The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 27 July 2002
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Title Section20 2002-07-27 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Saturday, July 27,2002 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 098/03/200220 words
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Article, Illustration70 2002-07-27 1 WHAT, ME, DAHGEROUS? Reports coming out of America describe the snakehead as a vicious menace that can walk on land and attack human beings. In Singapore, it’s a prized catch, imported and reared for the table. Said a spokesman for the Agri-Food ana Veterinary Authority: “We wouldFRANCIS ONG - 70 words
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288 2002-07-27 1 KARAMJIT KAUR - *L KARAMJIT KAUR SINGAPORE Airlines yesterday terminated the services of the two pilots at the controls of Flight SQ 006 when it crashed in Taiwan two years ago, killing 83 people. Captain Foong Chee Kong, 43, and First Officer LatifF Cyrano, 38, were288 words
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Article548 2002-07-27 1 EDNA KOH - Private home buyers can use CPF for 10% of down payment from Sept 1; banks get first claim in case of default By EDNA KOH FINANCE CORRESPONDENT A MAJOR shift in government policy on housing loans was unveiled on Monday, with banks being given first548 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement73 2002-07-27 1 Motoring Licensed For Life a REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE DRIVING UCINC *****7 trmnm J V!**»** mmtm The existing driving licence made of paper will be replaced by a plastic one that is valid for life and has a one-time fee of $5O. page s S PORTS In Pretty Good Form Pretty73 words
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PRIME
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558 2002-07-27 2 DERWIN PEREIRA - Hitting out at fringe militant groups, the President says Islam is a peaceful religion capable of creating prosperity By DERWIN PEREIRA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA President Megawati Sukarnoputri turned the political ratchet on Thursday by sending a strong signal to Indonesians and the international558 words
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454 2002-07-27 2 MARIANNE KEARNEY - By MARIANNE KEARNEY THE STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA In a sudden about-face, President Megawati has also apparently decided that ordinary Indonesians are ready for direct presidential elections in 2004. The turn-around comes after her earlier derisive comments that Indonesians were too454 words
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638 2002-07-27 2 EDNA KOH - By EDNA KOH FINANCE CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE’S home loan war reached new heights yesterday with Maybank undercutting the competition to come up with a first-year rate of 1.68 per cent an all-time industry low. Its salvo was fired just four days638 words
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Article, Illustration601 2002-07-27 3 LAURELTEO - in LAURELTEO DO A STINT in the private sector anywhere in the world, then return to public service here. Get a grounding in your professional area in the Government, then move on to management and policy work. These new options are now beingSTEVEN LEE - 601 words
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425 2002-07-27 3 SUE-ANN CHIA - By SUE-ANN CHIA JUNIOR executives will get more protection against unscrupulous employers as unions will now be able to negotiate on their behalf. Parliament on Tuesday passed a long-awaited Bill to amend the Industrial Relations Act to let certain executive employees receive425 words
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598 2002-07-27 3 LYDIA LIM - Formula will prevent disputes with Malaysia over supply of treated water after expiry of current agreements By LYDIA LIM SINGAPORE has proposed that the price of any treated water that it buys from Malaysia after the expiry of the current agreements598 words
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PARLIAMENT
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Article, Illustration1771 2002-07-27 4 A total of 38 members of the House spoke on the CPF and HDB housing loan changes over two days of parliamentary debate. Their worries and queries were addressed on Tuesday by Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang and1,771 words
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652 2002-07-27 5 Four points less isn’t incentive enough to hire more older people, and the move punishes productive workers, MPs argue WHILE union leaders on Monday approved of the move to freeze employers’ Central Provident Fund contributions at 16 per cent for workers aged 50652 words
