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Title Section20 2000-12-02 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Saturday December 2, 2000 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA 072/08/200020 words
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647 2000-12-02 1 SALMA KHALIK - New $465m college will offer courses which are a fusion of maths, computer science, engineering and life sciences SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT LIFE sciences study and research will get a significant boost when the Nanyang Technological University sets up a multi-million-dollar College of Life647 words
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Advertisement116 2000-12-02 1 Crash of sqoo6 Explosion, Fire and Bodies In an exclusive interview, crew members who survived recount the horrific moments after the plane exploded into flames. pages 4 and 5 Courts 'Fiercer Than My Mother' He bellows, he raves, and wayward youngsters are reduced to tears. Spend a day with District116 words
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PRIME
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470 2000-12-02 2 Mr Goh says he alone will decide when to step down; he was not going to let anyone edge him out THERE is “no hurry” to change leaders in Singapore, and Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong “is not impatient”, Prime Minister470 words
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Article, Illustration241 2000-12-02 2 TRACY QUEK - By TRACY QUEK TWO girls have done St Hilda’s Primary proud by coming first and third in the Primary School Leaving Examination. Chuah Yu Xin and Nur Diana Zakaria are from the first batch of the school’s gifted education programme. Yu Xin, 12, had fourGEORGE GASCON - 241 words
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980 2000-12-02 2 JASON LEOW - Btl JASON LEOW THE Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday responded to Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid’s criticism last week of Singapore and its leaders. In a statement, PM Goh Chok Tong’s press secretary, Mr Ong Keng Yong, clarified four of the issues mentioned980 words
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Article, Illustration1561 2000-12-02 3 When Mr Goh Chok Tong took over from Mr Lee Kuan Yew Singapore's first Prime Minister since 1959, he promised change as well as continuity. IRENE N 6 examines the steps he has made in a decade. IT IS a sweltering afternoon, and Prime Minister1,561 words
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386 2000-12-02 3 JANE LEE - Bit JANE LEE BLIND busker Leo Lim was playing some of his favourite songs at his regular spot in an Orchard Road underpass when the police swooped in and confiscated his keyboard and speakers. The equipment was worth thousands of dollars. The386 words
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Advertisement78 2000-12-02 3 m mm Do you have a burning question for Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong? Here's your chance to pose it to him, be it on his policies, his leadership or your concerns for the future. He has agreed to take some of your questions in an exclusive interview with The78 words
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HOME
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SIA PLANE CRASH
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Article, Illustration575 2000-12-02 4 Seven of the 13 SI A crew members who survived the crash of SQ 006 on Oct 31, including leading steward Mark Tay, recount the moments after the crash in an exclusive interview with U-ANN WEE IT WAS Oct 31Illustration: MIKE M DIZOX - 575 words
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1230 2000-12-02 4 LI-ANN WEE - Crew members who survived the SQ 006 crash remember the hellish moments after the plane exploded into flames on the tarmac §1 LI-ANN WEE THE weather was unusually violent. Rain pummelled the plane so that the loading door on the right side had to be1,230 words
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Article, Illustration265 2000-12-02 5 THE impact of the crash ripped the sandals off the feet of several of the SIA stewardesses on board the ill-fated flight. Leading stewardess Koh Hwee Khim and flight stewardesses Yvonne Lim Beng Hoong and Charlene Chua Mei Fung told The Straits Times that they were265 words
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543 2000-12-02 5 LESLIE KOH - But it is still not known if edge lights were lit as well as surveillance-camera footage of the runway area was unclear Bt, LESLIE KOH BRIGHTLY-LIT taxiway lights leading to a closed runway could have guided the pilot to the wrong strip of tarmac,543 words
