The Straits Times, 26 February 1999

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  • 25 1 The Straits Times Established 1845 Friday February 26, 1999 114 Pages m four parts mita (p) 054/12/98 itf A Singapore Press Holdings publication DU Cents
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  • 610 1  - Turnaround from June WILLIAM CHOONG 1998 growth better than preliminary estimate; the Government expects the economy to pick up m the second half Bu Annual Economic Survey: Page. 52, 53 FiWftceliWster Or Richard Hu delivers his Budget speech this afternoon. It w» be broadcast on TV and the (nteraet at
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  • 518 1  -  DOMINIC NATHAN Bu 'FOR EVERY ONE WE CATCH, MANY MORE 60 UNDETECTED. MORE THAN 100 REFUSE COMPACTORS HAH BEEN DAMA6ED IN THE LAST TWO YEARS AFTER THEY WERE STUFFED WITH EVERYTHING FROM FACTORY WASTE AND EARTH TO FRIDGES AND SOFA SETS.' Semac CEO
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  • 20 1 T 11 I 't f divorce hcflrino continues m the I XK !u: 'S3' aac^ c I
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  • 363 1  -  DOUGLAS WONG Bu IN KUALA LUMPUR THE assault on former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim last September was so severe that he was lucky not to be killed, a doctor who examined him a week later told a Royal Commission of Inquiry yesterday. "It's
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  • PRIME NEWS
    • 546 2 Troubled plane was flying close to a cluster of homes and factories before it hit the ground, narrowly missing hundreds of people "The pilot made a very intelligent choice because this is a very large field area and he picked the best place m the
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    • 238 2  - Famous lawyer charged with drink driving KAREN WONG WELL-KNOWN criminal lawyer Peter Fernando found himself m the dock yesterday, accused of drink driving. He also faces two charges of failing to give a sample of his breath to be tested. Fernando, 40, was charged yesterday m the Traffic Court. His
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    • 485 3  -  CHUA CHIN HON The PE teacher and nurse, both experienced mountaineers, were picked from among 15 contenders after weeks of strenuous tests Hit There will be a lot of pressure on us to succeed, but I guess we just have to learn to handle it.
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    • 353 3 THOUSANDS FLEEING TO CHURCHES, MOSQUES City remains tense as violence continues JAKARTA Thousands of people sought refuge m churches and mosques m the riot-torn eastern Indonesian city of Ambon yesterday, fleeing Muslim-Chris- tian violence that has left at least 18 people dead, residents
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    • 64 3 THE 1998 O-level reults will be released tomorrow and school candidates can collect their result slips from their respective schools at 11 am. Private candidates will be informed by post They can also access their results on the Internet after 11 am on the same day, by using
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    • 304 4 JITRA (Kedah) The wife of former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday that she was ready to run against Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad m his home constituency m Malaysia's next general election. "If the people of Kubang Pasu want me to, I cannot
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    • 470 4 Man guilty of sex-torture murder spree Son of wealthy HK businessman is finally convicted of killing 11 people, including 2 baby boys, after a lengthy case that began 14 years ago SANTA ANA (California) Charles Ng, a former US marine and son of a wealthy Hongkong businessman, has been found
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    • 97 4 THE only son of a wealthy Hongkong family whose sister described him m court papers as a sullen, combative child, Charles Ng (above) came to the United States at age 18 to live with an aunt and attend college m the San Francisco area. He left
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    • 391 4  - Flats for elderly 'may be cheaper' TAN HSUEH YUN HDB'S STUDIO APARTMENTS Bv THE Housing Board is looking to lower the prices of its studio apartments for the elderly, a senior HDB official said last night. Tender prices have come down and the market price of the land for building
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    • 452 2 INSIDE World. 6,8, 10-14, 16 People 13 East Asia... 17, 18, 20 South-East Asia.... 21 Indonesia m Transition 22, 23 Malaysia 25 The Anwar Case 26,27 Home 28-31, 34-37 Weather 33 Editorial 38 Forum 40,41 Sports 42-46 Racing 45 Money 48-56 Stocks 48,49 Currency 48 LIFE! Grammy goes to... the
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  • WORLD
    • 231 6 Nyana the cheetah 6.8 seconds for 100 m CANADIAN sprinter Donovan Bailey would have been left standing and awe-struck as Nyana Spier (left) knocked three seconds off his 9.84 seconds world record for the 100 m. The 17-month-old cheetah, chasing a fluffy toy leopard dragged behind a speeding car, covered
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    • 9 6 Donovan Bailey 9.84 seconds for 100 m AFP REUTERS
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    • 328 6 CIA says some nations' unpreparedness for the millennium bug could mean trips m bank and arms systems WASHINGTON The year 2000 (Y2K) computer-bug problem could cause havoc m some countries, ranging from defective nuclear reactors and early-warning sys- tems m Russia to banking
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    • WORLD FILE
      • 33 6 POLICE found a woman's severed head encased m a block of concrete at the home she shared with her lover, a British court heard on Wednesday. AFP
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      • 24 6 A CYPRUS supermarket boss paid a man with supermarket goods worth US$lO,OOO (5517,350) to kill his wife's lover. AFP
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      • 29 6 PIQUED at delays m payments by US communications firms, Cuba cut off the bulk of telephone links with the United States at midnight yesterday. Reuters
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      • 36 6 RESCUERS worked into a second night on Wednesday, digging for some 25 people stiff buried by a huge avalanche m the Austrian ski resort of Galtuer. The death toll stands at 16. AFP
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      • 30 6 TROUBLE aboard the Hubble Space Telescope could interrupt the flow of data for about a year unless repairs are made, Nasas chief said on Wednesday. Reuters
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    • 470 8 While conceiving too early after the birth of the first child can affect the second baby, research indicates that waiting too long can also be bad THE RISK: Premature birth THE researchers found that among babies conceived less than 18 months after
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    • 116 8 WARSAW A baby girl who developed outside her mother's womb was born m a clinic m Grudziadz, north-west Poland, doctors there said. The foetus, which normally grows m the uterus, lodged m one of the preg- nant woman's Fallopian tubes, forcing the doctors to
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    • MEDICAL NOTES
      • 89 8 SCHIZOPHRENIA LINKED TO WINTER A FAMILY history of schizophrenia remains the best predictor of whether a person will develop the illness, but environmental influences like place and season of birth are also significant risk factors, according to the findings of a study by Danish researchers. The study, published m yesterday's
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      • 51 8 HARNESSED sunlight could m the future provide a cheap alternative to laser surgery, New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday. Physicists from Ben-Gu-rion University m Beersheva, Israel, have designed a system that will collect sunlight and feed its energy down an optical fibre into an operating room.
