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Title Section25 2003-02-15 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition PACIFIC AREA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR Saturday, February 15,2003 Price: 551.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subscription only MITA (P) 098/03/200225 words
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Article, Illustration742 2003-02-15 1 SALMA KH ALIK - Revising changes announced last month, the Government plans to widen pool of live donors, remove age limit and exclude corneas By SALMA KH ALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT PROPOSALS that the Health Ministry made only last month to change the Human Organ Transplant ActDesign: MIKE M DIZON - 742 words
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Article80 2003-02-15 1 THIS year’s Budget Statement will be delivered on Feb 28 in Parliament by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Mr Lee Hsien Loong, said the Office of the Clerk of Parliament on Monday. The Government will also give its response to the Economic80 words
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314 2003-02-15 1 FOUR people became instant millionaires on Thursday evening when their computergenerated numbers won the Sll-million prize in the Toto Hongbao draw. Each winner’s share of the $11,083,011 pool will come to about $2.8 million. The six winning numbers were 7,16, 22, 23, 29,314 words
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Advertisement96 2003-02-15 1 TRAG E D Y Housewife Plunges To Death Madam Lee Geek Hon fell out of her 12th storey flat trying to retrieve drying clothes. She caught a clothes pole as she plunged, but it snapped, pace Research Hope Seen In Myopia Study Mice fitted with contact lens are helping eye96 words
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PRIME
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Article, Illustration651 2003-02-15 2 AP Ali Imron shows both remorse for victims and also pride in his cause BALI Smiling, joking and looking calm and composed, Ali Imron, a key suspect in October’s Bali bombings, on Tuesday confessed and apologised for his part in the blasts that killed– AP; AP - 651 words
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247 2003-02-15 2 DEVI ASMARANI - By DEVI ASMARANI THF. STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA The chief of the Singapore branch of Jemaah Islamiah (JI) Mas Selamat Kastari was a step closer to being sent back to Singapore by the Indonesian police, who have fallen short of linking247 words
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146 2003-02-15 2 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Three Malaysian police officers are in neighbouring Indonesia to trace how the money was raised to fund last October’s deadly Bali bombing, a report said Tuesday. The Malay Mail newspaper said the officers were investigating how Malaysian Wan Min Wan-AFP - 146 words
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580 2003-02-15 2 Govt surveys also reveal that almost a quarter of Singaporeans are not interested in news on regional terror activities TWO recent surveys that tried to gauge Singaporean thinking on national-security issues nave found attitudes and awareness to be lukewarm, except among NSmen580 words
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531 2003-02-15 3 LYDIA LIM - SM Lee assesses outlook for this year and is confident younger Singaporeans will succeed in transforming the economy By LYDIA LIM SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew last Friday night gave his assessment of the Singapore economy and said the next three months would be531 words
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596 2003-02-15 3 AHMAD OSMAN; and LAUREL TEO - The aim is to have fewer but better trained foreign workers By AHMAD OSMAN and LAUREL TEO THE unskilled foreign worker will be a rare sight at construction sites across Singapore from next year. From Jan 1, every new foreign worker must596 words
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Article404 2003-02-15 3 K.C. VJJAYAN; and NEO HUI MIN - By K.C. VJJAYAN and NEO HUI MIN PROPOSALS to make sweeping changes to the 36-year-old Land Titles (Strata) Act have been drawn up to prevent a repeat of the People’s Park Centre fiasco. The new Building and Construction Authority (BCA) guidelines, which are now open404 words
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530 2003-02-15 3 LI-ANN WEE - Btt LI-ANN WEE ENVIRONMENT Minister Lim Swee Say reassured Singaporeans last Saturday that they need not worry about not having enough water. If need be, Singapore can be self-sufficient in water by 2061, when the second of the two water agreements with Malaysia530 words
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HOME
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Article, Illustration545 2003-02-15 4 JANE NG - University will replace balloting system with bidding to let more take up subjects they prefer Btt /JANE NG TIRED of complaints from students about not getting a spot in preferred subjects, the National University of Singapore (NUS) has decided to go the COE545 words
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Article, Illustration253 2003-02-15 4 FLOWERS that tend to wilt in Singapore’s heat now fill a container garden of West Grove Primary in Jurong West. But it was a slow start for the school’s 15 Primary 6 pupils and their four teachers, who started their budding effortHOW HWEE YOUNG - 253 words
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383 2003-02-15 4 SANDRA DAVIE - WWW.STUDYSINGAPORE.COM By SANDRA DAVIE EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT INDONESIAN teenager Alicia Tang, 18, was surfing the Net at home in Jakarta and went to www.studysingapore. com hoping to get information on schools here. What she got instead were screenfuls about private schools,383 words