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376 2002-07-27 5 THE Housing Board’s move to stop giving non-subsidised loans and pass on the job to banks may see HDB dwellers losing their homes and savings, MPs said on Monday. They warned against making such a fundamental change to the housing safety net,376 words
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Article, Illustration169 2002-07-27 5 Sept 1: CPF withdrawals capped at 150 per cent of property value if you enter into an option to buy a home with a non-Housing Board subsidised loan on or after this date Sept 1: Your bank gets first claim ahead of the CPF Board if you default169 words
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495 2002-07-27 5 HOME builders are smiling again as they expect buyers to start knocking on their doors, following Monday’s decision by the Government to let them use CPF savings for part of the down-payment for a private property. Bankers too are happy with the change in policy495 words
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HOME
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Article453 2002-07-27 6 It aims to exploit technology to foster independent thinking and learning among students, teachers FOR five years, schools received mounds of money to wire up, buy computers and train teachers to use them in teaching. It was a $2-billion revolution. The result: Nearly every student453 words
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404 2002-07-27 6 TWO hard-core drug addicts on Wednesday shared the dubious distinction of becoming the first offenders to face the stiffest possible punishment for recalcitrants. One of them, Sukhwinder Singh Seran, 35, had been caught using heroin just weeks after completing a five-year jail sentence. The404 words
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Article, Illustration588 2002-07-27 6 CHONG CHEE KIN - Byi CHONG CHEE KIN THE police are looking into installing security cameras in crowded areas to alert them if trouble erupts. Hooked up to computers that can detect changes in crowd size and'movements, the system, which is likely to be testedENRIQUE SORIANO - 588 words
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Article, Illustration84 2002-07-27 7 LIFE WORK l Models made up to look like bronze sculptures of labourers took their place with a life-sized sculpture on Tuesday at the unveiling of The River Merchants by Senior Minister of State for Education and Trade and Industry Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Erected in front of Maybank TowerENRIQUE SORIANO - 84 words
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434 2002-07-27 7 M. NIRMALA - ISD passed information about terrorist ‘Sammy’, who spearheaded extremist group’s plans to bomb foreign targets *L M. NIRMALA SINGAPORE authorities on Monday confirmed that a terrorist suspect said to have been arrested in Oman with links to Osama bin Laden’s AlQaeda network was434 words
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287 2002-07-27 7 EDNA KOH - By EDNA KOH FINANCE CORRESPONDENT AS TEMASEK Holdings works towards building global giants, one company, Singapore-head-quartered Flextronics International, has already succeeded. It has made it into Fortune magazine’s Global 500 list for the second year running. The prestigious annual survey ranks the world’s biggest287 words
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509 2002-07-27 8 STEVE DAWSON - By STEVE DAWSON TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT BARELY four months after it set up a global research and development (R&D) centre for liquid crystal display (LCD) television sets here, engineers at the Philips Innovation Campus in Toa Payoh are looking to create bigger LCD509 words
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Article, Illustration543 2002-07-27 8 From Dec 16, a plastic card will replace the existing paper licence. Motorists need only pay a one-time fee of $5O THE existing driving licence made of paper will be replaced by a plastic one that is valid for life.543 words
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333 2002-07-27 8 THE exhumed remains of Muslims from Bidadari cemetery will be reburied in neater and more accessible graves at Chua Chu Kang cemetery next month. Under a new burial system there, concrete crypts with lids and aligned in a grid will replace the333 words
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Article, Illustration851 2002-07-27 9 NEOHUIMIN - New plan aims to enhance familiar places, yet keep their old-world charm so people feel a sense of belonging and rootedness *L NEOHUIMIN SPEND the weekend in a lodge at Alexandra Park, which offers bed and breakfast, or rough it out camping on ConeyGraphics: G. CHANDRADAS; Photos: ALBERT SIM, GEORGE GASCON, CHEW SENG KIM and TERENCE TAN; I Source: URBAN «MVEOPMENT AUTHD(8tY - 851 words
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475 2002-07-27 9 WONG SHER MAINE - By WONG SHER MAINE SLIM 10 distributor TV Media on Tuesday pleaded guiltv to supplying the weight-loss pill even after the health authorities ordered it off the market. The company said in mitigation that it was fulfilling a “contractual obligation” by delivering 15475 words
