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Station: News Radio 93.8FM
Date: 07/03/2003
Time: 0800 hrs
1.  The United States (US) and Britain say they might revise their draft resolution, paving the way for war with Iraq.
2. The US is in discussion with South Korea on whether to pull out US ground forces or redeploy them further south in the peninsula.
3. A plane crash in southern Algeria kills 103 passengers and crew on board.
4. The Israeli army storms a Gaza Strip refugee camp, carrying out raids which left 11 Palestinians dead.
5. There is a fresh build-up of Israeli forces near a northern Gaza town following the firing of three Kazan rockets at a southern Israeli town.
6. Indonesia imposes a ban on sand exports to all countries.
7. Authorities fighting film piracy in Singapore have enjoyed relative success with the piracy rate dropping from 18 to 15 percent.
8. A special job fair for laid off workers from PSA Corporation was held yesterday at the M Hotel.
9. More civil servants and those in government-linked companies may be laid off.
10. Dr Ng Eng Hen comments on the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB)'s probe on a top NTUC officer.
11. Some Singaporeans have been the subject of a clever and elaborate hoax concerning the services of SBS Transit 170.