The Straits Times, 15 May 1988

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  • 8 1 The Sunday Times No: 2709 MCI (P) 93/12/87
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  • 415 1 MANAMA (Bahrain) Iraqi warplanes yesterday attacked and set ablaze five ships, including two of the world's largest supertankers, at Iran's major oil terminal m the Strait of Hormuz, Gulf-based shipping executives reported. One ship, the Spanish motor tanker Barcelona, was sinking and at least
    AP; AFP; Reuter; VOW YUN WOH  -  415 words
  • 375 1 Blast kills 16 as Soviets prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan KABUL A bomb exploded inside a truck and killed 16 persons and wounded 13 others yesterday near reviewing stands being prepared for ceremonies today to mark the withdrawal of Soviet soldiers. The official Soviet news agency Tass, monitored m Moscow,
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  • 687 1  -  LIAK TENG KIAT TAN LIAN CHOO Bangkok feels Asean should contribute to help Philippines By and BANGKOK Thailand strongly supports the proposal for a multilateral aid programme for the Philippines and feels that Asean countries should contribute to it, especially m the technical field. Thai
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  • 498 1 Tell foreigners to lay off Spore politics, Chok Tong tells grassroots leaders GRASSROOTS leaders have been urged to send a clear signal to foreigners whether Americans, Australians or the foreign press to keep their hands off Singapore politics. The message to outsiders, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 510 2 HIJACKERS FACE COURT ACTION: Two men who hijacked a Chinese Boeing 737 to Taiwan face prosecution, but court officials said yesterday they would be treated leniently because they were "freedom seekers". State radio said the case had been passed to the Taipei district prosecutors' office by the
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    • Article, Illustration
      302 2 ALL EYES ON KOREANS: All eyes will be focused on the performance of the South Korean players at the world table tennis championship being held at Niigata, Japan, from today. All will anxiously wait to see v lether South Korea will topple reigning champion China. The Koreans scored a
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    • 709 2 JgifpJThe Soviet pullout from Afghanistan Moscow's position m world will be materially improved, says ex-US envoy WASHINGTON The Soviet Union officially begins withdrawing its wearied forces from Afghanistan today after nine years mired m a no-win war, but do not expect any Vietnam-style
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    • 107 2 UNITED NATIONS One of the world's wealthiest men, the son of the late Aga Khan, has been named to head the United Nations humanitarian and economic aid programme to Afghanistan. The multi-millionaire Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, son of the late
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    • 437 2 Afghan guerillas wait eagerly in the hills as Soviets withdraw KABUL Afghanistan is staging an elaborate ceremony to mark the start of a Soviet military pullout but explosions m the hills indicate Muslim guerillas are waiting to pounce on a Kabul government left to stand alone. Grandstands have been built
      Reuter  -  437 words
    • 949 3  - Discovering Sabah's 'pop-up' rock island the myths and the facts JANICE SEAH Report: Pictures: THIS is no Blue Lagoon. It is not even Gilligan's Island. This is a wart. A terrestrial pimple. Actually, this is Pulau Batu Hairan, or Strange Rock Island. The island, shaped roughly like an oval, is
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    • 358 3 VOLCANO or intrusion? Geologists from the State Geological Department and the University of Malaysia (Sabah campus) cannot agree on what the island is. University lecturers Dr Felix Tongkul and Mr Kennedy Aralas insist that it is a mud volcano, though not of the molten, lava-spewing family. Thsy say that
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    • 89 2 STATISTICS THAT SHAPE THE COUNTRY Common traffic offences Registry of Vehicles officers booked 39,100 traffic offenders m 1986 as against 63,800 m the previous year a drop of nearly 40 per cent. The five most common traffic offences: No. of As of al cases offences Poor vehicle condition illegal modifications
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 218 2 Showers are expected over a few areas m the late morninj and early afternoon. TEMP (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow. 32 max., 25 mm SUNSET today. 7.06 pm; SUNRISE tomorrow: 6.55 am. TRAVELLERS' WEATHER Adelaide 15 23 C Rain Us Angeles 18 31 C Cloudy Amsterdam 13 19 C
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 351 4 PARIS French President Francois Mitterrand plotted general election strategy with Socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard yesterday and political pundits said dissolution of parliament is imminent. Mr Mitterrand, 71, huddled with Mr Rocard, 57, for more than an hour at the Elysee Palace yesterday. Mr
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    • 132 4 Independent trade union set up in Hungary BUDAPEST Hungary's first independent trade union under communist rule was set up yesterday, the Hungarian state radio announced. After Solidarity, now banned m Poland, the Hungarian TDDSZ union is the second independent union to be legalised m the East bloc since World War
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    • 353 4 BEIRUT Syria is to send troops into Beirut's southern suburbs to stop inter-Shi 'ite fighting, said a top Amal militia official and pro-Syrian sources yesterday. "Syrian officials informed Amal leader Nabih Berri this morning of their decision to deploy Syrian troops m the suburbs
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    • 419 4 AMRITSAR Security forces armed with grenade launchers directed heavy fire at Sikh militant bunkers m the Golden Temple yesterday, as a person m the temple said there were 25 women and children trapped inside. "For God's sake, please take us out, we are
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    • 212 4 TEL AVTV Thousands of riot police were deployed across Jerusalem yesterday m a bid to quell Palestinian unrest on the eve of the 21st anniversary of Israel's capture of Arab East Jerusalem. At least 10 Palestinians and four policemen were injured when police
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    • 83 4 MOSCOW The situation m Yerevan, capital of Soviet Armenia was "back to normal" yesterday, 48 hours after a 40,000-strong demonstration m support of Armenians m adjacent Azerbaijan, a dissident Yerevan source said. But no news was available from Stepanakert, the main town m Nagorno-Karabakh, a
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    • 193 4 15,000 in Seoul clash with riot police over hosting of Games SEOUL South Korean riot police fired tear gas to disperse 15,000 students demanding North Korea be allowed to co-host this year's Olympic Games m Seoul, witnesses said yesterday. The demonstrators at Seoul's Korea University proposed that students from North
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    • 84 4 NEW DELHI Indian movie mogul Raj Kapoor was critically ill yesterday, 12 days after being admitted to hospital with a serious asthma attack, hospital sources said. Mr Kapoor, 64, was on a respirator at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences because of a lung infection,
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    • 605 5  - Workers at Tokyo centre to promote leisure put in long hours Peter Hazelhurat Koichi Ishiyama By and TOKYO The Japanese government's Leisure Development Centre is run by a group of workaholics who spend nearly 15 hours a day on the job attempting to persuade other Japanese not to work so
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    • 250 5 SANTA CRUZ The Paraguayan government has backed down on an order banning a meeting between Pope John Paul n and leaders of Paraguay's opposition, clearing the way for the Pope's visit to go ahead as scheduled next week, i Vatican official aanounced here on
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    • 263 5 Talks on deal for Noriega to quit still on, says US WASHINGTON The United States says talks are still going on on a deal for General Manuel Antonio Noriega to resign m return for the dropping of US drug charges even though the Panamanian ruler says the deal has collapsed.