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BILATERAL TIES
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684 2003-02-15 5 REME AHMAD - He discloses that SM Lee told him in a private meeting Mr Goh was against the project because of nostalgia for 80-year-old Causeway By REME AHMAD InJOHORBARU MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad claimed yesterday that his Singapore counterpart, Mr Goh Chok Tong, had blocked684 words
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363 2003-02-15 5 MMRMALA - §1 MMRMALA A NEW link has been set up on a ministry website here offering articles on bilateral ties between Singapore and Malaysia from newspaper reports and other sources on both sides of the Causeway. The Ministry of Information, Communications363 words
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340 2003-02-15 5 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia continued to hint strongly that domestic laws could be enacted to protect important resources, including water, and said it was within its rights to move in that direction. “As a sovereign nation, we are free to protect our340 words
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373 2003-02-15 5 MALAYSIA has the right to conduct patrols and place “assets” on Pedra Branca from time to time because ownership of the island is still in dispute, its Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak said yesterday, without specifying what these assets were. He added373 words
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Article, Illustration626 2003-02-15 6 LI-ANN WEE - Health Ministry sends doctors here a circular on the effects of the lethal toxin, but stresses that it’s a routine precaution ĔIL LI-ANN WEE SINGAPORE doctors have been put on alert to a new type of biological agent that can kill within two days,Illustration: MIKE M. DIZON Design: LIM YONG - 626 words
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Article, Illustration376 2003-02-15 6 BEN NADARAJAN - Bit BEN NADARAJAN HE WAS just another man sitting on a bench to the people who passed him by. Someone even rested beside him briefly. It was only after he had stayed put at the Bukit Batok East Avenue 3 playground all376 words
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352 2003-02-15 6 VLADIMIR CIJEVARRA - The 46-storey Icon with 646 units will be ready in 2006 By By VLADIMIR CIJEVARRA PROPERTY REPORTER SET to rise in a corner of the central business district, Singapore’s highest condominium will not be a mere landmark. It will be an Icon352 words
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Article, Illustration461 2003-02-15 7 BENNADARAJAN - A bamboo clothes pole of flat below breaks her fall, then snaps and sends her plunging 11 storeys *L BENNADARAJAN FOR five seconds, Madam Lee Geek Hon hung onto a thin bamboo clothes pole for dear life. But the flimsy pole, which was notSHIN MIN - 461 words
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321 2003-02-15 7 AN INDONESIAN businessman has taken his moth-er-in-law to court to reclaim $l3 million, which he says he lent the company in which they are both directors and shareholders. The woman, meanwhile, claims no such loan was made. Singaporean spice trading company, King Spice, has321 words
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Article, Illustration567 2003-02-15 7 SELINA LUM - She helped boss dispose of the bodies of two people DOUBLE MURDER CASE *1 SELINA LUM IT BEGAN with a slur, escalated into a bloody pummelling, and wound up with frantic attempts to dispose of two bodies and clean up evidence of a crime.567 words
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551 2003-02-15 8 SHARMILPAL KAUR - Cutting away dead tissue and reshaping the heart will help nearly two-thirds of patients who are waiting for a new heart By I SHARMILPAL KAUR AN IMPROVED surgical procedure which cuts away dead heart muscle to reshape the heart is giving patients with551 words
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252 2003-02-15 8 NEOHUIMEV - By] NEOHUIMEV REPRESENTATIVES from at least 10 major religious bodies preparing Singapore’s first-ev-er Code on Religious Harmony are likely to stay on as a committee after their work is done. While this will enable them to assist in the code’s implementation, their role as252 words
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Article, Illustration683 2003-02-15 8 S ALMA KH ALIK - Testing on children here shows atropine eye drops may arrest myopia By S ALMA KH ALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT EYE doctors here think they have finally found a way to slow down the rate at which children’s eyesight deteriorate. The answer is aSINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE - 683 words
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Article, Illustration534 2003-02-15 9 SALMA KHALIK - Viagra will face competition here by June, when the male impotence drug Cialis is made available By SALMA KHALIK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT VIAGRA, which revived the love life of many an impotent man, will soon have serious competition in Singapore. Though not in534 words
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Page 9 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1061 2003-02-15 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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Article579 2003-02-15 10 WEDNESDAY February 12,2003 SINGAPORE had 40,800 births last year, the lowest number in 14 years, while the total fertility rate was 1.4, a chasm away from the 2.1 figure at which a population regenerates to stay constant. Demographers confronted with the decline can look at it in579 words
