The Straits Times, 7 April 2003

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    33 1 The Straits Times Established 15 45 PACIFIC AREA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR M OllQciy April 7, 2003 •72 Pages in five parts mita (P) 033/03/2003 €fIP A Singapore Press Holdings publication \J\J Cents
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    Lock icon High-level task force for Sars
    799 1  -  BERTHA HENSON Team will look at J what-if questions and identify action lines; PM Goh says new challenge is to find ways to live with Sars By \K\\s KDITOK HOME Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng will head a ministerial task force to deal with all
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    Lock icon 80 patients, 91 staff in big move from SGH to TTSH
    618 1  -  BEN NADARAJAN WENDY TAN All cleared from two wards after doctor has Sars; SGH visitors face new checks and EIGHTY patients warded at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) are being moved to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) after an
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    Lock icon Baghdad encircled by American military
    407 1  -  AUDREY QUEK Hn Di im n i oui k.\ i Di ion AMERICAN forces were reported to have encircled Baghdad yesterday, with I'nited States troops controlling all major roads into and out of the Iraqi capital. The closing of the pirtcer by US Army troops
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  • NEWS FLASH
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      164 2 WIFE-BEATER JAILED AGAIN A MAN who was jailed for battering his wife was released after serving his time. But hardly two weeks went by before he was threatening his wife with violence again. So Ravindran Ramachandran, 31, ended up thrown back into jail for another two vears. The court
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      101 2 TECK SCIENCE IMPRINT OF TERRORISM IN MUD SCIENTISTS are looking for the geochemical imprint of terrorism at the bottom of New York Harbour examining the harbour mud for traces left by the caustic plumes of smoke, fiberglass and dust from the Sept 11 collapse of the World Trade Center towers.
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      71 2 SAFE TO GO TO THE DENTIST IT IS quite safe for people to visit their dentists, says the Singapore Dental Association. Dentists here practise strict infection control measures, and they have been wearing face masks, gloves and gowns for many years now. No dentist or dental health-care worker has
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      83 2 DESIGNER DIDN'T SHOW UP GUESTS sipped champagne and enjoyed the show a 39-outfit collection by Singapore fashion designer Andrew Gn. But the Paris-based Gn was not around. The couturier, spooked by Sars, had cancelled his trip here. Still, his absence was hardly noticed at the show, part of the
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      83 2 Masks on atHK Oscars night THE show went on for the Hongkong Film Awards last night against a backdrop of the Sars outbreak and the sudden suicide of Leslie Cheung. The highlight came when the four Heavenly Kings sang a tribute to Cheung, who was a best-actor nominee. But
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      102 2 Graveyard visits dying out in China MANY in China have stopped going to cemeteries or memorial halls to grieve during Qing Ming, the traditional graveyard-visiting season. But they are still paying their respects to the dead they do it online, at more than 100 Chinese websites. One busy media
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      82 2 Fear breeds babies YOUNG Japanese are no longer avoiding marriage or putting off having babies. And their new readiness to get hitched or start a family has much do with their sense of crisis in the new millennium, say experts who have been studying the rising marriage figures. Global
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      57 2 NTUC INCOME CUTS BONUS PAYOUTS NTUC Income is slashing bonus payments by up to 50 per cent for those holding its life insurance policies. And this is likely to trigger a new round of cuts by other insurers, say market observers. Income had already cut bonuses by slightly more
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      261 2 AS I A CHINA'S NEW HAPPY HOME OWNERS CHINESE civil servant Huang Daolin and his family of four now live in a spacious condominium apartment in a prime Beijing district a far cry from the series of cramped one-room flats they used to know. And what is more, Mr Huang,
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      86 2 UNITED CATCHES UP WITH ARSENAL MANCHESTER United, after making light work of Liverpool on Saturday, is now level with Arsenal at the top of the Premiership. Arsenal was held to a 1-1 draw at Aston Villa. But Arsene Wenger is refusing to accept that the momentum is now with
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      177 2 MAIN Sars outbreak 3-S Iraq war 9-13 Editorial 14 Commentary 14. 15 Forum 17. IS HOME Home Hl-H5 Education H6. H7 Tech <k Science... HS ASIA/SPORTS/ MONEY Asia A1.A4.A5 China A2. A3 S-EA.sia A7 Malavsia AS Sports A9. A lO Money... Al2-Al6 LIFE! The Buzz L2 Cover Story L4. L5
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
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      Lock icon Temperature checks for travellers from Sars-hit areas
      384 3  -  SALMA KHALIK Unemployed people will be hired and trained to take the temperatures of passengers leaving planes in Singapore By lIKAI IH OHIU si'ONDI I SCREENING of airport passengers will go beyond just having nurses giving those entering the country the onceover. Everyone
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      Lock icon No ruling out checks for 50,000 a day
      136 3 ABOUT 50,000 people enter Singapore by the Causeway every day and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong does not rule out temperature checks for every one of them, should the need arise. In the cross-border war on Sars, he said, "the biggest problem
      ALBERT SIM  -  136 words
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      Lock icon PM cancels China trip on doctors' advice
      462 3 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong was keen to go ahead with his trip to China to meet its new leaders, but he is cancelling it "reluctantly" on doctors' advice. He did not want to give Singaporeans the wrong impression of the Government's stance
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      Lock icon In the clear: 500 pregnant women
      504 4  -  NATALIE SOH Those who went to KKH clinic where a sick nurse had worked should be free of Sars, as the incubation period has ended lv. MORE than 500 pregnant women who went to a KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) clinic where a
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      Lock icon PM Goh praises Valiant' doctors and nurses
      495 4  - PM Goh praises Valiant' doctors and nurses SALMA KHALIK Let's show our appreciation for hospital workers, he also urges By HEALTH CORRESPONDENT 'MY WORD FOR THEM IS, THEY ARE VALiAHT PEOPLE AND WE HAVE TO COMMEND THEM FOR THEIR TASK, WHICH IS A VERY DIFFICULT ONE TO DO.' PMGoh THE
      TERENCE TAN  -  495 words
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      Lock icon CHINA: Labour official first foreigner to die of disease
      407 6  - CHINA: Labour official first foreigner to die of disease JASON LEO W But officials stress claims that the Finn was infected before entering the country and no one he has had contact with is sick By CHINA CORRESPON DK VI BEIJING A Finnish official from the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
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      Lock icon China yet to provide samples
      78 6 A Cliinese Sars patient being examinetfby electors at a hospital in Guangzhou yesterday. The Cliinese in Guangdong have vet to hand over to the World Health Organisation (WHO) team lalxjratory samples that are needed to analyse the \irus. China also lacks the technology to test
      REUTERS  -  78 words
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      Lock icon N. AMERICA: Public gripped by fear
      519 6  -  CARL SKADIAN FACE masks are being snapped up, the term "Sars has shot to second place on Yahoo's search index, after only "Al-Jazeera", and some believe the deadly new disease is a bigger threat than terrorism. These and other fears gripped North America as
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      Lock icon That's how long it took to talk sick man into going to hospital
      394 8 14 HOURS HONGKONG A 45-year-old man with Sars kept health officials at bay for 14 hours, refusing to leave his home and go to hospital. He locked himself indoors, prompting authorities to call in the police on
      AP; AFP  -  394 words
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      Lock icon China forced to face bad news
      770 8  -  CHING CHEONG After five months of covering up its Sars problem for political reasons, it has finally given in to international pressure By FAST ASIA CORKKSPONDKVI HONGKONG China has finally been forced by international pressure to change its attitude and cooperate with the international
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      Lock icon Beijing 'fully capable' of controlling spread
      298 8 TK COMMUNIST PARTY AND IK GOVERNMENT PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO SMS, HAVE ADOPTED A SERES OF TMELY MEASURES AND ACHIEVED OBVIOUS RESULTS.' Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao BEIJING Fending off criticisms that China was not doing enough to cope with a deadly flu outbreak, Chinese
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  • IRAQ WAR
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      Lock icon IRAQ WAR DAY 18 Sunday, April 6
      244 9 IRAQ WAR DAY 18 Sunday, April 6 9*45 ami (Singapore time) Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who sent 2,000 troops to fight with the US-led coalition, warns that the war may go on for yet "some time". 4.30 pm: A BBC correspondent says a US plane dropped a bomb on
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      Lock icon Saddam's puzzling strategy
      427 9  - Saddam's puzzling strategy MICHAEL HOARE Lack of resistance to US troops in Baghdad suggests a regime that is on its knees; the US must decide whether it is a ruse or part of a grand plan By WHETHER Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is being wily or just woolly, his plan
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      Lock icon US tactics are clear: Move in for the kill
      218 9 CAMP AS SAYLIYAH (Qatar) While Mr Saddam Hussein's plans to defend his power seat of Baghdad remain uncertain, the Americans' strategy is clear they are massing to go in for the kill. With the Iraqi President and his leadership seemingly trapped
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      Lock icon Qusay is in charge
      515 10 Qusay is in charge Chemical Ali may be dead NEAR BASRA A coalition air strike on the home of the Iraqi general known as Chemical Ali for ordering a poison gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds in 1988 may have killed him. US military officials could not confirm if
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      Lock icon MOVING UP...
