The Straits Times, 26 January 2005

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  • Article
    Lock icon 250 Indian pilgrims die in stampede
    524 1  -  Ravi Velloor Panic at a religious festival results m the deaths of mainly children and women By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi PILGRIMS thronging a temple festival m Western India panicked, causing a stampede that led to the deaths of more than 250
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    Lock icon Deaths at Hindu festivals
    88 1 STAMPEDES that have occurred at major Hindu festivals: August 2004: At least 39 Hindus died m a stampede on the banks of a holy river m Nasik, a town 176 km north-east of Bombay. 1999: 51 pilgrims died when a rope meant to channel worshippers snapped
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    Lock icon HERITAGE ROADS
    563 1  -  Joyce Teo By Ambience of selected scenic roads are to be preserved THE preservation of Singapore's greenery gained new emphasis yesterday when laws were changed to conserve scenic, tree-lined roads and save mature trees from being recklessly chopped down. Selected roads that enhance Singapore's image as a garden
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    Lock icon Fringe festival remembers the war
    1003 1  -  Clarissa Oon sdfsdf By MENTION "war" and what springs to mind for most Singaporeans these days are probably blistering images from Hollywood movies or CNN news footage, rather than the Japanese seizure of this island during World War 11. Visual artist Amanda Heng hopes to
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  • UPFRONT
    • IN A FLASH
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        34 2 Thank you, Spore Outgoing Sri Lankan envoy lauds Spores support and sympathy for his country's tsunami victims and says S'poreans "can help us m our renewal efforts by visiting Sri Lanka". PAGE H7
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        46 2 PGA Tour 'too tough' Arjun Atwal earned $800,000 on US PGA Tour last year, but still loses his playing card. PAGEHB Federer beats Agassi World No 1 outplays eight Grand Slam titles winner for semi-final clash with Russia's Marat Safin m Australian Open. PAGE HlO
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        33 2 Curbing bird flu Thai Cabinet adopts plan to deal with possible human-to-human transmissions of virus. PAGE 5 New Taiwan Premier President Chen picks Kaohsiung Mayor Frank Hsieh for the post. PAGE 6
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        38 2 Lessons of Holocaust Had the world learnt from those dark days, it might have prevented mass murders today, leaders tell UN. PAGE 11 Oxford intake Oxford reducing British intake to improve quality and boost finances. PAGE 14
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        24 2 Plant expansion ExxonMobil to expand its Spore ethylene cracker plant to help meet growing demand for petrochemical products m Asia Pacific PAGE HlB
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        23 2 Bush's democracy plan It is neither desirable nor practical to make growth of democracy globally a US foreign policy doctrine. PAGE 20
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        50 2 Drug convictions Two more arrested m last year's high-profile drug bust plead guilty to illegal use of a controlled drug. PAGE H4 Insurance for owcr 80s NTUC urges extension of MediShield to people over 80 to make it "more effective m meeting the needs of the elderly". PAGE H6
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        Lock icon WHAT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN
        66 2 IN our report yesterday on GIC Real Estate, HDB Corp and privately-owned Wuthelam Holdings joining forces to develop township projects m China, the headline read "HDB m tie-up to build China townships". It should read "HDB Corp m tie-up to build China townships" as HDB
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      360 2 SECTION ONE Prime 3-4 Asia 5-10 World 11-19 Review 20-23 FYI 24 SECTION TWO Home Hl-H6 Forum H7 Sports HB-Hl2 Obituaries Hl2 Money Hl3-H2O LIFE! Buzz L2&LIO Mid Life L3-L4 Movies L 5 Events TV LB-L9 r"^Z2 [""^mjS Aw 'k* W ik *iF"W mmm |"^M^3 sBi bB Singapore's Largest IT
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  • PRIME
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      Lock icon Seven die as party ferry overturns
      429 3  - Seven die as party ferry overturns Nirmal Ghosh By Thailand Correspondent AN OVERLOADED speedboat carrying revellers from a full moon mass beach party capsized early yesterday m the Gulf of Thailand, killing at least seven and leaving 17 missing. The accident happened as tourists many of them apparently drunk were
      AP  -  429 words
    • Article
      Lock icon Tsunami contact centres are closed
      414 3  -  Maria Almenoar Need for them here and m Phuket has fallen, but relatives will be kept updated By NOT GIVING UP HOPE "Whether the contact centres are closed or not, we're still hoping he's alive." MR GOH WEI LIANG, 21, brother of Mr Goh Hui
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      Lock icon China economy grew 9.5% last year
      429 4  -  Tshang Chi-Chu Exports, consumer spending fuelled higher than expected growth By China Correspondent In Beijing CHINA'S economic growth accelerated unexpectedly m the fourth quarter of last year as consumers spent more and factories here exported more than expected to offset the slowdown m investments.
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      Lock icon Aviator flying high with 11 Oscar nominations
      537 4  - Aviator flying high with 11 Oscar nominations Ong Sor Fern By Film Correspondent Not on the list TWO notable absentees on the list of nominated films are: >> Zhang Yimou's House Of Flying Daggers. It failed to make it into the best foreign language film choices. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.
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      331 4 Bbi BF r"' v I flflß^B^B^Bf m "m 1 bT 1 h/ 1 Today m I The Business Times BEIJING NEEDS MORE TIME BEFORE ADJUSTING YUAN, MONEY Hl 5 BJ BJ I BJ BJ 1 1 B B I ww 'z, O I A LwJ m M WW <\ W^^aaaW
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  • ASIA
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      Lock icon Thais adopt emergency plan on bird flu spread
      571 5 Move comes amid growing fears of human-to-human transmission Bangkok THAILAND'S Cabinet yesterday formally adopted an emergency plan to deal with possible human-to-human transmissions of bird flu. The decision followed new cases of poultry infection m two Thai provinces and nine human deaths
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      Lock icon Brothers ate blood pudding
      93 5 THREE brothers m Vietnam who contracted the bird flu virus had eaten duck blood pudding that had not been boiled last month. A week before the eldest brother developed a high fever and a cough, the family had slaughtered a duck and eaten blood pudding made
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      Lock icon China to measure if Mt Everest has shrunk
      207 6 Beijing CHINA will send a scientific team to re-measure the height of Mount Everest amid worries that global warming may be causing the world's highest peak to shrink. A recent survey found that the summit had dropped by 1.3 m because of
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      Lock icon Mayor Hsieh to broker peace as Premier
      584 6  -  Lawrence Chung The skilled negotiator is tasked with improving ties with China and Taiwan's opposition parties By Taiwan Correspondent In Taipei TAIWAN President Chen Shui-bian yesterday pledged to seek reconciliation with opposition parties and peace with China by naming a skilful political broker
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      70 6 Dipping ice cream and fruits into hot chocolate sauce is the latest culinary craze to hit XINHUA Suzhou, China. Ice cream hotpot a modem version of the Chinese savoury hotpot is especially popular with women. A course of ice cream hotpot costs about 200 yuan (Ss4o), more than
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      Lock icon Tsunami work: S'pore joins hands with Japan
      400 7  - Tsunami work: S'pore joins hands with Japan Kwan Weng Kin By Japan Correspondent In Tokyo SINGAPORE and Japan will cooperate m helping tsunamistricken countries m the region, particularly Indonesia, to recover from the recent disaster, Foreign Minister George Yeo said here yesterday. Speaking to Singapore reporters after meeting his Japanese
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      Lock icon S'pore and India to step up cultural and artistic exchanges
      301 7  - S'pore and India to step up cultural and artistic exchanges Ravi Velloor By India Bureau Chief In New Delhi SINGAPORE and India are working on ways to step up cultural and artistic exchanges to reflect their growing economic engagement, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang said.
