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Title Section20 2002-03-23 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition Saturday, March 23,2002 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 098/03/200220 words
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Article624 2002-03-23 1 BERTHA HENSON - Ruling party eases up and announces series of changes for its MPs to vote with their conscience more than before By BERTHA HENSON ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR PEOPLE’S Action Party MPs will be freer to speak and vote in Parliament, in a series of changes624 words
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Article, Illustration108 2002-03-23 1 TRUCK TIPS OVER ON Af E: A container truck that turned on its side blocked three of the four lanes on the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) at noon yesterday. The truck is believed to have skidded after the driver swerved to avoid a trailer andALAN LIM - 108 words
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261 2002-03-23 1 THE long-awaited report on the horrific crash of Singapore Airlines Flight SQ 006 on Oct 31, 2000, may raise as many questions as it answers. It is hoped the final report of Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council (ASC), due to be released at the261 words
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Advertisement59 2002-03-23 1 Entertainment Yes, She Can Sing... r i V A xS 0 1 C She may not be a professional singer, but disgraced Taiwanese politician Chu Mei-feng draws rapturous applause at her shows. page 8 Science And He's Got His Sums Right A Singaporean’s ground-breaking work in mathematics is now making59 words
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PRIME
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298 2002-03-23 2 GIVING students pocket money is a good idea, as long as the money goes into the right pockets. Even as he raised money for The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund on Sunday, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong suggested giving money only to298 words
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Article, Illustration625 2002-03-23 2 WONG SHER MAINE - In the harshest sentence for maid abuse to date, the judge rejected the claim that Chow had been unaware of her actions Bu WONG SHER MAINE DEPRESSION aside, Jennicia Chow Yen Ping knew what she was doing when she repeatedlyWANGHUI FEN - 625 words
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522 2002-03-23 2 AN IN-DEPTH review is underway to ensure that Singapore’s vital infrastructures and services keep running, even during a terrorist attack or national emergency. These “critical national infrastructures” in the financial, telecommunications, information, utilities, transport and health services sectors are vital to the522 words
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Article, Illustration650 2002-03-23 3 TRACY QUEK - It put the needs of a student with a rare learning disability above the school’s reputation for perfection in the O-level exams By TRACY QUEK SINGAPORE’S top girls’ school, Raffles Girls’ School (RGS), surprised manyALAN LIM - 650 words
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Article236 2002-03-23 3 PEOPLE with dyscalculia may face these problems: Inability to perform mathematical calculations, to grasp mathematical concepts, rules, formulas, sequences and basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Poor long-term memory they may be able to perform a maths calculation one day, but draw a blank the236 words
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318 2002-03-23 3 TWO Muslim organisations here have spoken out against last Sunday’s grenade attack on a Protestant church in Islamabad, Pakistan. They also urged Muslims to follow their lead and make it clear that Islam is against the attack, which killed five church members318 words
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HOME
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406 2002-03-23 4 SUSAN LONG - Bv SUSAN LONG SINGAPORE’S bid to lure wellheeled patients from the region should not lead to quality medical care being priced out of the reach of ordinary Singaporeans. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned last week that this could happen if there406 words
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Article312 2002-03-23 4 CUSTOMS officers came down on more than 20 car parallel importers islandwide on Wednesday, taking away import records and computer diskettes in investigations to root out dealers underdeclaring the price of cars. While the Customs department and importers said the checks were “routine visits”, previous312 words
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Article, Illustration736 2002-03-23 4 CHANG AI-LIEN - Louis Chen is father of the Chen-Stein method which played a crucial role in the mapping of the human genome By CHANG AI-LIEN SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT A SINGAPOREAN’S groundbreaking work in mathematics, which began more than 30 years ago, is now making its markTANSUANANN - 736 words
