The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 21 May 1994

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY EDITION SATURDAY. MAY 21, 1994 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 002/08/93
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  • 665 1  -  Figure higher than projected 8-9.5%; fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth By Tan Kim Song THE economy grew by 11 per cent in the first quarter, once again confounding private sector economists who had earlier projected growth of between 8 and 9.5 per cent
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  • 454 1  -  By Tan Hsueh Yun SMOKING will soon be banned in all air-condi-tioned private offices and factory floors. Health and Information and the Arts Minister George Yeo said this when he launched this year’s National Smoking Control campaign on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters later,
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  • 140 1 It might be double the trouble for their parents, but it is double the fun for 17 sets of twins, who, by sheer coincidence, attend the same kindergarten Tampines West Education Centre. With each pair of twins sporting identical outfits, the 34
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 627 2 THE Suzhou township project is going to be much more than a mere learning exercise for Chinese officials. If implemented successfully, it will demonstrate to investors the speed and efficiency with which such ventures can be undertaken. And it will also
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    • 541 2 SINGAPORE served notice on Monday that Asean will continue to oppose attempts by some developed nations to impose unreasonable labour standards and practices on developing countries. The message was delivered by both Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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    • 461 2 INDUSTRIAL harmony is a key intangible which will help Asean stay ahead of its competitors, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Tueday. Even while countries such as India, Vietnam, China and Mexico are trying to duplicate the more tangible factors of Asean’s
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    • 441 2  -  By Sandra Pearce A DRUG syndicate barely three months old was smashed on Thursday in a series of raids in which antinarcotics officers seized 7.8 kg of heroin, worth about $1.4 million. Six Singaporeans, including the syndicate’s leader, were arrested by
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    • 485 3 US ‘has no policy against caning law’ Reuter, AP. WASHINGTON Singapore is of substantial strategic, commercial and political significance to the United States. US ambassadorial nominee to Singapore Timothy Chorba has said. Speaking at a Senate hearing on his nomination to the
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    • 324 3 VANDALS AND THE CANE THE United States has welcomed a Singapore court decision to fine American teenager Stephen Freehill for dishonestly keeping stolen property and drop vandalism and mischief charges against him. Asked whether the government was glad that Freehill’s case had ended without
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    • 562 3 A GARDENER'S daughter, who grew up on a piece of land her father tended, lost her claim to the property when an appeal court ruled that she did not own the land just because she had lived there all
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    • 409 3 GRASSROOTS leaders, pledging to act as a stronger bridge between the Government and the people, on Sunday put up plans to streamline their activities and inject more professionalism into their work. At the close of the firstever meeting of representatives of grassroots groups,
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    • 440 3 GRASSROOTS leaders should work on changing some Singaporeans’ “not in my own backyard” syndrome, said Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng on Sunday. They want public amenities located “near, but not too near and not too far” from their homes, he noted at the
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  • HOME
    • 767 4  -  Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s visit to Jordan: Reports by Sumiko Tan AMMAN There is absolutely no profit in enmity among nations This, said Mr Lee Kuan Yew, is the chief lesson countries in South-east Asia can learn from events in
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    • 258 4 TOURISM is one area Jordan can develop given its fairly good air links with Europe and the Far East, according to Mr Lee Kuan Yew. The Senior Minister, who made this observation during a meeting with the Jordanian Trade
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    • 432 4 Gifted programme a key area of interest AMMAN The Education Ministry is considering sending a study team to Israel to look at developments in the education system there. Minister of Education Lee Yock Suan said on Sunday that one key area
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    • 536 4  -  By Leong Chan Teik FROM late 1997, motorists may have to pay for using congested expressways, as well as roads in the Central Business District, under the Electronic Road Pricing fERP) system. The Public Works Department is now doing feasibility
