The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 11 November 2000

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  • Title Section
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    21 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Saturday November 11, 2000 Price: S$ 1 .20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA 072/08/2000
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  • Article
    Lock icon Racial politics will undermine Singapore, warns PM Goh
    676 1  -  He tells AMP that pressing for concessions along communal and religious lines will prompt other races to do likewise By CHUA LEE HOONG PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong on Sunday cautioned all ethnic communities in Singapore not to press for more space
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon SAD IRONY:
    71 1 SAD IRONY: a Singapore Airlines (SIA) reference book on equipment and safety procedures, a “must-read” for crew, lies on the debris-strewn runway tarmac at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taipei. Among the thousands of personal belongings investigators found on the 1.2-km-long crash site were a bouquet of purple
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  • Article
    Lock icon Malay MPs to reach out more
    129 1 MALAY MPs will step up efforts to reach out to their community in the wake of what Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has described as a political challenge to them by the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP). The 11 MPs will have more closed-door
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      73 1 X L S S M ILLENXIUM LECTURE New Blood Before Next Election Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong is searching for a batch of younger Singaporeans capable of taking on a career in politics. page 5 MED I A Joint Venture With HK Firm SPH Media Works has joined hands with
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  • PRIME SIA PLANE CRASH
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      Lock icon Taipei airport cameras may hold clues
      544 2  -  Investigators say ground cameras may show if runway lights were on and might have misled pilots GOH SLTNOI TAIWAN CORRESPONDENT TAIPEI Investigators probing the crash of Singapore Airlines flight SQ 006 disclosed on Tuesday that they would examine hitherto undisclosed ground-surveillance-camera tapes of the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Runway lights a 'booby trap'
      421 2  -  LESLIE KOH NEW pilots simulating take-off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in bad weather often turn into the wrong runway in the aircraft simulator. This is according to a veteran pilot who spoke to The Straits Times on Thursday. With poor visibility and the white
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      Lock icon Did pilot use wrong map?
      139 2 THIS chart was issued to pilots last month. Meant to take effect from 5 pm (GMT) on Nov 1 onwards, it shows only runway 05L and taxiway NC. Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport was planning to redesignate runway 05R as taxiway NC about the time
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    • Article
      Lock icon Formal offer for Taiwan families
      276 2  -  Goh Sui Noi TAIPEI Singapore Airlines on Thursday made its first formal offer of compensation to the families of Taiwanese passengers who died in the crash last week, but some family members said they would press for higher amounts. At a closed meeting with family
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      Lock icon Pilots' group: Don’t blame pilot so quickly
      429 3  -  Pilots’ body denounces the ‘extremely disturbing’ trend of blaming pilots, which could obscure causes of crash *L LESLIE KOH IN THE blame game that often follows an air disaster, the buck often gets passed too quickly to the pilot, said a global pilots’
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      Lock icon The last 1½ hours before take-off recreated
      384 3 SQ 006 crashed on take-off at 11.18 pm, at Taipeis Chiang Kai-shek International Airport 11 days ago. It was Singapore Airlines 3 first fatal accident in 28 years. CHUA MUi HOONG pieces together events in the last IV2 hours of that dark and
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      Lock icon 'Everything went pitch black...then, screams'
      619 3  -  By LI-ANN WEE IT WAS a routine as familiar to the veteran Singapore Airlines steward as the back of his hand. After checking that the tray tables were folded and passenger seat belts fastened and running the safety video, he heard Captain Foong Chee Kong
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      Lock icon Three SQ pilots ‘helped in rescue efforts’
      327 3 THE pilots on SQ 006 risked their own lives to help crew and passengers to safety while the plane was exploding on the runway. Chief steward Isnin Mohamed Sohot spoke out in defence of the pilots on Thursday, in the face of rumours
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      Lock icon Farzana taken off ventilator
      448 4  -  ĔL SALMA KHALIK FLIGHT stewardess Farzana Abdul Razak, 18, who underwent several hours of extensive skin-graft surgery on Monday, is off the ventilator and able to talk. At the moment, she is the most perky of the three victims of the SQ 006 crash in Taiwan
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      Lock icon Stewardess' last written words to family
      382 4  -  Investigators find Ms Goh Boon Hwee’s handbag with the notes, which she carried when she flew Ha EUNICE LAU INVESTIGATORS of the SQ 006 crash have found air stewardess Goh Boon Hwee’s handbag, which contains her last words to her family. Her younger sister,
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      Lock icon He ran back to help and did not come out
      445 4 HE COULD have made it out of the ill-fated plane unscathed but chief steward Surash Anandan chose to stay because he could not bear to leave his passengers behind. Even as he stood at the exit, he apparently pushed a
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  • HOME
    • PM'S NUSS MILLENNIUM LECTURE
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        Lock icon New blood before the next election
        381 5 PM Goh is searching for a batch of younger Singaporeans capable of taking on a career in politics THE next General Election in 2002 will be critical to Singapore’s future. There must be enough new faces with ministerial potential by then, or Singapore will
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        Lock icon LIGHT MOMENT: Who gets to talk?
