The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 30 November 2002
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Title Section25 2002-11-30 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition PACIFIC AREA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR Saturday, November 30,2002 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 098/03/200225 words
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Article613 2002-11-30 1 PAULJANSEN - Times are tough, but not as bad as they were in the 60s and 70s. His message to them: Let’s keep things in perspective Bu PAULJANSEN BOMBS exploding in Orchard Road. Attacks by commandos from an unfriendly neighbour. Unemployment soaring to 15 per613 words
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Article, Illustration147 2002-11-30 1 THOUSANDS lined the banks of the Singapore River on Sunday to watch rubber ducks in the annual Singapore Million Dollar Duck Race. A record 123,500 ducks were entered for the race a distance of 1 km from Clarke Quay to Roat Quay raising moreHOW HWEE YOUNG - 147 words
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Advertisement58 2002-11-30 1 Heritage Rare Tree Chopped Down The only surviving specimen of a tree species that gave Changi its name has been felled, and the firm that did it has been hauled to court. page 6 Psychology Water Sports The latest in improving sports psychology: Floating in a water-filled tank slightly bigger58 words
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PRIME
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TERROR IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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SNIPPETS
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Article75 2002-11-30 2 AFP THE governor of the Thai capital has warned that Bangkok is insufficiently prepared to cope with terrorist attacks, his office said on Thursday. Governor Samak Sundaravej said faults in the city’s emergency anti-terror plan became evident alter a simulated terrorism exercise was conducted on Wednesday inAFP - 75 words
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Article46 2002-11-30 2 Bernama MALAYSIAN students pursuing their studies in Indonesia have been advised to report thenpresence in the country with the embassy. Malaysian Ambassador to Indonesia, Datuk Rastam Mohamed Isa, said that this was important as it would help make contact in an emergency.Bernama - 46 words
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Article71 2002-11-30 2 AFP MUSLIM separatist guerillas killed one and kidnapped nine people during a raid in a remote southern Philippine community last week, police and military sources said on Thursday. Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members attacked a village near the town of Magsaysay, sources said. The captives areAFP - 71 words
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292 2002-11-30 2 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian police have arrested four more Jemaah Islamiah (JI) members, including a Singaporean, who were said to be a back-up team in the conspiracy to attack American and other Western targets in Singapore. The identities of the Singaporean and292 words
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Article, Illustration416 2002-11-30 2 DEVI ASMARANI - Move raises fears of human rights abuses and concerns that Muslim groups may become targets By DEVI ASMARANI THE STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Indonesia’s plans to beef up its intelligence network by reviving its regional intelligence posts throughout the country, hasAFP - 416 words
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329 2002-11-30 2 DERWIN PEREIRA - By DERWIN PEREIRA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA Two foreigners a Yemeni and a Malaysian are suspected to have played a key role in the Bali bombing. Senior Indonesian intelligence sources told The Straits Times that the two, especially Yemeni national and Al-Qaeda329 words
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Article, Illustration431 2002-11-30 3 KAREN HO - Bu KAREN HO THOSE extremely popular parking spaces in Holland Village, next to restaurants such as Wala Wala and Tango’s, are no more. As part of moves to step up security in “sensitive areas”, 32 spaces in the area, which is popular with Westerners,TAN SUAN ANN - 431 words
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646 2002-11-30 3 LYDIALIM - New security network spun from at least five organisations, with officers from departments in the Defence, Home Affairs ministries By LYDIALIM WHILE the United States is building a bureaucratic behemoth called the Department of Homeland Security to battle global terrorism, Singapore646 words
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495 2002-11-30 3 LYDIA LIM; and IJMHSIN HIN - A Straits Times survey finds more people discussing security threats now. Some avoid crowded places in Singapore while others no longer travel to some Asean countries By LYDIA LIM and IJMHSIN HIN LAST month’s horrific bomb blast in Bali has prompted every other495 words