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      Lock icon Beijing tightens control of state firms
      463 7 Beijing tightens control of state firms Communist Party cadres m big corporations to play more significant role m management Shanghai KEEPING TIGHT CONTROL "The party has never really gotten out of business." MR 808 BROADFOOT of the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy m Hong Kong IN AN apparent step backward
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      327 5 Regal candidate The Thai opposition has fielded a royal candidate m a bid to dent the dominance of Thaksin's party. PAGE 10 ■iß^B^Bjß^SfslßSEiPiPv^ v I BJ i^BJhfc HH|B^; "'< &&*%F^^ s BBBJ^^B ▼M^L tmfi in wiin miiii BBS****—- --^^^^^^^fl IblbbbX LV BBBBx Tk». "B B^> «BBJ<^ SaWW mwaw^aWx. '^'Ib^bbbW wk
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  • TSUNAMI AFTERMATH
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      Lock icon Jakarta's dilemma: How to say no to needed foreign help
      781 8  - Jakarta 's dilemma: How to say no to needed foreign help Derwin Pereira A month after the Dee 26 earthquake and tsunamis, thousands continue to suffer and struggle to begin life anew. The Straits Times examines the issues involved and the rebuilding so far. NEWS ANALYSIS Indonesians, wary of hidden
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      Lock icon Man finds daughter alive one month later
      377 8  -  Banda Aceh MR MUSTAFA Kamal searched for his five-year-old daughter by day and had visions of her at night, certain that somehow she had escaped the tsunami which slammed into Indonesia's Sumatra island last month. His dream became reality on Monday when Rina
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      Lock icon Only five psychiatrists for 500,000
      252 8  -  DEVI ASHARANI INDONESIA ALMOST half a million Acehnese could be suffering from depression, anxiety and sleep disorders due to the earthquake and tsunami disaster, but only five psychiatrists are on hand to treat them. And though up to 100,000 people may need other psychiatric care,
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      Lock icon Living on loans, handouts and hope
      256 8  -  NIRMAL GHOSH THAILAND MR AMORNRTT Nuipakdee, a senior credit officer at Siam Commercial Bank's Phuket branch, has his hands full fielding queries for soft loans from locals whose businesses suffered because of the tsunami disaster. One month on, credit schemes are m place, and
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      Lock icon Displaced yearn for former lives
      244 8  -  REUTERS SRI LANKA SRI Lankan seamstress Srishanthini Vetharniyam hates living m a camp for the tsunami-displaced, and is desperate to be resettled m her village deep inside Tamil rebel territory and start life over. But sitting beside a ramshackle tent she and her family have
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      Lock icon A year to solve Aceh's woes?
      349 8  -  Goh Chin Lian By ACEH could be on its way to recovery within a year provided the Indonesian government puts m all the effort, the chief of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs m Indonesia said yesterday. Mr Michael Elmquist told
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      Lock icon Don't issue travel warnings: Minister
      417 8  -  Leslie Lau By] Malaysia Correspondent In Langkawi The toll so far Total dead 297,271 Indonesia 228,429 dead or missing Thailand 5,384 dead and 3,000 missing Sri Lanka 30,957 dead and 5,637 missing India 10,744 dead and 5,669 missing Myanmar 61 dead Malaysia 68 dead DON'T
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      Lock icon Countries announce rebuilding strategies
      555 9  - Countries announce rebuilding strategies William Choong Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka outline reconstruction plans for devastated areas By INDONESIA will refashion the capital of Aceh, Banda Aceh, into another Putrajaya. Thailand will make its prime beach strip m Phuket "tsuna-mi-proof". Sri Lanka will woo tourists back with its "Bounce Back"
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      Lock icon SCDF rescuers risked lives to find bodies
      324 9  -  TEH JOO LIN ALL that remained of the bungalow m Banda Aceh were two pillars and a 2m-by-0.5m piece of concrete hanging from a beam. Buried right below were Singapore permanent resident Madam Yusnizar Yunus' parents. The concrete block could fall anytime. But
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      Lock icon All figured out
      171 9 3 microseconds: The length of time that the quake has shortened a day on Earth. One microsecond is a millionth of a second. 9.0: The magnitude of the Dec 26 quake, which was the strongest m 40 years. 20 metres: The maximum distance that some islands off
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA / MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Thai opposition fields royal candidate
      757 10  -  Eunice Lau Democrats seek to break ruling party's grip on Chiang Mai By I For The Straits Times In Chiang Mai IN THE battle for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's backyard, the opposition Democrat Party has deployed one of the sure-fire ploys of election campaigns fielding
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      Lock icon Johor bridge project wasteful: PAS
      142 10 Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA'S main opposition party wants the Malaysian government to drop the proposal to build a bridge to replace the Johor Causeway. Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) described the bridge as a wasteful project which would be of little benefit to the people of Malaysia
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      Lock icon New link will go ahead: Johor MB
      186 10 MUAR JOHOR will strongly resist any move to abandon Malaysia's proposed bridge to replace the Causeway, said Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman. He made it clear that the question of "dropping the bridge" did not arise because this was not the position
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon 'World has not learnt lessons or Holocaust'
      646 11 HOLOCAUST (1942-45): 6 MILLION KILLED RWANDA (1994): 800,000 KILLED BOSNIA (1992-1995): 200,000 KILLED Mass murders m Cambodia and elsewhere might have been avoided United Nations "All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing." UN SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN,
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      Lock icon The horror of Auschwitz
      150 11 THE Holocaust was the attempted genocide of European Jews and other minority groups by the Nazis during World War 11. Many of them were sent to concentration camps, of which Auschwitz was the most infamous. Auschwitz was m fact not one camp, but two: Auschwitz I,
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      Lock icon Money politics rears its ugly head in Iraqi polls
      986 12  -  Borzou Daragahi Election commission is too busy looking out for insurgents to monitor spending By Middle East Correspondent In Baghdad FIGHTING TERRORISM WITH BALLOTS Iraqis go to the polls on Sunday m what US President George W. Bush has touted as
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      Lock icon A DRINK AND A PROMIS
      112 12 Russian Pret Vladimir Pu ing a swig oj traditional n vukha a r drink that is indigenous to the r during a meeting dents m Moscow S versity yesterday. The staff and sti were marking the i ty's 250 th anniven During the visit dent
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      Lock icon European govts reining in militant imams
      402 12 Some preachers are inciting youths to join the insurgency m Iraq London GOVERNMENTS across Europe have stepped up their efforts to monitor and restrict militant imams. The authorities m several countries there have increased their surveillance of militant mosques. This includes France, where officials
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      Lock icon Bush seeks another $130b for military ops
      374 13 Bush seeks another $130 b for military ops IRAQ AND AFGHAN CONFLICTS Washington THE Bush administration is seeking about US$BO billion (Ssl3o billion) m new funding for military operations this year m Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing the total for both conflicts to almost US$3OO billion so far since money was
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      Lock icon Iraqi security forces accused of torturing detainees
      188 13 IRAQI security forces are arbitrarily arresting people and systematically torturing and abusing detainees, Human Rights Watch said m a report released yesterday. "The people of Iraq were promised something better than this after the government of Saddam Hussein fell," said Ms Sarah Leah
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      Lock icon A DRINK AND A PROMISE
      130 13 Russian President Vladimir Putin taking a swig of the traditional medovukha a mead drink that is indigenous to the region during a meeting with students m Moscow State University yesterday. The staff and students were marking the university's 250 th anniversary. During the visit, the