      20 10 US forces have made two forays into the city centre, coming up against heavy fire from Iraqi defenders
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      Lock icon ...AND TAKING IT DOWN
      41 10 Farther south, a British tank pulls down a statue of the Iraqi leader on the outskirts of Basra, as allied troops edge into the city Map adapted from GRAPHIC NEWS Text Photos and LESLIE KOH AP REUTERS
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      Lock icon Sunni leader backs suicide attacks on US forces
      361 12  -  ASAD LATIF Comments raise fears that more Arabs may feel encouraged to join Iraqis in fighting coalition troops Hu A group of would-be suicide bombers holding up their passports as thev sit in a bus in front of the Iraqi embassy in
      AP  -  361 words
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      Lock icon Jordan king blasts war to appease angry citizens
      696 12  -  DERWIN PEREIRA XEWSAXALYSIS Bu IS'AMMAS JOHI) Washington sympathetic to ally's predicament, say analysts FACED with growing public anger over developments in Iraq, Jordan's King Abdullah II has condemned the United States-led war as an "invasion" and described dead Iraqi civilian victims as
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    • THE WAR ROOM
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        57 13 BAGHDAD Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahaf announced yesterday a 12-hour night-time ban on travel to and from Baghdad due to Iraqi military movements to confront advancing US-led forces. 'Yes, this is for us to prepare our movements and our work to confront the enemy
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        Lock icon Killed: 6 suspected suicide bombers
        64 13 NEAR BAGHDAD US Army soldiers killed six Iraqi fighters suspected to be suicide bombers in a fight on the southern outskirts of Baghdad yesterday. At least three US soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, were slightly injured. An Iraqi civilian alerted the soldiers,
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        Lock icon Iraqi deserters tell of executions
        70 13 IRBIL (Iraq) Deserters from the Iraqi army say they were beaten by their superiors and one says he saw 10 fellow soldiers executed by a commander, according to a Human Rights Watch report. Some of the 26 soldiers interviewed by the group said officers warned
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        Lock icon US military jet lands at Baghdad airport
        63 13 BAGHDAD AIRPORT The first American C-130 military aircraft landed at the airport yesterday at about Bpm local time, an hour after darkness fell. The senior officer of the 3rd Infantry Division's aviation brigade said the aircraft landed on the western, military side of
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        Lock icon Too many casualties to count Red Cross
        67 13 Too many casualties to count Red Cross GENEVA The number of casualties in Baghdad is so high that hospitals have stopped counting the number of people treated, the International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday. "No one is able to keep accurate statistics of the admitted and transferred war
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        Lock icon Bodies found near Basra 'are Iranians'
        113 13 TEHERAN Bodies found by British forces near Basra in southern Iraq were of Iranian soldiers killed during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, state-run Teheran radio reported yesterday. "We officially call on the International Committee of the Red Cross to carry out their responsibility and immediately
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        Lock icon Growing stockpile of weapons
        79 13 BAGHDAD US de-miners operating in southern and central Iraq have found enough arms and explosives in two weeks to support a small-scale civil war. In four separate finds, the 10-member Explosives Ordnance Disposal unit found 658 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 950 mortars, 414 grenades, 17 machine guns
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      Lock icon Wrong target
      497 13 Vehicles, bodies... all are on fire This is just a scene from hell here. All the vehicles are on fire, there are bodies burning all around me... The Americans saw this convoy and they bombed it. They hit their own people/ BBC reporter John Simpson, who was wounded
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      88 9 BAROMETER 30% of Iraqi children, or 1.26 million, face death from malnutrition The US military has ordered 295m litres of fuel to the Gulf to fill its supply points A Washington Post/ABC News survey shows more than 9O°/o of Americans think the war is qoing well barrels of oil are
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  • COMMENTARY • ANALYSIS
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      Lock icon The Straits Times MONDAY, APRIL 7,2003 WTO in trouble
      602 14 THE World Trade Organisation s chief, Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi, is putting on a brave face when confronted with adversity. He says the WTO's failure to meet the March 31 deadline for an agreement on a negotiating framework to liberalise farm trade
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      Lock icon Not just for oil — US wants to dominate
      730 14  - Not just for oil US wants to dominate AZMI BISHARA PERHAPS the masters of aggression, the pirates of this age, were taken aback by trie extent of Iraqi resistance, having been blinded by racist assumptions and wishful thinking. Competition pervades decisionmaking processes in the US, as it does everything else.
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      Lock icon All the right moves for Sars but info's a bit slow, no?