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PARLIAMENT
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Education Review Debate
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503 2002-11-30 4 School system here works; unhappiness stems from parents’ fear that kids won’t make it to desired schools, argues Prof Koo ONE MP stood out from among the 11 who spoke on the education review report on Monday. While other MPs voiced concerns503 words
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Article, Illustration263 2002-11-30 4 THE key to the success of the revamped curriculum hinges on the people tasked with carrying it out the teachers. This is according to the man who did the review, Senior Minister of State for Education, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam. But can teachers who are themselves products of263 words
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447 2002-11-30 4 Changes will offer more choices. and more elitism THE proposed reforms to upper secondary and junior college education will give more students more choice, but they also cause some MPs to worry if the changes would lead to more elitism. One key reform allows secondary students at top schools such447 words
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294 2002-11-30 4 A DIVERSIFIED junior college curriculum is well and good, but not if the result is more pressure on students already labouring under a heavy workload. MPs believe that the new curriculum would result in more work, given that students would have to take294 words
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Article, Illustration330 2002-11-30 5 Education system here is the envy of many educationists in other countries, but minister is flooded with criticisms at home WHEN Education Minister Teo Chee Hean steps out of Singapore, he receives many compliments from educationists around the world. They are impressed with the high330 words
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583 2002-11-30 5 IT TAKES a good grounding in a range of disciplines to develop a great specialist, said Senior Minister of State (Trade and Industry, and Education) Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Specialising early on has its advantages, but it may not be the best way to develop thinking minds,583 words
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459 2002-11-30 5 DR TONY Tan, who has twice been Education Minister, gave a broad sweep of the changes in education in Singapore over the decades as well as a glimpse of what is to come. Given the changes in the world, the revamp of junior459 words
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HOME
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598 2002-11-30 6 GOH CHIN LIAIS - Both Medisave and MediShield plans will be fine-tuned, so that patients can withdraw more for serious illnesses in. GOH CHIN LIAIS BOTH the Medisave and MediShield schemes are being finetuned, and the basis of claims being reviewed, so that patients can withdraw more for598 words
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Article, Illustration528 2002-11-30 6 NEO HUI MIN - By NEO HUI MIN THE sole surviving specimen of a tree species that is believed to give Changi its name has been felled. But the Hopea sangal tree chopped down by a property management company did not pose any danger, according528 words
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Article, Illustration557 2002-11-30 7 YEOWKAICHAI - sa. YEOWKAICHAI THE mystery Chinese woman whose body was found in an abandoned car at Orchard Towers, alongside that of her Singaporean boyfriend, was a 30-year-old teacher from Fujian province. Madam Lan Ya Ming’s background was finally revealed 10 months after she and557 words
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453 2002-11-30 7 NATALIE SOH - 2a. NATALIE SOH SINGAPORE’S association with the United States carries risks, the biggest of which is to be mistaken for a “client state”. This is why the Republic needs to ensure that everyone understands this is not so; that it453 words
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Article476 2002-11-30 7 LYDIA LIM - Two options being debated: Phase it in more gradually, or increase it in one go and cushion blow for lower-income group *l LYDIA LIM THE uncertain state of the economy has prompted the Government to consider something it had previously said it would not:476 words
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Article, Illustration93 2002-11-30 8 BORED with plain foot reflexology? Here’s a new way of massaging your feet by submerging them in bubbling water mixed with Chinese herbs prescribed for the individual. The foot spa therapy is supposed to improve blood circulation, increase metabolism and relieve tension, saidCHEW SENG KIM - 93 words