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    • WORLD QUICKLY
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        Lock icon FLOODS IN MEDINA KILL 29
        129 13 RIYADH: Twenty-nine people were killed m Saudi Arabia's western city of Medina this week after rain and flood waters swept cars off roads and destroyed a bridge, a newspaper said yesterday. Another 17 people were wounded, Al-Madina quoted regional governor Prince Muqrin bin Abdul- Aziz
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        Lock icon DEBATE ON RICE CONFIRMATION STARTS
        152 13 WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush's Iraq war policy was due for a day-long airing yesterday as Senate Democrats began debate on the nomination of Ms Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State. Her confirmation does not appear m doubt, but senators Robert Byrd, Barbara Boxer and
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        Lock icon US ENVOY ON PEACE MISSION TO MID-EAST
        227 13 WASHINGTON: After four years of keeping its distance, the Bush administration said it is sending a senior official to the Middle East to try to revive peace efforts after the election of a new Palestinian leader. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli, speaking just
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        Lock icon DRIVER'S FINE: £60; COPS' COST: £10,000
        171 13 LONDON: British police spent £10,000 (S$30,000) to catch and prosecute a woman driver for eating an apple while behind the wheel, reports said yesterday. Sarah McCaffrey, a 23-year-old nursery nurse, was fined £60 on Monday and ordered to pay £100 m legal fees for
        AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE  -  171 words
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      Lock icon Oxford to take in fewer British students
      389 14 Plan to enrol more foreign students to 'improve quality' and boost finances London OXFORD University is to reduce its intake of British undergraduates m order to increase the proportion coming from overseas. The academic "rebalancing" strategy, announced yesterday, is part of an attempt
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      Lock icon Human trafficking No. 2 money-spinner
      299 14 Vienna TRAFFICKING people for forced labour and sexual slavery has become the world's No. 2 most lucrative crime, and terrorists are using shadowy underground networks to move around, a senior US countertrafficking official warned yesterday. Human trafficking, particularly the smuggling and enslavement of young women
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      Lock icon World leaders in Davos to tackle poverty
      358 16 Political and business chiefs to focus on economic issues at annual WEF summit Geneva GLOBAL political and business leaders are expected to focus heavily on economic issues, including the fight against poverty, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) m
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      Lock icon Bill Gates gives $1.2b for vaccine schemes
      164 16 Bill Gates gives $1.2 b for vaccine schemes London MICROSOFT chairman Bill Gates is donating US$75O million (Ssl.2 billion) to pay for wider vaccination programmes m developing countries. The grant was made ahead of the Davos meeting where access to health care is set to be high on the agenda.
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    • SPOTLIGHT PEOPLE
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        Lock icon Porn pedlar now pushing bagels
        157 19 HE SPENT a lifetime peddling smut and once had an US$ll million (SslB million) fortune. But after losing everything, Mr Al Goldstein is now happy pushing bagels instead of porn. Mr Goldstein, a founding father of America's porn indus- try, now hustles bagels and white
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        Lock icon Man framed for murder gets $10m
        169 19 Man framed for murder gets 10m A FORMER policeman who spent 14 years m prison was awarded more than US$6.5 million (5510.6 million) m damages after a federal jury found that two FBI agents had framed him for murder and kidnapping. Mr Steven Manning, 54, spent eight years on death
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        Lock icon British MP didn't know of love child for 36 years
        122 19 A BRITISH lawmaker has revealed that a daughter he sired m the 1960s but had never known has tracked him down after 36 years. Labour parliamentarian Stephen Pound said on Monday that he had met his daughter, identified only as
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        Lock icon Robert Kennedy Jr not running for state A-G
        185 19 MR ROBERT F. Kennedy Jr, son of slain senator Robert F. Kennedy, has said he will not run for state attorney-general. The move takes him out of a race that could have pitted him against his estranged brother-in-law, Mr Andrew Cuomo. Mr
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      393 20 THE newly elected Palestinian President, Mr Mahmoud Abbas, lias scored a major success by persuading radical Palestinian groups m occupied Gaza to accept a ceasefire. The agreement has persuaded the Israeli government to call off a planned military move into Gaza to clamp down on Palestinian
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      790 20  - Social mobility under threat again in the US David Brooks B\ IN HIS inaugural address, President George W. Bush embraced the grandest theme of American foreign policy the advance of freedom around the world. Now that attention is turning to the State of the Union address, it would be nice
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      652 21  - 'Yes' to buffaloes, 'no' to sunglasses Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak Singapore mindful of local culture when giving aid to tsunami survivors m Meulaboh By' IT CAME as no surprise when the trucks full of soldiers with familiar faces passing along the main streets of Meulaboh on the west coast of Aceh
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      1336 22  -  Anthony Paul 'Iraqisation' is the next step as the US works out its exit strategy By Senior Writer DURING the past 20 months of America's occupation of Iraq, the Pentagon has often seemed confused about policy. But once Iraq holds its national election this
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      767 23  -  Devi Asmarani FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT: INDONESIA By Indonesia Correspondent In Jakarta Apparent lack of interest m tsunami tragedy prompts soul-searching ON THE night of Dec 26, many Indonesians were busy watching their favourite TV shows like dangdut performances, soap operas or a very popular sitcom
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      204 20 Exit strategy Iraq's historic polls on Sunday will hasten a decision on US troop deployment there. PAGE 22 THE STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS, NEWS CENTRE, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Podium Level 2, *****4 ST INTERACTIVE: http:/ /straitstimes.asial .com.sg SPH Chief Executive Officer Senior Executive ViceAlan Chan Heng Loon President
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      876 24 5 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY 1 Catch a performance by the Hangzhou Song And Dance Troupe, which is inspired by the culture of China's West Lake. Raffles City Shopping Centre, City Square. lOam-lOpm. Free. Tel: 6318-0238. 2 See photographs, prints and paintings of vanishing trades, kampungs, streets and vehicles
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      8 H1 HOME THE STRAITS TIMES WEDNESDAY JANUARY 26, 2005
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      Lock icon Civil disaster? PA crisis groups are ready
      557 H1  -  M. Nirmala Formed to tackle Sars, members now trained to guide, give first aid By THE crisis groups that the People's Association (PA) formed to help fight Sars have paved the way for new set-ups to tackle emergencies. These groups, found m each
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      Lock icon Reaching out to more Singaporeans
      257 H1 APART from grassroots organisations that respond swiftly to emergency situations, the People's Association will focus on four main areas: > > Widening outreach: To attract more people to community clubs, there will be a broader range of activities offered, including talks on plastic surgery, horse
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      204 H1 Water quality here is worldclass THE water that flows from any Singapore tap is worldclass. This is the verdict of a sixmember panel of Singapore and foreign experts on the water supplied by the Public Utilities Board (PUB). Tests conducted on water including reservoir water, PUB water and Newater showed
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        Lock icon Law change paves way for cellphone TV
        444 H2  -  Bryan Lee IDA can now order telcos to share infrastructure with broadcasters By CHANGES made to telecom laws yesterday may pave the way for the futuristic scenario of watching television on your mobile telephone. Among the changes to the Telecommunications Act passed by