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      • 39 8 THE Mexican authorities are investigating a case m which a patient died after receiving a kidney from an Aids victim. Another person was being treated after receiving a kidney from the same donor. AFP
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      • 48 8 SEVERAL popular over-the-counter herbs couid affect people's fertility badly, researchers said. A study, published m the journal, Fertility And Sterility, suggests that high doses of echinacea, gingko biloba and St John's wort can damage reproductive cells and might stop sperm from fertilising eggs. REUTERS
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    • 1081 10  -  LOUISE BRANSON An Arkansas businesswoman has gone on national television to give her account of how she was allegedly raped by Clinton 21 years ago IN WASHINGTON A real shock "I Ie turned me around and started kissing me, and that was
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    • 321 11 Public interest m New Zealand is being consumed by whether 'bugger' is innocuous or outrageous, underlining a lack of serious issues m the country AUCKLAND The New Zealand government is struggling to hang on to power, the Y2K bug threatens modern existence, but the issue devouring
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    • 366 12 For the first time since Operation Desert Fox m December, American warplanes have attacked air defences just south of the Iraqi capital WASHINGTON US warplanes have launched their closest strikes to Baghdad since Operation Desert Fox, attacking two surface-to-air missile sites 50 km
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    • PEOPLE
      • 64 13 Three activists from the Biotic Baking Brigade, which champions the environment and the homeless, were sentenced on Wednesday to six months' jail for creaming San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown with cherry, pumpkin and tofu pies last year. A pair Of British divers took the plunge for better or worse, getting
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      • 52 13 Quoteworthy 7 think there is no needto try to sett as weapons. There shoutant be any intention to do business. We are broke. Everybody knows we arebroke.' Thailand's army chief General Surayuth Chulanont telling defence contractors no* to waste theirjfene knocking on his P «W|fa« the recession-hit ed|ntry has no
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      • 143 13 HE HAD FALLEN 111 IN SHENZHEN HONGKONG Ec Lei, a popular Hongkong comedian m the 70s, died of a heart attack on the first day of Chinese New Year, newspapers here reported yesterday. He was 56. He felt unwell on Feb 13 and was admitted
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      • 126 13 GORE LEARNS THE 'BOOTY CALL' WASHINGTON The Macarena died a quiet death long ago. Now comes hope that US VicePresident Al Gore is prepared finally to bury his shopworn routine m which he stands still while pretending to dance it In Miami recently, he performed a little, salsa routine after
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      • 79 13 SAN FRANCISCO The California Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for a new hearing to decide whether O. J. Simpson or the parents of his slain former wife should have custody of his children. A Court of Appeal had ruled previously that Orange County
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      • 99 13 PCRT OF SPAIN A man, who tried to rob Trinidad's Roman Catholic leader with a knife, ended up repenting and kissing nis feet. Port of Spain archbishop Anthony Pantin said the man, whom he knew as Wayne Peters, came into church on Tuesday with a red
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    • 542 13 The world's third-largest military has little to hope for m tomorrow's Budget, and its top brass looks set to rely more on nuclear muscle NEW DELHI Indian navy ships are out at sea for only about seven days a month, air-force
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    • 123 13 Setback for BJP instate elections NEW DELHI India's ruling Hindu nationalists have been routed m by-elections held earlier this week to fill 11 seats across five state assemblies, officials said. The main opposition Congress party swept all four seats m the northern state of Rajasthan and both seats m New
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    • 587 14 Baby-face racist could kill again. The life of Texas race murderer King hangs m the balance as a psychiatrist tells the jury of the danger hie poses, while his father pleads for mercy JASPER (Texas) White supremacist John William King, convicted of dragging a black man to his death m
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    • 81 14 LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for a nationwide drive to end racism after a report into a murder inquiry which was botched slammed London's police as institutionally racist. He also promised on Wednesday to implement the recommendations of the report into the
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    • 58 16 A proud Sandra Alder beaming at her three-year-old sphinx cat, Hale Bopp, at a press preview for the International Cat Show m New York on Wednesday. According to literature she provided, there are fewer than 600 of the cats worldwide. The show will be held at
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    • 242 16 Delegates meet m the US to plan concerted moves for a global crackdown on corruption WASHINGTON More than 80 countries met on Wednesday to find ways to beat the global scourge of corruption, with many declaring it a historic opportunity to crack down on
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    • 501 6 'Rape' Woman Speaks @FaW More Trouble In Ambon [*****8? HK Comedian Dies T* I hate him, says Arkansas woman who wQ Unrest m Ambon and West iJ^^fc^^^V^l Ec Lei, a popular Hongkong comedian nfc alleged that President Clinton raped Kalimantan continues despite orders f in the 70s, has died of
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  • EAST ASIA
    • 368 17 The Chinese have been replacing their older aircraft and have tied up with Boeing and Airbus for more effective aircraft maintenance ANCIENT TUPOLEVS SHANGHAI Steep financial losses have not forced China's airlines to stint on safety measures and the country's aviation-safety record has m
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    • 254 17 TANGTOU (China) Villagers living near the site of China's latest plane crash have described how they heard a loud noise from the aircraft m distress, its engines rattling and trailing smoke m clear weather. "It approached very quickly and landed m the field. Then there was
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    • 356 18 MOSCOW Russian President Boris Yeltsin welcomed Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji to the Kremlin yesterdayand sought to use improved political relations to inject life into flagging trade ties. "We are always heartily glad to see you," Mr Yeltsin told his guest, calling
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    • 436 18  -  WANG HUI LING Judicial integrity of the court is likely to be hit, as will the image of the Hongkong and Chinese governments By HONGKONG CORRESPONDENT THERE is growing concern that even as the Court of Final Appeal (CFA) considers today
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    • 147 18 TOKYO Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi expressed deep regret yesterday over reports that a Japanese diplomat m Canada teat his wife and then claimed that it was "a cultural thing and not a big deal". "Even between husband and wife, it is never allowed to express feelings
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    • 685 20 US satellite ban will hurt ties, says China Beijing protests against the veto of its planned purchase of a high-tech satellite, and Albright is expected to be m for a rough ride during her visit Hard blow for Beijing 'It is a hard blow for China. The Chinese have made
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    • 138 20 SEOUL A debt-ridden cabby cut off his foot and then claimed he had lost it m a brutal robbery as part of a grizzly bid to swindle insurers, reports said yesterday. The driver told police m the southern port city of Pusan that
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    • 293 20 TAEJON (South Korea) Mr Woo Yong Gak, the world's longest-serving political prisoner, walked tree after 41 years m a South Korean iail yesterday and indicatecf he wants to return to North Korea. The 71-year-old, who has been m solitary confinement since 1958, was among
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 604 21  -  HIREN PHUKAIM Group's declaration comes amid a longstanding dispute over the European Union's plan to exclude Myanmar at the bloc-to-bloc meeting By ASEAN made it clear yesterday that all its foreign ministers, including that of Myanmar, must be invited to next month's
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    • 220 21 BOOST FOR JUNTA jrr is not a HAS BEEN PUT TOGETHER WITH CHEWING GUM AND BALING WIRE.' Director of Interpol's criminal intelligence unit Paul Higdon YANGON Interpol issued a clear endorsement of Myanmar's anti-drug policy yesterday, at the end of a heroin conference
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  • INDONESIA IN TRANSITION
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      998 22 But shoot orders fail to stop riots m Ambon The island faces fresh violence despite the presence of thousands of troops sent to riot-prone areas after the massive unrest there last month Woman shot by mistake A POLICEMAN shot a woman whom he thought was a drug dealer In
