The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 21 September 1996

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY EDITION SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 21 1996 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 156/08/96
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  • 474 1  -  Strong, active RC will give a precinct an edge By Yeow Pei Lin IF YOU want to get your Housing Board block upgraded, fly the flag, join the residents’ committee and help improve the community life in your neigh bourhood. Better still, get your
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  • 205 1 MORE than 5,300 flats in five HDB precincts in Bukit Ho Swee, Bedok, Queenstown, Jalan Eunos, Tanjong Rhu/Mountbatten will be the next to be upgraded. These flats will have utility rooms, balconies or bedroom extensions added if at least 75 per cent of
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  • 307 1 Passengers can surf the Net while they wait WITH 18 hours to kill between flights at Changi Airport on Monday, Japanese college student Lisa Inagaki, 19, relieved her boredom by sending electronic mail to a friend in Switzerland. She is one of the 100 airline transit
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 343 2 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong met polytechnic students last Friday and urged them to think carefully about the Singapore they want. He left them with much to think about when he sketched two scenarios of how this country might turn out in
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    • 247 2 THE Straits Times Interactive. which is now drawing over 3.5 million hits a month, has established a “mirror site" in the United States to make it easier for Americans and other people to access its pages. This alternate site is in
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    • 192 2 THE director of Grasse Beaute de Paris Pte Ltd was fined $lO,OOO for having poisons and laser equipment in his beauty salon. Neo Thiam Hock. 29, did not have a licence to have such equipment. Deputy Public Prosecutor Ong Chin Rhu told a district
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    • 529 2  -  Beautician fined $1,500 for performing operations without licence By GinnieTeo NEWSVENDOR Tan Kwee Peng hated the bags under his eyes, which were due to his late nights overseeing the distribution of newspapers. So when he saw Meililan Hairdressing and Beauty School’s advertisement on lower eyelid
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    • 495 3  -  But low smoking* world rating remains By Dominic Nathan SMOKING is on the rise here again. Cigarette sales went up last year after falling for two years. Ad sales are likely to be even higher this year. People here smoked an estimated 3.06
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    • 105 3 FEBRUARY was the month that recorded the highest cigarette sales in the first half of this year. Over $2OO million was spent on about 814 million cigarettes that month alone. This was more than the total for the other five months in the first half of
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    • 470 3  -  He had been sent to three different hospitals By Ginnie Teo A YEAR-OLD toddler who fell at his babysitter’s home died two days later, after having been sent to three hospitals. Coroner Tan Jen Tse ruled on Monday that his death was a
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    • 177 3 TIGER CUP BRIBERY CASE TWO Malaysians and a Singaporean were charged in a district court yesterday with corruption in the Tiger Cup football tournament. Kandasamy Karuppen, a 45-year-old businessman, 54-year-old retiree Yam Phung Fei, both Malaysians, and personnel manager Chong Thin Hoong, 32, are accused of
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    • 480 3  -  By Ginnie Teo A SINGAPORE Polytechnic stu dent was sentenced to five years and four months’ jail, and ordered to be given 24 strokes of the cane for armed robbery and molesting women in lilts. District Judge Khoo Oon Soo heard a list of offences
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  • HOME
    • 761 4  -  He wants people to start thinking about the choices First Polytechnic Forum Reports by M. Nirmala, Walter Fernandez and Raoul Le Blond PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong is not going to worry alone, when he ponders about the kind of place Singapore might be in the
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    • 195 4 I need the help of all Singaporeans to secure a brighter future for all of us. This is not just a job for myself or for my team in Parliament. A united Singapore, working together, is a strong Singapore. We must build up the links and bonds
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    • 303 4 North-east line THE thousands of people who will benefit when the Northeast line of the MRT system is built must not forget the hun dreds who are giving up their homes to make way for it. Mr Goh Chok Tong said
