The Straits Times, 21 January 1986

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  • 16 1 The Straits Times I Estd. 1845 TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1986 50 CENTS M.C. (P) No. 188/12/85
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  • 603 1  -  IVAN LIM Manpower panel split three ways over role of wages council By THE Cabinet will be urged to set up a high-level committee to come up with an answer to a hotly-debated question: How long should the NWC continue to recommend annual pay increase
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  • 232 1 IN MORE than 100 pages, the manpower sub-committee's report deals mainly with the question of labour supply m the face of a falling workforce growth rate and how best to improve worker productivity. The workforce is expected to grow slowly, the pace dropping from 1.8
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  • 35 1 BEIJING, Mon. China's tourist industry continued to boom last year with 1,38 million foreign tourists travelling through the country, 21 per cent more than m 1984, a senior tourism official said today. Reuter
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  • 195 1 THE high wages paid to executives, managers and professionals will reduce Singapore's chances of attracting high-tech investments, according to the sab-committee. They accounted for 43.3 per cent of the total labour cost, though as a group they made up 18.4 per cent of
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  • 186 1 Reagan 'to meet Asean heads in Bali' NEW YORK, Mon. President Ronald Reagan will meet Asean leaders m Bali on his way to the Western economic summit m Japan this spring, Newsweek magazine has reported. In its latest edition, Newsweek reported that administration officials included the stop m Indonesia "as
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  • 43 1 KATHMANDU, Mon. Japan will help the television age come to Nepal, Finance Minister Prakash Chandra Lohani said after returning from a trip to Tokyo yesterday. He told reporters a team of Japanese experts would visit Nepal m the near future. AP
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  • 128 1 No more overcharging by cabbies since last month ROV COMPLAINTS of taxi drivers overcharging have disappeared since last month, according to the Registry of Vehicles. The ROY believes one reason is that all taxi meters have been converted to the new fa.c introduced m June last year with a flag-down
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  • 198 1 RABAT, Mod. Thousands of new television aerials have sprouted from the roofs of Rabat as Moroccans, bored with local offerings, tone Into France and Italy. The special new aerials, like 3m-long centipedes, pick up French and Italian programmes broadcast from a relay station
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  • 246 1 ST Index sheds 18 points in hectic trading THE Singapore stock market fell sharply yesterday with The Straits Times Industrial Index down 18 points to 59S points back to its 1185 low. After the historic three-day suspension of the stock market from Dec 2-4, the Stshare index fell bat reached
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  • 28 1 SAN SALVADOR, Mon. Leftists guerillas, fulfilling a vow to increase sabotage this year, yesterday blacked out most of El Salvador for the third consecutive day. Reuter
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  • 132 1 Alfa-Pacific case TWO of the four directors of Alfa-Pacific Securities Pte who were accused of offences under the Companies Act pleaded guilty yesterday to one charge each. Chua Wee Meng, 40, and his father, Chua Chye Chua, 70, were each fined $7,500 by Senior District Judge
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  • 330 1  -  CATHERINE C. ONG By SINGAPORE and foreign institutions can now own 100 per cent of a stockbroking firm following the passing of a special resolution by the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. Twenty-five broking firms met at Ong and Co Building
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  • 388 1 Group of 5 agrees to keep dollar down LONDON, Mon. Five of the world's most powerful finance ministers and their central bankers agreed yesterday to keep the value of the dollar down. But they chose to go separate ways m efforts to lower interest rates, which immediately sent the dollar
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  • IN SUMMARY
    • 274 2 CPF. Cut must be fair ANY CUT m the contribution to the Central Provident Fund has to be enough to make Singapore industries competitive with those m Taiwan, Hongkong and South Korea. At the same time, "how deep" the cut should go will depend on how people, especially those
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    • 237 2 THE STRAITS TIMES SAYS: IT IS understandable that the Japanese should be pleased to see some movement by the Soviet Union, no matter how Insubstantial, on the question of the four disputed Kurlle Islands. Other Asian states also encounter problems with the Soviet Union that have similar political and
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    • 159 2 GIH FACES LOSSES, DIRECTORS TELL SHAREHOLDERS SHAREHOLDERS of Growth Industrial Holdings, are likely to lose everything they have invested m the ill-fated sister company of beleaguered Pan* Electric Industries as debts appear to far exceed realisable assets. Its directors warned shareholders, m a six-page letter that the group faced
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    • 110 2 WHAT ABOUT THE LITIGANTS? THE ISSUE of courtesy between the Bench and Bar has been a subject of discussion lately. A lawyer who has argued cases m Malaysia wonders why the legal atmosphere is so relaxed there considering that we have the same judicial system and the same background.
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    • 371 2 No more free movies THE 1.5 million Americans who own home satellite dishes, bowl-shaped receivers that pick up television signals, are discovering there is no such thing as a free movie. Last week, the nations largest pay television companies, Home Box Office and Cinemax, carried out a
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    • 168 2 Around Asean...and Across the Causeway 2 more polls deaths TWO MORE people a Marcos party official and an Aquino supporter have been killed, bringing to seven the death toll m the Philippine presidential campaign, reports said yesterday. The reports came as opposition candidate Mrs Corazon Aquino shrugged off a grenade
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    • 354 2 Lendl is Master CZECH IVAN LENDL reaffirmed his position as the world's best tennis player when be beat West German Boris Becker 6-2, 7-6 (7-1), 6-3 to win his third Masters Championship m New York on Sunday. Lendl's victory m his sixth straight Masters final earned him US$lOO,OOO ($212,000).
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    • 388 2 When times are bad WHAT can property owners do when they're stuck with vacant property? Responses from some owners and agents range from "pray for better times" to "change your strategy and tailor your marketing to what the public wants". Property: Page 2 Some good out of bad
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  • around the WORLD
    • 196 3 Pakistan and India fail to agree over treaty ISLAMABAD, Mon. India and Pakistan said today they failed to agree on key terms of a peace treaty, but made progress on a separate accord barring attacks on each others nuclear sites. The neighbouring countries said m a joint statement they had
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    • 43 3 DHAKA, Mon. President Hossain Mohammad Ershad opened a Chinese-aided fertiliser plant at Palash near here today, describing it as a new milestone m growing relations between the two countries. The ceremony was attended by Chinese Chemical Industry Minister Qin Zhongda. Reuter
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    • 479 3 India has more food than it knows what to do with NEW DELHI, Monday INDIA has swung from famine to feasting to indigestion. The country, which was saved from starvation by United States grain shipments m the *****, now has more food than it knows what
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    • 151 3 HONGKONG, Mon. China plans to set up a new province m the scenic Three Gorges region m the south-west where a US$lO billion (5521.3 billion) dam is slated for construction, a proBeijing newspaper here reported today. The plan, which has to
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    • 130 3 CANBERRA, Mon. Sixty-seven Australians have died and 77 others are suffering from the killer disease Aids, according to Health Department statistics released today. Most victims were homosexuals between 31 and 39. At least 12 people contracted the disease through blood transfusions
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    • 166 3 Channel link will be rail tunnel for now LILLE (France), Mon. President Francois Mitterrand today named the An-glo-French Channel tunnel group, France Manche Consortium, to build a rail tunnel fixed link between Britair and France. Speaking after meeting British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher here, Mr Mitterrand told a press conference:
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    • 62 3 TOKYO, Mon. Police today arrested a Tokyo businessman on charges of cheating a Belgian firm of U*****,000 (*****,800) m a deal for video-cassette tapes. Police said Hiokazu Aoyagi, 41-year-old president of a Tokyo trading house, signed a contract with a Belgian firm m April 1984 to export 10,000
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    • 41 3 HONGKONG, Mon. A gas blow-out which started on Jan 9 on an oil rig off the southern Chinese island of Hainan has been brought under control, a spokesman for the French oil company, To- tal Chine, said today. AP
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    • 315 3 A step forward in territory issue, says Nakasone Soviet-Japanese talks TOKYO, Mon. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone today called the results of just-ended talks between the Soviet and Japanese foreign ministers a "step forward". He told a meeting of industrial and labour leaders here that the talks had "marked a step
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    • 120 3 WELLINGTON, Mon. The United States National Science Foundation said today it would charge a private British polar expedition US$3O,OOO (5563,000) for evacuating its members from the ice after their support ship sank. Mr Peter Wilkniss, the NSF's director of polar programmes, said
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    • 171 4 EC and Japan reject US call on Gatt CORONADO (United States), Mon. The European Community and Japan have rejected a US call for decisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) on international trade disputes to be implemented more effectively. The United States and its partners, however, agreed
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    • 87 4 THIS man had gone to great lengths in his attempts to be reunited with his wife and son. And it seemed his latest hope was this iron cage. Joachim Matz put himself in this cage at the Checkpoint Charlie crossing point in West Berlin
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    • 465 4 Clamp on free satellite movies American TV companies scramble signals BOSTON, Mon. The 1.5 million Americans who own home satellite dishes, bowl-shaped receivers that pick up television signals, are discovering there is no such thing as a free movie. The nations largest pay television companies, Home Box Office (HBO) and
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    • 73 4 KINGSTON, Mon. Most Jamaicans fee! the government should liberalise Its broadcasting restrictions and allow the establishment of independent television stations, according to a public opinion poll. The poll, carried out m December among 1,800 people by Dr Carl Stone of the West Indies University m Mona,
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    • 313 4 WASHINGTON, Monday CORRUPTION is so rampant m Mexico that a man, jailed m the torture-murder of a United States Drug Enforcement Administration agent last year, was recently freed to attend a lavish 200-person birthday party m his honour at
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    • 86 4 'Sex-mad Mounties made us quit' VANCOUVER, Mon. Sexual harassment by male officers is a daily hazard m the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), six women who resigned as non-commissioned officers said m interviews published here at the weekend. "I got tired of being propositioned by senior officers, who thought you
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    • 75 4 Winning lottery ticket worth $66m NEW YORK, Mon. US$3l million (Sstt million) was won yesterday by one person In the New York state lottery, the biggest pay oat to a sole winner m the state's history. Officials said the winner had still not come forward, but would be paid the
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      • 86 4 NORTH KOREA yesterday suspended talks with South Korea because of the Souths jointwar games with the United States, and Seoul accused Pyongyang of creating artificial bar--riers to improving their tense relations. Pyongyang Radio, monitored m Tokyo, said the communist North was postponing trade, parliamentary and Red Cross talks
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      • 73 4 INDIAN PRIME Minister Rajiv Gandhi yesterday announced a minor reshuffle of his Cabinet, and said one or two other changes could follow shortly. The reshuffle saw the appointment of two new ministers, the elevation of one and a portfolio change for another. The changes followed Mr Gandhi's decision
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      • 46 4 A BODYGUARD (right) keeping a close watch as American pop star Madonna shares a moment with husband Scan Perm between takes on the set of the film, Shanghai Surprise, m Macao yesterday. Madonna plays a Shanghai missionary m the early *****. picture. Reuter
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      • 64 4 A PAKISTANI court sentenced three Indian Sikh separatists to death and seven others to life imprisonment for aircraft hijacking. They were members of groups who hijacked Indian airliners to the Pakistani border town of Lahore, capital of Punjab province, m September 1981 and July 1984. The
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      • 42 4 EUROPEAN COMMISSION President Jacques Delors arrived m Tokyo yesterday for a five-day official visit to discuss the community's trade deficit with Japan. The deficit reached a record US$ll.l billion (5123.53 billion) last year, according to Japa- nese figures. Reuter
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    • 243 6 Dilemma of American women married to Libyans TRIPOLI, Mon. Less than two weeks before President Ronald Reagan's ban on travel to Libya by American citizens comes into effect, a number of American women married ro Libyans have still not been officially told whether they are exempt from the ban. As
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    • 181 6 Controversial French prisoner cleared PARIS, Mon. One of France's most famous and controversial prisoners, Roger Knobelspiess, was yesterday acquitted of charges of involvement m holding up an armoured vehicle m May 1983. Mr Knobelspiess, 38, became a public figure largely through books he wrote describing terrible living conditions m high
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    • 509 6 Escape from South Yemen They spent 3 days hiding m boat DJIBOUTI, Mon. Yachtsmen Robert McSeveney and Claude Brideau were having a beer at the sailors' club m the South Yemeni port of Aden last Monday when they suddenly found themselves m
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    • 173 6 ATLANTA (Georgia), Mon. ANGLICAN Bishop of Johannesburg Desmond Tutu has warned South Africa that he will lead a civil disobedience campaign against the White-mi-nority regime's apartheid laws if it does not change its policy towards his fellow Blacks. The Nobel laureate was addressing an
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  • AROUND ASEAN
    • 262 7 MTRI, Mon. The number of people in Brunei convicted for drug possession and addiction is on the increase, Television Brunei reported last night. It quoted Education and Health Minister Pehin Datuk Serinsetia Haji Abdul Aziz as saying that the drug problem which was
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    • 338 7 Blast hurts three at Cory election rally Attack 'won't frighten me' 4 1 don't think any explosion will frighten me into withdrawing...! am a very fatalistic person and when you have to go, you go. Mrs Cory Aquino (right) MANILA, Mon. Two more people
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    • 355 7 BANGKOK, Mon. Disputed Cambodian resistance leader Son Sann has received support from commanders of at least 5,000 of his guerillas fighting Vietnamese troops stationed m Cambodia, Thai military sources said. Mr Son Sann, whom dissidents dispute as President of the most powerful non-communist
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    • 109 7 Culture body puts up lower budget KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Asean Committee on Culture and Information has proposed a US$l.6 million (553.39 million) budget for 18 projects to be implemented m the 12 months starting m May, $200,000 less than m the previous year. Committee Chairman Wan Sidek Wan Abdul
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    • 284 7 JAKARTA, Mon. Indonesia's dissident "Group of 50" today repeated its call for an independent inquiry into a bloody Muslim riot in Jakarta in September 1984 in which the military says 30 people were killed. The demand follows the jailing of retired General Hartono
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  • across the CAUSEWAY
    • 472 9 Company unable to collect debts from card-holders KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Cashier Card company, which opened two years ago, has wound up, leaving about 500 business outlets m the lurch. The company, whose directors include a politician and the wife of a senior police
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    • 197 9 KUALA TRENGGANU, Mon. Top Pas and DAP leaders will meet at the end of this month to decide whether they should form an electoral pact to contest against the ruling National Front m the next general election, DAP Secretary-General Lim Kit Siang said.
