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Title Section19 1994-04-30 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY EDITION SATURDAY, APRIL 30. 1994 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription omjAtfMITA (P) 002/08/9319 words
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Article591 1994-04-30 1 Aims to make it more responsive, flexible THE PRIME Minister has announced sweeping changes to the way the Civil Service would be promoting and hiring staff, in a move to make the public sector more responsive and flexible without compromising its integrity Powers to promote,591 words
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Article, Illustration341 1994-04-30 1 DR ANDREW Chew, 64, is retiring as head of the civil service and Permanent Secretary of the Public Service Division (PSD) in October. Mr Lee Ek Tieng, 60, will become the deputy head of the civil service from June 1, and341 words
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208 1994-04-30 1 PRESIDENT Ong Teng Cheong and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong have conveyed their congratulations to Malaysia’s new King, Tuanku ja’afar Abdul Rahman. The messages, released to the press on Wednesday, were sent on Tuesday the day Tuanku Ja’afar took208 words
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Article696 1994-04-30 1 HOME Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng last Saturday defended caning as a form of punishment in Singapore and reiterated the principles behind law and punishment here. In the wake of American media criticism of teenage vandal Michael Fay’s caning sentence here, he said laws696 words
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Advertisement8 1994-04-30 1 60-year-old lease land for private housing: Back Page8 words
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Advertisement12 1994-04-30 1 Planning a CAREER Move O l LVa-> CHECK OUT Pages 21 2212 words
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NEWS FOCUS
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Article, Illustration527 1994-04-30 2 UNION leaders last Saturday gave NTUC secretarygeneral Lim Boon Heng a strong mandate to lead the labour movement (or the next three years. He won the highest votes at an election to pick 21 members of the central committee of the National527 words
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Article, Illustration517 1994-04-30 2 through.” By Sandra Pearce - By through.” By Sandra Pearce. A SINGAPOREAN fisherman was shot dead on board a trawler in the South China Sea on Sunday night. It is believed that the shots came from an Indonesian navy boat. On Tuesday night, police said they received517 words
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Article, Illustration195 1994-04-30 2 IT WAS a wedding arch of a cake. Tall enough to walk under never mind to eat it was the centrepiece at a three-day bridal show at the Malay Village in Geylang Serai. The mosque-shaped cake is made of styrofoam. acrylic, icing sugar, steel supports195 words
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723 1994-04-30 2 Warren Fernandez - By By Warren Fernandez THE economic climate in Australia and New Zealand has improved, but both countries will have to boost their economic competitiveness if they are to “run in the same marathon" as their East Asian723 words
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Article, Illustration389 1994-04-30 3 THE Government would lose its moral authority to govern Singapore if it granted American President Bill Clinton’s request for clemency to Michael Fay, said Health, and Information and the Arts Minister George Yeo. Speaking in an interview with The Baltimore389 words
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323 1994-04-30 3 Tan Ooi Boon - By Tan Ooi Boon. THE mother of the Australian teenager who disappeared after he jumped police bail for suspected vandalism is back in Singapore. She spoke to The Straits Times briefly on the telephone on Thursday but declined to say323 words
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223 1994-04-30 3 ANOTHER pre-trial conference for an American teenager facing six charges of vandalism and mischief has been set for May 16. Stephen Michael Freehill, 16, who faces three charges of vandalism, two counts of mischief and one of dishonestly retaining stolen property, was in223 words
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Article, Illustration385 1994-04-30 3 IF someone offers to sell you a tiger claw in Singapore, chances are, it is fake. The Primary Production Department (PPD) has said that most tiger claws sold in Singapore are fakes as it is an offence to385 words
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HOME
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Article585 1994-04-30 4 Support policy of market-pricing public services PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong last night told Singaporeans that the national challenge was to sustain a prosperous and gracious Singapore, and the way to do it was to support the Government's policy of market-pricing public services. He assured585 words
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Article, Illustration271 1994-04-30 4 A SERIES of raids on Wednesday and Thursday by Jurong police was so fast that it netted one suspect even before his victims could make a report The victims were tne owners of a Serangoon Road provision shop, which the suspectPicture by LIM SIN THAI. - 271 words