      975 14  -  BERTHA HENSON By NEWS EDITOR I FEEL really silly. On Friday, when I was in the middle of writing a commentary to tell Singaporeans who Are Really Scared to get on with the business of living, word reached
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      Lock icon The headache's just heginningfor America
      1031 15  -  THE awesome task facing the United States in Iraq today was summed up by Vice-Pres-ident Dick Cheney in 1992, when, as Secretary of Defence, he explained whv he didn't go for Baghdad: "It we'd gone to Baghdad and got rid of Saddam Hussein assuming we
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    • ASIAN CURRENTS
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        72 15 ENSURE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL PROBE A MAN who supplied information to the Thailand's opposition Democrat Party about alleged tax evasion by the Shin Satellite, which belongs to the family of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was shot dead recently. This case has attracted widespread public interest and the government must
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        101 15 DEAL WITH CORRUPTION NOW LAST week, Japan's agriculture minister Tadamori Oshima resigned to take responsibility for a bribery scandal involving his aide. But just because Mr Oshima resigned, the case should not be allowed to be closed unsolved, nor should it be seen as the end of a sorry
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        103 15 NON-COMBAT TROOP AID WILL IMPROVE TIES THE South Korean National Assembly voted last week to send about 700 medical and engineering staff to help the United States-led coalition forces in Iraq. This move will pave the way for a reconciliation of the ties between Seoul and Washington, touched
        The Korea Times  -  103 words
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        102 15 USE SARS CRISIS TO UNITE PEOPLE THE Hongkong government must mobilise the entire community to win the battle against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). Doing so would, in the short term, help stop the disease from spreading and, in the long term, go a long way towards increasing
        Ming Pao Daily News  -  102 words
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        110 15 PUT AN END TOMMBM6S FOUR weeks after a bombing outside Philippines Davao airport left 21 people dead and 150 wounded, another bomb went off near the city's Sasa wharf last Wednesday, killing 16 and injuring at least 40 others. The next day, hooded men hurled bombs or grenades
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      463 17 "W- "W" T E SHARE I and understand the concerns T T of your readers about the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). We are grateful for the swift measures the various ministries have undertaken to contain the spread of the virus. Although the
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      252 17 I REFER to Mr Andrew Chua Seng Huat's letter, "Childcare centres should refund fees" (ST, April 5). He wrote that childcare centres would be able to save on the costs of food and utilities during the school closure. However, these represent only a fraction
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      282 17 Medical heroism. ALTHOUGH it may be a little too premature for a pat on the back, I feel that the people in the front line against Sars need our support now more than ever. like any other people, Singaporeans need heroes and role models. We often turn to people featured
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      310 17 1 REFER to the articles, "A tangled web of lies and risky shortcuts" and "Brilliant researcher disgraced" (ST, April 4). The National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) has made the right decision in dismissing its former director, Dr Simon Shorvon. Singapore mav have lost a world-renowned expert in epilepsy
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      152 18 Schools' traffic impact being studied I REFER to Mr Lawrence Seet Hua Soon's letter in the 'This That" column vST, April 3), on the traffic in the Farrer Road area. Our investigations show oil that the traffic situation near the schools and places of worship there varies according to the
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      361 18 Do damage assessment centres work I AM responding to Lorna Tan's article, "Motor insurers" losses hit high of $124 million" (ST, April 1). 1 am amazed that despite establishing an island-wide network of Independent Damage Assessment Centres (Idac), motor insurers are still suffering great losses. The main aim of setting
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      99 18 I REFER to Ms Flora Tay's letter in the 'This That" column (ST, April 3). Ms Tay questioned why members of public could not report traffic violations at neighbourhood police posts or centres. We would like to clarify that the public can indeed report
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      513 18 I REFER to Ms Chua Lee Hoong's commentary, "Me? I'd rather save the money on candles..." (ST, April 2). Some of the people she spoke to failed to appreciate the significance of last Monday's candlelight peace concert at the Substation, scorning it
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      58 1 '\U- dul not win to accept that I was no longci his wife Sometimes, he would come into mtj worn at > am, pleading with tears in Ins eyes that I wasstillhis wife/ Matlttui sit rtjt-»« mi- on her f\-lui*baiid, Ravindran Ramachandran, M ho i* luA in
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      682 1  - Why take the risk? Find ways to live with bug SALMA KHALIK SVKSOI THKKAk By UKAI.TIICOKKKSPONDKVr TWO APPROACHES: SHUT DOWN "I think we have two options. One is to use the shut-down approach. That means there is a problem with Sars, we shut down the schools... if we fear the
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        1234 2  - Fear. anxiety. optimism THERESA TAN Wong Sher Maine Arlina Arshad Tracy Quek Bti Additional reporting by ANP 7 spray everything I use, like my telephone and the lift buttons before I touch them. I know it might not really help, but it gives me peace of mind/ Madam Patricia Koh,
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        711 3  - Big sacrifices... behind doctors' masks LI-ANN WEE Kicked out of home Shunned by people Made wills, death plans By In spite of the hardship, caregivers at Tan Tock Sent!; I lospital soldier on. battling not just against the Sars \irus, but also against discrimination from the public, and in some
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        220 3 IN THE table beside our report 'Half of less profitable firms pay directors more money" last Thursday, it was suggested that Heshe Holdings' remuneration and loss before tax of $1.1 million and $15.8 million respectively were for the year ended June 30, 2002. RDS Remuneration
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        586 4  -  WONG SHER MAINE THERESA TAN Surge in grocer); fast-food deliveries Run on \itamins and herbal remedies Bu ami THE deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) virus has infected some businesses with good cheer. Online grocers and fast-food outlets which deliver to homes are
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        448 4  -  DENESH DIVYANATHAN Demand up for international telephone calls Internet traffic up as students are sent home Bu ITC HNOI nC\ Kb'POKI'KK THE telecommunications industry is benefiting from the double whammy of the Iraq war and the Sars outbreak. The reason: People need to communicate
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        248 5 Six men, two women nabbed in drug raid SIX Singaporean men and two Chinese nationals have been arrested for drug trafficking and possession, In a late night raid last Friday, narcotics officers also found 510 g of ketamine, more than 1,500 Erimin-5 tablets and other psvchotropie drugs with a street
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        62 5 THE annual Qing Ming Festival is on, and at Chinese cemeteries throughout the island, like this one at Chua Chu Kang, big umbrellas pop open as shade from the blazing sun as tombstones are cleaned and the overgrown grass around them trimmed. Paper "gifts" are also arranged
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        548 5  - Just out from jail, man threatens ex-wife K.C.VIJAYAN Jailed twice before for hitting her, jobless man made threats and is back in prison for two more years ?1L A RECALCITRANT wife-beater was back in jail last week for another two years after he threatened violence on his former wife. Barely
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        516 6  -  JANE LEE It is planning replica of James Cook University's Queensland campus here; intake of 600 in July, and 5,000 by 2007, with 80 per cent foreigners Bt]_ IT'S A LEVEL PLAYING HELD If anything, we're kept at longer-than-arm's-length when dealing with
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        540 6  -  YANNI TAN Bu FIRST-YEAR students at Temasek Junior College are being given the option of pursuing short, universi-ty-level courses. For a start, this year, they can choose from six art history, film appreciation, history of the 20th century through photographs,
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        659 7  -  JANE LEE One child is interested in books for babies, while another has speech problems. Child experts Tony Eamshaw and Pamela Sharpe put the parents' fears to rest. Bjf Send us your question IF YOU have a problem with your child's
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          170 7 IF YOU are taking a long bus ride with your four-year-old, count the vehicles and traffic lights you pass. Or, you could both form letters of the alphabet with your bodies to pass the time. These and other suggestions on how parents can make learning fun
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          147 7 ANOTHER route into Singapore's up-and-coming design industry has been opened up by the LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts. It is launching a threeyear diploma course in product and interface design this July. Students will learn to design products, virtual environments and systems environments. The course a
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        283 8 Photos of Mars may give clues to water WASHINGTON Sand dunes which look like the scales of a giant fish and rare, wispy clouds are among more than 11,000 new images of Mars posted on the Internet, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) said. The photographs will he used