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Article, Illustration539 2002-07-27 10 SALMA KHALIK - Doctors have tried it out on two patients, to treat the second major cause of blindness here By SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT DOCTORS at Tan Tock Seng Hospital have successfully carried out a high-risk operation that could save the sight of some peopleGraphics: MIKE M DIZON; Text: SALMA KHALIK - 539 words
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Advertisement323 2002-07-27 7 Faculty of Engineering Graduate Studies Office m m 9. NUS National University of Singapore ADMISSION TO GRADUATE COURSES (BY COURSEWORK) JANUARY INTAKE 2003 NUS is offering opportunities for high-calibre graduates to study full-time in the following coursework-based graduate programmes in the academic year 2002 2003 (commencing 6 January 2003): Master323 words
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Page 10 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1061 2002-07-27 10 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, Illustration74 2002-07-27 11 BODYBUILDING PRETTY and brainy, Joan Liew (right), 26, is touted by the Singapore Bodybuilders’ Federation as a potential ambassador for women’s bodybuilding in the Republic. The sports and wellness management diploma-holder collected her second Asian title over last weekend, beating three others to the heavyweightHOW HWEE YOUNG - 74 words
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587 2002-07-27 11 TAY CHENG KHOON - Singapore expects its biggest golden haul since weightlifters won two gold medals in 1962 2002 COMMONWEALTH GAMES By TAY CHENG KHOON IN MANCHESTER WHEN Timesport first asked the Singapore Table Tennis Association to assess its chances in the Commonwealth Games, which opens here tomorrow,587 words
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696 2002-07-27 11 Tay Cheng Khoon - Tay Cheng Khoon MANCHESTER The Sinppore Table Tennis Association does not poach international talent. If it wanted to, it would have applied for citizenship for a world top-five player who asked to come. So said a peeved STTA deputy president Terry Tan on696 words
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356 2002-07-27 11 BENNADARAJAN - BADMINTON M BENNADARAJAN TAUFIK Hidayat, the Indonesian badminton player who turned his back on joining Singapore earlier this year, will be back to defend his Yonex-Sunrise Singapore Open singles title. The two-time All-Eng-land finalist will be coming with four other key members of356 words
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COMMENT
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Article531 2002-07-27 12 TUESDAY July 2 3, 2002 HEALTH Minister Lim Hng Kiang did not spring a surprise on doctors when he announced that skills upgrading would be made compulsory from next year as a condition of keeping practising licences current. The system of continuing medical education (CME) has already531 words
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Article565 2002-07-27 12 WEDNESDAY July 24,2002 WARNINGS by maritime authorities that international crime syndicates are being drawn to the lucrative piracy activity in South-east Asian waters should sound alarm bells beyond the shipping and insurance industries. There is a plausible link with terrorist organisations which requires the attention of the565 words
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957 2002-07-27 12 TAN TARN HOW - FROM THE GALLERY By TAN TARN HOW WELFARISM is a dirty word in Singapore politics. So unsavoury is it that debaters would often dismiss a scheme by slapping the label “welfarism” on it, as if name-calling were sufficient counter-argument.957 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration892 2002-07-27 13 ASADLATTF - MY VIEW By ASADLATTF LONG before the increase in transport fares led to a public outburst, a taxi driver engaged me in conversation. He vented his feelings on how difficult he was finding it to make a living. He suggested that the GovernmentLUDWIG ILIO - 892 words
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896 2002-07-27 13 With ASAD LATTF - HEART TO HEART With With ASAD LATTF THE Economic Review Committee’s proposal on the Central Provident Fund contribution rate for workers aged 50 to 55 takes the correct approach. The measure should contribute to making an older worker more employable even if896 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration1849 2002-07-27 14 Ministers and senior government officials have been leading by example by downing bottles of it for the camera. What will it take for Newater to be accepted by Singaporeans? DOMINIC NATHAN reports ARE you game enough to take a swig of Newater? Astronauts1,849 words