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421 1994-04-30 4 Suspects tried to claim 85.298 at airport THE Customs and Excise Department is investigating six men for what is believed to be the first case of attempted GST tourist refund fraud The six. two foreigners and four Singaporeans, presented seven boxes of disco421 words
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Article, Illustration421 1994-04-30 4 THE owner of the Jurong flat where unauthorised renovations were done, resulting in the evacuation of 23 families, was acquitted on Wednesday. But his unlicensed contractor. Kelvin Sullivan. 35. was jailed for three months for hacking away a portion of the wall separating421 words
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Article, Illustration830 1994-04-30 5 MR LIM Siong Guan and Mi Philip Yeo have been promoted to the Staff Grade, on the top rungs of the civil service hierarchy. Mr Lim, the Defence Ministry's Permanent Secretary. and Mr Yeo, chairman of the Economic Development Board, moved to830 words
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334 1994-04-30 5 THE Defence Ministry's director of security and intelligence, Mr Eddie Teo Chan Seng, has been named as its next Permanent Secretary. On June 1, he will take over Mindef's top civilian post from Mr Lim Siong Guan, who is moving to the Public334 words
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Death of Richard Nixon
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162 1994-04-30 5 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said that former American President Richard Nixon will be remembered for his major role in shaping world events in the *****. In a condolence letter sent to President Bill Clinton on Tuesday, Mr Goh said that he was162 words
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248 1994-04-30 5 MR RICHARD Nixon was a great president of the United States despite the Watergate scandal, said Mr Lee Kuan Yew on Tuesday. “I knew him before he was president. He was a serious geo-political conceptualist with a clear grasp of the world and of America’s place.”248 words
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574 1994-04-30 5 costs. By Brendan Pereira - By costs. By Brendan Pereira. SOME pharmaceutical companies are offering doctors junkets, hefty discounts and gifts to use their drugs. These companies are also promoting their products by tempting doctors with free samples. However, doctors say that despite the "inducements”, they574 words
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548 1994-04-30 6 SEX addicts arc beginning to be seen in Singapore by sexual therapists who asked general practitioners at a medical convention to help spot and treat them. The three speakers a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a therapist on Sunday told about 200 doctors548 words
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Article, Illustration309 1994-04-30 6 ALL eyes were supposed to be focused on the 800 police cadets on the field as they staged a marchpast with military precision. But this cadet took advantage of the moment to make sure he looked spiffy in his uniform and that hisPicture by Malcolm Macleod. - 309 words
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436 1994-04-30 6 Teresa Ooi - By Teresa Ooi. SYDNEY The World War II battle for Singapore is about to be fought all over again this time, between Australian and British soldiers. Two former Australian soldiers have published a controversial book called Cruel Britannia Britannia Waives436 words
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486 1994-04-30 6 A FORMER lounge hostess was jailed for nine months last Thursday for cheating her married Japanese lover into giving her money by making him believe she had gone for an abortion. As her lawyer described it. it was a case of a486 words
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254 1994-04-30 6 SUPPORTERS of Mr Chiam See Tong have decided to form a new political party and want the former Singapore Democratic Party chief to join them before the next general election. Mr Sin Kek Tong, an SDP cadre member and leader of the pro-Chiam254 words
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Article, Illustration418 1994-04-30 7 MS SHEILA Saw, 21. is eagerly looking forward to selling Coca-Cola to coffee shops in Hanoi. She said. "It’s so exciting to actually witness the birth’ of the soft-drink company in Vietnam.” Ms Saw, a third-year law student at the National University418 words
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507 1994-04-30 7 Russell Tan - By Russell Tan. A MAXIMUM security prison looks like any government building except for the predominance of heavy grilles and iron bars at window openings and doors. A huge metal gate guards the main entrance. Inside, prisoners live three to a cell, about507 words
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Article, Illustration529 1994-04-30 7 Woman's death after surgery ANAESTHETIST Catherine Yap. 41, has been blamed for causing the death of a young married woman after an operation at Gleneagles Hospital in 1991. Madam Wee Lian Sang, 25, died a month after undergoing surgery to remove her fallopian tube. Coroner529 words
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Article, Illustration459 1994-04-30 7 A TELEVISION producer has been acquitted of a corruption charge levelled against him, without his defence being called. In a trial-within-a-trial, a district judge ruled on Tuesday that a statement that the producer, Mr V. Kalaiselvan, 40, gave to the Corrupt459 words
