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Title Section20 1994-05-21 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY EDITION SATURDAY. MAY 21, 1994 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 002/08/9320 words
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Article, Illustration665 1994-05-21 1 Tan Kim Song - 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 centTimesgraphics; Source: Department of Statistics - 665 words
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454 1994-05-21 1 Tan Hsueh Yun - 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,454 words
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Article, Illustration140 1994-05-21 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 34140 words
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NEWS FOCUS
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Article, Illustration627 1994-05-21 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 also627 words
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Article, Illustration541 1994-05-21 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 Hsien541 words
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461 1994-05-21 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’s461 words
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441 1994-05-21 2 Sandra Pearce - 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 by441 words
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485 1994-05-21 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 theReuter,; AP. - 485 words
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324 1994-05-21 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 without324 words
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Article, Illustration562 1994-05-21 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 all562 words
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409 1994-05-21 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,409 words
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440 1994-05-21 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 the440 words
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HOME
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767 1994-05-21 4 Sumiko Tan - 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 in767 words
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Article, Illustration258 1994-05-21 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 TradePiciure by CHEW SENG KIM. - 258 words
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432 1994-05-21 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 area432 words
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536 1994-05-21 4 Leong Chan Teik - 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 feasibility536 words
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601 1994-05-21 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. AAS601 words
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Article, Illustration495 1994-05-21 5 Elena Chong - 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 which495 words
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Article, Illustration281 1994-05-21 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 to281 words
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134 1994-05-21 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 the134 words
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351 1994-05-21 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 the351 words
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Article, Illustration500 1994-05-21 6 Heidi Yeo - 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 in500 words
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429 1994-05-21 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 years429 words
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485 1994-05-21 6 Leong Chan Teik - 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,485 words
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421 1994-05-21 6 Ben Davidson - 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 also421 words
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443 1994-05-21 8 Brendan Pereira - 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 the443 words
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Article, Illustration364 1994-05-21 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 km364 words
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Article, Illustration407 1994-05-21 8 Brendan Pereira - 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 twiceTimesqrephics; Source: Health Ministry - 407 words
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394 1994-05-21 8 Tan Hsueh Yun - 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. The394 words
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Article, Illustration596 1994-05-21 9 Peter Khoo - 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 MalaysianPicture by JERRY SEH. - 596 words
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Article, Illustration388 1994-05-21 9 GOLF: By Tay Cheng Khoon - 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 golf388 words
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Article, Illustration721 1994-05-21 9 Sia Cheong Yew - 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 drug721 words
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MALAYSIA
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498 1994-05-21 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 by498 words
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319 1994-05-21 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 reporters319 words
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Article, Illustration443 1994-05-21 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-oldNST. - 443 words
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410 1994-05-21 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 Sunday410 words
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165 1994-05-21 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 himBernama. - 165 words
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429 1994-05-21 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 notw illl 11 Bernama. - 429 words
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ASEAN
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Article, Illustration334 1994-05-21 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 that334 words
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182 1994-05-21 11 Nirmal Ghosh - 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 a182 words
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Article, Illustration343 1994-05-21 11 Sinfah Tunsarawuth - 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 saidThe Nation picture. - 343 words
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382 1994-05-21 11 Simon Sinaga - 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 sharply382 words
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192 1994-05-21 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,– UPI,; AFP - 192 words
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393 1994-05-21 11 Simon Sinaga - 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 which393 words
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COMMENT / Pick of the week’s editorials
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Article658 1994-05-21 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.658 words
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Article671 1994-05-21 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 quantum671 words
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Article650 1994-05-21 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 wide650 words
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889 1994-05-21 12 Tan Sai Siong - 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 latest889 words
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COMMENT/ ANALYSIS
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1432 1994-05-21 13 Warren Fernandez - 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 are1,432 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration2253 1994-05-21 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 TsungTimesgraphics - 2,253 words
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OFF-THERECORD
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Article87 1994-05-21 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" when87 words
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Article138 1994-05-21 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 Plaza138 words
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Article55 1994-05-21 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 Feedback55 words
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Article102 1994-05-21 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 and102 words
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Article78 1994-05-21 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 make78 words
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Article, Illustration1080 1994-05-21 15 Chua Huck Cheng - 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.1,080 words
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523 1994-05-21 15 Chung Tsung Mien - 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 have523 words
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MONEY
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Article6815 1994-05-21 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 16,815 words
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396 1994-05-21 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 on396 words
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Article103 1994-05-21 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) 112103 words
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220 1994-05-21 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 said220 words
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637 1994-05-21 18 Chan Sue Meng - 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 analysts637 words
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2865 1994-05-21 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 > 42,865 words
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278 1994-05-21 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) has278 words
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Article114 1994-05-21 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, worth114 words
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268 1994-05-21 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 $BOl million in 1995-94 from the previous year's268 words
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Article573 1994-05-21 19 Friday May 20 HK$ 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 4573 words
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Article313 1994-05-21 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 Pac313 words
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Article, Illustration545 1994-05-21 19 Ann Williams - 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, theTimesgraphics; Sourer URA - 545 words
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100 1994-05-21 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,100 words
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234 1994-05-21 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 has234 words
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Article158 1994-05-21 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 units158 words
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Article134 1994-05-21 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 24/5/94134 words
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418 1994-05-21 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 75418 words
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220 1994-05-21 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 brought220 words
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Article, Illustration558 1994-05-21 20 Gerry de Silva - 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 next558 words
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119 1994-05-21 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 Hongkong119 words
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Article, Illustration375 1994-05-21 20 million. By Gerry de Silva - 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 was375 words
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Article, Illustration372 1994-05-21 20 Michelle Lee - 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-lion372 words
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317 1994-05-21 23 IT has been an experience watching the Michael Fa.v saga unfold from a local judicial matter to pedestal for international disparities. Mr Lee Kuan Yew recently admonished Australians for their ignorance and stereotypes of Asians. Unless we all make the effort, this is317 words
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540 1994-05-21 23 LATELY we have noted a number of articles and editorials in The Straits Times which have misrepresented the United States' policy on trade. The most disappointing of these was your editorial of April 21, entitled "Not hostage to the US".540 words
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677 1994-05-21 23 IN HIS article "Economists: Are they gurus or mere crackpots?" (ST. May 2). Tan Kim Song raises a set of important questions which, in my opinion, all educated individuals should ask themselves: Should we take the specialists' statements on blind677 words
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Advertisement147 1994-05-21 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 Times147 words
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991 1994-05-21 24 ‘Economic conflict will result if it tries to block emerging Asian nations’ PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong on Tuesday called on industrial countries to ride on the growth of Asia and respond to it not as a threat, but991 words
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Article, Illustration247 1994-05-21 24 MALAYSIA'S Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday told the West to stop lecturing and hectoring developing countries. "Give us a break.” he said. “To allow ourselves to be lectured and hectored on freedom and human rights after 100 years247 words
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604 1994-05-21 24 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said on Sunday that the Housing Board’s upgrading programme was going very well, and people were making wise, val-ue-for-money choices. Speaking to reporters after touring the exhibition of the MacPherson upgrading project, he said not many604 words