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        Lock icon Prospectus rule eased for SMEs raising funds
        394 H2  - Prospectus rule eased for SMEs raising funds Lorna Tan By Finance Correspondent SAFE HARBOURS "These safe harbours provide legal certainty m the case of capital raising by SMEs and help them do so efficiently, without unnecessary regulatory costs." MRTHARMAN SMALL and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will soon be allowed to raise
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        Lock icon More options for firms with new business structure
        519 H2  -  BRYAN LEE FIRMS will soon be able to form limited liability partnerships (LLPs), which will give them the flexibility of operating as a partnership, while protecting them from being sued for everything they have. Parliament yesterday passed the Bill which will introduce
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        Lock icon No police uniforms for new Cisco
        359 H2 THE familiar sight of Cisco officers m their blue police-like uniform will soon be no more as the statutory board is becoming a corporate entity. Officers of the newly corporatised Cisco, or Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation, will no longer share the same insignia
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        Lock icon House approves increase in President's salary
        260 H2 PARLIAMENT approved an increase m the President's salary and other changes to the Civil List, which specifies his allowances and expenditure on the Istana and personal staff, for the fiscal year 2004. The salary will be revised to $2,373,100, an increase of $247,100 from
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          Lock icon PARKING ACT ALTERED: $1M ANNUAL SAVINGS
          153 H2 OWNERS of private parking places for non-heavy vehicles no longer need a licence, a move that will reduce their business costs by an estimated $1 million annually. The Parking Places Act was amended yesterday to allow for this deregulation. Minister of State for Finance
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          Lock icon ACT PROMOTES S'PORE AS DIPLOMATIC HUB
          250 H2 PARLIAMENT approved legislation that paves the way for Singapore to be part of two international conventions dealing with diplomats and foreign missions here. The passing of the Diplomatic And Consular Relations Act will also help promote Singapore as a diplomatic hub and an international
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          Lock icon MAS CAN NOW INSPECT FINANCIAL SPECIALISTS
          133 H2 THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is to be given powers to monitor the activities of a special group of companies that offer financial advice. These financial advisory companies are barred from marketing unit trusts and arranging life insurance policies. But whether these so-called
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          139 H2 PARLIAMENT cut yet another piece of red tape yesterday. Appraisers of motor vehicles, cargo and marine surveys, plant and machinery, along with those who service specialised markets such as jewellery and art pieces, no longer need a licence to operate. The House approved the Appraisers
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        Lock icon Debate over the price of being green
        710 H3  -  Lynn Lee NMP urges Govt to do more to protect nature. Economic gains will make it possible, says minister By THE issue of striking a balance between pursuing economic development and conserving Singapore's natural environment saw a spirited exchange m the House involving
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        Lock icon Volunteers patrol park to stop illegal coral collectors
        428 H3  -  Joyce Teo By TIRED of waiting for someone to put a stop to illegal coral collecting at Labrador Park, volunteers have come together to police the park m the hope of saving marine life. "Corals are being picked up all the time,"
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        Lock icon 'Recognise scientific value of nature in S'pore
        196 H3 'Recognise scientific value of nature in S'pore SINGAPORE'S nature areas are worth protecting not just for their recreational, heritage or educational value but also their scientific uses. Issuing such advice m Parliament yesterday, Nominated MP Geh Mm reminded the House of how a tree that may be the key to
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        Lock icon Economy v Environment? No, it's about achieving balance
        728 H3  -  Asad Latif FROM THE GALLERY By NOMINATED MP Geh Mm was sagely yesterday. To listen to her was to be reminded of the ancient saying that nobody ever owns land, but that one generation inherits it merely to pass it on to
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        Lock icon Coke bust: 2 more plead guilty to taking drugs
        427 H4  -  Arthur Poon Woman gets 13 months' jail; man to be sentenced later By TWO more people arrested during last year's high-pro-file drug bust have pleaded guilty to illegal drug consumption, bringing to eight the total number of people convicted. Mariana Abdullah,
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        81 H4 Balancing milk pots on their heads, devotees set off pom Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple m Serangoon Road on a 4km walk to PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN Sri Thendayuthapani Temple m Tank Road. The Thaipusam festival is a time to offer thanks to Lord Murugan, the deity believed to
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        Lock icon Accused says he used scissors to escape from locked room
        430 H4 Accused says he used scissors to escape from locked room THE man charged with threatening to kill his former girlfriend, a Singapore Airlines stewardess, with a pair of scissors on Nov 14 last year hit back at his accuser yesterday, claiming he had only used the scissors to escape from
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        Lock icon $7,500 taken in condo's 3rd break-in in 8 months
        261 H4  - $7,500 taken in condo's 3rd break- in in 8 months Jermyn Chow By IN THE condominium's third break-in m eight months, around $7,500 was stolen from a unit at Holland View m Queensway on Monday afternoon. One of the two brothers who live there, a 32-year-old IT consultant, had locked
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        Lock icon Youth 'threw urine at his mum'
        180 H4 A YOUTH faces three charges of abusing his mother, including one count of throwing urine at her. Yesterday, a district court heard that on Jan 15, Wang Kang Long, 19, allegedly threw a plastic bag filled with urine at his 43-year-old mother, Ms Hong
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          98 H4 THE police warn users of ichq dining vouchers to be careful. The warning comes after comments from Mr Patrick Teng, chief executive and founder of Indigoz Exchange which sells i-chqs appeared m The Sunday Times on Sunday. Mr Teng was quoted as saying his company had resumed business
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          Lock icon NECKLACE SNATCHED
          96 H4 A THIEF made off with a woman's necklace at about noon on Monday. The woman, m her mid--608, was on her way home to Block 705 Jurong West Street 71 when the thief, who entered the lift with her, grabbed her from behind and covered her mouth when
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          Lock icon ROBBED IN LIFT
          115 H4 A MAN robbed a woman m her early 30s m a lift at Block 612 Clementi West Street 1 at about 7.30pm on Monday. The culprit followed the woman into the lift and pressed the button for the sixth floor. When the lift arrived, he grabbed the
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          Lock icon DRUGS FOUND IN BRA
          72 H4 A WOMAN who hid drugs m her bra was arrested by narcotics officers when she tried to enter Singapore on Monday night. Acting on a tip-off, officers stopped the 31-year-old's Hyundai coupe at Woodlands Checkpoint. They found nothing m the car, but a body search turned
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          97 H4 The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has reminded factories and contractors handling scaffolding works to ensure planks or metal decking used as working platforms are well secured. This is after the courts fined scaffold contractor Kok Chang Scaffolding $12,000 after a foreign worker fell 30m to his death m
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        Lock icon Twins' mum: I didn't believe they were dead
        402 H4  -  Selina Lum By THE mother of the one-month-old twins allegedly killed by their father told the High Court yesterday she did not call for medical help because she was confused and did not know what to do. Called by the prosecution to
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        Lock icon Varsity relay prompts Channel solo bid