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    • 369 23 ...and ire In pelting rain, Indonesian workers armed with rattan sticks attack a factory m the industrial zone of Tanjungsari on the outskirts of Surabaya. The workers were protesting on Tuesday m support of a local union official sacked by the company, one week after the
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 403 25 But the Information Minister says the government will go on maintaining the site as a national forum 'That shows the quality and the mentality when some peopleface crisis. If the people want to curse, they can continue cursing. Datuk Rahmat, who quips that
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    • 272 25 PREMIER'S TRIP TO PENANG BUTTERWORTH Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad is expected to meet local Umno members from his sacked deputy's constituency m Pennatang Pauh during his two-day state visit to Penang from April 1. The hour-long meeting has been squeezed into the
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  • THE ANWAR CASE
    • 461 26  - Black-eye inquiry gives way to court BRENDAN PEREIRA Panel to convene on Sunday, avoiding an impasse with the High Court after judge refused to adjourn trial By IN KUALA LUMPUR AN EMBARRASSING legal impasse between the High Court hearing Anwar Ibrahim's trial and the Royal Commission of Inquiry into his
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    • 255 26 KUALA LUMPUR Money went missing from the official residence of the deputy prime minister twice, and Anwar Ibrahim wanted the Special Branch to investigate the loss. Mr Zull Aznam Haron, his former security chief, told the court no police reports were lodged
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    • 254 27  -  BRENDAN PEREIRA The businessman would be at the former DPM's residence at least twice a week, says Anwar's security officer By IN KUALA LUMPUR FORMER company lirector S. Nallakaruppan was a frequent visitor to the official residence of the former Deputy Prime Minister, the
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    • 103 27 KUALA LUMPUR Anwar Ibrahim's former tennis partner, now serving a jail <. sentence for illegal possession of ammunition, is un- dergoing treatment m a first-class ward at the Kuala Lumpur hospital. The Sun reported yesterday that S. Nallakaruppan was m a separate room at Ward 21
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    • 486 28  -  LEONG WE NG KAM Fifty of his works from the 1970s to the 1990s will be put on display at the Chinese Calligraphy Centre m May Bu 'He was a true and great scholar. His diligence and dedication are a good example for
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    • 146 28 PM hosts dinner for Johor MB tonight PRIME Minister and Mrs Goh Chok Tong will host a Chinese New Year dinner for the Menteri Besar of Johor, Datuk Haji Abdul Ghani Othman, and his wife, Datin Professor Hajah Jamilah Ariffin, tonight at the Istana. Malaysia's Deputy Minister of Primary Industry,
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    • 372 28 Under- 10 kids banned from riding pillion TRAFFIC CHANGES TAKE EFFECT CHILDREN younger than 10 won't be allowed to ride pillion on motorcycles here after this month, for their own safety. A motorcyclist who carries such a pillion rider will be fined $100, under new road traffic rules that go
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    • 588 29  -  M. NIRMALA ITE students shun apprenticeship scheme because of a two-year bond, but the institutes hope to change the mindset of students gradually Bu ITE'S COMPUTER MASTER PLAN OVER the next five years, about $100 777i11i0n will be spent on providing computersfor 16,000 students m
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    • 851 30  - What' s Chee up to now? CHUA MUI HOONG A straw poll of 35 people shows nine m 10 do not respect the SDP chief as an opposition leader, and wonder if he is fighting for a cause or to get attention Bu ...AND WHAT IS HE FIGHTING FOR? PITY
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    • 572 31  -  CHUA CHIN HON Sixty members from two troupes fought outside two pubs. Thirty-one suspects were arrested but their chiefs are reported to have made up Bx, THE FI6HT: How it happened Mr Low Oo Sin, secretary of Long Tian Men Bon and
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    • 137 31 Joint raids nab 100 illegals POLICE and Singapore Immigration and Registration officers arrested 100 immigration offenders m an operation that ended early Wednesday morning. The joint operation against those who harbour or employ the offenders started shortly after midnight on Tuesday. They nabbed 34 people m Geylang, Bendemeer Road, Boat
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    • 582 34  - Show me the MONEY JASON LEOW Knowledge industry workers rate pay over nature of work, and value firms that improve their skills, survey shows Bu MONEY talks, even to workers m a knowledge economy. A survey of workers m knowledge industries around the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit found
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    • 341 34 ITS not how long you are m the office, but whether your mind is there too that matters. Mr Joseph Lobbato, a partner at Andersen Consulting, which researched and cowrote an Economist Intelligence Unit report on knowledge workers, noted: "Managers are still measuring their
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    • 123 34 NICK Leeson was a case of too much autonomy, without the proper safeguards. The fall of Barings, one of the world's oldest merchant banks, in 1994 showed how Barings' management had failed the knowledge worker supervision test, the Economist Intelligence Unit report said. They granted a
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    • 95 34 IN SOUTH Korea's chaebol -dimmmtcd economy, where business decisions are made based on who the firm knows, Samsung Croup, one of the larger chaebol, saw the need to embrace innovation. In 1992, it revamped its entire human resource structure: out went the top-down management system. Decision-making
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    • 711 35 fMJlOJLIJ£L SEC 3, nKStTTBHIII MN Three hours of last-minute work on an essay won Melody Tan, 15. a top prize m the Total Defence Writing Competition. Her essay is a diary of hard times during the and Japanese Occupaton a contemporary
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    • 401 35 60-hour course offers cabbies language skills Classes will be held once a week at Nanyang Polytechnic and cabbies only have to pay subsidised course fees. CLASS: What is expected Nanyang Polytechnic (Ang Mo Kio). Cabbies will pay lOper cent. The rest wiH be from the Skills Development Fund and Education
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    • 314 36 VOLUME TWO OF HIS MEMOIRS 'His remarkably in-depth character analyses mean that volume two which will describe a whole generation of world leaders will command great interest. American scholar Lucian Pye on Senior Minister Lee Kuan lew's memoirs TOP American scholar Lucian Pye has
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    • 508 36  - Girlfriend of husband a witch, says wife ELENA C HONG Ex-remisier' s wife, whose relations with a man came under fire, claims the ex-actress ruined her marriage Bu THE wife and children of former king of brokers Peter Lim Eng Hock called his girlfriend 'Cherie witch", the High Court heard
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    • 137 36 SHE: MARRIAGE HAS RNBUNM Madam Teo Geok Fong (far left), 41, a housewife, is suing her husband, "king of remisiers" Peter Lim Eng Hock, for divorce on the grounds that the marriage has broken down irretrievably. She is also seeking custody of their two children a
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    • 150 36 THE Indonesian navy's Chief of Staff, Admiral Widodo, paid a courtesy call on Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan yesterday afternoon. Dr Tan, who is also Minister for Defence, received Adm Widodo at the Defence Ministry complex m Gombak Drive. Adm Widodo had also called on the Chief
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    • 440 36  -  LIM SENG JIN CASE AGAINST OTHER BROTHER NOT PROVEN By ONE brother will hang, the other will be spared the noose. Odd-job labourer Mohamed Ibrahim Moulana Abdul Kader, 35, was found guilty. But his brother, bartender Mohamed Makar Moulana Abdul Kader, 24, was acquitted by the
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    • 670 37  - Chinese High maps its vision as it turns 80 CHIN SOON FANG As it gears up for its birthday bash next month, it embarks on ways to produce cultured and IT-savvy boys Bu QUYUAN THE production will be staged at the Victoria Theatre from March 25 to 28 at 8
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  • COMMENTARY ANALYSIS
    • The Straits Times
      • 594 38 Nato out of options WHICHEVER way the Americans dress up the Kosovo peace talks m France, the outcome was neither a partial success nor an interim agreement. US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who had used threat and persuasion to bring the Serbs to heel, said defensively at the breakup
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    • 749 38  -  TOM PLATE LOS ANCEI.ES TIMES IT MAY well be that below the level of Secretary of State or Defence the most critical US position for Asia sits not m a stuffy office m Washington, but on a windswept hilltop command m Honolulu, Hawaii.