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    • 265 9 Why rice production is less efficient in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Rice production m Malaysia is two times less efficient than m neighbouring rice-exporting countries, a conference was told today. Mr John Lim Kok Eng, of the Agriculture Department, presenting a working paper on padi production outside major irrigated areas
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    • 69 9 PAPAR (Sabah), Mon. Chief Minister Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan has called on opposition members m the state to work with his Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) government for the state's development. He said that leaders who were sincere and genuinely interested m the welfare of the people
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    • 191 9 Malaysia imports 470,000 cartons of mandarins KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. About 470,000 cartons of mandarin oranges will be imported for the Chinese New Year, the Chairman of the task force on essential goods m the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Mohamed Noor Hassan, said today. He said In a statement that so
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    • 152 9 Half-year profit for MAS soars to M$75m KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The governmentowned Malaysian Airline System made an unaudited after-tax profit of M 575.3 million for the first six months of the current financial year. MAS News, the airline's monthly publication, said today that revenue from April 1 to Sept 30,
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    • 76 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Police believe they have crippled at least two drug syndicates with the arrest of nine suspects m six raids over the weekend. A total of 983.8 gm of heroin and M 512,000, believed to be proceeds from the sale of drugs, were
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    • 53 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Defence Ministry and federal police headquarters here have no knowledge of two Japanese World War II stragglers reportedly doing forced labour for communist terrorists m southern Thailand. They gave this reply after they were asked by the Japanese Embassy about reports of the
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    • 30 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A wholly Malaysian-de-signed army field kitchen will be on show for the first time at Defence 86, the Asian defence exhibition, here next month. Bernama
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    • 160 9  -  Lianhe Zhaobao KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The population growth rate of Malays in Malaysia is comparatively faster than that of the Chinese and Indian communities, a census report said. According to the quarterly census publication of the Statistics Board, the country's Malays made up 56 per
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    • 281 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malaysian Cabinet will decide on Wednesday whether to release the final report of the inquiry on the Ms 2 5 billion Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) scandal, officials said today. The 1,075-page report, which tells how most of the money was
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  • HOME
    • 316 10 Education and training WITH only five per cent of its population having tertiary education, Singapore has a long, long way to go before it can try to match the academic attainment of developed countries. The subcommittee said that even after the adoption of its recommendations,
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    • Why we need to act
      • 161 10 Productivity TOP executives, union leaders and government leaders must get together and establish rapport to give a new thrust to the productivity movement. They could help spread new productivity ideas quickly, the Manpower sub-committee report said. Urging the National Productivity Board to set up
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      • 351 10 Reform of the wage system WORKERS must not suffer as a result of efforts to make the wage system more flexible. As such, the sub-com-mittee said, the change must come about gradually. "Any attempt to reform the system can be highly emotional as it may
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    • Women and older workers
      • 186 10 Woman's place not necessarily in the home THE Ministry of Education should consider promoting the virtues of sharing housework and sexual equality m its moral education and education for living programmes. This is the subcommittee's first recommendation to modify the attitude of female workers m order to attract them to
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      • 369 10 OLDER workers can be retained m the workforce by changing a society's attitude towards their employment and offering a package of incentives to employers to continue to hire them. The sub-committee said that m 1964, one out of every four men m the 55-59 age group
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    • Services Sub-committee reports
      • 361 11 Working group sees 20% growth rate Management, business consultancy A TWENTY per cent growth rate is projected for this area for the next 10 years. The sector grew by an average of 14.5 per cent m value-added terms between 1974 and 1982 and contributed 0.42 per cent to the gross
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      • 147 11 Advertising and PR THE advertising and public relations working group has recommended that advertisers, and not advertising agencies, bear the cost of financing promotions. The working group on advertising and public relations, headed by Mr Vince Khoo of Adcom Grey, has suggested that
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    • 93 11 THE Sri Lankan Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Tyronne Fernando, yesterday paid a courtesy call on the Minister of State (Foreign Affairs and Health), Mr Yeo Cheow Tong. Mr Fernando, who is here on a six-day visit, also met Mr Yeo for lunch before he toured
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    • 207 11 Nine on currency charges offered bail THE nine men allegedly Involved In the United States-currency counterfeiting syndicate, were yesterday offered ball by the prosecution. The nine, who had been remanded at the CD) for investigations since they were first charged six weeks ago, were each allowed ball of SIM.MO In
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    • 53 11 INTEGRATED circuits worth $12,000 were reported missing from a cargo complex warehouse at Changi Airport on Friday. Mr Andrew Tan, 33, operations manager of Rhenus Transport, said 21.8 kg of circuits were kept m the warehouse the previous day. Police said there was no sign of forced entry
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    • 456 11  -  LOONG SWEE YIN By ANY cut m the contribution to the Central Provident Fund has to be enough to make Singapore industries competitive vis-a-vis those m Taiwan, Hongkong and South Korea. At the same time, "how deep" the cut should go will
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    • 1085 11  -  L.E. PREMA By TWO directors of AlfaPacific Securities Pte failed to declare an option given to a woman to take up one million unissued shares m the firm because it would have shed light on the company's financing and provoked questions. This was
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    • 43 11 TRAFFIC police seized 101 motorcycles and two cars m a four-hour operation m Nicoll Drive on Sunday against illegal racing. Four suspected hell-riders were detained m the swoop which started at about 1.30 am. They were later released on bail.
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    • 197 11 AT MIDNIGHT yesterday, the temporary police posts packed up for the last time at about the same time the Orchard Road light-up came to an end. The three temporary posts at Far East Plaza and opposite the Promenade were set up to
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    • 177 11 THE man who oversaw the Orchard Road light-up is leaving the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board. Mr Joseph Kong, the board's Deputy Executive Director, submitted his resignation on Jan 2. This is the second time he is leaving the board. He left his job as
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    • 452 12  -  STELLA DANKER By THE Singapore Red Cross Society home at Changi must move and the society hopes to raise $100,000 at a fair for its new home. The land at Netheravon Road, leased to the society for its home for physically
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    • 952 12  -  AGNES WEE MRT contractors show concern for public's needs By LITTLE gestures of concern go a long way to soothe ruffled feathers, as a few MRT contractors have discovered. Working hand m hand with the MRT Corporation, and sometimes giving prompt attention on their own
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    • 321 12  -  IRENE HOE By THE earliest form of government m Singapore wasn't British, didn't have offices at City Hall and was some 400 years ahead of Stamford Raffles. Surprised? In fact, it's likely that Fort Canning was the earliest seat of a government
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    • 194 12 CYCLE Carriage, the agent for Mercedes-Benz, hopes to reverse falling sales for the marque with the launch last Friday of its much-awaited W124 series saloon cars. The company said it sold between 400 and 500 cars last year compared with the
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    • 84 12 A PAINTER was fined $1,500 on Saturday for sitting for a driving theory test on his friend's behalf. Oh Kirn Chuan's friend. Eng Ah Kwang, 20, also a painter, had failed his test twice and he asked Oh to take his place for
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    • 456 13  - New first languages gets going JUNE TAN Pupils determined despite long hours By R. VASANTHI, 13, is a soft-spoken schoolgirl who packs m a gruelling 13-hour day. The Anderson Secondary pupil, the daughter of a Sembawang Shipyard clerk and housewife, leaves home m Sembawang at 6.30 am and returns home
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    • 483 13 HERE'S a sticky situation that a secretary might face: How does she tell her boss that his fly is down without getting a red face or giving him one? The answer, some secretaries learned is: Very tactfully. They were
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    • 327 13 IF ONLY the 100 or so people who turned up at Capuccino Coffee House on Friday were patrons, it would have been a happy afternoon for its owner. But no one ordered food or drink. The sign outside the once well-known lounge and coffee house on
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    • 52 13 VANDALS set fire to two telephone booths at the void decks of two blocks of flats m Veerasamy Road, off Jalan Besar, on Friday. The booths at blocks 632 and 637 were found ablaze at about 1.50 am. Police are treating the incidents as mischief
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    • 34 13 ONE of the first groups of guests for the Westin Plaza hotel m Raffles City will be from luxury cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2, which sails into Singapore on March 10.
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    • 318 14 m Tougher laws and safety steps help SINGAPORE recorded 265 road deaths last year, the lowest m five years. This comes after the death toll hit an 11-year high of 327 the year before. The last time the death toll was lower than last
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    • 451 14 Eight top scientific advisers get a briefing on R D THE eight scientists who are here to advise the Government on the directions it should take m engineering and physical sciences, started work yesterday. Led by their pro-tern chairman, Professor Yang Chen Ning, they were briefed by the Science Council
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    • 155 14 A MEMBER of the International Panel of Scientific Advisers, Dr R. Hara, 61, will give two public lectures this week. The first, entitled Scientific Ideas and Development of New Instruments, will be held today at 5.30 pm. Dr Hara will discuss the factors necessary for
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    • 157 14 PROFESSOR Abdus Salam, a Nobel Prize laureate and the seventh Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor, arrived last night for a four-day stay. Pakistan-born Prof Salam, 59, will give a public lecture tomorrow at the National University of Singapore's Lecture Theatre 27 at 5.30 p.m. His topic
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    • 93 14 Buddhist centre opening SECOND Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong will open the J>7-million, three-storey centre of the Singapore Buddhist Welfare Services and Grace Lodge, a home for the aged, m Punggol Road on March 16. The charitable organisation also runs a child-care centre for 56 children aged between two
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    • 472 14 20 commuters on board 'but no-one did a thing' A FAMILY was held op at knife-point by a lone robber m a bns with about 21 passengers on board on Sunday morning. It is believed to be the first snch robbery And
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    • 763 15  -  CEPHAH TAN By IT WILL be the biggest single-day clean-up operation. A workforce of 7,000 will scour the U-km East Coast Park on Feb 22 for every scrap of litter with their bare hands. And there will be no letup after this. Over the next three
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    • 425 15  -  LIM KWAN KWAN Kolam Ayer By KOLAM Ayer residents do not have to wait for meet-the-people sessions or their MP's house visits to voice their complaints or views. All they need to do is call *****43. This is the constituency's hotline which
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    • 184 15 Around Your Place Information Service PUBLISHING COURSE: The National Book Development Council of Singapore is organising a foursession introductory course on the basics of producing an in-house publication. The fee for the course, starting on March 3 at the Bukit Merah branch library, is $120. Application forms are available at
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    • 386 15 Youth group to launch 'call-up' of members Alexandra By AUGUSTINE LOW THE Alexandra Community Centre's Youth Group is to launch a speedy recall system later this month to mobilise members to take part m neighbourhood projects and activities Under what it described as a "membership reach-out system," the youth group's
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  • 521 16 The Straits Times says Not nyet, but WHEN he left Tokyo last Sunday after a four-day visit, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze did not say nyet to Japan's inclusion of the four Soviet-occupied Kurile islands as one of the problems to be resolved before a peace treaty could be signed.