        145 5 PRIME Minister Goh had just answered a question taking issue with the mandatory jail sentence for harbourers of illegal immigrants, when the chairman, Professor Tommy Koh, leapt in with another question. Well, not quite another question. More like a spiel, actually, with Prof Koh,
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        Lock icon ‘Stay and make it right’
        488 5  -  Oil YAP CHUIN WEI DON’T just pack up and leave if you think the Government is wrong in the way it governs Singapore stay and make it right. Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong made this impassioned plea at the end of an hour-long question-and-answer session
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        Lock icon 2007 will be watershed year
        566 5  -  IRENE NG POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT MARK the year: 2007. It will be a watershed year in Singapore’s political history a new team of leaders will be in charge of the country. The problem is: Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who turned 59 in May, is facing
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      Lock icon PM Goh to AMP: Join Mendaki
      496 6  -  He invites self-help group to be institutional member of Mendaki if it wants collective leadership Sk. AHMAD OSMAN PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong made a surprise invitation to the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) on Sunday: If you are genuinely interested in collective leadership
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      Lock icon MALAY LEADERS: They back PM
      85 6 MALAY leaders on Tuesday supported Prime Minister Goh Chok Tongs rejection of the collective-leadership idea proposed for the Malay-Muslim community by the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP). They agree that the organisation s call for a collective leadership of non-political players, working independently to complement
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      Lock icon Why 'certain rules' in schools must be complied with
      285 6 THE Government cannot accede to Malay-Muslim demands for girls to wear Islamic headscarves in national secular schools, because if it does so, there could be further demands, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said on Sunday. Explaining the Government’s stand against the
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      Lock icon AMP calls for ‘consultative' leadership now
      331 6  -  *L SITIANDRIANTE THE Association of Muslim Professionals has modified its initial concept of a collective leadership for the Malay-Mus-lim community 7 to a “consultative” one, after Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong objected to the idea. But the self-help group said it would deliberate farther
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    • Article
      Lock icon Community catching up in academic results
      404 6  -  *L CHIALEE HOONG DISPELLING the notion that the Malay community was marginalised, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong on Sunday said that Malays had made great progress in the past 10 years, and should not feel weak or discriminated against. They were now more confident,
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      Lock icon MediaWorks in tie-up with HK firm
      525 7  -  Joint venture to pool talent and regional marketing to produce Mandarin TV shows for Asia *IL LAUREL TEO SPH Media Works has joined hands with a Hongkong multimedia company in which top Hongkong stars like Anita Mui and Jackie Chan have shares. As a
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    • Article
      Lock icon Most men over 40 have sex problems
      378 7  -  St MARGARET PERRY AS MANY as six out of 10 men in Singapore above the age of 40 may have difficulty getting or maintaining an erection, according to the latest research. A study conducted by a National University Hospital team of urology specialists
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      Lock icon Viagra works best for Chinese, says S'pore study
      276 7  -  St PAULA McCOY CHINESE Singaporeans have more success with the impotence drug Viagra than their Indian and Malay counterparts, a study has revealed. And the difference could be due to diet and lifestyle. Doctors here carried out a year-long study into the
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      Lock icon New chief set to shake up TV scene
      440 7  -  *L SALMA KHAI.IK SPH Media Works plans to take almost half the audience and a third of the advertising revenue for television in Singapore within its first year. And this is no idle chatter from Mr Jamal Hassim, named last week as
