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Title Section21 1996-08-03 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY EDITION SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1996 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MIT A (P) 008/08/9521 words
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Article, Illustration836 1996-08-03 1 Tan Hsueh Yun - Measure aimed at preventing people from profiting twice By Tan Hsueh Yun SINGAPOREANS will get only one bite of the upgrading programme cherry. If they have already owned one HDB flat which was upgraded, they will have to pay more if their next HDB836 words
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220 1996-08-03 1 POLICE arrested 20 Chinese nationals in a series of raids after two men were kidnapped and held for ransom on Wednesday. The two, both Chinese nationals working here, were held hostage by armed members of the gang who entered their flat in Bedok on220 words
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Article, Illustration482 1996-08-03 1 Tan Li Eng - Back-to-basics plan to start them saving young By Tan Li Eng SAVINGS accounts for newbom babies may be quite common by the end of this year when Singapore’s largest bank, POSBank, ventures into hospitals on a major "back-to-basics” drive for customers. The bank is reviving482 words
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Advertisement10 1996-08-03 1 Tripartite strategy will not change, says BG Lee: Page 2410 words
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Advertisement13 1996-08-03 1 'V'/i tynning a ER Move CHECK OUT Pages 21 22 8 *****1 *****613 words
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NEWS FOCUS
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675 1996-08-03 2 Leong Ching Ching - Numbers refute SDFs claims on doctors’ profits By Leong Ching Ching THE Singapore Medical Association (SMA) on Monday produced figures which were consistent with the Health Ministry’s estimates on how much general practitioners charged and which refuted claims fey the Singapore Democratic Party675 words
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Article, Illustration485 1996-08-03 2 Dominic Nathan - Its focus: Regional security and diplomacy issues By Dominic Nathan THE Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, a research centre which will focus on regional security and diplomacy issues, was inaugurated on Monday by Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan. To help the institute get started, theRAYMOND LEE - 485 words
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553 1996-08-03 2 THE Government has decided that it is not in Singapore’s national interest for political debates to be conducted over party political videos and turned down an application by the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) for a licence to sell such a videotape. This policy553 words
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222 1996-08-03 2 SINGAPORE Democratic Party leader Chee Soon Juan on Wednesday invited Minister of Information and the Arts George Yeo and his officials to view the party’s political videotape to see if the contents were indeed undesirable. In a letter to the minister222 words
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584 1996-08-03 3 They are the people the Govt targeted for such housing APPLICANTS for the executive condominiums (EC) are not high-income yuppies but are rather people that the Government had targeted for such housing, said Mr Lim Hng Kiang. The Minister for National Development584 words
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Article, Illustration327 1996-08-03 3 A LANDSLIP has caused the back yards of two single-storey semi-de-tached houses near Holland Road to crack and sink. It also damaged some underground gas pipes and caused them to leak. Singapore Power had to shut off gas supplies to the affected houses, and install327 words
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538 1996-08-03 3 Divide between English- and Chinese-educated THE divide between the Chineseeducated and the English-educat-ed is slowly blurring, and the question the English-educated now ask has changed from: "Why learn Mandarin?” to "How do I learn Mandarin?” This was the consensus of opinion among the538 words
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HOME
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SM Lee’s forum with young Singaporeans
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759 1996-08-03 4 Pang Gek Choo - By Pang Gek Choo WHAT makes Singapore a nation is not just the sum total of what each citizen can contribute but the social glue which, when added to their efforts, gives this place its distinctive personality, said Senior Minister Lee759 words
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Article, Illustration593 1996-08-03 4 THE Singapore Academy of Medicine should look at ways to play a regional role and foster more cooperation with the medical fraternity in other Asean countries, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong on Thursday. For example, it could embark on collaborativePicture by GEORGE GASCON. - 593 words
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435 1996-08-03 4 Attrition rate bearable but beware loss of cutting edge SINGAPORE can expect to lose about 5 to 10 per cent of its best brains, depending on the state of the economy, said Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Noting that it was a mobile world435 words
