The Straits Times, 10 March 2003

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    30 1 The Straits Times Established 1H45 PACIFIC AREA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR iVl€fllClciy March 10, 2003 •82 Pages in five parts mita(P) 094/03/2002 #0 A Singapore Press Holdings publication \J\J Cents
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    Lock icon US, Britain giving Iraq final chance
    651 1 Allies publishing list of final demands if Saddam does not comply within six days he faces war, possibly inside a week PUPPET OR CIPHER? Will the UN, which turns 58 soon, be ridiculed as a puppet or reduced to a self-absorbed cipher? See PACE
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    Lock icon Massive rallies in Indonesia
    480 1  -  ROBERT GO ANTI-WAR PROTESTS Half a million at one gathering to hear clerics speak against conflict in Iraq Bu STRAITS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Hundreds of thousands of white-clad Indoj nesians held rallies in two major cities yesterday, to pray for peace and to protest against
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      178 1 I<A 1J Vi* StHA.il\K IFMJ; Firsf- Division Sheffield United beats Leeds with late goal page ah rHiVrLiiA \^r v^-1- V- MHr Some men don't mind ji Liu Kang, 62, wants to be a For the first time since July 2001 their women undergoing f «fi v 'iS?*^''^ voluntary tour guide
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  • NEWS FLASH
    • Article
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      160 2 DRUG INMATE'S OLEVEL JOY AN INMATE at Tanah Merah Prison, after learning that a new science laboratory was to be set up at the Kaki Bukit Centre Prison School, was quick to ask for a transfer there. And he was granted one. The 26-year-old drug offender a school dropout
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      101 2 TECH SCI E N C E BRIGHT IDEA: SMS THE ROBOT A SMALL robot on a factory floor whizzes up and down switching on the lights at a command by mobile-phone SMS. Such a robotic gadget has been devised by two Ngee Ann Polytechnic students. The technology can also be
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      89 2 RECYCLING: THE UNSEEN WASTE SINGAPOREANS are confused about the recycling that goes on because not enough is being done to give them clear information, writes Ms Koh Hwan Cui. In her case, she learnt just recently that only a certain kind of plastic is recycled here namely, mineral-water and
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      56 2 ON TRAIL OF OLD COFFIN SHOPS A CARNIVAL by the Singapore River and a food trail are two attractions of this year's Heritage Festival. More unusual highlights include the Trail Of Our Hokkien Forefathers, in which people get to glean cultural tidbits such as the history of the coffin
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      121 2 Words of comfort from PMGoh PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong urged young Singaporeans not to be downcast if they could not find a job easily. Just keep trying, he said. And he assured them that if war in Iraq proved short and swift, Singapore's economic setback would be only
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      126 2 Price war leads to cheaper petrol BIG discounts on petrol can now be had at stations all over the island, not just in the Bukit Timah area. A price war among three big oil companies Caltex, Shell and ExxonMobil has led to their offering petrol discounts of 6 per
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      54 2 Spread of 'superbugs' TWOstrains of drug- resistant "superbugs which cause pneumonia, meningitis and other infections are spreading swiftly across America, doctors warned. The bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus are resistant to antibiotics and penicillin. And the S. aureus strain, which has infected thousands of Americans, may now have
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      71 2 SMALL PUNTERS BUY HEDGE FUNDS SMALL investors have taken to retail hedge funds, as they now find them more affordable. They have invested more than $21 million in the new asset class since it kicked off six months ago. And at least $15 million of that went this year
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      82 2 BT'S INDIA PLAN SPARKS DEMOS BRITISH workers have staged demonstrations to try and halt the trend in companies closing telephone call centres in Britain and moving to India, where phone operators can be hired for less pay. More than 800 of British Telecom emplovees protested against job losses from
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      177 2 BOMBAY YUPPIES' DREAM REALISED OWNING a home in the city of Bombay is no longer an unattainable dream for thousands of middle-class Indians not since last month's Budget extended a key tax break and led to interest-rate cuts. The tax relief on home-loan interest payments of 150,000 rupees (555,760)
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      73 2 SINCHI: TOUGH, NOT ROUGH IN JUST two matches here, two players from S- League newcomer Sinchi FC have been sent off. But they are not soccer thugs, say most local observers. The China-born players just need time to adjust. Two coaches point out that Sinchi is simply a team
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  • PRIME NEWS
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      Lock icon Over 14,000 diners, 150 cooks and 700 waiters
      475 3  -  LEONG PIK YIN Costing $400,000, the mega dinner celebrates the birthday of Prosperity God and aims at promoting religious harmony 'This dinner is just one of our small ways of contributing to social cohesion and stability in Singapore. Administrator Eric Goh, on
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      Lock icon Budget debate: Beyond doom and gloom
      446 3  -  KAREN WONG MPs say it is time to start boosting confidence Bu IF SOME MPs have their way, the Budget debate that starts today will be free of doom and gloom about Singapore's future and full of suggestions to seize it. Speaking to The
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      Lock icon Murdered Cisco officer buried
      482 4  -  K.C. VIJAYAN SINGTEL EXCHANGE SHOOTING Colleagues speak of family man's good work ethic Bu THE body of the Cisco guard who was fatally shot by his former colleague was released to his family yesterday, and Mr Rahim Othman was buried after a two-day wait. While that
      WONG KWAI CHOW  -  482 words
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      Lock icon Invasion of drug-defiant 'superbugs' worries doctors