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      Lock icon $32m to tram 45,000 workers in three years
      329 8  -  A generous scheme to fund training is part of plan to improve the skills of half the workforce in 5 years ĔL LAUREL TEO AT LEAST 45,000 workers in the next three years wall get free training and a certificate that states
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      Lock icon JBJ to have bankruptcy petitions withdrawn
      146 8 THE bankruptcy petitions against Workers’ Party chief J.B. Jeyaretnam will be withdrawn if he pays $20,000 out of about $235,000 by Monday morning. The petitions were filed by eight committee members of the first Tamil Language Week after suing him successfully for defamation. Mr
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      Lock icon ROM gets $1m facelift
      180 8 COUPLES planning to get married next year can look forward to a cheerier ambience and more creature comforts at the Registry of Marriages. The 20-year-old building, which houses the civil and Muslim registries of marriages, will undergo its first major upgrading from the middle of this
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      1062 8 RADIO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME SCHEDULES 1100 1400 Hours (GMT) 6015 KHz (49M BAND) 6150 KHz (49M BAND) MONDAY 1100 News 1109 Business Market Report 1115 Arts Arena 1130 News 1135 Wired Up 1145 Newsline 1200 News/Weather (AsiaPacific) 1210 E Z Beat 1230 Business Market Report 1235 The Written Word
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon As good as it gets for Singapore
      587 9  -  Lions win 3-0 against Laos on Thursday. Score could have been 5-0, but coach Vincent still happy TIGER CUP SOCCER SANTOKH SINGH IXSOXGKHLA BUT for two crucial misses by Singapore’s midfielder-turned-striker, the scoreline would have read 5-0 and the Lions would have won
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      Lock icon New assessment system to pick best young players
      359 9  -  SOCCER SIL ERNEST LUIS GONE are the days of favouritism. The days when coaches used to recommend their favourite, though not necessarily the best, players for the national age-group teams. At least that was the impression of the old system. Starting last
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      Lock icon $80.000 boost for Under-19 boys
      246 9  -  RUGHY br. ELGEN KUA THE Singapore Rugby Union’s Under-19 team will return to the Asian Rugby Football Union U-19 Championship after a two-year absence with a hefty $BO,OOO boost from long-time supporter Singapore Cricket Club. The money will help sponsor a squad of 22 for
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    • Article
      Lock icon Jing and Li make early exits in France
      136 9 TABLE TENNIS SINGAPOREAN paddlers Jing Junhong and Li Jiawei have been ousted from both the singles and doubles competitions of the Pro-Tour French Open. The Olympic duo, despite being seeded highly in the Open, bowed out to lesserknown opposition. Jing, the fifth
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Mahathir takes political fight to the Net
      460 10  -  A one-hour online chat, planned for later this month, is part of an effort to publicise Umno website and counter opposition websites By WAN HAMIDI HAMID IX KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN Premier Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, one of the few computer-sawy leaders in
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      Lock icon Kedah legislator shot dead in Penang jam
      377 10  -  WAN HAMIDI HAMID IN KUALA LUMPUR A KEDAH state assemblyman driving his car while talking on his mobile phone was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, last Saturday. Barisan Nasional’s Lunas assemblyman Dr Joe Fernandez, 54, was
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      Lock icon Two shots to the head
      98 10 The Star/Asia News Network A POST-MORTEM examination by forensic pathologist Bhupinder Singh revealed that the cause of Dr Joe Fernandez's death was two shots to the head. One bullet lodged in his brain, while the other passed through his skull and lodged in the front
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      Lock icon Keadilan chief admits party role in US lobby
      364 10 New Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR Parti Keadilan chief Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has finally admitted that one of her top lieutenants, Mr Raja Petra Kamarudin, was put in charge of lobbying US Congressmen to file a resolution calling for Anwar Ibrahim’s
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      Lock icon Girl, five, dies of suspected hand, foot, mouth disease