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    • 601 5 THE cash-rich Automobile Association of Singapore is moving to amend its constitution to prevent its funds from going to members in the event of its being dissolved. Instead, the funds would go towards promoting road safety or charity. AAS
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    • 495 5  -  By Elena Chong AMERICAN teenager Stephen Michael Freehill was fined $BOO on Tuesday for dishonestly keeping stolen property: two small taxi number plates and a fire lift signboard. He was acquitted of five other charges three for vandalism and two for mischief which
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    • 281 5 THE mother of American vandal Michael Fay visited him at Queenstown Remand Prison on Tuesday for the first time since he was caned. Speaking to reporters after the 40minute visit, Mrs Randy Chan said: "He seems okay, but we were unable to
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    • 134 5 UNIVERSITY fees will go up by 1 per cent when the new term begins in July, with students paying $5O or $lOO more a year. The National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, bearing in mind the impact of the
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    • 351 5 A MALAYSIAN juvenile, who was accused originally of stealing four car emblems and other offences, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to an amended charge of fraudulent possession. The 15-year-old Singapore American School student, who cannot be named because of his age, appeared in the
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    • 500 6  -  By Heidi Yeo TALKING through video screens is on the increase, with companies using them for anything from auctions to interviews of potential employees and pop stars A spokesman for Singal>ore Telecom, which rents out its studio for video-con-ferencing. said there was a jump in
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    • 429 6 LAWYERS Harbans Singh and Joseph Yoong Tat Choy were suspended from practice for a year and two years respectively by a court last Hedneday for misconduct. Mr Singh. 70, was found guilty of having breached an undertaking he had given a court eight years
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    • 485 6  -  By Leong Chan Teik THE price of motorcycle Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) has risen sharply again, this time to a record high of 51.802. It stood at only SI for two years before rising to $5 in February this year,
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    • 421 6  -  By Ben Davidson A BUSINESSMAN who grabbed a nightclub singer outside her room and tried to rape her was sentenced to six years' jail and four strokes of the cane by the High Court last Friday. Ong Zhang Sui, 33. was also
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    • 443 8  -  Government’s have-more-children policy bearing fruit... By Brendan Pereira MORE than 50.000 (Mbits were born last year, only the third time the figure has been topped since the late 1960 s Doctors and family planning counsellors said that the figure suggests that the
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    • 364 8 ABOUT 600 motorbikers were kings of the road on Sunday. Riding Harley Davidsons. luxury Honda Goldwings, colourful scooters and other motorcycles, they paraded down Orchard Road to raise funds for the Community Chest Traffic Police escorted the bikers, who rode 10 km
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    • 407 8  -  By Brendan Pereira THE number of Malays dying from heart disease is on the increase, and they have nearly displaced Indians as the highest risk group. And Malay women have accounted for much of this increase in the past few years. Nearly twice
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    • 394 8  -  By Tan Hsueh Yun COMING soon to bookstores a book about the Michael Fay case, written by a Straits Times journalist. There is also a play in the works by a Singaporean playwright. The
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  • SPORTS
    • 596 9  -  Croatian snatches hard-earned point for Johor with second-half equaliser Malaysian Premier League soccer match: Johor 2 Singapore 2 By Peter Khoo JOHOR BARU Johor’s Croatian striker Ervin Boban made himself the scourge of Singapore again when he denied the Lions full points in their Malaysian
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    • 388 9  -  GOLF: By GOLF: By Tay Cheng Khoon SEMBAWANG Country Club’s professional M. Murugiah last Saturday signed a new sponsorship deal which would see him competing on both the Japan and US golf circuits. Under the terms of the five-year contract with major golf
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    • 721 9  -  By Sia Cheong Yew THE Singapore Island Country Club management's recent row with its woman members over playing days is more than just a matter of sex equality and equal opportunity. I believe it is also a case of addiction. Like a drug