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    • 271 4 Health care SINGAPORE'S excellent and affordable health-care service means that people will live longer, well after retirement. But it also means that a growing band of old people will make huge demands for medical services, Mr Goh Chok Tong said last
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    • 435 5  -  By Sim Wai Chew SINGAPORE will continue to expand its port infrastructure to maintain its position as the region’s premier hub port, Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan said on Tuesday. However, there will be room for other major ports to develop
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    • 447 5 Tribunal on why it rejected application PARENTS who abandon, neglect or abuse their children must not expect their children to support them when they grow old. The Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents delivered this clear message when it dismissed an application from an 80-year-old
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    • 493 5  -  By Ahmad Osman EXEMPLARY mum Rahmah Abdullah did not go to school. But she knows the value of a good education. Three of her six children are graduates and one is an undergraduate, and this despite the fact
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    • 377 5  -  His joyriding added to rise in car thefts By Yeow Pei Lin A JOBLESS 39-year-old man fancied himself as something of a Romeo. M. Suppih would go to pubs and lounges, and his favourite pick-up line was: "Would you like
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    • 420 6 He wants: Less work More pay Fancy title 5-day week MEET the “gimme, gimme” job seeker He wants less work, more pay. a fancy title, quick promo tions and a* five-day week Nevermind that he is fresh from school or university. Since there are
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    • 725 6 The collection of 57 letters written in 1956 by Singapore's first Chief Minister was launched here recently. ASAD LATIF reports. A COLLECTION of 57 letters written by Mr David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, from China in 1956 was launched on Tuesday. The letters, which he
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    • 446 6 His love for her was not reciprocated, court told A 36-YEAR-OLD man who stabbed his cousin to death after hearing voices telling him to “kill her” was given the maximum life imprisonment on Monday for manslaughter. Lee Chee Seng, a reinforcing
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    • 580 7 Pleaded guilty to CBT involving $8.76m FORMER managing director of commodities trading firm Credit Consultants, Tony Tay, was last Friday sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for criminal breach of trust. District Judge F.G. Remedios also sentenced Tay, 45. to an additional six
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    • 393 7  -  Weekly also sued for article on HPL condo purchases By Chua Lee Hoong SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsieri Loong have filed a defamation suit against lawyer Tang Liang Hong and Yazhou Zhoukan, a Hong-kong-based Chinese current
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    • 517 8  -  Oral sex does not come under section of the law By Elena Chong A TECHNICIAN was on Monday cleared of three charges of molest and unnatural sex without his defence being called. In acquitting Kwan Kwong Weng, 47, of two counts of unnatural sex.
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    • 205 8 THERE was a “jam" on the Benja min Sheares Bridge on Sunday, not of the four-wheeled kind, but of the two-legged type. Almost 40,000 people took part in the fifth Sheares Bridge Run '96, organised by Safra National Service Association. Environment Minister and
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    • 465 9  -  By Susie Wong IN HER first solo exhibition since graduating from the LaSalle SIA College of the Arts last year, the 15 small works of Josephine Chang, 21, are reminiscent of altars placed in the homes of Hindus. The cerulean washes and dec orative
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    • 343 9  -  By Susan Tsang THE second Asia Pacific Choreographic Workshop is open for applications again, three years after it was created by Singapore Dance Theatre’s Goh Soo Khim and the late Anthony Then. Organiser Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT) is inviting choreographers from the
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    • 1131 8 RADIO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME SCHEDULES 1100 1400 Hours (GMT) 9530 KHz (31M BAND) MONDAY 1100 News/Tonight on RSI 1109 Business Market Report 1115 Frontiers 1130 News 1135 The Front Page 1138 Take Five 1145 Newsline 1200 News/Weather (Asia-Pacific) 1205 E Z Beat 1220 Business Market Report 1230 News 1240
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  • SPORTS
    • 561 9  -  Champion Geylang Utd sees 90 per cent drop in attendance By Joe Dorai GEYLANG UNITED seems to have lost its touch both on the field and on the terraces. Not only is the Tiger Beer Series champion struggling (it is now fourth in the