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449 1994-04-30 8 PARENTS of obese children studying in eight primary schools will be educated on the potential health hazards of overweight children. They will be told about nutrition, healthy cooking and choosing the right hawker foods in a Parent Education Programme to be organised449 words
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Article, Illustration343 1994-04-30 8 FORMER navy chief Colonel (Retired) James Aeria, 63, died of cancer in hospital early on Monday morning. Colonel Aeria. who was Commander of the Singapore Maritime Command from 1970 to 1975. is survived by his wife Olga, four daughters, two sons and343 words
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Article, Illustration180 1994-04-30 8 BESPECTACLED Samuel Lee may look like an ordinary schoolboy but the eight-year-old is the youngest rock climber in Singapore The Primary 3 Red Swastika pupil took up the sport after his babysitter's daughter, Janice took him on his first climb last year. Samuel180 words
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Article, Illustration572 1994-04-30 8 WOMEN members of the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) have been trying for 18 months now to play golf on Saturday afternoons. Ever since membership became transferable on Jan 1.1992, the women have paid the same fees and subscription as men. SICC has572 words
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SPORTSFRONT
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766 1994-04-30 9 S’pore 1 Selangor 1: Peter Khoo reports on Malaysian Premier League match in KL KUALA LUMPUR It was not a night for faint hearts. Singapore’s brave Lions had led 1-0 with Lee Man Hon’s 81st-minute goal, but Selangor skipper Ismail Ibrahim broke766 words
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196 1994-04-30 9 THE long-standing feud between sprinter Haron Mundir and Singapore Amateur Athletic Association (SAAA) is over. The national 200- and 400-metre sprint record-holder and SAAA resolved the matter on Monday when contempt proceedings came up for hearing before Justice Lai Kew Chai. Mr Haron,196 words
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Article, Illustration315 1994-04-30 9 SINGAPORE’S top sprinter Hamkah Afik has been invited to race against world 200 metres champion Frankie Fredericks in an invitation race in Jakarta on July 30. Hamkah, last year’s South-east Asia Games 200 m silver-medallist, has been invited by meet organiser and sponsor315 words
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Article, Illustration451 1994-04-30 9 Shirlynn Ho-Pereira - SWIMNING By Shirlynn Ho-Pereira. May still undecided and three others to remain in US INTERNATIONAL Eadelin Lim has decided that it is more convenient flying home rather than criss-crossing the United States to take part in swim trials for the Commonwealth and Asian Games.451 words
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MALAYSIA
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534 1994-04-30 10 NST. Bernama. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has called on United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Ghali to resign for failing to take firm action to help resolve the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the UN should elect aNST.; Bernama. - 534 words
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380 1994-04-30 10 Move sparks fresh speculation of general election NST, Bernama. AFP. KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia had created new electoral boundaries that would be ready by July, officials said on Thursday, sparking fresh speculation' that a general election might be called a year ahead of schedule. “The newNST,; Bernama.; AFP. - 380 words
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170 1994-04-30 10 AFP. KUALA LUMPUR In a rare prosecution of a government court official, a Malaysian magistrate was jailed for three years for accepting a bribe to acquit a labourer. “The legal process is intended to punish criminals, but sadly, many a criminal hides withinAFP. - 170 words
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Article, Illustration418 1994-04-30 10 AFP. KUALA LUMPUR Tuanku Ja'afar Abdul Rahman was sworn in on Tuesday for a five-year term as Malaysia’s 10th King, and warned immediately that the country’s environment should not be sacrificed to development. Resplendent in golden traditional attire and a yellow– AFP.; AFP picture. - 418 words
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117 1994-04-30 10 KUALA LUMPUR The Health Ministry may Introduce a new law to ban beauticians from giving injections or conducting plastic surgery, according to its minister, Datuk Lee Kim Sai. The Star newspaper last Satyurday quoted him as saying that the move was in117 words
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Article338 1994-04-30 10 KUALA LUMPUR The government wants to raise the university intake from 12.000 a year to 30.000 by the year 2000 with the setting up of three more universities under the Seventh Malaysia Plan, Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn has announced.338 words
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ASEAN
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362 1994-04-30 11 JAKARTA Indonesia and Vietnam agreed on Wednesday to step up efforts to resolve two outstanding bilateral issues: their overlapping continen-tal-shelf boundary claims and the repatriation of Vietnamese boat people. Indonesian State Secretary Moerdiono, briefing reporters on talks between President Suharto362 words