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  • 1042 16  -  LIM YOON LIN US-Vietnam accord on MIAs seen as latest step 1 Around the region By 6 Reforms were instituted to replace the inefficient system of price and salary subsidies with greater autonomy and responsibility m firms and administrative organisations and a
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  • 684 16  - Arms control: Not clear Soviets are serious FLORA LEWIS By PARIS: Mr Mikhail Gorbachev has gone too far m his effort to arouse Western public opinion. There are a lot of things wrong with Washington's arms control stand, m my view, but they are not going to be overcome by
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  • 535 16 What others say Editorial headlined, Moral obligations and responsibility of a people's representative, published m Shin Mm Daily News on Jan 13. DURING the debate on the Betting (Amendment) Bill m Parliament on Jan 10, opposition MP Chiam See Tong made a lengthy
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  • 575 16 Art Buchwald REPEAT after me. Gramm-Rudman! Gr am m -Rudman! It doesn't ring a bell? Don't worry, I've anticipated all your questions. What is a Gramm-ftud-man? Gramm-Rudman is not a what, but a who actually three whos Senator Gramm of Texas, Senator Rudman of New Hampshire
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    • 1040 17  -  J.D. REED Finding the right name can mean success or failure By writing for Time magazine TOKYO: Starion, Starlet, Stanza, Bluebird, Bongo, Civic, Galant. The names Japanese automakers give their cars often cause their countrymen to twist their tongues and foreigners to scratch their heads.
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    • 791 17  -  LOUISE BRANSON By Moscow Reporter MOSCOW: It was freezing cold and bystanders shivered and jumped up and down m the snow to keep warm. Icicles even formed on men's moustaches. Then out of a hut they trotted, men and women with nothing but swimsuits on. Walruses
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    • 2 17 MAGAZINE mmmWSSSSSML
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    • 191 17 At this rate, Panasonic values a^HBHSn Panasonic copiers and facsimile machines make good business investments m^HJK at any time. n^H^HIK But now, its even better with our ultra low 1% scheme compared with leasing HSXSBHff rates elsewhere of 5% to 6% per annum. «H«BBh| JBf come lo P^asonic and talk
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  • FORUM
    • 200 18 I WOULD like to draw the attention of our legislators to the matter of taxation of retirees. I have been a taxpayer since the early Fifties and have always paid my income tax promptly. After retirement, I put (invested) most of my money m
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    • 30 18 FOR tax purposes, interest derived from bank savings should be classified as earned income for retired senior citizens without any other source of income. fit-PLUS Singapore 1544
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    • 179 18 Retiree's wife has to buy own medicine I REFER to the Ministry of Health's reply (ST, Jan 13) to "Cost Conscious" (ST, Jan 6) that outpatient charges are generally cheap and within the means of most patients. Can a monthly medication bill of $274 be considered cheap, especially when one
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    • 41 18 I AGREE with Mr Chin Heng Peng (ST, Jan 16) that Mr Chiam See Tong has the right to remain silent. Anything he says may be taken as evidence against him. KOH LAM SON (DR) MP for Telok Blangah
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    • 942 18 The Bench and Bar m Malaysia Once I made an application m cham- bers before a High Court judge m Kuala Lumpur. My opponent and I argued the case from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm. Immediately on conclusion of the case and after giving
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    • Reply
      • 139 18 Pedestrians need time to cross roads WE refer to the letter "Motorists seeing red" by Mr Mohd Noor. (ST, Dec 18). Your writer has requested that the green time at the pedestrian crossing opposite Block 43, Circuit Road, be adjusted. We wish to clarify that this pedestrian crossing is provided
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      • 176 18 Terror attacks and root cause WE have over the past few months read about terrorist attacks on civilians. I do not condone the attacks. In my opinion, they were more political events than anything else. I agree with the view of the former British Broadcasting Corporation correspondent m the Middle
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    • 293 18 Employers must not violate workers' rights On the Hydril strike WE refer to the letter by "Suicidal Economy". (ST, Jan 11). The Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Employees Union must have carefully weighed the consequences of taking industrial action against the management of Hydril before a decision was made. Mr Goh
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    • 296 18 I WOULD like to comment on the views of your reader "Suicidal Economy" (ST, Jan 11) m his letter "Hydril strike should not have been allowed to happen". It is most disturbing to me as a worker to read the views expressed because they show
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  • TIMESDOLLAR
    • In the markets
      • 4 19 Promet 1,600,000
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      • 78 19 Jan 17 Ian 20 ian 17 Jan 20 BT Composite 529 32 514.30 BT Indicator *****02 *****46 ST Properties 375.43 370.74 BI OB/OS -158 -303 ST Minings 301 68 301 68 CAN -6651 —6764 ST Plantations 2198.56 *****3 OBV -*****9 -*****3 OCBC 460.46 446.64 ST Industrials 614 35 596
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        • 7 19 ABKlOOfl 461 +1$ ChuanHup 104 +1
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        • 67 19 ICKTMf 75 -129 hnitn ISt -32 OCBC 6» -30 TDM 163 -23 ICS «52 -20 Chin Tec* MO -20 HK fit Corp 50c 120 -19 RaMfh 179 -17 DBS 474 -16 RottnunsMtii 350 -16 UMFIour 190-15 SPH 560-15 FIN 555 -15 Cold Store lOp 229 -14 Prima 436 -14
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        • 35 19 INDICES High amp; Lows Straits Times Business Times Industrial Composite 1985/86 High 852.65 (7/3/85) 757.79 (8/3/85) 1985/86 Low 596.18 (23/12/85) 514.30 (20/1/86) All time High 1071.91 (8/2/84) 983.06 (8/2/84) All-time Low 74.75 (17/9/64) 514.30 (20/1/86)
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        • 15 19 I THE US dollar gained 83 ticks to close at DM 2.4725 m Singapore.
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      • 23 19 I£ DM V FF 8$ H$ UBs 1.4243 2.4825 203.00 unq 2.129 C unq 1.4283 ***** 202.80 7.5790 2.1298 7.8085 I
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      • 13 19 I In Singapore, gold lost US$7.5O to close at U*****.50 an ounce.
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      • 33 19 Eurodollar: Lost 17 tick to 91.86 a contract. Deotechemark: Lost 14 ticks to 0.4067 a contract. Japanese yen: Lost 10 ticks to 0.*****2 a contract. Gold: Lost US$6.9O to U*****.00 an ounce.
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      • Short stops
        • 78 19 Rewards under study WASHINGTON, Mon. The Securities and Exchange Commission is exploring the possibility of giving cash rewards to informants who help it track down false market rumours, according to its chairman John Shad. "You've seen a number of securities subject to dramatic fluctuations m price," Mr Shad said. "This
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        • 71 19 EINDHOVEN (W.Germany), Mon. Philips has said it is studying prospects for a listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A Philips spokesman said last week the prospect of offering either existing or newly-issued shares on the Tokyo market was still some way off, but was
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        • 86 19 HONGKONG, Mon. The government has granted two Japanese banks, the Nippon Credit Bank Ltd and the Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co Ltd, licences to conduct business m Hongkong. This brings to 145 the number of licensed banks m Hongkong, of which 20 are Japanese, a
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        • 75 19 BEIJING, Mon. The value of Taiwanese exports to China via Hongkong rose 245 per cent m the first seven months of 1985 to US$6l7 million (Ssl.3 billion), the official People's Daily reported. It said Taiwanese goods imported by the mainland included electrical items and textiles.
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        • 96 19 Shanghai auctions ship BEIJING, Mon. The f Shanghai Maritime Court I has auctioned off a Liberian merchant ship, netting 1 some US$l.3l million I (552.77 million) from the f US firm that bought it, the People's Daily has said. The 279,000-tonne cargo ship belonged to a Liberi- I an firm
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        • 50 19 CHICAGO, Mon. Members of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has elected 11 governors, all but one of whom are incumbents. Each year, half the CME's 22 governors are elected to two-year terms. A spokesman said the governors would meet on Wednesday to elect a new chairman. Reuter
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        • 124 19 Boost for electronics industry TAIPEI, Mon. The Taiwan Cabinet has approved plans to set up a US$27O million (*****.40 million) large-scale integrated circuit plant to upgrade the country's technology m the electronics industry, a Cabinet source said today. The plant, Taiwan's first, will be 30 per cent funded by banks,
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    • 694 19  -  CONRAD RAJ By SHAREHOLDERS of Growth Industrial Holdings are likely to lose everything they have invested m the ill-fated sister company of beleaguered Pan-Electric Industries as debts appear to far exceed realisable assets. Its directors warned shareholders, m a six-page letter, that the group
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    • 419 19  - Income scores 13.5 rise in sums assured MARA FERNANDEZ By AN aggressive marketing policy which saw a number of new policies introduced last year by NTUC Income combined with an increasingly qualified sales staff have contributed to a 13.5 per cent rise m sums assured for the cooperative. How this
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    • 447 19 LOCAL company Chan Ho Engineering has achieved a breakthrough m bending metal with a machine that is about $25,000 cheaper than comparable state-of-the-art machines from the United States and Japan. Its new $50,000 computer-controlled machine can bend 6 mmthick steel used m industries
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    • 172 19 HONGKONG, Mon. The Hongkong Association of Banks today said it would protr ..t against new securities and listing rules which would temporarily prohibit direct trading by certain bank-re-lated members of the new unified stock exchange. Chairman Peter Wrangham said he was drafting a
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    • 244 19 Good response at fairs in China and India SEVERAL Singapore companies that took part In trade fairs m China and India recently have received a favourable response. Sales contracts for more than $1 million were clinched m the new markets, said the Trade Development Board. Twelve Singapore firms participated m
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    • 444 19  -  DOREEN SOH By BLUE chips were badly hit by the bear raid yesterday which brought The Straits Times Industrial below 600 points once again. The widely-followed ST Index plunged 18.17 points to end at the 1985 low of 596.18 points reached on Dec
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    • 2557 20 READERS should be aware of the imitations of this information. Not every transaction, nor every price dealt m at the stock exchange, is covered m "business done". Further, because al dealing s at a particular price are lumped together the table does not show the trend
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    • 2219 20 INDUSTRIALS A Choc (2 30S) xd AMD (3 90S) Akom (0 58B) (2) 0 56 (5) 0 57 xd AISB (0.63 1/2 B) (4) 0.67 (3) 0.66 (2) 0 65 (9) 0 64 (2) 0.63 (1) 0.634 API (0 458 0 465) (1) 0.47 (7)
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    • 1205 20 Al shares quoted have a par value of SI, unless otherwise specified. Adjusted for scrip/rights. N Tai-eiernpted dividend. ABN is traded in lots of 10 shares each, with the price quoted in doflars. 1915/86 Last Yield W Day Hfh Low Company Sale Chante ('000) rffh Low
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    • Commodities, Finance
      • 332 21 OCBC OUB UOB DBS DEPOSIT RATES Savings: daily s'« 5 4 3 i 5 Monthly 5 4 Autosave (Vi Fixed deposit 1 month 4>/4 4 V* 4 4*4(1) 2 months 4V 4 (1) 3 months 4V« 4Vi 4M 4'/4(l) 6 months 4V4 4% 4 V* 4V 2 (1
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      • 156 21 Interbank Over the counter Foremi Local dolars to Foreign currency USncy one unit of to SSIO foreign currency Australian dollar 1.4807-1.4835 6 B^i?2 Canadian dollar 1.5190-1.5208 6 .65-6 .54 NZ dollar 1.1006-1.1054 9.24-8.93 Sterling pound 3.0423-3.0459 3.33-3 .27 US dollar 2.1290-2.1300 4.73-4.68 of foreign currency Austrian schilling 12.2128-12.2220
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      • 128 21 THE kilobar market traded between 5523,875 and 5524,254 yesterday. In the Far East market, gold opened at U*****.50/350.00, traded between U*****.00 to U*****.00. The market closed for lunch at U*****.00/351.00 and reopened at the same level. Some buying coupled with light short covering took the market up to U*****.00
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      • 111 21 THE US dollar closed lower against most major currencies at 3 pm yesterday. Against the Singapore dollar, it opened at 2 1300/20 and closed at 2.1290/00. It traded within a range of 2.1280 and 2.1300 m quiet trading. Against the deutschemark, the greenback closed lower compared to its opening
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      • 26 21 GOLD US$/oz Mon Fri Singapore 352.00-352.75 357.50 358.50 Mon Sat Hongkong 353.00-354.00 354.00—355.00 Fri Thurs New York 355.50-356.50 ***** 356.60 London 352.50-353.50 361.50 362.40
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      • 218 21 Managers' prices for Jan 21 Sine apore Unit Trust The Commerce 0.92-0 97 The Savings Fund 0.79—0.84 Spore Prog Fund 0 38-0 41 Spore Sec fund 0 59-0 63 Spore Invest Fund 0 49—0 52 S pore Equity Fund 0.42—0.45 Asia Unit Trust Mai Invest Fund 1.45—1.60 Mai
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        • 117 21 Eurodollar 3-month deposit EURODOLLAR futures dropped from IMM's closing level last Friday as market reacted to news that US interest rates are not going to fall, following the G5 meeting. The March contract opened 14 ticks lower at 91.85 and was sold off to 91.83. LIFFE opening saw prices recovering
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          71 21 CURRENCY futures also opened sharply lower as hopes for lower US interest rates disappeared. Deutschemark opened 23 ticks lower at 0.4058. A slight retracement of the dollar in the afternoon saw some recovery in the currency futures but still below Friday's level. (US dollar Deutschemark) Open High Low Sett
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        • 39 21 MARCH yen opened 13 ticks at 0.*****9 and closed at 0.*****2. (Japanese Yen) Open High Low Sett Est Vol Mar 0.*****9 0.*****2 0.*****6 0.*****2 116 Jon 0.*****5 Sept 0.*****0 Open Int (Pri): 128. Act Vol (Frl): 131.
