready at the end of August and she expected to257 words
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Article, Illustration453 2001-11-17 8 KRISTBOO - Restaurants, a foodcourt and tram rides through the park, which will be lit by nearly 200 lamps, among plans for garden §IL KRISTBOO BOTH the Chinese and Japanese gardens, which will dp away with entry fees starting today, want visitors to enjoy the gardensDESMOND FOO - 453 words
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Page 8 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1063 2001-11-17 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 Word1,063 words
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SPORTS
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388 2001-11-17 9 AFTER five nominations and eight months of waiting, Mirko Grabovac finally received the award he had been hoping for all along. Four times this season, the Singapore Armed Forces FC striker had been disappointed, although he did think his performances deserved a win. So, it was388 words
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Article, Illustration446 2001-11-17 9 MARC LIM - Doctors confirm that promising 21-year-old defender needs surgery for tom ligament SOCCER *L MARC LIM WHEN Mohamed Noh Rahman heard a crackling “pop” in the dying moments of the Singapore Cup final a fortnight ago, he feared the worst. And on Thursday,STREATS - 446 words
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637 2001-11-17 9 Marc Lim - SOCCER Marc Lim FLEMMING Nielsen is leaving Singapore because he cannot get along with Goal 2010 director Jan Poulsen. This, of course, is far from the truth. The two Danes are great friends. Said Nielsen, the national Under-23 coach: “The public would637 words
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MALAYSIA
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440 2001-11-17 10 Half of Proton car owners use imitation parts which last only one-third as long as genuine parts and almost always fail Proton Issues Safety Warning The Star/Asia News Network SHAH ALAM At least 800,000 Proton cars now on Malaysian roads pose aThe Star/Asia News Network - 440 words
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Article, Illustration80 2001-11-17 10 STUDENTS and teachers had a miracle escape from death on Monday morning when the roof of their school bus was shorn off in a spectacular accident near Labis, in Johor. There were 32 youngsters, two teachers and the driver aboard the bus when it skidded, overturned and spunPHOTOS: THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK - 80 words
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596 2001-11-17 10 -AFP BATU PAHAT (Johor) A Malaysian businessman is betting on a prized and endangered Asian fish species to woo investors when his company becomes the first aquaculture firm to be listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE). The Asian arowana, which-AFP - 596 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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480 2001-11-17 11 JAMES EAST - A spate of drug-induced offences highlights the dilemma police face in delicate situations JAMES EAST STRAITS TIMES THAILAND BUREAU BANGKOK Following a spate of drug-related heinous crimes, Thailand is examining its laws to decide whether police should be given more power to480 words
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404 2001-11-17 11 AFP AP HANOI The Vietnamese army is to call up women for the first time since the Vietnam War ended in 1975 amid a chronic shortage of qualified male conscripts to fill key technical and support positions, officials have said. From Nov 24, all– AFP; – AP - 404 words
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Article, Illustration397 2001-11-17 11 The Nation/ Asia News Network BANGKOK A woman accused of leaving her four children alone at a hotel for more than 40 days while she gambled at a casino in Cambodia denies having abandoned her children. She also denies havingThe Nation/ Asia News Network; THENATION/ASIANEWSNETWORK - 397 words
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COMMENT
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Article609 2001-11-17 12 TUESDAY November 13,2001 SOUTH Korea is allowing itself to be manipulated into needless contortions by the North at their periodic minis-terial-level talks. There is no other construction to put on a painfully unproductive series of diplomatic contacts the neighbours signed up to after the summit of609 words
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Article570 2001-11-17 12 WEDNESDAY November 14, 2001 AS BEST as can be made out, the world’s trading nations have avoided the ignominy of repeating the Seattle failure at their meeting in Doha, Qatar. The 1999 Seattle session of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) turned into an anarchists’jamboree, with the570 words
