The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 4 January 2003
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Title Section25 2003-01-04 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition PACIFIC AREA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR Saturday, January 4,2003 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 098/03/200225 words
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666 2003-01-04 1 SANDRA DAVIE - The idea of a fourth university is dropped. Instead, NUS will have three campuses while NTU will offer wider programmes *L SANDRA DAVIE POLYTECHNIC students will get what they want a better shot at university education at home, which will666 words
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Article188 2003-01-04 1 Keep reading this without GST THE price of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) publications will not go up with the hike in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) this month The company, which has a stable of 15 newspapers and six magazines including The Straits limes, Lianhe Zaobao, Berita Harian and188 words
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396 2003-01-04 1 JANE LEE - *IL JANE LEE TWO of Singapore’s top schools, known for their strengths in Chinese language and culture, are banding tofather to offer a fresh curricuum next year that promises to groom a new generation of bilingual Chinese elite. To do this, The396 words
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Advertisement71 2003-01-04 1 Crime Murder On Hie High Seas In a heated argument, a sailor of a Panamaregistered vessel, on its way to Singapore from India, kills his captain and dumps body overboard. page e H E LLO 2003 Major Changes Coining Your Way It’s going to be a year of massive changes.71 words
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PRIME
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550 2003-01-04 2 LAUREL TEO - Key figures here will front posters in publications such as Time magazine in the US, to attract talent to come over *L LAUREL TEO ASK any foreigner what he knows or remembers of Singapore and he would probably mention efficient policies rather than name550 words
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Article, Illustration662 2003-01-04 2 AHMAD OSMAN; and SUE-ANN CHIA - By AHMAD OSMAN and SUE-ANN CHIA THE appearance of a student wearing a Muslim headscarf on Thursday at Eunos Primary looked like a replay of what happened last year when four girls did the same. Except that Thursday’s incident bore the hallmarks ofBERITA HARIAN - 662 words
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397 2003-01-04 2 WONG SHER MAINE - BJL WONG SHER MAINE A FLURRY of donations last month has tipped The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund over its $3 million target by $45,000. A three-month intense campaign that started on a slow note on Oct 1, brought the fund397 words
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TERROR IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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475 2003-01-04 3 AHMAD OSMAN - *L AHMAD OSMAN WHEN most people are asked how Singapore should protect itself from terrorist attacks, the usual answers are: better intelligence, tighter security at vulnerable targets and stiffening military defences. Not for Mr Goh Chok Tong. In the eyes of the475 words
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666 2003-01-04 3 BRENDAN PEREIRA - On the pretext of helping needy Muslims, he used a JI front to collect RM2 million from unwitting donors around the world By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysians who gave generously to a Selangor-based charity in the late 1990 s666 words
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223 2003-01-04 3 AFP, AP JAKARTA Indonesian police released a Muslim militant with alleged links to AlQaeda on Wednesday even as the Attorney-General declared his office will work at full speed to bring Bali bombing suspects to court in February. Indonesian-born Dutch citizen Abdul Wahid– AFP,; AP - 223 words
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520 2003-01-04 3 Jakarta Post/Asxa News Network KUTA The holiday season has brought new hope to Bali’s ailing tourist industry, as thousands of domestic and foreign visitors have again booked flights, hotels and bungalows to celebrate the coming yearend festivities. The Indonesian national airline, GarudaJakarta Post/Asxa News Network - 520 words
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HOME
