The Straits Times, 12 June 1988

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  • 10 1 The Sunday Times No: 2713 55 CENTS MCI (P) 93/12/87
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  • 807 1  -  ISMAIL KASSIM National gathering needed to mend split, he says By KUALA LUMPUR The campaign of dissident Umno leader Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah to revive the deregistered Umno took a new turn yesterday when he proposed that all Malay groups, regardless of their political ideology, attend
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  • 284 1  -  ONG MING SEING By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON The House Ethics Committee has voted unanimously to investigate allegations of financial improprieties and conflicts of interest against House Speaker Jim Wright. The committee of six Democrats and six Republicans announced its decision on
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  • 108 1 Man fined for infecting wife with VD SANDAKAN A man who contracted venereal disease from a prostitute and then infected his wife was fined Ms4oo (Ss3l3) by a Native Court in Sabah. The 31-year-old Filipino, whose name was withheld by the court, was taken to court by his enraged wife.
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  • 283 1 Court punishes guard who lied about seeing woman shoplift WHEN a department store security guard detained a woman for shoplifting he had no idea that he would be the one facing the wrath of the law. For it turned oat that his victim was innocent and he was the guilty
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  • 482 1 Bid by ex-Marcos guards to free jailed supporter foiled MANILA President Corazon Aquino's troops thwarted a pre-dawn bid yesterday by masked members of ousted ruler Ferdinand Marcos's elite guards to release from a suburban military stockade an imprisoned Marcos ally and other rebel soldiers, officials said. Major-General Ramon Montano, head
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    • 8 1 Durian etiquette as hawkers see it: Page 3
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    • 12 1 6,10| Umno members vow to continue bid to revive party: Page II
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  • NEWS FOCUS
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      602 2 REFORM CRITICS RAPPED: Moscow Com munist Party chief Lev Zaikov has lashed out at both conservative and "leftist" opponents of the official reform programme two weeks ahead of a national Communist Party conference expected to decide the future of perestroika. Mr Zaikov, quoted yesterday in the Moskovskaya
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    • 213 2 BREHME VILLAIN AND HERO: West German defender Andreas Brehme rescued his side from defeat with a goal from a free-kick in the European soccer championship match against Italy which ended in a 1-1 draw in Dusseldorf yesterday. But earlier, Brehme had been responsible for the mistake which allowed the
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    • 521 2 When we criticise Pakistan for non-compliance or non-observance of the obligations under the Geneva agreement we also, of course, have in mind the United States. Mr Shevardnadze at the news conference. NEW YORK Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has accused the United
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    • 131 2 THE United Nations has launched an appeal for more than US$l billion (Ss2 billion) aid to help Afghanistan recover from its eight years of war. The US$l.l6 billion would be for an initial 18-month period of relief and rehabilitation work. It would be followed
      Reuter  -  131 words
    • 783 2  - A Caribbean flower among 'nightmare' of elderly white male MPs FRANCIS CLINES "They have a very schoolboy sense of humour, very noisy like schoolboys" what the first black woman MP says of the men in the House of Commons By New York Times Service LONDON Sunset at the Members Bar
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    • 704 3  -  JACQUELINE WONG LIM SIN THAI Part-time hawkers cash in on Singaporean craze for the fruit Report: Pictures: UNDETERRED by other people's bad experiences with durian hawkers one person wrote to the newspapers to tell yesterday how her husband was pelted with durians by an irate
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    • 331 3 HOW much leeway does a dorian buyer have to reject fruits opened for him? If you believe the Albert Street dorian sellers who were asked this, the buyer does not have moch choice once the fruit is pried open. The case of the woman who
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    • 342 3 ANTWERP (Belgium) Belgian researchers, on the eve of an international conference in Stockholm on Aids, said yesterday that they had discovered a third type of the deadly virus which may prove impossible to detect with current tests. Previous research in
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    • 401 3 S. Korean students set Aug 1 5 date for march to Panmunjom SEOUL Radical South Korean students, prevented by police from staging a "Grand March" to the border with communist North Korea, vowed yesterday to renew attempts to meet northern students to discuss reunifying the peninsula. About three thousand young
      Reuter; AFP  -  401 words
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 190 2 Showers are expected over a few areas in the morning TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow: 33 max., 25 min SUNSET today: 7.10 pm; SUNRISE tomorrow: 6.59 am. GLOBAL MATHER Adelaide 8/17 C Overcast Las Aagelea 14/25 C Gear Amsterdam 13/17 C Goudy Madrid 11/20 C Rain Atheas 18/32
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    • 94 3 I STATISTICS THA^HAP^H^OUTITR^^^ How death strikes I ACCIDENTS, which are the biggest killers of men between the I ages of 15 and 55, caused eight per cent of the 12,821 j deaths in 1986. Overall, however, the biggest killers were j heart and hypertensive diseases which accounted for j one-quarter
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 439 4 MOSCOW Moscow Communist Party chief Lev Zaikov lashed out at both conservative and "leftist" opponents of the official reform programme two weeks ahead of a national Communist Party conference expected to decide the future of perestroika, the restructuring programme launched by
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    • 165 4 MOSCOW A Russian priest, Father Vasily Shipilov, was freed after spending more than 40 years in labour camps and psychiatric clinics, a British clergyman who campaigned on his behalf said yesterday. The Rev Dick Rogers, who spent Lent fasting in a cage in a
