The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 3 August 1996

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  • 21 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY EDITION SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1996 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MIT A (P) 008/08/95
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  • 836 1  -  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 HDB
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  • 220 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 on
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  • 482 1  -  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 reviving
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 675 2  -  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 Party
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    • 485 2  -  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, the
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    • 553 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 policy
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    • 222 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 minister
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    • 584 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 Development
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    • 327 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 install
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    • 538 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 the
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  • HOME
    • SM Lee’s forum with young Singaporeans
      • 759 4  -  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 Lee
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      • 593 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 collaborative
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      • 435 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 world
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    • 885 5  -  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 Low
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    • 593 5  -  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 the
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    • 309 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 pleaded
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    • 687 6  -  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 Loong
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    • 362 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 been
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    • 351 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,
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    • 569 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, said
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    • 491 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 viewed
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    • 399 8  -  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 at
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    • 187 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 Day
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 1299 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 Business
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  • SPORTS
    • 538 9  -  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’s
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    • 183 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 after
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    • 432 9  -  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 on
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    • 404 9  -  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 Georgia
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 237 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 year
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    • 219 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 time
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    • 526 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 appeal
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    • 479 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. He
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    • 479 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.
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 708 11  -  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 Aids
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    • 409 11  -  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
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    • 470 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 most
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  • COMMENT / Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 674 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 not
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    • 678 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>
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    • 684 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 they
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    • 845 12  -  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 a
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  • COMMENT / ANALYSIS
    • 1145 13  -  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 as
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    • 956 13  -  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.” The
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  • MONEY
    • 409 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 2,100
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    • 1738 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 7.20
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    • 776 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 Sap
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    • 99 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 23
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    • 78 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 Index
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    • 325 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 Farringhi
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    • 50 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 $0.41.
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    • 345 17  -  By William Choong THERE will be opportunities aplenty for Mobile One when tne Singapore telecommunications market is liberalised in 2000, says chief executive officer Neil Montefiore. “We see that as a big opportunity,” he said at a groundbreaking ceremony for
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    • 529 17  -  By Douglas Wong THE Government is gathering feedback from industry which may lead to a revision of its economic growth forecast for this year from its current level of between 7.5 per cent and 8.5 per cent, Trade and Industry Minister Yeo Cheow
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    • 413 17 THE Government will stick to its plan to release land for 6,000 private homes this year despite the cooling off in the property market. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the Housing Board have put on sale land for 1,532
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    • 144 17 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Buying OD Selling US dollar Sterling pound Australian dollar Canadian dollar NZ dollar EC unit 1.4033 2.1548 1.0726 1.0140 0.9475 1.4194 2.2080 1.1063 1.0372 0.9799 1.8136 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 13.2468 Belgian franc
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    • 128 17 Contract date: August 2 1996 UNIT ONE MTH 3 MTH 6 MTX 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE US$ 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 l
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    • 615 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 S
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    • 7956 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 ON
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    • 519 20  -  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 Waterboat
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    • 498 20  -  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’
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    • 442 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 3.4
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    • 505 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 Tel
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    • 881 22 WESTERN DIGITAL (TUAS SINGAPORE) At the Enterprise Storage Group, Western Digital’s newest hard disk drive manufacturing facility in Singapore. This is where you’ll enjoy the support and challenges for a high performance career So gear up and join us now! Write in or fax in with full resume including current
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  • FORUM
    • 304 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 wage
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    • 172 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. Are
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    • 223 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 programme
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    • 497 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 and
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    • 594 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 our
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    • 123 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, such
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  • 686 24  -  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 synergistic
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  • 370 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 Ivy
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  • 490 24  -  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 of
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