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Article, Illustration666 2003-01-04 4 GINN IE TEO - November sees 10% rise in arrivals, with growth in most major markets, including a 68% increase in Japanese visitors By GINN IE TEO CONSUMER CORRESPONDENT FOR the third month in a row, visitor arrivals to Singapore went up, byCHRISTIAN INTON - 666 words
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Article, Illustration510 2003-01-04 4 DAWN WONG - Move is to revive street life of yesteryear on network of roads *L J DAWN WONG IN A bid to revive the bustling street life of Chinatown, more roads will be closed to traffic later this year to allow stallholdersG. CHANDRADAS - 510 words
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794 2003-01-04 5 LYDIA LIM - It would rather negotiate the price of water directly with Malaysia, but has not much choice as bilateral talks have stalled ĔM. LYDIA LIM SINGAPORE said last Saturday that it was prepared to bring the bilateral dispute over water pricing to the Permanent Court794 words
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535 2003-01-04 5 CHANG AI-LIEN - Bjl CHANG AI-LIEN PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong on Sunday shrugged off Malaysia’s latest outburst over Pedra Branca island, describing it as just another round in the sport of Singapore-bashing. “It is not exceptional and it is not going to be535 words
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625 2003-01-04 5 KUALA TERENGGANU Malaysia wants the special agreement with Singapore on referring the issue of Pedra Branca to the world court to be signed by next month. Disclosing this here on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said that his ministry would communicate with625 words
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Article, Illustration779 2003-01-04 6 CHONG CHEekIN - Crewman of Panama-registered bulk carrier stabs Canadian captain after heated argument and throws body overboard in CHONG CHEekIN A SHIP’S captain was knifed on board while at sea and thrown overboard. The vessel later docked in Singapore, but was last Saturday allowed to leave the Republic with theALBERT SIM - 779 words
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Article, Illustration185 2003-01-04 6 MADAM Lim Chwee Lan was cooking instant noodles last Thursday night at about 9 pm when she heard a loud crash. She scuttled out of the kitchen, thinking that her gas stove had exploded. But it was not an explosionWANG HUI FEN - 185 words
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449 2003-01-04 6 FEWER parents are turning to the law to compel their children to support them. Except for a blip last year, the Maintenance of Parents Tribunal has seen fewer and fewer applications each year since it was set up in 1996. That year,449 words
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Article, Illustration1734 2003-01-04 7 Get set for gift shares to offset the GST hike, and reclaimed water to flow from your taps. The Straits Times Newsdesk looks at the major changes that will come into place this year. S INGAPORE INC S’pore Inc: What’s in and what’s out IHOW Singapore1,734 words
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605 2003-01-04 8 LIANG HWEE TING - Mental hospital plans to transfer stable patients to homes or care centres so it can provide better care for acute ones *L LIANG HWEE TING ?LAGUED with a costly problem, where nine out of 10 Class-C beds are occupied by patients whose stay lasts605 words
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Article, Illustration467 2003-01-04 8 SELINA LUM - Both faint and fall in oil cargo tank in effort to save colleague who passed out §!L SELINA LUM TWO brothers working on board an oil tanker died last Friday, hours after they fainted and fell in a cargo tank while trying toWONG KVVAI CHOW - 467 words
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546 2003-01-04 8 CHANG AI-LIEN - By CHANG AI-LIEN SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT RESEARCHERS here are developing a portable test-kit which will warn doctors whether their patients are susceptible to stroke and diseases such as Alzheimer’s. A team from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has developed the technology which works faster546 words
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Article, Illustration435 2003-01-04 9 AHMAD OSMAN - Non-Muslims and Muslims joined hands to raise s9m to redevelop 83-year-old Geylang mosque Bjl AHMAD OSMAN NEW Year’s Day will be a big day for the 83-year-old Khadijan mosque between Lorong 29 and Lorong 31 in Geylang. The mosque has been redeveloped atPHorOS: STEVEN LEE - 435 words