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    • 431 5 TAIPEI Two men who hijacked a Chinese Boeing 737 to Taiwan face prosecution, but court officials said yesterday they would be treated leniently because they were "freedom seekers". State radio said the case had been passed to the Taipei district prosecutors' office
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    • 383 6 Moscow rules out strategic arms accord at summit EAST BERLIN The Soviet Union has ruled out a deal on strategic nuclear arms at the Moscow summit later this month but said it wanted a document drawn up then to show what progress had been made. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze,
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    • 75 6 SAN SALVADOR The Salvadoran guerillas on Friday proposed to meet the government "at the highest level" on May 90 and 31 to renew discussions on how to end the country's eight-year-old civil war. The Farabundo Mart! National Liberation Front and their political umbrella group, the
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    • 94 6 Stock gains continue Dow Jones NEW YORK Boosted by declining concerns over a possible steep jump m US inflation, Wall Street continued on Friday gains made the previous day m calm trading. The Dow Jones index of leading industrials closed at 1,990.55 points, up 22.55 points from Thursday's close. Analysts
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    • 418 6 MOSCOW British-born master spy Kirn Philby was buried m a Moscow cemetery on Friday with full military honours, including a brass band and three volleys fired over his grave by a Soviet KGB guard of honour. The funeral, attended by about 200 mourners led
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    • 345 6  -  ONG MING SEING By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to order the US military to help fight the war against illegal drug trafficking. In a 83-6 vote on Friday, the chamber approved a plan to empower the US
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    • 280 6 Nissan sails into Canada with floating salesroom MONTREAL Nissan, fighting to boost its share of the 1.1 million cars sold m Canada each year, sailed into Montreal this week with a novel marketing stunt a 200-metre-long floatingsalesroom crammed with almost 4,000 Nissan cars. The massive blue-and-white ship, which rises some
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    • 40 6 KARACHI Four people were killed and three injured on Friday when an express passenger train collided with a stationary goods train near Hyderabad station, about 160 km north of this southern port city of Pakistan. AFP
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    • 373 6 WASHINGTON The Soviets have lost control of a nucle-ar-powered military spy satellite, and two American experts said on Friday it will shower the Earth with radioactive debris. The satellite, Kosmos 1900, "has been m a steadily decaying orbit" for the last month. If nothing is
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    • 188 8 Witches see no need for new king LONDON Friday the 13th proved unpropitious for the witches of the world they could not find a new king. After meeting m a secret location somewhere m Britain, the witches' council decided against naming a successor to high priest Verbias, also known as
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    • 482 8 BEIJING Two decades ago, a very young Tai Shuangyuan was painting flattering portraits of Mao Zedong, helping to forge the leader's personality cult during the Cultural Revolution. Now Mr Tai, 31, has turned his brush against the late "Great Helmsman" at an exhibition
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    • 205 8 AMSTERDAM American jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, famed for setting the standard for the "cool school" m the *****, fell to his death from an Amsterdam hotel window during the night, police said on Friday. He was 59. Police said it was not
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    • 227 8 Beijing to give art troupes a free hand BEIJING The Chinese government is soon to abandon the absolute control over the arts that it has exercised for nearly 40 years, Minister for Culture Wang Meng has announced. The decision will give art troupes the freedom to run themselves, Mr Wang
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    • PEOPLE
      • 57 8 MUHAMMAD Ali's daughter, May May, 18, grabbing hold of her father's cheek at the Hard Rock Cafe m New York last week. The former world heavyweight champion was at the cafe to present it with a boxing robe given to him by the late king of
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      • 67 8 AN AMERICAN organisation has presented a fancy new wheelchair to the son of senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. Mr Rich Walsh, head of the Resource Centre for the Handicapped m Seattle, told AFP the chair was custom-designed for 43-year-old Deng Pufang, who has been unable
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      • 57 8 YOKO ONO (right), the widow of former Beatles star John Lennon, has taken on a new role urging Japanese television viewers to make more overseas telephone calls. According to Reuters, she appears m her debut commercial along with son Scan Lennon and with her late
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      • 53 8 ELEVEN- YEAR-OLD Hungarian Judit Polgar may soon supplant American Bobby Fischer as the youngest chess player to become an international master, the Hungarian news agency MTI said recently. Judit took 5.5 points from nine games at a competition m New York. Fischer became an international
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      • 97 8 THERE is nothing like this dame at least not m a British courtroom. Ms Elizabeth Butler-Sloss' appointment to the Appeals Court raised an important question of protocol how should the first woman judge to sit on that bench be addressed? According to Reuters, legal
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      • 89 8 WOMEN can wait for Godot as well as men, even if Irish-bom playwright Samuel Beckett does not want them to, according to a Dutch court. The Haarlem district court rejected an appeal by Beckett to ban a Dutch theatre from performing his play Waiting
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      • 82 8 AUSTRIAN President Kurt Waldheim (left), under investigation m Britain for his alleged involvement m Nazi war crimes, holds an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth, a Foreign Office spokesman said last week. According to Reuters, the spokesman said there were no plans to revoke the honour, the
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 695 9  -  LIAK TENG KIAT TAN LIAN CHOO PM's visit to Thailand Economic growth the 'exact opposite of a zero sum game' By and 4 You are now one of the biggest areas for investments for manufactured products. In five to 10 years, you are
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    • 295 9 Jakarta says Australian TV report will affect media talks SYDNEY Allegations that the Indonesian government uses staff at its four diplomatic missions m Australia to spy on and control their expatriate or visiting nationals will threaten negotiations aimed at lifting a two-year ban on Australian journalists, the Indonesian consul here
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    • 97 9 MANILA An accidental explosion rocked the ruined headquarters building of the Philippine Armed Forces yesterday, killing one soldier, the military said. The military added initial investigations showed that an explosive device went off while the soldier was tinkering with it. The soldier, who was not
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    • 44 9 JAKARTA Three men were killed when a wartime bomb they were trying to break open exploded m a village m northern Sumatra, the Indonesian newspaper Kompas reported yesterday. Police said the men sawed the World War IT relic. Reuter
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    • 490 9  -  By ONG MING SEING Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON Deposed Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos has offered to support the government of Mrs Corazon Aquino if he is allowed to return home for his mother's funeral. The offer was made by
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    • 565 9  - 'All parties preparing for Viet pullout from Cambodia' TAN LI AN CHOO LI AK TENG KI AT and BANGKOK All parties directly or indirectly involved m the Cambodian problem are now preparing for the next stage when Vietnamese troops withdraw from Cambodia, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said here
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 282 11 Union leaders want to meet Cabinet panel on proposed changes KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Trades Union Congress president Zainal Rampak has appealed for a meeting with members of the Cabinet committee on labour laws to present the workers' views on the proposed changes to the laws. He said on Friday the
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    • 80 11 KUALA LUMPUR Foreign Ministry Deputy SecretaryGeneral (One) Datuk Razali Ismail has been appointed Malaysia's permanent representative to the United Nations m New York. He takes over from Datuk Mohammed Yusof Hitam, who has been appointed the For- eign Ministry's Secretary-Gen-eral, a government statement here said
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    • 229 11 Malaysian Bar Council appeals for release of Spore detainees KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Bar Council has appealed for the release of former Singapore SolicitorGeneral Francis Scow and lawyer Patrick Seong, who are among 11 people detained under the Internal Security Act. Bar Council president Raja Aziz Addruse said m a
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    • 183 11 Plan to ease migration rules for investors MALACCA The government plans to relax several conditions on immigration to encourage foreign entrepreneurs to invest m the country, Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba said yesterday. Mr Ghafar, who is also chairman of the cabinet committee on investments, said the relaxation would also
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    • 141 11 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian national literary figures Professor Datuk Shahnon Ahmad and Mr Usman Awang will make a two-week visit to China at the end of the month. The Prime Minister's Political Secretary, Mr Mohamed Noor Azam, who will be going along with them, said
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    • 446 11 JOHOR BARU Members of Parliament who stood on the National Front ticket m the last general elections and later declared themselves as independents should go back to the voters to seek a fresh mandate, New Umno secre-tary-general Datuk Mohamed Rahmat said.