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    • 233 4 NEW DELHI The Punjab state administration began pulling down buildings around the Golden Temple to create a corridor aimed at preventing Sikh separatists from regrouping in the holiest Sikh shrine, press reports said here yesterday. Municipal workers on Friday tore down one of five buildings
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    • 77 4 These three South Korean beauties are the winners 01 tne Miss Seoul Olympics contest. Posing in an Olympic sports stadium in Seoul are Miss Kwang Ju Byun (centre), the gold-medal winner, Miss Min Byung Hui (right), who won the silver, and Miss So Ji Won,
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    • 311 4 BEIJING China reiterated yesterday that Vietnam and Democratic Kampuchean leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk should negotiate directly after Hanoi announced that Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach would attend talks on Cambodia. "As a party to the Kampuchean question, Vietnam should hold direct negotiations
      AFP  -  311 words
    • 136 4 Reagan's daughter gets congressman's sex wrong SHELBY (North Carolina) US Representative Cass Ballenger appreciated a letter of congratulations from President Ronald Reagan's daughter, except for one error his sex. In a June 2 letter addressed to "Ms Cass Ballenger", Ms Maureen Reagan, co-chairman of the Republican National Committee, wrote: "On
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    • 363 4 MANAMA Iranian gunboats attacked and set ablaze a Britishflagged tanker off the Saudi Arabian coast yesterday, hours after a West German vessel came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Gulf-based shipping executives reported. The British-flagged tanker, identified as the 258,979-tonne Esso Demetia,
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    • 172 4 44 rotting bodies found in funeral home JACKSONVILLE (Florida) Authorities have discovered dozens of decaying bodies "stacked like cord wood" inside a closed funeral home and dug up the yard outside in search of more. "We're treating it as a mass disaster right now," said Mr Lou Eliopulos, chief investigator
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    • 68 4 LOS ANGELES An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the open-ended Richter Scale, strong enough to cause considerable damage, shook a wide area of Los Angeles on Friday, threatening water supplies and cutting power in areas. Police and ambulance services said a few people suffered minor injuries but
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    • PEOPLE
      • 103 5 BEING India's highest-paid actress is apparently not enough for buxom Sridevt, says Asiaweek. In its latest issue, the magazine reports that the star of such recent hits as "Mr India" and "Nagina" wants to try her luck in the hurly-burly of politics. Indications are that she
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      • 112 5 GRAHAM Greene and John Le Carre are among six British authors and professors who last week called for a Middle East peace conference and urged Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A letter, published in the London Times,
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      • 124 5 RAGESHREE Ramachandran, a 13-year-old Indian girl, won the 61st US National Spelling Bee, scoring her victory with the word elegiacal, a form of couplets in a poem. Rageshree, daughter of statistics professors at the University of California at Sacramento, defeated Victor Wang, 14, of
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      • 43 5 TWO contestants in the first beauty contest held in the Soviet Union parade before the judges during the competition's quarter-finals. Miss Elena Prosolova, 27, is the beauty on the left, while her fellow contestant is Miss Yulya Portseva, 26.
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      • 65 5 THE 52-year-old mother of Princess Diana, wife of royal heir Prince Charles, said last week that her second marriage had ended. Frances Shand Kydd, acknowledging British press speculation, said in a statement: "My husband and I have separated, which is a great sadness to us
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      • 99 5 THOUSANDS of Muscovites huddled under umbrellas in summer showers as the New York Philharmonic and a Soviet orchestra joined last week for a melodious evening capped by a colourful fireworks display. Zubin Mehta, music director for the Philharmonic, and Soviet conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky drew shouts of
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      • 139 5 THE Samantha Smith Foundation, formed to encourage better relations with the Soviet Union, has fallen on hard times, a victim of money problems and, ironically, improved relations between the superpowers. The foundation was formed in 1985 by Mrs Jane Smith, Samantha's mother, soon after Samantha,
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    • 341 5 WASHINGTON The Senate, opening a new front in the election-year war on drugs, has overwhelmingly approved legislation that would permit the death penalty for certain drug-re-lated killings, particularly in the deaths of law enforcement officials. The measure, sponsored by Republican Senator Alfonse
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    • 179 5 CLEVELAND A man who stole a turkey to feed his hungry family has been sentenced to read Les Miserables, a classic French novel by Victor Hugo about a man imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread. Judge Carl Character also ordered Reginald Moore to
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    • 327 6 BEIJING Students at Beijing University, scene of protests for free speech and democracy, have accused the Voice of America radio station of inciting students by carrying false news and exaggeration, the People's Daily said yesterday. A student protest campaign, including wall posters attacking government leaders
      Reuter; AFP  -  327 words
    • 260 6  -  ONG MING SEING By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON The Reagan administration has announced its intention to offer special military assistance to Kuwait by selling up to 40 F-18 warplanes to the Persian Gulf nation. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater told reporters here on Friday that
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    • 131 6 BEIJING Investigators have arrested a man who swindled China out of U*****,000 (5*539,300) in one of the biggest fraud cases since the communists came to power, the People's Daily said yesterday. It said Liu Weigang, an employee at a research centre of the China National