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        465 8 Toxic dust from towers' collapse Experts studying silt from World Trade Center collapse find high concentration of fiberglass, metals THIS IS NEFINITELY THE FINGERPRINT OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. IT IS QUITE A COUP.' Geochemist Sarah Okta>, on the silt which has the unique signature of tract'. > of building
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        401 8 WASHINGTON Weather scientists are dissecting a western Pacific Ocean typhoon that drove home the warning "never say never" by occurring where such storms are not supposed to happen. Typhoon Vamei formed in the South China Sea in late September 2001, about 160 km north of
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      104 1 S AIIS O I rB R 1 K. Fear Turns To Relief Vs more is known about virus, many are starting to breathe easier. pack 112 C Ol RTS A Lesson Unlearnt Twice jailed tor heating his now ex-wife, man is put hack in prison after threatening her. pu.k hs
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      144 2 "Lifelong learning from ITE UPGRADED ME FROM AN OLD ECONOMY WORKER TO A NEW ECONOMY TALENT." Mr. Tan, 4O CONTINUING EDUCATION TRAINING (CET) AT ITE NOW B r x mm ■'^mM®-*- W* 'ri H^Cfl fa- U 'dmrJtLjm: S I H I If II 18 9mL w^^^pr HI I ''immM Wi
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      178 5 School's out The Government has shut down all schools up to junior college level because of San. Wlwt have you been doing? I have been going where ~3$&£ if£fc> I want, but have not altered my Jm lifestyle in any way. M K rv I have been staying home, as
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      42 1 'There has been no experience of surrender in my family's history/ lni\* an\ i»p|Misiti<tu lav inaki-r l.ifii < lum, refuting President Chen sltui ltiau'%«laiiii that he i.v planning a "voyage of surrender'" to China it he i* elected President next year
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      535 1 Y2k bug in 2000 Sept 11 attacks in 2001 ♦War on Iraq in 2003 Crises in the new millennium have kindled a yen to start a family; the result: there were 36,000 more marriages in 2000 'THE ZIST CENTURY IS SHAPING UP AS AN AGE
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        649 2  - From a single room to a three-room flat DAVID HSIEH For many Chinese in major cities, living conditions have improved vastly, thanks to housing reforms B h THI STBAITS HMKs t Hl\ Bl Kl \l BEIJING Home for Mr Huang Daolin and his family of four used to be a
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        Lock icon RISING CONDOS, FALLING DEMAND
        361 2 A man finding out more about a new residential development at a property exhibition in Beijing on Friday. The real estate boom in China has resulted in over-construction of upmarket houses and a fall in their demand. But the demand for low-cost housing keeps rising. Within
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        414 2  -  XIE HONG VISUAL TREAT CHINA BRIEF THE STRAITS TIMES CHINA DESK EVERY day, more than 1 billion people in China are treated to a visual feast of television programmes fed through thousands of channels across the country. A recent report by the
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        311 3 Move to quash speculation tnat Leung was only bluffing HONGKONG Hongkong Financial Secretary Antony Leung's resignation letter has been circulated to a panel of lawmakers, crushing speculation that he was bluffing about his intention to step down, a newspaper reported yesterday. Mr Leung
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        534 3  -  FOONG WOEI WAN Some who did attend wore surgical masks due to Sars scare; Infernal Affairs and Hero biggest winners Bu And the award goes t0... Best Film: Infernal Affairs Best Director: Andrew Lau and Alan Mak (Infernal Affairs) Best Screenplay: Infernal Affairs Best
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      528 4 Online ancestor worship catches on More people are marking Qing Ming by going to cyber-memorials instead of visiting the graves of loved ones BEIJING Many Chinese no longer need to visit graveyards or memorial halls to pay their respects during Qing Ming, the traditional grave-sweeping season. With more than 100
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      254 4 3 North Koreans defect to South in fishing boat SEOUL Three North Koreans are being interviewed by South Korean officials after their fishing boat was picked up by maritime police off the east coast near the inter-Korean border, police said. The boat was spotted at 4.15am by fishermen and towed
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      337 4 Two Lienchiang counties one big headache 'Some people are concerned that the change would seem to support former president Lee Teng-hui's recent call for Taiwan to be officially called Taiwan instead of the Republic of China. lienchiang County Commissioner Chen Hsueh-sheng TAIPEI Changing the name of a Taiwanese county is
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      442 5 Nuclear-capable Agni 111, which will serve as a deterrent to neighbouring rivals China and Pakistan, will be test-fired later this year NEW DELHI India is developing the Agni 111, an advanced and longer-ranee version of its most sophisticated nuclear-capable missile, and scientists are seeking to
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      330 5 Indian troops kill Kashmir guerilla chief SRINAGAR Indian troops yesterday killed the suspected Kashmir chief of a Pakistanbased Islamic guerilla group, suspected in the 1995 abduction of Westem tourists and a 1999 hijacking, police said. Paramilitary soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles raided a village hideout and killed Fayaz Ahmad Khan,
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        52 5 AT LEAST 12 people have been killed and several more are missing after a factory fire in north-eastern China. The cause of the fire, which broke out in a food factory near Qingdao on Friday night, is not known. Investigators have retrieved 12
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        60 5 JAPANESE Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi will compare notes on North Korea and Iraq with her Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing during a three-day visit to Beijing, a Japanese official said yesterday. The visit by Ms Kawaguchi, which started yesterday, is the first by a senior Japanese official
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        102 5 THE death toll from a boat accident in Bangladesh climbed to 62 as the bodies of two children were recovered several kilometres from the place where the boat sank, an official said yesterday. Rescuers are searching for up to 10 people still reported missing.
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        52 5 JOB-SEEKER KRIS PUBLIC SERVANT A GRADUATE seeking a job killed a public servant and severely injured another in Jiaxing City of eastern China's Zhejiang province. The incident took place last week after Zhou Yichao, 22, was rejected for a job in the local government. He was arrested soon after the
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        86 5 PAKISTAN'S army-led Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) seized 1.22 tonnes of opium after a gun-bat-tle with smugglers in south-western Baluchistan province, officials said yesterday. They said the encounter took place in the Kharan desert on the Iranian border, about 340km west of the provincial capital Quetta, on
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        441 7  - Philippine recruiters eye jobs in post-war Iraq LUZ BAGUIORO US and British companies have contacted them to supply labour for reconstruction work By PHILIPPINES COHRKSPONDF.NT MANILA A host of companies that have been supplying workers to the Middle East are already busyscouting for job opportunities in a postwar Iraq. "There
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        196 7 JAKARTA Elite Indonesian soldiers are hunting for weapons and ammunition stolen last week by separatist rebels during an attack on a district armour}' in Papua province, reports said yesterday. The armed rebels raided the armoury in Wamena in the central highland
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        149 7 YANGON Myanmar's military- junta said yesterday that a report which found that the armed forces used systematic rape as a weapon of war against ethnic women was "too ridiculous". Last week's report by the Washington-based Refugees International Group (RI), based on interviews with
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          68 7 CASINOS in the Cambodian border town of Poipet have been forced to lay oft nearly 500 employees after the closing of the border and then the outbreak of atypical pneumonia in the region. The workers, many of them Thai nationals, have lost their jobs as
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          50 7 A MOB of about 200 people yesterday torched an office belonging to international monitors overseeing a peace deal between the Indonesian government and separatist rebels in Aceh province. Witnesses and officials said no one was injured in the incident in I^ingsa in East Aceh. AP
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          52 7 SECURITY was boosted outside the British em- bassy in military-ruled Myanmar yesterday to prevent a protester from slipping away after he tied there to avoid arrest last week, a Special Branch officer said. About 50 police officers stood guard outside the embassy in Yangon, witnesses
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          60 7 THAILAND'S tough an-ti-drug policy, which has led to the deaths of an estimated 2,000 people since it was launched two months ago, was a "licence to kill", a Thai rights group said. Research released by the Union of Civil Liberty' found the government's anti-drug policy
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          38 7 AUSTRALIAN forensic experts will help investigate a bombing that killed 16 people and injured 55 in the southern Philippines city of Davao. Officials said yesterday US investigators have also offered to help. AP
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        642 8 1 1 jj Mother and baby fall off trolley while being wheeled out of delivery room Doctor allegedly mishandles baby during delivery, causing paralysis to right side SEREMBAN Seremban Hospital has come under fire for negligence following two maternity mishaps. In one incident, a mother and her baby
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        36 8 THE STAR ASIA NEWS NETWORK This reinterpretation of the traditional kebaya was created by third-year arts and design student Hony Hassim in Kuala Lumpur. He is among 14 young designers in a kebaya competition.