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    • 323 11 KUALA LUMPUR The High Court here yesterday rejected an application for an extension of the time limit allowed to challenge the de-registration of Umno. Perak State Assembly Speaker Datuk Abdul Malik Ahmad and former Johor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Osman
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    • 56 11 KUALA LUMPUR Federal Territory and Perak customs officers crippled a smuggling syndicate believed to be active m the northern states when they detained four men and confiscated about M 5300,000 (*****,100) worth of liquor m separate raids on Friday. They also detained two lorries and seized M
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    • 229 11 Court reserves judgment on appeal against ruling KUALA LUMPUR The Supreme Court here yesterday reserved judgment on an appeal by Utusan Melayu (M) Bhd and its editor-in-chief against the High Court ruling that Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) Youth vicechairman Chan Tse Yuen had the locus standi (legal standing) to sue
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 510 12  - Four cinemas under one roof a boon to movie fans ANNE LOW By SEE four different shows m one day, all under one roof. For instance, start with the romance movie Made m Heaven at 11 am, then the horror flick Torment at 1.30 pm. Still game? At 4 pm,
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    • 171 12 TOURIST G. Mazzocchi, 49, was m a hotel lift when a 19-year-old girl introduced herself to him. It was 1.30 am and they decided to go to the hotel's coffeehouse for drinks. Soon after, Mr Mazzocchi and the girl, Loy Hsiao Hui, a
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    • 390 12  - Beach Road police station closes as staff shift to Geylang BRENDAN PEREIRA By THE curtain came down on one of the oldest police stations m Singapore yesterday when the Beach Road station closed. Its staff have been relocated to the Gey Lang Police Station, which opens at 7 am today
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    • 490 12 SIMiAPORE FESTIVAL OF ARTS a w TWO Cantonese operas by a local group have proved more popular than their foreign counterparts, selling out 75 per cent of tickets available for two performances at the Singapore Festival of Arts and reviving interest here m opera.
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    • 76 12 A MOTORIST was jailed for five months on Friday for grievously hurting another by fracturing his nose with a punch during a traffic dispute. Tan Chai Heiyann, 42, was found guilty of the offence against Mr Yap Boon Phye, 38, an accountant, m the incident
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    • 104 12 3 robbery suspects arrested in bus THREE robbery suspects were arrested yesterday on board a bus by two police officers who were on scooter patrol m the Bedok area at about 5 pm. The officers from the Bedok South neighbourhood police post chased and stopped the bus after, a 28-year-old
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    • 473 13  - Spore firms should consider investing abroad TDB chief DOREEN SIOW By SINGAPORE, which is already being viewed by other countries as a "tiger", cannot afford to just concentrate on exports, said Trade Development Board chairman Alan Yeo. Instead, Singapore businesses should now seriously think of investing overseas, said Mr Yeo,
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    • 358 13 LOCAL retailers can take a cue from FJ Benjamin Sons which is expanding abroad even as the home turf is being invaded by foreign stores. The Singapore company, which operates a chain of nine upmarket shops here, has mapped out an aggressive
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    • 215 13 CALLIGRAPHY m Singapore found a benefactor yesterday when a businessman donated $50,000 to start a foundation fund for the promotion of the art. Mr Yeo Khee Lim, chairman or Tong Fong Company, donated the money to the fund named after himself at a
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    • 255 13 THE Hiding Place, a private halfway house helping former drug addicts to re-adjust to normal life, has earned the distinction of achieving a 65 per cent total rehabilitation success rate nearly double the national success rate of 37 per cent. Making this
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    • 519 13  -  MAYLEE CHIA By NINE financial institutions are taking part m an innovative big-time money game for charity. Under the Great Investment Race, each organisation is given an interest-free sum of money to invest anywhere m the world. All returns from the investment will go
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    • 133 13 Vandals smear Bukit Turf Club entrance with black paint THE Bukit Turf Club's main entrance was found smeared with black paint yesterday morning, hours before the races began for the first time under the club's new name. A turf club security officer noticed the defacement at about 7.45 am and
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    • 70 13 THOSE who wish to register at the new Geylang East branch library, which opens m July, can do so from May 23. Non-citi-zens will be charged a refundable deposit fee of HO for adults and $5 for children. The library will be open Mondays to Fridays
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    • 666 14  -  LESLIE SIM By JOHOR BARU Cheap seafood is only one of Johor Barn's attractions for many Singaporean day -trippers. Video tapes and illegal copies of computer software at low prices also lure visitors across the Causeway. Some Johor video and computer software
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    • 314 14  - Dhana on the lighter side of productivity GILLIAN POW CHONG By NATIONAL Development Minister S. Dhanabalan last night brought a light hearted touch to the serious topic of productivity. The occasion: the ministry's recreation club's annual dinner and dance. An anecdote he told was about the time when a group
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    • 569 14 Tips on road safety Cross roads and traffic junctions where there are pedestrian traffic lights, zebra crossings, overhead bridges and underpasses. Avoid walking m front of buses, lorries or large vehicles that block the oncoming motorist's view of you. Avoid crossing
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    • 375 14 Burma post for Marine Parade CCC chairman THE chairman of the Marine Parade citizens consultative committee, Mr Lam Peck Heng, has been appointed Singapore's Charge d'Affaires to Burma. Announcing this last night, First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong paid a special thank you to Mr Lam, who has led
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    • 120 14 School to hold seminar on Islamic knowledge SI LING Secondary School is organising a seminar involving Muslim pupils and their parents on Saturday. The seminar, Islamic Religious Knowledge as a Motivator and Moulder, hopes to use the parents as a positive influence towards inculcating desirable scholastic and social values m
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    • 531 15 We are all different, he tells US media m USA Today interview PRIME Minister Lee Kuan Yew has told the US media that the more they try to judge others by American standards, the more they show a total disregard for the