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    • 1517 38  -  ERIC TEO Bt, FRENCH Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine's definition m Paris of the United States as a "hyperpower" or "a country that is dominant and predominant m all categories—attitudes, concepts, language and modes of life" created quite a stir m diplomatic circles. Coming on the heels
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    • 894 39  - America's deadly love affair with guns DON REEDER By IN TUCSON. ARIZONA THE fat man m his 50s wearing blue jeans and a Chicago Cubs baseball cap gets out of his car at a service station to fill his tank m this peaceful town m the American south-west. As he
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    • 906 39  -  CHUA HUCK CHENG EYE ON THE WORLD B,j A LITTLE tempest over tourism and a politician's lack of crisis management skills or lack of credibility, as the opposition claims very nearly brought down the National Party government m New Zealand this week, nine months shy of the
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  • FORUM
    • 462 40 I REFER to the letter "Hydroponic greens: Are they healthy?" by Mr Richard Seah (ST, Feb 18) and would like to thank him for highlighting this pertinent issue. We are pleased to inform Mr Seah that studies have shown that hydroponic greens are healthy and
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    • 232 40 I REFER to the letter "Hydroponic greens: Are they healthy?" by Mr Richard Seah (ST, Feb 18). The main objective of the sensory evaluation of vegetables grown m hydroponics (soilless culture) and soil conducted by the Department of Biotechnology at Ngee Ann Polytechnic was to
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    • 371 40 I REFER to the letter "Appalling service by A&Estaff byMs Caroline David (ST, Feb 24). The case involved a patient who has been making frequent visits to our A E department and is well-known to the staff. During his many visits to the
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    • 344 40 Woman fell before she could be rescued by officers THE incident witnessed by Mr Vaidynathan Mohan (ST,Feb22)wasan unfortunate one. We wish to explain to Mr Mohan and The Straits Times readers what happened on Feb 18. The police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) were alerted that the woman was
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    • 484 41 I REFER to the article "Help is not just aid, says Jakarta (ST, Feb 24). I take particular offence at the statement made by Dr Dewi Fortuna Anwar that "humanitarian assistance smacks of charity". It irks and saddens me to think that not all
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    • 635 41 I AM a native Japanese woman who has been residing m Singapore for almost four years. I have been following closely comments made by Indonesian ministers and other influential leaders, as reported m The Straits Times. The comments of Dr Dewi Fortuna Anwar (ST,
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    • 133 41 I REFER to Mr David L. Hack's letter (ST,Feb 25). Please allow me as one born and bred here to recall my memories of Singapore m the *****. "Small": Definitely. The work on landfills since the island gained independence was not for nothing.
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  • SPORTS
    • 701 42  - $25m needed each year to realise Goal 2010 plan S.MURALI Money will be used to fund academies and raise interest levels Stories by GOAL 2010: Next, the Government A 40-page report on Goal 2010 was presented at Monday's Football Association off Singapore Executive Committee meeting. The report has made several
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    • 352 42 OTHER national sports associations are happy that soccer is thinking big m its quest for Goal 2010. Hockey, for one, is hoping that the Football Association of Singapore does manage to get the necessary funds to reach its goal. Said Singapore Hockey Federation
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    • 523 42 FAS' S2SM BUDGET: How other associations compare A LARGE chunk of the $25--million budget will go towards youth development Although the specifics have not been worked out yet, the radical overhaul of the youth development programme will surely result m some cost. Among
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      140 42 'THE FAS NOW HAS TO WORK OUT EXACTLY HOW WE CAN USE THE NECESSARY FUNDS TO MAKE THE PROJECT VIABLE. WE HAVE TO FIND THE MONEY SOMEHOW.' FAS' honorary secretary John Koh (left) THE PROJECT WAS INITIATED WITH A VIEW TO A RADICAL OVERHAUL OF THE YOUTH
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    • 532 43  -  S A NTOKH SINGH SOCCER Bt, PLATINIFOR SINGAPORE? NOWAY IDWTTWWfTTO BEACQKHNA TECHNICAL DIRECTOR OF ANY cum COOMIY BECAUSE 1 1HMK lON CONimUTETO UK GAME MORE AT THE GLOBAL UEVEL' Michel PUtini, who FIFA president Sepp Blatter is all for Asia getting an additional slot tor
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    • 898 43  - Yong gets revenge from Dong THOMAS KOH BADMINTON Top Malaysian on course for semis after his second win Stories by IN BANDAR SERI BECAWAN ALL THE RESULTS YONG HOCK KIN came under heavy fire from the Malaysian press last month when he decided to skip the lucrative South Korean and
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    • THE LATE NEWS
      • 32 43 ENGLAND and Liverpool soccer striker Michael Owen denied yesterday that he is ready to move to Lazio m a £25-million (Ss6B--million) transfer despite intense press speculation m Italy.