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          48 21 DISAPPOINTMENT over the outcome of G5 meeting saw the February gold closing $3.90 lower at US$351.30 an ounce. (In USS per troy ounce) Open High Low Sett Est Vol Feb 351.30 354.10B 350.80A 354.10 70 Mar 355.50 Apr 357.10 Open lot (Frl): n. Act Vol (Fri): II.
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      • 16 21 Rubber Closing prices cents/kio Singapore February ***** down 1.25 cents Malaysia February 184 00 unchanged
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      • 8 21 Tin Closing prices MS/WO I Tin suspended
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      • 26 21 Closinj prices Copper £/tome Thurs Ipot 999 50 1000.00 (999 00—1000.00 I months 1025 00—1025 50 (1024 00-1024 50) Market tone Steady Sales: 22.625 tonnes
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      • 27 21 Ckwini pricei Silver USJ tro» o: Man Fri Imgapore 606—611 617-6 22 Fri Thurs lew York 613 6 18 6 13—6 18 Source Credit Suisse Spore
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      • 26 21 Clfiinf prices Aluminium tonne Thurs Spot 811.00 812 00 (*****-802 50) 3 months 838 50— 839 00 (829.00-830 00) Market tone: Steadier Sales 13.675 tonn
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      • 101 21 Crude MS/tonne palm oi Jan 660 (north) 657 50 (south) 650 (central) Feb 667 50 (south central) Refin«d palm oil US*/ tonnes RBO palm Feb 310 (sellers) Mar 315 (sellers) Apr 330 (sellers) RBD Oleir. Feb 322.50 (sellers) Mar 335 (sellers) Apr 345 (sellers) RBO Stearin Jan/ Feb
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    • Stock markets round-up
      • 61 21 I I I 1 H_ NST Index Monday 1,087.51 (1,103.70) J Hongkong Hang Seng -*0 Monday 1,775.82 (1,806.86) g£_ Australian All-Ordinaries Monday 1,065.6 (1,066.7) Nikkei Stock Average Monday 12,952.05 (13,006.78) Financial Times Industrials Friday 1,118.7 (1,113.2) Dow Jones Average 0$ Friday 1,536.70 (1,541.63) (Figures m brackets refer to those
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      • 630 21 SHARE prices m KUALA LUMPUR, fell sharply across the board under heavy selling pressure at the stock market yesterday. Trading, however, was fairly quiet with volume at 6.32 million shares valued at M 59.41 million, compared with Friday's turnover of 6.06 million units
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      • 214 21 Hk Hoteh 3500 unch HK Lond 6.70 -0.1 Hk Lond Loon 82 00N unch Hk Lond Won I3.00N HK Reolty 11.70 -0.2 HK Tele 10.90 -0 4 HK Whorf 740 -O.'l Hk Whorf Loon 86 SOB unch Hong Leong Hopewel 2 375 -005 H*n Chong I 44N Hutch Pref
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      • 324 21 Ian 20 Cents Change (Ml A C I 300 unch A N I 308 +10 A P M 320 +5 Aberfoyle 9I0S -30 Age 250 +5 Alltonce Oil Allied Mill 325 +5 Ampol Exp 235 -15 Ampol Pet 240 unch Anz 464 +1 Ashton 127 +2 B H P
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      • 349 21 Ian 20 f Chan e A,.nomoto 1180 unch Akai 398 +3 Amado 790 +2 Asah. Chem 790 +2 Asahi Gloss 890 unch Bank Tk 725 unch Bridgestone 5" +2 Canon 1120 -10 Casio Computer 1770 -20 Citizen 465 +1 D Nip Print 1290 -30 D Nippon Screen 1260 110
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    • 602 21 Receipt of Export FCL containers and LCL cargo LCL Receiving Receiving Ship (Voyage) Arr Cargo Time Block N Crystal (32E) 21/1 (1600) Fl *****800 G3 B Suria (494) 21/1 (1700) F7 *****900/0800 0900 P2/S2 A Alabama (7) 21/1 (2100) F5 *****200/1200 1300 L2/N2 Kabirdas (26) 22/1 (1500) Fl
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      234 21 Vessel Berth Arr Dep Keppel Wharves Cottbus Kl2 aside 21/1 Europa K9 aside 21/1 Equator 3 K22 aside 21/1 Gambela Kl9 aside 21/1 Kannikar KlB aside 21/1 Kota Ratna K32 aside 21/1 Auby K2SW 21/1 22/1 Kota Benaya K32 21/1 24 1 State of Nagaland Kl2 21/1
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    • 437 22 Britain will keep on pressing W. Europe for support LONDON, Mon. Britain will continue to press leading Western European tin-consum-ing nations for support to resolve the world tin crisis at top-level talks this week, according to diplomatic sources. This was despite failure to
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    • 537 22 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaysian tin mine owners say the prospects are bleak, with 213 of the country's 448 mines shut down and about 8,700 mine workers made jobless by the international tin crisis. Many owners, squeezed by large compensation payments to laid-off workers and by
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    • From the companies desk
      • 55 22 MALAYAN Breweries has acquired two paper companies. It announced that the two firms were Anchor Developments Ltd and Tiger Developments Ltd. The companies are registered m Singapore with an issued capital of $2 each and are wholly owned. They have not started operations and are not expected to
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      • 55 22 F N FRASER and Neave Limited (F&N) has acquired a dormant property company. The firm told the Stock Exchange of Singapore that it has acquired River Valley Properties Ltd. The company, with an issued capital of $2, is registered m Singapore. It has not begun operations and is not expected
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      • 47 22 MR SOO Chong Hin has been appointed a director of Malaya Tin Printing Co Ltd. The other members of MTP's board are Mr Robert Tan Poh Seng (chairman), Mr Andrew Aun-Li Chen, Mr Leow Thang Fong, Mr Chan Chee Seng and Mr Edward Goh Kirn Hai.
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      • 26 22 SHAREHOLDERS of Malayan Cables Bhd have ap- proved the company's purchase of Uniphone Sdn Bhd, a supplier of telecommunications products, for M 570.4 million,
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      • 17 22 SHAREHOLDERS of Guthrie Ropel Bhd have approved the company's purchase of Ladang Kejora Luth Sdn Bhd.
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      • 40 22 RIVIERA Development Pte Ltd, a 53.2 per cent subsidiary of Metal Containers Ltd, now has a lower interest of 47.3 per cent m Advanced Matrix Technology Inc. Mr Tay Peng Hian has been appointed a director of Metal Containers.
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      • 33 22 MALAYAN Credit Ltd has said that an American Depositary Receipts Facility for shares of Malayan Credit Ltd has been established with The Bank of New York on Dec 18 last year.
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      • 59 22 MOUNT Pleasure Corporation Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Mount Pleasure Holdings Bhd, has bought 18.6 hectares of land m Perak from Bruas Development Sdn Bhd for M 5960,000. The purchase by MPC, the property arm of Mount Pleasure Holdings, is m line with its policy to extend
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    • 127 22 KEPPEL Shipyard subsidiary, Far Eastern Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd, recently completed a US$l6O,OOO (*****,000) job to extend a jack-up rig's legs by 27.4 metres on location off Bombay. The operation on the rig, Sedco 252, involved 36 people from FELS. They worked 13 days on location
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    • 281 22 MALAYSIA'S earnings from primary commodities last year are estimated at M 514.4 billion against M 515.4 billion for 1984, Primary Industries Minister Datuk Paul Leong said. He told reporters that the drop was particularly pronounced m rubber, palm oil and palm oil products, especially m
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    • 228 22 We've created a totally new sensation. 9 ii iA.' x^v^£^ "*^^**^^Wfc3s?^ i^m^^»M^mlmlm^mmKmM^Kf9mW^s^^^^^^^^^^^^~ JUm l^^^^^Ltm^Wmm^m^m^mWßm^^ j, I •-wwi^ i It took seven years and an incredible 1 sideration. We've got it down to around 11.5 much less stress for the driver thanks to anatomically- E='EHf IHHii es I SSSaI 8 SsESfe'SSKrjsststtsI
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    • 613 23 TELEPHONE SERVICE: RATES CLASSIFICATION GUIDE: >rf 88S8.V Fhday 8-SB2S !o ISgSf rdin>ry: f°° n Per ine(Min $1500) Food/Enl^mm^t (2 -5) *X./\ a^N m mm m^^\t 'J f l\ f *r^l deadline for me Sunday Times) S«mi-di«play: $20 00 per col cm Personal Servicot/McrchandiM (11 >^ "fi^"~S f,J^<3 /\i f /g^/
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    • 231 23 3 Catering HOME DINNER DELIVERY. 4 S Dishes. $3.00 per head. Tel: *****97. HURRYI RING *****40 Liang Food Caterer $1 one course per head buffet with warmer supplied. WE CATER BUFFET for any occa- i sion with wide variety of dishes. Call *****20. 4 Nightclubs/ Lounges/Discos DISCO IN TOWN with
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    • 317 23 12 Computer Products/ Services SINGAPORE MICROCOMPUTER SOCIETY Presentation by I B M on Thursday, Jan. 23 at 7.30 p.m., Jasmine Room, Hyatt Hotel. Subject: IBM.JX PERSONAL COMPUTER General Public Welcome ($3.00 Door Fee) Join the Singapore Microcomputer Society. ?all *****88 for Membership Application Form. NEW YEAR OFFERI Japanese 16 Bit
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    • 731 23 13 Musical Instruments BUY KAWAI JAPAN'S best piano makers today. Check for government quality control mark (JIS). Down payment $750 balance $145 monthly Robert Piano *****39, *****00, *****03. USED PIANOS FOR sale/ rent. $40 $50 p.m. Mun Kai Piano Co. Tel: *****83/ *****79. VICTOR CLASSICAL GUITAR. brand new, offer at
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    • 1235 23 18 Home Furniture/ 18 Home Furniture/ Furnishing Furnishing SLIMLINE BLINDS For Light Control, Sun Control, Privacy, Ventilation, Beauty. c Over 40 designer colours to suit your decor. Made-To-Measure to fit any window wmKmwmmßsp"? m .>\" ■>»"— »»»;<— WSBmSkw ?:ssa WiXs ■Ht Wft. fM ißfti'irt **T C "<<? y^BT^I mmWmmT/j^^'jOgLm For
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    • 555 23 28 Health Centres/ 28 Health Centres/ Massage Massage S~ Feelingtired W ortensed~up? m A real good massage will not only improve blood circulation, but will make you Af^\ fee! new again. M. Extremely cosy m A^L decor and conveniently i^p^H located at WL Basement lof i ™M—W f The Boulevard
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    • 352 23 36 House Renovation/ Decor Install and rawira of alaclrical/ I water pip* lor HOB flats: COPPER: STAINLESS 3-RM. 5240 $280 4-RM. 270 $310 5-RM. S3lO $350 6A lighting point each $24 13A power point each $28 15A aircon. point each $65 15A water heater point each $55 TEL: *****50 PRONOVAT
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    • 255 23 TMEA CLOSER LOOK Spring-cleaning for the Lunar New Year? Is that old TV collecting dust and occupying too much space m your storeroom? Before you decide on what to do with it, view classification 27. That TV may cheer up some hospital patients. I 33 Babysitting/ 33 Babysitting/ Child Care
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    • 904 24 36 House Renovation/ Decor Changing of old windows to aluminium sliding windows HDB Aluminium Grilles Amplimesh®Gnlles for private houses and condominiums Shop front and office partitions contact the specialist OOH BROTHERS. (Since 1965) offers marble/ carpets for living/ bedrooms at $2480 (4-rm), $4180 (5-rm.) or ceramic/ carpets at $1700 (3-rm.),
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    • 374 24 36 House Renovation/ Decor $8 P.S.F. ALUMINIUM grilles Aluminium glass sliding doors/ windows Tel: *****78/ *****04. 37 Airconditioners/ Refrigerators Ability m helping any of your problems AIRCON./ FRIDGE SERVICES 24 hrs. Islandwide Service can solve all\>roblems of servicing, repairing/ respraying of all refrigerators and airconditioners m our workshop/ your place.