      128 10 The Star/Asia News Network JOHOR BARU A five-year-old child died of suspected hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) on Wednesday the same day the Johor authorities lifted the three-week closure order on child nurseries and kindergartens. Oh Jia Jia had HFMD
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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      Lock icon Indonesian court rules Suharto trial is on, again
      459 11  -  Corruption charges against the former Indonesian leader will be heard, as the search for his fugitive son Tommy goes on DERWIN PEREIRA STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA An Indonesian appeals court on Wednesday ordered a resumption of the trial of former president
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      Lock icon US Embassy may reopen soon
      258 11 -AFP WASHINGTON The United States said it hoped to reopen its embassy in Indonesia after the Jakarta government upgraded security at the mission following a row between the US ambassador and senior ministers. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters last Friday that embassy security
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      Lock icon Arroyo leads protest march
      603 11  -  By ARTURO BARIUAD STRAITS TIMES PHILIPPINES BUREAU MANILA For the first time, Vice-President Gloria Macapa-gal-Arroyo took to the streets on Wednesday to lead a campaign to unseat beleaguered President Joseph Estrada. It was apparently an effort to cast off persistent doubts over her leadership potential. But
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      Lock icon Thailand's election on Jan 6
      156 11 -AFP BANGKOK A national election will be held in Thailand on Jan 6, Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai said last Friday, ending months of speculation over the ballot date. “The Election Commission wants to organise an election on Jan 6 and I have already informed coalition
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  • COMMENT
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      Lock icon Why? How? What now?
      631 12 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 6,2000 THE salient point about the Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 crash in Taipei last Tuesday is that the pilot had steered the plane onto the wrong take-off path. SIA has acknowledged that unambiguously, based on Taiwanese investigations. But troubling questions remain about the contributory
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      Lock icon Thailand in spotlight
      595 12 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8,2000 THREE years ago this month, Thailand was on the ropes when Mr Chuan Leekpai of the Democrat Party succeeded the hapless General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh as prime minister. The baht was in trouble and the International Monetary Fund was already ordering textbook remedies, with mixed
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      Lock icon Did airport play role in accident?
      869 12  -  NEWS ANALYSIS LESLIE KOH JUST last week, SQ 006 barrelled down the wrong runway, crashed into construction equipment and broke up in a ball of fire. In that time, even before all the bodies were recovered from the mangled wreckage, Taiwanese investigators had indicated
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      Lock icon Will genes decide insurance, jobs and parenthood?
      1004 13  -  MY VIEW By GEOFFREY PEREIRA YOUR genes may soon decide the insurance premiums you pay. Later, they may influence your employment prospects, your ability to get a bank loan and, maybe, even whether you become a parent. That, in a nutshell, is the
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      Lock icon An issue that will not go away
      1227 13  -  LAST WEEK IN POLITICS By CHUA LEE HOONG MY NINE-YEAR-OLD nephew Jonathan was peeved two Fridays ago that work kept his “Koko” away from their nightly chess game. This week, end-of-term tests deprived him of the usual amount of time in which to
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  • INSIGHT
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      Lock icon Is S'pore Inc doing enough to help foreigners settle in ?
      2096 14 Is S'pore Inc doing enough to help foreigners settle in The Singapore Government is rolling out the welcome mat for foreign talent. But is Singapore Inc doing enough to ease them into the workplace—and the society at large? JUDY HO takes a closer look at the issue highlighted in the
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      Lock icon Economic cannibalism makes sense, but...