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    • 389 43 HE GOES by the name Tang Xianhu, but older badminton fans will know him simply as "The Thing". The legendary Chinese shuttler earned that nickname for his ruthless qualities on court m the 1960s and *****. After moving to Indonesia to coach m 1986,
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    • 243 43 THE biennial football World Cup will be introduced from the year 2009 that is if present Fifa president Sepp Blatter has his way. Said Blatter last night: The year 2005 will mark a new century for Fifa, which was founded m 1904. And by then, we
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    • 1057 44  -  T AY CHENG KHOON ANDERSEN CONSULTING WORLD MATCHPLAY CHAMPIONSHIP Upsets abound as seeds scatter m opening round of world championship By IN CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA RESULTS First round, (US unless noted): Nick Price (Zim) ht K rankie Minoza (RP)4and3, JetY Maggert bt Fred Funk 2 up,
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    • 997 44 CARLSBAD It is hard to conduct an interview with Japanese pro Shigeki Maruyama. His easy laughter is so spontaneous and infectious that you just shake your head and laugh with him. He speaks halting English ana, when lost for the appropriate words, scratches his
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    • GOLF SHORTS
      • 156 44 GOING ONE-UP AGAINST FATE AMERICAN Paul Azinger and Swede Patrik Sjoland both won their first-round matches yesterday. More importantly, both seemed to nave won bigger battles against fate which had once threatened not only their careers but their lives too. Azinger had a fabulous season m 1993 when he won
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      • 105 44 IT IS nice to see golfers blaming themselves tor losing instead of giving cock-and-bull excuses. Said Europe's No. 2 Darren Clarke, after being beaten by Andrew Magee: "I played poorly and kept hoping for better." And from Rocco Mediate: "I got my butt kicked. That is
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      • 96 44 MARK CMEARA feels that either David Duval or himself will win the Andersen Consulting Matchplay and it has nothing to do with their being among the top three m the world. In fact, it has nothing to do with golf. Said the Masters and t British
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      • 61 44 THE current group of 32 players will be cut to 16 after the second round of matches and then two elimination rounds will be played today. The four semi-finalists will play tomorrow until there are just two for Sunday's final, a 36-hole match worth US$l
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    • 531 46 BASKETBALL Three losses m as many days signal the departure of trainer LOS ANGELES Dennis Rodman is m and the coach is out at the Los Angeles Lakers. The National Basketball Association team fired coach Del Harris, just one day after signing rebounding king Dennis Rodman.
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    • 371 46 DENVER Nick van Exel scored 21 of his 23 points m the second half as he led the Denver Nuggets to a stunning 97-87 upset of the Utah Jazz m a National Basketball Association match. Denver held an 85-79 lead with 4min 35sec
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    • 344 46 CRICKET COLOMBO India declared at 518-7 and took two Sri Lankan wickets for 121 runs on the second day of their Asian Test Championship match here yesterday. Debutant paceman Ashish Nehra struck the first blow m the Sri Lankan innings when he trapped Marvan
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    • 575 46 BADMINTON Intfton; MacPherson w.o. Queenstown. Thomson 4 Bishan East 1. Geylang West 3 Kg Chai Chee 2. Kim Seng 5 Changi/Simei 0. Fengshan 3 Telok Siangan 2. Chengsan 3 Tiong Bahru 2. Monday's Baiduri World Grand Prix finals in Bandar Seri Beoawan Man's doubles Group A: F.
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    • 256 45 An angry Tyson gets 25 days in isolation BOXING ROCKVILLE (Maryland) Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, m jail for assaulting a pair of motorists, will spend 25 days m solitary confinement as punishment for hurling a television set at prison guards, officials said. A Montgomery County Detention Centre
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    • 557 45  -  SANTOKH SINGH SOCCER Rezal injured, two deputies not available for friendly against Brunei Bui THE Lions have been hit with a goalkeeping crisis four days before they take on Brunei m a friendly soccer international at the National Stadium. First-choice custodian Rezal Hassan has been
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    • 230 45 LONDON Tottenham Hotspur manager George Graham won his grudge match with former club Leeds United as Spurs clinched a 2-0 win and a spot m the last eight of the English FA Cup. And the London side was joined m the quarter-finals by Premiership
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    • 264 45 Irish FA upset with Fif a over Arsenal tie LONDON The Irish Football Association has accused Fifa of double standards for allowing the Arsenal-Shef-field United FA Cup tie to be replayed. IFA chief executive David Bowen said world football 's governing body would risk throwing the game into turmoil if
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    • 358 45  -  TAN THE AN LOON By SHE is a pretty young thing but Canadian Helen Vanek is no ordinary 21-year-old. For the only visiting jockey at the current Singapore meeting comes with excellent credentials. Just last year, she was crowned top apprentice m Canada with 90 winners and
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      • 86 45 COMING UP ROSES ONE MORE TIME SINGAPORE continued its good ran m the Federation Cup Asia-Oceania Group II tennis competition m Bangkok yesterday when it beat Malaysia 2-1. The Republic had beaten Kazakhstan by an identical scoreline on Wednesday. Yesterday, Jaime Wong put Singapore back on level terms after Leong
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      • 104 45 RAIN frustrated any chance Australia had of beating a West Indian Cricket Board XI on the third and final day m their opening tour match at the Antigua Recreation Ground on Wednesday. The WICB XI held on to be 121-4 at the close after 65 minutes
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      • 42 45 TOSHACK JOINS REAL AGAIN WELSHMAN John Toshack is to coach Real Madrid for the second time, replacing Dutchman Guvs Hiddink. His new job was confirmed by the Spanish soccer champion on Wednesday as he left Turkey's Besiktas after 18 months m charge.
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      • 60 45 BATISTUTA BACK IN TRAINING FIORENTINA striker Gabriel Batistuta returned to the training pitch on Wednesday for the first time since he twisted his left knee m an Italian League soccer match earlier this month. The Argentine, top scorer m Serie A this season with 18 goals, spent the session jogging,
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    • 526 45 SINGAPORE RACING 'Helen Vanek (above) was top apprentice m Canada last year with 90 winners... Her achievements included ridingfive winners m a day last year.' AERION STAR looms as a good outside chance m Race 7 tomorrow, judging by his winding-up gallop at Bukit Timah
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    • 144 46 850 DEATHS 850 DEATHS I IFW AM I 111 LILW AH LIU ii pp. 4/-J1 /U*t lUI passed away peacefully on 24/2/99. Sadly missed by family and loved ones. (Husband: Low Wai, deceased) Sons: Daughters-in-law: (Low Fook Seng, deceased) Boey Foon Oi ChuaKimHua Low Soh Ah Chan Hong Van Daughter:
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    • 88 46 852 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 852 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Family Of The Late DERRICK SIM KAH BOON Departed on 21 February 1999 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and deep appreciation to Rev. Phua Chee Seng of Chen Li Presbyterian Church, Rev. Yap Wai Keong of Bethany Trinity Presbyterian Church, Staff of Singapore Bus
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    • 310 46 850 DEATHS 850 DEATHS 'In my Father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you. I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am, there you may be also.' OUR BELOVED j AN g WEE RHENG Was Called home tO be With
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    • 45 46 I hi The family of the Late I j NG SAY LIN Departed 21/2/99 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, business associates, and colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance, wreaths, donations and condolences during their recent bereavement.
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    • 40 46 If 1 1 The Family Of The Late CHUA OR KOON Departed on 20/2/99 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks appreciation to all relatives, friends colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, wreaths donations during their recent bereavement.
