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Title Section19 2001-11-24 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition ySgturday, Novej<«iep24, 2001 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA 304/03/200119 words
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Article650 2001-11-24 1 Tharman, Khaw get senior minister of state positions in new lineup; BG Lee takes on Finance portfolio SEVEN new MPs have been appointed as senior ministers of state or ministers of state in Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong’s new Cabinet lineup, announced last Saturday.650 words
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Article, Illustration516 2001-11-24 1 CABINET AND OTHER OFFICE-HOLDERS (wef Nov 23,2001) MINISTERS Mr Goh Chok Tong Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew Senior Minister BG Lee Hsien Loong Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam Deputy Prime Minister, Defence Minister Prof S Jayakumar Law and Foreign AffairsCHRISTIAN INTON - 516 words
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Advertisement63 2001-11-24 1 H E A L T H Busting Cancer With Checks Subsidies and visits from Dr Lily Neo, MP for Kim Seng ward, have encouraged 550 women there to sign up for breast X-rays. page i Community Hale And Hearty At 80 Fred Sabapathy overcame a heart attack, doctors’ predictions and63 words
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PRIME
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392 2001-11-24 2 CHONG CHEE KIN - Heng Chee How, Teo Ho Pin and Zainul Abidin Rasheed complete mayoral appointments By < CHONG CHEE KIN THREE more names were announced last Saturday as heads of Community Development Councils (CDCs), bringing the number of full-time mayors to five. Joining Mrs Yu-Foo Yee392 words
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Article211 2001-11-24 2 THE Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), which was born just two years ago, is being torn apart. Its information technology and telecommunications functions will be transferred to the Ministry of Information and the Arts (Mita). The ministries will be renamed to reflect the changes. The211 words
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534 2001-11-24 2 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong has given the clearest indication so far of when he will step down: Only after leading the country out of recession. This “would probably take about two to three years”, he534 words
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Article, Illustration335 2001-11-24 2 LIM YONG - LIM YONG Who's in Khaw Boon Wan (2001) Senior Minister of State (Transport/ Information, Communications and the Arts) Tharman Shanmugaratnam (2001) Senior Minister of State (Trade and Industry/Education) Cedric Foo (2001) Minister of State (Defence) 4 Raymond Lim (2001) Minister of State (Foreign Affairs/Trade and Industry)Photos: STREATS, THE NEW PAPER and TERENCE TAN - 335 words
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532 2001-11-24 3 WILLIAM CHOONG - But economic woes have not deteriorated further and trade figures for October were better than expected §IL WILLIAM CHOONG SINGAPORE’S ailing economy sent out mixed signals last Friday on how it is bearing up under its worst recession. Economic output in the third quarter532 words
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Article, Illustration242 2001-11-24 3 SWING by the Central Fire Station in Hill Street to find out about the hottest events in Singapore’s history. The Civil Defence Heritage Gallery, housed on the first two floors of the station’s tower block, goes all the way back to 1824, when the first fireWONG MAYE-E - 242 words
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402 2001-11-24 3 TRACY QUEK - ĔIL TRACY QUEK PARENTS who send their children to kindergartens run by the People’s Action Party Community Foundation (PCF) may find that they are asked to purchase school books which they do not need to buy. Some PCF kindergartens have added other books to402 words
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444 2001-11-24 3 AHMAD OSMAN - §ll AHMAD OSMAN PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong and Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew are claiming “aggravated damages” from Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) leader Chee Soon Juan for defamation during the recent General Election. Their claims were filed in the High Court444 words
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HOME