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        244 8 Rafidah lashes out at use of VIP police escorts JELEBU (Negri Sembilan) Police should stop escorting ministers and other VIPs, except for the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister, to official functions to avoid upsetting people, Wanita Umno chief Randah Aziz said yesterday. "Ministers do not need to be
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        268 8 MARANG Daughters of several Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) supporters have quietly joined Terengganu Puteri Umno without their parents' knowledge, said the vice-chairman of the young women's wing of Umno, Ms Noraini Ahmad. "Fearing that their parents would object to them joining Umno, they
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        281 8 S'poreans owe Port Dickson $1.3m in property taxes PORT DICKSON Singaporean house owners make up the largest group of property tax defaulters among foreign property owners here, collectively owing the municipal council more than RM3 million (SSI.4 million). This has prompted the council to create more payment facilities for foreign
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          64 8 A SWORD-WIELDING man robbed petrol station workers of a total of RM3,950 (551,850) in two separate raids on Saturday. A police spokesman said that in both incidents one at Nilam Puri, the other at Bachok in Kelantan the armed robber had driven up
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          96 8 WANITA Umno chief Rafidah Aziz says there is no need to ask her MCA counterpart, Ng Yen Yen, to resign over the issue of Australian permanent residency. 'To me, there is no need for such a call since a PR status has nothing to
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          92 8 THE HOUSING and Local Government Ministry has ordered the Fire and Rescue Department to reduce its red tape on building plans. Minister Ong Ka Ting said procedures should be simplified so that approvals could be given quickly. "Why must it take a month
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          43 8 FARMERS and livestock breeders needed to adopt modern farming techniques to raise production, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Bernard Dompok said yesterday. They could obtain technical guidance from various government agriculture agen- cies, he said. Berkama
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          53 8 UMNO Youth is targeting those living under government agriculture land schemes in its membership and voter registration campaign, chief Datuk Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said on Saturday. The movement would also focus on youth clubs in the campaign undertaken jointly with Puteri Umno. The Star
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          50 8 A FIVE-YEAR-OLD girl drowned at the weekend after jumping into an adult swimming pool in Damansara Pcrdana, Petaling Java. Chee Sing Yee is said to have left a children's pool and jumped into the adult pool when her mother was not around. New Straits Times
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        34 9 Yef 3 instead of crying because my career is over, Tm smiling because my career happened/ Former American soccer captain John Harkes, on announcing his retirement at 36
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        552 9  -  JEFFREY LOW SOCCER MY VIEW Bl SOCCER CORRESPONDENT IF IT happened before, it can happen again, and the malaise might just spread again to cause heartache to both fans and officials. I am talking about highscoring S-League games, in which the new season recorded
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        639 9 Remaining matches Arsenal: April 16: Manchester United (H) April 19: Middlesbrough (A) April 26: Bolton Wanderers (A) May 4: Leeds United (H) May 7: Southampton (H) May 11: Sunderland (A) Manchester United April 12: Newcastle United (A) April 16: Arsenal (A) April 19:
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        340 9 LIVERPOOL Wonder boy Wayne Rooney, fresh from inspiring England in its 2-0 Euro 04 win over Turkey, helped Everton defeat Newcastle 2-1 in a Premier League soccer match yesterday. Rooney scored the 18thminute opening goal in a win that boosted Everton's hopes of a Champions
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        271 9  -  CHIA HAN KEONG *L BALESTIER Khalsa's captain Ali Imran Lomri has been told to stay at home by club officials after his wife was warded at Tan Tock Seng Hospital with suspected Sars virus infection. He told Timesport on the phone yesterday tnat his
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        456 9 LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson wants Real Madrid defender Roberto Carlos banned for an alleged attack on a referee. United faces the Spanish giant in the first leg of a Champions League quarterfinal at the Bernabeu tomorrow (Wednesday morning, Singapore time). Ferguson
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        467 9 ROME Lazio and Chievo Verona both enjoyed comfortable wins in Serie A yesterday to keep up the battle for the fourth qualification spot for the Champions League. Fourth-placed Lazio defeated lowly Como 3-0 at the Olympic stadium, while Chievo kept in touch
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        500 10 GOLF Continentals' hopes at first Major seem slim because of poor form AUGUSTA (Georgia) The Irish duo of Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke head a lacklustre European brigade attempting to revive the glory days of the 1980s and 90s' when the Masters, the opening Major of the
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        384 10 NAKHON PATHOM (Thailand) American Edward Loar shot a finalround three-under-par 69 to win the Thailana Open and his first professional title by five strokes yesterday. Singapore's Lam Chih Bing carded a final round of 71 to finish joint 10th on 278.
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        266 10  -  JOHN BELL HORSE RACING CHAMPION jockey Saimee Jumaat again took riding honours at Kranji last Friday night with a double but there is a young brigade of riders emerging in Singapore. Apprentice riders Andrew John, Alan Ng and Matthew Kellady ali landed winners on Friday night
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        617 10 Track: Soft (1), Yielding (2-7), Heavy (8-10) Race 1 Class 4 (4) 1200m 7 United Naga, R Urn 1 'Q Clear Vision, B Tai 2. 2 Nicholas' Dream, Apo Kjmarenthßran 3. Margins 1/2 l9n < 3/4 len Time 9 Nos 7. 10. 2
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        1402 10 BADMINTON Japan Open in Tokyo, finals Mtn's singles: v ia X_anze (Cnn) bt Lin Dan (Chn) 15-12 !5-10. Doubles: Flandy Limpele/Eng Hian (Engl bt Cfe^g Rui/Chen Qiqiu (Cfin) 15-5 15-12. Women's singles: Camilla Martin (Den) bt Xie Xmgfang (Chn) 11-l 11-5. Doubles: Gao Ling/Hwang Sui (Chn) bt
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          85 10 SINGAPORE'S Asian Games triple gold-medallist Remy Ong entered the quarter-finals of the Sixth World Tenpin Masters in Dagenham. Essex, yesterday. He defeated Cathay Bowl Super Classic's winner, Tim Mack of the United States, in the opening round with a two-game score of 483 pinfalls. Mack
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          88 10 DAVIS CUP tennis champion Russia was dethroned after Argentina took an unassailable 3-0 lead in their quarter-final in Buenos Aires. Argentina's Lucas Arnold and David Nalbandian won the highly-charged doubles match against Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Mikhail Youzhny 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. Argentina will face Spain
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          82 10 DENMARK'S Camilla Martin swept aside China's Xie Xingfang to win her first Japan Open badminton women's singles title in Tokyo yesterday. The world No 7, who eliminated three Chinese including world No 1 Zhang Ning, and Pi Hongyan, who plays for France, on her
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          76 10 GOLFER Ernie Els, nicknamed The Big Easy for the effortless way he swings the club, says he hates the nickname. He told The Sunday Mirror the title is a complete misnomer. "I really don't like it in fact, I hate it. "I am hitting
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          106 10 THE Phoenix Suns scored an important 111-94 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in their National Basketball Association match yesterday morning (Singapore time). The win in Phoenix moved the Suns 1 i games ahead of the Houston Rockets in the race for the eighth and
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          104 10 SWIMMER Jenny Thompson confirmed her comeback is right on track by clocking a career-best 25.025ec to win the sOm freestyle title in Indianapolis. Thompson, whose 10 Olympic medals include eight relay golds, earned the 26th national title of her career which she had expected
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          93 10 FORMER United States captain John Harkes retired from soccer, ending a career that helped launch the resurgence of the sport in the United States. The 36-year-old played for the US at the 1990 World Cup, the first appearance by the Americans in soccer's