        331 H5  -  Benjamin Ho By MR THUM Ping Tjin took a bow from the national swimming team m 2002, but come August he will be diving into the water again m his attempt to be the first Singaporean to swim across the English Channel. Mr Thum,
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        Lock icon 60,000 pre-schoolers get personal hygiene tips in class
        333 H5  -  Radha Basu NEA lesson kits aimed at curbing rising rates of infectious diseases By LITTLE Foo Mun Yee is barely old enough to write, but she already knows that it is wrong to share soup bowls and spoons with her classmates and
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        Lock icon Sex? It's no big deal
        139 H5 MAKE dreams, not love. So it 'seems to be for many Singaporeans, who as a nation tend to come m at the bottom of surveys polling people on how often they have sex. It's not just the overseas surveys. In a locally conducted study last
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        Lock icon Why S'pore workers are 'bo chap'
        429 H5  -  Natalie Soh By WHY are Singaporean workers "bo chap", or uninterested? For the answer, look no further than their bosses. Employees who get no feedback, don't see their best ideas implemented, and also do not get grooming to become the next generation of leadership,
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        Lock icon SMU defends fee hike for 'prime product'
        342 H6  -  Maria Almenoar By SINGAPORE Management University (SMU) on Monday attempted to justify its recent fee hike, saying the institution had to cover the costs of upkeeping a brand new city campus m Bras Basah Road and recruiting top-calibre staff. On Tuesday last week,
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        Lock icon Insure over-80s' health needs: NTUC
        435 H6  - Insure over- 80s' health needs: NTUC Salma Khalik Union suggests changes to make MediShield more accessible, affordable to elderly By Health Correspondent NTUC wants the Government to extend McdiShield insurance to people over the age of 80 so it can be "more effective m meeting the needs of the elderly".
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        Lock icon First condo for one-north
        341 H6  -  Joyce Teo By PRIVATE developers have been invited to submit their ideas for the first residential project at the one-north research and development park. Master planner JTC Corporation calls the 99--year leasehold condominium near Buona Vista MRT station with about 350 to 400 units, a "first
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        690 H7 WAKE UP CALL The most powerful earthquake m the last 28 years, the Asian tsunami has claimed more lives than any single human conflict during this time. It is a reminder about how we should better utilise our resources for the
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        525 H7 OPEN LETTER FROM SRI LANKAN ENVOY TO SINGAPOREANS AS I prepare to return to Sri Lanka at the end of my stay m Singapore as High Commissioner, I am moved to share a few thoughts with the people and Government of Singapore. The spontaneous
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        496 H7 I REFER to the Insight commentary by Ms Zuraidah Ibrahim, "Showing Govt's heart is no bad thing" (ST, Jan 22). Therein, she came to the conclusion that the Government had "pulled the rug" from under the Workers' Party's feet on Jan 20
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        73 H7 PLEASE include your full name (as m IC), your address and a telephone contact number. For women, indicate Miss, Mrs, Mdm or Ms. Send your letters via e-mail to stforum@sph.com. sg When you write to The Straits Times Forum page, we take it that you agree
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        720 H8  -  Peh Suing Huei GOLF Asian star earned $800,000 on USPGA Tour last year, but still loses his playing card By Tournament details What: Caltex Singapore Masters, presented by Carlsberg When: Tomorrow to Sunday Where: Laguna National Golf and Country Club (Masters Course) Players to
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        Lock icon League Cup is now important
        439 H9 SOCCER London TODAY'S League Cup semifinal is the chance Manchester United have been waiting for to deflate the Chelsea bubble. If someone had told Alex Ferguson last August that a game m the fourtn competition on his list of priorities would turn out to be
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        343 H9  -  Rachel Chan »GOLF Montgomerie cuts his weight by 1 6kg, says it's due to stress By DIET EFFECT "I decided to eat less, and it worked dramatically." COLIN MONTGOMERIE COLIN Montgomerie is neither surly nor chubby. Well, not anymore. When the Scot arrived at Changi Airport
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        Lock icon Five more games in match-fixing probe
        200 H9 Frankfurt (Germany) THE match-rigging scandal engulfing German soccer took a turn for the worse yesterday as question marks were thrown over the results of five more games. A criminal probe was also started by the public prosecutor's office. German referee Robert Hoyzer, who has
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        Lock icon Federer shows Agassi no mercy
        616 H10 TENNIS World No 1 outplays four-time winner to set up semi-final clash with Russian Safin Melbournf. ANDRE Agassi has won eight Grand Slam titles m his career, but even he had to admit that he was completely outplayed by world No 1 Roger Federer yesterday
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        Lock icon Serena and Maria clash
        151 H10 SERENA Williams sounded a warning to Maria Sharapova as the two emerged from the Melbourne Park furnace yesterday to set up an Australian Open semi-final showdown. The American, who lost to the Russian at last year's Wimbledon final, romped past France's Amelie Mauresmo 6-2, 6-2 as
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        Lock icon Singapore rekindles rivalry with Malaysia
        359 H10  -  Chan Yi Shen BASKETBALL By SINGAPORE and Malaysia will resume their fierce sporting rivalry on Friday this time on the basketball court. The two countries meet m a friendly game as a part of the Harvey Norman Singapore Spectacular, which features an official match between
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          71 H10 SINGAPORE-BASED I-Golf has signed a deal to become the official apparel partner of the Asian Tour for this season. A newcomer to the industry, the company has sponsored professional golf tournaments, such as the inaugural Carlsberg Masters Vietnam m Hanoi last November. It also has
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          Lock icon NICOLE TAKES PLATE FINAL
          63 H10 SINGAPORE squash player Nicole Chua won the Plate final at the 12th Asian Junior Championships m Chennai, India, on Sunday. She defeated Pakistan's Zoya Khalid 3-1. In the boys' Plate final, Singapore's Kenneth Chan lost 0-3 to Kuwait's Falah Mohammad. The girls' main draw title went
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          Lock icon THREE-GOLD HAUL FOR ROWERS
          58 H10 SINGAPORE'S rowers bagged three golds, seven silvers and five bronzes at the Singapore Pools Rowing Championships which concluded on Sunday. The golds came from Ivan Lee (junior men's single scull), Elsie Lim (women's single scull) and Steen Puggaard (men's single scull). Indonesia topped the medal tally
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        567 H11  -  Marc Lim TABLE TENNIS The 20-year-old looks set to follow m the footsteps of Li Jiawei By LAST year, as Li Jiawei carried Singapore's Olympic dreams at the Athens Games, she unwittingly also fanned the Olympic flame of a 20--year-old m Shandong. There, at
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        Lock icon Raikkonen in lap-dancing club scandal
        434 H11 MOTOR RACING London IT WAS supposed to herald the birth of a team with the strength to challenge Ferrari's and Michael Schumacher's domination of Formula One. Instead, the unveiling of McLaren's latest car on Monday became a nightmare as their driver Kimi Raikkonen's alleged activities
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          45 H11 LONDON: THE Jordan Formula One team was bought by Russian-born Canadian billionaire Alex Shnaider yesterday. This ends the adventure of Eddie Jordan, a Dublin bank clerk who achieved his dream of owning his own race team, but struggled to support it financialiy. REUTERS
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          49 H11 LONDON: El-Hadji Diouf converted a disputed penalty kick to give English Premiership soccer club Bolton a 1-0 win over Blackburn on Monday. He was awarded the penalty when he appeared to have been brought down by goalkeeper Brad Friedel, but television replays showed the striker dived. BLOOMBERG
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          44 H11 LONDON: Arsenal's Kolo Toure was yesterday charged by the Football Association for an alleged elbow into Alan Shearer's back during the Gunners' 1-0 Premiership win over Newcastle on Sunday. If found guilty, he will get a three-match ban, reported The Daily Mail.