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420 2002-11-30 8 KARAMJIT KAUR - In the future, how much a motorist pays may depend on how far he travels in an area and how long he’s stayed in it By KARAMJIT KAUR TRANSPORT CORRESPONDENT MOTORISTS now pay a fee each time they drive through an Electronic420 words
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290 2002-11-30 8 SANDRA DAVIE - By SANDRA DAVIE EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT CREATIVE Technology, Singapore’s model homegrown company, may soon become the model for pre-school education here. While other pre-schools use project work as an adjunct to their main curriculum, Creative O, a pre-school housed at the Creative Technology290 words
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Article, Illustration470 2002-11-30 8 JANE LEE - JANE LEE CHINESE High principal Koh Yong Chiah, who was appointed by the Education Ministry three years ago to end a rift between warring factions in the school board, will leave the independent school by the end of the year. His three-year contract will not470 words
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Article, Illustration462 2002-11-30 9 SIM Cffl YIN - Lots of food dumped by bakeries and fast-food joints each day By SIM Cffl YIN EVERY day at 10 pm, about 2,000 buns from the 18 outlets of bakery chain BreadTalk are emptied into large black trash bags and thrown away. This scene is repeated at other foodENRIQUE SORIANO - 462 words
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Article206 2002-11-30 9 Sim Chi Yin - Sim Chi Yin A LOGISTICS company has offered to start and run a programme to collect leftover food from stores such as Bread Talk, and deliver it to charities. Said its boss, Mr Han Kian Kwang, 44: “This project would be something worthwhile. “It was206 words
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Page 9 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1061 2002-11-30 9 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 Word1,061 words
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COMMENT
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Article598 2002-11-30 10 TUESDAY November26,2oo2 THE Singapore-United States free trade agreement is virtually done, but the deal is not in the bag yet. It would have been a done deal, if not for a potential deal breaker America’s insistence that Singapore give up its sovereign right to impose capital598 words
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Article550 2002-11-30 10 WEDNESDAY November 27, 2002 JUST count the human costs: More than 200 people killed, about 1,130 injured, and 11,000 fled their homes in a new bout of sectarian violence in Nigeria all this sparked by a beauty contest. The exact toll is higher and may never be550 words
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1039 2002-11-30 10 CHUALEE HOONG - SATURDAY By CHUALEE HOONG THE battle for Nat Steel has many intriguing elements about it. What I find equally intriguing, however, is what’s going on on the sidelines, or rather, what’s not going on. There’s no battle here in the observers’ gallery, where lesser1,039 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration982 2002-11-30 11 ANDY HO - THE WAY I SEE IT By ANDY HO MY FAMILY and I went down to Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza last Sunday at 1 pm to witness 120 individuals plant their palms on a Subaru Impreza. The contestants were hoping to keep their palms planted,NOEL ROSALES - 982 words
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759 2002-11-30 11 TAN TARN HOW - FROM THE GALLERY By TAN TARN HOW FOR a debate on what is supposedly a major shift in government policy, there was a mind-numbing surfeit of middle-management minutiae in the House on Monday. One MP after another who spoke on the proposals759 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration1305 2002-11-30 12 What is jarring, cheering or confusing about the Economic Review Committee reports so far? Our senior correspondent SUSAN LONG takes stock of what the people are saying and identifies five grey clouds of public perception shrouding this review exercise DEATH 8Y A THOUSAND ERC INITIATIVESMIEL - 1,305 words
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434 2002-11-30 12 TAN TARN HOW - Br TAN TARN HOW PANEL members are divided in their opinion about the work of the Economic Review Committee. Some found it a useful and challenging experience, while others ended up disillusioned by the process. A member of one of the seven ERC sub-committees434 words
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657 2002-11-30 13 ANDYHO - a ANDYHO SINGAPORE’S entry into the next lap of the life science race passed with little fanfare on Nov 1. When Lilly Systems Biology (LSB) opened at the Science Park, an apropos Philip Yeo remark about basic degree holders being qualified only to wash657 words
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Article, Illustration996 2002-11-30 13 TAN TARN HOW - THINKING ALOUD By TAN TARN HOW 4 From PK's diary ...BRAISED duck was the yummiest dish, but it was the only one bought and not cooked by their maid. After dinner, the conversation turned to the kids’ education and their future. I broke the996 words