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        687 12 ROUND-UP OcctSMS markets HONGKONG'S Hang Seng Index will continue to trade in a tight range this week as investors watch the US-led war in Iraq and the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) outbreak in the territory, dealers said. The key index lost 40.91 points or
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        99 12 TURNOVER COOO) VALUE (OOO) Main Sdq ToUl M«in sac Total Multilnd 24,112 24.112 44 028 44 028 Manufacturg 90,997 12.317 103,314 124,214 2.796 127,010 Commerce 19.326 617 19,943 8,722 135 8 857 Tpt/Stor/Com 46.506 46,506 87.555 87 555 Finance 14.381 14,381 77,165 77 165 Construction 17,014 2,634
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        118 12 MA.,. bDO TOTAL Up Dn Uiich Up Dn Unch Up Dr Uoch Multilnd 10 6 2 000 10 62 Manufacture 36 62 25 11 17 12 47 79 37 Commerce 13 23 17 4 6 4 17 29 21 Tpt/Stor/Com 11 7 9 0 0 1 11
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        36 12 SingTel 15c 67,920,000 Chart SemiCono26c 67,779,000 ComfortDelqro 25c 67,651.000 NOL 51,845,000 Accord Customer 2.5c 51,250,000 Datacraft 10c 47.729,000 •StarCruises 10c 40,335 000 SemoCorp Ind 25c 38,138,000 Ocean Sky 5c 35,115,000 TT mt 15c 33.911,000
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        41 12 Clung* Change Straits Times indei 1313.73 +11.19 BT 08/OS -61.00 28.00 BTCADI -*****.00 +69.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -6.00 UOB SesOdQ 55.65 +0.63 UOB Blue Chip 471.48 +6.09 STI Futures 1301 +2 MSCI Singapore 161.49 +1.47 SiMSCI Futures 159.80 +0.30
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        426 12 Friday, Apr 4 ABN AmroßankNV 5.25 ABSA Bank Limited 5.5 Agricultural Bank Of China b.5 ANZ Banking Group 6 American Express Bank 5 Arab Banking Corp 6 Jlnr, n"^™ k t Banca Di Roma 5.5 Banca Intesa Banca Commercial Italiana SPA 7.25 Bangkok Bank 6 Bank oi
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        421 12 REVIEW Currencies HONGKONG The Iraq war and the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) scare dominated the value of major currencies in the Asia-Pacific last week, with the yen weakening against the US dollar after strong gains earlier, as expectations of an early end
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        3929 12 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS UNIT TRUSTS 1 ABN Amro Asset Mgt (S'pore) Star Europe Eqty" 0 568/ Star Europe Bd 1.2/ Star Europe Bal 0 861/ Star Asiar, T.ger Eqty 0 601/ StarAsudond 1 ""4/ Star Asm Balanced 0177V Star Global Technology Fund!" u L Star Bhv Finance Japan Fund!" 0
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        403 13 Euro-zone set to cut growth forecast to around 1% The European Commission is also set tomorrow to warn of further economic damage if Iraq war were to drag on BRUSSELS The European Commission (EC) tomorrowwill slash its euro-zone growth forecast for this year and warn that the reality could be
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        373 13 ATHENS European Central Bank (ECB) chief Wim Duisenberg agreed on Saturday to stay in his post for months more until his already anointed successor Jean-Claude Trichet of France learns the outcome of a court case against him. European Union finance ministers brokered the
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        228 13 'The role of the government is to prepare a framework. The rest is up to the management.' Mr Takenaka, on the banks' responsibility TOKYO Japan's financial services minister said yesterday that banks face "severe" measures if they fail to improve their
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        214 13 Corporate profits to be 12% lower than forecast, says Nikkei TOKYO Tumbling stocks mean that profits made by Japan's listed companies in fiscal 2002 are likely to be 12 per cent lower than forecast a month ago, the financial daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) said yesterday. Based on the newspaper's
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        565 14  -  NARENDRA AGGARWAL It's the changing of the guard for the Indian Ihamber as Mr Menon (left takes overthe helm tomorrow from Mr Abraham (right), who has steered the organisation for 23 years. With them is the chamber's chairman, Mr Shabbir Hassanbhai. To
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        215 14 THE ratings outlook lor Singapore banks will remain stable in the medium term but the downward pressure on ratings will most likely increase over the longer term, Moody's Investors Service said. In its recently published report on Singapore's banking landscape, the global risk evaluator
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        436 14 KUALA LUMPUR The chairman of Malaysia Airports Holdings will end an 11-year-long stint at the top in October, a company source told Reuters yesterday. Tan Sri Basir Ismail, 76, a close confidante of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and a former banker, who
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        472 16  - M 1 pushes for Many More Subscribers Kelvin Wong MOBILE operator Ml is looking for Many More Subscribers to use its fancyscreen MMS service, that is. "MMS' contribution to revenue now is still very small. There aren't that many handsets in the market yet, though the initial usage is very
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        420 16  -  DENNIS CHAN AVOIDING JUDICIAL MANAGEMENT By \NMS I 1 MONM t-.UI ll)K CLEARING THE DECKS Excel is mulling over a capital reduction in a bid to attract Fresh funding, via a write-off of accumulated losses and other write-downs. It recently divested
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        565 16  -  COLIN TAN TAKIXG STOCK btj W WJM./.s Olilil Sl'()\l)L\i THE stock market these days resembles the Chinese martial art of "taijiquan languid in movements for most parts but punctuated with cobra-like strikes every now and then. In boring market parlance, this
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        72 16 WEEK'S TOP RISES Cents CSC 416 24.0 6.1 Prima 484 22.0 4.8 DBS Bk 6% NCPS ***** 20.0 0.2 SIA2OO 930 20.0 2.2 SIASOC 925 20.0 2.2 JMH US2SC 400 585 17.8 1.7 JSHUSSCSOO 245 16.0 3.8 DairyFarm 11l 10.7 5.7 Creative T 25c 1150 10.0 0.9 Keppel Corp 50c
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        72 16 WEEK'S TOP RISES Cents Strike W*****5 1 100.0 o.', GRP2OC 9.5 72.7 4.0 Kian Ann W*****7 1.5 50.0 0.5 Network WtOs 1.5 50.0 0.5 Craft Print 15c 7 40.0 2.0 Yonqnam2Oc 2 33.3 0.5 Medtecs US5c 15 30.4 3.5 Cybermast Ltd 5c 9 28.6 2.0 SimSianqC 5c 12 26.3 2.5
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        66 16 WEEK'S TOP FALLS Cents SPHIOO 1760 140.0 7.4 SPH 1760 130.0 6.9 NatSteel 50c 229 59.0 20.5 OUE 580 20.0 3.3 Elec 80c 166 16.0 5.1 OBSGrp 945 15.0 1.6 City Dev 50c 362 14.0 3.7 Ossia Intl 10c 23.5 14.0 37.3 BSembawang 990 10.0 1.0 OCBC 965 10.0 1.0
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        72 16 WEEK'S TOP FALLS Cents See Hup Seng W05 0.5 66.7 1.0 El-Nets 1c 0.5 50.0 0.5 Ossia Int! 10c 23.5 37.3 M.O LKN-Primefield 2 33.3 1.0 SPPSc 3.5 30.0 1.5 Penguin WO5lOlO 2.5 28.6 1.0 Uniduxbc 6.5 27.8 2.5 Giken S 25c 11 26.7 4.0 Penguin 10c 11 26.7 4.0
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        674 16  -  KELVIN WONG Its MyCupid match-making service is a hit, showing its ability to milk regional tie-ups for ideas for revenue-churners By AS PEOPLE start using their mobile phones more and more for purposes other than just talking, SingTel is going all out to woo
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        12 17 FOR THE WEEK 1,313.73 (-4.7) Monday, April 7. 2003
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        716 17  - Income to halve bonuses to policyholders LORN A TAN This is the second year in a row that the life insurer is cutting bonuses; other big players are expected to do the same Bu INSURANCE co-operative NTUC Income is cutting the bonuses that it pays to holders ot its life
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      228 2 BANGALORE The Rolling Stones held their first Indian concert on Friday in an Asian tour cut short hy a killer pneumonia virus that forced the group to cancel their first-ever shows in China. Fans braved a downpour to see the veteran British rockers in
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      309 12  -  SAMUEL LEE 'Bu_ BEST PARTNERS: Clarence Tan and wife, Alexandra Hsieh, have launched an album of happy-go-lucky tunes, which also weaves in social commentary about current affairs. A FREE-SPIRITED, homegrown 30-something pop duo is preaching positivity during these gloomy times. Singer Alexandra Hsieh, who makes up
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      304 2 THE BUZZ WHAT'S ON is on Page 10 TOMORROW life! goes places: Travel on Tuesday W^ rl, fln "With Expressions' Detox Programme, #^V*^ f (19 I lost 3kg in 3 days which makes it even v easier for me to attain the ideal figure." tM^^W 7r FREE Trim Tone treat
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      410 5 Reasons for female hair loss I Genes, diet, stress, lifestyle and illness also play a part in female hair loss. Female hair loss is diffuse: the hair just thins out gradually from the parting. As such, a woman may not even notice that she is suffering from hair loss. If
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      46 7 Popcorn by luna-id runs till Thursday at the DBS Arts Centre at S pm. Tickets from Sistic (tel: 6348-5555). jointly And Severably is mi at Jubilee Hall from Wednesday to April 2fi, S pm (Tues Sun) anil '5 pm i weekends Tickets from Sistic (tel: 6348-5555).