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428 2001-11-24 4 SALMA KHALIK - Health Ministry says it will take six or seven years to build; Ho Peng Kee says he will push for earlier completion date By SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT PEOPLE living in the north of Singapore will get a new regional general hospital but428 words
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Article, Illustration512 2001-11-24 4 NEO HUI MIN - bil NEO HUI MIN WHEN the Choh Dee Place group took over the coffeeshop at Block 232, Ang Mo Kio Street 22, two months ago, it renamed it AMK 81 Food House, spruced it up and built an outdoor extension. It also spent about $12,000WONG MAYE-E - 512 words
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488 2001-11-24 4 NEO HUI MIN - By NEO HUI MIN THE Kreta Ayer ward may have disappeared from the electoral map, but its name will live on. The ward, which had been part of the Kreta Ayer-Tanglin GRC, has been absorbed into Kim Seng constituency as part of488 words
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MURDER OF INSURANCE AGENT ANNIE LEONG
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471 2001-11-24 5 TAN 001 BOON; aw/ALETHEALIM - Murder trial hears that ex-Web designer Anthony Ler plotted his estranged wife’s murder and lured teenager to do the job B y TAN 001 BOON aw/ALETHEALIM A FORMER Web designer wanted his estranged wife dead and offered four youths $lOO,OOO to471 words
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Article, Illustration573 2001-11-24 5 THE 15-year-old boy who allegedly killed insurance agent Annie Leong told a psychiatrist that he had been pressured by her estranged husband into carrying out the murder. He said he was frightened that Anthony Ler would kill him if he refused. The teenager573 words
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Article, Illustration698 2001-11-24 5 THERE were at least two other women in Anthony Ler’s life. And at least twice, Ler told his former lover that he would kill his wife if she took their daughter away, the High Court heard on Thursday. The woman, Miss Berlinda Ho,TAN SUAN ANN - 698 words
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395 2001-11-24 6 LEONG WENG RAM - *L LEONG WENG RAM INTERNATIONAL art auction house Christie’s will stop its twice-a-year sale of South-east Asian paintings in Singapore from next year. The sales, in March and October, were held simultaneously with similar ones by its archrival, Sotheby’s. Together, they sold over395 words
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486 2001-11-24 6 LARRYTEO - *L LARRYTEO SINGAPORE-BASED companies stand a good chance of becoming multinational corporations (MNCs) if they venture into China, as the size of the market and opportunities for growth have no comparison in the region, businessmen here said on Tuesday. They were commenting on486 words
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Article, Illustration447 2001-11-24 6 Minister Mah Bow Tan may lead a team to China to help construction industry source for business opportunities THE construction industry can try to work its way out of the current economic problems by diversifying overseas. And to help the industry, National Development MinisterWANGHUI FEN - 447 words
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Article, Illustration452 2001-11-24 7 SALMA KHALIK - By SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT FIRST, she badgered the Health Minister to let women use Medisave money for breast-cancer checks. Then, when the Health Promotion Board included her Jalan Besar GRC ward, Kim Seng, in a pilot scheme to screen women on lowJOYCE FANG - 452 words
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322 2001-11-24 7 SIM CHI YIN - It is one way of professionalising social-service sector, says NCSS, which hopes to attract more people into the sector *L SIM CHI YIN WITHIN five to 10 years, community health-care therapists here may be licensed and registered, just like other professionals. This is one way322 words
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531 2001-11-24 7 DEBBIE COH - By. DEBBIE COH OF THE 175 applicants who signed up for retail positions with eWorldofSports (eWOS) at a job fair last month, 25 were shortlisted, 15 turned up to be interviewed, nine were selected, but only five took up the job. And two of531 words
