The Straits Times, 20 February 1999

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  • 23 1 The Straits Times Established 1H45 OcitUrClciy February' 20, 1999 96 Pages m five parts mita(P) 054/12/98 A Singapore Press Holdings publication OU Cents
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  • 510 1 Swift passage by Japanese parliament of the 551.16-trillion package to pull the country out of recession TOKYO Japan's parliament yesterday passed a record US$6B2-billion (551.16-trillion) Budget aimed at pulling the country out of recession m the fiscal year starting April 1. "I'm relieved. I feel as
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  • 462 1  -  CHUA CHES HON PLANE CRASH NEAR SEREMBAN Bg THE pilot and passenger of the light plane that went missing over Malaysia on Wednesday were found dead yesterday afternoon, on a hill 20 km north of Seremban. A search team on board a Malaysian air force
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    69 1 Wreckage found on hill NST The late Mr Patrick Dutrey (top) observing a Republic of Singapore Flying Club tradition of swallowing a raw egg whole when a member receives his flying licence. Yesterday, his body and that of his passenger were brought to Seremban General Hospital by a
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  • 453 1  - Prabowo tells why he sent troops DERWIN PEREIRA By IN JAKARTA FORMER president Suharto's disgraced son-in-law said yesterday that he did mobilise troops m May last year but the aim was to protect the newly-elected President, Dr B. J." Habibie. Lieutenant-General Prabowo Subianto, who was ousted as head of the
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    • 112 1 1 7 BIG DEBATE CONTINUES Why should young Singaporeans care about Asian values? page 26 i ♦SUNDAY PLUS Aircon underwear I Asked recently by the Asian Wall Street Journal, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said his wish for an invention to come is underwear that keeps one cool. Is it
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  • PRIME NEWS
    • 482 2  -  IRENE NGOO They will meet Singapore counterparts to explore ways of forging closer ties and discuss the regional situation H!L THREE senior Australian ministers will arrive here tomorrow for high-level talks with their Singapore counterparts on deepening the close bilateral ties across a wide spectrum
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    • 218 2 Protest over the use of Chinese in Korea SEOUL Scores of South Korean language activists protested outside the Culture Ministry' here yesterday, demanding that the government scrap plans to revive the use or Chinese characters. In a traditional sign of protest, rally leader Won Kwang Ho had his head shaved.
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    • 180 2 LAFAYETTE (Louisiana) A doctor convicted of attempted murder for injecting his former mistress with Aids-tainted blood has been sentenced to 50 years m prison. State District Judge Durwood Conque on Wednesday night ordered that Richard Schmidt be imprisoned immediately. He denied defence attorneys' requests
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    • 500 3  -  TAN HSUEH YUN Taking next year's census via the Internet and phone interviews will also require far fewer workers ■±i rr^T^T3iW^vffSPiififiififfS GOING high-tech for Census 2000 will save the Government about $50 million. Doing it the new way, m the form of a register-
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    • Article, Illustration
      78 3 DENISE TAN Sentosa's stoic Merlion was the backdrop to an eiici-gcuc lion dance to celebrate Chinese New Year yesterday and on Thursday. The colourful creature, from the Cheng Jing Hui Lion Dance Troupe, performed precarious balancing acts and other stunts for the visitors. Mr Lee Poh Teck,
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    • 481 3 PROVOCATEURS AT WORK JAKARTA The Jan 19-23 Ambon riots m which nearly 100 people were killed were "engineered"" with the aim ol discrediting certain political leaders, an unofficial human rights group has concluded after more than two weeks of investigation. The Indonesian Observer
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    • 886 2 INSIDE World 4.6. 9-11 topic 9 Medical Notes... 6 East Asia 12. 13 Indonesia m Transition 14 Souib-East Asia IS Malaysia 16 Home 18-84 Weather 25 Insight 26.27 Editorial 28 Fonun 30 Sports 31-35 Racing 34 Money 37-42 Slocks 37,38 Currency 37 LIFE! A cup of exotic coffee, and halal
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    • 42 2 Si i also )>ati< 9 IF YOU'RE A MUM, READ THIS A STORY for all mothers who fret about their children's grades and keep pushing them to "succeed It may change the way you look at life. Today, m The New Paper.
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    • 205 3 [Spore snapshot, page 20] lf^ Prestige Furnished Apartments In District 10 IvMf& l^^^^%ii W* Hollciiid Roud f*\^^r^^oE W^r yVx fii I A C II A I I f"«ft-«.».Bii|,.ft I J I U AU p iiiS"""— Distinguished Holland Road address /f m ""7 Walking distance to trendy Holland Village /p*j** A
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  • WORLD
    • 656 4 Talk of two women running for US President has led to questions over the roles their high-profile husbands will play, and what they will be called WASHINGTON News that two prominent US political wives are considering White House bids is raising questions about how their high-profile
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    • 185 4 UNITED NATIONS Sicily plans to teach educator.-, from around thi world how to fight the Mafia, a move that would have brought laugh.- it not bullets a decade ago "We exported |m many. man\ year- a disease." Palermo Mayor Leoluca Orlando told a
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    • 291 6  - Mossad denies role in Kurd's capture ABRAHAM RABINOVICH Bti IN )b Rl SAL KM ATTEMPTING to mute the wrath of Kurdish separatists, Israel went to unusual lengths on Thursday to persuade them that it had nothing to do with the capture of their leader, Abdullah Ocalan, by Turkish commandos m
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    • 88 6 Police guards for lawyer AMSTERDAM The main defence lawyer tor Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was under police protection yesterday following media reports that Turkey had called for protests against her Amsterdam office. Ms Britta Boehler, who was turned away by Turkey earlier this week when she tried to reach
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    • 183 6 THE Calvin Klein ad for children's underwear is not the first time he has got into trouble: In 1980, he created a stir when he had Brooke Shields, then 15 and clad m tight-fitting jeans, declaring: "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins." 4 In
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    • 745 6 Greece: Three ministers resign Prime Minister Costas Simitis demanded the resignations of Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos. Interior Minister Ale kos Papadopoulos and Public Order Minister Philippos Petsalnikov at a Cabinet meeting. Kenya: Top officials sacked State-owned radio reported that President Daniel arap Moi had sacked
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    • MEDICAL NOTES
      • 65 6 PLASTIC muscles designed to be used as windscreen wipers for a tiny spacecraft may one day be used to make "bionic" battery-pow-ered limbs, a US space scientist said on Thursday. The plastic muscles are designed to give finger-like flexibility to the palm-sized Japanese Mv Space
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      • 70 6 US RESEARCHERS said on Thursday they may have found the gene responsible for DiGeorge syndrome, the most common genetic cause of defects from a cleft palate to cardiac defects. They said m the journal Science that they think they have identified the gene found on
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      • 52 6 LEVELS of pesticide residue on US produce are considerably higher than levels deemed safe, a Consumer Union report said on Thursday. It warned that some products with high levels of toxic residue including apples, grapes, green beans, peaches, spinach and squash could be dangerous for
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      • 55 6 FOR very short children with no known hormone problems, growth hormone can add a little height. Thursday's New England Journal Of Medicine said. But doctors warned that even after 10 years of injections, boys gained onl> s to 10 cm and girls ju^t more
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    • 339 6  -  LOUSE BRANSON Bj IN WASHINGTON FASHION designer Calvin Klein is m ad trouble again. His latest Times Square billboard for kiddie underwear got so many New Yorkers' knickers m a twist that it was pulled out hours before its planned unveiling on
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    • 139 6 Soon... a law to protect file fat? SAN FRANCISCO Fat people may soon be legally protected m San Francisco. Prompted b\ an angry confrontation over 'antifat' advertising by a local fitness club, the head of the city's Board of Supervisors ha* proposed adding overweiglit people to the list of those
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    • PEOPLE
      • 181 9 'Grand old gentleman of Johor' dies ABDULLAH TAKEN BY SM'S BOOK JOHOR BARU Datuk Abdullah Ahmad, a senior member of the Johor Royal Court known popularly as the ""srand old gentleman of Johor", has died, aged 82. The former civil servant left behind his wife Datin Fakhriah Tan Sri Mohd
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      • 67 9 'YELTSIN AID 1 PUBLICITY-HY' MOSCOW German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, known for his easy style with the media, said yesterday that he and Russian President Boris Yeltsin had something m common an aversion for journalists and publicity. Mr Yeltsin, no wallflower himself, told reporters m the Kremlin that he had been
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      • 100 9 LANKA PRESIDENT'S BROTHER WINS SUIT COLOMBO Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratungas estranged brother Anura Bandaran- aike yesterday won a Supreme Court victory against the police and state over the violation of his human rights. The court ruled that the fundamental rights of Mr Bandaranaike, a legislator from the opposition United
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      • 54 9 Retired French General Andre Devigny, whose escape from prison before a scheduled execution by a Nazi firing squad inspired an award-winning postwar film, has died, aged 82. Tie first Mack West Point graduate, Mr Henry Flipper, who was court-martialled m 1881 on trumped-up charges, was yesterday given a posthumous pardon
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      • 35 9 Quoteworthy Tm m like note, a lot of like. Ms Carta Corded, on whether she was m love with the man she married m a blind-date wedding sponsored by a British radio station last month.
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      • 91 9 KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Prime Minister is burning the midnight oil these days. The subject that is keeping Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad up: Economics. "Economics is a complex thing, but he continues to learn," his wife, Datin Seri Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamed Ali, told
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    • 414 9  -  IRENE NCOO Spore-Australia linkups on many fronts are seeing both sides through the crisis, says Australian envoy Bu THE strong partnership between Singapore and Australia has helped both countries weather the Asian economic crisis well, Austra- lian High Commissioner Murray McLean has said.
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    • 159 9  -  MAS AKI WATANABE IN VANCOUVER she asked for it." Diplomat Shuji Shimokoji was charged with one count of assault on Wednesday after police had first contacted the Japanese ambassador m Ottawa, according to Vancouver Police Inspector Ken Davies. "He waived the diplo- matic immunity
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    • 589 10 231 die in Brazil samba carnage The carnival period is traditionally more violent. People drink more. People go out onto the streets more. There is more contact between people, so there is more violence. Public Safety Secretary Marco Vinicio Petrelluzzi Drinking and wild partying on the streets during the traditional
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    • 384 10 THAT PHONE CALL OVER KOSOVO The ailing Yeltsin says he spoke witn Clinton, but the US says no WASHINGTON Is Mr Boris Yeltsin now fantasising about telephone conversations with Mr Bill Clinton? An embarrassing non-ex-change over Kosovo has underscored the Russian President's decreasing
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    • 232 10 WASHINGTON The US Navj' could pound Serbian targets with dozens of accurate US$l million (Ssl.7 million) Tomahawk cruise missiles if Yugoslavia does not make peace quickly with ethnic Albanians m Kosovo, according to officials here. The threat that ship-fired missiles might be triggered by
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    • 333 11 BITTER NEIGHBOURS Indian Prime Minister's visit to Pakistan is the most significant dialogue since a peace pact was signed m 1972, says Foreign Minister NEW DELHI An IndoPakistani summit this week will be the "most historic engagement" between the two nations since their 1972 peace pact,
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    • 110 11 Targeted US jets hit Iraqi radar site ANKARA US F-16 jet^ based m southern Turkv\ fired two missiles at an Iraq' radar site which locked on to American warplanes patrolling northern Iraq vesterda\ a US military official said yesterday. The US military spokesman said the planes tired m self-defence after
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    • 445 11  - 'Aids' for one pony, death for India's polo season JON STOCK B; IN NEW DELHI INDIA'S internationallyrenowned polo season has been abandoned after a pony belonging to the Maharajah of Jodhpur was found to c>e carrying a deadly virus that is similar to Aids. A series of tournaments m Jaipur
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    • WORLD FILE
      • 52 11 FRANCE, once a leading slave-trading nation, on Thursday took the first step towards declaring slavery a crime against humanity when its National Assembly passed a draft Bill condemning the practice. The Bill was backed by all parties except the conservative Liberal Democracy, which said it trivialised
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      • 46 11 YOUTH JAILED FOR IMPREGNATING SISTER AN IMMIGRANT from India, 18, who impregnated his 12-year-old sister, was given a six-month jail term m Michigan on Thursday and could be deported. The sentence also includes six months >n an electronic monitoring device and two years on probation. AFP
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      • 59 11 HERPES VIRUS KILLING ELEPHANTS A MYSTERIOUS herpes virus is killing elephants m US zoos and could endanger all zoo elephants, research- ers said on Thursday. Two slightly different versions of the virus, a distant relative of the viruses that cause chicken pox anc cold sores m humans, probably passed from
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      • 56 11 TWO Britons trying to fly round the world non-stop m a hot-air balloon were on target to pick up a fast-mov-ing Jetstream over Africa. Mr Andy Elson, 45, and Mr Colin Prescot, 48, had crossed the border between Morocco and Western Sahara after Wednesday's launch
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      • 64 11 CURATORS of a travelling exhibit m Minnesota on the Titanic said on Thursday they planned to sound the ships steam whistle publicly again for the first time since the vessel sank m 1912. It is believed that the whistle was the last thing
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    • 522 4 Samba Carnage 9V More Heads Ro Tooth Woes Pla 9 ue Trial \S*' Kecord 23 1 people killed m crime wave m ripples from Kurdish rebel leader Dental problems dela\ Anwar's trial Sao Paulo state during Brazil s annual Ocalan's arrest have spread to Kenya, for a second day, as
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 49 12 REUTERS i\is vvang iimi or nainan, wno says sne has lived among snakes her whole life, knits a sweater as visitors who pay five yuan (about Ssl) peek into the glass room where she lives with more than 30 snakes at a temple fair m Beijing.
