The Straits Times, 3 December 2001

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    24 1 The Straits Times Established 1845 JVLOnClciy December 3, 2001 84 Pages in six parts mita (P) 024/12/2000 ••A Singapore Press Holdings publication DU Cents
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    Lock icon Israelis call for Arafat's ouster
    772 1  -  ABRAHAM RABINOVICH Shocked Israeli ministers hold Arafat responsible for suicide bomb attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa that killed 26 By IX JERUSALEM WEEKEND CARNAGE Two suicide bombers blow themselves up at a Jerusalem pedestrian mall crowded with young revellers. Soon after, a bomb explodes nearby.
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    Lock icon Terminal 3 may be delayed
    369 1  -  STEVE DAWSON *L THE construction of Changi Airport's new Terminal 3 may not be cleared for takeoff as quickly as expected. The new terminal was originally planned to open in early 2006 but Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong told journalists yesterday that its construction must
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      248 1 KANDAHAR AIRPORT: Fierce battles rage as opposition forces begin closing in page 3 I J uI m 1 11 Design: PETER WILLIAMS Invest $7,600 and get $15,300 in 10 years, guaranteed. Htt^fl Only Great Eastern guarantees profit at such a generous rate of 4.35% p. a. B^ ■'•■■^W^#^PPP* !> Which
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  • NEWS FLASH
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      144 2 RIGHT ON TARGET PROFESSIONALS and blue-collar workers alike gather regularly at a new shooting range to hone their skills using real bullets and moving targets. One, a Singapore Airlines executive, is pleased with the National Shooting Centre as civilian sport shooters like him lost their regular practice range at
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      73 2 JUNTA'S SECRET POWER TUSSLE MYANMAR'S military junta has always been secretive but its recent overhaul of its upper ranks may reflect the growing influence of chief spy-master Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt. Despite presenting a united front to the world, observers say there is a background tussle for power between Lt-Gen
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      85 2 FOR UM HOB BLOCKS' COLOUR CLASH RESIDENTS of Telok Blangah Drive thought they would get a sophisticated cream colour when the estate's HDB blocks were repainted recently, says ST reader James Purves. But instead, the block facades ended up with three extra colours of violet, grey and orange which clashed
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      52 2 TAYLOR-HADE FOR CHARLOTTE IT HAD to come sooner or later competition for the fresh-faced, aptly-named Welsh warbler Charlotte Church. And it has arrived in the form of a dulcet-toned lass who wears cute T-shirts, sings like a young Julie Andrews and lives in an English village Becky Taylor, sweet
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      97 2 Foreign women caught in vice raid BY DAY, Orchard Towers is just a pink building where shoppers go. But by night, it turns a shade of red. On Saturday night, the police arrested 106 foreign women suspected to be working as prostitutes in the building. The anti-vice raid one
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      103 2 Lawyers' bad pay, good payoffs NEW public prosecutors in Indonesia are paid a derisory salary and have to supply their own phone, computer and legal stationery. But then, they know they can depend on the unofficial system of gifts and bribes to supplement their low pay. The Tommy Suharto
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      97 2 Big flat, car, maid, but... THEY sent their kids to ballet class and used the air-conditioning in their Housing Board maisonette freely. They also had a car and maid. But when the family monthly income fell to $1,500, they gave up few of these things they asked the Northeast
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      67 2 MON EY BIG-BUCKS AUDIT, ANYONE? AN AUDITING contract worth several million dollars is up for grabs. SingTel Asia's No 6 telco which had left its annual audit to PricewaternouseCoopers for more than 10 years, has thrown the bidding open to the big accountancy firms. The contract worth $1 million last
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      93 2 GEORGE HARRISON'S GREAT REGRET EX-BEATLE George Harrison said just before dying that his biggest regret in life was having started smoking. He also said that he knew his throat and lung cancer had been caused by cigarettes. And his doctors agreed. Harrison, who died on Friday at 58, had
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      159 2 AN EMPRESS FOR JAPAN? J APAM could have a reigning empress the first in more than 200 years if public sentiment holds sway. Now that a baby girl has been born to Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife, many Japanese are in favour of the princess being next in
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      56 2 ETHIOPIAN RUNNERS' DOUBLE JOY THEY were among 1 he last to fly in on Friday for the Singapore ExxonMobil International Marathon, which lett them with little time to acclimatise. But that did nothing to stop Ethiopia's Tadesse Hailemariam and Worknesh Tolla from coming in first yesterday for their respective
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      Lock icon Compassionate S'poreans to the fore