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      496 10 If you have time for only one event... FESTIVAL FRINGE, 16TH SIN6APORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL G ;th,-lnst!tut, Wmsland House 11 #05-01, 163 Penang Road, Wed-April27: Ham- llpm, Free, Tel: 6738-7567 Film buffs can view more than 50 films by South-east Asian and international directors from 20 countries at this Festival
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      63 10 Conrad Centennial Singapore, Tfie Ritz-Carlton, Equinox Complex at Stvissotel Tfie Stamford, Today 6- Wed: 6.30- 11 pm, Fee: $296.40 a person, Tel: 6270-1254 Join this Masterchef Safari and sample fine cuisines whipped up by masterchefs at the three hotels. Each restaurant will serve up two courses of a six-course dinner
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      357 10 Bar, 76 Robertson Quay, Till April 30: 6.30 3 am (Mon Sat), Fee: $25, Tel: 6887-2490 Sample cuisines of the worid ranging from sweet paprika chicken, Moroccan spiced lamb or a medley of seafood with herbs and garlic at this cool and hip bar. Part of the Singapore Food Festival.
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      531 10 movements of the Chinese five elements -Water, Fire, Metal, Wood and Earth creating a three-dimensional effect. In contrast, the other artist Miguel Chew's works border on avant garde pop art. He uses bright neon vinyl canvases, often with strong red, orange and green colours. BOUSSIGNAC&ftON ENGLISH Opera Gallery. Takasitimm/a Shopping
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        378 4 E OFFICE FURNITURE/ FURNISHINGS *****742/ *****203 WAREHSE u e Ne* Mobi e pedestal 556 Cha 525 203 Syec Aiwi Re PARTiTION. CEILING CARPET zs nt ng smant ng r easorable price. Can 9615-7447 E INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT/ SUPPLIES OUALITY USED TRUCK with warranty. SC aownpayment. Battery forklift -or $6,888: reach truck
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        458 5 Rfl PACKING/ STORAGE/ EUJ DELIVERY/ REMOVAL $25 PICK-UP, $40 Lorry $55 pow ergate. 565 crane. Te! *****269 $20 PICKUP S3O-S4O Lorry $55 D owergate. *****710 Bam-llpm ■ffl PHONES/ FAXES/ Kadi pagers/ H SPECIAL NUMBERS WANTED USED New H/P, laptop S dig tai cameras. Cash payment! 9147-3188/ 6458-4068 John Wff\ PRINTING/
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        242 5 EflfJ BMW FOR SALE 1 OWNER 4/ '00. BMW 318IA. Steptronic. 4 drs. Low mileage. Blue. Orig. Call: *****779 3/'OI 5201A 2.2, 1 owner. Nice no. PML maintained. Orig cond. like new. Call: 6462-5828 3/01 BMW 7281A. New tax. 1 owner. Agt warranty. Silver. Excellent cohd. Must view; 6468-2200 $0
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        551 5 RT| HONDA FOR SALE Bff| HONDA rOR SALE 1 1 f II yVI 1 1 1 1 H 1 f»B- PAf KAfitl BJtjj FORD FOR SALE $0 DOWNPAYMENT FOR Bia^a New Ford Lase r Focus. Mondeo. Call 6562 02^ for test drive. '01 FORD FOCUS 1.6 auto. Beige. Beautiful throughout.
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        577 5 PAY EXACTLY $509 nett De r mtn (7 yrs loan). S2BB driveaway! No gimmicks! '92 Accord 2.OEXi, fuel injection, new COE, newly refurDished. View: Bukit Timah Plaza 801-01H. 6469-3303 M Cars 5/'99 CITY 1.5 Auto, injection. OMV SISK. Kah Motor svc *****km. SO downpayment driveaway. Mthiy S5OC+ x 6'.. Loan
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        1481 5 41 ■TTfTTr^TTT^H A fIMETi' -I I MT79H Bfn HYUNDAI FOR SALE BfR HYUNDAI FOR SALE R1 HYUNDAI FOR SALE Kffi HYUNDAI FOR SALE Results of March 2003 2nd Open Bidding Exercise For COE^^gMJ®^ COE price Quota Bids Cars (1600cc and below) Taxi j $26,999 1,337 1.923 Cars 1 60 1cc
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        604 5 WSfji MiTSJBISH SPORTY BLACK 12/'99 Lancer !.3GLXi Manjai, owner. Asking $52,500 nett. PARF $*****. Tax till 12/'O3. 100% financing avail. *****744 VISA/ NETS accept BUY USED CAR -igh Parf 6. Vicon Evaluation. 4/'97 Lancer I.3GLXi. s/rims, CD set (Scrap now! $*****) Good cond. Asking $36,800. Ca" 6844C123 10/01 MITSUBISHI LANCER
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        770 6 VEHICLES fB KWI NISSAN FOR SALE 4 MTHS OLD. Yssan Sunny 1.6 Manual. Luxury edition. OMV ST6K deposit S3.BK only. Oriq Leather seats. ABS. Dual airbaqs. Walnut trimming. Expensive hifi system. Agt maintained. Under warranty. Accident free. STA evaluation. $67. 8K loan/ trade-in. Call 6396-7878 1 OWNER MID 2001 Cefiro
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        543 6 BWI NISSAN FOR SALE 1/96 NISSAN MARCH 1.0 Manual. 2 owner. Red. OMV $12,323. View 402-14 AML. Tei: 6-*****86 1 OWNER 5/'9B Sunny 1.5 auto. 9/'99 Sunny 1.6 manual. Silver. SOOO driveaway. 9069-5399 10/'Ol SUNNY I.6SS. Auto. S/rims, leather, accident free. Asking $65K. Call 9679 1261. 2/01 SUNNY 1.5V1P. Auto.
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        514 6 Bf!l SUBARU FOR SALE 2003 SUBARU IMPREZA visit our new showroom at Automobile Meqamart 001-14. Very attractive package with low downpayment high trade-in. Call 6745 3227/ 6745 1041 $0 DOWNPAYMENT. 2 units. '99 impreza 1.6 Auto. 1 lady owner. F/ accessories. Accident free. No repairs needed. Only 549.8K yet neq.