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    • 484 12 TOUCHY SUBJECT THE original book, Rape Of Nanking, has stirred fan mail and hate mail for author Iris Chang because the extent of the tragedy and. indeed, whether it happened at all is still under debate The Japanese version of her book met these
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    • 456 12 S. Korea seeks package deal with the North EASING COLD WAR TENSION SEOUL South Korean President Kirn Dae Jung said yesterday that he will seek a package deal with North Korea to ease Cold War tension on the Korean peninsula, declaring that the Stalinist North is changing, although slowly. "North
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    • 135 12 HONGKONG Kai Tak and Choi Wan, two wellknown names m the territory, have been chosen by members of the Friends of the Observatory m Hongkong for tropical cyclones. the official Xinhua news agency reported. The two names will be used next year.
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    • 66 13 An oversized Beluga uai-gu piane vaoove; swallowed a container of art at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, near Paris, m one big gulp on Wednesday. The painting m the container was the same one painted on the plane's side (left): Eugene Delacroix's famous La Liberte Guidant Le
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    • 111 13 Taipei official in Hungary TAIPEI Taiwan Foreign Minister Jason Hu this week visited Hungary, which has diplomatic relations with China, and may have visited several other European countries as well, the United Daily News reported yesterday. The newspaper said Mr Hu stayed m Europe alter visiting Jordan for King Hussein's
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    • 356 13 Zhu warns: Don't misuse relief funds 'All levels of government must give priority to safeguardingthe basic livelihood oflaid-ojf workers and findingjobs for them. Mr Zhu Beijing's stern message: If flood- or poverty-relief funds line officials' pockets at the expense of the welfare of the masses, unrest could result HONGKONG Premier
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    • 250 13 QUIET 2ND DEATH ANNIVERSARY BEIJING Chinas official propaganda machine made scant mention of the late patriarch Deng Xiaoping on the second anniversary of his death yesterday. The Communist Party's Guangming Daily newspaper honoured the former supreme leader and architect ot 20 years of economic reforms with a small
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  • INDONESIA IN TRANSITION
    • 95 14 Minimum wage up 17% from April JAKARTA The government will increase minimum wages m all 27 provinces by an average of 16. 7 per cent from April, newspapers here reported yesterday. However, companies that cannot afford the raise should apply for a postponement, the director-general for industrial relations and labour
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    • 249 14 JAKARTA A senior government official at the centre of a phone-tapping scandal has dismissed as "a fake" the tape of a call between him and President B. J. Habibie m which they were alleged to have discussed an inquiry into former strongman Suhartos wealth.
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    • 347 14 E Timor stricken by fear, says Red Cross Comments by a senior official of the organisation comes just as armed forces chief Wiranto urged East Timorese to surrender their weapons JAKARTA Indonesia^ sudden offer of independence to East Timor has sown widespread fear m the troubled territory, a senior Red
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    • 84 14 JAKARTA Indonesian Customs has seized 115 weapons over the past week as nervous Indonesians and foreigners seek to protect themselves against the rising lawlessness sweeping the country, the official Antara news agency reported yesterday. Thf smugglers included Indonesian passport holders, Koreans ana Japanese who often travel
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 489 15  -  PAIL JACOB Foreign Minister Win Aung says the grouping has set new terms for an Asean-EU meet and accuses it of interfering m Myanmar's affairs Bu MYANMAR Foreign Minister Win Aung indicated yesterday that an Asean-Euro-pean Lnion (EU) compromise to avert cancellation of a ministerial meeting
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    • 318 15  -  LUZ BAGUIORO WEEK OF BAD PRESS Bu IN MANILA PRESIDENT Joseph Estrada, attacked intermittently by the media since assuming office last June, has been particularly annoyed by the bad press this week including allegations that he fathered the daughter of a former beauty
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    • 156 15 DAVAO (Philippines) The Philippines dispatched troops on helicopter gunships yesterday to rescue an army general and an aide kidnapped by communist rebels on Mindanao island. Four rocket-firing helicopter gunships were deployed to reinforce three battalions of ground troops and police officers pursuing <ome
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 273 16 KUALA LUMPUR Opposition leader lim Kit Siang is suing the Malay daily, Utus.ui Malaysia, for between RM2OO million (SsB4 million) and RM3OO million. In a statement here yesterday, he said he had authorised nis lawyers to file a defamation suit against the
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    • 104 16 BERITA HARIAN Perlis businessman Ahmad Shapai, 43, is a lucky man. Not only did he marry his tourth wite, an employee whom he met and fell m love with three months ago, on Sunday, but the wedding was also organised by his first three
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    • 519 16  -  BRENDAN PEREIRA Proceedings will slow down next week as well while the defendant testifies at a commission of inquiry into injuries he suffered m police custody By IN KUALA LUMPUR IN GREAT PAIN: Broken tooth woes DEFENCE counsel: I am instructed that last night
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    • 262 16 More than 1,000 in anti-govt protest in KL KUALA LUMPUR More than 1,000 students and other demonstrators staged an anti-government protest m the Malaysian capital yesterday, calling on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad to resign over recent damage to a mosque. The protesters, who appeared to be mainly
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    • 441 16 Issues like CIQ checkpoint should be discussed m a package, minister insists KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia again vowed to oppose piecemeal negotiations with Singapore related to the unresolved issue of a railway station m the Republic, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said yesterday. "In this
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    • 475 16 DEMAND FOR...WOMEK AND GIRLS WHO DEMAND HIGH PAYMENT AND OPERATE FROM EXPENSIVE HOTELS AND CONDOMINIUMS IS ON THE DOWNTURN. THE DEMAND FOR CHEAPER SEX IN LESS EXPENSIVE HOTELS AND BROTHELS IS ON THE INCREASE.' The findings revealed m the study by the
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  • HOME
    • 500 18 COMPASS: What it does THE Coinmunit) and Parents m Support of Schools (Compass) is an advisory council of 20 parents, principals and representatives from community organisations. It was set up last year to see how parents and the community could play a
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    • 304 18  -  EVELYN YAP ADMISSION TO THE GROUNDS IS FREE By THE Istana does not conduct paid tours of its premises, nor does it appoint an agent to do so on its behalf, the President's office has said. It issued a statement yes- terday following
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    • 514 19  -  JOANNE LEE The Spore Association m Indonesia and Spore Club Surabaya were vital focal points during the May '98 riots Bt SINGAPORE CLUBS OVERSEAS HOW many: 72 clubs m 26 countries. Where they are: In the United States. Britain. Canada China and nearly every Asian
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    • 103 19 INDONESIA: How the clubs helped Singaporeans IP wmf uM rWIS Brtlt etfi, I VJ9S Wimllf at iMtWrf bßi frf Mw) BwaViiiy.owctt»iciß ■■^ri^flß^B^aßßk ft BfttfßlAAA^fl flVflWjk BM J^db^ ißi^B fIX dBB QbVWMBb 1 B BaMflSWfy BBSSBS M BMSSBfIv ■bb^bßbbmt a^ak aUaaak ■BBBBBBa^BBaB^ aaai iiMaißt A\BLbi iaa a a vv4e«s, wlm cjietf
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    • 199 19 A MALAYSIAN teenager was kicked and punched when she struggled with an armed robber who snatched her handbag. Miss Tay Yin Sin, 15, was here to visit a friend on Wednesday, the second day of the Chinese New Year. She lost about $360, a Walkman,
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    • 183 19 EASTMAN Ktxlak is recalling 120,000 AC adaptors which were sold worldwide for certain Kodak digital cameras, because the adaptors may cause batteries to leak and explode. Fewer than SOO of the adapters have been sold here. Kodak Singapore said m a statement yesterday. It will replace
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    • 481 20  -  ELENA C HONG He first attacked her when she was 11, raping her repeatedly while her mother was working night shifts 8u A 37- YEAR-OLD man who raped his young stepdaughter 10 times within a year was sentenced to a total of 16 years'
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    • 220 20 SHE can't sleep. She can't study properly. She loses her temper at home. And she can't understand why it had to happen to her. This is what the 13-year-old girl said m her victim impact statement: "I could not sleep at night after
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    • 295 20  - Calligraphy with 36 parts of the body DENISE TAN Pictures and story by 7 have gone to China but never m my life have I seen such talent. His art is different, really fantastic. Madam Kan Chav Ai g 59, wbo saw calligrapher Jin Zhong perform at Great World City
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    • 308 20 Motorist gets jail, driving ban and fine A HIT-AND-RUN driver was jailed for three weeks and banned from driving for three years. Odd-job labourer Wee Tee Tee, 54, pleaded guilty on Thursday to driving rashIv m his Toyota Starlet and fleeing from the scene after colliding with a motorcyclist. Mr
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    • 370 20 8 out of 10 find jobs in 3 months SURVEY OF POLY CRADS FINDINGS A SURVEY of 6,316 polytechnic graduates found that 77 per cent of those wno were not liable for national service managed to land a job three months after they graduated. Their average gross starring pay was
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    • 277 20 THE High Court has awarded $40,000 damages and costs to Mr Louis Yeap, managing director of a real estate agency, who had sued a former associate for defaming him. Mr Yeap's case against Mr Peter Choo Pit Hong arose from letters that Mr Choo wrote
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    • 487 21  - Firms get help to train staff overseas JASON LEOW EDB launches a programme to fund professionals for overseas training to pick up new skills and technology *L This programme is yen/ timelii for local firms because it enables us to train our people for the latest technology even m a
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    • 431 21  - Families of crash victims form group SHARON YASOO SILKAIR JET CRASH Committee of 18 aims to promote aviation safety fiv FAMILIES of the people who died m the Silk Air jetliner crash 14 months ago have formed a committee to push for crash investigations to go on until a conclusive
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    • 264 21 To the US for latest technology WHEN engineer Tan Wee Pheng, 28, applied to work with Rotary Engineering last month, he did not imagine that he would get the job and land himself a training stint overseas. He is heading for the United States for a year under the Economic
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    • 478 22 Singapore's Census b a once-in-10-years snapshot of everyone Ivtag here. Census 2000 w«l be alffei ent from previous censuses. It will use technology field wonterSr more speedy and efficient data conecnon ana lower costs. THE GENERAL PICTURE Who's cower ed: Every person iivinq m Singapore (an estimated 4.02
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    • 129 22 The information is kept confidential. To ensure confidentiality and security of the data you give to the Census, all selected households will get a notification letter with a unique, randomly generated password. You will need to use this password and the Unique Identification Number (UIN) to log