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457 1994-04-30 11 Sinfah Tunsarawuth - By Sinfah Tunsarawuth. BANGKOK Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Banyat Bantadtan, reaffirmed on Wednesday that the government wanted to eradicate child prostitution in the country and would enforce penalties on men who sought sex with under-aged girls. He told a major457 words
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292 1994-04-30 11 UPI, AFP. MANILA President Fidel Ramos on Wednesday told Asean delegates to a drug-prevention workshop here that the family was the “first and foremost defence” against addiction. He also said the Philippines’ recent re-imposition of the death penalty on drug traffickersUPI,; AFP. - 292 words
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Article, Illustration86 1994-04-30 11 FISHMONGER Fernando Galera, 26, with his wife Annabelle and their two-year-old daughter beside him weeping in court on Tuesday after he became the first man to be sentenced to death in the Philippines since capital punishment was reinstated this year. The Quezon Citylaw took effect. The Manila Chronicle picture. - 86 words
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259 1994-04-30 11 BANGKOK Senior officials of Asean countries agreed that Myanmar should attend the 27th Asean meeting here in July as a guest of Thailand and not of Asean. as proposed by Thailand. A Thai source said that Myanmar, which is ruled by a military259 words
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94 1994-04-30 11 UPI. BANGKOK A British woman was arrested at Bangkok International Airport and charged with possessing and attempting to smuggle 7 kg of heroin, the Thai police said last Friday. Karen Patricia Hussain, 30. was caught with the drug while attempting to board a flightUPI. - 94 words
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COMMENT / Pick of the week’s editorials
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Article637 1994-04-30 12 APRIL 30. 1994 THE decision to extend voting by a day in six of South Africa’s former black homelands, including the tribal bastion of Mr Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party, underscores the importance that everyone attaches to elections the first of their kind that are vital637 words
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Article661 1994-04-30 12 APRIL 28. 1994 IF ONE takes an introspective view of Prime Minister-elect Tsutomu Hata's predicament of being unable to claim his office, then the governmental paralysis in Japan should be seen as not a crisis but an advanced phase of the country's political realignment. That661 words
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Article634 1994-04-30 12 APRIL 27, 1994 LIFE, they say. is an endless learning process. This must be the guiding philosophy of workers today if they are to survive the upheavals from global economic liberalisation and accelerated technological advances that have eroded the permanency of their jobs. Capital,634 words
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834 1994-04-30 12 Chua Mui Hoong - Viewpoint By Chua Mui Hoong OVER four days last week, about 500 hawkers trooped down to the Environment Building in Scotts Road to be briefed on how to go about buying their stalls. Some were concerned about whether834 words
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COMMENT
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Article, Illustration1180 1994-04-30 13 Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong spoke about the challenges facing the Civil Service and changes that have to be made at last Friday night’s Administrative Service Dinner. Below are excerpts from his speech. THE Civil Service must he well-trained and well-moti-vated,1,180 words
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Article575 1994-04-30 13 Amend Constitution and devolve power to Personnel Boards. We will amend the Constitution to empower the president, acting on the advice of the prime minister, to devolve specified powers of the PSC, ESC and PCDSC to a system of Personnel Boards. The Personnel Boards will575 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration2096 1994-04-30 14 How will English-educated Singa{K>reans take to the Sj>eak Mandarin campaign this year now that the focus is on them. CHIANG YIN PHENG reports. ENGLISH-educated systems analyst Chng Wai Kien. 36. speaks some Mandarin just enough, as he says, to “order laksa with lots2,096 words
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OFF-THERECORD
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Article118 1994-04-30 15 SPOTTED in bookshops by Singaporean reporters covering Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s visit to New Zealand last week The Unauthorised Biography of Michael Fay. The cover declares that Fay was a “rebel schoolboy". A picture shows a disgruntled lad. with umbrella and cigarette in hand.118 words
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Article110 1994-04-30 15 THE former ambassador to France. Mr David Marshall, got married in 1901 at the ripe age of 53. Ambassador-at-Large Tommy Koh says that is an age “when some men in Singapore would be consulting their doctors about their declining virility”. At a fund-raiser two weeks110 words