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Page 9 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1061 2003-01-04 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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Article583 2003-01-04 10 WEDNESDAY January 1, 2003 HAPPY New Year. Seasonal greetings are offered more in hope than conviction these days (but hope had better spring eternal). The United States-Iraq confrontation is being framed by the US in pious hues of light shaded by darkness. But the world at583 words
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Article584 2003-01-04 10 TUESPAY December 31, 2002 INDONESIA has shown the way. It had claimed Sipadan and Ligatan, islands off the north-east coast of Borneo, long administered by Malaysia. It submitted those claims to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The court rejected them, ruling the islands rightfully belonged584 words
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1067 2003-01-04 10 H LIM SAY BOON - LUCRUM WITH 'H LIM SAY BOON SADLY, most small investors would have lost money again this year. For the third year in a row, the United States and most equity markets are ending the year as an annus horribilis a terrible year. At this1,067 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration942 2003-01-04 11 ITH ASAD LATIF - THE WAY I SEE IT WITH< ITH ASAD LATIF THE United States has launched a communications campaign to win over Muslim public opinion around the world. At its core is the work of Ms Charlotte Beers, new under-secretary of state for public affairs and public diplomacy.I.UDWIC 11.10 - 942 words
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1051 2003-01-04 11 MAFOOT SIMON - Si MAFOOT SIMON IT IS easy to get to Pedra Branca, which the Malaysians call Pulau Batu Putih and which they claim is theirs. Drive to Pengerang, a sleepy fishing village near Kota Tinggi, and charter a boat. There are plenty, catering to1,051 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration1300 2003-01-04 12 It has been quite an eventful year for Singapore, with many watershed domestic, regional and international events. What kind ofintemational press has the Republic been getting? Our senior correspondent TAN TARN HOW reports THERE’S a joke about Singapore: Two swimming dogs cross1,300 words
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602 2003-01-04 13 THE media thrives on bad news, and people who had it particularly horrible broke through to the pages of the world media. Wire agencies shone their spotlight on Andrea De Cruz, as she struggled for her life after slimming pills damaged602 words
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1095 2003-01-04 13 WITH TAN HSUEHYUN - THINKING ALOUD WITH WITH TAN HSUEHYUN AT THE corner of Serangoon Road and Balestier Road is an old two-sto-rey shophouse. The Sin Peng Mid-Nite Lounge takes up the ground floor and, on the second, the Institute of Science has been preparing students for1,095 words
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SPORTS
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Article, Illustration488 2003-01-04 14 MARCLIM - Dane, whose contract was to have lasted till end of this year, pays for Tiger Cup debacle, but may remain as head of Goal 2010 SOCCER Bjl MARCLIM DANE Jan Poulsen will be asked to step down as coach of the Singapore488 words
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Article, Illustration365 2003-01-04 14 G. SIVAKKUMARAN - G. SIVAKKUMARAN THE Tiger Cup’s Most Valuable Player, Therdsak Chaiman, will be back with Singapore Armed Forces FC this season. But the Thai international may miss the first half of the SLeague. The midfielder, whose 27 goals and consistent performances for SAFFC hadAFP - 365 words
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258 2003-01-04 14 PEH SUING HIEI - Want a $1.7m helicopter Just hit a hole-in-one GOLF in PEH SUING HIEI NO LONGER excited by luxury cars as hole-in-one prizes? Well, how about a helicopter? Next month’s Eurocopter Golf Tournament at Laguna National Golf and Country Club here will offer an ECI2O Colibri Helicopter to any player who258 words
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201 2003-01-04 14 G. SIVAKKUMARAN - By G. SIVAKKUMARAN WOODLANDS Wellington, the most improved team in the SLeague last season, will see how good it really is when it faces three of the Malaysia League top sides later this month. The Rams have invited Malaysia Cup champion Selangor,201 words
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MALAYSIA
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Article, Illustration576 2003-01-04 15 REME AHMAD - Gag order on media by syariah judge stirs up controversy By REME AHMAD IN KUALA LUMPUR THE second wife of former deputy premier Ghafar Baba got away with a warning after pleading guilty in a khalwat case that involved her576 words