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    • 417 9  -  By S. Murali FOOTBALLER S. Anthonysamy will receive about $170,000 from NTUC Income if doctors conclude that his paralysis is permanent. The insurance company said in a statement on Thursday that the lump sum excludes hospitalisation and medical expenses at Toa Payoh Hospital. The
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 427 10 Plans to develop thinking skills and creativity TAIPING Schoolchildren will soon be allowed to bring books and notes into examination halls for use as reference materials, the Education Ministry said. Datuk I)r Wan Mohamed Zah id Mohamed Noordin. the ministry's director-general, said that this
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    • 405 10 Bemama KAJANG There is no necessity for Malaysia to be hasty' in emulating Singa pore's Central Provident Fund in dealing with the country’s housing problem. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday. He said any decision could
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    • 226 10 PETALING JAYA Standard Six pupils will begin using the abacus from next vear to improve the standard of mathematics. Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Kong Chan Onn has said. He noted that since the abacus was introduced in the curriculum
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    • 239 10 NST. GELANG PAT AH (Johor) Almost 30 per cent of the work on the Malaysian end of the second link with Singapore has been completed. Also, piling work on 20 of the 23 piers in Malaysian waters has been
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    • 413 10 -AFP. KUALA LUMPUR The proposed trans-Asia rail link using tne Singa-pore-Kunming route will cost nearly US$9OO million (SSI.2 billion) and officials fear financing will be the big gest hurdle in the project. A senior Malaysian railway offi cial told a transport seminar
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  • COMMENT / Pick of the week’s editorials
    • 702 12 SEPTEMBER2I. 1996 WHILE no incident that puts the Korean peninsula's brittle security situation under stress should be overlooked, this week's apparent North Korean landing of agents by submarine in a remote stretch of the South's eastern shoreline can be exaggerated beyond its capacity for narm.
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    • 672 12 SEPTEMBER 20 1996 REVOLUTIONS are bad for business. That was the thrust of President Suharto's reminder to some of Indonesia’s richest people last week. In a meeting with 500 tycoons and businessmen in Bogor. he warned about the growing threat of a revolution by elements trying to take
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    • 669 12 SEPTEMBER 17, 1996 IN TRYING to negotiate new aviation agreements with a host of Asian and European countries, the United States should not overlook the old adage that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. A sense of fair play is
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    • 750 12  -  By Sia Cheong Yew LAST week’s headline “One doctor quits public sector each week: Survey" (ST Weekly Edition. Sept 14) was alarming enough to make most of us sit up and ask: What’s happening in our hospitals? It prompted me to
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  • COMMENT/ANALYSIS
    • 1078 13  -  My View NG WEI JOO HOW important is education to Singapore’s sur vival and progress? Very, according to the Prime Min iste'r. Speaking to 4,500 educators on Sept 8 in his first Teachers' Day rally speech. Mr Goh told them that "education
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    • 793 13  -  By Koh Buck Song MR LIM SIONG GUAN’S National Education Committee has a big job at hand: to make young Singaporeans feel more for their country. The Permanent Secretary (Prime* Minister’s Office) is chairing a panel of representatives from ministries such as Defence and
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  • INSIGHT A LOOK AT THE ISSUES OF THE DAY BY THE STRAITS TIMES POLITICAL DESK
    • 2096 14 Last month. Health Minister George Yeo filed a complaint of contempt of Parliament against a Singapore Democratic Party research team. Two weeks ago, Minister without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng said that he might do the same against SDP chairman Ling How
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    • 1229 15 Interview Mr Mohamed Noor Sahul Hameed, 42 and his wife, 38, are both cleaners. Their daughter, Juli, 17, is a polytechnic student and her brother, Rafi, 14, hopes to join the Institute of Technical Education next
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    • 1211 15  -  Thinking aloud Leslie Fong ONE of the more unsa tisfactory features of politics here must surely be the dearth of upright, capable opposition politicians. It is unsatisfactory because in a healthy democracy, which is surelvwhat Singapore should aspire to be. the people ought
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  • MONEY
    • 410 16 Singapore sharemarket review THERE was a bit of a rally in the Singapore bourse this week, on tne back of record gains on Wall Street earlier in the week when fears of a United States interest rate hike subsided.