      375 3  -  SOH WEN LIN By THIS AREA OF THE SINGAPORE RIVER WAS A KEY ARTERY IN TERMS OF TRADE FLOW, AND IT IS VERY TIMELY THAT THE RACE BRINGS LIFE BACK HERE IN THESE TOUGH TIMES.' Mr Yeo, on the race SINGAPOREANS have proven once again
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      Lock icon Fierce fighting rages near Kandahar
      617 3 Opposition forces move to within 3 km of the airport as US bombards the area as well as caves where Osama is said to be Closing in on Osama US MARINES are within striking distance of Kandahar, carrying the implicit threat of an assault on
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      Lock icon Bucket shops may be kicking the bucket
      604 4  -  JULYN KANG New laws that require commodity traders to be licensed have led to closure of some firms that could not fulfil the criteria It 'There is an apparent drop in the number of complaints but these operators are fairly astute ana can
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      Lock icon $10,000 lost in less than 3 weeks
      269 4 VICTIM: One who struck back VMBNCV,BCV HOUSEWIVES and retirees are not the only people who have been fleeced by bucket shops. A civil servant, who only wanted to be known as Mrs Chee, lost almost $10,000 m less than three weeks recently. Before
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      Lock icon DPP seeks partners to join alliance
      427 6  -  GOH SUI NOI Fresh from its win in the Taiwan polls, but lacking a majority, DPP is trying to woo individuals to form a coalition govt By TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT TAIPEI After romping home with a comfortable win in last Saturday's polls, the ruling Democratic
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      Lock icon 102 Indonesian militants held; weapons seized
      323 6 JAKARTA Indonesian police have arrested 102 members of a Muslim militant group and seized scores of weapons, including bombs and firearms. Police raiding the headquarters of the. Islam Community Forum in Ngawi, East Java, yesterday round 10 homemade bombs, one homemade handgun, some 50
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      Lock icon Ceilings crash down in downpour
      360 6 IT WAS raining cats and dogs yesterday afternoon but Mrs Lena Chua thought her family would be sate and warm in their three-storey terrace house at Yio Chii Kang. She was in the living room on the first floor, chatting with her sister-in-law, when she
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      240 3 Wlb®® TOP UNIVERSITY IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA AMONG THE TOP FIVE UNI\ ERSITIES IN AUSTRALIA 5-STAR RATING FOR ITS CURRICULUM STAFF IN THE AUSTRALIAN GO< )D UNIVERSITIES GUIDE vjji^M V^ Doctor of Education Wa^r Special Preview by Professor Tom O' Don ighue 7 7 January 2002, Thursday at 8:15 p. n
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Harrison's order to wife: Don't let our son smoke
      354 8  -  ALFRED LEE Former Beatle's mum and dad were cancer victims, and he knew it was his own smoking habit that was killing him By 3 I I\Al 19 I I.MC9 EUROPE BUREAU LONDON FormerBeatle George Harrison told relatives and friends before
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      Lock icon Lifetime abuse of cigarettes
      80 8 Harrison first puffed a cigarette when he was a schoolboy in Liverpool and continued to smoke heavily through the years of Beatlemania. Doctors first diagnosed throat cancer in 1997, and a cancerous lump was removed. The throat cancer returned in 1998. A year later, doctors told
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      Lock icon Fatty acid added to formula makes babies smarter, study shows
      337 8  -  ALFRED LEE The long-chain polyunsaturated Fatty acids are found naturally in breast milk »y VCBCV LONDON Formula milk enriched with an ingredient found in mothers' milk makes babies healthier and smarter, British researchers have found. The experts have discovered that
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      Lock icon Excessive gambling found to numb part of the brain
      433 9 Researchers say compulsive gamblers have a reduced sense of being in danger, which is why they cannot kick the habit MELBOURNE The world's first image of a problem gambler's brain has led Australian researchers to deduce that excessive gambling switches off
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      Lock icon Treasury not keen on plane for Blair
      135 9 LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair is keen on getting his own presidentialstyle aircraft, but Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown is reticent about acquiring a "Blair Force One", The Mirror has reported. The newspaper said the Chancellor (eared a public bac klash
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      Lock icon Israeli police had warning of attack
      169 10 Israeli police had warning of attack JERUSALEM Israeli police confirmed yesterday that they had received a warning before a triple explosion m the heart of west Jerusalem that killed 10 Israelis and two suicide bombers and left at least 170 people injured. The police station m Beit Shemesn, west Jerusalem,
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      Lock icon Suicide bombers strike during party-time
      392 10 Suicide bombers strike during party-time It was rush hour m the cafe district when the three bombs went off amid throngs of young Israelis JERUSALEM The dimly lit bar was packed and the rock music was pumping. Cook Yanai Sapir was happily tossing shrimp into a wok. Then, without warning,