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519 2003-01-04 15 REME AHMAD - Legitimate businesses allowed gang mastermind to mingle with community leaders, politicians By REME AHMAD IN KUALA LUMPUR SUNNY Sum Wing Chai was a successful businessman like no other. Although high on the wanted list, the burly leader of the Ml519 words
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346 2003-01-04 15 BENNADARAJAN - Singapore suspect no weapons expert Ba BENNADARAJAN SINGAPOREAN Elvis Keh Jiang Long, accused by the Malaysian police of being a financier and trainer of the notorious Ml 6 gang of robbers, was no “weapons expert” or an “award-winning marksman”, said his lawyer. Mr Kitson Foong was replying to statements by346 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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384 2003-01-04 16 LUZBAGUIORO - By LUZBAGUIORO PHILIPPINES CORRESPONDENT MANILA In a move that caught the nation by surprise, President Gloria Arroyo declared on Monday that she would not run in the 2004 presidential election to spare the country political turmoil. Mrs Arroyo said she hoped384 words
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483 2003-01-04 16 DERWIN PEREIRA - Chairman of 40-million-strong Nadhlatul Ulama tells radical groups it would only increase tension and violence in country DERWIN PEREIRA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA The chairman of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organisation on Monday asked radical groups to stop calling for the imposition of syariah483 words
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Article, Illustration156 2003-01-04 16 -AP THIS photo shows what a giant bust of late strongman Ferdinand Marcos looked like before and after it was damaged by a powerful bomb on Sunday. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the act and there were no casualties in the blast, which occurred just-AP - 156 words
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419 2003-01-04 16 DERWIN PEREIRA - By DERWIN PEREIRA INDONESIA CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA The sale of a major stake in Indonesia’s sec-ond-biggest telecommunications operator was done “above board”, State Enterprises Minister Laksamana Sukardi said here, dismissing accusations that he had a vested interest in the sale to Singapore419 words
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MONEY
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634 2003-01-04 17 A SECOND holiday-shortened trading week on the trot left the benchmark Straits Times Index a little breathless as it edged 1.6 points lower on the week to 1,339.93. Although average daily turnover expanded 22.72 per cent to 184.45 million shares worth $133.84634 words
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Article125 2003-01-04 17 WEEK'S TOP RISES Cents Volume BMT $10 (100) *****500.0 175.0 100 Creative T 25c 1280 30.0 2.4 751,600 GreatEast 50c 870 20.0 2.4 163,000 SPH 1860 20.0 1.1 1,355,000 SPH100 1860 20.0 1.1 25,300 H Negara 240 19.0 8.6 1,000 SIAEngglOc 170 14.0 9.0 1,822,000 StarCruises 10c 36 13.1 26.3125 words
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Article132 2003-01-04 17 WEEK'S TOP RISES Cents Volume BMT $10 000) 5500 175.*****.0 IOC CSC W*****7 1 100.0 0.5 30,000 L&M 1c 1 100.0 0.5 50,502,000 Asia Dekor HK15c 3 50.0 1.7 40,946,000 BBR Hldqs 5c 1.5 50.0 0.5 488.000 Koh Bros W04 4.5 50.0 1.5 140,000 Nippecraft 10c 3.5 40.0 1.0 110,000132 words
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Article129 2003-01-04 17 WEEK'S TOP FALLS Cents Volume UOB 1140 •40.0 ■3.4 4,264,000 B Sembawang 1040 •20.0 -1.9 15,000 Haw Par 40 322 -18.0 -5.3 65,500 Haw Par Corp 322 ■16.0 •4.7 4,441,000 OCBC 945 •15.0 •1.6 2,414,000 MOIL US5c 46.5 •9.6 •10.6 3,000 TIH 50c 106 •9.0 •7.8 3,000 KimEngOng 25c 74129 words
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Article131 2003-01-04 17 WEEK'S TOP FALLS Cents Volume GulTech W*****7 2 ■42.9 •1.5 7,000 Easycail Ale 5 •28.6 ■2.0 2,000 Sunway Int'l HKIOc... 3.5 -22.2 ■1.0 321,000 Shanghai Allied 40.... 39 ■22.0 ■2.5 80,100 AsianMicro 5c 8 ■20.0 -2.0 179,000 Penguin 10c 12 ■17.2 •2.5 30,000 Enzer 12.5 ■16.7 ■2.5 67,000 Lion TeckC131 words
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Article76 2003-01-04 17 Straits Times Index The Straits Times Index fell 1.6 points on the week to 1,339.93. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1,331.95 (-9.6) 137.42m (113.86m) Tuesday 1,341.07 (*9.1) 99.47m (88.47m) Wednesday Market Closed New Year's Day Thursday 1,335.98 (-5.1) 189.87m (111.99m) Friday 1,339.93 (+4.0) 396.04m (266.39m) BT-SRI Index The76 words