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681 2000-12-02 5 SHARON VASOO; and KARAMJIT KAUR - CALL BY RELATIVES OF VICTIMS By SHARON VASOO and KARAMJIT KAUR RELATIVES of the people who died in the Silk Air MI 185 crash have asked the Government to release “every single detail” of the probe’s final report, so that they can “achieve some681 words
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Article, Illustration1428 2000-12-02 7 A poem by a violent teen moved a judge to take the boy’s parents to task for not doing enougji to understand and communicate with him. District Judge Mark Tay does not mince his words when it comes to telling wayward youngsters and their parents exactly what1,428 words
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478 2000-12-02 7 ALETHEA LIM - i!L ALETHEA LIM A WOMAN whose marriage was on the rocks saw senior lawyer Dennis Mahendran Singham for advice. A month after she first consulted him, they became lovers. For that indiscretion, the 52-year-old was last Friday suspended from practising for three478 words
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457 2000-12-02 8 CHANG AI-LIEN - Find cures for diseases to improve lives first, says EDB chairman Philip Yeo, revealing shift to focus on human health Reports by CHANG AI-LIEN LIFE-SCIENCE research in Singapore should focus on humans, not animals and plants. Research here should be aimed at treating diseases457 words
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Article, Illustration279 2000-12-02 8 THE first privately-funded homegrowm biotech start-up here has taken root at laboratories in Science Park 2. Its founder, National University of Singapore (NUS) researcher Lee Chee Wee, said the company has pioneered techniques that can slice at least three years off drug-devel-opment times, in an279 words
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Page 8 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1062 2000-12-02 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 Word1,062 words
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SPORTS
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Article, Illustration574 2000-12-02 9 CHAN TSE CHUEEN - The inclusion of bodybuilding in the 2002 Asian Games may well mean two gold medals for S’pore BODYBUILDING *1 CHAN TSE CHUEEN IT IS confirmed: bodybuilding will feature at the Asian Games in Pusan, South Korea, in 2002. And that may well mean574 words
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479 2000-12-02 9 GERARD WONG - TABLE TENNIS *l GERARD WONG SINGAPORE’S Jing Junhong and Li Jiawei went on a brilliant run in the women’s doubles of the Swedish Open, but tripped at the final hurdle. After defeating Romania’s Steff Mihaela and Otilia Badescu 21-11, 21-19 in last Saturday’s semi-finals,479 words
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390 2000-12-02 9 ATHLETICS SINGAPORE’S veteran long-distance runners blame the organisers for not giving them enough time to prepare for tomorrow’s Singapore International Marathon. Some former SIM winners said six weeks were not enough to prepare for the event. The organising committee announced the marathon390 words
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MALAYSIA
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541 2000-12-02 10 BRENDAN PEREIRA - Go easy on party politics and concentrate on ensuring that Umno governs Malaysia, says DPM BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR Keep your eye on the main prize. That is Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's message to his party541 words
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350 2000-12-02 10 New Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR In a rare admission of liability, the Education Ministry 7 has apologised for numerous errors in test papers in the Form Five public examination. Education Parliamentary Secretary Datuk Mahadzir Khir made the apology 7 in the HouseNew Straits Times - 350 words
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Article, Illustration484 2000-12-02 10 WAN HAMIDI HAMID - WAN HAMIDI HAMID IN KUALA LUMPUR BARISAN Nasional (BN) suffered a setback when it lost the Lunas state-assembly seat to opposition Parti Keadilan Nasional in a fierce by-election battle in Kedah on Wednesday. Keadilan candidate Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, 36,REUTERS - 484 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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Article508 2000-12-02 11 CHUA LEE HOONG - Spore kicks off integration effort with offer of technical assistance. China, Japan and S. Korea agree to work towards ‘Asian IT belt’ sn CHUA LEE HOONG ASEAN nations sealed their dedication to bring the association back on track last Saturday with a package of measures to508 words