      492 4 Invasion of drug-defiant 'superbugs' worries doctors Bacteria that cause pneumonia and meningitis spreading across America; one strain may have reached Europe PARIS Doctors have sounded the alarm after discovering that two strains of drug-resistant "superbugs" are spreading like wildfire across the United States, and one of the bacteria may already
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      Lock icon What it should have been
      86 4 IN OUR report, "Budget 2003 at a glance", on March 1, we said that increases in spending by Singapore's Organs of State this financial year are partly a result of legal officers being paid higher performance and loyalty bonuses. This is incorrect. The amount budgeted
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      Lock icon UNWELCOME PAINT JOB
      115 6 WONG MAYE-E Two Bedok North Avenue 1 residents received a rude shock at 3 am yesterday when paint was thrown at their flat. Some of the paint went through the windows and landed on tenant Chieng Ling Seng, 27, waking her up. Ms Chieng then woke her
      WONG MAYE-E  -  115 words
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      Lock icon Terror groups 'will attack US forces'
      539 6 CIA believes that Iraq-based extremists are working to launch strikes against US and allied troops after an invasion WASHINGTON The CIA has warned that terrorists based in Iraq are planning attacks against US and allied forces inside the country after any invasion, government counter-terrorism
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      Lock icon HK maids don't think Manila can prevent wage cut
      442 6  -  MARY KWANG li't ll()\C.k()\C: CO KM SI'ONDIAT HONGKONG Several foreign domestic helpers in Hongkong have said the Philippine government's threat to take court action against the Hongkong administration for cutting their monthly pay is a hollow gesture. Ms Malou Maldanas, 36,
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  • WORLD
    • IRAQ: THE LOOMING WAR
      • IRAQ BRIEFING
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          Lock icon 'LIFT SANCTIONS'
          32 8 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has called on the UN Security Council to lift 12 years of sanctions against Iraq, saying inspectors' reports showed his country had fulfilled its disarmament commitments.
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          37 8 Saudi Arabia is allowing US troops to use two of its northern airports near the Iraqi border, but only for defence or to prepare for a likely flood of refugees in the event of war.
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          33 8 France reinforced its call for US President George W. Bush to attend nexfcwffllPMMWMe on war agaias* Iraq, insisting that leaders take personal responsjEl ity for a 'life or death" dwision m
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          20 8 North Korean consolaAfficial in Hongkong yesterdagpienied reports that his qountoy offered asylum to Iraqi PrSdent Saddam Hussein* >.* as
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          26 8 United ft&tions inspectors are accelerating their hunt for any shred of evidence that Baghdadlias an atomic weapons programme, top nuclear inspector Mohamed Elßaradei said.
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          21 8 Ex-US president Jimmy Carter said a US attack on Iraq would fall short of the ethical standard for war".
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          Lock icon BRITONS SAY 'YES'
          25 8 I The majority of Britons would support a war if it had the backing of the UN, according to an opinion poll.
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        Lock icon Iraq the latest to rock UN credibility
        716 8 United Nations will either be seen as a puppet of the US if it backs the war or be made irrelevant if it refuses to do so News Analysis RWANDA, 1994 UP to 750,000 mostly Tutsi tribal folk were killed by the Hutus
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        33 9 Thousands of protesters carried anti-war placards and railed against US President George W. Bush in weekend demonstrations across three continents. REUTERS A Pakistani boy chanting anti-US slogans at a rally yesterday
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        Lock icon IN THE U.S. 'Code pink for peace' inarch
        211 9 IN THE U.S. 'Code pink for peace' inarch WASHINGTON Thousands of women and a handful of men clad in pink and hoisting balloons and peace signs marched around the White House on Saturday to protest against plans for war with Iraq and to mark International Women's Day. Calling their protest
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        Lock icon Islamic parties organise rallies
        236 9 IN PAKISTAN RAWALPINDI (Pakistan) Tens of thousands of supporters of Pakistani Islamic parties rallied in the northern city of Rawalpindi yesterday to denounce US plans for war in Iraq. The protesters, mostly young men, carried banners bearing slogans including "No war for oil", "Down with Bush",
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        282 9 Bush effigy set ablaze IN EUROPE PARIS Tens of thousands took to Europe's streets on Saturday against a possible military strike on Iraq, with Italians burning an effigy of President George W. Bush and an English bishop insisting there was no moral justification for an attack. Left-wing parliamentary deputies were
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      Lock icon AL-QAEDA'S MASTER KILLER
      966 10  - AL-QAEDA'S MASTER KILLER SHEF ALI REKHI Bx, His long trail of terror SEPT 11 ATTACKS Planning for Sept 1 1 began with a visit by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to Hamburg in early 1999, where he met Mohammed Atta who flew a hijacked plane into the World Trade Center and another
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      138 10 SIIRT (Turkey) Turkey's governing party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a seat in parliament yesterday, clearing his way to take over as prime minister, after all votes were counted in a by-elec-tion, the provincial governor said. Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development party won all three seats
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  • PEOPLE
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      Lock icon James Soong casts off 'old' image
      196 11 NO GREY HAIR OR DARK SUITS TAIPEI Taiwan's opposition People First Party chairman James Soong, 60, recently had his grey hair dyed pitch-black. He has also put on a light-coloured suit with a matching tie. The result: he looks at least 10 years younger.