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    • 225 22 Who's covered: A scientific sample of 20 out of every 100 people m the total population. So some 200,000 households will be affected out of a total of 1,000,000 by Year 2000 Type of information: Income employment, work abroad, ana other details that will be useful for
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    • 476 22  -  TAN HSUEH YUN Bu AT LEAST +0,000 households will use the Internet to file next year's census forms. Of the one million households expected to take part m the census, 200,000 will be asked by the Department of Statistics to provide
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    • 331 22 OPPOSITION figure Chee Soon Juan has said he plans to take his fight for democracy abroad if he fails to stir interest here, according to the latest issue of the Chinese language newsweeklv Yazhou Zhoukan. The article m the latest issue of the
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    • 248 22 The Singapore Story multimedia show, which attracted 600,000 to Suntec City last July, has found a permanent home at the Singapore History Museum. Visitors can see the 35--minute show m four languages at the museum's theatrette from Wednesday. Renovating the 100-seat theatrette for the show
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    • 548 23  -  EDMIND TEE Bad weather was responsible for Mr Patrick Dutrey's crash over Seremban. His passenger, Miss Nathalie-Marie Chappette, also died Bu MR PATRICK. Dutrey was a competent and experienced pilot who knew the flight route well. And his plane had been refurbished recently. None of
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    • 350 23 CARING FOR THE ELDERY FOCUS on ties between the generations, rather than life under one roof when it comes to caring for the elderly, a research scientist urged policy-makers and researchers here at a public lecture on Thursday evening. Pi ofessor Emeritus of Sociology Albert
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    • 55 23 PROFESSOR Emeritus of Sociology Albert Hermalin (above), 70, is from the University of Michigan, population studies centre. He has been engaged m a project with sociologists m Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines to collect and analyse data on the health, economic status, work and retirement behatnour
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    • 112 24 USED GOODS: In demand SECONDHAND store Cash Converters, which is m DBS Tampines Centre opened last month. The Australian-based international franchise buys and sells used goods. CDs. sold at So each. were\er\ popular. Other popular items include outdated computers, cameras, irons and toasters, going tor about hair the original price
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    • 508 24  - Crowds snap up old goods in store LESLIE KOH In these tough times, secondhand goods draw the cost-conscious to a newly-opened used goods store 'Maybe some young people are too choosy to use secondhand goods, but old folks like me are used to saving as much as we can.' Retiree
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    • 329 24 'Stop top 5 child killer diseases' PREVENTING INFANT DEATHS Efforts must be made to control them, says Dr Aline Wong PNEUMONIA, diarrhoeal diseases, measles, malaria and malnutrition are set to remain the top five killers of children under five years old worldwide unless preventive action is taken now. Senior Minister
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  • INSIGHT
    • 1837 26 Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew still gets quizzed on it. Western journalists keep footing about it. Singapore intellectuals are still talking about it. Why should Asian values matter to the cosmopolitan young m gngge of globalisation XX IK finds out. MISS CHANG
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    • 65 26 THERE tS HO CONSENSUS AMONG ASIAN INTELLECTUALS OH THE CONCEPT OF ASIAN VALUES. NOT ONLY IS THE TERM ELUSIVE, IT HAS ALSO PROVED TO BE IMPRESSIVELY ELASTIC. One underlying concept that binds Asians is that the individual exists m the context of his
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    • OFF THE RECORD
      • 57 26 HERE'S a joke from the Internet about what the International Monetan Func means to different leaders Mr Suharto: I Am Finished. Dr Habibie: I Am Fresh Dr Mathathir: 1 Am Forever Anwar: I Am Fired Mr Estrada: I Am Fuzz\ Mr Al Gore: I Am Fearless
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      • 123 26 SPOTTED trying to flag a taxi along Balestier Road earlier m the week: Singapore Democratic Party chief Cher Soon Juan, earning a big briefcase and a foldable stool. A reporter alighting from a cab which had stopped near Chee pointed out the politician to the
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      • 64 26 AT A recent press gathering hosted by the sister organisations of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, journalists were given souvenirs, such as phone and Transit Link cards. Yesterday, a reporter used one of the Transit Link cards from the National Science and Technology Board
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      • 88 26 ANY bureaucrat who wants to champion the cause of paj>er conservation need look no further than the Singapore Science Centre. Reporters who receive its press statements are often staggered to find that a simple announcement invariably runs into pages. This is because a distribution list that runs
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      • 118 26 TOO LITTLE PAPER AND here's the other extreme of the paper spectrum: A reporter trying to obtain information about a science symposium to be held next week was told by the organiser that she could not get any of the papers beforehand, although she had been invited to the event.
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      • 81 26 ASIAN microbiologists are attending a three-day symposium starting on Monday to discuss their findings on micro-organisms and how they can be of benefit to mankind. On Monday night, they will be witnessing a traditional way m which such small creatures work to raise the spirits of many
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    • 1428 27  -  WARREN FERNANDEZ THINKING ALOUD 8,, AT MIDNIGHT last Monday, as the rabbit hopped into the new year and the dreaded tiger siunk away. I joined my write and her family tor their annual post-reunion dinner ritual of visiting the flower gardens m search
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    • 990 27  - Jakarta 's E. Timor proposal a sign of changing times CHUALEE HOONG THIS WEEK IN POLITICS IF JAKARTA S recent public statements on the East Timor issue are any indication, there is hope yet that the Indonesian leadership possesses the determination and resolve to get Indonesia back on its feet
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  • The Straits Times
    • 591 28 IT IS hardly surprising that China, riled by a Hongkong court's decision to give main-land-born children of Hongkong residents right of abode m the territory, has demanded that the ruling be "rectified". For Beijing, the decision is clearly a mistake because, m its opinion, it violates Hongkong's mini-con-stitution,
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    • 1959 28  -  OLIVER CHOU Many people likened Beijing s recent direct order to close down the debt-ridden Guangdong International Trust and Investment Corporation (Gitic) and its subsidiaries to the dropping of a nuclear bomb m the heart of the province. CHINA'S central government has embarked on a
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    • 759 29  - Getting that Clob pound of flesh NG WEI JOO Bu FOR two weeks last September, some 120,000 Clob investors holding Malaysian shares were forced to hold their breath as the fate of their investments hung m the balance. Their predicament began on Sept 1, 1998, when the Malavsian government declaret),
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    • 991 29  -  TAN SAI SIONG LOOK BACK IN WONDER By Back-tracking m response to lobbying may appear to some to be a government which is open to feedback. But to most, it will seem that the Malaysian government hasn't a mind of its own. WHEN the poor
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  • FORUM
    • 171 30 PR assessment transparent enough I REFER to the views expressed by Mr Francis Chong Fu Shin on Singapore Immigration and Registration's (SIR) points system for assessing permanent residency (PR) applications ('Govt must be transparent', ST, Feb 1). The points system serves as a first-cut assessment of a foreigner's eligibility for
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    • 88 30 Solar panels make shiny targets I REFER to the report "Mindef to plug into solar power m big way" (ST, Feb 18). It said that Defence Ministry engineers have concluded that solar power can be harnessed economically here by incorporating solar panels into the design of a building. Wouldn't the
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    • 248 30 I THOUGHT THAT BY NOW, THE COURTESY vAMi Alon 111 SINGAPORE WOULD HAVE MADE AN Iff ACT ON THE PUBLIC. PERHAPS,* ONCE-A-YEAR COURTESY CAMPAIGN IS NOT ENOUGH. IT SHOULD BE AN ONGOING CAMPAIGN. IT WAS a pleasure over the weekend to be able to visit the
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    • 376 30 IN THE column, "Pets are not tilings to be discarded on a whim" (ST, Feb 4), Tan Hsueh Yun totes up at least 24,246 pets a year that ex-owners dump on both the Primary Production Department and the SPCA. Who pays
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    • 83 30 PEASANTS of Zhejiang province are delighted with the heaviest Golden Buddha s Hand (left weighing 2.5 kg ever to be produced on their native soil. The Chinese believe the vegetable contains medicinal properties The word Buddha's Hand, translated from its Chinese common namefoshou belongs to
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    • 187 30 Board's decision to strike dentist off register too harsh I REFER to your article "Dentist seeks to overturn ruling" (ST, Feb 13). I am indeed shocked that the Singapore Dental Board had ordered Dr Ernest Rex Tan to be struck off the register of dentists on the basis that an
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    • 262 30 Nipple fruit is not to be confused with Buddha 's Hand IN THE article on Chinese New Year plants by Ms Magdalene Lum (ST Life!, Feb 12), the sum man' stated that the nipple fruit was also called Buddha's Hand and its botanic name was solatium manwiosum. Buddha's Hand and
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    • 469 30 THE subject of a second newspaper has been raised m Parliament. Once again, the Government raised no objection to the emergence of a second newspaper. However, as things stand, there is no likelihood of a second newspaper entering the market for decades to
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    • 123 30 I REFER to M r Kwek Swee Gek's letter "Midnight charges abused" (ST, Feb 13). The issue of taxi drivers marking time to earn the extra midnight charges remains unresolved because this surcharge compensates them for the odd operation hours, higher safety risk and lower
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    • 278 30 I BH®I The National University I r »u i9os Graduate School of Engineering I Master of Science m Mechatronics I I (July Intake 1999) I Mechatronics is a multi-disciplinary study dealing with the synergistic integration of mechanical devices, actuators, sensors, electronics, intelligent controllers and computers. More information can be obtained
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  • SPORTS
    • 216 31 Gombak striker Nielsen obtains permanent residency GOMBAK UNITED striker Jorgen Nielsen has been given permanent residency m Singapore. This means that the club has the option of registering the 29-year-old Dane as a local player. The S- League club has two other foreign signings at the moment Thai internationals Surachai
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    • THE LATE NEWS
      • 132 31 LAURE OVERCOMES DESERT STORM BRITON Paul Lawrie overcame a capricious desert wind yesterday to take a five-shot lead into the final round of the Qatar Masters golf tournament m Doha. Lawrie had a third round of tive-under-par 67 which took him to a 16-under 200 total. Frenchman Jean Van de
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      • 122 31 MANCHESTER United soccer striker Dwight Yorke has applied for British citizenship but does not expect his new status to catapult him into Kevin Keegan's England side. The Trinidad and Tobago international simply wants to be a British national to save time at airports around the world.
