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 | | INGAPORE Telecommunications' youthful boss, Lee Hsien Yang, took some time out from stewarding his struggling company, which owns Australia's Optus network, to catch some air at Canada's chi-chi Whistler ski resort over Christmas. |
 | | SingTel Optus shares have raced downhill since Lee bought Optus for $14bn in 2001, and while he was enjoying the snow, the stock touched record lows of $1.19, a long way from the near $3 when Lee waved SingTel paper and promises at Optus shareholders in May 2001. |
 | | Getting Australians on the SingTel register was a cunning Sing Inc plan to answer critics that the Singapore government owns too much of its economy: 65% of SingTel at last count. |
| www.singapore-window.org /sw03/030115bu.htm (224 words) |
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