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    • 916 24 38 TV/ Video/ Hi-Fi AERIALS INSTALLATIONS- TECHNICAL Servicing repairs Telefunken, Sharp, Roxy, Graetz, ITT, Siera. Philips, Setron, Normande, Singer, colour TV on the spot, fixing video. Reasonable charges, day night service. Telephone *****75/ *****23 ANTENNAE INSTALLATION FOR individual centralised system. We provide professional service high quality V/UHF aerials from Germany/
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    • 704 24 49 Packing/ Storage/ Delivery/Removal $30 $70 per trip (economical rates) Specialists m house removal/ transportation service, office removal, pianos and organs. Workers provided Open daily Ba.m. to 10p.m. *****31. WE HAVE TEAM of careful responsible workers specialising m removal delivery. Spartan Express, *****00, *****72. *****59 HOUSE ft OFF. Removal services
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    • 777 24 55 Commercial 55 Commercial Vessels Vessels VESSELS FOR SALE 1 AT EXCELLENT PRICES MV "AMIR EXPRESS" MV "SULTAN EXPRESS" MV "MALIK EXPRESS" MV "KHALIFAH EXPRESS" Dimensions: 115 x 26 x 10 Feet Engines: 12) 16V-71 Classed: ABS Loadlined and Classed Location: Sharjah, UAE Above Panamanian Flag Utility Vessels built m
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    • 545 24 57 Business Opportunities L/C HOTLINE. WE will answer solve your L/C, T/R, banking, financial problems regarding L/C T/R. Call Classifone: *****30 (off. hrs.) Ref. No. *****, and discuss m complete confidence. CASH IN for Chinese New Year. Operate a bazaar on 1/ 2 firs, m the heart of M. Parade,
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    • 588 24 56 Industrial 56 Industrial 56 Industrial Equipment/ Supplies Equipment/ Supplies Equipment/ Supplies y EQUIPMENT WANTED M We are looking for a 2nd hand/used short-blasting I m machine for blasting components, and a high pressure H cleaner machine for degreasing. I H Supplier please submit quotation and full specifications m t0:
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    • 477 24 56 Situations Vacant: Professional/ Executive A progressive local ready mixed concrete company require* suitable applicant* to fill the following posts: PLANT MANAGER Qualifications Experience:a At least GCE A' level certificate j a At least 8 years' experience In the ready mixed concrete industry holding a Managerial or Supervisory post. PLANT
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    • 535 24 IMMEDIATE ASSIGNMENTS FOR private tutors with qualifications of Pre-UI and above. Please call: *****66/ *****87/ *****67. GOOD PAY. School teachers (Eng./ Chinese medium) graduates reqd. *****75, *****90 PIANO TEACHER REQUIRED at Bukit Batok Music School. Contact: *****83. UNDERGRAD TO TEACH See .4 English, Accounting, Commerce, Maths D. Call: *****80. 69
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    • 619 24 70 Situations Vacant: Secretarial/ Clerical WALK-IN INTERVIEW An established Statutory Board hat an immediate vacancy for the following pott: CLERK/ TYPIST Requirements: c Full GCE O' ievel Certificate with minimum 3 credits including English c Must possess LCCI Typing Certificate with 35 w.p.m. c Must have at least 1 year
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    • 840 25 70 Situations Vacant: Secretarial/ Clerical APPLICANTS REPLYING to Box numbers of vacancies are requested not to enclose original copies of testimonials or reference with their applications. No responsibility can be accepted for their loss. Applicants are also advised to write to Box Numbers correctly and check them before posting MALE
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    • 408 25 71 Situations Vacant: Sales HOMESTEAD FURNITURE PTE LTD, Singapore's fastest growing furniture chain, has vacancies for SALES STAFF (Mate/Female) Applicants should have at least 3 O' levels and be fluent m English and either Mandarin or Malay School leavers awaiting 'O' level results may also apply. Remuneration will be not
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    • 720 25 71 Situations Vacant: Sales "Sales As A Career" We are a renowned Company looking for suitable candidates to market a UK Product. This Challenging career with us Include an attractive commission package for trainees which will allow a monthly Income of note less than $900/- for the first 3 months.
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    • 724 25 71 Situations Vacant: Sales LUBRICANTS INTERNATIONAL Walk-in interview! If you're prepared to slog, 53,000 per month is easily achieveable. Join our lubricants sale team now! Unil Impex (S) Pte. Ltd. Blk: 6025 Ang Mo Kio Ind. Park 3, #03-54, street 64. Tel: *****73/4 American Int'l Assurance Co. Ltd Wants People
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    • 592 25 71 Situations Vacant: Sales ADVERTISING a SALES Reps reqd. for fast selling professional guide books. Commission allowance. Call: *****47 or apply m person at Rm. 15A, 131 Mackenzie Rd. Spore 0922., office hrs. TEMPORARY SALES PROMOTERS with experience required to promote toiletry products m supermarkets. Attractive pay and commission. Call
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    • 804 25 72 Situations Vacant: 72 Situations Vacant: Technical Technical SUMIDEN ELECTRONICS PTE LTD I) Technician NTC or other technical qualifications with some industrial experience Must have mechanical knowledge/ background Completed National Service 2) Line Leader 2 1 -25 years of age Preferably with electronics background NTC or other technical qualifications Completed
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    • 375 25 73 Situations Vacant: 73 Situations Vacant: Production Production f FEMALE OPERATORS I Siemens] SEMI-CONDUCTORS PLANT AT AVER RAJAH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE FACTORY *ss?s4ooh V J Secondary education/Primary 6 and able to speak English Age 16 to 35 years Able to work, on 2-rotating shifts as follows: Ist Shift: 6.50 am 2.50pm
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    • 441 25 74 Situations Vacant: T Miscellaneous A HOTEL ASIA requires 1. HOUSEKEEPING SUPERVISOR aged 21 to 40 years N.T.C. 11l m Housekeeping 2to 3 years' experience m hotel housekeeping 2. CHAMBERMAID aged 16 to 45 years 3. SECURITY GUARD aged 21 to 50 years 4. DESPATCH RIDER aged 21 to 40
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    • 720 25 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous FOSTER I V Urgently Requires A Requirements:I Age 40 to 50 years old. Willing to perform rotating shift 1 1 I Honest and active I Strong and healthy Able to speak and write simple English Interested applicants please call personally I with NRIC between Bam to
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    • 827 26 74 Situations Vacant: 74 Situations Vacant: Miscellaneous Miscellaneous EXPERIENCED COOKS I required by Mualim restaurant m Brunei Attractive salary A bonus. Lodging provided. Free air I ticket to from Brunei. I Requirements: I 1) Must be able to cook Malay and Chinese Thai Food. I 2) Must be Muslttn. I
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    • 476 26 81 Vehicles For Hire KENG SOON AIRCON. cars from $35 onwards free mileage, with radio cassette. Tel: *****33. LANCER 5-SPEED $38, Mazda 626 Auto. $55, Mazda new model 92£ $70. Free mileage. Tel: *****44. MALAYSIAN CAR AVAIL, for rent at $70 per day. Call at: Ming Arcade, #06-09. Tel: *****33/
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    • 932 26 86 For Sale: BMW BMW CLASSIC 2002 '75. Collector's cond. BUS sports shocks, Recaro seats, Blaupunkt hl-fl, magnesium rims, NCT low profile tyres, etc. View: 355 East Coast Rd. (Caltex Station). '84, BMW 7281 A.1. 1 owner Co. regn. Showrm cond. Best offer secures. Tel: Raymond Ho. *****5. 87 For
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    • 814 26 89 For Sale: Datsun/Nissan $3290 Drive away a March 1.0 GL Authorised Dealer: DELTA MOTOR Bukit Tlmah Showroom: Tel: *****55 Katong Showroom: Tel: *****55 Open on Sunday 10am to 4pm NISSAN -MARCH' I.OGL Brand new and unregistered. 5-speed, 5-door aircond. Colour: metallic silver. Price: $17,900 only (PARF). Loans arrangeable Interested
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    • 828 26 90 For Sale: Toyota 77 TOYOTA MK-II 1800 c.c Aircon., tax March '86. Only $1,800 0.n.0. Very cheap. Definitely better than renting. *****66 John. '80 MODEL TOYOTA Cellcu 1.6 ST liftback, aircon., new s/rims hl-fl, tax 5/'B6, PARF, good cond. $11,500. Loan $8,000. *****35. 82 TOYOTA COROLLA. 1.3. DX S/wagon.
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    • 760 26 92 For Sale: Mazda ALMOST '85 MAZDA HX7 GPX Turbo sports car 1 pte. owner. Tip top condition Accident free. White bodied image. Modelled after America's 'Ultimate I 1 replica with full accessories. $55,000. Call display pager *****99. ALMOST 1979 MAZDA 323, 1300 c.c, 5-door. 1 private owner, aircond., radio
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    • 669 26 95 For Sale: Suzuki 95 For Sale: Suzuki 95 For Sale: Suzuki 95 For Sale: Suzuki a SUZUKI 0% t%ll%i\ Don't miss this opportunity to own |W ffllfcßßfflßPJMM^—— a brand new Suzuki today SH H9BBB^^fc^fc*»_— With just $2,000 down payment, you can drive B BfW^^-^S^^^^^^"lb^ML^Bl^Bl^BMm^__ away the economical SA3IO or
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    • 385 26 96 For Sale: Other Makes SIN THAI HIN TRADING PTE LTD Plot 'E' Fringe Carpark Kampong Java Road Singapore 0923 Telephone: *****11/ 5 (Open from 9.00 am 5.30pm) TRADE-IN 8. LOAN ARRANGEABLE 1984 Toyoace Lorry. 1983 Honda Prelude EX', manual Toyota Toyoace Datsun Pick-up petrol 1600. 1982 Nissan E23 Micro-Bus,
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    • 539 26 96 For Sale: Other Makes MID '84 929 Auto Hardtop. Full accessories. Very beautiful cond. 1 pte. owner. Tax May 86. $35,000 neg. View: 364, Joo Chiat Rd. 9/81, JAGUAR XJ6 3.4 LWB Series 111 Fully auto. 2nd. pte. owner. Non-PARF. Tip top cond. New tyres. $37,000 0.n.0. Tel: *****90.
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    • 458 26 97 For Sale: Commercial Vehicles 1975 DATSUN HOMER 10- ft. Steel lorry, petrol, $900 0.n.0. 36 Hoot Klam Road, *****69. 1976 TOYOTA Corolla Panel Van. Passed Inspection. New paint. Excellent cond. $1,700 *****81 1978 SUBARU VAN 500 c.c Tip top condition. Accident free. Selling $2000. *****36. 1980 MITSUBISHI 1300 Van,
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    • 711 27 99 Vehicles Wanted ATTRACTIVE CASH PAYMENT a Any models below 2000 cc. a PARF or Non-PARF used cars. I Private company registration. Commercial Vans/ Pickups PB' Registration. Trade -in acceptable. JINCHI YILI MOTORS PTE LTD N0.39 LOWLAND ROAD SINGAPORE 1954 TEL: *****88/ *****22/ *****02 CASH PAYMENT HIGHEST OFFER for any
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    • 754 27 100 Scrap Vehicles A GOOD OFFER for PARF scrap cars export documents. Int., pis contact Kong Beng Motor, 128 Prinsep St. #02-01 Tel: *****76/ *****59. BETTER PRICES OFFERED for PARF scrap cars, used cars, van. Call: *****21/ *****31 Yea. DEALING IN COMPANY Q' plate PARF scrap cars. Call Connie *****78.