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    • 209 6 Khomeini ill with cancer and may die soon, say US reports WASHINGTON US intelligence reports say Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is seriously ill with cancer and could die within days or months, an administration official said. The official, who asked not to be identified, said the Iranian leader
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    • 127 6 LONDON Harrods, the fashionable London department store, is suing the Daily Mirror for alleging that some girls working at its perfumery counters sold sex to customers. The mass-circulation tabloid published stories on its front page alleging that freelance salesgirls hired through agencies and not directly employed
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    • 231 7 WASHINGTON President Ronald Reagan said on Friday that Panamanian citizens who carry out the policies of General Manuel Antonio Noriega's government, except for diplomats on official business, will be barred indefinitely from entering the United States. A presidential statement said the prohibition against certain
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    • 92 7 Index briefly touches post-crash high NEW YORK Wall Street's Dow Jones reconquered the 2,100 level on Friday and briefly rose above its post-crash closing high of 2,110.08, set on April 13, but the market pulled back from its best levels for the second day m a row. The
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    • 113 7 Emergency in S. Africa 'could become permanent' JOHANNESBURG As South Africa entered its third year under a state of emergency on Friday, politicians and analysts warned that the clampdown on anti-apartheid political activity and media coverage could become permanent. President Pieter Botha re-imposed the emergency because, he said, people needed
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    • 212 7 Soviet citizens complain about condom shortage MOSCOW Soviet citizens are facing a new shortage this time of condoms, a newspaper reported. Sex is close to art and should bring joy and satisfaction to people, said one reader of the Meditsinskaia Gazeta, who suggested that condoms could do with a new
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    • 206 7 Drink-drive teen carries sign of penance MELBOURNE A teenage driver has been ordered to put a sign on his car warning others that he once drove after drinking. Lawyers called the penalty harsh and unreasonable. Brad Hicks, 19, was breathtested and found to have 0.085 per cent of alcohol in
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    • 514 7 Second-round election results will be a close one for socialists PARIS France's political parties have wound up their election campaigns amid growing uncertainty that today's general election will give President Francois Mitterrand the socialist majority he needs in Parliament. Despite a flurry of
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 314 8 One of the accused is president of Sweden's Young Communist League MANILA A Swede and a West German arrested during an anti-insurgency sweep in the Philippines have been charged with murder and kidnapping, the military said yesterday. Klaus Schmidt, 52, of Cologne, West
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    • 231 8 MANILA The United States will close its military bases here and terminate its security relationship with the Philippines if a Bill banning nuclear weapons and nuclear-armed ships becomes law, an American diplomat said yesterday. US Charge d' Affaires
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    • 390 8 MANILA President Corazon Aquino leaves here tomorrow for Switzerland and Italy, stepping up the Philippines' efforts to strengthen its old ties with Europe and widen markets for its growing economy. Her visit begins with an address to the International Labour Organisation
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    • 214 8 BANGKOK Bangkok's "Nazi" bar, with posters of Adolf Hitler and waiters dressed in World War n Nazi uniforms, has followed police "advice" and abandoned its controversial name and sales gimmick. The bar and its Nazi theme came under severe criticism from the
      UPI; AFP; Reuter  -  214 words
    • 211 8 Thai police hunt killer band of separatists BANGKOK Police said yesterday they were hunting a band of Muslim separatists, after six police and two defence volunteers were killed in a roadside attack in southern Thailand. Up to 10 members of the Pattani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo) carried out the attack
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    • 76 8 Five hurt in fire in Philippines MANILA A fire ripped through the 14-storey Municipal Hall building in suburban Quezon City yesterday, injuring at least five people, fire and police officials said. Investigators said the fire was caused by an air-conditioning unit that broke down and exploded. The fire worsened when
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  • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 439 10 GENTING HIGHLANDS The fate of elected representatives of the deregistered Umno who oppose New Umno is expected to be discussed at the National Front Supreme Council meeting on Friday. It is widely believed that MPs and state assemblymen of the deregistered Umno
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    • 175 10 Umno group 'plotting with PAS to topple Trengganu government' KUALA TRENGGANU A section of Umno members in the Besut division is plotting with the fundamentalist Parti Islam (PAS) to topple the Trengganu state government, Mentri Besar Datuk Haji Wan Mokhtar Ahmad charged on Friday. And if PAS refused to co-operate,
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    • 379 10  -  QUAH CHOON POH By KUALA LUMPUR At least 6,000 old Umno members yesterday unanimously passed a resolution reaffirming their commitment to revive the deregistered party, whatever the difficulties. Besides former Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, several former Umno
      MAZLAN BADRON  -  379 words
    • 306 10 KUALA LUMPUR At least 16 Members of Parliament and nine state assemblymen of the deregistered Umno who refused to join New Umno will have their allocations for minor projects withdrawn. Reports from the various states said they include former deputy prime
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    • 304 10 The Tun Salleh affair IPOH The Sultan of Perak had nothing to do with suspended Lord President Tun Salleh Abas' decision to withdraw his letter to the Prime Minister applying for leave and early retirement, the Sultan's private