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    • 490 31  -  THOMAS KOH SOCCER 'Dream Team' is choice of coaches and players as the side to beat Bu AFTER playing the role of whipping boy during the first two seasons of the SLeague, Home United will kick off the new season on March 31 m
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    • 176 31 Tiger Beer S-League fixtures (all at 7.30pm) mmnmmm *Katff»m: imttwmm tmnwmm. Home v Woodlands Wellington Balestier Central v Home Home v Tampines Rovers Jurong v Sembawang Rangers (Bishan) (ToaPayoh) (Bishan) (Jurong East) SAFFC v Marine Castle United Marine Castle v Jurong SAFFC v Woodlands Wellington Marine Castle
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    • 285 31  -  CHAIV TSE CHUEEN Bu STAR CRUISES is giving fan club members of Tampines Rovers FC a treat. It will offer them a d'scounted price for a three-day-two-night cruise to Kuantan on the Superstar Leo. A member and his guest need pay only $269 for the
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    • 673 31  -  HAKIKAT RAI SATURDAY SOAPBOX By THE South-east Asia Games is generally not known to court controversies hence the rather appropriate tag, the "Friendly Games". But the last SEA Games ot the millennium, from Aug 7-15 m Brunei, seems set to be rocked by a
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    • 523 32 SOCCER Forest has not been a happy hunting groundfor Vialli's men LONDON Chelsea visits lowly Nottingham Forest today, anxious to make up ground on English Premier League leader Manchester United. The clash looks very onesided m theory as Chelsea sits just four points off the top
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    • 175 32 Valencia triumphs in five-goal thriller MADRID Four goals m a 10-minute blitz at the start of the second half set Thursday's Spanish Cup quarter-fi-nal soccer clasn between Barcelona and Valencia alight after a goalless first half. Valencia, which finished with 10 men when defender Juanfran Garcia was shown a second
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    • 564 32 LONDON Kevin Keegan, appointed for just the next four England internationals, ended any speculation on Thursday he would stay on as coach on a permanent basis. "There is no chance of being persuaded to carry on," Keegan told a packed news conference. "I think the FA
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    • 206 32 ROME Fiorentina showed that there is life without iniured Argentine captain Gabriel Batistuta with a vital 2-0 win at Bologna m their Italian Cup semi-final firstleg match on Thursday. Carmine Esposito, deputising for Batistuta, made up for the top man's absence with a 33rd-minute goal straight
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    • 332 32 OLYMPICS SYDNEY Australian media chiefs yesterday scoffed at claims by a former Olympics minister that they had agreed to suppress stories of the lavish gift-giving spree that helped Sydney win the 2000 Games. Bruce Baird, the former New South Wales Olympics Minister and
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    • 226 32 SALT LAKE CITY (Utah) Richard Pound, the International Olympic Committee's primary investigator into its ongoing bribery scandal, received a family history from the Mormon church valued at tens of thousands of dollars. Mormon church officials have called the gift a goodwill gesture. But m the
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    • 617 32 KIGBI LONDON Scotland knows it will have to be latter than England m thought a> well passing and running to have am chance of ending a losing run against its opponent m the Five-Nations Championship toda, The Scots have not won a Calcutta Cup
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    • SPORT IN SHORT
      • 51 33 NATIONAL squash players Delia Lee and Serene Lee will be playing m a curtain-raiser to the start or this year's National League. They lead a women's selection side against last year's men's D-grade champions. The games start at 2pm today at the Kallang Squash
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      • 46 33 MARINE CASTLE FACES SELANGOR S-LEACUE club Marine Castle United is playing Selangor at the Hougang Stadium m a charity soccer friendly at 7-3Opm today. The event is m aid of the Anthonysamy Trust Fund. Tickets are priced at $5 each for adults and $1 for students.
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      • 61 33 MARTIN'S FINE FORM CONTINUES TOP seed Todd Martin of the United States continued his march towards a third ATP St Jude tennis title with a 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 victory over Dane Kenneth Carlsen m Memphis on Thursday. The triumph continued Martin's strong start this year. He won last month's Sydney
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      • 64 33 KIDNAPPERS WANT $7 MILLION THE kidnappers of Mexican national team goalkeeper Jorge Campos' father have demanded a US$l million (Ssl.7 million) ransom for his release, sources close to the family said on Thursday. Aharo Campos, 66, was kidnapped on Wednesday by a group of eight men armed with AK-47 assault
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      • 64 33 STEFFI GRAF continued her remarkable comeback to top-flight tennis on Thursday by crushing Austrian Barbara Schett 6-3, 6-2 to reach the semi-finals of the Hanover WTA event and then said that she is ready to play Federation Cup tennis for Germany again. Graf, 29, has
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    • 683 33 BASKETBALL Ex-Bulls star benefits from questionable call to score winning point EAST RUTHERFORD (New Jersey) When the Houston Rockets acquired Scottie Pippen, it knew it was getting one of the best all-around players m NBA history. As a bonus, it also acquired his reputation.
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    • 180 33 EASTERN CONFERENCE WESTERN CONFERENCE Atlantk Division Midwest Division W I Pet SB W L Pet GB Orlando 6 2 .750 Utah 7 1 .875 I Miami 5 3 .625 1 Houston 6 2 .750 1 I Philadelphia 4 3 .571 IM Minnesota 5 2 .714 IV4 New York
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    • 665 33 CFICKJET CALCUTTA Crowd trouble stopped play m the Asian Test cricket match between India and Pakistan yesterday after master batsman Sachin Tendulkar was run out m a freak accident. Tendulkar crashed into fielder Shoaib Akhtar, just as he was about to complete a third run, and
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    • 262 33 NBA: This morning's games Phoenix v Detroit (Uve on ESPN Ch 23 25 9 am), LA Lakers v San Antonio (Live on ESPN Ch 23 25, 11.30 am), Washington v Chicago, Toronto v Milwaukee, Philadelphia v New York, Atlanta v Orlando, Minnesota v Vancou
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    • 118 32 Fixtures today: Arsenal v Leicester (live on SCV 22, 10.55pm), Blackburn v Sheff Wednesday, Coventry v Man Utd, Derby v Charlton, Leeds v Everton, Liverpool v West Ham, Middlesbrough v Tottenham, Forest v Chelsea, Southampton v Newcastle. Tomorrow: Wimbledon v Aston Villa (live on SCV 22, 11.55pm). EMI KJ riLl■■
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    • 355 34  -  TAN THEAN LOON Good form and light load boost Big Splendour's Cup chances BU "W" "W" "T ITH form on his side and a feath- m/ erwe i g h t f V handicap of 50kg, Big Splendour looks set to lift his first
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    • 365 34 PEST BETS Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon JADE'S BLESSINGS Race 2 No 7 MAN U Race 8 No. 3 Ran on well despite having to Can be given another chance cope with mammoth task last with the benefit of last week Is Sunday. Was m fact
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    • 336 34  -  DANNY KHOO «.y CONNIVANCE, who has already set a record .of sorts with three brilliant wins m successive weekends, will attempt to create another piece of turf history when he lines up m Race 9 this afternoon. And there is every reason
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    • 1124 34 SELANGOR TURF CLUB FEB MEETING, 3RD DAY TODAY 'S KUALA LUMPUR GUIDE Going forecast Good RACEI Class 4 Div 2 1,600 m (SO 1.45 Ratings: 59-43 Stakes $25,000 1 06-94 Babe Harry 7 (4ag SB Tan-Smart) Sofhan 57 2 220 Caliente 3 (4eg Thwaites-Eres Tv) Saimec St 3 2227-3 Tough
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    • 822 35 BASKETBALL NBA: Indiana Pacers 99 Philadelphia 76ers 95. Washington Wizards 95 Toronto Raptors 88. Houston Rockets 93 New Jersey Nets 92 (OT), Cleveland Cavaliers 98 New York Knicks 74. Utah Jazz 97 Denver Nuggets 86. CRICKET Asian Test Championship 4th day of the inaugural match m Calcutta:
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    • 615 35 850 DEATHS 850 DEATHS 850 DEATHS 850 DEATHS 850 DEATHS Teo Luan Choo Age: 91 (Husband: Toh Kee Yew, deceased) passed away peacefully on 19 Febuary 99 at 00.30 am leaving behind many fond and happy memories for loved ones to treasure Sons Daughter-in-law Toh Teck Seng Toh Teck Hock
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    • 109 35 TODAY'S EVENTS HOCKEY SHF Under-21 Boys: Girls: SHF Cubs v CSC (3pm), Jansenites A v Khalsa (4.30pm), SRC Cobras v Chenab (6pm), Barkerites v Jansenites B (7.30pm) Delta Sports Complex. RUGBY Friendly: Murdoch University (Aust) v NUS (NUS, spm). 7-Eleven Schools Tens, preliminary rds (SPE, 9am). SCC Challenge Trophy 11,
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    • 237 36 850 DEATHS 850 DEATHS M. THEDJANAMURTHI (Retired: PUB/ Kallang Gas Works-Snr Technician) (Formerly of Loronq 3 Geylang Rd) Age: 70 passed away peacefully on 19 Feb 1999 MfcßajcsvarlO/ODorai Oauqnter Son-in-law: T Nianeswan SuDhash Sons: Daughters-in-law: T Shanmuganathan Vasant3 ,T 3avmdran. deceased) Letchime r Raiendran Thileqa 1 Saravanakumar Sister Vaiambai lndia)
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    • 532 36 852 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 852 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 852 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 11/ =T1 THE FAMILY OF THE LATE LIM YEW LAN, THERESA (Mrs. Han Hong Fong) wish to thank all relatives and friends for their prayers, thoughtfulness, assistance, visits, wreaths and donations during their recent bereavement. The family particularly wish to express their deep appreciation
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    • 426 36 856 IN MEMORIAM 856 IN MEMORIAM 856 IN MEMORIAM I I IN LOVING MEMORY OF "I am the Resurrection and the Life John 11:25 TAN SENG CHIO JOSEPH 25.10.42 20.02.98 Sadly missed by family, relatives and friends You will forever be m our hearts. We missed you very dearly But
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    • 102 36 856 IN MEMORIAM 856 IN MEMORIAM IN LOVING MEMORY GURDIAL SINGH LANGIANA JASWANT KAUR Departed 25/2/85 Departed 4/1/86 To our Loving Parents: T ears roNed ttomt mm eyes The Ie We miss rou c afa_ BAVBA> From your betoved: S friends Prayers will be held on 21/2/99 (Sun) at 9-Uam
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    • 252 37 Feb19,1999| Rubber Futures (Closlnq prices) RSS 1 (Tonnes, S cents/Kg) Month High Low Sttt Vol Optn Int Mar 99 111.75 500 Apr 112.75 850 May 114.75 925 Jun 116 75 300 Jul/Sep 120.25 825 Cct/Dec 123.75 225 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Mar 99 64.75 450 Apr 65.75 1340
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    • 361 37 Feb19,1999H ASM Pacific 3.60 unch AiMd mc int'i 0.03 uncn Allied ov«rj»a 0.29 0.01 Asia S«c mt 0.28 uncn 3an» of EA _....K).55 0.15 C.?. Po«pnand 0.14 uncn COt 1.84 »0.02 Caf*D* Coral 2.40 0.08 CatnPacAir 7 70 0.15 Cantury Cit> .....0.26 0.01 Cn«un<j Hong 49.40 1.60 China L.qnt
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    • 1239 37 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Feb 20,1999! Managers' prices (Ss) UNIT TRUSTS Aberdeen Asset Kgt Asia Ltd NA Reg China Fund!" 0.375 0.395 Aberdeen Spore GrFd 1.046 1.100 NA Reg India Fund 0.730 0.770 Aberdeen S«l*ct Portlolto NAGloßalFund/S 0.635xd 0.670xd American OpportFd 1.009 1.060 NAGlobaliOOGrFund/" 1.040 1.095 Continental Euro Eqty Fd 0.985
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    • 110 37 HONtMMM STOCKS COL 2000) HK4OO 8 20 5 7744 7 C«n«yP«c2o< ...HK72O 265 6 ***** 4 Cn^jix, KonqSOc HKI7BO 240 3 39H6S HSBc'^O^OO MK5B '"374.1 h r r, MK3550 27 3.1 *****.6 Mutchi»oo2s<: HKI4BO 472 5 6 ***** 5 HVMnhKSSSOOO HK 21 "5113.5 M»«r Mor«S D»v HK 106
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    • 179 37 Foreign Currency Note Hates (9am,Feb 19) Buying OP Siting Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 1.0750 1.0900 Canadian dollar 1.1320 1.1560 NZ dollar 0.9090 0.9290 Sterling pound 2.7670 2.7960 US dollar 1.6960 1.7070 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 13.70 M.OO
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    • 42 37 Crude palm oil (MS/tonne) feb 99 1,840.00 (South and Central) Refined palm oil (USS/tonne) RBD Palm Oil Mar 99 522.50 (seller) Apr I 495.00 (seller) RBD Olein Mar 99 555.00 (seller) Apr 530.00 (seller) RBD Stearin Mar 99 395.00 (seller)
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    • 18 37 Closlnq prlcts (USS/troy az) Frl Thu Singapore 5.60-5.62 5.46-5.48 Thu Wed New York 5.50-5.52 5.43-5.46 Source: ROTHSCHILD
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    • 10 37 Cloiinq price* (Ms/kllo) KLTin 19.45 (*0.30) Turnover 57 (-49)
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    • 69 37 CRUDE PRODUCT PRICES Transaction date: Feb 19, 1999 Crad«/Product Month* Chang* Pr)c« (US$) BBL BRENT BLENO Mar *0.40/+0.40 10.23 10.28 WEST TEXAS lnt»rtn Mar *0.40/*0.40 11.85 11.89 DUBAI FATEH Apr »0.40/*0.40 10.08 10.13 TAPIS BLEND Mar ♦0.40A0.40 11.15 11.25 MINAS Mar »0.20/*0.20 10.30-10.40 NAPHTHA (CIF Jap) unch 110.00 111.00 NAPHTHA