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Article, Illustration381 2000-12-02 11 JULYN KANG - *!L JULYN KANG A SINGAPOREAN died in flooded Haadyai in southern Thailand last Saturday. He fell through the roof of a hotel where he had taken shelter. A spokesman for Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said on Sunday that theREUTERS - 381 words
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Article, Illustration353 2000-12-02 11 JAMES EAST - By JAMES EAST STRAITS TIMES THAILAND BUREAU BANGKOK Diplomats here have something new to gossip about on Bangkok’s cocktail circuit how Thailand’s former ambassador to the Netherlands “sold” his country’s embassy to a Dutch businessman without the knowledge or permission of the government.FOTOPERS BURO - 353 words
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338 2000-12-02 11 DEVI ASMARANI - By DEVI ASMARANI STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA In a possible first step towards impeachment of President Abdurrahman Wahid, a group of legislators is spearheading the censure of the Indonesian leader for violating the Constitution. The group of outspoken young MPs, who have attacked338 words
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COMMENT
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Article605 2000-12-02 12 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25,2000 A COMMITTEE which crunched opinion on land use for the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s next 10-yearly Concept Plan review did not offer startling departures from the norm. If you have to cram 5.5 million people into this island, and there is a projected land605 words
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Article578 2000-12-02 12 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29. 2000 MORE action, less talk. Thus had Singapore, as chair of the just-concluded Asean session, urged of its fellow members. Clearly mindful of the criticism the grouping has attracted in recent times, from within as well as outside detractors expecting its expiry, last578 words
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Article, Illustration1008 2000-12-02 12 CHLALEEHOONG - Where SM’s intellect and force of personality dominated S’pore’s landscape, Mr Goh walks that landscape with fellow citizens SATURDAY WITH CHLALEEHOONG HOW does it feel to start on your job as Prime Minister, knowing that your predecessor, a still-vigorous 67, not only walks the halls1,008 words
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Article, Illustration1018 2000-12-02 13 SUSAN LONG - MY VIEW By SUSAN LONG AFrER a while, it was like visiting a family museum. Everywhere I turned, the exhibits were all paired up, pushing strollers or debating the merits of Reggio Emilia versus Montessori child-care systems. In the office, they worked wordlessly,LUDWIG ILIO - 1,018 words
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827 2000-12-02 13 TAY CHENG KHOON - TAY TO GREEN TAY CHENG KHOON THE report of the Concept Plan Review focus group on land allocation was released last week and why was I not surprised that golf bashing was a notable feature? Perhaps apathetic golfers are partly to blame.827 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration1894 2000-12-02 14 Five years asp, the Indian community was concerned about the future of the Tamil language. Today, plays, poetry reading and events in Tamil are well-attended. Websites in Tamil are mushrooming and newspaper readership of Tamil Murasu has risen. What accounts for this surge inSource for charts: MCE; G. CHANDRADAS - 1,894 words
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Article, Illustration1128 2000-12-02 15 SONNY YAP - THINKING ALOUD By SONNY YAP MURPHY'S Law: “If something can go wrong, it will go wrong." Call it yet another with-the-bene-fit-of-hindsight tut-tutting if you like, but it is hard to deny that the operation of this immutable law* lay at1,128 words
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MONEY
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Article272 2000-12-02 16 Azhar Khalid - Azhar Khalid SINGAPORE shares fell for most of the week, spooked by the continuous sell-off in the US technology 7 sector. However, a slight rebound in electronics stocks on Friday propped up the market to end the week on a firmer note. The benchmark272 words