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 634 11 RAFFLES' Institution, Singapore's oldest English school, is to have its 165-year history showcased in an in-house museum to be set up next year. The Raffles' Institution Historical Museum, to be located in two classrooms, will help recreate the significant past
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    • 412 11 THE Philippine Secretary of Health, Dr Alfredo Bengzon, yesterday cited political and military reforms under the Aquino government and the strengthening of the bureaucracy as moves that helped bring stability to the country. The first, he said, were the steps taken to
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    • 574 11 HAW PAR Villa's colourful statues and figurines will soon be moved to their new home in Pasir Panjang now that restoration work on them is in progress and an inventory of the various tableaux in the villa has been
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    • 305 11 SINGAPORE exporters have been slow in tapping the enormous $30-billion-a-year Canadian market for electronic and electrical products. Last year, the Republic only captured some $200 million or less than 1 per cent of this market. Mr Robert Chua, president of the
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    • 597 12 It felt like a nail being hammered in, and I thought "Oh God, I'm finished." A HERO'S homecoming. Detective Station Inspector Madhavan Govinda Nair, 35, is back in the bosom of his proud and happy family. Out of hospital and recovering from bullet wounds sustained in
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    • 343 12 Tour bus slams into shophouse of sleeping family A FAMILY of 12 got jolted from their sleep early yesterday morning when a tour coach crashed into their prewar shophouse in Ophir Road. But none of them was hurt as they were on the upper floor of the house. The coach,
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    • 604 12 THE typical inhalant abuser is male, single and usually under the age of 20. A school dropout, he does not have any previous drug offences. He lives m a public housing estate and hangs around with friends at void decks, corridors, staircases and public parks.
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    • 105 13 A POLICE constable was charged on Friday with cheating and deserting the police force. Chong Teng Juan, 27, allegedly gave a dud cheque for more than $9,000 to chief clerk Tay Kwang Liang at Paya Lebar police station on Feb 21, 1986. The cheque
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    • 67 13 THREE national players in squash, basketball and net ball were each awarded a sports scholarship by the Singapore Polytechnic on Friday. Mr Ernest Tan (squash), Miss Poh See Kiat (basketball) and Miss Seah Ching Ching (netball) received the awards worth $1,200 each. More than 500
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    • 441 13 More directional posts being put up in existing stations SIGNS for the new Mass Rapid Transit stations will be "peel-proof" and more difficult to vandalise. However, the present stickon type of signs, which were recently peeled off by vandals at some stations, will still
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    • 304 13 FIRST, she was a star of the silver screen, playing opposite Hongkong heart-throb Jackie Chan in the movie Dragon Forever. Then, just last week she appeared on television in the Miss Universe pageant held in Taipei. Now, Miss Pauline Yeung, the reigning Miss
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    • 455 14 PARENTS were yesterday urged to give more of their time to their children despite the faster pace of life they lead in Singapore. The Minister for Community Development, Mr Wong Kan Seng, made this call when he launched the annual Family Week
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    • 102 14 A 37-YEAR-OLD man was fined $4,000 and banned from driving all classes of vehicles for five years for causing a fatal accident due to his negligence two years ago. A district court yesterday heard that Teoh Seng Koo's car jumped a road
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    • 170 14 Man beset with problems jumped to death A LOVE triangle, sense of injured pride and gambling losses drove a man to suicide, a coroner heard on Friday. The body of Ng Kah Leong, 27, a production supervisor, was found at the foot of Block 173, Yishun Avenue 7, on March
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    • Article, Illustration
      115 14 SAF exercises A SERIES of military exercises throughout the island will begin tomorrow. Singapore Armed Forces military exercises will take place in the Lim Chu Kang, Tuas, Hong Kah, Marsiling, Mandai, Sembawang, Wing Loong and Loyang areas from tomorrow at 7am until Saturday at 6 pm. Blanks and thunderflashes will
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    • 286 14 Man jailed for eight months' cheating spree A MAN on an eight-month cheating spree purchased over $157,000 worth of goods with dud cheques made out in the names of other people. Tan Ah Lee, 36, used the identity cards of various people acquired from a friend, to open bank accounts
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    • Article, Illustration
      55 14 Road closure for bridge works THE stretch of Moulmein Road between Balestier Road and Thomson Road will be closed to traffic on Wednesday between lam and sam for the launching of beams for a pedestrian overhead bridge near St Michael's School. Motorists are advised to use Thomson and
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    • 260 14 THE Breadline Group, a local charity, stands to gain some money, thanks to an Asean Fair organised by the Asean Ladies Circle. Organisers yesterday had their sights set on a target of $10,000 for the charity through the sale of food
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    • 220 14 Raja lauds paper's sponsorship of chess tourney THE Straits Times' sponsorship of the National Chinese Chess Championship is an example of what the term "a Singaporean Singapore" means, Senior Minister (Prime Minister's Office) S. Rajaratnam said yesterday. He was addressing guests and 280 competitors when he launched the sixth championship
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    • 55 14 THE St Joseph's Home in Upper Old Jurong Road received visitors of a different kind yesterday morning 10 police officers. The officers from the Jurong station and 30 members of the Police Boys' Club called to bring cheer to the 105 elderly residents. They also spruce up
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    • 35 14 THE Tai Pei Foundation will give 5,000 rice dumplings and a vegetarian lunch to 300 senior citizens from homes for the aged at Tai Pei Old People's Home next Saturday at 11 am.