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    • 504 15  - Quick thinking and witty retorts help Sydney team win regional inter-varsity debate MICHAEL LIM By QUICK thinking, repartee and a topic which appeared to lean slightly m their favour helped a team from the University of Sydney win the week-long regional debating championship yesterday. In an all- Australian final, the
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    • 106 15 Father of three fined for 'marrying' again A 23-YEAR-OLD bride who went through a Chinese customary marriage tea ceremony, prayers and a Chinese dinner with her 34-year-old groom was shocked to learn a month later that he was a father of three. The woman, unemployed, found out that Foo Wah
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    • 244 15 FOUR months after a 44-year-old man was released from jail for cheating offences, he went straight back to his old ways. Sim Tiang Huat, who also has previous convictions for armed robbery, yesterday admitted using dud cheques to cheat 13 companies
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    • 147 15 THE Singapore Armed Forces will be conducting military exercises daily m Lim Chu Kang, Tuas, Hong Kah, Marsiling, Mandai, Sembawang, Wing Loong and Loyang from tomorrow to Sunday. The exercises will last from 7 am to midnight. Military exercises will also be carried out at the Bedok Jetty from
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    • 261 15  - 25 redundant workers in French bank lose jobs TOH CHONG By TWENTY-FIVE Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) employees lost their jobs yesterday m an exercise the bank insists is not a retrenchment. Mr James Liew, the Human Resource Manager of the French bank, said they were redundant as a result
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      • 355 17 Engineering romance PITY the poor engineers. After a day's hard work at the site to be told that they have not enough social graces to win a girl's heart. A just dessert should have been for the girls at least to accept them for what they are, sloppy dressing, boring
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    • 124 17 What The Straits Times reported on May 13, 1963 POLICE moved into Jakarta's Chinese quarter yesterday to protect lives and property, following reports of largescale anti-Chinese riots m West Java. Reports received here from Sumedang, West Java, indicated that 90 per cent of the city's Chinese shops
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    • 1201 17 Apple Computers' saviour JOHN SCULLEY is a manager who emphasises individual growth instead of hierarchy and discipline JOHN SCULLEY, bom on April 6, 1939, m New York City, is married to his second wife and has a son and two daughters. 1961: Graduated with a Bachelor's
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    • 922 18 I Murray Seeger The challenge facing the Marxist-Leninist regimes is to make major corrections m the management of their failing economies without losing control over the social and political lives of their citizens. FOR most of the three years since Mr
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    • 865 18 I Gerry De Silva Can we, m this era of Aids, look our lovers m the eye and say, "We can't go to bed without a full Eliza test?" Can we imagine Singaporeans talking this way? Yet knowledge of the state
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    • 622 18 1 Agnes Chen I have been on my own before when I was studying overseas and while I may sometimes hanker for those days of non-accountability, obeying mum's unspoken house rule of no carousing after 2 am seems to me a small price to
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    • 537 18 WHEN fellow Singaporean Pancho Theseira and I were m New Delhi recently, everybody, including the tourists we met told us the same thing: "You must see the Taj Mahal m Agra." "It's only 1000 rupees," urged our hotel proprietor. But at the airport
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    • 2028 19  - The rise of India's middle class ANTHONY SPAETH Few would associate India with prosperity but there are nearly 100 million m a growing group that manufacturers everywhere are eyeing eagerly By writing for Asian Wall Street Journal As the middle class learns to spend, a social transformation m sex, marriage,
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    • 685 19 PAUL WILKINSON, professor of international relations at Aberdeen University m Scotland, is a leading authority on international terrorism and has just been appointed security adviser to the International Foundation of Airline Passengers Associations m Geneva. He discusses the recent Kuwait
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  • RACING
    • 307 20  -  FREDERICK QUEK 'City' horse from Sydney looks too classy for rivals m quartet race By I our man on the track MISTER SHOOSH, a three-year-old Sydney gelding who raced at city tracks before arriving here, goes over a bit of distance m Race 5
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    • 265 20 Tipsters unanimous on four of the clay's best SELDOM has our panel of tipsters been unanimous m picking the same horses to win half the card of eight races. But all five tipsters have chosen Dendrobium IV (Race 2), Fandango (Race 3), Zhou Dynasty (Race 6) and New Territory (Race
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    • 81 20 BACK 1: String O'Pearls IV. RACE 2: Progressing RACE 3: Bravado Zest, Sling, Careless Whisper, Unlimited Profit RACE 4: Admiration, Battery, Citizen Kane 11, Zippy, Hall Of Fame V RACE 5: Kinross Lad, Dollar Issue, Score, Jay Kay. Tukang Wang, Columbian Emerald, Aukendale, Tifox, Little Master, Blaze Of Glory.
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    • 354 20 RACE Racing Editor Frederick Ouefc Tan Thean Loon uomi Lee Danny Khoo 1 Elusive Dream 1 Elusive Dream 9 Ouatro-Uno I 1 Elusive Dream 1 Elusive Dream 9 Quatro-Uno 9 Quatro-Uno 1 Elusive Dream 2 Go National 4 Riversands 6 Noir Sur Noir 4 Riversands 11
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    • 2730 21 By OUR RACING TEAM FIRST *****2 SECOND *****0 THIRD *****4 STARTERS *****0 *****8 *****3 *****5 *****0 *****2 *****9 *****7 *****9 *****8 CONSOLATIONS *****9 *****0 *****0 *****5 *****2 *****6 *****9 *****1 *****4 *****6 Teh closes gap by saddling a treble MIKAJASRIC (late John's Pet) sprang a
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    • 140 21 JOCKEY I. Azhar had a mount m every race at Bukit Timah yesterday. Not only did he fail to land a winner, but he also got into hot water over his ride on Hello John m Race 2. The stewards suspended him for
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    • 259 21 Ravinella out to complete Guineas double PARIS Ravinella, unbeaten m her five races, bids to follow m the footsteps of Miesque today by adding the Poule D'Essai Des Pouiches (French 1,000 Guineas) at Longchamp to her English 1.000 Guineas success last month. Although Ravinella will be tackling a circular course
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    • 118 21 1-2 finish for O'Brien in Irish classic DUBLIN Prince Of Birds, ridden by Declan Gillespie, scored a thrilling win m the Irish 2,000 Guineas for three-year-olds at The Curragh yesterday, pipping stablemate Caerwent on the line. Both are trained by Irish maestro Vincent O'Brien. Gillespie brought the 9-1 shot with
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    • 276 21  -  JACK ELLIOTT By ADELAIDE Jockey Brent Thomson wept after he scored a treble at Morphettville here yesterday. He was grieving for his sister Trudy who was killed m a car accident a week ago. Thomson won the Walter Brown Welter on Warwick Castle, then a