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Article, Illustration616 2002-03-23 5 PAULINE LEONG - A survey ofsoo fathers found that most men looked after their kids’ material needs more than their moral and spiritual ones PAULINE LEONG PROVIDER and protector rather than playmate, the Singapore father thinks he has good relations with his child. DespiteIllustrations: LUDWIG ILIO Graphics: LIM YONG; Source: OR SOH KAY CHENG - 616 words
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254 2002-03-23 5 THE biggest investigation into Singapore’s 5-billion bunkering industry has ended with action taken against nine companies and an assurance from the regulator that the sale of contaminated fuel is not a widespread problem. At the end of a four-month investigation by254 words
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533 2002-03-23 5 DOMINIC NATHAN - Bu DOMINIC NATHAN SUPERMARKET shelves are being cleared of several brands of instant noodles and crackers that were found to contain stevia, a sugar substitute not approved for consumption here. Some of the foods being withdrawn have been sold here for years, some possibly533 words
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414 2002-03-23 6 TRACY QUEK - Bu TRACY QUEK GRADUATES from the technical institutes seem to have an easier time snagging a job than university graduates. Nine in 10 of them, or 88 per cent, had their first job offer within three months of graduation last year,414 words
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Article, Illustration483 2002-03-23 6 Not so stupid the first-class club Their O-level results were not good enough for junior college or polytechnic, so they went to the ITE. But they have been celebrated for receivingfirst-class honours degrees from universities. SHAHIDA AJHFF speaks to three who detoured from the usual education route to find academicCHEWSENGKIM - 483 words
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Article, Illustration306 2002-03-23 6 Name: Mr Tan Teck Chuan (right) Age: 32 Then: Four O levels; graduated from ITE in 1989 Now: Doing a master’s degree at Cranfield University in England, on a company scholarship THE stigma of leaving school with just four O levels was306 words
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Article, Illustration233 2002-03-23 6 Name: Lee Boon Geng (above) Age: 30 Then: Went to monolingual stream in primary school, fraduatea from ITE in 993 Now: First-class honours in electrical and electronic engineering; electrical engineer with Keppel FMO COMING from the slowest stream in primary school, Mr Lee BoonHOW HWEE YOUNG - 233 words
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Article, Illustration225 2002-03-23 7 TAN TARN HOW - §IL TAN TARN HOW RELIGIOUS leaders here on Sunday joined hands in urging Singaporeans to focus on the similarities between their many faiths, and to maintain peace and harmony in what some described as “special times” Speaking at the Inter-Reli-gious OrganisationJOYCE FANG - 225 words
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Article, Illustration308 2002-03-23 7 A BRIDGE between two communities is what Tuan Haji Jaafar Kassim, 57, dreams of being. He is already so comfortable with both communities and both languages that he describes himself as half Malay, half Chinese. For the past few years, he308 words
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603 2002-03-23 7 NEO HUIMIN - For the first time, Muslims and non-Muslims will sit at the same table at this year’s National Day dinner at Tampines Changkat B u NEO HUIMIN AT THIS year’s National Day dinner in Tampines Changkat, Muslims and non-Mus-lims will sit together at the603 words
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352 2002-03-23 7 ALICIA YEO - ii ALICIA YEO IT MAY be Singapore’s largest youth organisation, but minorities are under-repre-sented in the People’s Association Youth Movement (PAYM). Last year, only 13 per cent of its members were Malays, Indians or from other minority races, and non-Chinese made up only352 words
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Article301 2002-03-23 8 LIANG HWEE TING - Mothers-to-be can choose to opt out, but the move ensures their babies get the help they need Bn LIANG HWEE TING PREGNANT women are screened automatically for the HIV virus at polyclinics unless they specifically say “no”. Otherwise, it will be done as part and301 words
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Article, Illustration207 2002-03-23 8 DISGRACED Taiwanese politician Chu Mei-feng, the woman in the VCD sex scandal, showed her singing mettle at her first two shows last Friday night at the Golden Theatre. While definitely not a honeyvoiced songbird like the late Teresa Teng, her earnest rendition of the classicPictures: ALAN LIM - 207 words