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Article, Illustration885 1996-08-03 5 M. Nirmala - Technology grads ‘need sound set of values’ He couldn’t take final exams, but poly gave him a diploma By M. Nirmala STUDENTS in the technology field need a sound set of values so they do not apply new tech nology wrongly, said Singapore Polytechnics principal LowPicture by ST reader. - 885 words
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593 1996-08-03 5 Pang Gek Choo - 30th Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine By Pang Gek Choo WHO makes a better politician? An actor, comedian, engineer or lawyer? Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, a doctor by training. had no doubts about which professional was most suitable for the593 words
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309 1996-08-03 5 FOUR NSmen were fined between $1,200 and $2,000 by a magistrate’s court for failing to notify the Ministry of Defence before leaving the country. Charles Haputntriga, 31, Foo Suan Meng, 33. Jeffrey Ng. 32 and Goh Eng Hau, 36. eacn pleaded309 words
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687 1996-08-03 6 Walter Fernandez - By Walter Fernandez THE Government is considering including topics such as Singapore's history and its na tional identity in the history syllabi of students sitting for the 0- and A-level examina tions. said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong687 words
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362 1996-08-03 6 NINETEEN of the 34 Singaporeans who tested positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) between April and June this year had full-blown Aids at the time of diagnosis. said the Health Ministry on Tuesday. This is unusual as most HIV-in-fected people here have been362 words
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Article, Illustration351 1996-08-03 6 SIX METRES above Eu Tong Sen Street, one can sit on a bench in a pavilion amid bamboo plants, bougainvillea and creepers, and watch the world go by. Chinatown's hanging garden is a $6-million garden bridge which took three years to complete,it is being renovated. Picture bv NGHANGUAN. - 351 words
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569 1996-08-03 7 Parent cannot change child’s surname: Court IN THE COURTS A DIVORCED parent gets custody of a chila to deal with the day-to day matters concerning the child’s upbringing but it does not give the parent the right to change the child’s surname, said569 words
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491 1996-08-03 7 Offence followed glue-sniffing session A HIGH Court judge last Friday slammed a 16-year-old youth for raping his girlfriend after a glue sniffing session, saying that he had committed a vicious offence on the victim. Justice T. S. Sinnathuray said that he viewed491 words
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399 1996-08-03 8 Dawn Tan - By Dawn Tan SOON, it may take only six seconds to get an Australian visa. And would-be visitors will not even need to visit the Australian High Commission. Half an hour to an hour is the normal wait for Singaporeans who apply for visas at399 words
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Article, Illustration187 1996-08-03 8 ABOUT 53,000 people cheered loudly when the Republic of Singapore Air Force Super Skyhawks climbed the sky then spread out into a fan-like shape. The crowd at the National Stadium were also entertained to an evening of song, dance and drama at the National Dayup. They had a nice landing.” Picture by ERNEST GOH. - 187 words
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Page 8 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1299 1996-08-03 8 RADIO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME SCHEDULES 1100 1400 Hours (GMT) 9530 KHz (31M BAND) MONDAY 1100 News in Brief/Weather Forecast (Asia Pacific) 1105 Frontiers 1120 Business Market Report 1130 Full News Bulletin 1138 What’s On 1140 Take Five 1145 Newsline 1200 News in Brief 1203 E Z Beat 1220 Business1,299 words
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SPORTS
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Article, Illustration538 1996-08-03 9 GODFREY ROBERT - What is the verdict on Singapore’s 14-competitor contingent at the Atlanta Olympics? WHAT GODFREY ROBERT SAYS GODFREY ROBERT IN ATLANTA KATHY, the American liaison officer to the Singapore contingent, had this to say about the team last Wednesday after the morning’s538 words
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183 1996-08-03 9 SINGAPORE’S Olympic Games contingent will stay on until the closing ceremony in Atlanta tomorrow despite last Saturday’s bombing at the Centennial Park, which took two lives. Dr Yeo Ning Hong, the presi dent of the Singapore National Olympic Council took the decision after183 words
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432 1996-08-03 9 Shirlynn Ho-Pereira - By Shirlynn Ho-Pereira IF THERE was anyone who was surprised and upset with Joscelin Yeo’s poor showing at the Olympic Games, it was the Singapore Sportswoman of the Year herself. The Australia-based 17 year old. who returned home from Atlanta early on432 words