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        529 6 BRAND NEW TOYOTA Harrier 2.4 L-Package $130,800! Downpayment 0-10%! Free leather upholstery! High Trade-in! 6551-9022 BEAUTIFUL BUDGET S3 Starlet 1.0. COE 11/2006. 3 units. New paint/ tax. Deposit Sl3OO. 5299 X 36. $9,900. Call *****14! Salim LOW DOWNPAYMENT! 5/'9B So luna GLi Auto. Beige. 1 owner. OMV $11. 6K. Low
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        1648 7 B!W LORRIES FOR SALE BWI LORRIES FOR SALE BWI LORRIES FOR SALE Mm, W •*^^^fci I bS TIMEX t!; Wm~J^^mJo* \^ms*tg!§£F? r »*jr d=5J.-le\ FREE ■^H J^^^^^ VHHHHHHiH^HI^^^B mi a^^^^r^ sj im^^C T^^ ew 0<r c 4 B 3rct wh|ie siocks Lasi P-egio Gooos Van Terms Conditions Apply. Frontier K2700
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        2516 7 ■Wl VANS FOR SALE IWJ| VANS FOR SALE Bp?l VANS FOR SALE There's a new reliable 4 Partner in town. I rVerls Airb ag «BBS[MHr j^Z^Sj •Anti-lock Braking System A3S Driver's Airbag Engine mmobilisei 'i^B^^^^l •Air-condit 1 ig« Central ocking with remote control Twin side H<jm/ m/im JH sliding doors
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        2145 7 1 VEHICLES T^ PROPERTIES^ t 009-10 ORCHARD/ Pffl DO9-10 ORCHARD/ Pffl DO9-10 ORCHARD/ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND hiUJ TANGLIN/ HOLLAND KIUJ TANGL'N/ HOLLAND PTE APTS -RENT j:fty| PTE APTS -RENT j ,1 PTE APTS REKT f** .-^2P: r C"'"~" PresU g 10US Address at Leonie Hill Road MSl^ ■■■ttl I'*' fr^-0 l^^k
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        616 7 PM ROOMS FOR RENI 2+l/ I+l COMMON/ Waster rms 1 a creas. Upto vojr expectat'er Pts. cal Steve i 9487-8177 WITH/ WITHOUT OWNER, -DE D !e'cc"cc master/ commor a a-eas MR* cheap. *****44? CONDO RM Hume A.e r lurr witr a r :c- \ea r djs stop. Nc owner. $600.
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        693 8 PROPERTIES 1 aD11& 21 NEWTON/ BTTiMAH/ CLEMENTI HOUSES -SALE OPEN HOUSE 3-6PM Semi-d .s Jin o» it's gc-e: 9330"-i4-} 0.2i kismis. 2 storev se^rd M 4+2. Gooj fac r»q/ no. 9155-5837 HILLCREST BUNGLW. 7000 sqft. Elevated. Can reouilt or stay. F hold. Good pr.ee HB 9201-4511 IDII 21 NEWTON/ BTTiMAH/
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        743 8 I PTE APTS -SALE F HOLD APT. NEAR Simei MRT. ited. unD ocnea Bngtit Dreejy. Below value .1! SSBOK. 9830-3303 S6SOK ONLY! SUNHAVEN. Fhold. 990 sg.ft. 2+l. Brand new. Best Duy! Don't miss 1 9505-5456 Agt VCJji Dl9-20 SERANGOON/ I HOUSES -SALE CHEAP! 44 THE mglewoocl. 2 storev nter terr.
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        659 8 IjJjTjl HDB APTS FOR SALE JURONG 9857-3294 ROBIN GOH Exec Apt 336 812 corner S37OK, lakeview, unblocked, no noon sun 3 'A' 454. 806+. 7 4 sqm. Unblock 3 T 211 803, 211 821, 10 807 3 'I' 208 81 5+, 167 803+. Crre- 4'A'642' 642 807+ Granite. Aircon 4
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        744 8 tHDB APTS FOR SALE (TOA PAYOH/ POTONG PASIR) 3 RM. BLK 110. T Paycn. Lift level. 2 mins to MRT/ Sen/ Mkt. Renovated. Upgraded. 9851 9026 agt. 3+l RM. CORNER T.Payoh Blk 207 Upgraded/ 5-rm Blk 60. MRT. Marble. SO cash. *****412 agt 5-RM CORNER PT Blk 216 recess. High
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        432 8 Rfl ROOMS WANTED TENANTS LOOKING for 2+l/ I+l/ master/ common rm. Up to your expectations. 9487-8177 Steve Rfl HOUSES WANTED GENUINE BUYERS LOOKING for eld terr/ semi-d/ bung'w. Any districts. S6Co><-S6W. Sellers pis can 9022-1933 Mr Yong for appt PUT HOMEFIELD REALTY to work for you. Ready clients in all
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        491 8 R?l HUDC/HDBAPTS WANTED (RENT/ BUY) ERA^fL S'PORE'S TOP PROPERTY Agent. 3/ 4/ 5-Rm fiats wanted in all areas. Highest saies price guaranteed. Ca'! now: jarnesera.com ATTN! OWNER OF Beaok/ 3eack Res/ Eunos/ Übi, we are the rental specialist. Call us now for superb fast results. 9638-8612 A BATCH OF serious
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        519 8 ■jffl FACTORY SPACE DEFU/ JURONG. 1400 sq.ft. with partition office. Aircon. Nicely renovated. Convenient. Free parking. Cheap: *****525 Roof KAK! BUKIT TECH Park. Office/ warehse/ fty. S/pooi tennis ct. (Only 1 in S'pore) Low rent $1.30 ps? ono. Sharon Sam 6744-5214 TERRACE FACTORY IN =enjuru/ Bt Bate*. Suits most trades.
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        282 8 R!1 FACTORY SPACE MANDAI EST. RENOVATED Dfi C6 work a'ea. 775 sqft. F noifl. S2BOK. ARPL 9626-3770 FOOD FTY AT YVan Lee/ Senoko. *****/ ***** sqft. Balance 31 yrs. Amp e Cd'n.rg. *****'73 P\ Rfl OFFICE SPACE |^J FOR RENT I BUILDING 1 F 20 Bideford Road (Near Crown Prince
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        847 8 Rfl OFF CE SPACI |^J FOR RENI Next to PSA gate 4 Air-conditioned office space From 325 sq ft to 2.200 sq t Anractve rate Easy access tc Highways Coll: 9022 8442 SERVICES I A ,'uini \cmjK J. !i[)B keppd Uh! FOR RENT PAYA LEBAR Fully fittec a>rco r Office
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        665 9 Rfl OFFICE SPACE Rfl OFFICE SPACE |^J FOR RES' |^y TORRENT LIAT TOWERS 541 Orchard Road Retail tenants: Esprit, Starbucks, Burger King Hermes Accessibility via public transport only 3 minutes walk to Orcnard MRT station Convenient ample parking facilities Outside CBD Available sizes. 420/1.473 5,435 sq.ft. Attractive rental Excellent corporate
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        880 9 Rfl OFFICE SPACE Si PSF. ALONG Geylang mam rd. 1300 sq.ft. Suitable for office association. 9858-6907 agt D.Ol CARPENTER ST. 4600 sq ft. With lift. Weil renoavted. Reasonable rental. Trevose 6732-2243 INT'L PLAZA 463/ 936/ 1453/ 1711/ 2357/ 3810 sq.ft. City/ sea view. Immed. Sneg. 622-555-88 HIGH ST. 335 sq.ft.
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        880 9 Rfl SHOP SPACE I^Uforrent PRIME LOCATION. FAR East Plaza/ Bt Panjang Plaza. $2300 on«vards. Suits fashion, bag, accessories. 9489-6409 Kaizer WHITE SANDS (PASIR RIS MRT) 801-28 (183 sq.ft) 802-22 (420 sq.ft) Preferred: Fashions/ accessories. 6437-3704/ 828/ 709 SPECILISTS CTR. (SOMERSET MRT) 801-15 (308 sq.ft) 802-57 040 sq.ft) Dry trade. 6437-3860/
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        1203 9 W PROPERTIES T TRAVEL Bfl SHOP SPACE Bfl SHOP SPACE, ITfl SHOP SPACE ITfl SHOP SPACE SUNSW I N A7 A Shop space for sale and lease. Apartment for sale with tenancy. W OPENING HOURS FROM 12.00PM 4.00PM (MON SAT) SUNDAY VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT ONLY SALES OFFICE: #01-31, SUNSHINE PLAZA
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        780 9 Wffl O T HERR[A.LS'A-: Hf[l C'hER REA, ESTATE 167 Sims Avei 58 Lor 19 Geylang Dl4 Devi s:e p'oposec*c 13-ti) nsut-tiona nag a^c "74'2 s' prapcwdGf* 52.252 5f. fh0ic 30 Lengkong Empat Dl4 3-sty comer ter 3355 sf, fiotc. 5-1 Kembanga^ MR' 25 Springleaf Drive D26 2-sty sem -detached 3549
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