      1106 15  -  THINKING ALOUD By ASAD LATIF GLOBALISATION arrived at my housing estate recently. And it shut down the POSBank branch there. Now, I do understand the reasons for its behaviour. The acquisition of POSBank strengthens DBS as a regional player. But the merger means that local
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  • MONEY
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      Lock icon White House stalemate affects market
      293 16  -  Azhar Khalid SINGAPORE shares ended lower with the Straits Times Index (STI) ending the week below the key 2,000-point support level at 1,986.2 points, down 75.3 points over the week. Investors had been out of action in both the Singapore and US bourses for most
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      Lock icon CORPORATE RESULTS
      2405 16 Company Date arm Net earn TY LY <$m> <$m) EPS TY LY <cts> (cts) ASTI Sep 05 1 6.182 2.476 4.69 239 ABft Hldgs Sep 19 1 2.343 0.491 1.21 0.26 ACE Dynamics Sep 05 1 0.537 0.517 0.54 0.63 Acma Sep 29 1 4.088 6.114 2.40 3.70
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      Lock icon APPROVED ISSUES
      222 16 BONUS issue Company Ratio Exdate Books close Acc Paymt Teckwah one-for-one Nov 21 Nov 24 NA Robinson one-for-five Nov 10 Nov 15 NA Roly one-for-two Oct 17 Oct 20 NA RIGHTS ISSUE ExBooks Acc Company Ratio date dose Paymt OTHERS ExBooks Acc Company Ratio date dose Paymt Cosco
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      Lock icon COMPANY MEETINGS
      244 16 Company Place Date Time GMG Global A 108 Robinson Road Dec 22 9.00 am E #12-00 GMG Bldg S'pore (*****0) 9.30am NHCeramics A 1 3 Tuas Ave 8 Nov 30 11.00am S’pore (*****7) Easycall A 81k 750E #05-05 Chai Chee Road Tecnopark S’pore (*****5) Nov 30 2.30pm WingTai
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      Lock icon DAY-TO-DAY STOCK INDICES
      75 16 Straits Times Index Th« Straits Times Index fell 75.3 points on the week to 1986.2 points DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday BT-SRI Index 2006.84(54.66) 2021.30M4.46) 2016.52 4.78) 2003.79 (-12.73) 1986.20 (-17.59) 489.7m ($794.4m) 391.4m ($773.7m) 454.4m ($886.9m) 451.3m ($756.4m) 382.9m ($548.9m) The BT-SRI Index
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      Lock icon DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      480 16 Payment <cts) Ex date Books close Pay date Amtek Engrg 20c F 0.8TE Nov 30 Dec 5 Dec 14 Aussino.Com5c F 2.3TE Nov 13 Nov 16 Nov 28 BMT $10 F 56 Nov 2 Nov 7 Nov 16 Ban Joo 5c F 0.25 Dec 13 Dec 18 Dec
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      Lock icon PROPOSED ISSUES
      182 16 Company Description JIT Hldgs Proposed merger of JIT Hldgs Ltd and Flextronics International Ltd. Trading in snares will cease in the the ‘Ready’ and 'Odd-Lot' markets with effect from 9.00am 24 November 2000. Trading in Buying-in Market will cease on 29 November. JIT will be delisted from the
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      Lock icon UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2303 17 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' prices (S$) UNIT TRUSTS Aberdeen Asset Mot Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNC Fd 0.892 0.937 Global Technology Fd!** 1.191 1.252 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.859 0.903 American Opport Fd 1.014 1.066 Continental Euro Eqty Fd!** 1.156 1.214 Japan Eqty Fd!** 1.388 1.458 Asian Fixed
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      Lock icon CURRENCY
      154 17 Foreign Currency Note Rates (9am, Nov 10) Buying OD Selling Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 0.9100 0.9230 Canadian dollar 1.1130 1.1370 NZ dollar 0.6910 0.7060 Sterling pound 2.4750 2.5010 US dollar 1.7320 1.7440 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 10.84
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      Lock icon UOB Asia charged in court on four counts
      630 17  -  It is accused of creating a false impression of demand for Hua Kok ana eWorldOfSports.com IPOs IGNATIUS LOW FINANCE CORRESPONDENT UNITED Overseas Bank’s corporate finance arm UOB Asia was charged in court last Friday with misleading the public over not one, but
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      Lock icon Singapore among Gitic's biggest creditors, says report
      357 17 GUANGZHOU The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) is one of the single biggest creditors in Chinas largest corporate failure, according to a report by liquidators of Guangdong International Trust and Investment Corp (Gitic). GIC, which invests the island republic’s SSIO3 billion of