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Article, Illustration404 1996-08-03 9 IICUUIC lICAI time. Godfrey Robert - fev< IICUUIC lICAI time. Godfrey Robert. ZARINAH ABDULLAH can either win your sympathy or make you lose your patience. The Singapore women’s singles badminton champion put me through both emotions last Friday when she played in the Olympic Games secona-round match at the Georgia404 words
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MALAYSIA
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Article, Illustration237 1996-08-03 10 Bernama ON BOARD THE K.D. SRI INDERAPURA The Royal Malaysian Navy on Thursday successfully launched its sea-skinTming anti-ship Exocet MM3B missile during a firing test 55.6 km off Kuantan in the South China Sea. The missile, which costs M 5450,000 (*****,600). was first launched a yearBernama - 237 words
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219 1996-08-03 10 Bemama. KOTA BARU Parti Melavu Semangat 46 (PMS 46) has begun publishing a bulletin to counter the “psychological war” declared oy PAS after cutting all ties with PMS 46, its former ally. Kelantan PMS 46 chief Datuk Rozali Isohak said the timeBemama. - 219 words
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526 1996-08-03 10 Guilt ‘not proven beyond reasonable doubt’ KUALA LUMPUR A national hockey coach who was convicted of statutory rape has used last week’s landmark decision by the Malaysian Federal Court on the burden of proof as one of the grounds for his appeal526 words
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479 1996-08-03 10 Bemama. LANGKAWI The new Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang. designed to ensure very efficient passenger and baggage flow, will be a regional hub. Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ling Liong Sik said last Friday at an international conference here. HeBemama. - 479 words
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479 1996-08-03 10 Tax exemptions and unrestricted foreign ownership among the incentives Reuter, Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad launched a zone for high-tech industries on Thursday, offering tax exemptions, unrestricted foreign ownership and other incentives to foreign investors to locate there.Reuter,; Bernama - 479 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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708 1996-08-03 11 Lee Siew Hua - Reduced patronage of prostitutes another reason By Lee Siew Hua Thailand Correspondent BANGKOK Increased condom use by Thai men and their reduced patronage of prostitutes have led to a dramatic decline in new HIV infections. This recent turnaround in Thailand’s fight against Aids708 words
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Article, Illustration409 1996-08-03 11 Nirmal Ghosh - Sarah Balabagan smiles and sobs with relief By Nirmal Ghosh Philippines Correspondent MANILA Alternately smiling and sobbing with relief, the 17 year-old maid who was spared a death sentence in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) returned home a millionaire on Thursday. Sarah Balabagan had-AJ*P picture. - 409 words
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470 1996-08-03 11 JAKARTA The Ecstasy drug problem is becoming more widespread in Indonesia, with an estimated 100,000 abusers all over the country taking millions of pills annually, according to an Indonesian weekly magazine. Nightspots had also been identified by lawenforcement authorities as the venue where most470 words
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COMMENT / Pick of the week’s editorials
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Article674 1996-08-03 12 JULY 31 1996 SHOULD union leaders be given the privilege of trying their luck for one of the 30 units in the Simei Green executive condominium that NTUC Choice Homes is setting aside for them? Some Singaporeans think not. arguing tnat it does not674 words
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678 1996-08-03 12 JULY 30 1996 THE medium, it has been said, is the message. How something is communicated determines how it is received, and that, in turn, influences what is made of it. In explaining why it turned down an application by the Singapore Democratic Party <SDP>678 words
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Article684 1996-08-03 12 JULY 29. 1996 THE $40,000 subsidy for firsttime home owners who buy executive condominium (EC) units has been a topic of discussion in letters to this newspaper, on the Internet and elsewhere. Some opponents of the grant draw a distinction between public housing, which they684 words
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Article, Illustration845 1996-08-03 12 Alan John - By Alan John COMMUNICATIONS Minister Mah Bow Tan had an interesting suggestion the other day, when he said that condominium resi dents could band togetHer and start car-owning cooperatives. No sooner were the words out of his mouth than there was a845 words
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COMMENT / ANALYSIS
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Article, Illustration1145 1996-08-03 13 TAN SAI SIONG - By the way With TAN SAI SIONG WHO would have thought that Mr Goh Chok Tong, with a public-speaking style once described dv the Senior Minister as “wooden”, could have become such a verbal tease, after just one full term as1,145 words
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Article, Illustration956 1996-08-03 13 CHERIAN GEORGE - My View CHERIAN GEORGE “I HAVE a dream," the crackly voice reverberated in Atlanta’s Olympic Stadium, “that one day this nation will rise up, and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” The956 words