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    • 1770 16 Company D*tt •nn Nat earn TY LY ($m) ($m> EPS TY LY lets) lets) Acme Sap 3 1 24.242 21.113 14.7 17.3 A»t* Mldgs Jun 26 P 2.S34 2.159 8.45 7.20 Alliance Tech Jun 14 F 7.679L I.380L Amcoi jun 14 F 21.240 44.679 7.18 15.3 AMOB* Jun
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    • 80 16 ST Industrials Index The Straits Times Industrials Index rose 61.59 points on the week to 2187.86. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 2154.49 (+28.22) 115.52m ($329.150m) Tuesday 2189.05 34.56) 130.95m ($482.644m) Wednesday 2182.31 (-6.74) 94.441m ($387.109m) Thursday 2206.09 (♦23.78) 105.66m ($410.007m) Friday 2187.86 (-18.23) 91.730m ($299.124m) BT— MGA Index
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    • 122 16 Company Plot* Dot* Tim* Renong E Th* Bollroom Mtttonm* Floor Hot*l Equotorlol Jolon Sulton limoll ***** Kuolo Lumpur $*p 16 10.00om Firjt Eng A Novot«l Orchoro Spot* Sep 18 10.00am t 214 Oun*orn Rood c (*****6) Golden Hop* c PocifK Bollroom Pon Poctfic Hotol Jolon Putro ***** Kuolo
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    • 210 16 RIGHTS ISSUC Company Ratio Exdata Books closa Acc 6 Paymt Gadjan 2000 Ona-for-ona RuplOOO Oct 2 Oct 8 NYA Orchard P Ona-for-ona (P $1.»0 Sap 2 Sap 6 Sap 27 OUT (U OUT (F) Ona-for-ona 0 $2.00 Ona-for-ona <6 $2.07 Sap 25 Oct 1 Sap 25 Oct 1
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    • 29 16 Amcol One for-two $2.05 Econ Intl Onp-for-two $1.22 Mulpha One-tor-tour <$• M$l.60 PMI Thr»«-fpr-two M$1.00 MAA On*-for-fiv« Milayawitd One-lor-two OUT On«-for-(ive PMI One-for-*our S*k«un P On»-for-tw« ThJkrpl One-tor-ten
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    • 1046 16 Payment <%> Ex data Bookt close Pay date ABN AmroMIOO) 1 36a Auq 16 Sep 25 Acme 50C 1 12.5 Sep 12 Sep 18 Oct 1 AMOB 50C b S Oct 2 Oct 8 Oct 23 Alex Hldqs b 6 Oct 2 Oct 8 Oct 18 ask Ptc
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    • 525 17  -  Survey looked at profit opportunity over five years By Chua Mui Hoong SINGAPORE is the second most profitable country for businesses to invest in. now and for the next five years, according to a ranking by the American-based Business Environment Risk Intelligence unit. The
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    • 425 17 THE founder of semiconductor distributor Serial System Pte Ltd beat 11 other finalists to clinch the Rotary-ASME (Association of Smalfand Medium Enterprises) Entrepreneur of the Year award last Friday. Mr Derek Goh, who is also the chief executive officer and president of Serial, received
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    • 153 17 COUNTER RATES Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Selling Buying OD US dollar 1.3972 1.4132 Sterling pound 2.1495 2.2021 Australian dollar 1.0910 1.1253 Canadian dollar 1.0119 1.0351 NZ dollar 0 9653 0.9983 EC unit 1 7745 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency 13.4378 Austrian schilling
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    • 106 17 Contract date: September 20 1996 UNIT ONE MTH 3 MTH 6 MTH 9 MTH 12 MTH CALL VALUE DATE uss 4--5 5'. 5'. 5'. 4*. 24/9/% AS 6'6’ 6'6 55‘4 24/9% NZS 9 8 8 8 8 8 24/9 STG 5 5 5 5 5 4 4
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    • 520 17 September 20 1996 HKS ASM Pacific S 40 0 100 Allied indlntl 040 -0 01 Allied Oversee 0 67 -0 01 Asia Sec Ini 1 18 0 03 Bank of EA 28 50 unch 2.58 COL Hotel 4 25 0 03 200 Cath Pac Air 1260 0 05 Century
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    • 618 17 Singapore Unit Trust The Commerce 1 66-1 76a The Savings funfl 1 61-1 714 S pore Prog Fund 0 67-0 71»d4 S pore Sec Fund 0 98-1 04»d# S po'e Invest Fund 1 09-1 164 S pore Faulty Fund 0.80-0 864 Credit Lyonnais Int i Asset Mgt Cl
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    • 8210 18 I INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL 1995 96 High Low Company Curr Last Traded Sale +orVol Day '000 High Low Gr’s Div Net M Cap Wt Avg P'E Smil Price ASE NT510 200 US 214 165 Acer 50c US 176 •1 130 177 176 5.ON 109 320 308 m