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  • OBITURIES
    • 133 22 321 Deaths 321 Deaths 321 Deaths MDM ONG TENG CHOR Age 81 passed away peacefully on 14th May 1988, leaving behind: HUS3AND: Lee Teck Anm SISTER: Chan Tai Moy SONS: DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW: Lee Chin Chuan Lvi Liang Chern Kheng Chew Chang Yunn Ling Keng Thon Chiao Sheau Feng Khin Tien Chan
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    • 46 22 323 Condolences 323 Condolences 323 Condolences OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHIES AND CONDOLENCES to our President SAUDARA OSCAR J. OLIVEIRO Family on the demise of their beloved mother MDM. NELLIE OLIVEIRO nee CHEW BEE THAM From: EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, STAFF ft MEMBERS OF UNION OF TELECOMS EMPLOYEES OF SINGAPORE
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    • 200 22 321 Deaths 321 Deaths "God Be With You Till We Meet Again" MRS. ELAINE LIM nee WONG YEE NIN was celled home to be with the LORD on 14 May 1988 leaving behind beloved: Musbend: Jerry Llm Klan Tho Brother Patrick Christopher Robert B<sters David Eleanor Angellne Cortege eaves for
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      142 22 MDM KHOO AH KUM AGE 79 pessed away peacefully on 13 5 88 leaving behind: Sons: Wong Teck Leng, David Wong Oan Seng, Oeorgle Wong Kin Kin, Rexson Wong Ah Tee, Michael Daughters-in-law: Leong Kum/ AJaree Yoovlttaya Angela Yeo Mitchell Loot Jenny Teo Daughters: Wong May May Wong
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    • 203 22 321 Deaths 321 Deaths TAN SEONG CHAN Age: 76 years passed away peacefully on 14th May 1968 leaving behind: WIFE: Ng Geok Wah SONS: DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW. Tan Choon Hong Soh Lay Kuan Tan Hoon San Yap Soot Klow Tan Boon Lee Anastasla Suwarni Tan Kirn Pong Helen Kwa Tan Huay Sang
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    • 154 22 The Family 01 Tho Lata B.K. PALANIAPPAN wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends, working colleagues from Oreat Eastern Life Assurance, Namakkal Taluka Welfare Association. Special thanks to Dr. Richard K.H. Chew from Mt. Elizabeth Hospital, doctors and nurses of Ward 57, SO
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    • 40 22 Th« family of tha lata MR LIM KWA CHWEE wishes to express their heartfelt thanks end appreciation to all relatives, frlende and colleagues for their kind assistance, attendance, condolancea, donatlona and wreatha during their recant OAt cc venient
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      167 22 MR THIO TIOK CHUAN Departed: 15/ 5/ 'B7 But still the empty chair Reminds us of the face, the smile, Of one who once sat there Always remembered by loved ones IN LOVING MEMORY OF A. RAMASAMY Departed 2.5.1557 It's been a year since you've gone But
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  • SPORT
    • 1086 22  - Fame or shame the play-off puzzle ROB HUGHES Talk off Soccor I THE PLAY-OFFS For place In Division One: Blackburn v Chelsea, Bradford v Middlesbro. Division Two: Bristol C v Sheffield U, Notts C v Walsall. Division Three: Swansea v Rotherham, Torquay v Scunthorpe. Matches on home-and-away basis. Semi-finals today
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    • 147 22 CONTROVERSY 1 AMSTERDAM Dutch soccer authorities said on Friday they would investigate the goalless draw between two lowly placed First Division teams which saved them from relega tion but forced another club to the Second Division. The soccer association, KNVB, plan to approach witnesses of Sunday's
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    • 155 22 CONTROVERSY 2 BUENOS AIRES Argentina's soccer professionals will go on strike today in protest at violence in matches which reached a peak last Sunday when one player was nearly killed by flying glass shattered by a petard. The player's union announced on Wednesday they would strike
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    • 307 22 LONDON Blackburn Rovers manager Don Mackay faces a tricky selection problem as he prepares for the first of the English soccer League play-off matches today. The matches will decide who plays m the First Division next season. Second Division Blackburn are at home to Chelsea, of the
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    • 448 22 Wrightfully Darby: Glasgow Rangers' latest bid to raid the English First Division has been frustrated following Derby County's refusal to sell Mark Wright. Rangers manager Graeme Souness was reported to be ready to pay £1 million ($3.75 m) for the 24---year-old England centre-half. But Derby manager Arthur Cox
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    • 374 23 TOKYO The Asian Table Tennis Championships starting today promise to be one of the most politically charged sports events of recent years. The potentially explosive mixture of teams taking part m the tournament m the northern Japanese city of Niigata includes both North and
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    • 277 23 ALBANY (New York) World heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson says he may move to Monaco to avoid paying taxes, and because the Mediterranean principality is "a beautiful country". Tyson, recently married, lives and trains in New York State but is "thinking of going (to Monaco) to live." BASEBALL
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    • 675 23 The absence of an Astroturf is the bane of hockey IT IS worse than watching cactus grow that long wait for an artificial hockey pitch m Singapore. Year m and year out our sports fraternity chew upon the stimuli an Astroturf would provide
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    • 418 23 I will strongly urge them to participate m the Olympics. Our federation will spare no efforts until the last moment to settle the issue. International Table Tennis Federation chairman Ichiro Ogimura, about the North Koreans Asian Games champs out for another historic upset Niigata
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    • ATHLETICS
      • 13 23 Ace Johnson quits 100 m race in Tokyo meet Johnson: Staled after 40m
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      • 241 23 TOKYO Canadian Ben Johnson withdrew halfway through the men's 100-me-tre dash here on Friday, complaining of pains m his injured left thigh. Some of the 18,000 spectators shouted: "Go home!" when the 26-year-old world-record holder got off to a slow start and stalled after
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      • 112 23 NAIROBI John Ngugi, Kenya's triple world cross country champion, could miss the Seoul Olympic Games due to a hip injury. Ngugi is to see a specialist about the problem, which first arose two weeks ago after a 16km training run for the Armed Forces Championships. Ngugi,
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    • 121 23 MONTE CARLO Defending champion Aryton Senna, of Brazil, captured pole position for the Monte Carlo Grand Prix by speeding his turbo-charged McLaren around the 3.33km circuit yesterday in lmin 23.998sec. Team-mate Alain Prost, of France, was second in 1.25.425, while the Ferraris of Gerhard
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    • 363 24 MAKING a decision was tough. Eventually it went to Ang Peng Siong by a touch. The star swimmer edged out precocious athlete Mona Kunalan for The Sunday Times/Co-ca-Cola April award with his Asian Championships gold medal for the 50 metres freestyle m Guanzhou. China.