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Page 8 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1062 2002-03-23 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, Illustration511 2002-03-23 9 CHAN TSE CHUEEN - Ang Peng Siong’s successor Mark Chay wants Asiad gold to add to his recent Sportsman title Si CHAN TSE CHUEEN SWIMMER Mark Chay, 19, and table-tennis player Li Jiawei, 20, were on Monday named Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year 2001 (also see otherLIM SIN THAI - 511 words
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Article, Illustration370 2002-03-23 9 THE nightmare of a poor South-east Asia Games performance came back to haunt bowler Jesmine Ho on Monday as she was pipped to Singapore’s top sports award by ta-ble-tennis player Li Jiawei. Jiawei, at 20 the ready successor to Olympic singles semifinalist Jing370 words
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744 2002-03-23 9 ChanTse Chueen - ChanTse Chueen RUGBY, netball and athletics made it to the list of Merit sports, squash was axed while soccer and badminton escaped the chop and remained Core sports. If the sports fraternity had expected drastic changes by the Singapore Sports Council in its biennial744 words
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MALAYSIA
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535 2002-03-23 10 LESLIE LAU - Finding too few non-Malays in national schools, panel voices ‘serious concern’ about race relations in the country By LESLIE LAU IN KUALA LUMPUR SEKOLAH Seri Pulai in Johor and Sekolah Doktor Abdul Latif in Selangor are two Malaysian national schools where the student body535 words
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474 2002-03-23 10 REME AHMAD - REME AHMAD IN KUALA LUMPUR VESSELS approaching the Johor port in Pasir Gudang have had near misses with barges carrying sand to the reclamation works at Pulau Tekong, the Johor Port Authority has claimed. A Bemama report on Sunday quoted its general474 words
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Article, Illustration70 2002-03-23 10 PADIHUSK DUST HITS SCHOOL: Students and teachers at a school in Jitra, Kedah don masks during lessons as they struggle to cope with the dust from the padi husks being burned at a mill nearby. More than 1,000 students and teachers from Megat Dewa Secondary SchoolNEW STRAITS TIMES - 70 words
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366 2002-03-23 10 Reme Ahmad - Reme Ahmad KUANTAN Pahang has asked regional carrier Silk Air to open a route to the Malaysian state to promote tourism, a request that visiting Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said would be studied seriously. Singapore is keen to boost366 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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Article, Illustration586 2002-03-23 11 EDWARD TANG - EDWARD TANG THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK Millions of Thai farmers are bracing themselves for a severe drought this year as rivers and dams across the country dry up rapidly, prompting government concern there could be unrest in the countryside. Weather stations in the countryTHE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK - 586 words
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588 2002-03-23 11 IGNATIUS STEPHEN - Indonesians eye sultanate for jobs as tailors, construction workers, drivers and cleaners By IGNATIUS STEPHEN IN BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN SOME 76,000 Indonesian workers, including those deported from Malaysia, have turned to Brunei to look for jobs as tailors, construction workers, drivers and cleaners, among others.588 words
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284 2002-03-23 11 ROBERT GO - By ROBERT GO STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Singapore Airlines (SIA) last week launched a Ssl.s-million scholarship programme to give a fighting chance to as many as 4,000 Indonesian students to stay in school. The carrier has pledged the amount over the next seven years,284 words
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COMMENT
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Article572 2002-03-23 12 TUESDAY March 19,2002 SPORT has been attracting more generous funding and government attention. A sum of $5OO million was set aside last year, to be disbursed over five years for the broad-scope development of sports Singaporeans could reasonably do well in. This week, the Singapore572 words
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Article613 2002-03-23 12 WEDNESDAY March 20,2002 JAPANESE Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is having woman trouble. His dismissal two months ago of Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka had been for debatable reasons, it is now alleged. It was a spin, a canard spread about her friction with ministry officials endangering passage of613 words