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    • 766 27 108 Accommodation Available: Houses D.lO EAST SUSSEX Lane newly renovated d/storey detached. (10,000 sq.ft 6 bdrms./ 5 alrcons., p/furn. $4650. Rolf *****11. D.lO QREENLEAF DR. Executive bungalow s+ l bdrms. Large mature gdn. $3,300. PAA *****25/ *****26. D.lO HOLLAND VICINITY detached bunglw., 11,000 sq.ft. 4 bdrms./ servant's/ garage, mature gdn.,
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    • 629 27 107 Accommodation 107 Accommodation 107 Accommodation Available: Available: Available: Apartments Apartments Apartments f CASAROSITA 1) I Bukit Timah Road Mediterranean -styled .apartments with choice of 3200 sq ft or 2800 sq ft Rentals from $4500 Enquiries *****66 Showflat *****50 IWlMalBals! IaWB Wsaf tTaf jf^af l» IftfF Chartered Surveyors wB D.2
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    • 440 27 rfirdmore OPEN HOUSE Long or short lease c Luxury apartments to let with exclusive Country i Club membership Just off Orchard RQad i 3-bedrooms, large lounge, ample parking Furnished or unfurnished Rental from $3,600 per mth mcl. service charge Visit our show flat, 10am 89 spm Monday to Saturday or
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    • 622 27 107 Accommodation Available: Apartments BALMORAL PARK APARTMENTS 3 Bedrooms Spacious living area Large Kitchen Utility Room Covered Garage Minutes to Orchard Rd Tel Owner 221 2266 A VILLA CHANCERY TOWNHOUSEB, DIST 11 c Chancery Hill Rd. c New exclusive development; quiet central location. c Unique architecture c 3/4-bdrm units. c
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    • 851 27 107 Accommodation Available: Apartments PHOENIX MANSION, CAIRNHILL ROAD, DIST 0922 High level. Fully furnished apartment. Contact Mr K.H. Tan, *****74. $1,500 p m STUDIO 3/ 4-Bedroomed Apartment*, PH PI KWltnili Penthouse* at THE BEAUMONT available for immediate leasing. Please contact St. Michael* Rd $1800 Lor. 6 Geylang $900 Maju Awe.
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    • 888 27 107 Accommodation Available: Apartments ORCHARD TOWER PENTHOUSE (approx. 4000 sq ft): 4 bdrms. at-tractlvely-flnlshed, furu., fully carpeted it alrcondltloned, with seavlew. $3,600. Mr Soh, *****22. 21 BALMORAL ROAD, off Orchard Rd. Apt. with 3 bdrms, 2 baths, servant's rm. Alrcon. F/furn. 24-hr security. Rental Inclusive neg. BEP Holdings. *****11 37TH
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    • 932 27 107 Accommodation Available: Apartment* DIST.II. SHELFORO APT., mals 3 1 bdrms 2,000 sq.ft S/pool F/furn $1,800 Patron, *****15/ 8 DIST.I9 JADE TWR. pte apt 3 bdrms unfurn rent $750/- Loh *****92 DIST.2, INT'L. PLAZA, 2 bdrms High fir. F/furn./ facilities. $1,200- $1,300 Marlfold: *****96 DIST.2 SPOTTtSWOOOE PTE. apt 21st storey.
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    • 916 28 8107 Accommodation Available: Apartments ONLY $1,300, CITY Twr, beautifully furn., newly renovated, 3 bdrms Jonsen Hsg *****88 ORCHARD RD. St Martins Dr 3bdrm Apt. F/furn. $1,000 p.m. Call *****69 (no agents please) PANDAN VALLEY, EUGENIA Ct. 2000 sq ft. 4 bdrms., f/furn., facing pool Avail now *****28, agt. PANDAN VALLEY.
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    • 639 28 108 Accommodation Available: Rooms UNFURN. ROOM NEAR City for rental Tel: *****18. 109 Accommodation Wanted: Houses ATTENTION BUNGLW. OWNERS! If you have good h'ses. avail, with 4/5 bdrms. m d. 10,11,21 with/ without pool. Call: DHE, *****5. EXPAT. COUPLE LOOKING for renovated detached h'se. m Chancery \.&ne/ Stevens Rd. Owners,
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    • 816 28 113 For Sale: Houses DIST. 1026 FARRER ROAD BUNGALOW 6 bedrooms, central aircon. Area approx. 10,000 sq.ft. For sale only. TEL: *****3. D/STOREY TERRACE AVAIL. IN: c D. 19 Ll-Hwan Terr. $380,000 c D. 16 Sennett Terr. $390,000 c D. 16 Opera Est. $395,000 Also avail. In other Dist. ALPHA
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    • 912 28 113 For Sale: Houses 0.14 KIMNAN PK. I) storey semi-d. 3400 sq.ft. 4 bdrms. Matured gdn. Selling vacant possession. Holland *****79. D.15 OPERA EBT. 2-Storey terr. Very well renovated. 3+l Bdrms Terrazzo, ceramic, parquet fir. $350,000 neg. Greenacres *****88. D.15 STILL RD. 3 storey Townhse. 3 1 rms. 2100 sq.ft.
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    • 727 28 113 For Sale: Houses OM, FULTON. D/*lor*y terr., 2,000 sq.ft., 3 1 bdrms. Renovated. $400,000 neg. *****26/ *****36. DM THOMSON VAOHAN vicinity, 2 yr. old. 4 level terr. 4 rms., 2350 sq ft $440,000. Eastwood: *****15 0.20 THOMBON QON. D/storey corner terr. 3 1 bdrms. 1,800 sq.ft. $289,000. TMP *****26/
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    • 794 28 114 For Sale: Private 114 For Sale: Private 114 For Sale: Private 114 For Sale: Private 114 For Sale: Private Apartments Apartments Apartments Apartments Apartments Upgrade to a private residential home at City Mansions, A U^ Wof#<W when prices are now m your favour. Iql c Low-rise apartments and double-storey
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    • 495 28 D.19 $229,000 KATONG vicinity. 1400 sq.ft. 3 bdrms. Faring sea. Low maintenance. F'hold. Holland *****79. D 15. ST. PATRICK Apt, Freehold, 2 bdrm/ built-in wardrobes, Italian tiles, kitchen cabinets, swimming pool Tel: *****09. D.19 JADE TOWER. Mid fir., 3 bdrms., servant's. $245,000. Good cond. 1500 sq.ft. Freehold, split-level. Soel: *****11/
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    • 741 28 D.lO TAMAN SERASI, opp Botanical Gdn. 1400/ 1755 sq.ft. 3+l rms. F'hold. Holland *****79. D.lO WING ON Life. High fir. 3400 sq.ft. s+l bdrms. Full facilities. $720,000 neg. Holland *****79. D 10/16 HNMKO/ BAYSHORE Park 2 bedrooms, 1,300 975 sq.ft. $290,000/ $210,000. *****51/2. D.ll JAVA TWRS. 2,300 sq.ft. 3+l rms.
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    • 764 28 116 For Sale: HDB Apartments 5-ROOMED Ang Mo Klo Blk. 622 $120,000 Bedok North Blk. 91 $115,000 Clementl Blk. 355 $140,000 Marine C'res. Blk. 43 $130,000 Upp. Boon Keng Blk. 38 $120,000 4-ROOMED Ang Mo Klo Blk. 547 79,000 Bedok South Blk. 7 65,000 Boon Tlong Rd. Blk. 12 80.000
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    • 465 32 181 Deaths 181 Deaths LAM TIT CHOR Age: 82 passed away peacefully on 19.1.86 leaving behind Beloved wile: Chan Mut Sons: Daughlert-in-law: Lam Peng Loon Lum Suet Ylng Lim Beng Cheong Lee Yoke Lin Lam Peng Kwan Poon Ngo Meng Tor Ah Huay Tony Lam Peng Cheong Son Bee Lay
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      21 32 With deepest sympathies 4 condolences to the family of the late: MRS JANE TONG From: MR MRS ROLAND WEE
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      119 32 In loving memory of MICHAEL 001 TENG LAI who left us five years ago on 21.1.81. Always remembered by wife, children and grandkChildren. HUGH RAMSEY DEPARTED: 21-1-1979 HE WAS A MAN. I SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN. Sadly miseed by his wife Jenny, children and
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    • 44 32 182 Acknowledgements 182 Acknowledgements The Family of the Late MRS. JANE TONG Thanks the Staff of Bud Flanagan Ward, Royal Marsden Hospital, Surrey, U.K., All members of Leng Kwang Baptist Church, Friends Relatives for their attendance, condolences, donations and assistance during their recent bereavement.
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    • 342 32 Looking for top NZ-breds and No. 1 jockey By THE RACING EDITOR CHAMPION trainer Teh Choon Beng is on a twofold mission in New Zealand. He is attending the annual sale of yearlings which opens at Trentham this evening and, with his keen eye, will no doubt
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    • 82 32 SAN MATEO (California), Mon. The United States won the International Jockeys' Cup for the sixth successive year when they beat a combined team from Ireland, Britain and France by 102.5 points to 77.5 points yesterday. American Russell Baze took the individual honours with 36.5 points. Then
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    • 158 32  -  MARKSMAN IPOH, Mon. Visiting Australian jockey Ray Setches had mixed feelings after winning the last race on Saturday. Third home on hot favourite Squeeze n, Setches fired m a double objection against Malaysian Pearl and Vapour n, first and second past the post. The racing stewards
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    • 1471 32 WEIGHTS, barrier draw and ratings for this weekend's races at Bukit Timah: SATURDAY Class 2 Div 2 1,200 m (Ratings: 111-99) 8 Balik Pulau n 57 11, 14 Ruling Party 57 111 15 Tron 57 111 7 Dendrobium HI 56.5 110 12 Express Car n 56.5 110
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    • 350 33 Pam acts clown to ease the hurt WORCESTER (Massachusetts), Mon. Pam Shriver was reduced to clowning as she was crushed 6-1, 6-1 by fellow-American Martina Navratilova m the semi-finals of a U*****,000 ($530,000) women's tennis tournament here yesterday. Pam, after falling behind 6-1, 4-0, went to the Scoreboard and changed
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    • 104 33 Uruguay get into the second round CARACAS, Mon. Uruguay won both their reverse singles yesterday to beat Venezuela 3-2 m a Davis Cup tennis American zone first-round tie. Results: Diego Perez bt Inaki Calvo 6-3, 6-1, 9-7; Victor Calderelli bt Carlos Claverie 8-6, 6-4, 6-4. In Tunis, Nigeria qualified for
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    • 302 33 IF Boris Becker had been able to beat Ivan Lend! yesterday, he would have given West Germany a sweep of three international Masters championships. Bernhard Langer won the golf Masters last April and Becker took the Young Masters earlier this month. BY winning the
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      • 294 33 ITALIAN ROME, Mon. Striker Roberto Pruzzo converted a controversial last-minute penalty as second-placed Roma beat Bari 2-1 yesterday to close the gap on Italian League leaders Juventus. Bari, second from bottom of the table, looked to have done enough to earn a point when Giovanni
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      • 132 33 SPANISH MADRID, Mon. Champions Barcelona reduced Real Madrid's lead In the Spanish League to three points yesterday when the won 14 at Osasnna through a 43rd-minnte goal by Ramon Caldere. Real dropped a point In the 1-1 draw at Racing Santander. The hosts dominated for
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      • 159 33 PORTUGUESE LISBON, Mon. Benfica moved a point clear at the top of the Portuguese League yesterday when they scored twice m a three-minute sec-ond-half spell to beat Guimaraes 3-1. Lisbon neighbours Sporting, who shared the First Division lead with Benfica before yesterday, dropped a point
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      • 151 33 BELGIAN BRUSSELS, Mon. Bot-tom-of-the-table RWD Molenbeek scored their third win of the season when they upset League leaders FC Bruges 1-0 yesterday m the Belgian First Division. A second-half goal by Molenbeek captain Rudy Cossay settled the issue. The home team held a tight grip on
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      • 193 33 BELGIAN: FC Liege 5 Lierse 2, Kortnjk 4 Beerschot 1, Ghent 3 Charleroi 1, Antwerp 1 Lokeren 1, Mechelen 2 Waregem 0, Beveren 1 Waterschei 1, Cercle Bruges 1 Anderlecht 1, Molenbeek 1 Club Bruges 0. FRENCH: Nancy 2 Brest 0, Sochaux 2 Auxerre 0, Strasbourg 6 Bastia
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      • 169 33 FRENCH PARIS, Mon. Strasbourg hauled themselves off the bottom of the French First Division yesterday following a 6-1 thrashing of crisis-hit Bastia, who now drop to last place on goal difference. Ironically, three of the goals which sank Bastia came from Patrick Cubaynes, who was
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      • 340 33 SAUDI Arabian side Al Ahly got off to a winning start m the fifth Asian Club Champions tournament m Jeddah on Sunday when a goal Just two minutes from time gave them a 2-1 win over India's West Bengal Club. The Indians took the lead through Rashadi Beksh
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    • 657 33 Czech confirms that he is the world's No. 1 with straight-set triumph 61 was returning hit serve better today and putting more pressure on him. I think there was so much pressure on him m this tournament. And he didn't handle it too well today
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    • 525 34 LEE WAI WUN reviews the Singapore Open boardsailing championships Anan and Company prove age can be a barrier Let's face it: the Thais and Indonesians are clearly a class above Singapore. Abdul Malik, especially, will be the one to watch. It wasn't surprising then that Singapore managed only
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    • 439 34 TAY CHENG KHOON reviews the Pepsi squash tournament IF the organisers of the Pepsi squash tournament can pick horses as accurately as they did the winners of their championships, they will be rich men today. But the predictability of the matches
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    • 173 34 Italian takes stage one MONTE CARLO, Mon. Italy's Massimo Biasion won the first competitive section of the Monte Carlo motor rally yesterday. Biasion, m a Lancia, took the opening 2.6-kilo-metre stage at Le Chatelard, the first of six around Aix-les-Bains, where more than 150 cars converged from the six European
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    • 80 34 SENIOR players need no longer wait till they are 40 to resume competitive squash. For this year's Ascot Singapore Closed, from Feb 15-March 1 at Kallang, will include a Masters event for those 35 years and above. Said tournament chairman Benny See: "The event is definitely on