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INSIGHT A LOOK AT THE ISSUES OF THE DAY BY THE STRAITS TIMES POLITICAL DESK
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Article, Illustration1446 1996-08-03 14 Much has been said about the obligation and duty of successful Singaporeans to society. But what has happened to the sense of service here? Has it been eroded by market forces? And why does it prevail in some societies? Chua1,446 words
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Article, Illustration1281 1996-08-03 15 With creativity the buzzword in education and business these days, who better to talk about the subject than the guru of lateral thinking, Dr Edward de Bono himself? He tells Ng Wei Joo why artists are not necessarily creative and1,281 words
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Article, Illustration975 1996-08-03 15 Han Fook Kwang - Thinking aloud Han Fook Kwang HISTORY seems to be in vogue, at least for last week. And why not, with National Day less than one week away, which should be a time for a little soul-searching and stock-tak-ing? But that's not975 words
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MONEY
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409 1996-08-03 16 Sharemarket review THE Singapore stock market got off to a bright start in August with three days’ of consecutive gams after a wobbly start to the week. The benchmark Straits Times Industrials Index (STII) fell below its support level of 2,100409 words
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Article1738 1996-08-03 16 0«t# •nn Nat aam TY LY <Sm> (|m) CPS TY LY lets) lets) ABR Hidgs Jun i F 0.697 2007 1.6 4.6 Acer May 24 F 31.029 26.643 22.8 27 2 Acme Jun 14 F 52.778 ***** 31.9 399 Alt* MlOgs Jun 26 P 2.534 2.159 845 7.201,738 words
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Article776 1996-08-03 16 PAymont (AM Cl dot# ii *y datA Ac#r 50C b S Jut 8 Jul 12 Jul 30 Alt« Hldqs b 6 Oct 2 Oct 8 Oct 18 Asia Pac La b 2 Sap 16 Sap 20 Oct 18 Avimo Grp 20C 1 6.3TE Auq 16 Auq 22 Sap776 words
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Article99 1996-08-03 16 RIGHTS ISSUE Company Ratio Cidate Boobs dose Ace A Paymt Alliance Toch Four 3 wrt-for-ten $1.00 Jul 8 Jul 12 Aug 2 OTHCRS ClBoobs Acc A Company Ratio date close Paymt Acma Renounceable Prof Basis of 1 wrt for every 4 at $0.34 for each wrt. Jul 2399 words
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Article78 1996-08-03 16 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Index rose 6.50 points on the week to 2136.49. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 2098.60 (-31.39) 77.061m ($204.577m) Tuesday 2083.15 (-15.45) 70.937m ($196.480m) Wednesday 2111.76 (+28.61) 83.920m ($247.882m) Thursday 2119.61 (+7.85) 84.755m ($230.788m) Friday 2136.49 (+16.88) 76.014m ($256.369m) BT— MGA Index78 words
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Article325 1996-08-03 16 Company Plata Data Tima Low Kang A 80 Marina Parana Road Jul 29 11.00am Huat »18-05/09 Parkway Par ads (*****9) Canaral A Campaka Room Jul 30 10.00am Corp t Hotal Equatorial t Jaian Sultan Ismail ***** Kuala Lumpur Asia Pac A Miami Hill Jul 30 11.00am Ld Farringhi325 words
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Article50 1996-08-03 16 Amcol On*-for-two S2.0S Freight Links Two 1 wrt-for-four $0.72 Orchara P On*-for-one $1.80 PSC One-for-two $0.70 Bonus issu* MAA Oriental H PSC Thakral One-for-fiv* Two-for-fiv* One-for-fiv* One-for-ten Oth*rs Keppel F inane* Renounceable Pref Offer of wrts on basis of 1 wrt 2001 for *v»ry 4 snares at $0.41.50 words
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345 1996-08-03 17 William Choong - By William Choong THERE will be opportunities aplenty for Mobile One when tne Singapore telecommunications market is liberalised in 2000, says chief executive officer Neil Montefiore. “We see that as a big opportunity,” he said at a groundbreaking ceremony for345 words
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Article, Illustration529 1996-08-03 17 Douglas Wong - By Douglas Wong THE Government is gathering feedback from industry which may lead to a revision of its economic growth forecast for this year from its current level of between 7.5 per cent and 8.5 per cent, Trade and Industry Minister Yeo Cheow529 words
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413 1996-08-03 17 THE Government will stick to its plan to release land for 6,000 private homes this year despite the cooling off in the property market. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the Housing Board have put on sale land for 1,532413 words
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Article144 1996-08-03 17 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Buying OD Selling US dollar Sterling pound Australian dollar Canadian dollar NZ dollar EC unit 1.4033 2.1548 1.0726 1.0140 0.9475 1.4194 2.2080 1.1063 1.0372 0.9799 1.8136 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 13.2468 Belgian franc144 words
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Article128 1996-08-03 17 Contract date: August 2 1996 UNIT ONE MTH 3 MTH 6 MTX 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE US$ 4 s 5 5m, 5 m 5m 4 m 06/8/% AS 6 s 6’* 6 m 6m 6m 5m 06/8/96 NZS 9' 9 8’. 82 8 l128 words