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SPORTS
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Article, Illustration674 2002-11-30 14 MARCUM - The Singapore Sports Council’s new float tank helps athletes to build mental strength by relaxing SPORTS SCIENCE ĔL MARCUM FOR a claustrophobic person, the thought of being locked up in a water-filled tank slightly bigger than a bathtub for 40 minutes wasWONG MAYE-E - 674 words
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Article506 2002-11-30 14 Marc Lim - SOCCER Marc Lim THE Football Association of Singapore has instructed the 12 S-League clubs to remove all gaming machines from their clubhouses. Following last week’s police crackdown which saw the authorities seize more than 400 illegal gaming machines from 18 clubhouses, the FAS wants506 words
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248 2002-11-30 14 BEN NADARAJAN - BADMINTON Bu BEN NADARAJAN RONALD Susilo’s head slumped, his shoulders sagged as if the life had been sucked out of him. It was not just the fact that he had lost in the final of the Batam Masters; it was losing to arch-rival248 words
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MALAYSIA
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Article, Illustration374 2002-11-30 15 The Star/Asia News Network KUALA LUMPUR About 14,000 volunteers, including three actresses, are acting as spies for the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry, monitoring prices of goods and services in order to weed out unscrupulous shopkeepers. Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister MuhyiddinThe Star/Asia News Network; NEW STRAITS TIMES - 374 words
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652 2002-11-30 15 BRENDAN PEREIRA - While the government has been quick to take up a proposal for national service, there are key details yet to be decided By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR The race to shape Malaysia’s national service started on Monday, with the652 words
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374 2002-11-30 15 SHAH ALAM The bungalow belonging to Tan Sri Ismail Omar in Taman Hillview, which collapsed in a landslide last week, had not been issued with a certificate of fitness (CF) as its building plan had not been approved, Selangor Mentri Besar Mohamad Khir374 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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372 2002-11-30 16 LUZ BAGUIORO - Aid officials dismayed by slow progress of govt’s birth-control programme as few Filipino couples use the contraceptives LUZ BAGUIORO PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT MANILA Disappointed by the government’s inability to keep the country’s population growth in check, the United States has decided to372 words
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442 2002-11-30 16 EDWARD TANG - By EDWARD TANG THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK Despite warning that the country is heading for a debt trap, the Thaksin government will not flinch in its commitment to provide free education and cheap medical care, two costly but popular schemes that have endeared the442 words
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Article, Illustration45 2002-11-30 16 IGNORANCE NO EXCUSE Thai reptile vendor Pisit Pakawon bred these giant Madagascar cockroaches to feed crocodiles and snakes, not knowing that doing so is illegal until he was arrested in Bangkok and charged with breeding and possessing the banned species. BANGKOK POSTBANGKOK POST - 45 words
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460 2002-11-30 16 DEVI ASMARANI - DEVI ASMARANI THE STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Legislators are calling for President Megawati Sukarnoputri to set an example of modest living as she had once campaigned for when she took office last year. The move comes amid increasing signs of disapproval of her460 words
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MONEY
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596 2002-11-30 17 WALL Street had provided much of the direction in the early part of the week with positive economic data buoying up equities across Asia. The latter part of the week however, was a totally different story. With US markets closed for596 words
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Article130 2002-11-30 17 WEEK’S TOP RISES Cents Volume VentureCorp25c 1520 110.0 7.8 12,015,000 Creative T 25c 1460 70.0 5.0 2,818,100 B Sembawang 1060 40.0 3.9 2,000 Chart SemiCond 26c.. 114 19.0 20.0 509,171,000 Datacraft 10c 74 11.5 9.6 85,983,000 ST Assembly 25c ....153 10.0 7.0 54,792,000 JMH US25C 400 600 8.8 0.8 158,800130 words