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    • 3242 37 l Transaction date: Fell 19, 1999 Adjusted for n Issues; P»r v«lu« Msl unt«s»oth«rwlM tp*clf>*<l P/E ratios *r« net MfustM tof currency «Wwmcm LMt Vol Ntt High Low Company Sato COOP) p/E INDUSTRIALS Consumer Products 310 280 Ajinomoto 290 10 2 16.0 83 62 Angkasa 76.5 3 4
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    • 57 38 Change Str «.ts Times Index 1374.31 39 30 BT 08/ OS 3.00 308 00 BTCADI -*****.00 159 00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 I 00 DBS CPF Index 409.84 10 33 DBS 50 Index 451.73 13 18 OCBC 30 4!8 12 II 83 UOB Blue Chip 538.54 14 77 MSCI
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    • 299 38  -  Colin Tan MARKET REPORT THE benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) rose almost 40 points yesterday as foreign funds swooped on index-linked blue chins on expectations of a strong set of trade figures to be released today. Brokers said institutional investors picked up selected
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    • 105 38 MAIN SDO Up Dn Unch Up Dn Unch Multi Ind 12 13 0 0 0 Manufacturing 59 4 12 20 2 5 Commerce 27 2 2 4 0 0 Tpt/Stor/Comms .18 15 0 0 1 Finance 20 3 7 0 0 0 Construction 11 3 3 113 Properties 18
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    • 46 38 ST Engg 10c 14,194,000 SembCorpl 25c 10,625,000 DBS Land 7,597 000 Kepoel LanoSOc 4 515 goo Ketp^l LanflWOO 4,489^000 Sing Tel 15c *****^000 Bonn 3kt ML CW99 3 47? 000 jsh ussc 500 3 r lee'soo O'.'u t oreign 3,173,000 OL SC Foreign 2,643,000
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    • 1004 38 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS —^^^HH Transaction date: Fcto 19, 1999 1 STOCK PRICES LEGEND H qj^ Stftcfct iiirii¥il imriif rpr imnitmini starts Mdi (Mien rttamf iptobtc <*m-fn2st> v 0 fc lnv tf nt5 t Mten«*icri|tatK*lnil.f*tc.Mt.«»<M.«M*.ll crt cum rloM ittu* cW cuw benut tsau* F/tr«i-MlimiKmMtMM«Mn«iM4Mwbte edMetnn«*MMdM-«« edoeuindMMfttfcuinsH 2?h??f2S?L».— w— Fwtot*m i rWc*^
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    • 67 38 TURNOVER (READY) TURNOVER COOO) Main Sesdaq Total Multilnd 32.706 32 706 Manufacturing 23.782 6.22e 3C 01C Commerce 9,540 330 9 6?C Tpt/Stor/Comm» 13.714 182 r- 894 Finance 16.923 16.923 Construction 4.787 596 5 38"Properties 21.485 2- a r* Hoteis/Rsts 2.C2C 1126 3 14t Itner" 5 3 6 85 02 6687
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    • 460 39 67 nations expected to support weaker yen as a means of helping the economy pull out of recession TOKYO Japan's top monetary- officials yesterday appeared unfazed at the yen's fall agaii.st the dollar as speculation grew that the world's top industrial nations were
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    • 196 39 PHILADELPHLA. DaimlerChrysler AG. the world's fifth-largest car maker, must pay US$5B.5 million (S$99J million) to about 80,000 Pennsylvania consumers who bought cars with allegedly defective air bags that could burn drivers if de- ployed m an accident, a juryhas ruled. The class action arose
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    • 513 39 CLASHING INTERESTS THE SPLIT The reason for the decision is the growing competition between the strategies pursued by the two groups m the area of European asset gathering.' Swim life and VBS on the breakup ZURICH Swiss banking giant ÜBS yesterday said it
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    • 229 39 Gucci crosses swords with LV maker LONDON Italian fashion company Gucci has declared war on LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the French luxury goods group that has stealthily acquired 34.4 per cent of its equity, by issuing an equivalent number of new shares to block LVMH's voting rights. LVMH, advised
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    • 222 39 PARIS The US economy is likely to grow more than expected this year, but Japan and the European Union (EU) will probably do less well than forecast, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) chief economist Ignazio Visco said here yesterday. The consensus is
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      • 51 39 LEHMAN Brothers Holdings paid chairman and chief executive Richard Euld L"SSI.i.:3 million (5522.7 million, last year. is pet cent more than m 1997. after it posted record earnings. His package included a salary of US$75O t OOO and a cash bonus ol U552.35 million. Bloomberg
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      • 46 39 BANKAM ERICA and it* director! were sued b\ shareholder;- who say gifts worth US$6 million (5510.2 million,, including US$lBO,OOO m cash and US$l2O,OOO worth ol the bank > stock, given to former hoard members were a waste of corporate ■nets. Bloomberg News
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      • 38 39 CREDIT Lvonnais. the French governmentowned bank, and a subsidiary were sued for allegedly defrauding a California state official to acquire the multi-billion-doflar junk-bond portfolio of a defunct life insurance firm. Bloomberg News
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      • 37 39 NEWPORT News Shipbuilding, the top maker of nuclear aircraft carriers, said it received an unsolicited USSI.3S billion (552..3 billion) cash offer from General Dynamics, the fourth -largest US defence contractor. Bloomberg News
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      • 39 39 GOTO.COM. a closelyheld Internet director), has sued Walt Disney and lnfoseek, seeking to bar them from using the logo for their new Go Network of web sites because it resembles GoTo s logo. Bloomberg News
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      • 41 39 ACER America, a unit of Taiwan's Acer, said it will stop selling its Aspire line of personal computers through US resellers, to focus on direct sales at its own stores and on the Internet. Bloomberg News
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      • 152 40 A GUANGZHOU official involved m the restructuring of Guangzhou International Trust and Investment Corp (Gzitic) has denied that the city's vice-mayor had told newspaper that the company could be allowed to go bankrupt. In fact, Guangzhou's city government is helping to nnd an international auditing firm
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      • 106 40 SOUTH Korean corporate failures dropped to a fiveyear low and the establishment of new companies accelerated m January, raising hope that an economic recovery may be m full swing. Corporate bankruptcies totalled 672, down from 862 m December and the lowest monthly figure
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      • 72 40 INDONESIA said it will continue to tax large cigarette makers like PT HM Sampoema more than their smaller rivals, even as it seeks to introduce a single tax rate for machine-made and hand-rolled cigarettes. There will (continue to) be rules governing smaller and larger
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      • 118 40 THE Philippines is considering the sale of its first central government international bond with a 30--year maturity to help refinance US$6lO million (551.04 billion) m one-year bank loans that mature m September, a Department of Finance official said. If the sale goes ahead, the
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      • 198 40 Singapore Eltdflaty tool Sale Prices ?XV MM 2XU r<Art» 'wm 2*loo *xtsae S.VM»r v i\lW> »M.» 1630 55 151 1 0430 55 386 i ?00 55 306 0500 55 1 379 :no 55 1 500 0530 55 364 iaco 55 1497 0600 55 '308 !330 40 1052 0630 55 '313
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    • 362 40 Shell to sell stakes in Japan joint ventures The sales are part of a broader plan by Shell to sell 40 per cent of its chemical assets. THE Royal Dutch/Shell Group, the world's biggest publicly traded oil company, said it will sell its stakes m two chemical joint ventures m
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    • 329 40 HONGKONG Hang Seng Bank, Hongkong's second-largest listed bank by market value, is expected to report its net profit for the full year ended December dropped 29 per cent to HK$6.6 billion (551.46 billion), according to a poll of analysts by Bloomberg News. Estimates
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    • 225 40 TOKYO The Japanese government has judged 20 per cent of the nationalised Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan Ltd (LTCB) "unfit" for sale, as the country starts to liquidate its weakest lenders. LTCB, one of two banks deemed insolvent and seized by the government
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    • 441 40 Giving him control over the exchanges and clearing houses will ensure that the govt can react quickly HONGKONG The Hongkong government is going ahead with controversial moves to give Chief Executive Tung Chee-Hwa greater power over the share and futures markets, despite
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    • 558 40 NEW YEAR HONGBAO TAIPEI Taiwan rang m the Year of the Rabbit yesterday with dramatic financial reforms raising the prospect of a wave of credit to rejuvenate the slumping economy and maybe even a Chinese New Year stock rally. The central bank kicked things off
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    • 349 40 TOKYO The president of Japan's No. 1 maker of personal computers and microchips, NEC Corp. resigned yesterday after the group said it would post a massive full-year net loss four times bigger than its most recent forecast. The record 150 billion
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    • 404 41  -  WILLIAM CHOONG Bu THE Singapore dollar should fall to $1.75 against the US dollar m the coming months due to widespread expectations of a weaker yen, say economists. The unit might even hit a low of between $1.80 and $2 by year-end,
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    • 439 41  - Bank foreign premiums have halved JEAN CHIA But worries over scrapping of dual share listings eased yesterday, with foreign tranches posting solid gains THE Great Divide is no more. The once-yawning chasm between the prices ot the Big Four banks' focal shares and their more expensive foreign tranches has narrowed
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    • 299 41 The group expects an improvement m the second half despite difficulties due to the economic crisis. HARDWARE dealer Sin Soon Huat has fallen into the red at half-time with a net loss of 5i. 75 million as turnover shrank 10 per cent to
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    • COMPANIES IN BRIEF
      • 70 41 THE Hai Sun Hup group's wholly-owned subsidiary HSH Hotels (Australia) has agreed to sell a Sydney property to AMP Life for "ASI2.I million (5513.1 million) m cash. Hai Sun Hup paid AS9.I million for the property m 1996. It said the sale would not
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      • 86 41 INCHCAPE Marketing Services said yesterday it had appointed Standard Chartered Merchant Bank Asia (SCMBA) as financial advisers to its directors m connection with a conditional cash offer made by Li Fung Distribution for all IMS shares. A circular containing the advice of SCMBA and the
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      • 105 41 SHIPPING and logistics services group Sembawang Marine and Logistics (SML) will see weaker profits for last year but enjoy strong growth this year, analysts said yesterday. The company, a unit of SembCorp Industries, is scheduled to release its 1998 results on Monday. Analysts said SML's
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    • 224 41 ALLEGED TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT STORM BREWING SUPER Coffeemix's suit concerns an alleged infringement of its trademark "Super or Device Coffeemix". Its action also includes a suit for passing off goods using its registered trademark and/or using a colourable imitation of its trademark. SUPER Coffeemix Manufacturing
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    • 342 41 RETAIL sales m Singapore, excluding vehicles, fell 9-3 per cent m December from a year ago, hurt m part by declines m the sale of textiles, apparel and personal effects, and earnings at petrol stations. In November, the year-on-year fall m sales excluding vehicles
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    • 249 41 KUALA LUMPUR Berjaya Sports Toto Bhd, a Malaysian lottery company, said its profit surged 43 per cent m the nine months ended Jan 31 as it paid less taxes than the same period a year ago. Berjaya Sports Toto said profit rose
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    • 71 41 Doubled: Singapore investments m Thai companies Wrenching changes m the Thai economy last year presented rich opportunities for Singapore investors ranging from banks and electronics companies to stockbrokers. The road ahead for vehicle quota system BT's motoring columnist looks at jM Open bidding for COEmI Merging of car categoriestp^i Determination
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    • 583 42  -  YEOW PEI LIN Less than half of the $30 million tranche reserved for retail investors m Singapore has been taken up Hu TWO TRANCHES: Same story THE Government originally planned a US$l.3 billion (552.2 Billion) privatisation exchangeable note issue. This was scaled back
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    • 403 42 MARCH 1 MOVE PUBLICLY listed ST Computer Systems Services has hired National Computer Board (NCB) chief Stephen Yeo Siew Chye as its president and chief executive officer. Mr Yeo, 44, fills the vacancy created by the departure of Mr Victor Ang, who left after
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      31 42 MR STEPHEN YEO says ST Computer, "with its industry knowledge, expertise and a world-class team ofIT professionals, is certainly well-positioned to forge ahead and become a global IT player.