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Article1187 2002-03-23 12 ASAD LATIF - Bu ASAD LATIF IN THE latest controversy surrounding the hijab Egypt Air has grounded a woman pilot for having donned the Islamic headscarf. Why do even Muslim countries adopt this approach to the scarf, particularly in their education system? The answer is that if1,187 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration1016 2002-03-23 13 BERTHA; HENSON - MY VIEW By BERTHA HENSON AN SMS reached me early last Saturday morning which started with “Hey, Wild Animal”. I wondered at the label until I read in the newspapers later in the day that Minister of State (National Development) Vivian Balakrishnan wasLUDWIG ILIO - 1,016 words
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920 2002-03-23 13 ASAD; LATIF - HEART TO HEART With ASAD LATIF I AM sad. I read a New York Times article the other day on Afghans bartering their sons for wheat. For example, Mr Akhtar Mohammed, who lives in a remote hamlet in the mountains of northern920 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration2005 2002-03-23 14 Once again, the Malaysian media is keeping up a critical barrage against Singapore on issues rangingfrom water to the tudung. In contrast, its Singapore counterpart has been relatively mutea. What accounts for this difference in reaction? How does media coverage on bilateral ties reflectMIEL - 2,005 words
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1758 2002-03-23 15 WARREN FERNANDEZ - THINKING ALOUD By WARREN FERNANDEZ IT WAS one of those fight-back-tears moments. Scrawny and meek, teenager Kok Pin is being caned by his mother for not doing as well in his examination as she might like. Why can’t you study hard and concentrate, sne1,758 words
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MONEY
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301 2002-03-23 16 INVESTORS pushed the benchmark Straits Times Index to a 52-week high early in the week only to realise they had no idea what to do when they got there. Dealers said the market ran out of ideas and followed up the year-high with301 words
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Article75 2002-03-23 16 Straits Tines Index Tht Straits Times Index rose 22.1 points on the week to 1,800.2. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1.786.30 (+8.2) 560.57m (453.50m) Tuesday 1,808.41 (+22.1) 783.05m (651.53m) Wednesday 1,801.88 (-6.5) 222.80m (281.30m) Thursday 1,793.87 (-8.0) 679.77m (657.89m) Friday 1,800.20 (+6.3) 567.04m (419.66m) KT-SRI Index The BT-SRI75 words
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483 2002-03-23 16 REBECCA LEE - Law firm Rajah Tam drops 'Andersen' link Three years after highly Eublicised tie-up, law firm as swopped Andersen brand for Weil, Gotshal and Manges *L REBECCA LEE SINGAPORE law firm Rajah Tann has dropped the “Andersen Legal” name. Three years after a highly publicised tie-up, the legal eagle has decided483 words
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Article480 2002-03-23 16 Company Date aim Net earn TY LY ($m) (Sm) EPS TY (cts) LY (cts) AP Oil lnt'1 20-Mar P 1.905 2.677 2.37 3.81 Armstrong Ind 18-Mar P 2.415L 3.469L 0.91 L 1.30L BIL Int'l 19-Mar I 5.100 20.8L 0.40 1.5L Bon vests Hldgs 20-Mar P 1.036 16.934 0.39480 words
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Article122 2002-03-23 16 BONUS ISSUE Company Ratio Exdate Books dose Acc 1 Paymt Tee Int'l one-for-five 26-Mar 01-Apr Qian Hu one-for-ten 04-Mar 07-Mar RIGHTS ISSUE ExBooks Acc ft Company Ratio date dose Paymt CK Tang one-for-one®S$0.20 20-Feb 25-Feb Easy knit one-for-one<IHK$0.08 05-Feb 08-Feb OTHERS ExBooks Acc ft Company Ratio date dose122 words
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Article277 2002-03-23 16 Company Place Date Time Capitatand A The ST1 168 Robinson Road Level 9, Capital Tower 2-May 3.00pm Total A The Conference Room No.1 30-Apr 10.0Qarr Access Floor 12, The Chat Bldg Vlbhavadi-Rangsit Rd Lardyao Sub-District Chatuchak District Bangkok ***** Pan-Untted A The Albizia Room 19-Apr 11 00an Corp277 words
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Article425 2002-03-23 16 Payment Ex (cts) date Bonks dose Pay date Atkom Tech 20c F 02 26-Apr 02-May 20-May AP Oil IntT 5c F 0.189 05-Jun 10-Jun 20-Jun C&C F 12 17-May 22-May 04-Jul Capitatand b 3 09-May 14-May 31-May ChinaAv Oil 5c b 3.125TE 13-Jun 18-Jun 01-Jul Chuan Soon 10c425 words
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638 2002-03-23 16 Subsantiai 13 NO of Price Shareholding Tram Shareholder/ Shares Per Before After Stock Date Director Com 000 ShrS rooo) CQ00) Datacraft Asia US$14-Mar-02 Dimension Data Int'l Buy Sell 1000 2.36 *****4 51.6 *****4 51.8 Medi-Rad 14-Mar-02 Dr. Lim Che ok Penq 1000 0.38 1000 0.6 0 0.0638 words
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Article2548 2002-03-23 17 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS UNIT TRUSTS ABN Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty! A 0.809/ 0.96/ 0.88/ 0.835/ 1.237/ 0.886/ Star Global Technology Fund 0.279/ Star Bhv Finance Japan Fund!** 0.774/ AIB Govett (Asia) Ltd. Govett Asia Pac Growth 1.224/1.286 1 199/1.259 AIG Investment Corporation (S) Ltd AIGIF Money Market2,548 words