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      Lock icon INTERPOL WARRANT FOR FUJIMORI
      98 11 LIMA Interpol has issued a warrant of arrest for former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on charges of homicide and kidnapping. Mr Fujimori, born to Japanese emigrants, fled to Japan in November 2000 as a major corruption scandal broke out. Whether he can continue to be protected
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      97 11  -  Mary Kwang HONGKONG Secretary for Education and Manpower Arthur Li is dealing with things as trivial as toilet paper and soap in schools. According to a Hongkong newspaper report, an expatriate teacher wrote to him, complain- ing that students in her school were not provided with
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      106 11 HAVANA Reaching out to the Roman Catholic Church, Cuban leader Fidel Castro made an unprecedented appearance at the blessing of a convent on Saturday. He joined two cardinals one from Mexico and one from the Vatican at the blessing of the renovated residence of
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      51 11 Former US President Bill Clinton's daughter Chelsea will be paid a six-figure salary when she joins McKinsey after getting her master's degree from Oxford University later this year. Alain Dlicasse, one of France's most celebrated chefs, has been named The World's Best Cook by the American Academy of Hospitality and
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      35 11 Quoteworihy 7 don Y want a tulip. I ivoukl rattier liave rights, power and money. Russian activist Olga Lipovskaya, detr\inj» Russia's traditional way of t-elebrating Women's Day with flowers, |>< i fmm and boxes of candy
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    280 11  - Britons hit out at loss of jobs to India ALFRED LEE British Telecom staff will qo on strike to protest against move to 'export' 2,200 call centre jobs THE STRAITS TIMES EUROPE 111 RFAI LONDON Workers across Britain are demonstrating in a bid to halt the rising number of companies
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      618 12 AST Friday's United Nations Security B Council meeting was a sad day for the international community, especially I small countries. More than anybody J else, it is they who will suffer if the Security Council's credibility and effectiveness are impaired. The permanent five's bull-hea-dedness, their diplomatic brinkmanship,
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  • COMMENTARY • ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon FIGURE IT OUT Fewer fires
      9 12 FIGURE IT OUT Fewer fires JALEH A HA SHIM
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      Lock icon After Iraq, a global economic winter?
      749 12  -  LIM SAY BOON LUCRUM BEYOND what appears to be an inevitable war in Iraq and a likely cyclical rebound for global markets are we neaded for an "economic winter" fraught with economic and geo-political uncertainties? Yes, a quick, "clean" victory for the United States
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      Lock icon Does the world's No. 1 superpower have feet of clay ?
      1223 12  - Does the world's No. 1 superpower have feet of clay DAVID DAPICE By AS THE United States is about to embark on an audacious venture in Iraq, it is seen by many as an arrogant global superpower, destined to call the tune because of its military, technological, and economic strengths.
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      Lock icon Lessons in success from animal ecology
      990 13  -  THOMAS GOH lh, What it takes ACCORDING to Professor William Milter, who howls Stanford University's Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, i successful entrepreneurial hub, or Habitat, should include the following! Favourable rules of the name to encourage eflf»repreneurspip» Strut value-added business
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    • ASIAN CURRENTS
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        116 13 RESPECT CIVILIAN SUPREMACY AN ARTICLE in the draft legislation on the Indonesian military (TNI) states that its chief has the power to mobilise troops in times of emergency, needing only to notify the President after 24 hours. This clearly violates the principle of civilian supremacy, for it allows the
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        98 13 RIGHT TO KNOW NATURAL PARENTS JAPAN'S Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is drawing up new rules whereby children born from sperm or eggs supplied by a third party would have the rignt to know their biological parents. Over the past 50 years, more than 10,000 people were born
        Asahi Shimbun  -  98 words
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        114 13 SOUT H KO REA STAND UP TO THE NORTH NORTH Korea continues to threaten the United States with its nuclear brinkmanship and wily strategy of taking South Koreans as hostage. Nevertheless, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun seems to be ignoring or playing down the threat. The more the South
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        101 13 CONSIDER SNITCH IN STATE CAPITAL KEDAH should seriously consider the proposal by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad that Langkawi be made its new administrative capital as it is more developed than the present capital, Alor Star. Langkawi is now an international tourist destination, has an international airport capable of
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        97 13 DON'T TRIVIALISE PARLIAMENT PUBLICITY-HUNGRY Taiwanese lawmakers, ever ready to turn the spotlight on themselves, recently organised a musical talent contest in the island's Legislative Yuan, or parliament, complete with a panel of judges and even live television coverage. Such an act has trivialised the role of the Yuan as
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  • FORUM
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      Lock icon More dialect shows will nit Mandarin use
      384 15 RECENT articles in the newspapers have supported the Programmes Advisory Committee's (PAC) suggestion to relax current controls over dialect programming on television. The PAC's suggestions were made in the context of increasing programming variety. It felt that because our Speak Mandarin policy has
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      307 15 I REFER to Ms Christina Ho's letter, "Different recycling schemes confusing" (ST, March 3). It is heartening to see the number of residents participating in recycling schemes increasing gradually. However, I feel that there is not enough public education about how
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      160 15 Efforts for healthier taxi drivers WE REFER to the article, "Cabbies show high health risk" (ST, March 4). We are concerned about the National Kidney Foundation's (NKF) findings that "two in five taxi drivers here suffer from either high blood pressure or have too much protein or sugar in their
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      Lock icon Still in the dark about IDA's stand
      392 15 IN NOVEMBER, two of my letters were published in this forum. I had spoken out against unsolicited commercial e-mail, or "spam", and unsolicited commercial communications and called for a legislative solution to this issue. On Dec 20, 1 sent an e-mail to the
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      Lock icon Why not seek Oei Hone Leong s views on GLCs?