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        568 H12  - Balestier cheques bounce Tan Kim Han SOCCER Midfielder Zainal lodges two police reports, but chairman blames 'administrative errors' By A FORMER S-League player has lodged two police reports after two cheques from his former club, Balestier Khalsa, bounced. Last Tuesday, former national midfielder Zainal Zainuddin, 26, filed his second report
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        404 H12 BASKETBALL NBA: Philadelphia 106 Miami 98, Washington 106 Cleveland 97, Chicago 107 Atlanta 82, Minnesota 86 Detroit 83, Houston 89 Orlando 78, Portland 107 San Antonio 99, LA Clippers 97 Dallas 87. CRICKET Fifth day of sth and final Test m Centurion: South Africa 247 (A.de Villiers 92; A.Flintoff
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          246 H12 I3^ "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes nR. I lif m me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and > 1 I believes m me will never die." John 11:25-26 1 I ELIZABETH LIM NIK I I (Beloved wife of Lee Eng Kok Francis)
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          43 H12 The Family Of The Late WANG CHEUNG WAH (Departed on 21 Jan 2005) wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, colleagues, business associates and neighbours for their kind assistance, attendance, condolences, wreaths and donations during their recent bereavement.
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          84 H12 ony Tan Cheng Kirn Age: 52 Was called home to be with the Lord on 24 January 2005. Dearly missed by: "n J Beloved wife: Jenny Low Daughters: Carolyn Christina Tan relatives and all loved ones. Wake at Oratory Nativity Parish, 1 259 Upper Serangoon Road, opposite Punggol Park. Tel:
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          163 H12 The Family Of The Late EDLYN YAP MEI LI who was called home to be with the Lord on 26 Dec 2004 wish to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to: Friends m Sri Lanka and India MFA and Singapore Consulate-General m Colombo Member of Parliament, Dr Teo Ho Pin
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          45 H12 12th Anniversary In Loving Memory of LEE KIM TAH BBM(L), HON FSIB who left us to be with the Lord on 26 January 1993. Always missed by beloved family and loved ones. and I will dwell m the house of the LORD Forever" Ps. 23:6
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          47 H12 VESHUA NATHAN (Ex St John's Officer Naval Base) Age: 55 passed away suddenly on 11.01.2005, leaving behind loved ones. (Father: Madhavan, deceased) Mother Mary Sisters: Lilah Sathiya Vathi Prayers held at Sri Sivan Temple at 1 140 Woodlands Rd on 26 Jan (Wed) at 7pm. Tel: 6368-7813
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          49 H12 Thalai Thevasam Ist Anniversary BALAKRIS.INAN A/LPALANIAPPAN Departed on 6 Feb 2004 Dearly missed always remembered by wife, daughters, sons-in-law, grandchildren, relatives, friends all loved ones. Prayers will be held on 26/01/2005 at 9am at Blk 319, Hougang Aye 5 #03-29. Hp: *****516 Kindly treat this as a personal invitation.
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        411 H14 Overseas firms say new compliance requirements from July 15 are too tough New York THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was yesterday expected to signal a relaxation of registration requirements for for- eign companies which want to escape the United States' corporate governance
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        1752 H14 Bonds, Loans Warrants: TRANSACTION OATE JANUARY 25. 2005 52 WEEK TEL CUBREHCY 1 1ST VOLUME OAT LAST QUOTE MM IM CME COMPANY TRAOH SALE +M- 1)00 HISH LOW MYEB SEUEt 116 71 360? *mtekWoso6lo 92 5 unch 4 92 5 92 5 915 92 b 8S 7 ArianeCorpWO9l229 8 unch
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        331 H14 US home resales dip from November's record high STILL BUYING "Our sense was that November sales were the peak for the current housing cycle, but activity remains strong." MR DAVID LEREAH Washington SALES of existing homes m the United States fell by 3.3 per cent last month from a record
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        30 H14 Yesterday's close: 13,584.06 (+197.07 points) Hong Kong blue-chip stocks rose nearly 1.5 percent. rebounding from two-month lows as property stocks bounced back from recent declines. REUTERS
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        39 H14 Yesterday's close: 11,276.91 (-12.58 points) Japanese share prices closed 0.11 per cent lower, after a profit warning from chip maker Elpida hit tech stocks m cautious trade, ahead of quarterly results from the blue-chip companies. AFP
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        42 H14 Yesterday's close: 1,254.23 (-1.54 points) Chinese shares closed 0.11 percent lower, proving unable to extend the gains made on Monday, when the authorities halved stock stamp duty to 0.1 per cent m an effort to boost the market. AFP
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        39 H14 Yesterday's close: 4,055.9 (+ll.l points) Australian share prices closed 0.3 per cent higher, led by the bank and resource sectors. Market turnover was 1.03 billion shares worth some As 2 92 billion (553. 7 billion). AFP
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        38 H14 Yesterday's close: 919.75 (-3.58 points) Malaysian share prices closed 0.39 per cent lower under pressure as foreign funds sold down select blue chips. Volume totalled 666.96 million shares, worth some RMI.I billion (***** million). AFP
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        40 H14 Yesterday's close: 6,162.98 (+56.55 points) Indian share prices rose 0.93 per cent, with sentiment lifted after the government announced it would sell shares m the country's largest automaker and an engineering firm m the next financial year. AFP
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        38 H14 Yesterday's close: 1,026.89 (-3.82 points) Indonesian share prices closed 0.37 per cent lower on profit-taking m stocks such as Telkom and Astra International, but selective buying m second liners helped limit the market's losses. AFP
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        33 H14 Yesterday's close: 702.14 (+6.22 points) >* Thai share prices closed 0.89 per cent higher on last-minute speculative buying. Volume totalled 4.3 billion shares, worth some 18.2 billion baht (Ss7B3 million). AFP
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        75 H14 Jan 25 UniFiber 10c 55.257.000 Asia Power US5c 32.599.000 China Sun HK25c 31,016.000 Beauty China HKIO 22.103 000 Global Voice 5c 19.622.000 Sing Tel 1 5c 19.592.000 STATSChP 25c 18.841 000 Capita Land 18.185.000 Firstlink 20c 17.242.000 Bio-Treat HK4Oc 17.179,000 L&MIc 16.691.000 PanpacMedia Grp 5c 15,337,000 Junma Rmbo.2
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        162 H14 Jan 25 Source HSBC Bank USA Spore Branch ("M'sian nnggit Interbank rate by OCBC) UNIT TRUSTS TABLE APPEARS ON MONDAYS FOREIGN CURRENCY NOTE RATES (9AM): SINGAPORE DOLLARS TO ONE UNIT OF FOREIGN CURRENCY Buying Selling Aust dollar 1.2530 1.2680 Can dollar ***** ***** Euro 2.1170 ***** Malaysian ringgit* 0.4301
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        480 H14 Trades m question The bank's alleged moves Citigroup is said to have manipulated the German government bond futures market last August by attempting to push up prices artificially and then taking advantage of that. Possible action The German financial markets regulator, which cannot impose
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        247 H14 Jan 25 Stock Name Wt Close Change Allgreen 50c 0.30 1100 -0.010 BIL Intl US2Oc 0.48 1.060 -0.010 Capita Land 1.47 2.240 +0.030 Chart SemiCond 26c 070 0.940 -0 020 CityOev 50c 2.19 6.750 +0.100 ComfortOelgro 25c 197 1520 Cosco Corp 20c 0.36 1.290 -0.010 Creative