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    • 616 34 ATHLETICS: Eddy Hellebuyck, of Belgium, led all the way to win the Manila Marathon on Sunday. He clocked 2hr 19min, nearly three minutes ahead of Italian Michele Arena. In Houston, Paul Cummings, a member of the 1984 US Olympic 10,000 m team, out-sprint-ed Canada's Dave Edge over the
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    • 350 34  -  MAHMOOD GAZNAVI ON THE CRICKET SCENE By ISAAC GNANACHANDRAN, one of the 26 players m the International Cricket Conference Mini World Cup squad, will not play most of the matches m this year's Singapore Cricket Association Division One League. The 37-year-old engineer has been posted
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    • 561 34 Buildup to the Superbowl NEW ORLEANS, Mon. The state that last year put its governor on trial and the city that lost US$lOO million ($212 m) on a World's Fair opened doors yesterday to an event signifying much-needed big money and publicity. The
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    • 365 34 NEW ORLEANS, Mod. When dawn brake the morning after the NFL Conference title games, you could almost hear Fats Domino leading concerned New Orleans citizens m a chorus of "Bine Monday". This buoy town, never noted for its genteel manner, is about to reel from
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    • 161 34 SYDNEY, Mon. An Anglican church leader yesterday called for random breath-testing of spectators at cricket matches because "the game was being ruined by the behaviour of drunken louts". The Very Reverend Lance Shilton, Dean of Sydney, suggested that people be turned away from the
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    • 164 34 PERTH, Mon. Former captain Bob Simpson has been appointed assistant manager of the Australian team for their New Zealand tour starting next month. Australian Cricket Board chief executive David Richards said Simpson's appointment was for the New Zealand tour only, which will also be Bob Merriman's
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    • 163 34 Higgins 'hooked' claim LONDON, Mon. Former world snooker champion Alex Higgins is hooked on cocaine, an English Sunday newspaper claimed. The News of the World said they had affidavits from witnesses of the 35--year-old Irishman's drugtaking, which they said had been going on for three years. But Higgins has strongly
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    • SPOLIGHT ON SOCCER
      • 183 35 Forgers strike at Kubu Stadium MALACCA, Mon. The Malacca soccer team were oot the only losers when they met Singapore m a top-of- he-table Malaysia Cop clash at Kabu Stadium last Saturday. The Malacca Football Association lost too, because of formers. There wa,: a capacity crowd last Saturday and it
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      • 472 35  - Manap's the player to tackle Zainal JOE DORAI MALAYSIA CUP By CREW-CUT Manap Hamat, who made a 45-minute return to the Malaysia Cup scene last Saturday against Malacca at the Kubu Stadium, will be given a bigger responsibility on Saturday when Singapore take on Selangor at the Merdeka Stadium. He
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      • 118 35 FT bank on Brooking INTER-CITY KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Czechoslovakia, Hongkong and India will take part m the third Federal Territory competitionhere from Jan 27-Feb 1. FT Football Association secretary K. Rasalingam said that they will be represented by their Malaysia Cup squad. The tournament, organised by the FTFA m conjunction
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      • 226 35  - Johari forces IMeridien to stop at two ALBERT JOHNSON BUSINESS HOUSES By JOHARI Kambrat was the toast of Pavilion Intercontinental even though they lost 2-0 to Hotel Meridien m a Business Houses Football League Division Two match at Geylang Stadium yecter- day. For it was Johari's fine display between the
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    • 94 35 Swiss yacht takes the lead AUCKLAND, Mon. Übs Switzerland, a 64-footer skippered by Pierre Fehlmann, will start the third leg of the Whitbread round-the-world yacht race with an elapsed lead of one day and five hours over New Zealand 63-footer NZI Enterprise. Lion New Zealand lie third after receiving a
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    • 308 35  - SHA to stage tourney for schools MAHMOOD GAZNAVI By THE Singapore Hockey Association have accepted a proposal to organise a competition for schools. The competition will be an annual affair and will form part of the SHA calendar. Prabhakaran Nair, tournament committee chairman and a vice-president of the SHA, said
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    • 55 35 COLOMBO, Mon. A fourthwicket stand of 125 between Chris Smith and Wilf Slack helped England 'B recover to 243-7 at the close of the first day of the four-day unofficial cricket Test against Sri Lanka today. Scores: England B 243-7 (C. Smith 62, W. Slack 96, D. Pringle
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    • 216 35 AUCKLAND, Mon. Chinese shortstop Hua Jie emerged as the star of the women's World softball championships as China crushed Holland 5-1 here yesterday. Hua Jie dominated her team's batting and has given China a real chance of reaching the final playoffs. The shortstop had
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    • 499 35 TAN V-MENG, Wan Tse Yang and Kelvin Yew shared the honours with record-breaking performances on the final day of the Singapore Swimming Club's single age-group meet at Tanjong Rhu on Saturday (reports Albert Johnson). V-Meng, who had earlier smashed the 200 metres individual medley
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    • 439 35  -  LIM KEE CHAN Singapore name five boxers for President's Cup m Jakarta By MOHAMED Mukhlis, Singapore's South-east Asia Games welterweight boxing gold medallist, starts the new season with a tough assignment m Jakarta next month. Mukhlis, sporting a cleanshaven head to mark his Sea Games success,
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    • 174 35  -  ALBERT JOHNSON THE Singapore Amateur Boxing Association are to promote the sport at club level. Said SABA president, M. Amaladass: "We've sounded it out to the police and the response has been encouraging." He said that the SABA are keen to embark on the campaign so
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    • 227 35 THE Singapore Rugby Union suspended a player and cautioned three others for various offences at their disciplinary committee meeting at the Singapore Cricket Club yesterday. Armed Forces' R. Gunasekaran was suspended for the rest of the season which ends In March for kicking
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    • 94 35  -  YTP CHIENG, the 1984 Commercial Cup champions, will make their debut m the Basketball Association of Singapore Cup qualifying tournament on Friday at Gay World Stadium. The Goh Kirn Huat-led side are among 31 teams m the qualifying round for the two places
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    • 135 35  - Ace Ronnie rolls off in Bahrain LEE WAI WUN LOCAL bowling kingpin Ronnie Ng will roll off his programme for the year m the Bahrain Open. The Singapore International champion, who did not take part m last month's South-east Asia Games, was invited by the Bahrain Tenpin Bowling Association for
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    • 75 35 TOKYO, Mon. American baseball player Leon Lee has signed a one-year contract to play (or the Yakult Swallows. Lee, 33, was released from the Yokohama Taiyo Whales at the end of last season and was looking for a club to play m Japan. Lee began
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    • 362 35 Donnie 's birdie wins play-off GOLF PALM DESERT (California), Mon. American Donnie Hammond birdied the first extra hole yesterday to win the U*****,000 ($1,378,000) Bob Hope Classic golf tournament m a sudden-death play-off over John Cook. The victory was the first m Hammond's three-years on the tour. Hammond and Cook
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    • 89 35 Top clubs to head zonal competitons THE Singapore Taekwon- do Federation will organ- ise the first inter-zonal championships m May. Four leading clubs Khalsa Association, STF gymnasium, St Bernadette i and Leng Kee have been J selected and they will each head the four zones. All the other affiliates will
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    • 63 35 BfIfIHBjBBHHSHfIHHBBE DARTS-BDA Dlv. 1: Europa Shanghai v SIA I (Europa Tavern), Sundstrand v Alex Sports (Changi Floral Mile). Both at 8 pm. SOCCER SBHFL Dlv. 1: BN de Paris v SIA (5.15), Oberoi Impe- rial v Hilton (7 pm). Both at Jalan I Besar. Hwee Seng v Press Sport* Club
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  • 342 36 MANAMA, Monday SOUTH Yemen President Ali Nasser Mohammed is m control of most of the country including the capital, Aden, where he returned early today by helicopter from Addis Ababa, the Gulf News Agency (GNA) reported here today. But a radio station m
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  • 171 36 PM of Lesotho ousted in coup MASERU (Lesotho), Mon. The anti-South Africa government of Lesotho was overthrown m a military coup apparently aimed at lifting a three-week-old blockade by Pretoria that has economically crippled the enclave nation, the state-run Lesotho Radio announced today. The coup ousted Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan,
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  • 29 36 NEW YORK, Mon. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 11.24 points to 1,525.46 an hour after opening on the New York Stock Exchange today. AP
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  • 250 36  -  LEE KIM CHEW By THE People's Action Party is organising a fortnight of activities m March for its supporters to meet and socialise. A mass walk-a-jog will kick off the "Party Fortnight", starting on March 16, and this will be followed by dinner gatherings throughout
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  • 305 36 Scenes of violence and brutality towards women to be banned STOCKHOLM, Mon. Hard-core pornography has gone beyond all limitations of decency m liber-al-minded Sweden, with scenes of violence and brutality towards women more and more commonplace, officials say. So, responding to appeals from public
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  • 511 36  -  NGIAM TONG HAI By MANDARIN oranges and some Lunar New Year goodies will be cheaper this year. Importers, wholesalers and retailers said yesterday prices will be low because of the economic downturn, slightly weaker purchasing power and the retrenchment of workers. Oranges from China and
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  • 211 36  -  CHONG WING HONG By A CANTONESE opera troupe member collapsed and died just before a rehearsal by four clan associations yesterday evening. And m a touching tribute to saxophone player Poon Chee Van, 56, members of the four associations present at the Victoria Theatre burnt incense
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  • 100 36 BRISBANE, Mon. Australian Greg McNulty, who abstains daring the week bat downs 24 cans of beer every Saturday and Sunday, bared his stomach yesterday to win Queensland's annual beer-belly championship. Mr McNolty, 3S, ran-ner-ap last year, weighed In at l«i kg. He was uncertain whether
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    • 237 36 GIVIUS 7 DAYS. Who says you can't profit during a recession. Trade-in your old stamp today, either rubber or self-inking, for a brand-new DIVINC STAMP and we'll give you $7 off the cost of each stamp. (Only applicable to custom-made stamps). Grab this offer and m just 7 days (that's
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    • 86 36 VANDERHORST INDUSTRIAL, MARINE OILFIELD ENGINEERING HYDRAULIC PISTON, GUIDE SHAFT, TIE-ROD, PUMP SHAFT RECONDITIONING When you consider that Van der Horst can rebuild, straighten badly worn and mismachined piston rods and shafts, nickel plate and Durakrome plate against corrosion, then, you can expect increased resistance against abrasion, galling and corrosive wear
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    • 132 36 Weather UP TO 1 pm: Fair. TEMP. (C) up to 6am tomorrow: 31 max., 23 mm. SUNSET today: 7.17 pm; SUNRISE tomorrow: 7.14 am. GLOBAL WEATHER Adelaide 15/26 C Sunny Manila 18 30C Cloudy Amsterdam XC X Melbourne 15 20 C Cloudy Bangkok 21/33 C Fair Moscow -9/-8 C Snow
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  • Section Two
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    • Home & Family
      • 521 1 There's a positive side to the recession. Some people have found strength to help them weather the storm of business failures, retrenchment, pay cuts or other financial hardships. They are not only surviving to fight another day but are re-examining their priorities and lifestyles. Many
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      • 520 1 Good break from a stressful job 4 Joe saw the recession coming and prepared us for it. As a family, we have never splurged, so we can m still maintain our lifestyle. Senior teacher, Rani CASE 2: Joe, a former senior project manager, lost his job m mid-September. But his
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      • 399 1 CASE 4: For hairdresser Lucy, 40, the recession brought home to her the realisation that material things are, m fact, immaterial. A year ago, her sales manager husband was retrenched when the company he was working for closed down. Since then, they have sold their
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      • 336 1 The couple agree that this should be the way. "It is the right thing to do. The staff have been faithful and loyal." At home, the family dig into what remains of their savings and pay bills from bank overdrafts. Expenses are mainly