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Article127 2002-03-23 17 foreign Currency Note Rates (9am, Mar 22) Buying OD Selling Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 0.9640 0.9790 Canadian dollar 1.1470 1.1710 Euro 1.6070 1.6310 NZ dollar 0.7960 0.8180 Sterling pound 2.5950 2.6220 US dollar 1.8230 1.8350 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency127 words
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Article5117 2002-03-23 18 Transaction date: Mar 22,2002 MULTI INDUSTRY 52-Wk Currency last High law Company Traded Salt ♦er’Vol 000 High Day LMr Gfs Di*% Net P/E M Cap $mi Wt Avg Price 32.2 8 c Acma 50c 10 -0.5 1005 10.5 10 0.5 4.1 78.1 10 16 65,117 words
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Article1440 2002-03-23 19 52-Wk Currency last High Low Company Traded Sale ♦or'Vol 000 High Day Low Gr's Div Net P/E M Cap Smil Wt Avg Price MANUFACTURING 40.5 12 c AP Oil 5c 21.5cd +0.5 214 21.5 21 5 9.1 18.9 21 65.5 27.5 c AS Auto 10c 56 -0.5 2871,440 words
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Article236 2002-03-23 19 FINANCE 52-Wk High Low Company Currency last TraM Sale ♦or’Vol '000 Day High Low Gr's Dht Net P/E M Cap $mil Wt Avg Price ***** 9210 s Diamonds US9900 6890 3830 s IS DJ US Tech..... US5000 575 440 s IS MSCI Spore US575 ***** 9870 s IS236 words
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Article170 2002-03-23 19 Transaction date: Mar 22,2002 52-Wk High Low Curr Last Company Traded Sale Vol ♦or--000 Day Gross High Low div Net P/E M Cap $mll HONGKONG STOCKS Cathay Pac 20c HK720 265 6 *****.2 Cheung Kong50c HK1780 240 3 *****.5 63 45 Citye Solutions Lt.. .....HK55 ♦8.5 200 55170 words
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556 2002-03-23 20 IGNATIUS LOW - New liberalisation moves allow increased trading of Sing dollar for more vibrant currency, bond and stock markets here By IGNATIUS LOW FINANCE CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE’S financial markets look set for an even higher international profile, thanks to moves to free up the use of556 words
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355 2002-03-23 20 SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has ended an “air-share” agreement with Air New Zealand (Air NZ), in a move seen to signal a strain in ties between the two carriers. An SIA spokesman on Sunday confirmed it had terminated the arrangement which allowed the two355 words
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Article, Illustration52 2002-03-23 20 LYCRA PLANT OPENS! Global chemicals and textile giant DuPont Co on Thursday launched a research and development facility as well as opened its third lycra-fibre plant (above) at Tuas Crescent. Together, they are worth $l7B million. The multinational also plans to set up a global operations centre52 words
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442 2002-03-23 20 3 months’ jail for Mid-Con ‘burglars THE two men who rigged the market in Mid-Continent shares are like burglars who stole from an unguarded warehouse and then blamed the owners for not taking precautions. A judge, who said this yesterday, added that former Ipco International director Dick Gwee Yow Pin442 words
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FORUM
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394 2002-03-23 23 I REFER to the letter, “No plans to use stevia as a food additive” (ST, March 7), by Mr Andrew Wee of Sunlabel Pte Ltd. The Joint Food and Agriculture Organisation/World Health Organisation Expert Committee on Food Additives, which is an394 words
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Article, Illustration271 2002-03-23 23 I DISAGREE with some of the views in the letter, “Singapore is just a stepping stone for students” (ST, March 7), by Miss Yeo Wenqing. The writer called on the Government to “ensure a certain level of commitment or loyalty when it opens271 words
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303 2002-03-23 23 I REFER to the letter, “Why Traffic Police returned licence to asthmatic driver” (ST, March 12). Ms Charlene Kang lost control and crashed her car in an asthma attack, and had her licence suspended. But when a government specialist certified her fit to303 words
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305 2002-03-23 23 I REFER to the letter from Mr Phillip Mah, “Why Traffic Police returned licence to asthmatic driver” (ST, March 12). I was Ms Charlene Kang’s lawyer and I write to set the record straight. The Traffic Police had, on Oct 15 last year, written305 words
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Article, Illustration870 2002-03-23 24 TAY CHENG KHOON - Singapore's best athletes to be taken care of for life New scheme will look after athletes’ non-sports concerns, such as education, job search after retirement from sports By TAY CHENG KHOON DEPUTY SPORTS EDITOR IN THE clearest sign yet of the Government’s drive to achieve sports excellence, Prime Minister GohJAMES HODSON - 870 words