The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition, 21 June 2003
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The Straits Times : Weekly Overseas Edition
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Title Section25 2003-06-21 1 The Straits Times Weekly Edition PACIFIC AREA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR Saturday, June 21,2003 Price: S$ 1.20 (in Singapore) Elsewhere by subsription only MITA(P) 090/03/200325 words
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Article, Illustration661 2003-06-21 1 GOH CHEV LIAN - A smooth ride on NEL mostly Crowds packed stations even before trains for new North-East Line began running. Small delays aside, users were full of praise Btl GOH CHEV LIAN MINOR hitches aside, the North-East Line got off to a smooth start yesterday, with more than 140,000 people travelling onPHOTOS: WANG HUI FEN - 661 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement55 2003-06-21 1 Defence Commando Unit Barred For cheating involving record-keeping and fitness scores, crack Commando unit has been barred from competing for top military honours. page e A S Community Reunited And It Feels So Good It’s a happy occassion when doctors who separated Siamese twins decades ago reunite with the surviving55 words
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PRIME
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719 2003-06-21 2 LYDIA LIM - In some services, the gap between public and private-sector wages for fresh grads may now be too wide, says DPM Lee By] LYDIA LIM SENIOR CORRESPONDENT THE civil service looks set to trim its starting salaries this year, in recognition that the gap719 words
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Article, Illustration1227 2003-06-21 2 Long before most companies adopted a flexible wage system, the civil service already adjusted its salary structure to include more variable components far exceeding even what the National Wages Council recommended. SUE-ANN CHIA reports IT USED to be in the civil service that more grey equalledI.FF CUFF CHEW - 1,227 words
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616 2003-06-21 3 REBECCA LEE - Carrier has first retrenchment exercise in two decades; further layoffs are not ruled out *L REBECCA LEE SINGAPORE Airlines, pointing to a daily loss of $6 million, on Thursday axed 414 employees, the biggest number of job cuts in its 31-year616 words
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Article, Illustration455 2003-06-21 3 CHONG CHEE KIN - By CHONG CHEE KIN TWO Republic of Singapore Navy officers who have been held responsible for the collision of the RSS Courageous with a container ship in January, which led to four deaths, appeared in court yesterday to face criminal charges.455 words
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624 2003-06-21 3 HELMIYUSOF - *!L HELMIYUSOF AN OMINOUS sight outside SLA’s Airline House in Changi on Thursday morning was a fleet of taxis. As they waited, staff within the building sat grimly for the axe to fall on 414 of their colleagues as Singapore Airlines laid624 words
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HOME
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528 2003-06-21 4 SUE-ANN CHIA - 61% of companies polled plan to hire workers now. But many big firms are putting off major recruitments tillend of the year Btl SUE-ANN CHIA EVEN as talk of wage cuts and lay-offs still makes the rounds, job seekers can hang on to a528 words
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413 2003-06-21 4 TANHUIYEE - But 998 lose out in URA ballot for year-long trial Btl TANHUIYEE THE idea was to have vans selling food and drinks in carparks. The number of places available: 33 in five carparks in the city. The number who applied: 1,031.413 words
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Article, Illustration553 2003-06-21 4 CHONG CHEE KIN - By CHONG CHEE KIN IN JUST sue months, the share price of land reclamation company Links Island Holding shot up fivefold, to top $1.43. Suspecting price rigging, Singapore stock market regulators suspended the counter and called in the commercialSTEVEN LEE - 553 words
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Article, Illustration259 2003-06-21 5 A total of 17 emergency exercises have been conducted on the NorthEast Line so far and SBS Transit plans to hold them every six months. Here are some of the safety features on its driverless system: TIMELY HELP Operations control centre is linked to passengers through closed-circuit TVCHRISTIAN INTON Text: COH CHIN I.IAN Photos: WANC HUI FEN - 259 words
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310 2003-06-21 5 GLENTS SIM; and KAREN HO - By GLENTS SIM and KAREN HO THE regional finance manager of Air France in Singapore was found dead in the living room of his apartment at Tanglin Park, off Tanglin Road, just past midnight on Wednesday morning. Mr Philippe Birembaut, 40, a Frenchman,310 words
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Article458 2003-06-21 5 GOH CHINLIAN - Seventeen safety exercises from fire fighting to passenger evacuation have been held since last November By GOH CHINLIAN THE new North-East Line is geared to deal with any emergency situation from fighting an underground fire to evacuating people from a train that is stalled458 words