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Article599 2003-02-15 10 FRIDAY February 14,2003 TALKS to end the Sri Lankan civil war have gone through five rounds in under six months, and the delegations move on to Tokyo next month to discuss the contentious issue of power sharing. Last weekend’s session in Berlin brought progress in the rehabilitation599 words
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Article, Illustration854 2003-02-15 10 SANDRA DAVIE - ft SANDRA DAVIE EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT ARE Singapore Management University students different from their peers in the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University? The question has been posed to my colleagues and me on the education desk since this newspaper wrotemi El. - 854 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration950 2003-02-15 11 M. NIRMALA - THE WAY I SEE IT B,j M. NIRMALA MEMBER of Parliament K. Shanmugam stirred a hornet’s nest recently when he raised the subject of affirmative action. During last month’s parliamentary debate on the White Paper on the arrests of Muslim terrorists, he suggested950 words
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888 2003-02-15 11 IJANADAS DEVAN - By I JANADAS DEVAN MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad gave an astonishing performance last Thursday, when he responded to Singapore Foreign Minister S. Jayakumar’s statement of Jan 25. There were zingers will Singapore lose its sovereignty if the price of water went up by888 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration2112 2003-02-15 12 When the Economic Review Committee issued its final report on Thursday, it used this metaphor repeatedly to explain how it had tested the foundations of the Singapore economy. Deputy Money Editor IGNATIUS LOW and SOH WEN UN take another look at2,112 words
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Article, Illustration1056 2003-02-15 13 ii/ BERTHA HENSON - THINKING ALOUD By ii/ BERTHA HENSON OVER the Chinese New Year holidays, an uncle who came to visit started talking about the education of his daughter, who is in the critical Primary 6 year. He was struggling to understand the changes toLUDWIG ILIO - 1,056 words
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SPORTS
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442 2003-02-15 14 JEFFREY LOW - By JEFFREY LOW SATURDAY S-League matches will be shown live exclusively on MediaWorks’ Channel i for the 2003 and 2004 seasons, an unprecedented two-year deal, which has struck a heavy blow to rival broadcaster Media Corp. Following spirited presentations by both442 words
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Article, Illustration698 2003-02-15 14 G. SrVAKKUMARAN - Player-coach and ex-national star, who will be 38 next October, has his dream, but is he up to the job? SOCCER Bjl G. SrVAKKUMARAN JURONG’S player-coach V. Sundramoorthy sprang three surprises on Tuesday, at the first of a series of pre-season press conferences toTAN SUAN ANN - 698 words
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372 2003-02-15 14 PEH SHING HI E I - Susilo's out as is the rest of Singapore BADMINTON *L PEH SHING HI E I GAME OVER. It was a complete washout for Singapore at the All-Eng-land Championships, as all six shuttlers wearing the Republic’s colours crashed out in straight games on Thursday. Eighth seed Ronald Susilo Singapore’s highest seed372 words
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MALAYSIA
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669 2003-02-15 15 BRENDAN PEREIRA - Govt panel looking at improving teaching of Islam in national schools, says Dr Mahathir By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Thursday gave Malaysians a peek into the future of religious education in the country and it is669 words
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Article, Illustration646 2003-02-15 15 Bernama, The Star/Asia News Network KUALA LUMPUR Culture and safety concerns clashed on Thursday over the release of hot-air lanterns as part of Chinese New Year celebrations. Members of the Chinese community appealed against a total ban on the lanterns, saying itBernama,; The Star/Asia News Network; GUANC MING DAILY - 646 words
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510 2003-02-15 15 BRENDAN PEREIRA - By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUAIA LUMPUR Malaysia's conservative Islamic opposition party has moved to head off a potentially damaging report that placed its acting president on the same stage as Abu Bakar Bashir and other Indonesian militants just over two years510 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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Article, Illustration418 2003-02-15 16 ROBERT GO - Fearing a repeat of last years disaster, relief officials stay on 24-hour alert as floodwaters rise By ROBERT GO THE STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Waist-high waters flooded many parts of the city on Thursday after eight hours of heavy rain, forcing more thanREUTERS - 418 words
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484 2003-02-15 16 DANIEL PEDERSEN - They can stop rounds from Ml 6 assault rifles and M6O machine guns By DANIEL PEDERSEN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES BANGKOK It is a nondescript two-storey building set amid low-lying swamplands about 18 km south-east of Bangkok. From the outside it appears to be484 words
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542 2003-02-15 16 TOM FAWTHROP - By'. TOM FAWTHROP FOR THE STRAITS TIMES PHNOM PENH The dismissal of highly popular and widely respected Phnom Penh governor Chea Sophara on Tuesday by Prime Minister Hun Sen has saddened and angered many residents of the capital including government officials.542 words
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MONEY