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    • The Sunday Times VIEW
      • 331 15 THERE are lots of words that can be used to describe the state of Singapore's public toilets. But the young draughtsman quoted by The Straits Times on Friday probably put it best. "Really yucks," he said. And so they are, with rare exceptions. The problem is
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    • 142 15 THE Vatican announced today there would be no confusion whether a new Pope has been elected in the secret conclave of Cardinals beginning on June 19. Vatican Radio will have a "foolproof" way for determining whether the famed smoke issuing from a chimney above the Chapel is
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    • 1188 15 Many think he's wrong but none doubt the courage or patriotism of Israeli Prime Minister SHAMIR YITZHAK Short, barrel-chested, with a sergeant-major's haircut and a fixed smile that betrays nothing. If all these suggest pugnacity, you are right. Fighting is in the blood of Yitzhak
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  • FOCUS/Viewpoints
    • 965 16  -  Murray Seeger In the nominating process so far, Americans have answered the question: 'Who do you like?' The campaign will now move to the stage where the question is: 'Who do you want to govern?' THE preliminary contests are over,
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    • 900 16  -  Doreen Siow Show our young designers' talents. And sell, not just display, Singapore-made goods in the SMA headquarters. Some tourists may see a business opportunity. MOST traders would give an arm and a leg to be in a prime location, yet there
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    • 839 16  -  Kwan Weng Kin The point is that Pyongyang is unlikely to come to any agreement with Seoul over the games or any other issue, for that matter. THE Seoul Olympics this September means a great deal to South Korea, perhaps much
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    • 465 16 LOOK out, all you uncles and aunties! For the month-long mid-year school holidays have come and desperate mothers are looking for unsuspecting people to take screaming, fighting, cooped-up children off their hands for a few hours. I, too, was roped in to bring 10-year-old Alex
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  • FOCUS/Analysis
    • 1911 17 On April 27, one of the Soviet Union's most brilliant nuclear scientists committed suicide. Valery Legasov, 51, was one of the investigators appointed in 1986 to examine the causes of the Chernobyl disaster. Last month, Pravda published Legasov's remarkable final testament, in which he
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  • RACING
    • 224 18  -  MALCOLM BASTIANS By our man on the track BEST BET Saratoga Six (Race 1) BEST OUTSIDEB Coronation Walk (Race 6) PENANG Leading trainers Malcolm Thwaites and Teh Choon Beng appear to have an unbeatable horse each in today's races. Thwaites has Saratoga Six in the opening
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    • 4731 18 VMPMpa 2.15 CLASS 2 DIV C 1,400m f-T H 1 (Ratings: 116-100) (Stakes: $15,750) 1 1111* Sar»Ug» 8b 57 (114) Saratoga-Thwaites 3 amg pc +2 (1700m). Unbeaten in four starts; chased leader into straight, getting the better of Bazooka n by M length with 55 C3-B Pg
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    • 81 18 THESE horses have won or have done well on a wet track: RACE 1: Southern Emperor, Softly Spoken n. RACE t: Mon Seigneur, Rendezvous m, Americo 11, Best Always. RACE 3: Eishin H, Play It Cool n. Champagne On Ice, Barbette. RACE 5: G.I. Joe, Constant Surprise. Track Lark,
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    • 312 18 RACE Malcolm Baatiana Tan Thaan Loon Danny Khoo Ron Too Martin Tay 1 Saratoga Six 1 Saratoga Six 1 Saratoga Six 1 Saratoga Stx 1 Saratoga Star 1 6 Softly Spoken 3 Knight Armour 3 Knight Armour 3 Knight Armour 3 Knight Armour 3 Knight Armour
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    • 213 18  -  RON TEO By RENDEZVOUS 111 and Mon Seigneur will dominate the Class 3 Div D over 1,200m at Penang this afternoon (Race 2). However, my vote goes to Rendezvous 111. The three-year-old gelding by Foreign Affair has been working with gusto during the week. At the
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    • 2214 19 By OUR RACING TEAM $32,528 jackpot NO WINNING ticket on the quaitet jackpot combination of Nos. 10, 4, 5 and 11 (saddle-cloths carried by Penang Lass, Another Success, Sombre Legend and Ways And Means) was sold at Bukit Timah yesterday. As such,
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 436 20 321 Deaths 321 Deaths LIM GIM CHOON AGE: 79 passed away peacefully on 10th June 1988 leaving behind Wife: Poey Kim Puey Sons: Daughters-in-law: Llm Lay Soo Toh Ah 800 him Lay Yew Low Yae Foong Llm Lay Wee Wong Slew Ling Daughters: Sons-in-law: Lim Lay Inn Ng Thye Joo