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401 2003-06-21 6 TRADE and Industry Minister George Yeo on Monday shot down a proposal from a govern-ment-sponsored group that civil servants be given a five-day work week. He disagreed with the panel from the Remaking Singapore Committee that the Government should take the lead401 words
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528 2003-06-21 6 DAVID BOEY - By DAVID BOEY DEI ENCE CORRESPONDENT THE crack Commando unit has been barred from competing for one of the military’s top honours because of cheating involving record-keeping and fitness scores. Several personnel from the Ist Commando Battalion are also facing disciplinary action. This is528 words
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Article, Illustration526 2003-06-21 6 WENDYTAN - Chuan Park residents say offer is an insult, but land authority says proximity to new MRT will boost value of their land By WENDYTAN and ARLINA ARSHAD A DOLLAR is all that the Singapore Land Authority (SLA)STEVEN LEE - 526 words
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Article, Illustration869 2003-06-21 7 LI XUEYING - Professors Salmon and Tan last saw Karen Yong when she was nine and never thought that they would see her again By- LI XUEYING THE doctors spoke English; their former patient, mainly Mandarin ana Cantonese. But words seemed unnecessary at the heartfelt reunion last SaturdayWANGHUI FEN - 869 words
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Page 7 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous1062 2003-06-21 7 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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COMMENT
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Article587 2003-06-21 8 TUESDAY June 1 7, 2003 THIS newspaper commented during the peak of the Sars outbreak that China would be the fulcrum in continental control. No matter how successfully South-east Asian countries localise its spread and organise internal surveillance and control measures, the travel pattern radiating from587 words
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Article555 2003-06-21 8 WEDNESDAY June 1 8, 2003 ARRESTS of alleged terrorist operatives in Thailand and Cambodia, and the thwarted transfer of radioactive material in Bangkok, should be good news. Each time members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI) and other Al-Qaeda clones in Southeast Asia are detained and planned attacks are555 words
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Article, Illustration1029 2003-06-21 8 hCHUALEE HOONG - SATURDAY With h CHUALEE HOONG AS SURE as the sun rises over Katong and sets over Jurong, a reader wrote to this newspaper a few days ago in response to the Gurmit Singh “SAR-vivor Rap” commissioned by the Ministry of Health and the Health Promotion Board inCHKAH SIN ANN - 1,029 words
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COMMENT/PERSPECTIVE
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Article, Illustration990 2003-06-21 9 SHARON LOH - THE WAY I SEE IT By SHARON LOH AMONG all the many questions which have been asked of Ladan and Laleh Bijani, the one most troubling is, why. Why would you chance an operation which will likely leave one or both of you dead, orPhoto illustration: ADAM I.F.E - 990 words
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744 2003-06-21 9 SUNANDA K. DATTA-RAY - 8?/ SUNANDA K. DATTA-RAY FOB THE STRAITS TIMES THERE was no excitement in Siem Reap, gateway to the stunning majesty of the Angkor Wat temples, as Cambodia’s Senior Minister Sok An and United Nations chief negotiator Hans Corell raised champagne glasses on744 words
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INSIGHT
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Article, Illustration1770 2003-06-21 10 Wage restructuring has gained new urgency as Singapore tries to sharpen its competitive edge amid a slowing economy. Firms must do more to make salariesflexible and performance-based the National Wages Council has urged. SUE-ANN CHIA and LYDIA UM of the Political Desk lookMIEL - 1,770 words
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1014 2003-06-21 11 CHUAMUI HOONC - Consensus out contention in as relationships change THINKING ALOUD By CHUAMUI HOONC IF YOU landed in Singapore this week from Mars and scanned the papers, you would be forgiven for thinking this was a land of fractious, contentious people. Talks on wage cuts between Singapore Airlines and its pilots’ union1,014 words
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Article1026 2003-06-21 11 LIM SAY BOON - LUCRUM By LIM SAY BOON WELCOME to the Rubbish Rally. Of course, Singapore investors cannot be faulted for riding the wassail on Wall Street. But they might also want to consider the suspect nature of the drivers behind this recent market surge. The bottom1,026 words
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA
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Article, Illustration848 2003-06-21 12 BRENDAN PEREIRA - Opening his party’s annual meeting for the last time, he warns Malaysians against those out to colonise us again’ Umno General Assembly By BRENDAN PEREIRA MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad opened his party’s annual assembly for the last848 words