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      Lock icon HOURS LATER, ANOTHER BLAST
      292 11 HOURS LATER, ANOTHER BLAST ...while world leaders condemn attacks MVNBVCMBMCV.,B.CV They appeal for an end to the bloodshed and say they hope Mid-East peace moves will not stall PARIS World leaders yesterday condemned suicide bomb attacks in Israel that killed at least 26 people and injured more than 200 others,
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      Lock icon Israel bans Palestinian traffic in West Bank
      155 11 JERUSALEM In its first reaction to two devastating suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Haifa, the Israeli army said yesterday it was barring Palestinians from almost all West Bank roads it controls, which covers most major highways. The army said in a statement that
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      Lock icon Britain allows women MPs to breast-feed in Parliament
      374 12  -  ALFRED LEE Ordinary mothers will soon be able to join them after the legislators appealed against an earlier ban imposed by the Speaker By STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU Previous Speaker's ban LAST year, House of Commons Speaker Betty Boothroyd angered Labour MPs
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      Lock icon Coat of arms newest status symbol for Russian elite
      298 12 Coat of arms newest status symbol for Russian elite MOSCOW The newly affluent elite in Russia have discovered a new status symbol a family coat of arms. A Russian television network has reported that owning a heraldic ccat of arms is increasingly popular among the rich and famous in the
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  • COUNTERSTRIKE AGAINST TERRORISM
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      Lock icon Domino effect unlikely in Kandahar
      458 13 The formula of opposition ground attacks and US bombing has failed to unseat the Taleban in their spiritual heartland QUETTA Any ho->e that a combination of US bombing and attacks on the ground by Afghan opposition groups would rapidly unseat the Taleban in their spiritual
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      303 13 SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN A few British, German and Australian liaison officers are working with the US Marines at their base m Afghanistan, a Marine spokesman revealed yesterday. A 2-km-lon/ column of US military vehicles, including light armour, left the base on Saturday on a
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      Lock icon Water used to flush out Taleban hiding in prison
      273 13 TASHKENT (Uzbekistan) More than 80 remaining Taleban prisoners who had been holed up in a prison fortress near the Afghan city of Ma-zar-e-Sharif emerged from hiding and some were being treated in hospitals yesterday, an Afghan health official said. Northern Alliance
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      Lock icon Afghan beauty queen hopes to be able to pass on title one day
      417 14 WE MUSI BREATHE LIFE BACK WTO THE MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS OF AFGHANISTAN BY GIVING THEM BACK THE GIFT )HIFE AW THE GIT OF KNOWLEDGE/ Ms /.ohra Yusuf Daoud NEW YORK The reigning Miss Afghanistan the first and
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      Lock icon US sending agents to Asian, African nations
      467 14 The Next Phase Efforts to target Al-Qaeda operatives in seven countries are already under way to thwart more attacks, say US officials WASHINGTON The Bush administration has begun dispatching diplomatic, military, intelligence and law enforcement agents to Asia and Africa to lay the
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      Lock icon American among Taleban survivors
      188 14 WASHINGTON A white, American-born Taleban fighter was among the few Northern Alliance prisoners to survive last week's bloody uprising at a prison outside Mazar-e-Sharif. A Western reporter who spoke to him said the fighter was not a naturalised citizen or a disaffecte< Arab-American but a white,
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      Lock icon FRENCH TROOPS TO SECURE AIRPORT
      58 15 AN ADVANCE party of French troops arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday at the airport in the northern town of Mazar-e-Sharif. Its mission is to secure the airport perimeter during work to repair the runway, said a French Foreign Ministry statement. There are hopes the airport
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      Lock icon RUSSIAN AID BEGINS TO FLOW INTO KABUL
      50 15 RUSSIAN field hospitals and an aid-distribution centre have begun operating in the Afghan capital of Kabul. A 175-tonne shipment of aid, including food, tents and medicine, was sent from Moscow to Tajikistan on Saturday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. AFP
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      Lock icon ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO FACE CRITICS
      51 15 ATTORNEY-GENERAL TO FACE CRITICS US SENATORS will probe fears that the Bush administration has teken anti-terror-ist measures too far when US Attorney-General John Ashcroft appears before a judiciary committee tomorrow. Critics charge the ultraconservative former senator has rolled back civil liberties and violated the US Constitution's guarantees of individual freedoms.