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    • 508 42 KEY FIGURES MANUFACTURED GOODS The US trade deficit for manufactured goods rose to a record US$24B billion (*****.6 billion) last year from US$l9B billion m 1997 SERVICES The US surplus m services trade fell to US$79 billion from US$BB billion m 1997
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      • 1017 2  -  TUMINAH SAPAWI Muslim Java Joints While these three relatively new outlets will never take on the big boys like Starbucks, their owners say they satisfy a niche market Bu WHE>' model and television presenter Amelia Avvie craves caffeine, she heads straight tor Starbucks, which
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      • 461 2 INSTEAD of croissants or biscotti with your coffee, Cafe Ilada serves goreng pisang (banana fritters) or epok-epok (curry puffs). Customers who frequent the place at Revenue House m Newton Road prefer to nibble on such Singapore treats with the favourite house blend, long black coffee. And
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      • 347 2 'Business is still slow because we're relatively new. Owner Rohani Mullah on Coffee Exotica, which opened late last year CREAM and sugar are not the only things people put m their coffee these days. At Coffee Exotica, they blend half a banana into it,
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      • 344 2 What we offer here is what 50 other people have tried and found pleasing. Coffee Berr> manager Nazri Salleh, who tried out various recipes to find the perfect blend AT COFFEE BERRY, you can savour a cup of fresnlvbrewed coffee for just $1. But
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        • 222 3 IF YOU are missing a Pooh m your Winnie The Pooh McDonalds soft-toy collection and wondering just how to fill that hole m your range, the fast-food chain has jumped m to help. McDonald's, which created a mini-rush for the little Pooh toys when
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      • 482 3 THE "first lady" of Showbuzz has decided to make her final curtain call. Lauretta Alabons, who is m her late 20s, will say her goodbyes at the end of next Wednesday's show. She has been the weekly entertainment programme's female presenter since the show
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    • 1051 4  -  Leong Ching Goodbye Straits Times zxcvmnvmcbjhjdfjkdhfjsdh Wl It has been a terrific ride, writing this column. I was asked for advice, but all I wanted was a fleeting interest I NEVER thought of it this way before, but m many ways, my job has
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    • 39 4 REUTERS Headgear consisting of glowing blue disks, shown at the Philip Treacy fall/winter 1999 fashion show m New York recently. Many top designers are showing their fall/winter 1999 collections this week m New York.
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    • 794 5  -  RACHEL TAN Spanish Ayes Architect Antoni Gaudi may have died 60 years ago, but his quirky buildings are the 'soul' of vibrant Barcelona Hu MAGICAL mosaic dragons on rooftops, Martian warriors masquerading as chimneys and jointed colonnades that look like skeletal limbs. You can never
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    • 231 5 WHERE: Barcelona is on the east coast of Spain and near the border with France. HOW TO GET THERE: There are no flights direct from Singapore. Air France takes you to Paris, where vx>u can hop on to a two-hour flight to Barcelona. For 1 ,599 you
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    • 241 6  - Sugar Ray fly erratic course Rebecea Lim m 14:59 Sugar Ray luiva/ Atlantic HAVING taken flight on charts all over the world with the irresistible ditty of 1997 Fly this quintet is determined to soar again on its latest release. Hence, the boys of Sugar Ray titled their third album
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    • 124 6 1999 GRAMMY NOMINEES Various (Grammy Recordings) -kicktrti AS THE American recording industry gears up for another Grammy ceremony next week, music fans here also have something to get excited about. Every year, a compilation featuring the pick of the nominees crop is released.
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      • 72 6 IF LATIN is more your kind of thing, then be sure not to miss percussionist Osmar Oliveirm'f prifni— m at Mi Casa. Su Casa next month. The Latin club at Liat Towers will play host to the Brazilian and his troupe ol samba dancers on
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      • 69 6 FOR those who prefer their music mix jazzy and with lots ol soul, head over to Harry"s Bai at Boat Quay. Mandy Games. a singer hailing from Cincinnati, is bringing her vocal blends ol soul. jazz. R B and pop to Singapore. She performs with
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    • 145 6 N' SYNCH (RCA) AFTER floundering around as yet another boy band trying to make it, N' Synch got the nod as a favourite new act recently at the American Music Awards. Despite this, the quintet still stand m line behind the Backstreet Boys m
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    • 148 6 NikoUtus Harnoncourt Teldec 9031-***** THOSE looking for Harnoncourt s furious sewing-ma-chine rhvthms> and pumping beats will be m for a pleasant surprise. The famous Early Music pioneer takes an easv-does-it approach to the Pastoral Symphony, but still manages to leave his fingerprints on carefully articulated and calculated gestures.
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    • 79 6  -  Tan Shzr Ee Christoph Pnegpnhen and Andreas Stan i Teldec 0630 ***** E\~ERY drop of passion and drama is squeezed out of Schubert's juice of his fa-mously-bleak song-cycle. Winterreist (Winter Journey). Pregardien is mournful and resigned enough but thankfully, not to the point of being a chronically-com-plaining duck.
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    • 250 7 WHILE Daewoo's Leganza gets a manual box, Renault's Megane Coupe loses one. Instead, it now comes with a four-speed automatic, which is a message for serious drivers to Took elsewhere. Not that its wheezy 90 bhp, 1.6-litre engine was ever a magnet for aspiring Formula One
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    • 301 7 There's a Civic for all budgets THE new Honda Civic steps into 1999 with a facelift that is hardly noticeable. It has a new grille, bonnet and bumper m front of the car, and a different set of tail-lamps m back. At its core, the Civic is essentially unchanged. The
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    • 574 8  - The art of 1930s interior Deco A LE TH E A LI M Manhattan-Style An apartment takes on the elegance of a Manhattan penthouse with a r 3os feel. The designer retains the flat's identity but adds modern details 5 Pictures by STEVE ZHL WHEN designer Roy Te( first visited
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    • 776 9 Complete with bagel-cutting laser, talking oven mitt MR JAVA is just shy. But when asked to produce a cup of coffee for a stranger last Thursday, he sat as still as a child frozen on stage. "*I don't understand," said project coordinator Kristin Hafl at
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    • 405 9 Loveseats are hot seats not only for cuddling LOVES EATS are not just tor lovers. Because these cozy sofa;- have so many practical uses m today's homes, manufacturers sa\. the\ are selling better than ever. "A new categon is evolving because the scale and size is so useful.'" says Mr
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    • 918 10 Star Trek Favourites Chef of the USS Voyager helps to write cookbook offering recipes for an out-of-this-world eating experience NEW YORK Eat your hearts out, Star Trek fans. There is now a cookbook to tell you how to make anything from Klingon blood wine ana
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    • 774 10 Archive sheds new light on Ted Hughes ATLANTA For all the notoriety and ugliness that made them the century's most talked-about literary couple and divided their admirers into warring camps, the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath will remain forever intertwined m the boxes of
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      • 39 10 NOSE out the causes of sinusitis at the Bukit Merah Community Library today at 3 pm. Dr Kevin Soh of the National University Hospital will give the free talk. Register at the information counter.
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      • 51 10 GET ahead of the curve at the Central Community Library today. There will be a talk on current economic and technological trends, and how these could affect job opportunities m the future. Admission is free but limited to 35 participants. Register at the customer service
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      • 49 10 CAN WE COUNT ON YOU TO BE THERE? PUT your abacus skills to the test at the Bukit Panjang Community Library today at 3.30 pm. The hour-long session for children between five and eight includes a competition with a prize. Admission is free, register at the customer service counter.
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      • 38 10 ders Books on Monday at 7 pm. She will give a talk and read excerpt* from her book. AUTHOR of Wives. Mistresses And Matriarchs, Louise Williams will be launching her book at Bor-
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    • 136 11  - Of sheep and a weird debut Matthew Thomas BEFORE AND AFTER Bii Harper Collins Publishers/ 425pages/$14.90 THIS tale starts with exploding sheep and a minithesis on sheep theology, which explains the picture of the befuddled sheep on the cover. Then things get weird. Matthew Thomas' debut is a madcap hybrid
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    • 181 11  - Sink teeth into horror novel Tom Holland DELIVER US FROM EVIL By Warner Books/ 579 pages/S 15.90 THINK of Tom Holland as a much classier and literary version of Anne Rice, minus the tortured purple prose, and you will have some idea of his writing. Since his intriguing debut with
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    • 131 11 THE PENGUIN BOOK OF COLUMNISTS Edittdbu Christopher Silvester Penguin Books/612 pages/ $46. 15 NEVER mind the rather dry and rambling introductory essay on the evolution of columnists. What makes this collection is the hodgepodge selection of columnists who have written for American and
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    • 246 11  -  Ong Sor Fern INK By AMERICAN poet Emily Dickinson's mock valentine Sic Transit is published this day m 1852 m the Springfield Republican. It is one of only seven poems published during her lifetime, even though her poetry output was prodigious by her death
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    • 103 11 THE topftoe international and heel paperbacks sold at Times bookshops over a seven-day period, ending Tuesday. 1. Tell Me Your Dreams by Sidney Sheldon 2. The Testament by John Grisham •3 Street Lawyer by John Grisham 4. Eleventh Commandment by Jeffrey Archer 5 Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur
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    • 1599 12  -  Shakespearean Lessons Shakespeare's ability to argue all sides of a case at once is relevant to his craft as well as to journalism ASAD LATIF Bu SHAKESPEARE has been called the poet of the open wound. People always bleed; the world's wound never heals.