      495 16 MrOei's achievement in China was to transform 200 state-owned companies into profitable companies. I hope that he can do the same for Singapore. I WRITE to support the opinion 01 Mr LongYongtu, China's Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade
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      Lock icon Option fee for HDB resale flats too low
      291 16 I REFER to the article, "Resale HDB flat buyers can buy time to think over deal" (ST, Feb 28). The Housing Board has stopped providing loans for resale HDB flats so buyers of such units now have to take out bank loans
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      493 16 THIS THAT Why this... arid why tliat? MY AMERICAN friends who got into a limousine taxi when they arrived at 3 am, were charged $60 for a one-way trip to Countryside View. This is more than twice the normal fare. This is not the first such incidence I have heard
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      599 1  -  ALEXIS HOOI First it was just in Bukit Timah, now some pump stations in the north, west and east are also giving discounts Hu LOOKING FOR THE BEST DEAL IN TOWN 'It's worth the extra distance and time. The other petrol companies aren't
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      585 2  -  M.NIRMALA Giving young Singaporeans a word of encouragement, he assures them that Singapore's setback will be temporary *L PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tone yesterday lent the weight of his voice to boost the morale of young Singaporeans, urging them not to feel
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      552 4  -  YANNI TAN Sheer determination to achieve his aim of becoming his own boss helps 'Chris' ace his 0 levels with record of seven passes Bu INMATES CAN CHANGE 'They're very focused and hardworking. They treated this examination as their chance to prove
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      459 4 SENG KANG Secondary may be the new kid on the block, but the five-year-old school has produced results that have surprised even its principal. Nine out of 10 of its first cohort of students to take the O levels achieved O level passes
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      723 5  -  WONG SHER MAINE Concerned over the long-term effects of abortion, a group here undergoes training to counsel women who suffer in silence Women here recover very well because most have already made up their minds to have an abortion. Cynareologut Lee Keen
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      476 7  - Maids deserve respect, dignity NATALIE SOH NMP calls for fairer treatment of domestic workers at a forum to improve employer-maid relations By A GROUP of public-spir-ited individuals had a lively discussion at a forum yesterday on how to make the employer-maid relationship a happier one. The group of 50 people,
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      562 7 Family finds him on floor, dead from an apparent heart attack SINGAPORE'S doyen of chess was also a loving father and a generous and kind coach who was passionate about everything he did, said family and friends gathered last night at the wake
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        698 8 Want to teach? JC or poly route will get you there Two students who want to become teachers find out how they can fulfil their dream from a National Institute of Education admissions officer. Also, the institute's Associate Professor Pamela Sharpe suggests hoic to make learning enjoyable for young children.