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Article, Illustration1665 2002-07-27 15 WARREN; FERNANDEZ - THINKING ALOUD By WARREN FERNANDEZ WARNING: You need to sit down, please, before reading on. Three stark and startling trends loom ahead of you. You need to deal with them. Trend one: There will be 796,000 Singaporeans aged 65 and above byTHE BUSINESS TIMES - 1,665 words
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MALAYSIA
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Article, Illustration594 2002-07-27 16 REME AHMAD - It aims to avoid losses like those of LRTs by courting corporate sponsorships and building its trains locally By REME AHMAD IN KUALA LUMPUR WEAVING past shopping blocks and hotel towers, the missing link in the capital’s mass-transportation system,Source: THE STAR/ ASIA NEWS NETWORK; Graphics:TlEN CHUNG PING; Photo: AFP - 594 words
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311 2002-07-27 16 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Airlines (MAS) was fined RM418,000 (*****,840) by the United States aviation authorities recently for allegedly transporting hazardous material on board a passenger aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said, in a statement earlier this month, that the national carrier had311 words
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408 2002-07-27 16 New Straits Times, The Star/Asia News Network SEREMBAN Science and mathematics will be taught in English in Standard One, Form One and Lower Six in all national schools next year in a bid to arrest the declining standards ofNew Straits Times,; The Star/Asia News Network - 408 words
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Article630 2002-07-27 17 LESLIE LAU - He says the races in the coalition should ‘move and play together if it is to defeat PAS in the next polls By LESLIE LAU INJOHOR BARU MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday he believes the best way for the Barisan Nasional (BN)630 words
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Article, Illustration288 2002-07-27 17 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Veteran Singapore-born singer Rafeah Buang died of cancer at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital here early on Wednesday. She was 55. Datin Rafeah was confirmed to be suffering from cancer only in January when she went to a hospitalBernama - 288 words
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588 2002-07-27 17 BRENDAN PEREIRA - By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR For three days earlier this week, Malaysians have been exposed to what was becoming the lesspublicised view of Islam in this country and other parts of the Muslim world the moderate side. World-renowned scholars on588 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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502 2002-07-27 18 DEVI ASMARAM - Jakarta groups say more such arms are being used in robberies and terror attacks, but police insist cases are not that common Guns Used In Crime By DEVI ASMARAM THE STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA The Indonesian military and police may502 words
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Article, Illustration85 2002-07-27 18 KEEPING PUPPETRY «LIVE: Avid puppeteer from 16 countries gathered in Bangkok last week to promote and revive their art at the first Asia-Europe Puppet Festival. Thai puppeteers taking part in the festival demonstrated their skills at controlling a traditional Thai puppet known as Ramayana, the Monkey King.AP - 85 words
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Article310 2002-07-27 18 LUZ BAGUIORO - By LUZ BAGUIORO PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT MANILA President Gloria Arroyo on Monday vowed to smash crime and corruption the two top concerns of foreign investors and the Philippine public. In her state-of-the-nation address before Congress, Mrs Arroyo said she hoped the move would lure back investors310 words
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312 2002-07-27 18 Viet Nam News/ Asia News Network HO CHI MINH CITY Overseas Vietnamese wanting to regain their nationality are among hordes of people queueing up for citizenship here. However, many of them had been unable to produce documentary evidence that they were once citizensViet Nam News/; Asia News Network - 312 words
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MONEY
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Article358 2002-07-27 19 THE rocky session in the local bourse caused the key Straits Times Index (STI) to fall below the psychological 1,500 support level, down 65.50 points on the week to 1,494.68. Average daily turnover rose 4.75 per cent to 433.69 million shares worth $556.16 million. Monday:358 words
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Article85 2002-07-27 19 Straits Times Index Th« Straits Timas Index fail 65.50 points on the week to 1,494.68. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1,536.14 (-24.0) 438.19 m (458.32 m) Tuesday 1,565.72 (+29.6) 399.93 m (559.68 m) Wednesday 1,522.80 (-42.9) 380.07 m (641.48 m) Thursday 1,516.41 (-6.4) 486.72 m (545.20 m) Friday85 words