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    • 422 12 SHAKESPEARE Our Contemporary, the title of the Polish critic Jan Kott's book, sums up the Bard's relevance to the world m which journalists operate. To read the book is to understand why the Elizabethan Age never ended, why we are still rooted m the mediaeval,
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    • 609 12  -  FELIX CHEONG POETRY VOID OF COURSE By Jim Carroll Penguin Poets/ 113pages/$24.49 Bu IF HOLLYWOOD ever invites applicants for a resident poet (the idea is an oxymoron, of course, but let's just admit it for argument's sake), then only one man need
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    • 486 16 Mini-series on tobacco heiress lures star back to TV work BEL AIR, CALIFORNIA Sitting on the sidelines does aot do much for a legend. "I want to work m a project with a really good part," Lauren Bacall says. "I don't look to be the
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    • 87 16 METRO HBO Ch6o,9pm Repeat: Wed 6- Sun EDDIE MURPHY plays San Francisco's top police negotiator. And he's going to get more than he ever bargained for when he comes face to face with a psychotic killer. Murphy's fast-talking and unorthodox methods soon gives way to
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    • 111 16 PEOPLE'S CENTURY: 1929 BREADLINE BBC World Ch 13, 5.0&pm THE far-reaching effects of the 1929 Wall Street crash and the subsequent mass unemployment that affected much of the world m the '3Os are recalled m this programme. As banks and companies m Europe and the
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    • 83 16 THE LOVE OF THE EASTERN HOLLYWOOD Variety Vision 1 Ch 55.10 pm Repeat: Fri BENEATH the glitz and glamour of the Hongkong film industry lies a complex web of lies, deceit and scandalous sex. This movie focuses on six Hongkong female artistes (loosely based on
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    • 90 16 Shootout between basketball's big men NBA ESPN Ch23b25 Detroit Pistons t s Phoenix Suns 9 am (live) Roj)eat: h put San Antonio Spurs vs LA leakers 11.30 am (live) Repeat: 10.30 pm ANOTHER exciting dou-ble-header for NBA fans. The Pistons' Grand Hill torched the Wizards for 46 points recently. Expect
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    • 94 16 WINGS: EAGLES OF THE CROWN: UNDER THE RADAR Discovery Ch 12.11 pm (eoery Saturday THIS episode looks at the RAF Bombing Commands turning point m World War 11. After suffering heavy casualties at the beginning of the war. "Bomber Harris" took
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    • 100 16 THEARTCLUB CNN International Ch 14, 10.30 pm THIS special episode, profiles artists who are attempting to revitalise the art scene m Hongkong. Host Katy Haswell speaks to Wucius Wong, the father of contemporary Hongkong art, and meets the artists of ParaSite, an collective that provides space for
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    • 478 18  -  LEA WEE Museum Crush Eternal Egypt draws big crowds, even on first two days of the recent holiday, with visitors still m festive gear THE Eternal Egypt exhibition has been drawing unprecedented crowds since it opened at the Asian Civilisations Museum
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    • 709 4 Personal Services Products Business Services Products 138 GARAGE SALES 158 GARAGE SALES 138 GARAGE SALES 138 GARAGE SALES 138 GARAGE SALES 138 GARAGE SALES \mwm: Be rart Of The C^^piuidav Classified ELs*iC!..- a^ Clarke Quay 4k& Sunday Classified Flea Mart is on every 10.30 am to noon. Successful applicants will
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    • 597 6 Business Services Products Vehicles 221 COMPUTER 221 COMPUTER 221 COMPUTER 221 COMPUTER PROOUCTS/SERVICES PRODUCTS/SERVICES PRODUCTS/SERVICES PRODUCTS/SERVICES 5033-333MTX 6033-266/300MTX 333 MHz AMO-K6*-2 Processor with Intel* Mobile Pentium* II Processor 266/300 MHz 30NOW'. 1 Technology nte 4408 X Chipset 512K8 L 2 Cache YS\ 512K8 L 2 Cache 4GB Ultra DMA Hard
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    • 71 6 239 PACKING/ STORAGE/ DELIVERY/ REMOVAL b b j HOUSE OFFICE removal. S2OO. Van Delivery $10. 14 seater lorry at j $70 per trip. Interested pis. call: I 565-4647/9620-4145 GLOBAL REMOVAL. EXPERIENCED m house/ office/ pidno removal and disposal service. CaJI *****55. HONG TECK TRANSPORT 26 ft. Box lorry h'se/ off.
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    • 592 6 303 AUDI FOR SALE BRAND NEW AUDI A4 1.6 auto. With COE. Full accessories. Please call authorised Audi Dealer, Sin Hock Lee 282-8585. Also Audi A6 avail. '93 AUDI 80 2.0E auto, OMV $38,574. Full accessories. Showroom. Ask $59.8 K. 741-8888 BKW 6/96 AUDI A6. 2.6 auto 1 owner. Gold.
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    • 636 7 3M HONDA FOR SALE 316 HONDA FOR SALE 316 HONDA FOR SAtE B^H I^^^Aa *iS*i *v Regent Motors RE6ENT MOTORS SHOWROOM: I Übi Road 4. Singapore *****7. Sales Hotline: 846 9088 Authorised dealars: FOUWAUD MOTORS PTE LTD 34 Foch Road, toff Jalan Besar) Tel: *****34 SIS HAUL PTE LTO 2
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    • 872 7 18 KANCIL FOR SALE 318 KANCIL FOR SALE 318 KANCIL FOR SALE 117 HYUNDAI FOR SALE Survive the economic crunch. Kancil, your practical buy /r~ from $50,800 vh Visit our showroom today to find W '\k out how you can stretch your dollar, fmr~-Mm«*» i^femxsr- or call us at 457
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    • 1295 7 336 RENAULT FOR SALE 336 RENAULT FOR SALE 336 RENAULT FOR SALE THE SCENIC FOR ONLY $899 MONTHLY! Pay onh SB9y per month for Id S yon* H *w^ Buy-back Guaranteed price on the 361h month* /i HLSA High trade-in Free use of car when \ou send \i>ur _^^k new
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    • 734 8 Vehicles 337 ROVER FOR SALE 10/96 DOVER 416 Manua i"o d* o :oo cond Low Odymei^t Cail 9<K>ff 9054 0353 1 OWNCR 12/-95 lM ***** I :o. 3iue sejts Coco cond _'jil 900:0 C*3. No Je.ire^ pis 5/93 ROVER 820 Si S Ml Sunr jc Expensive h I s m
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    • 440 9 330 OPEL FOR SALE 330 OPEL FOR SALE 330 OPEL FOR SALE 330 OPEL FOR SALE 330 OPEL FOR SALE |j From $Xtf() a month for the first tuo years. jB S^^. d*^m s<s L t 5J"f Frow i" 7 .5 a month for the first two years. There's no
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    • 340 9 402 DOl-08 402 DOl-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST CITY SOUTH-WEST PTEAPTS-RENT PTEAPTS-RENT -zpl- i'li'v Buy It. Sell It. Find It. Kf feni SAT./ SUN. 3-6PM. Anchorage Penthse. 4/ 3+l. Pool view. Resort ivinq. MRT/ shops. All enquiries welcome. David 9413-6122 C&H. WESTBAY CONDO. 2*l. 900 sq.ft. Near Japanese Schs. Fully him. Fuity
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    • 745 9 D.lO SOMMERVILLE PK. F/facilities. High fir. 2000 sq.ft. Renovated. F/furn. Top cond. *****770 D.lO KIM SIA Court. Behind Hyatt, Lucky Plaza, CX Tang. 3+l. F/furn. Call owner. 534-3455/ 9538-0260 D.09 STUDIO RM. Orchard Kirn Seng Plaza. Furn. MRT. $1100 p/mth. mcl. PUB. *****94 owner D.09 CAIRNHILL CT. 2350 sq.ft. 3+l.
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    • 776 9 404 DO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTEAPTS-RENT D.lO BALMORAL PARK. Beautiful 3+l 1,700 sq.ft. Pool. Next to Pinetree Club. $2,600. Agt. 9732-8112 DYNASTY GOK 2100 sq.ft./ Holland Peak. 1841 sq.ft. $5K up. Call now' PL (MBA) 9238-9878. Esmaco MUST RENT! CHEAP! Cavendish Pk. 2 bdrms., f/furn. Facilities. Near Australian Sch. Immed.
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    • 786 10 Properties 410 Dl 5-16 EAST COAST PTE APTS -RENT CONOO. *T FORT t" a M A < SPRINGVAL£. APPROX. 900 j i S.giac C! EA^TWOOC CTR. 2-RMS es -'---d '625 TH€ VERSAILLES. LOVELY BEST UMIT! MANDARIN DM cv» 9704-3193 OCEAN PARK (3-RM. -j j I fir Sea c* F lO>lt
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    • 773 11 441 001-08 441 DOl-08 441 DOl-08 CITY SOUTH-WEST CITY SOUTH-WEST CITY SOUTH-WEST PTEAPTSSALE PTEAPTS-SALE PTEAPTS-SALE uHUi ISM Freehold Condominium No restriction to foreigners Exclusive hilltop location f_-# 1 •.^""^^a. 2 3 bedroom units "f I 915 sq ft to 1.335 sq ft toK*K I Quality finishes {~~-~J ffj* SHOWFLAT [Tel:
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    • 724 11 446 DO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND PTEAPTS-SALE AROMORE PK. BLK. 21 3 2885 sq.ft. 4+l, high fir. pool view. $4MSSM neg. FRANKS *****00/ *****633 REGENCY PK. RENOVATED. Good unit. 3174 sq.ft. 3+l. r'hold. Facilities. 9671-0348/ 5383-188. C 99. ASPEN HGTS. 1590/ 880 sq.ft. SI.SM/ S9OOK neq. UE Sq. 1500 sq.ft. Low
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    • 449 11 451 D11& 21 NEWTON/ BTTIMAH/CLEMENTI PTEAPTS-SALE IVIi V I I D.ll BEAUTIFUL! BUNGLW. layout/ orivacy/ patio/ qdn. 3064 sq.ft. 3/ 4+l. Excellent renovation, f'hold, 'oreiqners eligible, good schs. nearmrtJ D.ll HUNTINGTON. F'HOLO. 2 mins to Novena MRT. 968 1475 sq.ft. Foreigners eligible. 11am. -spm. 9494-9119/ 9305-9882 ERA. D.21 SOUTHAVEN 11.
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    • 735 12 492 HDB APTS FOR SALE (ANGMOKIO) 3 'NG' BLK. 218 AMK Aye. I. Cosy, pleasant hse. Can contra. Low cash. Serene *****339 RE/MAX 3 'NG' 512, Near MRT, 538 564 low fir. No cash. 155 high fir/ 4 'NG' 175. Move-in. *****660 Elix 3 'NG' BLK. 538. Mid fir. Unblock.
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    • 669 13 493 HDB APTS FOR SALE 493 HDB APTS FOR SALE 493 HDB APTS FOR SALE 493 HDB APTS FOR SALE 493 HDB APTS FOR SALE 493 HDB APTS FOR SALE l BEDOK/ CHAI CHEE) (BEDOK/CHAICHEE) (BEDOK/CHAICHEE) (BEDOK/CHAICHEE) (BEDOK/CHAICHEE) (BEDOK/CHAICHEE) The Straits Times Classified PROPERTY GUIDE (HDB ESTATES) 496 \f\ 494
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    • 972 14 Properties SO4HOB APTS FOR SALE 504HD8 APTS FOR SALE tHCUGANG/ SE3ANGOCN, (HOUGANG/ SERANGOON/ YIOCHUKANG) YIOCHUKANG) H SELLING BUYING OR EXCHANGE HDB Properties V 5-ffli Exe< Mais Financial Arrangement Bank Loan) Reach Buyers Sellers Available For Housing FREE \D\ ISE on methcxls suitable tor a FROIBLE-FREE Franvution Call 546 3033 Patrick:
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    • 981 14 SOS HDB APTS FOR SALE (JURONG) 3 'I' CORNER Blk 208 Boon Lay. Valued S9SK. Renovated. Amenities. Shanfah *****335 ARN 3 T CORNER. Soon Lay Blk. 215. H.gn fir. Vaiued SIC6K Near ameriM °Q Annie 9500-4570 Onon 3 'I' CORNER Boon Lay Blk. 2'C Hign Mr Can contra. Valued Any
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      • 710 7 if MUSIC TELEVISION Wk I* w£m k s IJ For full exposure to the latest m the world off music entertainment, make your way to MTV. Today! Now! The urgency has got to sink m! Time and tide wait for no man. Or woman. And neither do opportunities at MTV.