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 498 10 Three-phase project to cost $2 b Satellite launching next year KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia will have a fully integrated privately owned second telecommunications network by 1996 to rival state-controlled Telekom Malaysia. Plans for the second network were unveiled by private companies controlled by
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    • 319 10 JOHOR BARU Malaysian Information Minister Datuk Mohamed Rahmat wanted TV3. the private television station, to cut down on programmes which depicted sex and violence, newspapers reported on Monday. ‘T will discuss the matter with the management of TV3." he told reporters
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    • 443 10 NST. KUALA LUMPUR A police inspector was sentenced to a total of eight years in jail and five strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court on Monday after being found guilty of raping a 17-year-old
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    • 410 10 Kl ALA LI MPI R Amid the storm over Singapore’s caning of an American teenager for vandalism, The Sunday Star reported that more than half of the respondents to a survey it conducted wanted Malaysia also to whip vandals. The newspaper, the Sunday
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    • 165 10 Bernama. MALACCA Executives are injecting themselves with drugs supplied by pushers who operate from high-rise buildings in the country, according to Deputy Home Minister Datuk Megat Junid Megat Ayob. He said a Netherlandsbased voluntary organisation which is counselling the addicted executives had informed him
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    • 429 10 w illl 11 Bernama. BEIJING China considers Chinese Malaysians as foreign nationals and they will be treated like any other foreigner, Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng has said. Malaysians who invested in China would be looked upon as foreign investors and they would not
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  • ASEAN
    • 334 11 JAKARTA Military training will be good for Indonesia's civil servants, and the government intends to put all new recruits through a military discipline, according to Home Affairs Minister Yogie Suardi Memed. The official Antara news agency on Sunday quoted him as saying that
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    • 182 11  -  By By Nirmal Ghosh MANILA Singapore's embassy in Manila introduced Singapore International TV (SITV) to the Singaporean community here on Thursday. SITV is a service provided by the Singapore International Foundation to help overseas Singaporeans maintain links with the Republic and provide a
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    • 343 11  -  By By Sinfah Tunsarawuth BANGKOK The Thai government has demanded that portions of two major elevated mass-transit projects now under construction go underground, a turnabout decision which will lead to higher costs and delay. The government of Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai said
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    • 382 11  -  By Simon Sinaga JAKARTA Investment Minister Sanyoto Sastrowardoyo has forecast that total foreign investments this year could exceed US$lO billion (5515.5 billion), more than 20 per cent higher than last year’s figure. Foreign investments reached US$lO.3 billion in 1992 but fell sharply
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    • 192 11 UPI, AFP MANILA Police apprehended a mentally-ill man who slipped through security at Manila's domestic airport on Wednesday and danced on top of a departing Philippines Airlines flight. Major Efren Labyang, chief of the Manila Domestic Airport Police, said Mr Nestor Escaran,
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    • 393 11  -  By Simon Sinaga JAKARTA A court here sentenced 21 students to six months’ jail each after finding them guilty of insulting President Suharto during an anti-government demonstration last year. Scores of supporters cheered as judges in three separate courtrooms announced the verdicts which
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  • COMMENT / Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 658 12 MAY 21, 1994 SOME people have problems, others have syndromes. Poorer people spend much of their time thinking about solutions to their problems, richer people have the time to find problems with solutions There is alienation in every society, but only some can afford syndromes.
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    • 671 12 MAv 18. 1994 ONE of the suggestions made by the National Wages Council (NWC) is that companies which do exceptionally well this year should consider rewarding their employees with a one-off special bonus. Also, the variable bonus need not be capped rigidly at the existing quantum
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    • 650 12 MA V 17. 1994 IT IS understandable that property agents should want to make light of the Urban Redevelopment Authority's estimate that there will be more than 29.000 new private homes available for sale this year. When the projected supply exceeds demand by a wide
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  • 889 12  -  Viewpoint By Tan Sai Siong IK ONE is fated to be born |KH>r, then one should pray to be born in Singapore, seeing how well the poor are looked after here, despite official scorn for welfare state practices The latest