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    • 650 20  -  By Colin Tan JURONG Town Corporation (JTC). Singapore's largest industrial landlord, has under gone a major revamp to make itself more customer focused, its chief executive, Major-Gen-eral Lim Neo Chian, said. The reorganisation, which took effect on Monday, is aimed at making
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    • 302 20 CENTRAL Provident Fund (CPF) members can start withdrawing their investment profits, including proceeds from the sale of discounted Singapore Telecom shares, by the fourth week of October. Shares sold after Sept 20 will not be taken into account for profit and loss
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    • 131 20 FIVE companies have responded to the National Computer Board's (NCB) call for industry members to provide training in two information technology (IT) fields. Under the board's Critical IT Resource Programme (Citrep), the five companies Cisco Systems (USA). Lotus Development BV (Asia Pacific). Microsoft Singa
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    • 386 20 WTC no longer adequate to meet projected growth: Cheow Tong PLANS for Singapore’s 60.000 sq m mega exhibition centre will be finalised this year and the $2OO million complex will be ready by early 1998, Trade and Industry Minister Yeo
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    • 881 22 sia EnGiriEEßinG comPAnY SIA Engineering Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, is engaged in providing aviation engineering services of the highest quality. Our success is built on the work of our highly skilled and committed workforce. If you are ambitious, hardworking and are looking for a challenging job which
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  • FORUM
    • 834 23 I READ with great dismay Teo Sin Giap’s letter, “Protect our youth from violent movies” (below). Mr Teo does not seem to understand the real relationship between violence portrayed in the media and anti social behaviour exhibited by youths. Due to lack of
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    • 382 23 BEING a youth worker, I have had the privilege of working with juveniles and teenagers from troubled homes. It is my job to know their value systems. One thing has become clear to me: Teenagers are easily influenced by the media. Many of their
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    • 265 23 THE article “One doctor quits public sector each week: Survey” (ST Weekly Edition. Sept 14) was a good reminder that doctors, like the rest of us, are human too. We have come to expect a lot from our doctors new drugs
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    • 705 23 Why leave a vibrant city that attracts others? I COULD not agree more with Ms Tan Sai Siong’s ar tide “Are parents really emigrating for the good of their chilaren?" (ST Weekly Edition. Aug 31). It exasperates me that there should still be Singaporeans
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  • 587 24  -  By Allison Lim THE Health Ministry will promote government doctors faster and raise their night-duty allowances to retain, in particular. the talented young ones. The revisions, which will cost the ministry an extra $11.6 million a year, will take effect from next month. Those who
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  • 235 24 THE Chinese Gardens looked almost like a child’s magical fantasy land on Thursday night when it was lit up by giant lanterns from Guangdong, China. The Guangdong Foshan Lantern Show and the Liannan Cultural Show are the highlights of the cvmual lantern festival at the
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  • 364 24  -  By Tammy Tan SINGAPORE Telecom’s share price on Thursday rebounded as much as 12 cents in midday trade after having fallen three days in a row. Sing Tel shares traded in the various board lots of 1.000. 100 and 10 shares aligned themselves to
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