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    • Page 1 Advertisements
      • 291 1 Announcing a great new way to make money. Go on holiday. Sounds crazy? But it's true. And this is all you have to do. y^ 0^ Fi rst find out more about the fun-filled tours available under our m "Holidays With Interest" scheme from our participating tour agents. YZ^\/^ 0^
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      • 72 1 Collecting pewter 5 Hands-on show at the museum Superwoman no more 4 A victim tells why Personally speaking 4 Word play on food I Tm not another Madonna ll Whitney Houston on herself Red and gold no more 7 New look Lunar New Year cards Home A Family, Parenting and
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    • Property
      • 707 2 "For Sale" and "For Rent" signs have been multiplying as the number of vacant houses and apartments increases m Singapore. The question facing owners is: What to do about it? Owners and marketing agents interviewed by ILENE ALESHIRE had suggestions that ranged from praying for
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      • 130 2 Coming Up In Katong THE KATONG Park Tower development will include a mini-market, a putting green, squash and tennis courts, swimming pools and a jogging track when it is completed. The developers, Ocean Park Development Pte Ltd, are aiming for a "hotel-like atmosphere" with an atri-um-entrance, glass lifts and the
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      • 226 2  -  Agnes Wee By HONGKONG'S Secretary of Lands and Works, Dr Chan NaiKeong, shared a Hongkong planning technique with Singapore professionals on an official visit to Singapore recently. His speech was about a Land-Use Transport Optimisation model, which he called the Luto model. This technique has
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    • Page 2 Advertisements
      • 946 2 YOUR BUSINESS IS SECURED AT CISCO BUILDING This new secuntv conscious building now Adjacent to Pan Island Expressway/Paya offers the rare combination of top quality Lebar junction. offices for lease with the option of also taking Rapid access t0 Central Business District, separate high security storage facilities. Changi. Jurong and
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    • Page 3 Advertisements
      • 654 3 Bt^Tsf^^ft^^S^S Kt/^i^HlHi^HH^^H Land is so scarce m Singapore that more Which makes it the ideal home for two or (Even more so than stocks and shares), and more people are living above it than on it more generations living together. The houses are brand new, so nothing And the thought
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    • Parenting
      • 615 4  -  DEAN LOKKEN One-time hard-driving career women are giving up without guilt their dream of becoming Superwomen at work and at home. By 4 Su per women's Anonymous has a newsletter but no officers, no meetings and just one simple m motto: Enough is enough. BUSINESSWOMAN and moth-er-of-two, Carol
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      • 789 4  -  MAYA JAYAPAL Personally Speaking By an expatriate mother 4 You make the beds, clean and dust the house, wash the dishes m short, keep the house m apple pie order. Make sure that you don't have butter fingers for that might give you
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      • 206 4  -  MAY HO THERE is still time to make your annual visit to flower gardens for decorative plants and branches of peach and plum blossoms or pussy willows for the Lunar New Year. Some of these plants and blossoms will last a few weeks, others a
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    • Page 4 Advertisements
      • 434 4 HOME SWEET HOME! Create beautiful home settings with our exciting selection of quality products. m\ rj I t tst*? V PPM <?* CANNON Bedsheet set v' i Iff' W»k\v«BM^^^^^^^ f H e de France, Memphis English Mane Spring Flower S J D.«l fl n: Harvest Daily Usual MOW Vi cmidrens
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    • Collecting
      • 810 5 At the National Museum's pewter exhibition of 160 items, you can see demonstrations of traditional pewter-making techniques and even operate an antiquated machine. MAGDALENE LUM reports. CHINESE "pagodas" with ornate designs and a hexagonal teapot inlaid with brass figures from Chinese mythology. These are some of
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      • 292 5 VISITORS to the Pewter m South-east Asia Exhibition at the National Museum Art Gallery can take part m pewter-making and see demonstrations of how the craft was practised at the turn of the 19th century. A demonstration hut has been set up to show the traditional techniques,
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    • Page 5 Advertisements
      • 429 5 r\T"T"Ii|I,I|II i I i i I I 1 1 P m c!"tyTmam! city chain city chain ITY HAI i! JL ITY HAI J! UiZw/ ia g ig b m h b$ a b k b yfrtfU^ The Arcade Centrepoint Far East Plaza Parkway Parade Plaw Singapura Shop Unit 01-12 Shop
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      • 499 6 ■i■■■■ C "organisation m m I I am, I 30 4 00. 645 9 I b "POSSESSION ot GHOST" m Mondcirm m Scope color Opans lomorrow 5 Theatres b PRINCE -SAVOY LIBERTY ORIFNTAI PRESIDENT B -D^mon Strike" Mondmi TODAY ONLY I lam 1 4b 400 645 915 I tDDIE MURPHY
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      • 320 6 LAST DAY! 5 GOLDEN SULTAN (*****76) 4 SHOWS: 1.30, 4.00, 6.30 9.00pm X PEOPLE'S (*****72) 4 SHOWS: 1.00. 3.30, 7.00 9.30pm X .^i| A NEW KIND OF MARTIAL IjT ARTS COMBAT 1 V "S CT THE SKILL OF GYMNASTICS J? L, f ■•vr'V* a, THE KILL OF KARATE. V r
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      • 372 6 LIDO KfcUAL, NOW SHOWING I OPENS TODAY Note REVISED SCREENING TIMES (LIDO *****14) 5 shows: 11am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.00 (REGAL *****59) 4 shows: 1.00, 3.30, 7.00 9.30 'ipb>- 4|J^ PAPILLON! GULAG j W^^ (PJSSIAN LABOUR CAMP Xl SIBERIA; Cri J^ QAVI'- K[ilH (An Otticer 4 A Gentleman tame) MALCOWMi.j',y,f:.
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    • Bilingual
      • 592 7 Greeting cards for this Lunar New Year do not come only m red and gold. Some artists have produced interesting designs that give the cards a completely fresh look. GOH BENG CHOO reports. A NEW variety of Lunar New Year cards is giving the display
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      • 251 7 'TIS the season for new ideas. From Taiwan come three-dimensional cards so attractive that people who receive them may think twice before throwing them away when Lunar New Year ends. These greeting cards are adorned with delicate decorations and souvenirs attached to their surface. One bears
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      • 571 7  - What the Red Guards didn't destroy CHONG WING HONG By SOME rare Chinese wood carvings that were salvaged from the ravages of the Cultural Revolution are being shown here m an exhibition for the first time A total of 124 pieces of the gold-foiled wood carvings, mostly dating over 100
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    • Page 7 Miscellaneous
      • 276 7 J^ x /< i^ /jr y\f f\ i CiJ'TT T V,7 m f 1 T^ sS-in tL J I jSmfr -g it \M I "Sl\ »*^i^'Nkti. w MafiwNMtSyUlßft VvL— Jl t*""""" m m m vCV Ot T -^KLiiim X ¥y/Sjflws3&Km!b« > w* >", '^XV 1 >o^ tf^i'gJLJsSf jffyjjfr. p j
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    • Bilingual Dwibahasa
      • 1082 8  -  NIRZA By WHAT is traditional silat? Where does it come from? Do Silat schools m Singapore teach traditional silat? These were the questions that plagued my mind on receiving the news that Singapore had been invited to participate m the 4th Traditional Silat Festival at Payakumbuh m
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      • 887 8  -  Oleh HANIM MS APABELA memperkatakan soal 'silat', yang mana satukah yang dahulu tergambar di fikiran kita? Keseniannyakah atau gerak dalam pertarungan? Kepada yang mengerti, terutama yang melibatkan diri dalam seni silat, silat merupakan satu seni mempertahankan diri yang sihat dan menyegarkan. Tetapi, silat juga boleh bertukar
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    • Page 8 Advertisements
      • 540 8 APPOINTMENTS/NOTICES l^mm CTAMTC RCRflflfti Telefax No: *****59 Kates: Bo^ Service: MB 5 I All I 5 nOJUOO I SHH {es $2^^. Tel *****11 Straits-Times: 5525.00 psc cm. Collected: 555.00 Telex Service: S.T.A.N.T.S. RS ***** TIMEAD ext 5724/5/6/8 5669 Sunday Times: 5525.62 psc cm. Frosted: SSIO.OO APPOINTMENTS m THE MAGAZINE FOR
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      • 434 8 OK| METRO requires BUYERS/ASSISTANT BUYERS Age above 25 years old A' level preferably with a tertiary education At least 3 years experience as a Buyer/ Assistant Buyer m the fashion retail trade or related experience preferably m marketing or advertising and promotions. Ability to project merchandise plan and analyse customers'
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    • Page 9 Advertisements
      • 902 9 APPOINTMENT x Orchanf&DUtV Penang j Orchard Sun, a first class international hotel and the largest m Penang invites applications trom suitably qualified personnel for the position of:FOOD AND BEVERAGE MANAGER The successful candidate will head the Food and Beverage Department and be responsible for all F B activities of the
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      • 487 9 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 185 AND IN THE MATTER OF DAIDO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Creditors of the above company, which is being voluntarily wound up, are required on or before 24th February 1986 to
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      • 1379 9 NOTICES MCB HOLDINGS BERHAD I (Formerly known as Malaysian Containers (1974) Herhad) (Incorporated m Malaysia) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING -NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting ot the Company will be held at the Emerald Room, 14th Floor, Hotel Excelsior, 2907 Jalan Clarke, ***** Ipoh, Perak on
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      • 645 9 ANNOUNCEMENT HK-TVB International Ltd is pleased to announce that Visionex Production Pte Ltd at the following address: 66 Tannery Lane #05-10 Sindo Building Singapore 1334 Tel: 338-2411, 337-0779 has been appointed as the exclusive licensee to distribute TVB programs (Cantonese and Mandarin versions) to the Singapore homevideo market, with effect
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    • Page 10 Advertisements
      • 557 10 NOTICES IN THE HltiH COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE Companies Windlng-l'p No. 8 of 198 C. In the Matter of The Companies Act (Cap. 185) And In the Matter of Kong Whee Holdings (Pte) Ltd. ADVERTISEMENT OF PETITION Notice is hereby given that a Petition for the winding-up of
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      • 109 10 You can acknowledge applicants to your recruitment advertisements m The Straits Times Appointments-Acknowledgement Column. Cut administrative costs. You can acknowledge all responses to your successful recruitment advertisements with the placement of a notice. It shows you care and will enhance your company's image. Suggested Ad. Sizes: 3cm x 2col $150*
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    • Page 10 Miscellaneous
      • 711 10 SUN TAN By Collette PEANUTS By Schalx ff USTEH To -m SOUNDS T"| /iTfc UK€ A SVMPHON^A 1.. /v> 1 i s. r-y p-- i=j OFMfUft£,SoW,7We6/rtWy lOMU£%TH(()H<THVIOUHS V/KX? IF THE SCHOOL BUS UJE PROBABLY Vunii^ MOU) ABOUT j li/ ABOUT MSO^VTHf A H '£I U ANO WOGDHftNDS AND J "\L^i*W
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    • Arts & Leisure
      • 753 11  -  LEONG WENG KAM The National Theatre Symphonic Band will take to the Victoria Concert Hall stage on Sunday. talks to the conductor and two band members. WHEN the National Theatre Symphonic Band strikes up on Sunday, it will feature classical and jazz as well as
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      • 986 11 AT SCHOOL, young Whitney Houston thought about being a teacher when she grew up. Failing that, she'd have liked to be a vet. When the great day came, a chance meeting with a photographer diverted her attention to modelling and, being good
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    • Page 11 Miscellaneous
      • 548 11 What's On TALK Free. focuses on old pewter arti- Style, the early pioneers, to are the board's services and OF HEALTH. For citizens SCIENTIFIC IDF AS AND n o c^ es f oun( m Singapore and the works of the second gen- approved electrical fittings, and permanent residents DEVELOPMENT OF
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      • 1070 11 1 Radio One Some single-celled amoebas can manufacture complicated shells consisting about 300 separate plates. They also have an ingenious way of assembling them. SCIENCE REPORT (7.45 pm) has the details. FM Service 90.5 mHz m VHF Band II 5.58 AM National Anthem, followed by Opening Announcement 6.00 News In
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      • 726 12 ■MY VIEW Catherine Ong (Ch 5 and 12 programmes) and Leong Weng Kam (Ch 8 programmes)— m^i—i«™«—^^-»— of non-sto[s music The Pointer Sisters In Par- The adventure begins when a Vv^k X W^tlSttelW ia irh c o nm spacecraft is struck by lightning. HU m^ m M JLJm^F I^^W B^S^
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      • 1088 12 I OKl^^ f% All programmes m Engiisn unless otherwise mcicated 2.30 PM SBCText live 1 Sample King Arthur's Pages Court (Fart 1 (See My View) 3.00 Opening and Programme High- 7.30 Newt (Malay) lights, followed by Happy 7.50 Newswatch (News Mittta Street (Mandarin entertain- f» r children between 10 and
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