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      99 46 VEERAYA KALIAMAH (Wife of Sinnathambi deceased) *«'63 Dewrtefl on 25/2/99 Owrly misstO by: TT^^ Sons' S^m (Paneer Selvarr,. deceased) KS" ||y Mw> sivaqam. Suguna g Maia D«*t«rs: Rang^ai Manama* soiw-Jn-tow: Mahaimgam SS J2,JfJESF"™' cort«gt leaving bik 336 «03-soi woodlands Avt i sport ****** 26 f«* 99 gJS&ViisSr Z
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    • 62 46 TODAY'S EVENTS ATHLETICS Schools' National Cross-Country Championships (MacRitchie, 3pm). RUGBY Schools' National Championship Police Cup, U-17 Novice: SPFvPSS (3.30pm), SQSvJYS (5pm) Grange Road. SNOOKER SBSC National 8-Ball C'ships(SBSCHall, 7pm). SOCCER Civil Service Cup: Caldecott RC v Prisons SA(CSC Oval), Club ITE vMOE(ITEBedok) 5.15pm. TENNIS Schools' National C'ships, s-finals B Div
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    • 258 47 854 CONDOLENCES 854 CONDOLENCES 854 CONDOLENCES 854 CONDOLENCES 854 CONDOLENCES 854 CONDOLENCES Executive Vice President for Asia Pacific, AXA Regional Office The Directors, Management and Staff of AXA Investment Managers II extend our deepest condolences to his family and staff. II Patrick will be deeply missed. ■In |3 Our Deepest
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      63 47 FIRST ANNIVERSARY I I In Ever Loving Memory Of S. MUTHUSAMY Departed on 8.3.1998 Dearest father ;°aUrsSleud,3"thoSel jnd then you ha; to go I p?omrs r me n d aatl to pe t a he eful rest just and honest. >• Awaysrernemberedby 3ST aauqnitrs m law, i
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    • 111 47 856 IN MEMORIAM 856 IN MEMORIAM ijlpp? In Lovin? memory of 11/ I S. K. TINAGARAN (TINU) Departed: 26th Februa^ 1997 so^HS ££l SsZe%Wwe°kn™\Z7whl™; I < Never to pa, t again. SP^> Always remembered by parents, -g|i ITlllllMlillilS llniiiilll ntto^^^^^^^^M^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^to I M Anniversary V\ m urn* vmon, WONGYOKELAN Departed on
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    • 27 47 856 IN MEMORIAM 856 IN MEMORIAM I In Loving Memory Of CHUAPOHKHOON TEO LEX IMM Departed:"2 93 Departed: 7AM Alwa Vs remembered by I family, re.atives& friends
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    • 72 47 854 CONDOLENCES 854 CONDOLENCES 854 CONDOLENCES 854 CONDOLENCES Ifl^ With Deepest Sympathy Heartfelt Condolences to Til H Mr Frederic Dutrey, son of the late Tl 1 T^\ Jratrick JJutrey Departed on 20th February 1999 From Fellow Aviators Caroline Tan Christopher Phua j Dayna PC Lim Eric Ong James Teng Lee
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    • 3262 48 LUMPUR Adjusted »cr new issues; Par value MS! unless otherwise specified; Pit ratios are not adjusted for currency difference* 1999 Last Vol Net High Low Company Sal* COOO) P/E INDUSTRIALS Consumer Products 310 280 Ajinomoto 280 -10 1 1S.4 83 62 Angkasa 70 -2 2 283 240 Apollo
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    • 263 48 FJ*>25,1999| Rubber Futures (Closing prices) RSS 1 (Tonnes, S cents/kg) Month High Low Sett Vol Op«n Int Mar 99 111.50 300 Apr 113.25 112.75 112.50 300 700 May 115.25 114.75 114.50 300 925 Jun 116.50 300 Jul/S»p 120.00 825 Oct/Dec 123.50 225 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Mar 99
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    • 88 48 HIHtaHSS) HtMH, *****-*****.57 *****-*****.87 100 am 1595-1671.69 1586-1662.42 50 am 799-840.48 795-835.33 20 am 318-341.96 317-339.90 5 J£ 80-92.70 79-92.70 qm 16-25.75 16-25.75 BuMlii ttwg (Ss'M) J*» X« S»r» bufl»on coto SH-5T7 508-514 C*n«di<n m*pt» i»af 511-517 508-514 Austrian rnunt 510-533.54 507-530.45 ÜBS 9O« Mnrtjf" l^ Thu *•<! (Ss/«)
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    • 181 48 (9am,Feb 25) Buying 00 Selling Singapore dollars to on* unit of foreign currency Australian dollar 1.0820 1.1050 Canadian dollar M 420 1.1660 NZ dollar 0.9100 0.9290 Sterling pound 2.7500 2.7790 US dollar 1.7240 1.7350 Singapore dollars to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 13.60 14.00 Belgian franc 4.660
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    • 1243 48 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS Fob 26,1999 Managers' prices (Ss) LEGCND < All prices art Indicative except for Ex Rlnqo.it Assets; Broadly Diversified (CPF Approved); I Narrowly Focused (CPF Approved); Lower Risk; Low to Medium Risk; Medium to High Risk; Higher Risk; <S> open-ended nwton Asset Mo.t Asia ltd Aberdeen Spore GrFd
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    • 365 48 FebzsW H*s I ASM Pacific 4.20 *0.32 Aiii*4 Ind Int'l 0.03 *unch Alli»d Oversea 0.29 unch Asia Sec Int 0.28 Bank of EA 10.55 -0.10 C.P. Poliphand 0.14 *0.00 COL Hotti lqrr +0.01 Cafe 0* Coral 2.20 -O.K) CatnPaeAir 8.50 -0.05 Century City ~o^6 unch Cheung Kong 51.25
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    • 41 48 Crude palm oil (Ms/tonn«) Mar 99 1,740.00 (South and Central) Refined palm oil (USS/tonne) RBD Palm Oil Mar 99 492.50 (seller) Apr 475.00 (seller) RBD Olsin Mar 99 522.50 (seller) Apr 507.50 (seller; RBD Stearin Mar 99 375.00 (seller)
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    • 18 48 Closing prices (USS/troy 01) Thu Wed Singapore 5.41-5.43 5.47-5.49 Wed Tue New York 5.30-5.40 5.49-5.51 Sourer ROTHSCHILD
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    • 64 48 CRUDE PRODUCT PRICES Crudt/Product Month* Ctw»9« Prlct <US$) 6BL BRENT BLEND Apr +0.40 11.10 11.15 WEST TEXAS Inttrm Apr +0.41 12.66-12.70 DUBAI FATEH Apr +0.17 10.48 10.53 TAPIS BLEND Mar +0.20 11.55 11.65 MINAS Mar +0.20 10.70 IC.SO NAPHTHA (CIF Jap) +1.75 1'U.50 117.50 NAPHTHA +0.20 11.75 11.95 CST-180 HSFO
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    • 360 48 Feb25,1999 Eurodollar 3 Mantn deposit (100 implied inttf *st rat*) OH* Hlojn Lew Sett CrtVol Mar 99 94.965 94.9675 94.9575 94.9675 6311 Apr 99 94.930A 94.930 0 May 99 94.895 0 Act Vo4 (/'Mi: *****. Open int (Wed): ***** Eureyen 3-Month deposit (100 implied interest rate) Open High
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    • 169 48 *j Transaction date: Feb 25,1999 52-W* Curr Last Vol Day Gross Ntt M Cap Com *"9! JL rad#d HH *w- 'OOP High Low dlv H Pit $mll HONMONt STOCKS CDI (2000) HK4OO 8 20 5 7744.7 Cathay Pac 20c HK72O 265 6 *****.4 Ch«ung KongSOc HKI7BO 240 3
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    • 44 49 cum Straits Tlmas lnde« 1410.22 -0.76 BT OB/OS 152.00 114.00 BTCADI -*****.00 27.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 15.00 DBSCPFIndax 422.76 3.43 DBS 50 lnd»« 467.87 1.34 OCBC 30 434.35 3.31 UOB Blue Chip 544.80 7.18 MSCI Singapore 211.65 »2.79 Simsci Futures 211.30 +0.30
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    • 106 49 MAIN SCO Up Dn Uneh Up Dn Unch Multi Ind 9 3 5 0 0 0 Manufacturing 32 20 18 6 4 15 Commerce 8 13 9 3 12 Tpt/Stor/Comms .10 4 9 10 0 Finance 10 10 6 0 0 0 Construction 7 2 7 12 3 Properties
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    • 39 49 Uraco HldgslOc 10,597.000 Uraco Wt02 6846.000 SingTel 15c 5,221,000 D8S Land 4,045,000 Se.r.oCorpI 25c 3,845,000 CK Tang Wt99 3,478,000 Gc" S Intl Ltd 20c 3,332,000 HK l.*nd USIOc 3,328,000 S f f."ig 10c 3,166,000 Eas'*rn Asia 2,848,000
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    • 67 49 TURNOVER COOO) Main Sesdaq Total Multilnd... 10,399 10,399 Manufacturing 39,043 4,456 43,499 Commerce 8,71) 2,748 11,459 Tpt/Stor/Comms 10,209 25 10 234 Finance 7,796 7,796 Construction 2,271 1 032 3 303 Properties 11,868 11.868 Hotels/Rsts 779 484 1,263 Services 3,162 392 3.554 Others BLW 25,280 834 26,114 TOTAL 119,5