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        421 H15 Follow the leader Analysts said that a move by China Mobile for CSL could prompt bids by Hong Kong's smaller operators such as SmarTone, the third-largest, which is controlled by local developer Sun Hung Kai r roperues CSL deal would mark latest
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        379 H15 Beijing CHINA needs more time to prepare for making its currency more flexible, a senior economic official said yesterday, pouring cold water on expectations that long-awaited changes could happen soon. "China doesn't have conditions to adjust the renminbi (yuan) exchange rate at present,"
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        613 H16  -  Karamjit Kaur It will compete with eight groups for shares m facilities at New Delhi, Mumbai By Transport Correspondent ONESTEP CLOSER Shortlisted groups will be asked for detailed plans next month, Mr Prasad says. The winners will be picked by August SINGAPORE
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        269 H16 VALUAIR, a Singapore-based budget airline, will begin weekly flights to China m early March, becoming one of the first low-fare carriers to serve Asia's second-largest economy, chief executive Sim Kay Wee said. Valuair will use its fourth A-320 aircraft made by Airbus
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        653 H17  -  Christopher Tan It hopes to bring Aljunied terrace home development to market by June By' Senior Correspondent NEW BUSINESS Besides launching 77 freehold homes m the new Mulberry Grove project, Tan Chong is rolling out five more Nissan models TAN Chong International (TCIL)
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        268 H18 SEKSUN is merging its contract manufacturing businesses m China and Malaysia with a United States outfit that specialises m niche services. The mainboard-listed company yesterday announced that its contract manufacturing plants Seksun Electronic m Johor and Seksun Electronics (Suzhou) m
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        396 H18  -  Audrey Tan It will pump m "tens of millions" to seal position as top single foreign investor here By Assistant Money Editor UNITED States-based oil and gas giant ExxonMobil said it is investing "tens of millions" more m Singapore to expand its ethylene
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          100 H18 OCBC Bank has found a replacement for Mr Leong Mun Wai, who has resigned as managing director of its stockbroking arm, OCBC Securities, to pursue other interests. The bank said yesterday that industry veteran Hui Yew Ping, currently executive director, group retail business, at rival
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          98 H18 PCA Technology yesterday raised its profit guidance for the second half of the year ending Feb 28, saying net profit for the third quarter is already comparable to the $2.5 million it achieved m its entire first half. It said sales m the third quarter have
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          94 H18 EXCELPOINT Technology warned yesterday that it will incur a net loss m the fourth quarter, hurt by lower profit margins as well as higher sales and marketing expenses. However, sales and net profit for the full year are expected to exceed the levels of the
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          62 H18 UNITED Envirotech said yesterday a wholly owned subsidiary has won an engineering contract worth 62 million yuan (5512.4 million) to design, fabricate and install a wastewater treatment plant m Huizhou, m China's Guangdong province. The plant will have a capacity of 12,500 cubic metres
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          62 H18 ASIA Power, which owns, manages and operates power plants m China, said yesterday that it plans to invest $7.6 million m a joint venture to build a wind power plant m China. The mainboard-listed firm plans to raise about $4.5 million through a private
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        550 H19  -  Azrin Asmani CAOHC dismisses validity of US class-action suits over oil trading losses By CHINA Aviation Oil's (CAO's) parent company yesterday dismissed the validity of the classaction lawsuits launched m the United States over the US$55O million m oil trading losses.
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        432 H19 Rumours stoke Citiraya investors' nervousness SOME Citiraya Industries investors are getting edgy as the trading halt imposed after reports of possible corrupt practices by some workers has stopped them from bailing out. And as shareholders sit tight while the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) gets to work, lurid rumours about
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        460 H19  -  Axhar Khalid TAKING STOCK Bi RECENT weakness on the local bourse has led sceptical investors to believe that the famed January effect is already running out of steam. Unlike m previous years when the phenomenon usually lasted the full month of January
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        91 H19 (C) Lan 25 CENTS JMHUS2Sc4OO 1570 981 3 7 Creative! 25c 2270 90 0 3 8 JSH US5c 500 790 49 0 3 7 F&N 1680 20 0 1? Jurong Engg 50c 230 13 0 5 3 JardineClC 1020 10 0 10 OCBC 1360 10 0 0/ SIASOc
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        258 H19 DIRECTORS' TRADES TWO EU VAN SANG DIRECTORS TRIM STAKES THE steady climb m the share price of traditional Chinese medicine manufacturer Eu Van Sang International probably prompted two of its alternate directors to unload their stakes m the open market recently. Eu Van Sang announced m a statement yesterday that
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        339 H19  - Keppel T&T posts 88% jump in profit after cost- cutting Rachel Chang By KEPPEL Telecommunications and Transportation (Keppel T&T) yesterday reported an 88 per cent leap m its full-year net profit to $34 million. This dazzling surge m profits was due to cost-cutting, the company's managing director, Mr Lam Kwok
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        702 H20  -  Axrin Asmani Firm will consider "reasonable requests" to refine payout offer By High-stakes stand-off >> Before CAO filed its restructuring plan with the High Court on Monday, it had done a litmus test with some creditors, with most of them
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        30 H20 sdfs Gainers: 121 Losers: 315 Unchanged: 398 BUYING SELLING Australian dollar 1.2530 1.2680 Euro 2.1170 2.1420 Sterling pound 3.0510 3.0860 US dollar 1.6240 1.6420 Yen (100 units) 1.5826 1.6004
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        201 H20 7.8% SHARE PLACED OUT TEMASEK Holdings has emerged as a significant shareholder of energy services group KS Tech. The mainboard-listed company said yesterday it had agreed to place out 10 million new shares to Temasek subsidiaries, Seletar Investments and Aranda Investments, at 89 cents
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        419 2  -  Ng Hui Hui SINCE his suicide attempt last October. Taiwanese singer Wan Shalang has been trying to pull himself together again. Not only has he been going for walks every day. but he also tries lo swim three times a week, his long-time girlfriend Judie Kuo told
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        181 2 SYDNEY Police were yesterday investigating a possible bugging attempt on actress Nicole Kidman after a listening device was found across the road from her Sydney harbourside home. "At the time this device was found, there were media paparazzi, if I may use that term, on the street."