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    • 134 20 321 Deaths 321 Deaths 321 Deaths TAN ENG WAH AGE: 71 CHAIRMAN, AIK HOE CO. PTE. LTD. CHAIRMAN, TAN LARK SYE HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. passed away peacefully on June 10th, 1968 leaving behind Wife: Chua Geok Choo 8ons: Daughter-in-Law: Tan Slak Hoon Tan Shlk Koon Tan Salk Hock Khoo Pek
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    • 30 20 323 Condolences 323 Condolences 323 Condolences With Deepest Sympathies And Condolences To The Family Of The Late MR. LIM GIM CHOON FROM THE DIRECTORS, MANAGEMENT STAFF OF GROUP OF COMPANIES
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      93 20 WILLIAM SMITH (TIGER) passed away peacefully on 11th June 19*8 Cortege will leave St. Joseph'* Parlour, Queens Btreet on 13th Jun* IMB at 2.30pm tor cremation at ML Vernon Crematorium. MR. M. SINGARAM Aged 57 passed away peecerutfy on 11/6/88 Leaving behind: Wif* Mdm Muthu Daughter: Miss Indranl
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    • Obituary, Illustration
      47 20 MRS LIZZIE KAMALAM DCVAOAtON Called to the Lord on 11AM Leaving Behind: HMebawd: Samuel Devadaaon CMtdren: Irene, Desmond, Raymond OrandchHdren: Edmund, Arthur, Rebecca, Samuel Mathsi. Mrs. Annam Chellathural Evening service on 12/t/ai at Bpm at 10* BreddeH HM #0M», fpere 3067 Funeral Arrangaments to be
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    • 149 20 The Family Of The Late MDM. 3IOW HONG KEE would Hka to axtond MMk hMrtMt graWwd* Ik liiilmii laiis, guild* Mid •••ociailofia, frtonds and rai.tiv.., Mr. Martin toyer (Camda), a«raa«, «Ml, Mawda ol •atww NwUm Horn* (aapaeMy) Dr. Tan and Aatar Kah (or itnii UNd aaaManoa. prayara, oar*.
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    • 32 20 WITH DCCPCST SYMPATHIES AND CONDOLENCES TO MRS. SHEENA DATT FAMILY oo fn# O9ft%n6 of n#f d#pOV#o FaMMr, Tha Late MR. Q.K. QOBAIN From* THE STAFF OF NAVAL BASE PRIMARY SCHOOL
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      92 20 m tovtng mwnery of our asawt tathor ANG QEOK SUN Departed: 12-6-B7 R<"st In peace, dear loving: father A year has passed away, you are gone but still are living In the hearts of those who stay. Always rwnombarod by. wH*. torn, daughter*, son-in-law, daughtsc» to law,
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      278 20 m Loving Itomorr Of MDM. LIM PUAY CHIN Departed 12th June 1963 There's a sad but sweet remembrance. There Is a memory fond and true; And a token of af fecUon, mother, And a heartache still for you. Fondly ftwiißbind by chMdren, nra nrlrhHrli j In iwni
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  • SPORT
    • 1153 20  - Cricket's fall from Grace ALAN HUBBARD ALWAYS ON SUNDAY M O SOONER had Wimbledon's FA ■^Cup winners got their backsides smacked after baring them in public, than the England cricket captain was caught in the slips with his trousers down. It has been one of those weeks so symptomatic of
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    • 215 20 LONDON Sacked England captain Mike Gatting is heading for more trouble in the form of disciplinary action over a chapter in his forthcoming autobiography, the Test and County Cricket Board said yesterday. Gatting was told on Friday that his publishers had rejected his request to
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    • 263 20 MONTREAL Ayrton Senna, of Brazil, winner of the pole position in all four Formula One Grand Prix races this year, drove his McLaren to the fastest time on Friday in the first official practice for today's Canadian Grand Prix. Senna clocked lmin 22.3925ec over the 4.39-kilometre
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    • 596 21 DUSSELDORF Andreas Brehme was both the villain and the hero of the piece as hosts West Germany were held 1-1 by a spirited young Italian side in the European soccer Championship's opening match here on Friday. First Brehme was at fault for the move which allowed
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    • 967 21  -  ROB HUGHES Ttfk of Soccor THE European Championship is 1 two days old, and already its soul is in need of spiritual uplifting. Perhaps, in Cologne tonight we shall recapture a sense of the game being a game when the Dutch, in the image
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    • 213 21 Everton signing: stuart McCall celebrated his 24th birthday on Friday by signing a five-year contract with Everton. Midfielder McCall signed for £850,000 ($2.9 million) from Second Division Bradford City despite a late bid by Tottenham to sign him. Rangers pull OUt: Scotland's Glasgow Rangers pulled out of a
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    • 495 22  -  LEE WAI WUN Spirited Chinese one step short of Olympic berth Review or the women's pre-oiympic basketball championship CHINA kept Asia's flag flying when they sneaked into the final round of the women's Olympic basketball qualifying tournament. They were the only Asians to make the cut