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234 2003-06-21 12 IN AN apparent response to pressure from Asean and the world community, Myamar’s military government is allowing the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit opposition activists who were detained last month with pro-de-mocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. A government spokesman234 words
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556 2003-06-21 12 LEE KIM CHEW - By LEE KIM CHEW IN PHNOM PENH CHINA has proposed a new agreement to anchor a strategic partnership with Asean countries, a move which underscores Beijing’s growing political and economic interest in South-east Asia. Separately, Russia on Thursday signed a joint declaration556 words
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MONEY
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692 2003-06-21 13 SINGAPORE stocks continued to race higher despite worries of a potential correction. The Straits Times Index (STI) rose 39-9 points on the week to 1,519-16 as average daily turnover tumbled 29-69 per cent to 768.67 million shares worth $548.34 million. Monday: After692 words
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Article75 2003-06-21 13 Straits Times Index TIm Stratti Time* Index tom 39.9 point* on tho wtok to 1,919.16. DAY CLOSE TURNOVER Monday 1,465.16 (-14.1) 655.77m (400.11m) Tuesday 1,493.69 (*28.5) 681.31m (494.76m) Wednesday 1,486.70 (-7.0) 956.41m (648.20m) Thursday 1,521.15 (*34.5) 687.45m (590.59m) Friday 1,519.16 (-2.0) 862.39m (608.06m) IT-SRI Index Tho BT-SRI75 words
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Article, Illustration444 2003-06-21 13 AUDREY TAN - Year-on-year figure rises, helped by trebling in pnarmaceutical shipments while electronics exports slip once more By AUDREY TAN ECONOMICS COKKESPONDENT SINGAPORE’S non-oil domestic exports grew 8 per cent last month From a year ago, thanks to a surge in shipments444 words
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Article, Illustration712 2003-06-21 14 LEE SU SHY AN - MOF unveils details of proposed LLP structure, a hybrid of firms and sole proprietorships, in consultation paper By LEE SU SHY AN COMPANIES CORRESPONDENT NEARLY every sole proprietorship in Singapore could be rushing to convert to limited-li-ability partnership (LLPs) status if the Government’sC. CHANDHADAS and MIEL - 712 words
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Article, Illustration457 2003-06-21 14 NARENDRA AGGARWAL - By By NARENDRA AGGARWAL ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT TWENTY home-grown brands dealing in a range of items from sushi to bread to furniture were on Monday named as this year’s most promising brands, with many deemed to have the potential to go international. AmongRAYMOND LEE - 457 words
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349 2003-06-21 14 LEE SV SHY AN - br. LEE SV SHY AN SINGTEL is ringing up the honours. It has again been voted tops in the region’s telecom market by industry experts. The homegrown giant was named Best Asian Telecom Carrier at the annual Telecom Asia Awards the sixth349 words
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Advertisement27 2003-06-21 13 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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Article413 2003-06-21 15 WHY does it take so long for the Government to accord female citizens the same rights to health benefits and birthright for their children as their male counterparts? Female civil servants work alongside, and on an equal footing, with male civil servants. They also make up413 words
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Article129 2003-06-21 15 THE Remaking Singapore Committee suggests a rethink of schools ranking to reduce stress on students, teachers and principals (“Panel suggests rethink of schools ranking”; ST Weekly, June 14). But I am surprised the committee did not stress the importance of leaving students alone during the school129 words
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Article, Illustration538 2003-06-21 15 1 REFER to the article, “Here’s how to stop being afraid to speak up” (ST, June 13). The article evokes a lot of emotions in me, a citizen who has spent my last two years in the United States pursuing a master’s degree. I commend538 words
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276 2003-06-21 15 BEFORE Singapore Airlines (SLA) decides to create its no-frills “airline within an airline”, the company should look closely at the experience of the major US airlines (“SLA looks into creating no-frills budget airline”; ST, June 13). Learning from bankrupt or almost-bankrupt airlines like276 words
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Article, Illustration376 2003-06-21 16 TAN HU IYEE - By TAN HU IYEE SINGAPORE’S drive to woo tourists back to its shores got off to a roaring start on Wednesday, with the launch of a six-month marketing programme It will enlist the aid of everyone from Bollywood celebrities to wrestlingFRANCIS ONG - 376 words
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596 2003-06-21 16 AUDREYTAN - The key sector bucks the trend of rising unemployment, as firms are investing more in new technologies and capacity By AUDREYTAN I ONOMK s CORRESPONDENT SINGAPORE’S unemployment rate may be climbing, with job losses in the manufacturing sector, but there are more than 3,000596 words