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Article, Illustration495 2002-07-27 19 VLADIMIR GUEVARRA - Rise in second quarter comes as economy shows first signs of recovery but take-up for industrial land remains sluggish By By VLADIMIR GUEVARRA PROPERTY REPORTER MORE companies took up space in JTC’s flatted factories in the second quarter “as the economy showed its first495 words
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466 2002-07-27 20 NARENDRA AGGARWAL - Spring Singapore programme aims to get 3,000 companies in next 10 years to focus on innovation-driven growth By By NARENDRA AGGARWAL ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT A BOLD $l3O million plan aims to see 60 per cent of Singapore workers employed by a new breed466 words
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Article, Illustration74 2002-07-27 20 DBS INTERIM NET PROFITS DOWN: DBS Group Holdings suffered a 16 per cent slide in half-yearly net profits to $531 million as it set aside four times as much money for possible loan losses as the earlier period. But newly-appointed vice-chairman and chief executive JacksonARTHUR LEE/BT - 74 words
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476 2002-07-27 20 NICHOLAS FANG - By NICHOLAS FANG TRANSPORT REPORTER LONG-TIME PSA Corp customer Hanjin Shipping expects a significant rise in the half a million standard containers it moves through PSA’s local ports each year, thanks to “generous discounts” offered by the port operator. The South Korean shipping476 words
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304 2002-07-27 20 SINGAPORE Power (SingPower) has lost out to Hongkong rivals Cheung Kong In-' frastructure Holdings (CKI) and Hongkong Electric Holdings (HKE) in its bid to acquire Australian electricity distributor CitiPower. According to a statement distributed by PR Newswire last week, CitiPower’s owner, American304 words
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Advertisement61 2002-07-27 19 sg w m More space for stories that matter WE HAVE replaced the four pages devoted to trading Singapore stock prices and unit trusts with news stories, to keep readers abreast of news that matters to them. Readers who need to look up the prices of share counters and unit61 words
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FORUM
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Article, Illustration438 2002-07-27 23 To encourage doctors to adopt continuous learning, the first phase of CME requirements will be fairly easy. Once this is accepted as a way of life, CME programmes can be enhanced over time to make things more interesting and challengingfor doctors. I REFER438 words
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295 2002-07-27 23 I REFER to the discussion on compulsory continuing medical education for doctors. The call for continuing professional education (CPE) stems from the concern that obsolescence dulls professional competence. That the coercion comes from the Ministry of Health is less a cause for indignation than295 words
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361 2002-07-27 23 I THINK most Singaporeans are shocked by the way foreign maid Muawanatul Chasanah was abused by her employer, which led to her death. Legal punishment has been meted out, but we should take steps to prevent this from happening again. Most Singaporeans are361 words
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427 2002-07-27 24 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong turned cheerleader on Sunday, encouraging Singaporeans to shift their attention to the encouraging signs on the economic horizon. He sees “good growth” this year, and wants Singaporeans to snap out of their sense of gloom. In a427 words
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Article539 2002-07-27 24 WILLIAM CHOONG - The biomedical sub-sector helped drive growth, with an increase in output of 137.6 per cent over June last year a. WILLIAM CHOONG PRODUCTION from Singapore’s all-important manufacturing sector shot up 18.9 per cent last month twice as much as expected lifting growth in output for539 words
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Article, Illustration133 2002-07-27 24 SLOW STMT FOR NEW RIVER THIS: There were few takers for river taxis plying the Singapore River on Monday, the first full working day the service was being offered. One who gave it a try was Ms Joan Yeo, 44, a senior manager withWANG HUI FEN - 133 words
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258 2002-07-27 24 WONG SHER MAINE - By By WONG SHER MAINE AFTER watching a Hongkong television serial, Eddie Lim Guo Xiang, 17, realised that he could make money the easy way by printing his Singapore dollar notes. In one week, the school drop-out produced 70 fake $5O notes, using258 words