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    • 530 22 THE SOVIET FORMULA A TEN-YEAR-OLD Russian girl playing happily with her schoolmates is spotted by a team of trained coaches. They whisk her off to a special school where she undergoes a series of physical tests and, if the results are satisfactory, the school
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    • 330 22 Petro dollar lends added bounce to Angolan basketball THE ANGOLAN CHALLENGE WHEN the Angolan basketball team returned home from Mozambique at midnight after winning the African junior men's championship in 1982, they were greeted by a delirious crowd who partied in the streets until 6am. Such is the public support
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    • 226 22 SUNDAY TIMES/COCA-COLA SPORTS AWARD GOLFER Lim Kian Kee put himself in contention for this month's Sunday Times /Coca-Cola Sporting Achievement of the Month Award when he won the Tiger Open tournament last Sunday. He fired home a one-under-par 70 in the final round at
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    • The Sports Editor says...
      • 696 23 Never look back once your back is turned "I'LL quit when my knees tell me to". So said tennis superstar Billie-Jean King in 1977 after accomplishing what only an elite few in the sports world had achieved. Seven years later, the six-time Wimbledon women's singles champion and holder of 20
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      • 365 23  - Will it be a feast or just another farce? GODFREY ROBERT IS IT for real? That was the question from boxing fans when they heard about Singapore's staging of a world title fight m September. Can't blame them. For the last time any attempt was made to revive professional boxing
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    • 326 23  -  JOE DORAI Nasaruddin, Jamaludain, Tong Hai and Mohammed among 25 By FOUR newcomers were included in this year's national soccer squad for the Malaysia Cup tournament, which starts on July 1, and other international competitions. Strikers Nasaruddin Jalil and Jamaludain Hassan, stopper Lim Tong
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    • 282 23 ON FOREIGN FAIRWAYS RICKMANSWORTH (England) Australia's Rodger Davis shattered the Moor Park course record with a 63, which included nine birdies, to lead by three strokes at the halfway stage of the National Pro-Celebrity golf tournament on Friday. Davis stole the second-round limelight from Briton
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    • 89 23 All Blacks repeat performance RUGBY AUCKLAND Wales wound up their New Zealand rugby union tour yesterday with another crushing defeat when the All Blacks won the Second Test 54-9. The game followed an almost identical pattern to the First Test won by New Zealand 52-3. Wales contained the All Blacks
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    • 187 23 SINGAPORE Recreation Club beat Singapore Gujereti Society by 93 runs in a Barker Shield cricket match at Balestier Road yesterday. Brief scores SRC 17M (B. Murugamoorthy 67, C. Kantila! 64, Kamlesh Doshi 2--11) SGS M (Moiz Sithawalla 29, Kantila) 3-26). MAS nudged out Philips 19-18 in a Business Houses
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    • 210 23 BASEBALL Chicago White Sox edged Milwaukee Brewers 1-0 after an extra innings in an American League game on Friday. Other results: Baltimore 5 NY Yankees 3. Detroit 2 Cleveland I, Toronto 3 Boston 0, Oakland 7 Texas 6, Minnesota 3 Seattle 1, California 1 Kansas City 0. National League:
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    • 345 23 ON THE TENNIS SCENE LONDON Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg slithered into the semi-finals of the London grass-court tennis championship on Friday, to the undisguised relief of the sponsors and rain-drenched spectators alike. Edberg, top seed here and world No. 3, dropped a set
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    • 363 21 NOTICE I APOLOGY The caterer of the dinner held on Saturday, 4 June 1988, at Marsiling Community Centre on the wedding occasion of Mr. Ong Yew Lian, youngest son of Mr. Ong Chir Tit, and Miss Koh Poh Geok, wishes to express his sincere apology to the guests for the
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  • The Sunday Times Sportsfront
    • 502 24 Anthony concedes walkover TAY CHENG KHOON on the East Asia squash tourney KUALA LUMPUR Singapore's Ong Soo Heng had the easiest passage into the semi-finals of the East Asia men's individual squash championship here yesterday. He received a walkover from teammate Anthony Chua, the second
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    • 151 24 JANSENITES started the new Premier League hockey season the way they ended it last season unimpressively. Yesterday, they went down 3-0 to Police Sports Association at Farrer Park. And if that performance was anything to go by, they will find it difficult to keep their place at
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    • 423 24 QUARTER-FINAL RESULTS Men: Zainal Abidin (Sin) bt Simon Yang (Sin) 9-3, 9-3, 9-3; Raymond Arnold (Mai) bt Terrence Lian (Mai) 9-3, 10-9, 9-1; Robbie Robinson (HK) bt Andrew Shum (HK) 9-1, 9-2, 9-1; Ong Soo Heng w.o. Anthony Chua. Women: Chia Chew