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Article, Illustration403 2001-11-24 8 LIANG HWEE TING - Fred Sabapathy overcame a heart attack, doctors’ predictions and family genes; on Wednesday, he celebrated his 80th birthday Bif LIANG HWEE TING WHEN Mr Fred Sabapathy had a heart attack at 56, doctors told him his chances of survival were slim as his grandfather,STEPHANIE YEOW - 403 words
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Page 8 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1062 2001-11-24 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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Advertisement108 2001-11-24 9 Healthy Marriages Family Life Ambassadors 'V Balancing Family ft Work Family Activities ft Events Educational ft Training Materials Family Advisory Agencies r 0> 0L w V Strengthen family connections at www.aboutfamilylife.org.sg I I f \l r If, V II m it With “About Family Life”, you'll command a bank of108 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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474 2001-11-24 10 DEVI ASMARANI - By DEVI ASMARANI STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Hip, young Indonesians with trust funds in the bank and the right connections a phone call away are shunning lucrative family businesses to set up stylish cafes, bars and English bookstores. Take Ms Uli Pandjaitan,474 words
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543 2001-11-24 10 JAMES EAST - By JAMES EAST STRAITS TIMES THAILAND BUREAU BANGKOK Singaporean business students have been learning that language barriers and physical and learning disabilities are no match for the Thais when it comes to making new friends. The 23 students from Singapore Polytechnic’s543 words
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Article, Illustration456 2001-11-24 10 While the timid choose to stay home, budget-conscious but adventurous travellers are now gaining recognition AFP BANGKOK Once reviled here as grubby, penny-pinch-ing and culturally insensitive, backpackers are becoming a valued part of Thailand’s tourism industry as world events prompt more timid tourists toAFP - 456 words
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COMMENT
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Article579 2001-11-24 12 TUESDAY November 20,2001 MR GOH Chok Tong said in election season that giving proven crew bigger tasks and blooding new ones to steer the ship of state was his primary focus in the closing stages of his prime ministership. An inkling of the Cabinet make-up was provided579 words
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Article596 2001-11-24 12 WEDNESDAY November 21,2001 IT CANNOT be a helpful development for the troubleprone Philippines to have Mr Nur Misuari decamping to the other side, as seemed clear on Monday in an attack on government military outposts on Jolo island in the south. He is a rebel made good:596 words
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1172 2001-11-24 12 LIM SAY BOON - LUCRUM B,j LIM SAY BOON THE bears are retreating for the winter. Despite the world teetering on the brink of recession, the battle for market direction is being won by tyTo be more precise, it is being won by a combination1,172 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration945 2001-11-24 13 BERTHA HENSON - MY VIEW By By BERTHA HENSON EVERY few weeks or so in my mother’s neighbourhood, a night bazaar pops up. There will be the usual ruckus and shenanigans. You know, loud karaoketype music, auctions of loud home ornaments with a “friend”ADAM LEE - 945 words
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1005 2001-11-24 13 With ASAD LATIF - HEART TO HEART With With ASAD LATIF WHAT do terrorists read? I doubt that it is literature. This is because literature is too subversive for them. Unlike terrorism, which can destroy human lives but cannot build anything in their place, literature destroys comfortable ways1,005 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration1873 2001-11-24 14 Don’t hold hack know-how from the Chinese and send your best managers that is how MNCs beat Asian investors relying largely on guanxi in China according to a three-year study by Dr Wang Pien ofthe National University of Singapore businessJAMES HODSON - 1,873 words
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Article, Illustration1359 2001-11-24 15 SONNYYAP - THINKING ALOUD By SONNYYAP WHAT do Singapore and Madonna have in common? Elementary, my dear, both have to keep on reinventing themselves to cater to a global market that is fickle and ever-changing. Like the queen of pop famed for her myriad manifestations fromNOEL ROSALES - 1,359 words