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Article453 1996-08-03 17 _JVuqust2l996 HKS ASM Pacific 5 1S +0150 Allied lr*d Int 1 0*3 +001 Asia Sec Int 1 «2 •0 01 Bank of EA 28 10 0 45 C P Pokphand 260 005 CDL How 3 73 +0 02 Cafe De Coral 2 17 unch Cath Pac Ah 1295 unch453 words
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Article615 1996-08-03 17 Singapore Unit Trust 1 61-1713 The Savings Fund 1 58-1 683 S pore Prog Fund 0 58-0 72« S pore Sec Fund 0 96-1 02xd« S'DO'e Invest Fund 1 05-1.12x0« S pore Equity Fund 0 78-0.83« Credit Lyonnais Int i Asset Mgt Cl Asia-PacGrFund 0 840-0.885" Cl S615 words
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Article7956 1996-08-03 18 INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL Transaction Date: August ***** 1995 96 Curr Last Vol Day Gr's Net M Cap Wt Avg High Low Company Traded Sale ♦or000 High Low Div P/E Smil Price ASE NT510 200 US 214 165 Acer 50c US 187 4 161 192 180 5 ON7,956 words
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Article, Illustration519 1996-08-03 20 Colin Tan - By Colin Tan HISTORIC Fullerton Building was put on sale last Friday for redevelopment as a plush world-class hotel. The Fullerton Square sale, the third in the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) commercial sale of sites proPramme, will include Merlion ark and Waterboat519 words
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498 1996-08-03 20 Chee Jann Perng - One dealer’s representative loses licence By Chee Jann Perng THE Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) has fined 10 stockbroking firms and three dealer's representatives a total of $232,000 and stripped another dealer’s representative of his licence for breaching its bye-laws, according to SES’498 words
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442 1996-08-03 20 TOTAL shares traded on the Sin gapore bourse in July shrank to al most half the volume done on the exchange over the same period a year ago. Turnover last month was a mere 1.8 billion units com f>ared to the previous July's 3.4442 words
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Article, Illustration505 1996-08-03 20 SINGAPORE Telecom on Thursday announced its president and chief executive officer, Brigadier General Lee Hsien Yang, had re signed from Mindef and denied ru mours that the move was in preparation for his entry into politics. In a brief statement, Sing Tel505 words
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304 1996-08-03 23 MESSRS Wong Wee Nam and Patrick Kee wrote that ministers have the moral responsibility to show the way to wage restraint (ST Weekly Edition, July 27). They have missed the Senior Minister s point. »re is not in a period of wage304 words
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Article, Illustration172 1996-08-03 23 I AM very much aggrieved that the Government is selling Fullerton Building (above). On the one hand, it has expressed its dismay over our young citizens’ poor knowledge of Singapore’s history. On the other, it is selling a piece of our history. Are172 words
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223 1996-08-03 23 LIKE Mr Chia Hern Keng (ST, July 29), I, too, was Demused about the objective behind the recent episode of Crime Watch featuring the horrific murder of South African George Lowe. Singaporeans who have lived in Australia will be aware of the television programme223 words
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497 1996-08-03 23 THE president of Aware (ST. July 25) and Dr Kanwaljit Soin (ST, June 28), in criticising the quota on women medical students as discrimination against women, have failed to consider the issue in the whole context of the respective rights and497 words
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594 1996-08-03 23 We have gone against the nature of things in trying to mould some degree of unity out of diversity, the job is not finished yet. IT IS appalling that young Singaporeans ana students Know so little about our594 words
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Advertisement123 1996-08-03 23 Dear Readers, THE Straits Times welcomes letters from you. Your letters must include your signature, full name, address and home and office telephone numbers. We do not accept for publication letters from writers who decline to give their names. This rule will be waived only in very exceptional circumstances, such123 words
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686 1996-08-03 24 Chan Hwa Loon - EDB’s 35th anniversary dinner By Chan Hwa Loon SINGAPORE’S fundamental strategy of tripartism will remain constant even while many changes are made to economic policies to keep pace with the changing situation, said Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Thursday. The synergistic686 words
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Article, Illustration370 1996-08-03 24 SINGAPORE artist Chua Mia Tee’s painting of Koi (Beautiful Carps) was among the first of 17 to be snapped up last Friday at the start of the third President’s Charity Art Exhibition. This painting attracted three potential buyers but it was eventually sold to Mrs IvyPicture by CHEW SENG KIM. - 370 words
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490 1996-08-03 24 Braema Mathi - By Braema Mathi STUDENTS will be learning about Singapore’s constraints and survival skills by watching television and going on tours as part of four school programmes which will be introduced this year. Education Minister Lee Yock Suan gave de tails on these “lessons of490 words