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        72 2 NEW YORK Troy actress Diane Kruger is dating Chris Heinz, ketchup heir and stepson of Senator John Kerry says New York Dail\ News. A source told the daily that Mr Heinz. 31. and Kruger. 28. kept their romance quiet last year, during Mr Kerry's presidential campaign.
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        46 2 LONDON Harry Potter author J. X Rowling gave birth lo her third child, a girl, at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Sunday. Rowling also has a son with her husband. Dr Neil Murray, and a daughter from a pre\ ions marriage AP Reuters
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        935 3  -  Tee Hun Ching Compromise holds Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward's marriage together life'sjourney 1 hate skiing but I go on skiing holidays just to be able to have dinner with him' Joanne Woodward on her marriage to Paul Newman TO CAPTURE some of the world's
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        284 3  -  Magdalen Ng baby boomers CYCLINC i 420 km to and from Malaysia is no mean feat. But Mr Jeffery Bose, 47 (above), is taking on this challenge m March to raise funds for the St Andrew's Community Hospital. Together with more than 50 other cyclists, he
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        1006 4  -  Janice Wong More midlifers are holidaying with pals who share the same interests 'Siberia, Monaolia, Alaska... I've lost count. Perhaps you should ask me where we haven't been to instead' Retired nursing officer Cornelia Lee, 78, on her trips with her women pals GRAB a few
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        313 4 Bonding 'in the same boat' PART-TIME bookkeeper Michael Yeo has gone diving m Indonesia's Manado m northern Sulawesi with his friends at least 15 times m the last five years. Only on three occasions did then families tag along. The father of three says: "Our wives are not interested m
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        361 5  -  Ong Sor Fern FINDING NEVERLAND (PG) 1 06 mmutes/Op( ris tomorrow JOHNNY Depp is mellowing into a character actor of considerable charm and nuance. And to think he started out m the 1980s as a Pretty Boy on the TV drama 21 Jump Street. In
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      928 6  -  Loh Keng Fatt I did not know my late father very well, but I know which of his approaches to adopt, or avoid fatherhood _t_ i^ MY SONS do not know mv father. He died m Seremban. Malaysia, m 1%9 when I was m Primary 6. but
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      80 6  -  Douglas Tseng I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG (PG) 1 05 minutes/Opens tomorrow TWELVE years after going their separate ways, former lovers Alex and Jeanne (Patrick Bruel and Nathalie Baye) are reunited. But their rekindled affair is no fairy tale romance. In order to start a new future together, they
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      244 6  -  Tay Yek Keak 112 minutes' Opens tomorrow/****'** THIS Korean-Japanese flick is about the legendary founder of Kyokushin karate, Oyama Matsutatsu (actually a Korean named Choi Baedal), who according to martial arts folklore, felled bulls when he ran out of opponents. The movie concocts some bull
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      91 6 Box-office takings over the week ending on Sunday (previous weeks ranking m brackets). Singapore l.(-)Elektra 2. Shall We Dance 3.(1) The Aviator 4. Hotel Rwanda 5. (2) Meet The Fockers 6. (4) Alfie 7. (3) KungFu Hustle 8. (6) Kinsey 9. (7) My Brother 10.(5)SeedOfChucky US l.(-) Are
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      910 7 When Flowers can bloom Pakistani child singers Tariq Hussain Bacha and Zeeshan beat poverty to produce an album of folk songs that has shifted 1 0,000 copies 'Artists are not welcomed m Pashtun society despite the fact that they love music' PESHAWAR (Pakistan) Unlike many children their age. 12-year-old Tariq
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        121 10 MUMBAI Hollywood veteran Michael Douglas is hoping to sign Bollywood darling Aishwarya Rai (inset) for his next flick. Racing The Monsoon. Rai's secretary confirmed that the star met Douglas m Mumbai on Monday, but said: "It's too early to say if she will be acting m the
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      824 C12 f*\ Dl 5- 16 LAST COAST mi PTE APTS SALE IrSm-SoHlwTsiSsl TEMBELING CTR F'HOLD 2130 sqft 3+l. Peranakan design! Trpt food easily avail. Valued SBSOK. Selling $750 K. Serious seller JC COURT. LOWRISE with lift F'hold. 3-bdrm. Spacious layout. Ask $580,000 neg. Bright windy. Quick! Shirley 9007-2496 SSOK BELOW LAST
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      1990 C14 f^i HDB APTS FOR SALE fffv HDB APTS FOR SALE mi (JURONG) mi (MARINE PARADE) 4'A' BLK. 667A Jurong W. 5t.65 High flr. Unblocked. Windy. NS facing, ,00% move-m. MRT/ sch/ 9 _^_^^__n Ao^**k amenities. 9762-4,12 CBS lIPI WA 4 'A' BLK. 6508. Jurona West I I I 5 yrs.
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      1051 C14 fffv HDB APTS FOR SALt Uw (TAMPINES/ SIMEI) 5T BLK 859 T ampmes Renovated. High flr. Mosque/ Stadium. 5T Simei Bik 101. simple, lift level. MRT/ amenities. 9450-5494 BELOW VALUE! 3'A' Tampines Blk 434 mid flr. Simple renovation. Near amenities. *****416 Robin BLK 431 EXEC Mais. Mid flr. Lift level.
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      636 C15 B\ PRIVATE APTS ►♦WANTED (RENT/ BUY) VNow EXPAT COUPLE WANTED 3 rms apt. m Central Grove. Behind Geylang Methodist Pri. P/furn. Cosy unit preferred. *****477 IF YOU NEED someone reliable to se'i or lease your home. I'm at your service. Home of all sizes/ areas. Call me now *****51 DTZ
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      1337 C15 HK FACTORY SPACE If-K FACTORY SPACE mf FOR RENT mf FOR RENT I Prime Office Industrial Space FOR LEASE Gul Vicinity Fully fitted office c/w canteen facility. Approx 1000sqm Storage/factory space approx 1430sqm Adequate parking facilities Single tenant preferred Available Ist Quarter 2005 Reasonable asking rental rate Sole Marketing Agent
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