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502 2001-11-24 15 Kao Chen - Kao Chen SINGAPOREAN companies are lagging behind their Taiwanese, Hongkong and Malaysian counterparts in the art of doing business in China. They are not as savvy about Chinese culture and business practices or as able to thrive in the Chinese market. That is502 words
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MONEY
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Article272 2001-11-24 16 From doom to boom —almost FROM an atmosphere of doom, it has suddenly become a boom time of sorts for investors in the Singapore market. Investors were accumulating blue-chip stocks on the back of rising expectations of an economic recovery early next year. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) rose272 words
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Article81 2001-11-24 16 Straits Tiees Index The Straits Tims Index rose 36.03 points on tbe week to 1,458.20. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1,452.20 (♦30.03) 617.13 m ($560.96m) Tuesday 1.446.82 5.38) 602.22 m ($552.76m) Wednesday 1,465.20 (+18.38) 312.20 m ($401.50m) Thursday 1,451.13 (-14.07) 255.80 m ($256.30m) Friday 1,458.20 7.07) 252.86 m81 words
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360 2001-11-24 16 COUNTAN - Zoning rules are eased for 700 home owners chosen to kick off a new scheme which may be extended to other areas By COUNTAN PROPERTY CORRESPONDENT THE commuter’s dream of working from home has become a reality for up to 700 tenants and360 words
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Article446 2001-11-24 16 Net earn EPS Date TY LY TY IY Company ami (Sm) (Sm) (cts) (cts) Alkom 25-Nov 6.780 1.02 4.91 AscottGrp 30-Oct 036 795 18.272 0.44 1.18 APBrew 12-Nov P 95.561 50 768 37.8 20.1 AEM-Evertech 27-Sep I 1.97 10.114 0.54 3.12 Ban Joo 26-Sep P 1.753 6 366446 words
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Article168 2001-11-24 16 BONUS ISSUE Ex- Boohs Accft Company Ratio date dose Paymt Chosen one-tor-five 05-Dec 10-Dec NA HTLIntnl one-for two 10-Dec 13-Dec NA IRE Corp one-for-four 13-Nov 19-Nov NA Total Auto one-for-two 04-Oct 09-Oct NA RIGHTS ISSUE Ex- Books Accft Company Ratio date dose Paymt GES Intnl one-f or-f i168 words
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Article208 2001-11-24 16 Company Place tele Thee Sunright A Ocean 6. Level 2 31-Oec 10.30 am The Pan Pacific Hotel 7 Raffles Boulevard Marina Square finer!ey A The Elbow Beach Hotel 14-Dec 11.00 am Inv 60 South Shore Road Paget Bermuda Tasty food E 30 Tuas Avenue 12 10-Dec 930 am208 words
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Article465 2001-11-24 16 Payment Ex Books Pay (cts) Bate close date Amtek 20c F 0.8TE 06-Dec 11-Dec 20Dec APBrew F 9N 04-feb 07-Feb 21-Feb Asia DekorF* 15c F RMB3TA 23-Oct 26-Oct 10-Dec Asia Power 5c F 0.75TE 06-Dec 11-Dec 20-Dec Aussino.com 2.5c F 0.82 29-Nov Ot Oec 18-Dec Australand A50c mA3n465 words
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666 2001-11-24 16 Stock Trans Date Subsantiai Shareholder/ Director 3 Conv NO of Shares '000 Price Per ShrS Before (‘000) Shareholding After {'000) Acma Ltd 13-Nov-O1 Mr Oei Hong Leong 'Buy ***** 0.10 0 0.0 ***** 9.7 Acma Ltd 13-Nov-Ol Chip Lian Pte Ltd •Buy ***** 0.10 0 0.0 *****666 words
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Article3195 2001-11-24 17 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Aberdeen Asset Mqt Asia Ltd Aberdeen Select Portfolio: American Opport Fd 0.747 /0.785 Asian Fixed Income Fd —1.170 /1.206 China Opportunities Fd!** 0.900 /0.S46 Cont Euro Eqty Fd!** 0.984 /1.035 Global MNC Fd 0.666 /0.700 Global Technology Fd!** 0.536 /0.564 Indonesia Equity Fd!** 0.596 /0.626 Japan Eqty3,195 words
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Article138 2001-11-24 17 Foreign Currency Note Rates (9am, Nov 23) Buying OD Selling Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 0.9500 0.9740 Canadian dollar 1.1400 1.1640 NZ dollar 0.7520 0.7730 Sterling pound 2.5870 2.6140 US dollar 1.8370 1.8490 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian settling T1.64138 words
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Article5015 2001-11-24 18 Transaction date: Nov 23,2001 l MULTI INDUSTRY wt 52-Wk Currency last 'Vol Day Gr*s Net M Cap Avg Wjk Lew Ctmfmy Trad* Sate «f- OOP Hi# Lew PN% P/g s■* Price 92.2 8 c Acma 50c 83 unch 1895 9 8 3 03 3.5 66.45,015 words