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Article137 1994-04-30 15 IT APPEARS that a rod is implicated in the hiccup in Singapore-American relations not the cane but the American flag pole. Geomancer Koh Pu Lin wrote in Feng Shui Ban. a quarterly newsletter on geomancy which he edits, that the flagstaff at the American Embassy “which137 words
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Article106 1994-04-30 15 A PRICE sleuth of the Consumers' Association of Singapore who had been roped in to do the Case Price Watch reports a new condition called supermarket fatigue. The Case Price Watch, carried in The Straits Times on Fridays, is what emerges from Case officers visiting supermarkets106 words
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Article, Illustration1036 1994-04-30 15 Asad Latif - THINKING I ALOUD Asad Latif EXCUSE me. but do you know what the Michael Fay case is all about 7 I thought I knew. I thought it wss about an 18-vear-old American who. defended by counsel of his choice, had pleaded1,036 words
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564 1994-04-30 15 Maria Siow - POWER WATCH Maria Siow BY CHRISTMAS this year, the People’s Action Party youth wing would have decided on how it wants to elect its office bearers. Some members of the Young PAP executive committee are now looking at the various election systems to help564 words
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MONEY
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Article6871 1994-04-30 16 INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL Transaction Date: April 29. 1994 19M Curr Last Vol Day Or’* Net M Cap High Low Company Traded Sale ■for000 High Low Div P/E $mil 1350 206 1 s Acma 970 cd •20 21 970 970 17 5 15 5 668 6 700 2206,871 words
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376 1994-04-30 17 THE Singapore stock market kicked off the week strongly as institutional players returned to the market'with renewed vigour. A number of brokers were worried at first that OCBC’s quarter-point hike in its prime rate on Tuesday might take away some of the market momentum.376 words
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Article94 1994-04-30 17 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Index tamed 30.60 points on the week to 2296.19. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 2307 82 4-42.23) *****m ($557 682m) Tuesday 2314.27 6.45) 193.79m ($520 470m) Wednesday 2290 71 (-2356) 152.28m ($409,561 m) Thursday 2304 64 13 93) *****m ($400 215m)94 words
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163 1994-04-30 18 POSBANK will raise its savings deposit rates by 0.25 of a percentage point from tomorrow. The new rates for balances up to $lOO,OOO is 2.5 per cent, while balances in excess of $lOO,OOO will receive an interest of 1.75 per cent. Interest earned is163 words
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459 1994-04-30 18 Narcndra Aggarwal - Daimler-Benz seeks SES nod for Sing depository receipts By Narcndra Aggarwal. DAIMLER-BENZ, Germany's largest industrial conglomerate. which is scheduled to have its shares listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) on May 10, is hoping to have them traded in Singapore dollars. Vice-President Dr Hans-Georg Bruns, who is spearheading459 words
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3635 1994-04-30 18 CORPORATE RESULTS (•■iiipam Nil T.arn Dale IV IV ann ism) (Smi H*> IV l\ (els) (els) MSB* Mai HI (l ‘>4l 0 1 7.1 0 o Vlltancc lah M.u »0 P 1 '641 1 074| \mal Med* Mar <11 65 4x2 U '|8 10' 8 23,635 words
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423 1994-04-30 18 Patricia Adversario - Consortium among three bidders eyeing licence By Patricia Adversario. A SINGAPORE consortium led by Changi International Airport Services and Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats) on Monday said that it will submit in early July its final business proposal for the operation423 words
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213 1994-04-30 19 THE Times Publishing group’s interim net profits jumped 80.8 per cent to $14.5 million for the the half-year ended February 1994. largely due to “profits from the sale of quoted investments by fund managers under the buoyant market conditions”. This formed a significant213 words
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Article531 1994-04-30 19 Friday April 29 HKS ASM Pacific 430 unch Allied Ind Int'l 0 76 -002 Allied Oversea 0 95 -0 05 Amoy Properties 10.20 -0.20 Asia Sec Int 192 unch Bank ot EA 32 50 -0 75 C P Pokphand 2.55 -003 CDL Hotel 7 95 -002 Cate De Coral531 words
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Article337 1994-04-30 19 Manager’s prices for Apr 30 May 3 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.74 —1.83 The Savings Fund 1 60 —1 68 S pore Prog Fund 0 73—0 77 Spore Sec Fund 1.06 —1 11 S pore Invest Fund 1 26—1 32 S pore Equity Fund 0 87—0 91337 words
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363 1994-04-30 19 SINGAPORE Press Holdings Ltd has raked in interim aftertax earnings of $143.6 million. 30 per cent higher than what it achieved in the first half of its last financial year. Analysts said that this was roughly in line with their expectations for363 words
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469 1994-04-30 19 SHAREHOLDERS of the Yeo family's private company. Yeo Hiap Seng Holdings, are expected to meet to decide on a sell-out at the eleventh hour a day before the Wing Tai Holdings takeover offer lapses The meeting on May 6469 words