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      Lock icon DETAINEES GO ON HUNGER STRIKE
      39 15 DETAINEES GO ON HUNGER STRIKE UP TO 14 people detained by US authorities in the wake of the Sept 11 attacks have been on hunger strike, presumably to protest their arrest, a senior immigration official said on Saturday. AFP
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      443 15 KL's Islamic scholars ban support for US war The ulamas also resolve that any US attack on a Muslim nation is an attack against Islam, and Muslims should take up jihad American 'heroes' US ARMY and air force special forces soldiers pose for a photo after receiving Purple Heart medals,
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      Lock icon Flight crews complain of abusive searches at airports
      321 17 LOS ANGELES Flight crewmembers have been fondled and groped by airport screeners and targeted for improper searches at security checkpoints, the United States' largest flight attendants union said. The charges were outlined earlier last month in a letter that the Association of
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      219 17 NEW YORK Thousands of children with HIV or Aids may not receive Christmas gifts this year because the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center displaced an organisation that collects toys for them. For a month after the Sept 11 attack, the Children's
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      437 17 America to beef up security at Canadian border Soldiers will be deployed at crossings as fears mount that terrorists could get through easily THE US security plan will proctttf hi tws |Hms9s. First, nofttiiM 400 NitiOMi Guard troops wfN to soiit to a dozoii border states to focus on several
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        597 18 Whither US economy? IS THE American economy recovering, or is it settling into a prolonged recession? The latest data lend support to both scenarios. On the one hand, jobless claims jumped 54,000 to 488,000 a week ago, about 40,000 more than expected. Consumer confidence remains weak, bank loans are contracting,
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      116 20 Awful colours for HDB blocks THE Housing Board estate in Telok Blangah Drive is one of the nicest in Singapore, with ma ny blocks having been upgraded a few years ago. Some blocks are currently being repainted, and it looked as if they were going to be painted a sophisticated
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      49 H1 LUXURIES OR NECESSITIES 7 thought it was quite brave of them to come and ask for help. Miss Venessa Quek, the deputy general manager of 'Northeast Community Development Council, on a family which asked for financial help despite living in a maisonette, owning a car and having a maid
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      473 H2  -  DENESH DIVYANATHAN Locals and tourists alike throng banks as the ducks speed to the finish line; food stalls and games add to the festive mood By I CHEERED on by thousands of hopeful spectators, the Singapore River roared back to fife yesterday
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      1023 H4  -  EUNICE LAU As the recession bites, professionals fallen on relatively hard times are asking for help to maintain their lifestyles §1 Contacts COMMUNITY deveiopment council (CDC) national helpline: 1800-344-1234 Central Singapore CDC: 370-9901 Northeast CDC: 784-5928 Northwest CDC: 767-8130 Southeast CDC: 243-8753
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      504 H4 Bills, bills, bills MADAM Siti's financial woes Income: About S3OO a month Expenditure: Housing loan: 5282 Gas and utility: $200 Phone bills: $50 Instalment for 29-inch television (x 24 months): $60 Instalment for vacuum cleaner (x 24 months): $97 Food: $200 Husband's debt to
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      412 H5  -  PAULINE LEONG Singapore's debut team of teens won the country third place in the International Biology Olympiad M. THE sight of cockroaches might terrify many unsuspecting females, but not 18-year-old Melissa Jane Fullwood. The second-year student from Raffles Junior College (RJC) was so happy
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      48 H5 DESMOND WEE Community Development and Sports Minister Abdullah Tarmugi (in black) joined 300 Muslims to pray and break fast at the Istiqamah Mosque in Serangoon North yesterday. The Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs was at the breaking- fast ritual organised by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore.
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      250 H5 2,500 collect alms meant for 920 poor SINCE he lost his job as a security guard three years ago, Mr Hamzah Yusof has become a familiar face at the Pertapis annual distribution of alms ceremony. On Saturday, the 53-year-old widower was at the event for the fourth time to receive
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      451 H6  -  JULYN KANG The 106 women arrested are suspected to be prostitutes; the operation targeted foreigners who are here to engage in vice in BY DAY, shoppers go to Orchard Towers for bargain clothes and electronic goods but, at night, the place seems to
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      161 H6 Passers-by foil thief' s escape A THIEF from Indonesia was caught by passers-by after he tried to break into a taxi at the basement carpark of Tekka market on Saturday. The 39-year-old man, who arrived in Singapore that day on a social visit pass, had brought a Tshaped tool to
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      1123 H7  -  ASAD LATIF The party needs to develop a sharper ideological profile to relate to an increasingly pragmatic populace HEART TO HEART WITH PRAGMATISM NOT A POLITICAL GOAL Pragmatism is a tactic; it can be a strategy; it is, at best, a value: It is not,
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        654 H8  -  THOMAS WHITE Technopark Phase Z Ro built by JTC combines conveniences like broadband access and LAN with home-qaraqe look Report and pictures btf SYMBOLIC DESIGN We tried to capture the symbolic hardships that start-ups face. The park looks like a home garage, wliere many start-ups are
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        423 H9 CHIJ (KELLOCK) Quality passes: 67 per cent (2000); 79.6 per cent (2001) Number of As and A-stars English: 79.5 percent (2000); 74 percent (2001) Maths: 56.8 per cent (2000); 65.6 percent (2001) Science: 49.7 per cent (2000); 59.7 per cent (2001) Quality passes allow pupils to
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        400 H9 10YANG PRIMARY Quality passes: 50.8 per cent (2000); 65.6 per cent (2001) Number of As and A-stars English: 40.3 per cent (2000); 38.7 per cent (2001) Maths: 31.6 per cent (2000); 43.6 per cent (2001) Science: 34 per cent (2000); 41.6 per cent (2001) LOYANG
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          164 H10 ISAAC Tan, 13, does not like art classes in school because he finds them boring. The Secondary 1 student from Northland Secondarysigned up for a three-day art camp only to "escape" from his parents and to "have some fun" with his peers. To his
