Differing views on forum’s future aired
FORTUNE GLOBAL FORUM ON APEC
ECONOMISTS who spoke at the Fortune Global Forum yesterday hold differing views about the future of the Asia
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Country can be ‘positive model for Islamic world’
FORTUNE GLOBAL FORUM ON PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN can be a model for the entire Islamic world, its Prime Minister, Ms Benazir Bhutto, said yesterday.
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S’pore, Pakistan sign investment pact
SINGAPORE and Pakistan yesterday signed a long-term investment guarantee agreement to promote bilateral business and economic cooperation.
The pact was signed by the
S’pore will strive to boost trade with Pakistan : PM
SINGAPORE will work to increase its trade with Pakistan and could attempt at playing a catalytic role to attract foreign investments into
Early morning arrival for Benazir Bhutto
PAKISTANI Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto arrived early yesterday morning to a still slumbering Singapore.
A special Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 707 aircraft, carrying
S’pore ‘best placed to invest in Pakistan’
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SINGAPORE, with its advanced economy and infrastructure, is best placed to invest in Pakistan, according to Pakistani Prime
PM Goh and Keating to make Apec meet a success
SINGAPORE and Australia have expressed fresh support for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) forum, with both countries determined to make the group's
Panel to strengthen S’pore-Australia ties
SINGAPORE and Australia have agreed to set up a high-level committee to look at ways of strengthening political, security and economic relations
‘Internal woes ruined Barings’
BROUGHT DOWN BY A LACK OF CONTROL
PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday that the Barings debacle was the result of internal
Republic’s tough, well-publicised laws a strong deterrent to traffickers
GLOBAL DRUGS PROBLEM
SINGAPORE
THE small number of drug couriers arrested in Singapore showed that they were avoiding the Republic as a transit point,
HK a major distribution centre for designer drugs
GLOBAL DRUGS PROBLEM
From there they are moved to Tokyo, Seoul and Manila
HONGKONG has become a major distribution and financial centre for designer
Continent is weak link in anti-drug fight
GLOBAL DRUGS PROBLEM
AFRICA
AFRICA is a "weak link" in the global war against drugs.
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said in its report