Pick a number: Singapore Telecom
Article Abstract:
When Singapore sells off part of the nationally-owned Singapore Telecom in Sep 1993, shares are expected to go at a high prices. The total value of the offer is expected to be at least three billion Singapore dollars. One reason for the offer is to shore up Singapore's floundering stock market.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1993
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When their number came up
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A Brazilian judge ordered the detention of several organized crime bosses, who for years had been more helpful to, and more admired by, the public than the government. The 'bicheiros' had diversified from a 100-year-old lottery based on zoo animals to cocaine trafficking.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1993
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Pepys into Number 10
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Clark is stirring controversy because of the publishing of his diaries, which criticize Prime Minister John Major and praise Margaret Thatcher. Clark's provocative views have stirred contrasting opinions, and some compare him to Samuel Pepys.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1993
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