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    • Article
      Lock icon SGX SECURITIES TRDG: MAIN BOARD
      4373 18 Transaction tote: Hov 10.2000 MULTI INDUSTRY 52-Wk Curr Last High Low Company Traded Sale ♦orVol •ooo Day High Low Gr's Div Net P/E M Cap < $mil Wt Avg Price 163 50.5 105.4 64 26 344 169 202 85 unch 131 85 81.5 5 10.6
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      Lock icon BONDS, LOANS & WARRANTS
      1330 19 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Transaction date: Nov 10, 2000 52-Wk High Low Company Last Sale ♦orVol '000 Day Hiqh Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Wt Avg Price 51.5 3.5 s Acma W*****4 5 +0.5 45 7.5 4.5 4.5 6 6 38 2.5 s AIITech W*****7 3 2.5 4 3 31 19
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      Lock icon SGX SESDAQ
      1127 19 52-WK High Low Curr Last Company Traded Sale ♦orVol '000 Day Hiqh Low Gr’s Div Net P/E M Cap $mil Wt Avg Price MANUFACTURING 200 72.5 c AS Auto 10c 96 +0.5 511 101 93.5 10 N 38.4 126.1 97 82 45 c ASJ Hldgs20c 50 3.8 11.2
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      Lock icon DelGro pulls out of new newspaper, Today
      468 20  -  By CHEE JANN PERNG COMPANIES REPORTER ONE of the four parties involved in the launch of a free tabloid delivered a shocker on Wednesday evening by saying it had changed its mind about being part of the enterprise. Transport company DelGro Corporation’s revelation
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      Lock icon Outcry over OUB's One Card offering
      552 20  -  Credit-card chiefs of eight banks say exclusive payment plan with Power Supply is discriminatory Reports by EDN A KOH FINANCE REPORTER AX EXCLUSIVE arrangement which enables Overseas Union Bank (OUB) customers to pay :heir power bills by using a newly launched credit card has
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      Lock icon 70% of this year's IPOs trading below offer prices
      458 20  -  S!L EDNAKOH NEARLY three in four companies which sold shares to the public this year are trading below' their initial public offer (IPO) prices. The worst performer is eWorldofSports.com (eWOS), w'hose mismanaged offer led to its IPO manager being charged in
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      Lock icon Christopher Kou backs out of Links Island Holdings deal
      385 20  -  AZHAR KHALID MARKET CORRESPONDENT UNHERALDED businessman Christopher Kou has backed out of a deal to acquire a controlling stake in Links Island Holdings, citing “frustration” as a result of a Singapore Exchangeimposed trading suspension on the stock. In a statement on
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
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  • FORUM
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      Lock icon Don’t adopt crutch mentality
      317 23 I REFER to the report, “Community catching up in academic results'’ (see Page 6), in which Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong tells Malay community leaders: “You do the Malay community a great disservice if you get it to believe that it is weak, discriminated against, and
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      Lock icon Crash of SQ 006: Tapes on cockpit-tower exchange would shed light
      402 23 MY DEEPEST condolences to the families and friends of those killed on Flight SQ 006. A former flight-crew member, I am disturbed that the press briefing by the Taiwan Aviation Safety Council did not include the tower-aircraft and ground
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      Lock icon Many questions on Taipei airport
      164 23 I HAVE been so affected by the crash of SQ 006 that I have a lot of questions on my mind. How can a rich country with one of the largest foreign reserves not have ground radar to detect planes on the runways? How can
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      Lock icon Honour duo who gave their lives
      96 23 SIA crew members Ang Miau Lee and Surash Anandan showed exemplary commitment to duty. They risked their lives in trying to save the passengers on board the ill-fated SQ 006. Though they could have fled to safety, they chose to care for the passengers
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      Lock icon What are disclosure rules for GIC?
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