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    • 1328 24  -  ALAN HUBBARD Always on Sunday __>__ She is the beet-looking sportsm woman m the world with the arguable exception of Eaet German ice star Katarina Witt and the theory is that even thoee oblivious to the subtleties of a top-spin lob cannot fail to be entranced by
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    • 176 24 Easy for Steffi, struggle for rest WEST BERLIN Steffi Graf crushed Nicole Provis 64, 6-2 on Friday but Helena Sukova, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch and Sylvia Hanika all struggled before winning their West German international women's tennis tournament quar-ter-finals. West German Steffi, the world No. 1, took only 39 minutes to demolish
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    • 687 25  -  TAY CHENG KHOON toSrssn C IRST we had Showdown m Singa- pore. Now, here comes the Tour of Malaysia, another project aimed at attracting tourists to the region by showing them that the grass is greener on our golf courses. Last
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    • 315 25 DALLAS Ben Crenshaw fired a five-under-par 65 on Friday to grab the lead after two rounds m the U*****,000 ($1.5 million) Byron Nelson Classic golf tournament here. Crenshaw, who won the tournament m 1983, made six birdies to one bogey to finish with a
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    • 389 25  -  TAY CHENG KHOON By ONE GAME was all that separated champions National Junior College from Victoria Junior College m the Schools' National A Division girls tennis final at Kallang yesterday. NJC took the title when Hoh Fung Ling and Lok Hong Leng edged
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    • 233 25  -  HAKIKAT RAI HWA CHONG Junior College came back from the brink of defeat to win the Schools' National A Division girls' squash title at Kampong Java yesterday. They beat the favourites and defending champions, Victoria JC, 3-2 after being 2-0 down. Initially,
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    • 206 25 ROME Unseeded Ronald Agenor pulled off a second shock m 24 hours when he sent the new American sensation Andre Agassi tumbling out of the Italian Open on Friday. After putting paid to defend- ing champion and second seed Swede Mats Wilander on Thursday,
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    • 482 24 SEND IN THE CROWNS I I^BBliff^Bifil^BßK Are we havin 9 one queen too many? A Exactly one year ago, Singapore played host to 68 Miss Universe hopefuls dm^*- m^\ j£j__i___-_r V_ from around the globe. In the 12 months since, we've seen a steady A.A 1 F^A^fl N^il^T^^______H_______________B stream of
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  • The Sunday Times
    • 366 26  -  JOE DORAI By DEFENDING champions Singapore Indians yesterday suffered a blow to their hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals of the Bardhan Cup soccer competition when skipper V. Sivalingam and first-choice goalkeeper Kumar Krishnan withdrew. The setback came on the
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    • COUNTDOWN TO THE THOMAS CUP/UBER CUP BADMINTON FINAL ROUNDS
      • 347 26 KUALA LUMPUR South Korea have named several unknown young players for the Thomas Cup but still remain dark horses because of their doubles power for the May 23-June 4 tournament here. Moreover, they have a fighter m Park Sung Bae and the more polished
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      • 137 26 NATIONAL Ranking League champion Hamid Khan, 22, is expected to meet Morten Frost m the first singles of Singapore's friendly badminton match against Denmark at Guillemard Road on Thursday. National champion Lav Wing Cheok, 24, is likely to face Jens-Peter Nierhoff m the second singles. In
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      • 327 26 KUALA LUMPUR For a team making their debut m the Über Cup finals and drawn m a very tough group, Holland seem to have done a great job psyching themselves. They are quite optimistic of a semi-final berth. This is indeed an ambitious
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    • 96 26 Dalglish wins manager's award again LONDON Kenny Dalglish scooped his second Manager of the Year award In three seasons on Friday, the eve of Liverpool's FA Cup final clash against Wimbledon. But player-manager Dalglish still has a long way to go to catch former Anfield supremo Bob Paisley, who landed
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    • 636 26 BARDHAN CUP SOCCER WIMBLEDON 1 (Lawrie Sanchez, 36th minute) LIVERPOOL 0 Sanchez's glancing header denies Reds the League, Cup double LONDON Wimbledon, the little club written off by the pundits, denied Liverpool a second League and Cup double m three seasons m the 107 th English FA Cup
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    • 333 26 Jahangir dethrones Jansher for world title SQUASH AMSTERDAM Pakistan's Jahangir Khan regained the world squash title here on Friday when he beat compatriot and defending champion Jansher Khan 9-6, 9-2, 9-2 m the final. Jahangir, ranked No. 2 m the world, took the title from the 19-year-old champion with some
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    • 152 26 SWIMMING SYDNEY Olympic gold medallist Jon Sieben has been beaten by an unknown nr»\ice m a stunning upset m the 200-metres butterfly at the Australian Olympic swimming trials. Marty Roberts. 21, better-known as a freestyle specialist, powered to victory on Friday
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    • 74 1 LORDS OF THE CAROUSEL onderland is gone. Leaving Iflff these tw o men —Mr Lim I Kee Chye, far left, and Mr Ng Ket Woon undisputed mas- ters of the fairground. A fair- ground which does not stay put m one place but which pops up m one housing estate
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      • 550 2 IRVTNG Berlin is the songwriter who has lived forever. On his 100 th birthday last Wednesday Frank Sinatra crooned and so did conductor Leonard Bernstein m a tribute to the Russian Jeu.sh immigrant who has written more than 1,000
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      • 908 2 People who say they only like the movies of their teens would be considered strange. But why do so many reject the latest music without hesitation? JOHN PARELES argues that it doesn't have to be so. IS THERE some moment m our lives when popular
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        • 598 2  -  JOHN BLAKE (IPS) THE much anticipated release of Crocodile Dundee II is scheduled for May 27 m the United States, but the film's star Paul Hogan says: "I think they'll have to tear the picture out of our hands." Hogan is still not completely happy with
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        • 235 2 I WAS astonished and dismayed to read the story "Is Deep Garden a slap m the face for women?" (The Sunday Times. May 1). I cannot understand why those who commented unfavourably on it cannot enjoy watching a tele- vision serial for what
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      • 1105 3  -  LOW MEI MEI By When the Wonderland amusement park m Kallang closed down m March, two men m Singapore were none too sad. For it left them undisputed lords of the fairgrounds. Lim Kee Chye and Ng Ket Woon are now the main men behind
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      • 928 2  -  DR P. W. BUFFINGTON By THEY'RE everywhere. They blend m with the general population, rarely making themselves conspicuous. They have no distinguishing physical marks, and frankly, look no different than the guy sitting next to you. Could he be
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      • 905 2 Singaporeans in search of eternal youth are snapping up Retin-A, a cream said to delay aging. But American doctors warn that a special routine must be observed to reduce side effects, reports Tim Friend PEOPLE intending to use Retin-A, the cream now exciting public interest
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      • 259 2 Who should use Retin-A? Anyone who wants to prevent wrinkles and reduce the risk of skin cancer. Older people can smooth fine wrinkles caused by sun exposure. But people in their 20s or 30s have more to gain. They can begin using sunscreens, avoid tanning and
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      • 439 2 Two jolly good shows at the cinema Don Reeder CINEMAS and their audiences m Singapore can stage as intriguing a show for a stranger as what appears on screen sometimes better. Come along to the Lido cinema for a screening of The Last Emperor and see the place through an
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      • 846 2 Wbodwards Gripe Wrter is the same today as it ever was. ImaW rl^^^^^^^^^B t tn-w w -A? -m i mm Just like babies. Babies will always be babies. Easily upset by wind, stomach and teething irritations. That's why WT7m~> ;**M Woodward's Gripe Water 4 has remained true to its I
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      • 259 3 Sunday LUNCH CLAYPOT DISHES Strand Coffeeshop, Strand Hotel: 338-1866. Daily. $4.50 to $5.50 a person. JAPANESE SET Suntory Japanese Restaurant, Delft Orchard: 732-5111. Daily. Free soft drinks (up to three glasses each) on Sundays. From $15. CURRY DISHES Gomez Curry, Selegie House: 336-2906. Fishhead, crabs, chicken kurma and mutton curry
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      • 663 3 Indonesian nouvelle cuisine Celebrate Hari Raya Puasa this Tuesday with a new concept of cooking from the world's largest archipelago. MARGARET CHAN gets hold of the cookbook with the innovative ideas. EAT IN GASTRONOMES m Indonesia are' revelling m a new style of cooking and serving food m leading hotels
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      • 215 3 A DEFINITION of nouveUe Indonesian cuisine has been offered by Mrs Suryatini Game, the doyen of Indonesian cooking and publisher and editor of Majalah Selera, Indonesia's only food magazine. Mrs Ganie, another claimant to the honour of creating the new cuisine, sees it as pure Indonesian cooking
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      • 315 3 Sop Pelangi Pagi Clear Prawn Soup with Lemon Grass Serves 3 to 4 150 g red snapper fillet, skinned 20 g garlic, peeled 20 g carrot, peeled 20 g leeks, use bottom part only 2 egg whites 1 stalk lemon grass, crushed 1 bay leaf 10 ml chilli juice
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      • 936 4 Dianxin has come a long way since those noisy Chinatown days. MARGARET CHAN keeps up with the best places m which to try them. EAT OUT DIAN KIN literally translates as dot on the heart, presumably suggesting that these tidbits touch the heart. It is a misnomer.