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  • COMMENT/ ANALYSIS
    • 1432 13  -  They will keep dropping if government spending is kept low By By Warren Fernandez FOR every dollar above $lOO,OOO that you earn this year, up to 28.5 cents could go to the tax man. depending on the amount of personal reliefs you are
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  • INSIGHT
    • 2253 14 Grassroots leaders met on Sunday to chart directions for the future. Bertha Henson discusses the findings of a survey on residents’ participation in grassroots activities and the challenge of building a sense of community in an urban environment. Additional reporting by Chung Tsung
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    • OFF-THERECORD
      • 87 15 BEING a reporter and female has its privileges and nuisances. Asking questions of strangers at an MRT station can be classified a nuisance, as it can attract unwanted attention. One of our reporters was checked by three policemen for, in their words, “soliciting something" when
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      • 138 15 THE American authorities were taking no chances with the security of Information and the Arts Minister George Yeo during his visit at the height of the Michael Fay controversy last week. When a large brown package arrived for Brig-Gen (NS) Yeo at New York's Plaza
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      • 55 15 THE Feedback Unit sometimes gets strange calls from pizza eaters. Not that pizza lovers are phone freaks. It’s just that the hotline number for the Feedback Unit is 353-5555, which is pretty close to the Pizza Hut 235-3535 hotline for delivery orders, so says Feedback
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      • 102 15 IS THE collective leadership of the Singapore Democratic Party crumbling? This was the feeling when word got around recently that one of its key members, Mr Low Yong Nguan. was said to be considering resigning. That he planned to join Mr Sin Kek Tong and
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      • 78 15 AT A public forum this week. Workers’ Partv secretary-general J. B. Jeyaretnam spoke of how his party had been denied a licence to make speeches at its Democracy Day dinners for the last two years. “It is supposed to be democracy day. But we cannot make
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    • 1080 15  -  THINKING f ALOUD Chua Huck Cheng AS SINGAPOREANS have a fondness for ranking lists, the latest report from Business Environment Risk Intelligence (Beri) should not pass without comment. Its annual grading for the world's best labourforce.
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    • 523 15  -  COMMUNITY] WATCH ij Chung Tsung Mien The go-regional message appears to have filtered down to the grassroots level. Now, businessmen who want to learn an Asian language can seek help at their community centres. At least two CCs Crawford and Serangoon Gardens have
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  • MONEY
    • 6815 16 1 INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL Transaction Date: May 20. 1994 1994 Curr Last Vol Day Gr* Net M Cap High Low Company Traded Sale or'000 High Low Div P/E $mil 1350 206 1 s Acma 885 cd 5 143 885 880 175 14 1 610.0 700 220 1
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    • 396 17 THE stock market started the week on a cautious note and investors virtually discounted news of a stronger-than-expeeted 11 per cent first quarter Singapore economic growth. Dealers said investors were sidelined ahead of the half percentage point increase in US interest rate announced on
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    • 103 17 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Index gained 50 89 points on the week to 2337.01. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 2290 41 (*4 29) 2304 49 14 08) 2323 16 1867) *****0 (+6 44) 2337 01 (+7 41) 69.24m (J195 051m) 112
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    • 220 18 BRITISH merchant bank N. M Rothschild Sons (Singapore) has appointed former Deputy Prime Minister Dr Goh Keng Swee as its chairman. The managing director of Rothschild. Mr Mark Greaves, said on Monday that Dr Goh's appointment is non-executive and takes effect immediately. He said
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    • 637 18  -  First-quarter economic survey By Chan Sue Meng A JOLLY good show so far, but the best part may be over. Though pleasantly surprised by the economy’s 11 per cent growth in the first three months of 1994. businessmen and analysts
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    • 2865 18 CORPORATE RESULTS Vet lam FIN Date n LA IA I.A < umpans 4M1 ism) (Smi lets) lets) MSB* Mar 31 1 0 443 0.173 o: Amai Steel* Mar 51 1 b5 4*2 33 ’Ik 10 5 8.2 ANA Mar 31 1’ 2 '41 3673 > 4
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    • 278 18 THE association of Environment Technology (ET) companies in Singapore has entered into a pact with its Australian counterpart in a major private sector initiative to turn the Republic into a regional "green” hub. The newly-formed Singapore Association for Environmental Companies (Safeco) has