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Article501 2003-01-04 17 LORNATAN - The fourth-quarter decline suggests that the market has yet to bottom out; HDB resale prices post slight rise of 0.1% *L LORNATAN PRIVATE homes recorded a quarter-on-quarter price decline of 0.3 per cent in the last three months of 2002, quashing hopes that prices had501 words
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Article315 2003-01-04 17 REBECCALEE - *L REBECCALEE DESPITE calls to weaken the Singapore dollar, the Monetaiy Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Thursday announced that it will maintain its “neutral” policy stance. The central bank cited the “sluggish” economic growth that is expected in the “next quarter or so”, with a315 words
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868 2003-01-04 18 AZHAR KHALID - Analysts warn that the figure, the lowest since August 1998, could drop even lower due to global uncertainties By AZHAR KHALID MARKETS CORRESPONDENT THE market value of stocks listed on the Singapore bourse has plummeted by a stupendous $47-4 billion, or some868 words
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Article, Illustration487 2003-01-04 18 NICHOLAS FANG - h NICHOLAS FANG TRANSPORT REPORTER DESPITE glimmers of hope that the region will see a USled economic recovery this year, many companies are still intent on cutting costs by lowering the class of travel for their senior executives. At least five major corporations The487 words
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372 2003-01-04 18 VLADIMIR GUEVARRA - VLADIMIR GUEVARRA PROPERTY REPORTER SINGAPORE became a less expensive place in which to do business last year, an annual survey of 92 business districts worldwide has shown. It moved down 11 places to become the 35th most expensive business district last year,372 words
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Advertisement27 2003-01-04 17 Log on to check prices Readers who want to see the latest stock-price and unit-trust listings can log on to the following websites: business-times.asial.com.sg www.asial.com www.ftmdssupermart.com www.singaporeexchange.com27 words
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FORUM
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397 2003-01-04 19 TIES WITH MALAYSIA Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has a lot of axes to grind with Singapore. He has hit out at Singapore at every turn accusing the latter of always objecting to his initiatives at Asean forums, profiting from Malaysia’s water397 words
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210 2003-01-04 19 1 WOULD like to ask Singapore Pools to explain its reason for the recently announced reductions in lottery payouts following the hike in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from 3 to 4 per cent today (“GST up, so less lottery prize money”; ST,210 words
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Article414 2003-01-04 19 I REFER to the decision by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore to continue the practice of making mobue-phone call receivers subsidise half the cost of mobile-phone callers (“No free incoming cell-phone calls”; ST, Dec 24). This practice is clearly contrary to continuous government exhortations414 words
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Article229 2003-01-04 19 I WISH to thank The Straits Times for two wonderful articles, “Baby Zachary beats the odds” and “Muslim groups join police to guard churches” (ST, Dec 25). In today’s world, fraught with violence and hatred, the two articles are truly inspiring. They clearly disseminate229 words
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Article343 2003-01-04 19 ON DEC 13,1 was chased and stung by a swarm of bees at the road junction between Dover Close and Dover Crescent, while walking along the Commonwealth Avenue footpath towards Buona Vista MRT station. I was warded for seven hours at the National University Hospital343 words
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851 2003-01-04 20 TAN TARN HOW - The PM is cautiously optimistic, with prospects of economy growing 5 per cent this year, going on to recover next year Bu TAN TARN HOW AS THE nation struggles to recover, Singaporeans have been given the first signs of hope that851 words
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Article, Illustration342 2003-01-04 20 SIM CHI YIN; and THERESA TAN - By SIM CHI YIN and THERESA TAN ABOUT 128,000 Singaporeans missed out on getting at least $25.6 million of Economic Restructuring Shares (ERS) because they did not top up their Central Provident Fund (CPF) accounts with $5O by the Dec 31 deadline. This isALBERT SIM - 342 words