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      • 791 8 j^^^H intelligence r— initiative integrity r—^Jfe uL r; "mm i i career wi Intel twS» Ib be successful m a comply as successtlii as Intel takes a lot of qualities. In a sophisticated and qm*joMm[ complex business such as ours, intelligence is vital. 'Flic Intel environment which expects stall' to
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      • 864 8 BUlldi leading-edge world leader! Mentor Graphics Corporation is a wod&leaderm ESearonk. Design Amommkm < EDA I systems Our products enable electronic engineers to design analyse test and package nuanatc.; an mt printed circuit boards and electronic systems. The growth of Mentor Graphics (S) Pie. Ltd. has provided lhi ftMowmgfabo^pontmmet We
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      • 828 9 CfW/f MINISTRY OF MANPOWER Evolving Singapore Into A Talent Capital The Ministry of Manpower is seeking dynamic individuals to play a part m the following two areas: Business Process Quality Assurance Officer I\v -EnglllvCrillg The candidate should have a recognised Degree/ Coordinator Diploma m Computer Science or its equivalent with
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      • 690 9 Executive Appointments I We seek experienced individuals to fill the I Pontiac Land positions of: Private limited Assistant Vice President Marketing (CAMDEN MEDICAL CENTRE) You will be involved m formulating and implementing strategic marketing plans for the medical centre. This will include market analysis, development of pricing strategies, promotion planning
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      • 710 10 a leading publisher of S.BBSI^B SBSkI^V*! newspaper;. magazines Si! l^«||\*' R^^jg^^^^^~*diH and periodicals m the BiT i iii29&2fi2SBMMKBU3Bm&^ '^k region. It is also a strong player m the multimedia and telecommunication st 'JSiv^i^^'. -N wi/'^l arena with diverse SKlif investment holdings. We are looking for suitably qualified persons to join
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      • 891 11 j^>\ H Mount Alvemia Hospital is a 300-bed acute, general and maternity, ■"■v^fv^ non-profit hospital As a missionary hospital, we are committed r t*l to provide quality and affordable healthcare to the general S&»3k population A portion of our operating surplus is also used to fund community outreach projects like
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      • 616 11 Executive Appointments n POUJERFUL CONHECTIDH ABACUS is the Asia-Pacific's largest Global Distribution System (GDS). We also play an essential role m the world's largest industry travel by harnessing the power of IT to provide travel information and reservations services specially tailored for the Asia-Pacific. To entrench our position as the
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      • 827 11 Tft The next generation ■m^l campixting environment. Computer Associates is the world's largest multi-platform software company with annual reveni billion and operations m more than 40 countries. Computer Associates Professional Services is now rapidly expanding its Singapore projects to meet the increasing demands. This has given rise to the following
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      • 799 12 opportunities for professionals with the foilowing skills: I I Administrators: 1 Unix system administrators with fMiont Coruor exposure to different flavours like HP Unix/Sun/DEC. Minimum 4 years' Specialists: experience m System administration C, C++ programmers with 4-5 years' necessary. Professionals with knowledge experience on Sun OS and communication of Perl
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      • 553 13 Great opportunities start with a world leader GE liklumh.il AcrodcrWatwca b a world leader m the operation maintenance repair of GE Aiunitt Engines and is an integral part ot C.X globalization initiatives. Join us now m this exciting Singapore based roL\ Field Service Representative \ou will have overall rcsponsibUit) for
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      • 650 13 Executive Appointments I The company is m the chemical formulation and blending I industry. I We are currently seeking exceptional manufacturing managers I whose primary function will be to run the Singapore plant m a I manner to maximize service while minimizing operating costs. I This is a highly responsible
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      • 991 14 C W mission is to assist offenders ami drug abusers to return to society as useful I]^|^^^_^^^^H cituens. In support ot this mission, SCORE provides counselling and aftercare H^^^^H support services ro them L 1 fc provide thest* sen ices. SCORE Counselling Centre is looking for resourceful, Ij^L j Ljrmg
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      • 725 14 flHk CHINA POSTING We are a global leader m the construction equipment business In line with our strategic business objective, we are inviting qualifiec anc enterprising personnel to join our senior management team m our China business. DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER (FINANCE) 1 A qualified CPA who has extensive financial accounting
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      • 886 15 Csrnjrechi strategic technologies 5 **y Pte ltd Prpmi^ini{ Information and Ulvanced lechnolog> Company has immediate vacancies hi Systems Architect Senior Business Development Executive < L-sportsibk' for the ik-velopmeni am.! lobb> -of proposals tor muliiinilhon dollar tumkc> inibrmaiion >.wchin aiu! advanced technology projects. Hands-on experience *ilh ars;e..ii-.inbuk\Kwcim essential Should be familiar
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      • 739 15 Executive Appointments An ELECTRIFYING Partnership for sn R&D CAREER. We are a global leader m the manufacturing industry with a worldwide network of operations. To further strengthen our team m Singapore, we seek to recruit an experienced professional for the following position: You will be responsible for defining and proposing
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      • 919 15 PGLENAYRE Our Message Is Communication Innovations. The ability to embrace ctwraje as i dd£k Sfe* t0 responc ()u Dkfc with innovative solutions. Thajmm H describes the innovative spirit at Gi<~ -nis JJE&^^m P^yf%. innovative spirit that differentiates ou- pP^ /*lj^k ancl employee commitment from the competitor X j^&B/ f Jrm
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      • 829 16 1.\1.\ isactking a dedicated IT professional with driven I initiative commitment and enthusiasm to )oi;i our I JvnaniK IT team as a I ATA «jl The Job: Nour key functions include successful migration oi MS Mail to MS I Exchange dnd system management ot NT Novell and MS Exchange 1
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      • 452 16 Classified Jobs/Executive Appointments I £j^_ 1 Singapore Swimming Club D Social ex^ 11^ To organize activities for members to generate camaraderie amongst members and to further encourage patronage to Liaise with suppliers and IRA Department, Licensing, etc. Diploma/Degree holder Minimum 2 years' relevant experience m hospitality industry Possess a service-oriented
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      • 450 16 LAN Works pte Ltd for better business solutions HH i-ANWorks specializes a^c WA\i |f A^H Microsoft Solutions p roviaer Nove H^tH^^^B Compaq Systems Service Prov^ae' C I fl k^^VS H I Lotus Conne PX|g|Li|MUUH SYSTEM ENGINEERS ■Al flS^ H H w .Ml fli iß^^l Profile o' the laeai candiOate jBkjQF^M
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      • 411 16 606 PROFESSIONAL/ 606 PROFESSIONAL/ EXECUTIVE POSITIONS EXECUTIVE POSITIONS A weii-estabiishec aove r tis:r,c aa<rdyna' i as ART DIRECTOR/ SNR. GRAPHIC DESIGNER Experience m handling ful campaigns At least 3 years work ng e> capacity Must be proficient m corru Must be bi ngual m Englis 1 Al.c to work unde'
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      • 675 17 «O« PROFESSIONAL/ 606 PROFESSIONAL/ 606 PROFESSIONAL/ 606 PROFESSIONAL/ EXECUTIVE POSITIONS EXECUTIVE POSITIONS EXECUTIVE POSITIONS EXECUTIVE POSITIONS I MICRON I SEMICONDUCTOR ASIA PTE LTD lob Responsibilities: ldet;tit\ failing components m Memory Module Assembly Testing Conduct failure analysis on Memory Modules I X engineering tools meter to analyse devices Pica ide manufacturing
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      • 43 17 J SALES TECHNICAL SUPPORT MANAGER (For a leadlnq Japanese Tyres Manufacturer) Age 35-45 with 5 10 years experience from same industry a must Good experience m Sales Technical Support Salary S4OOO S5OOO Call: *****64 X 10 Or F a CVs: *****73 (Attn: DV)
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      • 426 17 An international trading co. with clients m the South East Asian region and offices m Europe, the USA, and China invites a motivated and enthusiastic female to be our: FINANCE ADMIN. EXECUTIVE Prospects for growth are excellent for the right incumbent. THE JOB: Maintain a full set of books on
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      • 748 17 606 PROFESSIONAL/ 606 PROFESSIONAL/ 606 PROFESSIONAL/ EXECUTIVE POSITIONS EXECUTIVE POSITIONS EXECUTIVE POSITIONS MICR#BAIVK™ Microbank Software Inc. is a global supplier of matching, exception management/investigation and customer service software to the banking and securities sector. Our eclipse™ software platform is the most progressive management solution, providing a perfect alignment of financial
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      • 1241 17 609 ENGINEERING 609 ENGINEERING POSITIONS POSITIONS HYDRONAV SERVICES, a leaomc supplier o' Hydroy^ Geophysical, Oceanographic ana GPS Positic Equipment, invites ambitious and highly motivated personnel to join our Sales Support Tea^ as a The Ideal Candidate that we a r e looking fo r rn^st te motivated and possess the
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      • 426 18 621 HEALTHCARE 621 HEALTHCARE POSITIONS POSITIONS O National SpSr University |p Hospital NUH invites suitably Qualified candidates to apply for the following position: S.NR STAFF M R.Sfc (Renal C entre) 'to provide acute care I ■i the centre I md monito' ig doctors m -iling and educa* pa o!S machines
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      • 1631 18 Classified Jobs 627 MARKETING/ 627 MARKETING/ 627 MARKETING/ 627 MARKETING/ COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNICATIONS POSITIONS POSITIONS POSITIONS POSITIONS DSM Engineering Plastics Asia Pacific DSM tj* DSM is an international chemicals and materials group, with its headquarters m the Netherlands and annual salts i tf around LSD 8 billion and a
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      • 582 18 630 SALES POSITIONS GERMAN MFR. MACHINE COMPONENTS IN POLYMERS immediately requires: FULL-TIME TELEMARKETEER Requirements: Male age 21 25 Pleasar.t personality Technical knowledge Good command of English Mandarin basic Malay Basic PC knowledge Experience not necessary Benefits: 5 day week Attractive package Please call 487 1411 for interview appointment. Part timers
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      • 583 19 640 ADMINISTRATIVE/ 643 ADMINISTRATIVE/ 648 ADMINISTRATIVE/ CLERICAL POSITIONS CLERICAL POSITIONS CLERICAL POSITIONS ACCOUNTS OFFICER Reporting to the Accounts Supervisor, your mam areas of responsibility are to: Prepare and reconcile assets and liabilities Prepare month-end journals Mairtam fixed assets register Assist m month-end closing and management reports Assist m preparing internal
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      • 382 19 Engineering Trading Company requires Mm. 0' level. PC literate and types well. Bilingual English Mandarin. Some knowledge of sales trading operations an advantage. Please write or fax to: THE ADVERTISER Blk 20S Henderson Rd 805-02 Henderson Ind. Park 5(*****9) Fax: *****78 Co. urgently requires: 1) PROPERTY ASSISTANT 2) ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT
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      • 788 19 648 ADMINISTRATIVE/ CLERICAL POSITIONS Estab. Int'l. Food Franchise requires 1) Sr. A/cs. ClerK Knowledge of ACCPAC/ Excel/ full sets of a/cs.. AR/ AP. 2-3 yrs. work experience m F&B, mature individual, self-starter, able to work independently, immediate commencement 2) Admin. Clerk general office duties/ computer literate, F&B purchasing experience advantage,
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      • 590 19 Classified Jobs 651 SECRETARY/ 651 SECRETARY/ PERSONAL ASSISTANT PERSONAL ASSISTANT POSITIONS POSITIONS I USA MNC requires high calibre Minimum 5 years experience with PSC Bilingual m Mandarin and English Familiar with Microsoft WORD, EXCEL Self-motivated and independent Attractive Pay 13th Month Bonus Pis. write with non-returnable photograph to: General Manager,
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      • 688 19 654 TECHNICAL POSITIONS 654 TECHNICAL POSITIONS 654 TECHNICAL POSITIONS EASTMAN The Chemistry of New Ideas Eastman Chemical, Asia Pacifu l tc Ltd it the regional headquarter* of Eastman Chemical Company. This office provides management, operational, technical and other support servit et to related < ompanu m the Asia Pacific region.
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      • 2330 20 Classified Jobs 666 SECURITY POSITIONS 666 SECURITY POSITIONS ASAF WARRANT OFFICERS SPECIALISTS CLUB requires urgently Attractive benefits Able to commence work immediateh Only Singaporean Citizen need to appU Interested applicants, plea.*- CALL :ii 433 2136/127 SAP WARRANT OFFICERS SPECIALISTS CLI B Beach Road Singapore 18%~1 (Opposite Raffles Hotel) •S4 TECHNICAL
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