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          116 H10 WORKING professionals who want to be trained in the use of 3-D software from America-based EON Reality will be directed to Temasek Polytechnic. The polytechnic was recently appointed the company's training centre in the region the first to offer lessons in EON's PC-based interactive
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        651 H10 The Education Ministry said last week that it is studying the International Baccalaureate programme to offer more choices to students here. JANE LEE explains how the programme works and speaks to a Singaporean student Joy Khoo, who has gone through it. TEENAGER
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        405 H10 WHEN she was 17, International Baccalaureate student Joy Khoo, a Singaporean, spent her Wednesday mornings at a school in the Bangkok slums, teaching seven-year-olds to speak English. She would play games with the children to help them become more confident in
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        583 H11  -  TRACY QUEK Naval Base Primary will award $300 scholarships to 10 pupils next year as an incentive to budding sports talents Btji PUPILS at Naval Base Primary will have good reason to run faster, jump higher and swim farther when school reopens in
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        100 H12 The gifted programme take it up or leave it This year, about 500 pupils out of 50,000 were picked for ttie Gifted Education Programme. But not all parents want their children to study with the cream of the crop. Forty-five pupils turned down the offer HOW SID MAKE finds out
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        345 H12 'Change may be too traumatic' THEY SAID NC FOR the Foos, the prestige of having a child in the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) was not enough to outweigh what they considered were the disadvantages. Their daughter, Crystalbel, nine, is a pupil of Xinmin Primary and topped hi r class in
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        415 H12 'She is learning so much more' THEY SAID YES ATHENA Tan (above) cried when she learnt last year that she had been selected for the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) because she did not want to leave the Singapore Chinese Girls School (SCGS). But she changed her mind when she found
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        228 A2 TAIPEI Among the more unusual victors in Saturday's legislative elections were two television celebrities, an award-winning movie actress and a convict. Former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokes-man-turned-TV host Sisv Chen, and People First Party's (PFP) Diane Lee, a popular former newscaster who was
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        417 A2  -  JASON LEOW Bu STRAITS TIMES CHINA BUREAU BEIJING An alliance between pro-independence parties in Taiwan is now likely, following their "strong showing" at Saturday's legislative elections, scholars in China said yesterday. Such a move, they warned, meant separatist voices would grow
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          50 A3 NORTH Korea is ready to permit foreign inspections of its Yongbyon nuclear laboratory despite threats to revive its suspected nuclear programme, a report has said. The laboratory would be open to inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Yonhap n**w« «>rvice said. AFP
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          40 A3 SEVERAL thousand domestic workers marched through Hongkong's business district yesterday to protest against a possible government move to cut their minimum wage of HK53,670 (SsB62) by 15 to 20 per cent next year AFP
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          46 A3 MORE than 300 Japanese preschool children and their parents in Kumamoto prefecture were rushed to hospitals on Saturday after eating bad rice cakes. Police said the victims had begun vomiting after nibbling bean paste-filled treats at a school event. AP
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        183 A4 HONGKONG Girls here perform better in single-sex schools, while boys' results suffer in all-boys schools, a University of Hongkong study has found. Based on a sample of 45,000 secondary school pupils who took the Hongkong Certificate of Education
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        921 A5  -  SUSAN SIM An external audit says there is overwhelming evidence the rich can buy their own brand of justice and their payoffs prop up the system By i t IMMJM-.MA LUKHIM'OMJh.N 1 IN SHORT SUPPLY Bufett The government traditionally approves only 60 per
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        259 A5 JAKARTA A series of mobile phone SMS (short message service) messages from Tommy Suharto to a girlfriend helped police track down the fugitive son of former President Suharto. Jakarta Police Chief Inspector General Sofyan Jacub said they had been monitoring Ms Lanny Banjararanti's mobile phone
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        540 A6  -  JAMES EAST But this switch from rote to active learning seems the only change so far in a school system struggling to reform By} STRAITS TIMES THAILAND BURKAL NEW WAY OF LEARNING CD-ROMs, the Internet and school libraries will be the new teaching tools
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        392 A6  - Abandoned Thai condos to be refurbished for Japanese EDWARD TANG By THAILAND COKHKSPONDKNT BANGKOK Cobwebs over one of Thailand's most prominent property failures are being brushed aside so it can be redeveloped as a retirement enclave for elderly Japanese. Property developer Bangkok Land is to convert its unsold Muang Thong
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          41 A6 AI LEAST three separatist rebels were killed in Indonesia s restive province of Aceh as government forces stepped up their operations ahead of the 25th anniversary of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) tomorrow. AFP
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          58 A6 THAI Customs officials seized a truck earning 483 legally protected armadillos headed For stewpots at Chinese restaurants across Asia, an official said yesterday. Mr Manit Wityatem, Customs chief in Thailand's southern Chumphon province, said the intercepted armadillos were believed to have been smuggled from Malaysia
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          41 A6 THE Malaysian armed forces have been placed on high alert to prepare for a possible flood of refugees following the conflict in southern Philippines, Defence Minister Datuk Seri Naiib Tun Razak said yesterda\. BERNAMA
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          38 A6 PRESIDENT Gloria Arroyo's government has asked the Philippine Congress to authorise trie recruitment of 20,000 more soldiers to fight growing communist and Muslim insurgencies in the country, military officials said yesterday. AFP
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          31 A6 A FIRE gutted 250 homes in one of Bangkok's poorest neighbourhoods, killing one pen-on and leaving more than 1,000 homeless, The Bangkok Post reported yesterday.