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        607 8  -  HARLEEN KAUR YANNI TAN and APPLY ONLINE FOR NUS, MTU ADMISSION YOU can apply online for admission to the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University this year. The two universities will no longer accept ap- plications on paper. Those holding a Singa-{)ore-Camhridge GCE Aevel certificate can
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        1017 9  -  TRACY QUEK A founder of Henry Park Primary's parents' group aims to unite all such groups in a national body Hu POINTING THE WAY COMPASS was established fad December 1998 to achise the Ministry of Education on ways and means to promote and
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          93 11 PLAY ARCADE GAMES ON CELL PHONES ARCADE earning, Playsta-tion-style, nas come to the mobile phone. Designed for the young at heart, Sony Ericsson's new T3lO which will make its debut here next month will come preloaded with Activision's Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4. More games are downloadable from Sony Ericsson's
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          127 11 SAN JOSE A video game about an action heroine in space took top honours at a video games awards show, one voted on not by game publishers or marketers but by game developers themselves. Metroid Prime, devel- oped by Retro Studios on behalf of Nintendo
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          223 11 CALGARY Zi Corporation, one of many telecommunications companies eyeing the billion or so potential new wireless consumers in China, has patented software to aid Chinese text messaging. Zi has developed a way to tap Chinese-language characters into a cell phone with greater ease and efficiency. The firm
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        458 11  - JustMS... ...to move the robot, or switch on lights SHARMILPAL KAUR Using a modem, SIM card and micro-chip, two poly students devise a way to turn on appliances TURNING on the lights or the air-conditioning of your flat when you're heading home or even when you are overseas could be
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        268 11 923 megabits per second... it's a Net speed record SAN FRANCISCO Researchers at a Stanford Uni-versity-affiliated research centre said they have found a way to send data across the Internet more than 3,500 times faster than the typical broadband connection. The breakthrough set an Internet speed record too fast to
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      32 1 I NEED MY DAY OFF 'Even machines need time off, and we are human beings/ Mrs Ellen Elecanal, 35, a Filipino domestic helper, who lias been working in Singapore for 12 years
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      363 5 Should SMRT improve its safety measures? A car crashed through a fence and landed on an MRT track on Monday night. Although no serious injuries were reported, the authorities should: Build stronger fences to keep vehicles and people out ■MM64 Do nothing. It was a freak accident and stronger fences
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      602 1 E -Village ends up as Empty Village GLITZY OPENING The park's launch in September 2000 attracted 600 guests, including movie stars such as Jackie Chan who was photographed goofing around with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in the passenger seat of a golf cart. The 485-ha area was supposed to be
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        844 2  - Chinese flock to English classes CHUA CHIN HON Fervour to learn the language is a phenomenon that cuts across age groups and social classes H,j THE STRAITS TIMES CHINA Bl RKAl Bean turd, anyone? BEIJING Bilingual signboards and menus are now de rigueur in major Chinese cities, but many tourists
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        Lock icon Gyms a hop, skip and jump away for Beijingers
        333 2  -  XIE HONG FITNESS CRAZE By racsnuiTS times CHIS A DESK FITNESS centres in Beijing are doing brisk business, with young people becoming more health-conscious and taking time to work out. Interest in sports has also been stirred by Beijing's successful bid
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        683 3 It is investing in overseas oilfields, importing from Russia and exploring inward to ensure supply does not dry up IF OIL SECURITY IS AT STAKE, IT WIU RESTRICT CNMAS RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. WITHOUT ENOUGH ENERGY, MODERNISATION WOULD BECOME AN EMPTY WORD.' Mr An
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        141 3 HONGKONG Hongkong Financial Secretary Antony Leung said yesterday he made a blunder in buying a luxury car shortly before he raised taxes for motor vehicles and vowed to donate the money he saved to charity. In response to media reports that he bought
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      557 4 They say that the current system of appointing senior prosecutors leaves them vulnerable to political influence SEOUL President Roh Moo Hyun put himself through a stormy debate on television yesterday, facing angry prosecutors who have revolted against South Korea's youngest and first
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      111 4 HK execs best-paid in Asia HONGKONG Hongkong executives are now the best-paid in Asia, demoting their Japanese counterparts to second place, a survey found yesterday. The poll, conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, found executives in Hongkong received on average 32 per cent more than their counterparts in Japan and
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      186 4 Demand made during unofficial talks in Berlin, says newspaper TOKYO US officials demanded that North Korea dismantle its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon during unofficial talks in Germany last month, a major Japanese daily said yesterday. At the Feb 20-21 meetings, held at the North Korean
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      205 4 Beijing campus bomber arrested in cyber cafe BEIJING The farm worker who police say confessed to planting bombs on two elite university campuses in a bid for fame was arrested while surfing in an Internet cafe in south-eastern China, news reports said yesterday. Huang Minxiang, 27, was arrested in his
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      405 5 Housing boom is expected as a tax break and interest rate cuts make it affordable for the middle-class to buy their own homes BOMBAY Thousands of middleclass Indians are gearing up to satisfy their dream of owning a home after last month's Budget triggered
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        Lock icon SPURNED LOVER GOES ON RAMPAGE
        44 5 A SPURNED lover ran amok in a kindergarten in China, stabbing four teachers and four pupils before he was subdued. Xie Zhongcai, 24, was said to have Deen rejected by one of the kindergarten teachers whom he fancied. AFP