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Article132 2002-11-30 17 WEEK'S TOP RISES Cents Volume Goldtron NCCPS 5c 4 166.7 2.5 40,000 Pakara Tech 5c 8.5 41.7 2.5 64,000 New Toyo W*****7 4.5 28.6 1.0 5,721,000 Boustead W*****2 10.5 23.5 2.0 159,000 Surface MT HK20c 39 21.9 7.0 36,887,000 Chart SemiCond 26c.... 114 20.0 19.0 509,171,000 Twinwood 5c 6 20.0132 words
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Article128 2002-11-30 17 WEEK'S TOP FALLS Cents Volume DBS Bk 6% NCPS.... ***** -70.0 -0.7 6,500 UOB 1200 -60.0 -4.8 12,774,000 SPH 1980 -50.0 -2.5 2,613,000 DBS Grp 1120 -40.0 -3.4 12,886,000 OCBC 1000 -40.0 -3.8 6,007,000 SPH 100 1990 -40.0 -2.0 72,300 OUE 610 -30.0 -4.7 188,000 Keppel Corp 50c 394 -26.0128 words
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Article130 2002-11-30 17 WEEK’S TOP FALLS Cents Volume EWSport 1c 6 -29.4 -2.5 6,000 Transit 15c 8 -27.3 -3.0 2,000 MAE Enqg 5.5 -26.7 -2.0 883,000 Acma W*****6 1.5 -25.0 -0.5 40,000 Lion TeckC 50c 9 -25.0 -3.0 6,000 0culus7.5c 6.5 -23.5 -2.0 61,000 PM Data 10c 5.5 -21.4 -1.5 9,000 Stratech 5c130 words
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Article75 2002-11-30 17 Straits Times Index The Straits Times Index fell 32.1 points on the week to 1,391.5. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1,423.52 (-0.1) 401.26m (404.28m) Tuesday 1,405.27 (-18.3) 231.86m (280.56m) Wednesday 1,394.94 (-10.3) 301.23m (306.81m) Thursday 1,404.04 (+9.1) 506.31m (582.31m) Friday 1,391.53 (-12.5) 489.51m (547.26m) BT-SRI Index The BT-SRI75 words
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Article, Illustration433 2002-11-30 17 AZHAR KHALID - Big-chip firms take advantage of the technology to boost corporate transparency ana investor goodwill By AZHAR KHALID MARKETS CORRESPONDENT A GROWING number of listed blue-chip companies are taking the lead towards greater corporate transparency and better investor relations by turning to webcasting as an433 words
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387 2002-11-30 18 DENESH DIVYANATHAN - By- By DENESH DIVYANATHAN TECHNOLOGY REPORTER SINGAPORE’S factory output surged by a stronger-than-ex-pected 11.8 per cent last month over the same period last year, offering new hope that the economy might avoid dipping back into recession. And this marked upswing in the387 words
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633 2002-11-30 18 LEE SU SHYAN - By LEE SU SHYAN COMPANIES CORRESPONDENT CONFUSED over the various bids on the table in the fierce takeover battle for Nat Steel and worried about missing out on the best deal with next Wednesday’s deadline fast approaching? Well, sit tight,633 words
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Article, Illustration466 2002-11-30 18 NICHOLAS FANG - Big customers can expect better prices; the market may be extended to households from the end of next year Bu NICHOLAS FANG AFTER months of delay, large-scale consumers of power will be able to get electricity at more competitive prices whenLIANHE ZAOBAO - 466 words
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FORUM
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Article404 2002-11-30 19 I WAS appalled to read the article, “Junked food” (Page 9). 1f2,000 buns are disposed of by Bread Talk each day, one wonders about the total amount of food thrown into the trash every day by all seven chains. Right on the following page was404 words
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Article, Illustration328 2002-11-30 19 WHILE it is good that food outlets seek to maintain the quality and freshness of their products, I find the dumping of day-old food, such as bread and pastry, in these economic times or any time, really hard to swallow. One also wonders what328 words
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833 2002-11-30 19 I REFER to the letter, “Education system has evolved with nation’s needs” (ST, Nov 22), by Ministry of Education director of planning Tang Tuck Weng. He said that what The Straits Times has called “Singapore’s famously rigid education system” is seen differently by833 words
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603 2002-11-30 20 SANDRA DAVIE - Most students here are better than those elsewhere, but the brightest need to be given their best shot, says minister Aim Of Education Reform SANDRA DAVIE SINGAPORE’S education system has produced “high averages” with most of the students beating the rest of the603 words
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390 2002-11-30 20 REBECCA LEE - By REBECCA LEE TRANSPORT REPORTER THE $2lO million worth of incentives announced on Monday to reinforce Singapore’s status as a transport hub got the immediate seal of approval from the International Air Transport Association (lata) and several major airlines. Cathay Pacific, Qantas and390 words
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Article, Illustration88 2002-11-30 20 MR GOH CHOK TONG broke fast with a Muslim family after visiting Tanjong Rhu on Sunday night. Mrs Rosita Castillo Abdullah Hassan and Mr Zakaria Hassan played host to the Prime Minister at their home in Block 12, Kampong Arang Road. As part ofHOW HWEE YOUNG - 88 words