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        398 A7  -  LESLIE LAU The union supported the move only after an amendment by the government, which was suspected of trying to undermine the opposition ft IN Kl ALA 1.1 Mfl K MALAYSIA'S civil service union has agreed to a controversial "good conduct" pledge to curb
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        381 A7 Maths teacher prefers the five-foot-way to the normal classroom ONE BECOMES MORE CREATIVE WHEN YOU TAKE TIME OFF TO LOfTER. AS EINSTEIN SAD, THOSE WHO DAYDREAM BECOME MORE CREATIVE.' —Mr Abdul 11 alin i Bistaman KUALA LUMPUR A mathematics teacher who left the classroom for the five-foot-way 14 years ago
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        409 A8 The Selangor Mentri Besar said residents could have been hoping to get low-cost houses faster by committing arson PORT KLANG Squatter residents hoping to get lowcost houses fast could have deliberately set fire to their settlements, Selangor's Mentri Besar has suggested. "For
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          52 A8 CRIMINALS are breaking into warehouses and hijacking lorries along the highways, says a report by the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry. They stole more than RM15.5 million (557.5 million) worth of goods being transported by trucks between 1999 and October this year. New
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          35 A8 FOUR of the 17 illegal immigrants who escaped from the Immigration detention centre in Seremban, Negri Sembilan, at the weekend, after beating a security guard, have been arrested. Bern am a
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          40 A8 PERAK'S Wildlife and National Parks Department has captured alive an 18-month-old female tiger cub which has been terrorising two Orang Asli settlements for two weeks. The cub's mother is still missing. The Star Asia News Network
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          48 A8 DRIVING schools in Johor are offering free night tuition classes on the theory test to improve the pass rate among learner drivers. These classes have helped the state achieve the country's highest pass rate of 50 per cent. The Star Asia News Network
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          44 A8 FROM this month, about 30,000 school heads and their assistants will receive a salary increase of up to 20 per cent, the biggest since independence, in a government move to upgrade the education service. The Star Asia News Network
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      16 S1 The Straits Times sports Monday, December .3, 2001 The Straits Times money Monday, December 3, 2001
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      42 S1 SCOTTISH JOY 'Allan Johnston was dancing around the bedroom. He was delimited with it.' Middlesbrough defender Gareth Southgate, describing the typical reaction of Scots to England's being drawn in the same group with Argentina, Sweden and Nigeria in next year** World Cup
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      412 S1  -  CH AN TSE CHUEEN SPORTSPEOPLE *L GIN WEE KIT, 71, loves ice skating. Still, the grandmother of eight needed a bit of persuading to put on her bright-pink costume and size-four skates for the weekend's Skate Singapore at Fuji Ice Palace. But "Dr Gin", as the medical
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      567 S1  -  CHAN TAU CHOU SINGAPORE EXXONMOBIL MARATHON Despite being off their personal best times, favourites still triumph §1 PROBLEMS with plane tickets caused Ethiopia's runners to be among the last for the Singapore ExxonMobil International Marathon to arrive last Friday. But the lack of time to
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      250 S1 SOCCER S-LEAGUE soccer fans will have a treat m store at their annual party- at Planet Hollywood tomorrow night: Pele. The NTUC Income SLeague Fantastic Sizzle will be one of the functions that the legendary Brazilan, who is scheduled to arrive m
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      323 S1 WORLD CL'P SOCCER PUSAN (South Korea) The World Cup draw has given Asia a golden opportunity of making its biggest impact yet on the global stage. Saturday's draw was kind to three out of its four teams. China, Japan and South Korea have realistic
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          794 S2  - Jennee's sure she can bounce back after poor showing at SEA Games ELAINE LO *L Factfiles JENNEE TAN Age: 18 Occupation: Second-year horticultural student at Ngee Ann Polytechnic Family: Father Tan Eng Hock, businessman; mother Waraporn, housewife; elder brother Tiong Beng; younger brother Jun Beng Sporting highlights -1999: 15t for
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          860 S2  -  Elaine Lo THE STRAITS TIMES 50 THIS series features 50 sportsmen and sportswomen who, Timesjiort feels, will help Singapore become a top- 10 sporting nation in Asia by 2010. It categorises the chosen athletes into
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          Lock icon Xueling's challenge lies close to home
          328 S2  -  CHAN TSE CHUEEN Bi/< Factfile Name: Zhang Xueling Age: 19 Education: Joined Beijing team when she was 13 and attended night classes Occupation: Full-time table tennis player Family: Father Zhang Liyun, a chauffeur; mother Yang Jishan, housewife. Sporting highlights 2001: One gold, two silvers