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Article186 1994-04-30 19 VAN DER HORST achieved a hefty 1.240-per cent jump in group net profit to $20.13 million for the six months ended March 31, 1994 The group also announced that it clinched a contract for a diesel generator power barge in the Philippines Van der186 words
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Article163 1994-04-30 19 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Buyint 00 Selling US dollar I 5428 1.5603 Sterling pound 2.3191 2.3732 Australian dollar 1.0843 1.1163 Canadian dollar 1.1078 1 1333 NZ dollar 0 8759 C 9057 EC unit ***** Singapore dollars to 100 of foreign currency units Austrian163 words
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216 1994-04-30 19 KEPPEL Bank intends to focus on building its presence in Asia this year in order to diversity its ineome sources. In a statement in the company’s latest annual report, its chairman, Mr Sim Kee Boon, said this increased presence in Asia includes216 words
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Article121 1994-04-30 19 Contract data: 29/4/94 CURRENCY l MTH 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE us$ 3'. 3 1 2 3S 4 4S 2S 4/5/94 A$ 3'4 4S 4S 4' 2 3 3 '5.94 NZJ 5S 5-S 5’2 5S 5S 4S 3/5,94 STG 4' 2121 words
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Article, Illustration416 1994-04-30 20 FAR East Organisation's latest condominium project. The Bayshore. will boost the appeal of the East Coast as a popular condo belt when it ws launched on Wednesday, say property consultants. The 1,038-unit project will add to the relatively small416 words
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Article, Illustration481 1994-04-30 20 Mr Vree. By Patricia Adversario - Mr Vree. By Patricia Adversario. SINGAPORE'S biggest independent tank storage operator. Van Ommeren Tank Terminal Singapore (Votts), is on the expansion trail. Hot on the heels of a $6O million second liquid storage facility on Pulau Sakra which was officially opened yesterday are481 words
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317 1994-04-30 20 AT WHAT age do Singaporeans start eyeing their first private property, and how many of them arc upgrading from public housing? These and other questions about the property market will be researched by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and National University317 words
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405 1994-04-30 20 CREATIVE Technology plans to set up a L'Ss2l-million (5532.6-mil-lion) sound-card plant in Ireland a first ever investment by a Singapore manufacturer in that country. To be located at the Baliycoolen Industrial Park near Dublin, the plant will be ready about405 words
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417 1994-04-30 23 I REFER to your recent coverage of the Speak Mandarin Campaign “BG Yeo: Raise status of Mandarin among Chinese Singaporeans” (ST Weekly, April 9). Both as a Singaporean, and as a member of a minority group, I find some417 words
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332 1994-04-30 23 THE Senior Minister's recent visit to Australia was an opportunity welcomed by Australians to receive the views of one of Asia’s most eminent statesmen. I can certainly confirm the Senior Minister's statement that in inviting him to Australia, his hosts were aware indeed were332 words
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499 1994-04-30 23 I REFER to the letter “Growth and nature conservation: Why can’t there be compromise?” (ST, April 19), by Dr Ho Hua Chew. Dr Ho (eels that Singapore has not done enough to conserve nature and that "there cannot be a balanced499 words
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Advertisement159 1994-04-30 23 DEUVERED WEEKLY The Straits Times Weekly Edition. A crisp summary of happenings in Singapore. Politics, the economy, investment opportunities, appointments... And snippets on Malaysia and Asean. A convenient tabloid delivered to you every week, whereever you may be. Subscribe now. And be in touch. TheStraitsTiines Making an issue of the159 words
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556 1994-04-30 24 Parcels near residential, industrial sites; first such sale by Govt THE Government started selling shorter, 60-year lease land for private housing the first time it has ever done so from yesterday. The land will be located on the fringes of residential and industrial estates.556 words
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555 1994-04-30 24 Scheme to benefit 500,000 older workers with low-level skills FOURTEEN companies will show how employers can step up on-the-job training for about 500,000 older workers with a low level of education and skills. With a total of about 30,000 workers among them,555 words
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Article, Illustration506 1994-04-30 24 Brendan Pereira - Many would not meet educational, professional criteria By Brendan Pereira FOR more than 14 years, Singaporean Terry Ong had been living and working in Australia illegally. But last month, he was given a choice: go home or he deported. He is just one ofMelbourne Age picture. - 506 words
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125 1994-04-30 24 TWELVE people, including five women, were arrested by police last Thursday for accepting bets on football matches. A police spokesman said last Friday the suspects were caught at about Ipm at several locations, including Ang Mo Kio. Serangoon and Balestier, on that day. The125 words