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    • 3748 49 Transaction date: Feb 25,1999 ummwrnnm 52-Wk Curr Last Vol Oay Gr't Net M Cap Wt Avg Man Lew Company Traded Sale *or- '000 High Low Dry P/E Smll Price 142 17* ml Acme 50c 70.5 unch 75 71 70 27.5 5 116.6 71 55 25 e AMIanceTech
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    • 310 49 MARKET REPORT TRADING on the local bourse was subdued yesterday ahead of the Budget to be unveiled later today, dealers said. It was a mixed trading day: some dealers were still executing programmed buys for their foreign clients on selected blue chips such as Singapore
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    • 1100 49 BONDS, LOANS WARRANTS Transaction date: Feb 25, 1999 STOCK PRICES LEGEND (NOft-tniTtft} tC t M*faa tnnrmt'^ ...j.. m* i... siocm »ppr«v« tiAwf eft invKtmtitts scntm* (Tn«t««t Ny m^mttmntmM ftfiH^^™^ ii d■■ AiKiaJ Crt CUfn rifltrt iSSUC CWCUtn bonus iSsttfl Kri «-rtflht»SSU« XbltX-bomiStSSU* xati«x-«H edxacumdhrWend«x-alt ctfcacumdMdMdcumaK NOTES fmtli fttarMa. IMtJttf V^t&
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    • MONEY WORLD
      • 86 50 OPERATIONS m banks and financial markets across India were disrupted severely yesterday as nearly a million bank employees stayed away from work on the first day ofa twoday strike to press for higher wages. The strike was called by nine bank unions after talks with
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      • 294 50 JAPAN'S Sakura Bank yesterday projected heavy losses m the year to March due to bad loan disposals and pledged further restructuring ahead of a public fund injection. Sakura forecast a group pre-tax loss of 780 billion yen (5511.2 billion), up from a 670-billion-ven loss
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      • 75 50 OLIVETTI, Italy's No. 2 telephone company, refiled its US$5B billion (Ssloo billion) hostile offer for Telecom Italia, m a move it said will prevent its bigger rival from taking measures to fend off the bid. Olivetti's original offer, made on Saturday, was rejected by regulators partly
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      • 81 50 "NO SACRED cows." That was the message from Boeing chairman and chief executive officer Phil Condit, who said on Wednesday the financially ailing aerospace giant would exit even its core commercial airplane business if that was what it took to make money. However, he added
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      • 80 50 DUTCH bank ABN Amro said yesterday that its provisions for bad loans jumped by 72 per cent last year and that net profit rose by 4.5 per cent to 4.03 billion guilders (553.5 billion) as financial crises m Russia and Brazil hit second-half earnings. The
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    • 473 50 Greenspan says Federal Reserve is not a global firefighter, as its ability to save troubled economies is limited GREENSPAN: US can't save the world OUR CENTRAL FOCUS ON POUCY ISIHEUNITED STATES. WHETHER WEIOKROR RAISE INTEREST RATES, THE CENTRAL FOCUS IS OUR LONG-lON 60AL.MKHIS MAXWL
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    • 297 50 SHAREHOLDERS NOT RECEIVING VALUE WASHINGTON Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan seems to think shareholders may have lost their senses when it comes to compensating corporate chieftains. He told the House Banking Committee on Wednesday that stock owners were "wasting their money" on king-sized
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    • 514 51  - Asia may be over the worst: Forum LUZ BAGUIORO But region is still at risk from external factors with China, Japan, the US and Y2K bug being the wild cards Bu IN MANILA THE worst of the Asian crisis appears to be over but the region's economies may be m
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    • 112 51 igUF f-AIIBCF IMF AM? AAllfA TA AA IT UT wwUmnXi Uli nllEe wvHlU III W It VFBYrADFnillY THAT'Q WHY MfF full bWIErULLla I m I 0 MI IfC WON! AUOW BANKS TO SEU 100 PER CENT OF THE BONDS AT OHCL' Indonesian central baiik governor Syaliril Sabirin
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    • 448 51 BANGKOK Thailand's armed forces has announced plans to retreat from the banking sector by reducing their holdings m Thai Military Bank (TMB) and seeking strategic partners. Thailand's army chief and chairman of the TMB board, General Surayuth Chulanont, said on Wednesday that the military
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    • 400 51 BOND SALES IN STAGES JAKARTA Indonesian central bank governor Syahril Sabirin said on Wednesday the recapitalisation of eligible banks was expected to take place m March, but banks would be allowed initially to sell only some of the bonds they received. Mr Sabirin told Reuters
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    • 127 51 HONGKONG Hongkong is losing out to economic rival Singapore due partly to a lack of leadership vision from the government, a securities house has warned. Painting a bleak picture for the Hongkong economy, Nomura International said it expected another year of negative
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    • ANNUAL ECONOMIC SURVEY
      • 514 52 28 r 3OO people lost their Jobs last year due to falling demand and business restructuring, mainly m the manufacturing sector AN ALL-TIME high of 28,300 people were retrenched last year as business demand fell and businesses restructured and reorganised their operations, said the Ministry
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      • 484 52 Latin American woes will hit S'pore indirectly WEAKER SING SINGAPORE looks set to condone further weakening of its dollar, given its uncertain export outlook and official projections of benign inflation this year, analysts said yesterday. The Singapore dollar, which has come under renewed pressure from a sinking yen m the
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      • 302 52 'NO DEFLATIONARY SPIRAL' INFLATION this year is expected to continue to slow, staying between minus 1 and 0 per cent. The slowdown began last year when the consumer price index contracted 0.3 per cent, the first decline since 1986 13 years ago when it fell
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      • 400 52 MOST of Singapore's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) polled m a Temasek Polytechnic survey are confident that business will start improving from the third quarter ofthis year. The survey, done for the first time by Temasek Business School and the Association of Small and
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      • 696 52  -  LLOYD AU COUNTDOWN TO BUDGET By A KNOWLEDGE-BASED economy is dependent heavily on human capital, and much discussion has centred around how we could attract foreign talent to live and work m Singapore. One of the factors m this matrix is the existence of a
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        • 107 52 TECHNICALLY SPEAKING MINISTRY of Trade and Industry figures show that the economy had actually slipped technically into recession m the second, not the third, quarter. The ministry had said, m its third-quarter economic survey, that Singapore was technically m recession as it had suffered two consecutive quarters of negative growth.