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      529 S3  - Keeper of Spanish success MARC LIM Custodian Amado the hero as world champ comes from 0-3 to pip Brazil in shoot-out iy WORLD champion Spain showed yesterday that its 4-3 win over Brazil in last year's Fifa Futsal World Championship was no fluke when it repeated its Guatemala performance in
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      Lock icon Resolute Spaniards shut out the samba
      731 S3  -  ROB HUGHES FUTSAL ROB IN SINGAPORE SPANISH resolution outlasted Brazilian flair to win the Tiger 5s Cup last night, after a final that provided almost two hours of sustained drama. When a side comes from 0-3 to draw 3-3 and then holds its nerve
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      403 S3 ITALIAN SOCCER ROME Christian Vieri scored two second-half goals to lead Inter Milan to a 4-2 win over Atalanta and snatch first place from Serie As surprise story Chievo. The small Verona club's run atop the prestigious Italian league ended after six weeks, falling 2-3 to
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      350 S3 ENGLISH SOCCER Drawing a blank on his first outing in the new Leeds colours does not deter Fowler, who believes he will start scoring soon. Leeds' first match with him playing against Fulham enp!s in a goalless draw. LONDON England striker Robbie Fowler failed to make
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      247 S4 ATHLETICS SINGAPORE'S juniors collected a silver and a bronze at the Macau Asian Cities Junior Invitation despite the bad weather. In cold and windy conditions at the Macau Stadium, sprinter Mohamed Shameer Ayub, 17, was third in the 100 metres in 10.84
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      265 S4 SPANISH SOCCER MADRID Alaves moved top of the Spanish First Division for the first time in 70 years on Saturday with an outstanding 2-0 win at home to Barcelona. Deportivo Coruna's 0-1 defeat at Espanyol gave the modest Basque side its chance and it took
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      422 S4 TENNIS The dark horse beats Arthurs to grab Davis Cup from favoured Australian team MELBOURNE Coming into the Davis Cup final, Nicolas Escude had won just one singles match since September's US Open and was not certain to start against Australia. Three days later, he
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      384 S4 Garcia sinks $3.7m chip to win play-off GOLF SUN CITY (South Africa) Spaniard Sergio Garcia sank a chip shot from the fringe on the first hole of a suddendeath play-off with South Africa's Ernie Els to win the USS4.O6-million (557.46--million) Nedbank Golf Challenge yesterday. The world No. 5 took home
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      283 S4 HONGKONG Spaniard Jose Maria Olazabal produced a three-birdie finish to steal the Hongkong Open from Australia's Adam Scott and Norway's Henrik Bjornstad yesterday. He had trailed the Australian and third-round leader Bjornstad all day after struggling to read the grainy greens all week. But he
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      Lock icon Jordan goes home to cure knees
      659 S4 BASKETBALL WASHINGTON Michael Jordan's knee is buckling under the strain, and he is going home to Chicago for help. Playing his fourth game in five nights, he faded badlv in the second half and was taken out of the game early in Saturday night's
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      305 S4 TABLE TENNIS TABLE tennis player Jing Junhong was one step away from qualifying for the end-of-season 'ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals, after reaching the semi-finals of the Danish Open in Farum. The Olympics semi-final-ist beat South Korea's Kim Bok Rae 11-8,
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      1320 S4 ATHLETICS Singapore EixonMoMl hrtcnwtkMHl Marathon. Opwi Man's: 1 Tadesse Haiiemanam lEthi 2 23 0? 2 Samuel OkeTi*a (Hen) 2 2427 3 Josphat Ndeti (Keni 2 27 37 Worn•n't: f worknesh Tolla lEth) 2 53 29 2 Ledishah Biwott (Ken) 2 542! 3 Yuan Yu Fang (Mai) 2
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      1170 S5 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotton Son, that whosoever believeth In him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16 CHU SOOK FONG Age: 86 was called horn* to be with Jesus on 1 Dec 2001. (Husband: Kong Yit Fang, John, deceased)
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        684 S6 ROUND-UP Overseas markets BULLS and bears are expected to face off again this week on Wall Street after a mixed week for stocks as traders paused to consider the direction for the markets and the ailing United States economy. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial
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        449 S6 Asian units end little changed against US$ REVIEW Currencies HONGKONG Asian currencies were largely range bound last week but braced themselves for a fallout from the possible collapse of United States energy giant Enron. YEN: The yen remained largely in a range during the week despite a series of ratings
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        442 S7 Only $1,840 in cash per month can be withdrawn and money transfers abroad will also be restricted in a plan to stop bank runs and avoid a peso devaluation 'This is madness. It's a question of freedom. Is this money mine or not? 9 Accountant