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        57 5 A CHINESE company has developed a locomotive to fit the tough and specific requirements for a controversial, high-alti-tude railway to Tibet. As the 1,142-km railway will pass through freezing mountain areas, the locomotive incorporates special cold-resis-tant materials and is supplied with a special system
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        49 5 SRI Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have attempted to buy Russian-made missiles from a representative of a Russian armsexporting company in Laos, a report said yesterday. All contacts were "immediately stopped" after it was discovered that the rebel group was behind the inquiries. AP
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        42 5 A PASSENGER was offloaded after he tried to feed milk to his pet snake on a flight in India. He had boarded the plane in Goa with his snake in his hand baggage. AFP
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      211 5 GAUHATI (India) Firefighters doused a massive blaze at a historic oil refinery yesterday, 30 hours after a rebel mortar attack started the fire, and a statewide red alert was declared as the guerilla chief threatened more attacks. The fire has been
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        501 6  - Rebels in bloody bid to force Manila to negotiate LUZ BAGUIORO Cornered by the military, they are resorting to greater violence to push the government into peace talks By PHILIPPINES CORRKSI'ONDKNT Case for military presence *We will go back to the days when vigilante squads went on the rampage and
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        240 6 DAVAO The leader of the Philippines' largest Muslim separatist group was urged yesterday to surrender and face charges over last week's airport bomb attack that killed 21 people in this southern city. Davao Mayor Rodrigo Du- terte, appointed by President Gloria Arroyo
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        208 6 Guerillas seize weapons from police TACLOBAN (Philippines) About 300 suspected communist guerillas raided a central Philippine town hall before dawn on Saturday and fled with weapons seized from law enforcement officers, police said. Regional police chief Dionisio Coloma said rebels from the New People's Army arrived in four minibuses at
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        519 7  -  ROBERT GO With hyperlinks, an interactive segment and a forum section, the website allows voters to see the politician up close THE STRAUS TIMES INDONESIA BUREAU JAKARTA Up close and almost personal is how one of Indonesia's prominent politicians is starting off his
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        181 7 PHNOM PENH A Cambodian commune near the border with Thailand appealed yesterday for international food aid for nearly 12,500 people it said were facing starvation after Phnom Penh closed the border last week. The closure has adversely affected people whose livelihood depends on a
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          60 7 THAILAND'S WAR ON DRUGS LEAVES 1,500 DEAD NEARLY 1,500 have been killed in Thailand's "war" on drugs since it was launched on Feb 1, police in Bangkok said yesterday. Police acting in self-defence were responsible for 31 of the 1.49S killings, a spokesman said. Authorities say the rest were allegedly
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          99 7 CAR makers in Vietnam say the government's plans to raise taxes on locally assembled vehicles will decimate the country's fledgling motor industry. Under the proposals, the import tax on complete knocked down component (CKD) kits for cars would go up from 20 per
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          Lock icon INDONESIAN ADMITS TO FATAL BOMBING
          54 7 AN INDONESIAN man convicted of possessing explosives in the Philippines has admitted detonating a bomb in Indonesia that killed two people and seriously injured the Philippine ambassador three years ago, police in Manila said yesterday. Fathur Roman AlGhozi made the admission to Indonesian investigators in
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          35 7 A VETERAN guerilla leader from Myanmar's Mon ethnic minority, Nai Shwe Kyin, also known as Nai Ba Lwin, has died at age 90, Myanmar opposition media reported on Saturday. AFP
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        587 8 Syndicates bring in women and girls as workers, tourists or foreign students before forcing them into prostitution KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has become a major transit centre and destination point for the trafficking of women and young girls. Many are brought in by syndicates
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        260 8 SHAH ALAM Police have busted a syndicate believed to have raked in millions by altering cheques stolen from letter boxes throughout the Klang Valley with the arrest of three members including its mastermind and a postman Police recovered 1,199 cheque* from numerous financial institutions
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        203 8 SEREMBAN Customs officers are receiving threats from smugglers through the short messaging service (SMS). A senior officer of a state Customs department recently received an SMS warning him that he could lose his hand or leg and that it costs only RM2,000 (Ss92o)
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        97 8 KUALA LUMPUR Three warships from Japan's Self-Defence Force will make a goodwill visit to Malaysia, a maritime official said yesterday. The three ships will arrive at the West Port at Port Klang early today. The three ships are from the escort division
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        250 8 KL's own combat info system for patrol vessels KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is capable of developing its own combat information system for its patrol vessels, Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak has said. This is made possible by the training ana expertise provided by a renowned shipbuilding company in Hamburg, Germany, to
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        359 9 KL to cut number of overseas scholarships The move is in line with the government's strategy of making Malaysia an international hub of education excellence Education sector There are five branches of foreign universities in addition to the 16 private universities in Malaysia, which reflect the government's seriousness in openinq
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        292 9 JOHOR BARU Malaysia has installed a vehicle screening system at three points of entry from Singapore the Tanjung Kupang Second Link at Gelang Patah, the Causeway and Tanjung Puteri. The system, which is now fully operational, was installed in Johor
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        Lock icon Dad chained and scalded me, says teen
        147 9 Dad chained and scalded me, says teen MALACCA A factory worker lodged a police report against her father who allegedly chained her and poured a bowl of hot noodle soup on her thighs. The 19-year-old, who comes from a family of 12 children, said her father had first scolded her,