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Article2386 2000-12-02 16 Company Date ann Net earn TY LY <$m) <$m) EPS TY LY (cts) (cts) ASTI Sep 05 1 6.182 2.476 4.69 2.39 ABR 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 3.702,386 words
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Article218 2000-12-02 16 BONUS ISSUE Company Ratio Exdate Books close ACC Paymt Strike one-for-one Dec 6 Dec 11 NA NoelGifts one-for-two Jan 8 Jan 11 NA RIGHTS ISSUE ExBooks Acc Company Ratio date close Paymt OTHERS ExBooks Acc Company Ratio date close Paymt Osprey Maritime 77,872.975 2.5% RCCPS of $0.01 each.218 words
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Article230 2000-12-02 16 Company Place Date Time Sunright A The Pan Pacific Hotel Ocean 7 Level 2 7 Raffles Boulevard Marina Square S’pore (*****5) Jan 12 10.30am Meiban E Century Roxy Park Hotel 50 East Coast Rd Roxy Square Function Room Roxy 3 Level 4 S'pore (*****9) Dec 22 11.00am Lim230 words
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Article76 2000-12-02 16 Straits Times Index The Straits Times Index fell 29.36 points on the week to 1955 points DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday BT-SRI Index 1971.69(- 4.84) 1966.26(13.26) 1960.71 5.55) 1952.23 8.48) 1955 2.77) 212.0m ($382,1m) 258.3m ($414.7m) 245.7m ($463.3m) 286.8m ($531.1m) 346.9m ($649.3m) The BT-SRI76 words
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Article507 2000-12-02 16 Payment Ex Books Pay (cts) date close date Amtek Enqrq 20c F 0.8TE Nov 30 Dec 5 Dec 14 AVJenninqs A25c f A2.5 Dec 5 Dec 8 Dec 21 AVJenninqs A25c k A2.5 Dec 5 Dec 8 Dec 21 Ban Joo 5c F 0.25 Dec 13 Dec 18507 words
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Article122 2000-12-02 16 Company Description Allied Comp Proposed Bonus Issue of Intnl Ltd 113.912,510 new ord shares of par value $0.10 each on the basis of one for every two existing ord shares. Proposed to issue 68,347,506 warrants to subscribe for 68,347,506 new ord shares of $0.10 par value. Proposed to122 words
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Article2336 2000-12-02 17 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Managers' prices (S$) UNIT TRUSTS Aberdeen Asset Mgt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: Global MNC Fd 0.838 0.881 Global Technology Fd!** 0.909 0.955 UK Blue Chip Fd!** 0.796 0.836 American Opport Fd 0.939 0.987 Continental Euro Eqty Fd!** 1.118 1.175 Japan Eqty Fd!** 1.326 1.393 Asian Fixed2,336 words
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Article155 2000-12-02 17 Foreign Currency Note Rates (9am r Dec 1) Buying OD Selling Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 0.9230 0.9410 Canadian dollar 1.1330 1.1570 NZ dollar 0.7180 0.7330 Sterling pound 2.4860 2.5120 US dollar 1.7480 1.7600 Singapore dollars to 100 units o' foreign currency Austrian schilling155 words
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538 2000-12-02 17 IGNATIUS LOW - Not compulsory to comply, but firms should heed code of conduct in order to compete globally Draft Corporate-Governance Code IGNATIUS LOW FINANCE CORRESPONDENT TELL, tell and tell. This is the advice of a team that set out to find out how to make listed538 words
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Article440 2000-12-02 17 CORNELIA TAN - Bij CORNELIA TAN A GOVERNMENT plan to enable more entrepreneurs to go for broke without going broke appears to be paying off. Changes to the law last year making it harder to go bankrupt have seen the number of companies being wound up in the first 10440 words
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Article4849 2000-12-02 18 Transaction date: Dec 1 r 2000 MULTI INDUSTRY 52-Wk Curr Last High Low Company Traded Sale ♦orVol •000 Day i High Low Gr*s Nat M Cap Div P/E $mil Wt Avg Price 163 75 me Acma 50c 78 +0.5 24 78 76.5 5 9.8 135.44,849 words
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Article1283 2000-12-02 19 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Transaction date: Dec 1 2000 52-Wk High Low Company Last Sale ♦orVol ’000 Day High Low Last Ouote Buyer Seller Wt Avg Price 51.5 3 s Acma W*****4 4 +0.5 10 4 4 3.5 5 4 27 2.5 s AIITech W*****7 3 4 3 31 19 s1,283 words
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Article1090 2000-12-02 19 52-Wk High Low Curr Last Company Traded Sale ♦orVol '000 Day High Low Gr's Div Net P/E M Cap $mil Wt Avg Price MANUFACTURING 200 72.5 c AS Auto 10c 79.5 ♦3 251 79.5 76 10 N 31.8 104.4 80 82 45 c ASJ Hldqs 20c 50 3.81,090 words