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      • 480 4  -  CH'NG POH HONG DRINK By AS WITH everything else, wine has its adherents and detractors. There are those who, without its reassurance (especially with food), consider life lacking m quality. Yet others would not give a hoot whether it be wine or water
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      • 228 3 SEE ORCHARDS LADEN WITH FRUIT AND PICK ORANGES ™"»»*™»uaaiH AT FRESH FROM THE TREE. IT'S NOT A DREAM. IT'S AUSTRALIA. r r3 L 7 fiSl H nfl v |Hn^^^^BMH^BA___i___L_^_l_______K WWfjK/^g^Lm ________l____Dr«^^Bl^HßH^^B^H U ___________b B^^p j^|^^^^B^B_-____________________________________________Bi_^'' ___B_^_B ___B___fl \tA^ ■< _f WWwW^k v r-H i^^^B^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^i^^^^B^^^^^^^^^^^^flß •5 Blfl Ke-v BiHtiK^f mm^iP A
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      • 789 4 One of our friends remarked that whilst reading the Cheers column, he always felt that he should have a glass of something to sip. But what drink to choose? The answer is simple. Read the column once. Choose your drink. And then read it again. Bohn C. Brown, the patriarch
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      • 71 4 n^ "ftP* *IsmmmmmmmWm\m^ mr H mam^*^.^--------***^ K9 r than 25 varieties ot S cMMr!B^3r.. l^i innch $9.50 perl fed J\ head. t> nner 5 L— —-B-Laß—— 10 course lunch /dinner with: WE SPECIALISE IN SUPERB CANTONESE AND FOOCHOW CUISINE FOR WEDDING. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS AND COMPANY DINNERS. We also serve set
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      • 153 4 NO CAPITAL Off EXPERIENCE NE^ DEO How to start a profitable IMPORT-EXPORT Agency part-time You can start with little or no capital investment m your spare or full-time' The Wade World Trade Import Export program will provide you with the knowledge, the contacts and the back up you need to
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    • TRAVEL
      • 569 5  -  BETSY WADE By WHEN we visited our son while he was m college m Bogota 10 years ago, I asked with some embarrassment about drinking the water. He snorted and said the water at the Hilton was as safe as at home. But when we
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      • 864 5 In a country where rock ruins still stand like spectacular ancient condominiums DEWANI ABBAS puzzles over cryptic sounds and gestures "TSK, tsk," uttered my good Turkish friend when I tried to interpret something he had said m halting English. I was quite taken aback. Had
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      • 667 5 4/5 Days Hong Kong/Macau With Chan Brothers Travel i^^ M^S^^^-^^^^ W^X X r Villi C m^* _^o^^^___~ r v_ Panoramic view of Hong Kong from Victoria 7 V -S J^^i___Ml^^^ '^^^^^f J^^^M _M-/"-A fe!^^ X ,Vjk Chan Hroihers offers wiu the REAL Hong Kong m ————mmm—* m —F^-* mm fe=3lh-
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    • FASHION
      • 1060 6 The Fashion King of Paris, Christian Lacroix, has come and gone. Gone into the wardrobes of seven women m Singapore who snapped up all 14 of his dresses, costing up to $8,000, with a single flash of a gold card. CATHERINE ONG finds out more about the
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      • 443 6 EVERY now and again, Katie Liem likes to dress up m something dramatic. For her, Christian Lacroix fits the bill. In July, Mrs Liem would have been married for 20 years to Liem Tien Pao, 42, son of the Indonesian tycoon cigarette
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      • 281 6 Six wearings and to the maid it goes IN March, when a friend phoned from New York and described a Lacroix dress of outsized blooms crowned with a bow and bustle at the back, Mrs Sandra Chang ordered it. Fortunately, when the dress, which must have cost around $8,000, arrived,
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      • 1021 7  -  HEIDI WALESON The cross-movement of conductors around the world has made nationality almost irrelevant in the music world. Now, the Americans are getting in on the act, reports ABOUT 10 years ago, the conductor Lawrence Foster was called m to replace a colleague m some concerts
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      • SPECTRUM
        • 325 7 Saving animals from the flood of a dam CONSERVATION SINCE work started on the Balbina Dam m the Amazon Basin last October, a rescue operation has been under way m which thousands of animals are being caught and released on safer ground. "The rules are simple," said Bento Melo, a
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        • 695 7  -  GEOFFREY PEREIRA Psychology, with more than one founding father, is still embroiled m controversies, reports PYSCHOLOGY must be one of the most misunderstood disciplines, about which a host of factors add little more than confusion. For starters, people often mistake it for
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      • 611 7  -  ANNE LOW By AT 25, Dutch artist Marte Roling was already co-exhibiting with the world's great masters like Picasso and Andy Warhol. Today, 23 years later, art reviews, newspaper and television reports have made her one of the most well-known personalities m Holland. Here to
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      • 389 7 Get on f y 4 your feet J JoinTheSundoy Times/ jk__^r \P SWnMinDigNifelkl96B! wr I -^H I I \l\ Come June 26, you'll see the The ßoUtC •I)V\ 11/ 111 nation on her feet for the sheer fun Ts_A f ill x i_ The men will cover V>*^^ /fv of
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      • Family
        • 1019 8 Growing up without family support can be a painful experience. Three people tell us what life was like as orphans. See page 9. 4 Boys are rough but they can also be very sentimental. They remember the little things you do for them
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        • 796 9 A home and a family offer security and a sense of belonging which are too often taken for granted. Here, three individuals, Melina Ang, Linn Tan and Jeff Toh (not their real names) tell TERESA CHEONG what it is like to grow
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        • 983 9  -  QRACE TAN By A VERY perceptive father once commented: "Someday, I'm going to be dead and when that happens, I want my children to say, 'Dad was a lot of fun. "That set me think- ing. What kind of memories will I leave
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        • 1107 10  -  IRENE CHUA By We have a near-perfect marriage. Our children are healthy, with no apparent hang-ups. We have developed ourselves m many ways intellectually and m the required work skills. We have achieved what we had set out to achieve. In retrospect, we