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    • 114 18 SEMBAWANG Engineering has won two fabrication contracts worth over $l3 million from Single Buoy Mooring, Inc (SBM). The equipment will be used by SBM’s client, Woodside Petroleum as part of the mooring system for its Western Australian Wanaea and Cossack oilfield developments. The first contract, worth
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    • 268 19 SINGAPORE Airlines on Sunday reported lower earnings for the fourth straight year, but it is expecting clearer skies ahead from this year. The airline's after-tax profit fell 5.8 per cent to $BOl million in 1995-94 from the previous year's
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    • 573 19 Friday May 20 HK$ 4/. ASM Pacific 4 50 4 0 150 Allied Ind Int'l 0 75 -0 01 Allied Oversea 0 94 4 001 Amov Properties 11 20 0 30 Asia Sec Int 1 90 -0.08 Bank of EA 36 75 4 1.75 C P Pokphand 2.25 4
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    • 313 19 Manager's prices for May 23 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1.71 —1 81*d The Savings fund 158-1.67 S pore Prog Fund 0 72-0 76 S pore Sec Fund 1.04-1.10 S pore Invest Fund 1.25-132 Spore Equity Fund 0 86- 0.91 Credit Lyonnais Int'l Asset Mgt CL Asia Pac
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    • 545 19  -  But the number of transactions drops by almost half By Ann Williams PRICES of private homes continued to accelerate in the first quarter of this year, especially for landed properties which shot up by as much as It per cent, the
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    • 100 19 ANOTHER 86 new brokers received their trading licences from the Stock Exchange of Singapore last month, confirming a trend that stockbroking firms are expanding their operations despite the current market downturn. The 86 new entrants, comprising 35 new dealers and 51 new remisiers,
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    • 234 19 THE largest of the new private residential projects to be launched this year in the Central Region is a 960-unit condominium development at Toh Tuck Road. The project was among those listed yesterday by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. The authority has
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    • 158 19 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollar* to one unit of foreign currency Buying OD Selling US dollar I 5256 1.5427 Sterling pound 2.2844 2 3371 Australian dollar I 0981 1.1303 Canadian dollar 1.1009 1 1260 NZ dollar 0 8822 0.9122 EC unit ***** Singapore dollars to 100 of foreign currency units
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    • 134 19 Contract data: 20/5/94 CURRENCY 1 MTU 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE uss 3'4 3 7 4 4 4'/« 414 3 24/5/94 AJ 3V* 3’4 4'4 4 '4 4*4 3 24/5/94 NZJ 4 >4 4 3 i 4'4 5 5 3 24/5/94
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    • 418 20 SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) has reaped a net capital gain of around $l3 million from the divestment of its entire five per cent shareholding in Hongkong-based South China Morning Post (Holdings) Ltd. An SPH announcement on Wednesday said it has sold 75
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    • 220 20 SINGAPORE companies invested a significant CSSSIO million (Ss79o 3 million) in China's Fujian Province last year This amount is greater than its cumulative total investments before 1992. Mr Goh Chee Wee. Minister of State for Trade Industry and Labour, said the figure brought
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    • 558 20  -  By Gerry de Silva THE High Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing on an injunction filed by Mr Alan Yeo against rival relatives who want him ousted as chairman of Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd (YHS). Lawyers for both sides applied for an adjournment to next
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    • 119 20 IT was a sale that never was. But rumours floated around early this week that construction group Low Keng Huat had sold the Duxton Hotel in Chinatown. What started tongues wagging, it appears, was an advertisement that appeared mysteriously in a Hongkong
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    • 375 20  -  By < million. By Gerry de Silva. A SINGAPORE trading company, run by a member of the Teh family who controls Kuala Lumpur-listed Malayan Flour Mills Bhd. has collapsed under debts of nearly $5O million. Thye Nam Loong (S) Pte Ltd was
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    • 372 20  -  By Michelle Lee DR JOHN Chen, an NTUC assistant secretary-general, has been made an adviser to the Chengdu government in China’s Sichuan province. He has also been appointed as a provincial adviser to a high-powered steering committee in Sichuan to oversee a $594-mil-lion
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    • 147 23 HOME. DELIVERED WEEKLY The Straits Times Weekly Edition. A crisp summary of happenings in Singapore. Politics, the economy, investment illiF opportunities, appointments p- And snippets on Malaysia and Asean. A convenient tabloid delivered to you every week, whereever you may be. Subscribe now. And be in touch. The Straits Times
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