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        • 61 52 SINGAPORE'S Composite Leading Index, which tracks economic activity three quarters ahead, rose 2.7 per cent m the last quarter of 1998, from 1.6 per cent a quarter earlier. "On an overall basis, business expectations for the first six months of 1999 have turned less pessimistic, with more firms
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        • 62 52 THE chemical sector is likely to be a star performer this year, said a senior official from the Economic Development Board (EDB). Its growth potential stems from extra capacity that came on-stream last year and would continue through this year, and from Singapore's global pharmaceuticals export market, which
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        • 51 52 SIX statutory boards the Housing Board, Jurong Town Corporation, Sentosa Development Corporation, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Civil Aviation Authority o.f Singapore and Land Transport Authority registered a slight deficit of $23.32 million last year, a contrast to the surpluses of 1.8 billion achieved m 1996 and $1.5 billion m
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      • 726 53  -  TAMMY TAN All major manufacturing industries, except chemical and transport equipment, show a decline Bu ECONOMISTS' VIEWS Recession goes much deeper 'On the surface the recession looks very shallow fourth quarter GDP fell only 0.8 per cent which is very mild against other countries
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      • 570 53  - Growth falls to 3.9% as property market languishes KALPANA RASHIWALA CONSTRUCTION Bit CONSTRUCTION growth slowed to 3.9 per cent last year from a robust 15 per cent m 1997, dragged down by a big decline intne fourth quarter. The sector suffered a 5.3 per cent year-on-year fall m that quarter
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      • 374 53  -  DENNIS CHAN COMMERCE By COMMERCE was the hardest hit sector last year, with a 4 per cent contraction year-on-year m sharp contrast with growth of 5.7 per cent m 1997Throughout last year, its performance worsened steadily, culminating m a 6.3 per cent decline m the
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    • 387 54  -  WILLIAM CHOONG NEWSPAPERS RETAIN BIGGEST SHARE Bu AD ITS LOWEST ADVERTISING revenue m Singapore fell for the first time m 13 years last year, but newspapers still commanded a bigger slice of the pie than television, says a survey. Newspapers held a
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    • 373 54  - Shippers set to ride out storm LEONG CHAN TEIK High-level PSA council says the industry may look forward to higher shipping volumes and rates this year 3u MEMBERS of a high-pow-ered shipping council expect this year will be "slightly better* for the world's battered shipping lines. Dr Yeo Ning Hong,
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    • 120 54 THREE Singapore ministers yesterday called on Myanmar's Prime Minister Senior General Than Shwe. Trade and Industry Minister Lee Yock Suan, Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan and National Development Minister Lim Hng Kiang, were m Yangon for the third joint ministerial meeting to promote bilateral economic co-operation
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    • 235 54 PACIFIC Internet has unveiled a package of rebates aimed at removing the tollfree advantage enjoyed by Sing Net subscribers. The Nasdaq-listed Internet service provider said yesterday that its package, called Toll Plus and which takes effect from Monday, "outdoes" its competitors. Sing Net had
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    • 577 55 Tie-up will utilise resources better. Maybank's interim gain slumps 40%, still beating analysts' forecast It's kind of reassuring. Not only did we not have any land mines, the numbers all look m order/ Daiwa's Mr Tony Raza, who is keeping his "hold" recommendation
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    • 378 55  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA By CITY Developments will slash the price of its Guilin View condominium by 20 per cent to $465 per sq ft on average from tomorrow. And it will continue to absorb stamp duty "for a limited perioa". This price applies only to 158
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    • 241 55 HIAP Moh Corporation yesterday reported a net loss of $3.3 million for last year, the bulk of which was attributed to a property development project m Sydney undertaken by an associated company. Hiap Moh was already m the red at half-time, with a loss of
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      • 89 55 PRESSCRETE Holdings yesterday reported group net profit plunged 76 per cent to $302,000 for the year ended Nov 30 despite turnover rising 13 per cent to $21.6 million. The group blamed the lower earnings mainly on losses incurred by its subsidiary Presscrete (M) Sdn Bhd. Earnings
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      • 62 55 INTER-ROLLER Engineering yesterday reported group net profit grew 1.9 per cent to $802,000 for the year ended Dec 31, as turnover swelled 13 per cent to $30.3 million. Earnings per share and net tangible assets per share were maintained at 1.2 cents and 32.1 cents respectively.
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      • 44 55 SEMBCORP Industries yesterday announced the appointment of Mr Peter Scan, a non-executive director, as an additional deputy chairman of the company with effect from Monday. Mr Seah is also president and chief executive officer of Overseas Union Bank.
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      • 93 55 SOFTWARE company SR Singapore Pte Ltd, which launched a corporate Internet banking system yesterday, said that it planned to list on Nasdaq within the next three to six months. It aimed to raise about US$lO million by issuing 1.5 million to two million of its
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      • 41 55 SINGAPORE Telecom and Japan's KDD have agreed to provide international managed frame relay services between Singapore and Japan. The service, which is used by multinational companies for intra-corporate communications, will be commissioned from April 1.
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      • 64 55 MBf FINANCE NEEDS $1.48 MALAYSIA'S MBf Finance Bhd needs a recapitalisation of nearly RM3 billion (551.37 billion) to restore its financial health, government officials and industry sources said yesterday. They said shareholders of the troubled finance company, which was taken over by Bank Negara last month, were still negotiating the
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      • 49 55 THE merger of Keppel Fels and Keppel Integrated Engineering to form Keppel Pels Energy and Infrastructure has received in-princi-ple approval from the stock exchange. The proposed merger is expected to be completed m the second quarter. Keppel Fels will be listed on the mainboard.
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      • 23 55 BONVESTS Holdings' wholly-owned unit Colex (Singapore) has received* inprinciple approval from the bourse to list on Sesdaq.
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    • 595 55  -  JEAN CHIA PUT AND CALL AT ONE CO *L TWO IN ONE Pat WHaim Investors expecting volatility m the three companies' share prices can buy them, since pair warrants will reward their holders when there is a large rise or fall
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