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Article1276 2001-11-24 19 wt 52-Wk Currency last ’Vol Day Gr“* Net M Cap Avq Hum Low Company Traded Sale *ar- OOP High Urn Oh P/I Seal Price MANUFACTURING 40.5 12 CAP Oil 5c 15.5 +1 159 16 15 4 13.6 15 168 27.5 cAS Auto 10c 42 -0.5 73 42.5 421,276 words
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Article234 2001-11-24 19 FINANCE wt 52-Wk Currency last ’Vol Day Gr's Net M Cap Avg Hi» Law Ceapaay TraPd Sate OOP Hi» Urn Phr% P/E Seel Price ***** 9210 s Diamonds U ***** 6890 3830 sISDJ US Tech U ***** 555 440 sIS MSCI Spore US4SO ***** 9870 sIS S&PSOO USIOB9O234 words
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Article171 2001-11-24 19 Transaction date: Nov 23,***** 52-Wk Curr Last Vol Day Gross Net M Cap High Low Company Traded Safe +or- 'OOO High Low dlv P/E smll HONGKONG STOCKS Cathay Pac 20c HK72O 2 65 6 *****.2 Cheung Kongsoc HKI7BO 2 40 3 *****.5 68 5 Citye Solutions Lt HK4S171 words
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435 2001-11-24 20 IGNATIUS LOW - But some fund managers believe the proportion of adults here who buy unit trusts is likely to be lower than Hongkong’s 10% By IGNATIUS LOW FINANCE CORRESPONDENT A NEW survey shows that as many as 14 out of 100 Singapore adults invest435 words
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520 2001-11-24 20 WILLIAM CHOONG - 8,/' WILLIAM CHOONG CORPORATE travel budgets are likely to shrink by more than 10 per cent for a fair number of companies, say a significant number of respondents to a recent global survey of business travellers. About 36 per cent of them predict520 words
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Article, Illustration463 2001-11-24 20 EDNA KOH; and HUGH CHOW - By EDNA KOH and HUGH CHOW INVESTMENT bankers in Singapore, while not immune to large-scale retrenchments in Asia and elsewhere, have emerged relatively unscathed, thanks to an active mergers and acquisition (M&A) scene locally. Bankers say that a brisk M&ATERENCE TAN - 463 words
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Advertisement16 2001-11-24 17 EDUCATION/ TRAINING The Straits Times Classified. Classifications 703 794. C.A.T.S Buy It. Sell It. Find It.16 words
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FORUM
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254 2001-11-24 23 Job-seekers should be treated with dignity. Are applicants kept waiting past the appointed interview time? Was the receptionist polite? Did a company offer brochures or information to applicants prior to the interview? I REFER to the article, “Hard times? Job fairs suggest otherwise”254 words
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Article, Illustration572 2001-11-24 23 I REFER to the letter, “Help talented judo student go to university here” (ST, Nov 20), and the article, “Judo hope floored by further studies” (The Sunday Times, Nov 18). Although I am sympathetic to Cheryl Goh’s plight, I think it is unlikely the localLIM SIN THAI - 572 words
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458 2001-11-24 23 I REFER to the letter, “Give subsidies to lower public-transport cost”, by Mr Harvey Neo (ST, Nov 10). The writer suggested that the Government channel part of the revenue collected from the regulation of private vehicles through Certificates of Entitlement (COEs) and Electronic Road Pricing458 words
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368 2001-11-24 24 SANDRA DAVIE - The varsity will offer courses in information technology and business, and will be recognised by 15 universities worldwide SANDRA DAVIE EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT STUDENTS from Singapore and around the world can soon study for degrees at an online institution that will be approved and368 words
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Article, Illustration277 2001-11-24 24 THE late Malaysian King, Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah (right), was laid to rest at the Selangor royal mausoleum on Thursday after day-long mourning ceremonies filled with tears and prayers. Thousands turned up to pay homage to the popular King at the Istana Negara in the morning whileAP; BERNAMA - 277 words
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426 2001-11-24 24 LESLIE LAU - By LESLIE LAU IN KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIA began seven days of official mourning after the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, 75, died on Wednesday. Flags flew at half-mast, government functions were cancelled and state television and radio stations began carrying Quran426 words