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584 2003-02-15 17 WAR worries dogged local investors, forcing the Straits Times Index (STI) to fall 11.9 points to 1,273.48 on dwindling turnover which slid almost 14 per cent to 207-04 million shares worth $259-27 million. Monday: Local investors continued to be paralysed by fears584 words
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Article75 2003-02-15 17 Straits rimes Index TIm Stralti Timas Index tall 6.2 paints on tha week ta 1,285.41. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday Market closed CNY Holiday Tuesday 1,296.59 (*5.0) 204.91m (251.48m) Wednesday 1,291.89 (-4.7) 273.02m (253.59m) Thursday 1,287.63 (-4.3) 273.80m (295.38m) Friday 1,285.41 (-2.2) 209.89m (289.13m) BT-SRI Index Tka BT-SRI75 words
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723 2003-02-15 17 LORNATAN - SFIC unveils three-year blueprint; aims to set up educational facility here and marketing offices abroad By LORNATAN COMPANIES CORRESPONDENT LOCAL spring mattressmaker Four Star Industries is not taking the difficult conditions in Singapore’s furniture market lying down. Later this year, the company723 words
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Article, Illustration660 2003-02-15 18 SIMON WILCOX - *L SIMON WILCOX AS A famous cinema in the glamorous era of the 1950 s and *****, it used to attract the big names from the Hongkong film world stars like Grace Chang and Lin Dai. On Thursday the landmark Majestic Theatre inALANLIM - 660 words
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590 2003-02-15 18 NARENDRA AGGARWAL - By By NARENDRA AGGARWAL ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT IF YOU take a walk in the south Indian town of Pocharam in about IV2 years, you might be assailed by a sense of deja vu. It might come at the exact moment when you look590 words
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628 2003-02-15 18 EDNAKOH - US cardholders take the giants to court citing a lack of transparency over surcharges which they tack on to customers’ purchases abroad By EDNAKOH FINANCE CORRESPONDENT WHEN buying that book from Amazon.com or shopping while on holiday abroad, have you ever628 words
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Advertisement27 2003-02-15 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.fimdssupermart.com www.singaporeexchange.com27 words
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FORUM
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640 2003-02-15 19 WE REFER to the commentary, “Brain dead: Is it the same as ‘really dead’?” by Dr Andy Ho (ST, Feb 3), and the letters, “Quite dead or not quite?” and “Second chance” (ST, Feb 8). The writers were concerned as to whether640 words
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Article211 2003-02-15 19 AT THE press conference between the foreign ministers of Singapore and Malaysia last Thursday after the signing of the special agreement on Pedra Branca, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said “we are veiy happy”. To Professor S. Jayakumar, it was a “special event” but certainly far211 words
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337 2003-02-15 19 I READ with interest the article, “Births in Singapore hit a new low of Feb 6), and the letter, “Allow use of Medisave for fourth child (ST, Feb 8). If raising the birth rate is such a crucial issue, why penalise families that intend337 words
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239 2003-02-15 19 I REFER to the report, “Have a baby? Not with things the way they are” (ST, Feb 10). Young couples interviewed for the report painted a very disturbing picture as to why we are facing a baby shortage. While the survey shows that financial239 words
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Article86 2003-02-15 19 STUDY FRENCH EXPERIENCE! Reading the current discussion about the falling birth rate in Singapore, I was reminded of a story about rising birth rates in France I read earlier this year on the BBC website (http://news.bbc.co.Uk/2/hi/europe/*****41.5tm). This astounded people because it bucked the trend in the rest86 words
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Article216 2003-02-15 19 REVIEW RELIEFS AND PERKS: iwoum^ authorities to review the current reliefs and incentives so as to assist parents who are more than willing to have more children but are worried about giving them the required level of care, and the costs. Limiting tax relief to women216 words
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215 2003-02-15 19 UNWANTED BABIES FOR INFERTILE COUPLES: uh. been a week of ironies. On one hand we had news of the low birth rate in Singapore (“Births in Singapore hit a new low of 40,800”; ST, Feb 6) and on the other hand, we have three abandoned215 words
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474 2003-02-15 20 JANE LEE - Tie-up to offer environmental engineering programmes makes the US institution tenth prestige university to set up base here JANE LEE STANFORD University, famed for its engineering courses, is likely to be the tenth prestige university to set up oase here. Stanford has474 words
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Article, Illustration238 2003-02-15 20 THE 133-year-old Church of Saints Peter and Paul at Queen Street has been earmarked as a national monument and will be conserved in its entirety. The church is linked closely with the beginning of the Chinese Catholic community in Singapore. It began in 1832238 words
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578 2003-02-15 20 KRISTBOO - *L KRISTBOO A MAN who shrugged off his neighbour’s constant abuse of his maid, which led to her death, provoked four people to form a group that would speak up for maids. The man, a Mr Neo, had told The578 words