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868 2001-11-17 12 ANDYHO - COMMENT B'J ANDYHO IT’S farewell to the drawing-room’s civilised cry The professor’s sensible whereto and why The frock-coated diplomat’s social aplomb Now matters are settled with gas and with bomb. When poet W.H. Auden penned these Danse Macabre (dance of death) lines868 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration1020 2001-11-17 13 TAN TARN HOW - MY VIEW By TAN TARN HOW THE opposition made a number of complaints in this year’s polls, but the one that rings truest is that the electoral playing field is not level. Their goalposts are downhill, they said, and the People’sLUDWIG ILIO - 1,020 words
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961 2001-11-17 13 With ASAD LATIF - HEART TO HEART With ASAD LATIF WORLD War II is over. The Soviet Union is victorious, but it has paid a heavy price for defeating the enemy. Two groups of people, mostly women and older men, sit amid the ruins of a961 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration1965 2001-11-17 14 After Nov 3 what next for Singapore politics? The tide turned in the recent General Election. After 20 years in decline, the ruling party s share of the vote swung back up to 75.3 per cent. Our Senior Correspondent CHUA LEE HOONG examines what this means. PEOPLE were kept guessingTERENCETAN - 1,965 words
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1727 2001-11-17 15 B>/ WARREN FERNANDEZ - THINKING ALOUD B>/ WARREN FERNANDEZ WHAT is one to make of the Nov 3 polls result, in which three out of every four voters cast their lot with the ruling People’s Action Party? In doing so, they handed the party a massive 10-percentage-point1,727 words
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MONEY
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Article278 2001-11-17 16 POSITIVE economic news from the United States restored investor confidence in the Singapore market this week. Upbeat US retail sales data improved corporate earnings raised hopes that the world’s largest economy is in recovery mode. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) rose 59.4 points to278 words
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Article74 2001-11-17 16 Straits Times index The Straits Times Index rose 59.4 points on the week to 1,422.17. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1,370.32 7.55) 469.60m ($310.50m) Tuesday 1,366.33 3.99) 198.53m ($352.41m) Wednesday Public Holiday Thursday 1,432.17 (+65.84) 540.61m ($745.95m) Friday 1,422.17 (-10.0) 382.95m ($588.91m) BT-SRI Index The BT-SRI Index rose74 words
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394 2001-11-17 16 COLIN TAN PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT; LORNA TAN CORRESPONDENT - URA says developers can defer half of tne 20% downpayment until a project is completed, subject to some conditions By By COLIN TAN PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT and LORNA TAN CORRESPONDENT THE Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Monday relaxed its 20 per cent downpayment394 words
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Article448 2001-11-17 16 Company Net earn Date TY LY ann ($m) ($m) EPS TY (cts) LY (cts) Alfcom 25-Nov 031.878 6.780 1.02 4.91 Ascott Grp 30-Oct Q3 6.795 ***** 0.44 1.18 AP Brew 12-Nov P 95.561 50.768 37.8 20.1 AEM-Evertech 27-Sep 1 1.97 10.114 0.54 3.12 Ban Joo 26-Sep P 1.753448 words
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Article163 2001-11-17 16 BONUS ISSUE ExBooks Acc Company Ratio date close Paymt Chosen one-for-five 05-Dec 10-Dec NA HTL Intnl one-for-two 10-Dec 13-Dec NA IRE Corp one-for-four 13-Nov 19-Nov NA Total Auto one-for-two 04-Oct 09-Oct NA RIGHTS ISSUE ExBooks Acc Company Ratio date dose Paymt GES Intnl one-for-five® $0.30 27-Nov 30-Nov l-One.Net163 words
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Article207 2001-11-17 16 Company Place Date Time l-One.Net A 8th Floor Boardroom 1 Kaliang Way 2A Communications Techno Centre 03-Dec 10.00am Amtek Engg A Jurong Country C ub Albzia 1, Level 2 9 Science Centre Rd 30-Nov 3.00pm MMI Hldgs A 29 Woodlands Industrial Park E1 #01-16 NorthTech 30-Nov 10.00arr Lum207 words
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Article443 2001-11-17 16 Payment (cts) Ex date Books dose Amtek 20c F 0.8TE 06-Dec 11-Dec 20-Dec AP Brew F 9N 04-Feb 07-Feb 21-Feb Asia Dekor HK15c F RMB3TA 23-Oct 26-Oct 10-Dec Asia Power 5c F 0.75TE 06-Dec 11-Dec 20-Dec Aussino.com 2.5c F 0.82 29-Nov 04-Dec 18-Dec Autron A5c F A0.5 05-Nov443 words
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668 2001-11-17 16 Stock Trans Date Subsantiai Shareholder/ Director 3 Conv No of Shares '000 Price Per ShrS Before COOO) Shareholding After cooo) Acma Ltd 13-Nov-01 Mr Oei Hong Leong ♦Buy ***** 0.10 0 0.0 ***** 9.7 Acma Ltd 13-NOV-01 Chip Lian Pte Ltd •Buy ***** 0.10 0 0.0 *****668 words
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Article1358 2001-11-17 17 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS 1 UNIT TRUSTS 1 Aberdeen Asset Mqt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: China Opportunities Fd!** Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 0.897 /0.943 0.975/1.025 Global Technology Fd!** Indonesia Equity Fd!** 0.546/0.574 ......0.570/0.599 1.050/1.104 1.186/1.246 0.299/0.315 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.735 /0.773 ABN AMRO Asset Mqt (S) Ltd 0.983 Europe1,358 words