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        311 S7 HOUSTON Dynegy chairman Chuck Watson said a lack of co-opera-tion from Enron officials, including chairman Ken Lay, scuttled the energy traders' planned merger and left Enron on the brink of collapse. Dynegy received a copy of an Enron document that showed the company
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        461 S9 A market rally is expected but the ruling party's pro-independence stance may bring more uncertainty TAIPEI Taiwan stocks are expected to rally this week on anticipation that the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) victory in Saturday's general election will quell squabbling in a
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        271 S9 SYDNEY The administrators of collapsed airline Ansett Australia expect to sell it to the Fox-Lew consortium by the end of next month, but are still weighing partial bids from a British nightclub and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Blue airline. In the
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        910 S10 The Government announced recently the formation of a high-level committee to suggest clianges and netv directions for the economy. The Straits Times .spoke to a trio of experts from one of the world's leading business schools, Insead, to offer some insight on what
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        343 S10 FROM running his own firm to driving a taxi for a living. That is the story of Mr C.T. Lee, 51, whose ups and downs throughout the past three decades and more are almost a reflection of Singapore's economy. It serves as a
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        362 S10  -  IGNATIUS LOW Hu\ 1 l\\\( KC OHRIM'ONDI I THE once-tarnished United Gold and General Fund (UGGF) has turned into a glittering success story. The fund formerly one of the worst-performing unit trusts here has confounded sceptics to emerge the surprise top-performing unit trust
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        487 S11  - Mid-Continent trial at crucial stage today REBECCA LEE Judge is likely to rule on whether the defence has a case to answer, after the weekend filing of written submissions Hi The defence's position is that merely adapting one's trading pattern to any available information is not the same as manipulating
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        146 S11 SERIAL System shareholders who are owed compensation after former chief executive Eddie Chng failed to make a general offer for the company now have full details of the compensation scheme. Administrator Deloitte Touche (D&T) has spelt out how affected Serial shareholders should submit their
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        462 S11  -  LEONG CHAN TEIK CHINESE IPO IS SGX'S BIGGEST THIS YEAR fhi CHINA'S leading importer of jet fuel closes its Singapore initial public offer (IPO) tomorrow with a senior official saying that the company is cashing in on a boom in domestic travel.
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        462 S11  - Venture and Keppel stocks to hog limelight HUGH CHOW TAKING STOCK fir/1 SINGAPORE shares could come under selling pressure as the domestic stock market undergoes likely corrections in the aftermath of last week's index-adjustment buying, while the economicoutlook in the United States remains uncertain. Last Friday, the benchmark Straits Times
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        521 S12  -  LEE SU SHY AN Telco throws open multi-million-dollar contract to bidders, after using PwC's services for more than 10 years Bg ONE of the number-crunch-ers' top iobs here is up for grabs: The Singapore Telecom (SingTel) audit which is potentially worth several million
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        310 S12 RESTRUCTURING ANNOUNCEMENTS EXPECTED KEPPEL Corp and two subsidiaries last Saturday asked for trading in the companies' shares to be suspended from today ahead 01 announcements. Analysts said the firms are likely to disclose details of a long-awaited restructuring of the diversified group. The two
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        752 C21 B TECHNICAL iTTI TECHNICAL iffl TECHNICAL positions Impositions MyJposmoNS MAINTENANCE m I I TECHNICIANS The Job: Carry out breakdown maintenance Perform corrective and preventive maintenance and machine tool alignment Accountable for the breakdown time, quality of workmanship and usage of spares Minimum NTC 3 in Electrical Installation and Servicing or
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        203 C22 just spent close to $10. in course tees and absenteeism payroll to upgrade his skills. JOS-Prodata is a member of the Jardine Matheson Group, and provides IT support services to corporations. With seven other engineers on the programme, this works out to be a hefty sum that the company is
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        260 C22 the engineers have to stay with <£^s^^k the company tor at least a year. [3.YW ~^M S Mr Lazaroo, who has been of with the compam tor four vears, \-ijn| r ~^Sr%KIS& has this to say to middle-aged 1 1 r^tyb*. professionals like himself: "Don't hesitate. (to ahead and upgrade.
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