NewsRadio 938 (1800)

13/06/2003
Record Date
13/06/2003
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00:09:25
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English
Recording Language
2003000712
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Station: News Radio 93.8FM
Date: 13/06/2003
Time: 1800hrs
1. Singapore's labour market for the first quarter of this year remains bleak.
2. Singapore's tourist industry may be showing signs of a recovery.
3. Researchers in Germany identifies an existing anti-viral drug which might be used to treat Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
4. The Remaking Singapore Committee suggests that Management Committees be set up to look after Housing and Development Board (HDB) estates.
5. Student leaders welcome the idea of a National Youth Forum.
6. Education Minister and Second Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean says the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist threat is a serious and long term one.
7. Minister for Foreign Affairs Professor S Jayakumar will join his Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) counterparts at their annual ministerial meeting in Cambodia next Monday.
8. The Malaysian government says it has decided to make it compulsory for Malaysian males and females born in 1986 to undergo National Service.