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Article129 2001-11-17 17 Foreign Currency Note Rates (9am, Nov 16) Buying OD Selling Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 0.9420 0.9670 Canadian dollar 1.1400 1.1640 NZ dollar 0.7590 0.7800 Sterling pound 2.6130 2.6400 1.8280 1.8400 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.63 11.87 Chinese129 words
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Article4948 2001-11-17 18 Transaction date: Nov 16,2001 MULTI INDUSTRY 52-Wk Currency last High Low Company Traded Sale ♦or’Vol 000 High Day Low Gr's Div Net P/E M Cap $mil Wt Avg Price 92.2 8 c Acma 50c 9 -0.5 ***** 9.5 9 0.5 3.7 70.3 9 41 64,948 words
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Article1294 2001-11-17 19 52-Wk Currency last Higti Low Company Traded Sale ♦or'Vol 000 Day High Low Gr*s Dhr Net P/E M Cap $mil ill MANUFACTURING 40.5 12 CAP Oil 5c 14 -0.5 100 14.5 14 3.6 12.3 14 168 27.5 c AS Auto 10c 41.5 unch 67 42.5 40.5 10N 61,294 words
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Article236 2001-11-17 19 FINANCE 52-Wk High low Company Currency last Traded Sale ♦or'Vol ooo Day Gr's High Low Div Net M Cap P/E $mil ill 6890 3830 s IS DJ US Tech 555 440 s IS MSCI Spore... ***** 9870 s IS S&P500 ***** 9950 s SPDRS US5430 +50 US450 US*****236 words
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Article148 2001-11-17 19 52-Wk Curr Last High Low Company traded Sale Vol ♦or'000 Day High Low Gross div Net P/E M Cap $mil HONGKONG STOCKS Cathay Pac 20c HK720 265 6 *****.2 Cheung KongSOc HK1780 240 3 *****.5 HK45 44.6 172.4 HK Tel 50c 400 HK580 136 6.5 *****4.8 HSBC HKS10148 words
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474 2001-11-17 20 COLIN TAN - Banks face the possibility that their collateral will be worth less than value of mortgage portfolios By COLIN TAN PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT IF PRIVATE home prices fall another 3 to 4 per cent, and people who bought homes at the recent peak in the second474 words
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342 2001-11-17 20 SOH WEN LIN - «IL SOH WEN LIN SINGAPORE’S marine industry ship and rig building and ship repair is awash with new orders and is expected to come close this year to equalling its record revenue in 1998, says Minister for Communication and Information Technology Yeo342 words
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Article130 2001-11-17 20 DIVERSIFIED conglomerate Fraser Neave’s (F&N) net profit rose 17-7 per cent to $225.7 million for the year ended Sept 30, scaling levels achieved before the Asian financial crisis. The result was boosted by $33.7 million in exceptional gains (before tax and interest) arising from various130 words
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Article, Illustration383 2001-11-17 20 FELISA BATACAN - Bt /1 FELISA BATACAN PROPERTY giant City Developments said on Thursday it is considering bringing the launch of new residential projects forward by several months, buoyed by the success of its Nuovo executive condominiums (EC). City Dev group general manager Chia Ngiang Hong383 words
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FORUM
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598 2001-11-17 23 I REFER to the recent letters in the Forum page on whether jobs should be given to foreigners. The argument usually revolves around the subject of talent which, thus far, has been defined as one who possesses a good university degree. But the598 words
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Article, Illustration373 2001-11-17 23 WE HAVE been fans of the performing arts in Singapore for many years, and one of our favourite spots has always been Fort Canning Green. There, we can lay out a blanket and a picnic basket of mee siam, or wine and cheese, and373 words
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144 2001-11-17 23 Given that Singapore is pressed for space to accommodate many needs, it is a great act of wisdom that the Sungei Buloh Nature Park has been preserved for residents and visitors and wildlife. My wife and I, who are both professionally involved in144 words
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254 2001-11-17 23 IN THE letter, “Multi-dimensional criteria for right foreign talent” (ST, Nov 8), the spokesman for the Manpower Ministry said that the Government has committed more than $BOO million towards the training, upgrading and employment assistance of Singaporeans. It is heartwarming to hear this, but as254 words
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410 2001-11-17 24 Through service to be phased in starting tomorrow and will be extended to airport when Changi Airport MRT station opens TRAIN commuters will soon be able to travel from Singapore’s westernmost MRT station to the new Expo station in the east410 words
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Article, Illustration518 2001-11-17 24 SUE-ANN CHIA - It is unclear when the water theme park will re-open if at all ĔL SUE-ANN CHIA A PIECE of white paper stuck on a notice board outside the Fantasy Island theme park on Sentosa says it is closed for maintenance. But no one quitePictures: YEN MINC JIN - 518 words