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          35 9 SECURITY patrols in the waters bordering Malaysia and the Philippines have been steppea up, following the latest outbreak of violence in the southern Philippines, Defence Minister Najib Tun Razak said yesterday. Bernama
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          43 9 THE use of trawl nets in waters off Desaru, Johor has to a certain extent caused substantial damage to ceramic artefacts which the authorities are trying to recover from a sunken ship, said Maritime Museum curator Samsol Sahar. Bernama
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        947 11 MOTOR RACING They finish first and third but Coulthard is wary of the Ferraris STANDINGS 1 David Coulthard, McLaren, 1 hr 34inin42.124see (average speed 194.868 knih) 2 Juan Pablo Montoya, Williams, 1:34:50.799 3 Kimi Raikkonen, McLaren, 1:34:51.316 4 Michael Schumacher, Ferrari, 1:34:51.606 5 JarnoTrulli,
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        242 11 MELBOURNE World motor sport head Max Mosley breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after Formula One served up a thriller with the first race run under new regulations. "I think it was quite exceptional," the International Automobile Federation (FIA) president told Reuters in
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        485 12 GOLF Derksen deftly paints out Els, who is two ahead with seven holes left DUBAI Rob-ert-Jan Derksen of Holland stunned South African superstar Ernie Els to win the Dubai Desert Classic here yesterday. A confident-looking Els was coasting along two strokes clear of the field with seven
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        376 12 SCHOOLS WITH the ever-increasing level of competition in sports today, one might assume that a sports powerhouse like Germany would train athletes intensively from a very young age. Not so. In fact, the young athletes will not even specialise in
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        438 12  -  CHIA HAN KEONG SOCCER lit, DIRTY footballers, or simply robust players? S-League newcomer Sinchi FC had two of its players sent off in as many matches, but coaches and players from other teams defend the China players, saying they are not soccer thugs
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        220 12  -  JOHN BELL HORSE RACING Written By A CAPACITY crowd filled Kranji Racecourse on Friday night to watch Hong Kong raider Come See You claim the $1 million Singapore Classic (1800m) by a nose from the local Moon Shadow. Come See You was perfectly ridden
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        495 12 Race 1 Restricted Mdn (2&3Y0) IZOOm 3 INDIAN DREAM, I Aihar 1. 1 Dynamic. S H Lee 2. 2 Heaven's Child, M Wepner 3 Margins 1 1/4 len x 3 len Time: 113.8 Nos 3. 1. 2 Win $43 Place: $10, $7, $8
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        624 13 CRICKET Both teams want to assert superiority after sharing trophy last September SOUTH AFRICA India and Sri Lanka head into today's World Cup Super Six game at The Wanderers with an unsettled score to resolve and semi-final qualification at stake. India's jittery
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        379 16 A FIRST FOR SOFTWARE GIANT SEATTLE It is payday for Microsoft investors. The world's biggest software firm issued its first dividend last Friday, shelling out more than US$B5O million (551.48 billion) to shareholders. At eight US cents a share, the annual payout was not
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          55 16 THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra urged Thais to consume less energy by turning off air-conditioners to help reduce government costs for subsidising fuel. The government has spent about 2.45 billion baht (*****.9 million) since early February to subsidise fuel, he said in his
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          65 16 WALT Disney is in talks to buy Kermit the Frog and other Muppet characters from Germany's EM.TV Merchandising, sources familiar with the situation said last Friday. Disney would pay US$7O million (*****.1 million) for EM.TV subsidiary Jim Henson Co's rights to the Muppet movie catalogue
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          41 16 CITIGROUP chairman and chief executive Sanford Weill is appealing against a ruling that he must testify in suits that claim his bank illegally took up to US$5OO million (SsB72 million) from an employee discount-stopk programme. Bloomberg News
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        435 17 SCO's claims of trade secrets misuse by the computer giant could affect the global development of the Linux operating system 'They told us to take a proverbial jump in the lake, which is why we filed the lawsuit. SCO chief executive
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        462 17 LONDON Mr Warren Buffett, the world's most successful investor and second-richest man, has called on shareholders to act like owners and boot out "mediocre" chief executives (CEOs). In his annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, his investment company, on Saturday, he
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        2009 18 Strategic Supply Chain Management 1 3 April 2003, Singapore Overview With the recent developments in internet technologies and electronic commerce, new opportunities have emerged for leveraging effective supply chain management as a means of enhancing a firm's competitiveness. This two and a half day programme will discuss
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        392 18  -  SIMON WILCOX HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT lit, ASIAN companies are far behind their United States and European counterparts when it comes to managing some key aspects of their human resources, says a Price waterhouseCoope rs (PwC) survey. New figures by PwC show that 78 per cent
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        395 18 Thistle 'in talks to sell key hotels' Move is an attempt to hold off a $1.55b takeover bid by S'pore investment firm BIL International LONDON Britain's Thistle Hotels is in talks to auction some of its flagship London hotels to defeat a £554.7 million (551.55 billion) bid from Singapore investment
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        539 19  -  LEE SU SHYAN Despite calls by Sias, none of the 45 component firms of the STI makes such information available to shareholders By I.IMII'.\.MI',> i UKKI-.M'UMJtN I EARNINGS SCOREBOARD A RECENT call by an investor watchdog body asking listed companies
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        537 19  -  COLIN TAN TAKING STOCK />'-/ MARKETS CORRESPOS DENT NOW that the local benchmark the Straits Times Index (STI) has sunk below the lowest close in the aftermath of the Sept 11 terrorist attack, are stock values cheap? After all, a drop of
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        750 20  - Retail hedge funds pull in $21m in 6 months SOH WEN LIN Since MAS eased rules, small investors have been putting their money into both guaranteed and non-guaranteed funds Hi, THE PRICE OF A GUARANTEE 'A guaranteed fund of hedge funds usually just means there are bonds in the fund.