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        • 559 11  -  WONG SU-FEI By PICTURE this, a man slips, slides and falls all over the place while his colleagues collapse m laughter. Shocking? Not at all. This was just a scene at a telematch organised by NTUC Income during its annual Family Day m 1986. Today, shopping and
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        • 922 12  - Quality time fun, games and sharing sessions GRACE TAN By THREE-YEAR-OLD Daniel may not know how to tell the time, but he knows it when the clock strikes eight m the evening it is fun time! Though he may not know what has been planned for the evening, he knows
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      • Transportation
        • 260 13 Company's special unit looks after needs of Japanese AN INTERNATIONAL moving company has formed a special department to look after the needs of Japanese expatriates who are being relocated. This is because while most people may shop around for the lowest quote, a Japanese only calls moving companies that he
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        • 555 13 Reporter YEO KIM SENG follows the trail of the professional movers PROFESSIONAL movers do more than just help you to pack and move into your new home. They also arrange insurance coverage for your belongings. Some even offer to inform your friends of
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        • 356 13 "CONTROL, this is Alpha One, over," croaked Ronnie Ang Kok Leong. "Alpha control. Yes?" said an operator at the Keppel House control room. "Job over. Your next order, please," said Mr Ang. "Proceed to Gate 1 and take trailer with
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        • 354 14 CONTAINERS are slowly but surely edging out other conventional means of moving cargo. These containers, m the now-fa-miliar form of solid metal boxes, transport almost anything from perishables to furniture. In the first quarter of this year, 11.03 million tonnes of containerised cargo passed through Singapore.
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        • 339 14 WHEN it comes to moving pianos, there is no substitute for experience. Opting for cheaper or even free labour can be a serious mistake. This was the view of an experienced piano seller, Mrs Jeanette Toh, sole-proprietor of Nang Heng Co. In one incident, a
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        • 170 14 JUST about anything exquisite Italian marble which can be used as table tops or parts of furniture, used clothing from Japan bound for the poorer Third World nations m Asia and Africa, sophisticated telecommunication equipment can be moved by container. Italian marble, which takes about a
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        • 550 15 A FEW trends have emerged m the burgeoning air freight industry. One is the increasing volume of air-to-air cargo transhipment which forms the bulk of all categories of freight, including sea-to-air. More airlines are recognising this and are converting their aircraft into combiplanes or aircraft that
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      • PEOPLE
        • 1757 16 CHERNOBYL NEW TOWN From Page 1 The new village is replete with memories, but devoid of mementoes concrete base and contaminating the subsoil and subterranean water. Nevertheless, the 30-km zone around the plant was declared industrially and agriculturally "dead". Nadezhda Ukrainetz, chairperson
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      • 442 9 va/ith OUR FEATURES AND PRICE, THERE IS NO COMPETITION! A high-end VCR at a low-end price, VS-22 gives I I hq video system i iiii siow Motion value-for-moneventertainmpnt Dffprinn mnrpfpaturpq HP A system that increases the picture quality and reduces JSSS..I VS-22 adiusts playback speed to a fracton of normal
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      • 325 10 H SINGAPORE'S 1ST HnnnH|B^BBn W W^ <^s Am 1 y Jv <<^ Date 11-15 August 1988 Venue World Trade Centre, Hall 2 Mums Babies '88, the exhibition for mothers-to-be, parents and their children. It will feature a wide range of products I if Childcraff learning materials FIBKETR1M" Bwta www w
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      • 441 10 /(M For this holiday let your child do something EXCITING, INTERESTING and BENEFICIAL to their future. Enrol in CAL's holiday courses. B_r/^ I hhp VBBBBBBBBBBB^^^ <__. *^~_j y_B_| B_^_BJ B_^^/ I ______B_MP^^_Z _B 'ff BJ^^B "^____BBBB~^~^^^b^B H ..^Bl B_r _P^^ 7 __i __r bP^^^ J/ /fl HH ly H B^B^^^
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      • 178 11 flfejk o Because not only do jf Baby Comfort Ultra fc^ Diapers keep babies m^^A comfortably drier, they J^^^H^^^^^^^^H make mums overjoyed ;j|^^^lH^^^^^^^H f ll___r as they cost so flgl much less. W^i Buy up to 4 packs and get J Jlsf August 88. To entHle for tm "tniby Comfort
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      • 434 11 Special *^mnic/»AIIHt Save up to $200.00 ~S5^ •tflli* Creatlvel47l ■pBBBWJ*S *-W© Offer: $2,490 fe^y^ Micro-computer controlled that allows free AT^ B programming and storage Apart from the numerous M sewing programmes you can also design your own *A^^^ m embroidery stitches and trademarks mm mam. m Tiptronic 1171 %^%%e Offer:
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      • 666 12 THE EARLY WORLD OF LEARNING HELPS WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA H YOU TO TEACH YOUR CHILD THE FUN WAY A SO(JRCE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING with cassette tapes, activity books, posters, stickers, crayons, puppets and even a battery An ""formation source for the whole family operated pencil to keep /P^^r— P rov
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      • 18 12 Read about P/PP/'S adventures In these books v 8 Pultin Books Available at all good bookshops STP DMMaulon
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      • 281 12 AN INCOME DRAGON A child today, a "DRAGON" in ye&s to come. All parents wish their j^ "B A Dragon Offer children to become XJ W From now until the end of Snr™ v^» the dragon year, a 24K golden NTUC NCOME offers an dragon from RISIS will be given
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      • 548 14 (FHoMtfiuou, for helping us and Fuso to win. «Bk M**m .<% Mitsubishi's AKjrC Award for vylsl distributorship exceElence and 56% share of the trock market. "GokJbel Engineering won the 1 987 Triple Diamond Commemoration award for its W impressive sates of the Mitsubishi FUSO uJmm\w9 range ot heavy goods trucks.
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      • 424 16 Britain's unpredictable weather can be a blessing m disguise. The weather m Britain is never dull. -> their secrets; abbeys such as Tintern Abbey, one of It is a ceaseless pageant of blue skies, scudding clouds, r Britain s hnest relics from its monastic age. soft rain, early morning dew,
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