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482 2000-12-02 20 DOUGLAS WONG; and SHEFALIREHKI - But negotiations may drag on beyond year-end in view of the U S presidential election impasse DOUGLAS WONG and SHEFALIREHKI TALKS to scrap business barriers between the United States and Singapore through a landmark free trade agreement (FTA) will begin in Washington next482 words
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Article219 2000-12-02 20 CHEE JAXN PERNG - CHEE JAXN PERNG SHARES of media group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) rose to their highest level in two months on Wednesday on the back of a study which showed strong growth in advertising spending in Singapore. The group derives more than three-quarters of its revenue219 words
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Article, Illustration244 2000-12-02 20 DENESH DIYTANATHAN - By] By DENESH DIYTANATHAN TECHNOLOGY REPORTER STMICROELECTRONICS has become the first semiconductor company to receive Singapore’s highest corporate award the Distinguished Partner in Progress Award. The award, administered by the Economic Development Board, is given to pioneering companies which have made key contributions to the nation.ENRIQUE SORIANO - 244 words
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279 2000-12-02 20 NARENDRA AGGARWAL - By NARENDRA AGGARWAL IN NEW DELHI SINGAPORE and India are keen to sign a deal to safeguard businessmen operating in each other’s territories as the two nations look to cement rapidly growing investment and trade relations. Trade and Industry 7 Minister George Yeo, who called279 words
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410 2000-12-02 20 DEXESH DIVYAXATHAX - By By DEXESH DIVYAXATHAX TECHNOLOGY REPORTER SINGAPORE Telecom (SingTel) chief BG Lee Hsien Yang has strongly questioned the Singapore Government’s decision to auction third-genera-tion (3G) mobile services warning that 3G must not be seen as a “licence to print money* Breaking410 words
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FORUM
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429 2000-12-02 23 I READ with interest and disappointment the interview with Mr Philip Yeo (“Life sciences should focus on humans”; ST, Nov 22). In it, he said: “I am more important than a plant, right, just as you are more important than a plant.429 words
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362 2000-12-02 23 I WAS extremely shocked and saddened to read President Abdurrahman Wahid’s comments on my homeland and country, Singapore, and its leaders. I remember his candid comments, made in Singapore, about his predecessors, before he was elected President of Indonesia. He had then said:362 words
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Article, Illustration217 2000-12-02 23 IN DEFENDING the disciplining of chimpanzees and orang-utans, Mr Bernard Harrison and the Singapore Zoo are drawing fine lines, as physical discipline can be very close to, and include, abuse. Imagine the fear and terror of these baby animals as they are made to behave in217 words
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258 2000-12-02 23 I READ with shock the report, ‘Taiwan to probe SlA’s safety systems” (ST, Nov 21). The airport in Taipei lacks ground radar and the authorities clearly did not know how to demarcate a runway that was closed. As if pushing the blame onto the258 words
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339 2000-12-02 23 I REFER to Mr David Han Baw Kuang’s feedback in “No guarantee LRT accident won’t happen again” (ST Weekly, Nov 23). We apologise to passengers who had been inconvenienced by the recent LRT train incident. We would like to assure our passengers that the339 words
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490 2000-12-02 24 EDWARD TANG - It must dispel perceptions of a region in distress, or end up trailing a thriving North-east Asia Bn EDWARD TANG THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has called on Asean to close ranks, press on with reforms and dispel490 words
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Article, Illustration259 2000-12-02 24 CHUA CHIN HON - tttji n xliii j DONE IT Mir WĔĔ*? i. S* By CHUA CHIN HON ADVENTURER Khoo Swee Chiow has become the first person in South-east Asia to complete the Seven Summits, after scaling Antarctica’s highest peak successfully. He reached the 4,897 m peak259 words
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Article, Illustration412 2000-12-02 24 ELENA CHONG - BIL ELENA CHONG AN EYEWITNESS heard a maid’s cries and saw former television presenter Zahara Abdul Lateef pouring water over the young woman from a neighbouring house. Part-time tutor Ang See Shoo dialled “999 and told the police. That callWONG MAYE-E - 412 words