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        235 20 Glaxo faces fines for not stating income ai S'pore unit TOKYO British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline's Tokyo-based investment firm may have to pay a record of more than 2O billion yen (*****-6 million) in taxes and fines for failing to report income at its Singapore subsidiary. Press reports yesterday said the
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      266 3 Picnic Cum Carnival By The River Bring your family down for a day of stage performances. Enjoy a Peranakan skit, play interactive games and learn the art of making pineapple tarts. Ethnic jewellery, beauty products, clothes and spices will also be on sale at the
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        1556 18 HKDGHJBKGJHDT •IJI ART/CREATIVE Rfjl SALES POSITIONS MEfJI SALES POSITIONS IJffjl SALES POSITIONS ISfji SALES POSITIONS flfjl SALES POSITIONS I INTERIOR DESIGN FIRM: Sales In tenor Designer. Sales Exec Ad- r*"" mm Clerk 6778 5300/ 9818 3618 t marketing/ Dare tO express. Dare tO be yOU. This is the r^v^^c^ culture.
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        606 18 PIJI SALES POSITIONS iJJI SALES POSITIONS We are an established and dynamic company specialised in] telecommunication, lifestyle and automation products. Due to I expansion, we are seeking ambitious and success rrnnded H individuals for the following positions H Diploma/ Degree holder Fresh graduates are welcomed H Responsible for full spectrum
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        875 18 B SALES POSITIONS RTI SALES POSITIONS UU^mavlr Our company is fast etpanding »ttn sof cfs HUm worldwide and opening a 2nd o^ice in Orcnird Ha with Singapore Vteotietetceiier t career opportunities r-^the set/motivated individuals who possess p*opfe Uppt II skills to ,oin us as BUSINESS EXECUTIVES l^^^^Tj^BhßbV To present the
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        730 19 ITTiI SALES POSITIONS I T SALES ASSISTANTS Full time: attractive starting p salary if Part time. $5.50 $6 per hr. Female working environment No experience required. I training provided I S'poreans/ PR I Walk-In interview Mon Wed (4pm. 7pm.) ABSOLUTE COMICS 200 Victoria Street T 803-13 Parco Bugis Junction s
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        556 19 FRI COUNTER/TELEPHONE I yj|j SALES POSITIONS ELEMARKETERS WANTED FOR lsurance agency in the East. art/ Full Time. Bilingual Start nmed. Call b744 1339 Michelle PWI CUSTOMER SERVICE UJXI pnciTimic IMMED. VACANCIES! ELEMARKETERS: Experience in ales of banking products, peaks well, sales oriented. lasic*commission. Required irgently! lANK TELLERS (FULLTIME): leeded in
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        925 19 Wfl BEAUTICIAN/ HAIR WTI BEAUTICIAN/ HAIR W |j^J STYLIST POSITIONS STYLIST POSITIONS K Singapore's leading beauty salon requires: Beauty Consultants Beauticians Candidates must possess beauty certificates have some experience in the beauty industry and bilingual Malaysian are welcome to apply Training will be provided for inexprienced candidates Experienced Manicurist Bilingual
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        778 19 a ADMINISTRATIVE/ Pffl ADMINISTRATIVE/ CLERICAL POSITIONS CLERICAL POSITIONS Subsidiary of a leading European chemical company invites suitable applicants to apply for the following position of: TASKS: Secretarial work Secretarial and administrative support including travel arrangements as well as organising meetings and preparing minutes of the meeting Marketing and Sales Support:
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        1594 20 m TECHNICAL PEfl TECHNICAL |T?V TECHNICAL POSITIONS Myj POSITIONS POSITIONS I Goodrich V t Established in 1995 and a satellite of Goodrich Corporation, Aerostructures Group, RASA is a leader in V— maintenance, repair and overhaul of aircraft nacelle components. We invite applications for the following position WELDERS 1 Requirements: I
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        937 21 ifCI PRODUCTION iff] PRODUCTION U^POSITIONS WjM POSITIONS member of Vi/ Bran/ H A subsidiary of Viz Branz Limited, Gold 9 Roast Food Industry is a leading a convenience food beverage "1 I manufacturer in the FMCCi industry. .1 Operationally headquartered in Singapore J since 1988, we have grown significantly "1
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        972 21 WAREHOUSING/ WfTi WAREHOUSING/ INVENTORY |±T| INVENTORY POSITIONS I POSITIONS invensys Assistant Store Supervisor Responsibilities: Handle full warehouse operations Assist in the processing of shipping documents Expedite inter company and third party orders Requirements CCE'O' level or ITE 3-syears'hands on warehousing experience Preferably with some supervisory experience Able to handle forklift
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        1386 21 fffl DRIVER/ TRANSPORT PIJI DRIVER/ TRANSPORT iSTI DRIVER/ TRANSPORT I K|ilJ POSITIONS IJICJ POSITIONS lUJ POSITIONS I At TlßSi we beheve in a 9 reat partnership with our staff. I War f"*" 1 j 1 We encourage staff's participation in I I many of our productivity and service campaigns where
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        167 22 EVENTS/"^ DIARYgjL Mar ij MANAGING YOUR REPUTATION Learn how to measure the value of your organisation's reputation and how reputation management impacts profit. This lunch-time talk, Corporate Reputation Management, is organised by the Institute of Public Relations of Singapore at NUSS, Orchard Guild House. Cost: $45 (IPRS members), $55 (non-members).
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