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    • EUROPEAN SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP
      • 411 24 Spaniards survive late rally to beat Denmark 3-2 and lead Group One LINE-UPS SPAIN 3 DENMARK 2 SPAIN Andoni Zubizarreta, Tomas, Manuel Sanchis, Genar Andrlnua, Jose Antonio Camacho, Ricardo Gallego, Victor, Michel, Rafael Gordillo, Emillo Bntragneno, Jose Maria Bakero. DENMARK Troels Rasmusea,
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      • 288 24 TODAY ENGLAND v REP. OF IRELAND STUTTGART England, hit by familiar injury woes, face their first major test since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico when they meet Ireland in tonight's opening Group Two match. With central defenders Mark Wright and Dave Watson very doubtful, captain
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      • 301 24 HOLLAND v SOVIET UNION COLOGNE Holland and the Soviet Union, two of the world's most gifted teams, should provide a rich soccer spectacle when they clash in Group Two tonight if caution does not cramp their styles. The potential for adventure is personified in opposing
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    • 119 24 Tomorrow (delayed telecast): Holland v Soviet Union (10pm, RTM 2). Tuesday (Uve): West Germany v Denmark (11pm, RTM 2). Wednesday (Uve): England v Holland (11pm, SBC 12. RTM 2). Thursday (delayed): Italy v Spain (10pm, RTM 2). Friday (delayed): Eire v S Union (11pm, RTM 2). Satarday
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    • 280 24 Easy win for Ernest in Under-19 squash final ERNEST Tan took the Boys' Under-19 squash title with an easy 9-0, 9-3, 9-4 victory over Mark Hill in the final of the Milo National Championships at the West Coast Recreation Centre yesterday (writes A. SURENDREN). Mark had not yet settled down
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    • 154 24 SINGAPORE beat Negri Sembilan 6-3 in their BAM-Milo Talent Cup badminton match at the Singapore Badminton Hall last night. Besalts Singapore first) Wamea'* niagka: Zarinah Abdullah bt Poh Chin Peng 11-5. 11-7. Kiori'i tfaiblra: Lim Seok Bee Yeo Li Li lost to Chia Yoke Nee Lai Soo
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    • 164 24 ATHLETICS MR2S X-Coon-try Marathon (Macßitchie, 6.30am). JAL Equator Marathon (National Stadium, 6.30am). CRICKET Barker Shield: CSC IvTTI (CSC), TT 2 v SCA Schoolboys (IA), UWC v MRTC (SCRC) at 10.30am; SCRC 2 v SCC (SCRC), IA v SRC (IA), Safsa v SCRC 1 (CSC) at 2.30pm. NETBALL BHLL
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  • TV PLUS
    • 13 1 TV PLUS Scene TV Eye TV Listings Cinema Comics Classifieds Young Life Music
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    • 427 1 Pretty tow these days if the rise of husky-voiced women singers is anything to go by, reports LOW MEI ME!. ANITA MUI, 24, (left) is hotter than hot today with her sensual purr. A multi-faceted stage vamp who has struck a chord with young
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    • SCENE
      • 669 2 British promoter Darryl Patton tells LOW MEI MEI he has high hopes of putting a hard rock Singapore band on the international pop charts BRITISH Darryl Patton is a man with a big dream. He aims to put a Singapore rock band, Energy, onto the
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      • LOOK EAST
        • 88 2 Carina plays solitaire CARINA Lau Kar Ling has been avoiding fans and reporters by staying home says a Hongkong weekend magazine. She does not read the papers, magazines or gossip columns. Lau feels that she has lost face, because her planned March wedding has been called off. She has made
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        • 82 2 A HANDSHAKE was never more expensive for Maggie Teng, reports a Malaysian newspaper. At a recent charity concert there, hordes of fans went backstage to greet the Singapore singer after the show. A few well-wishes and handshakes later, Teng found her diamond ring missing. "It was quite impossible
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        • 82 2 WHEN asked in a local magazine survey if she would ever fall in love with a "mama's boy", Chan Mun Yee's first reaction was "You've got to be kidding. Never, not even when Cupid shoots his arrow my way." This down-to-earth actress is glad that she
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        • 75 2 Lydia Sum threw a big party for her daughter, Joyce, who turned one and, according to a Hongkong magazine, invited 70 people, stars and children alike. She said she hoped the occasion would leave a lasting impression on the little girl. She believes that Joyce
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        • 72 2 ACTRESS Carol Cheng is serious about getting into the music scene and this time, she is not rushing into anything. In fact, she is testing the waters quite carefully, undergoing voice test after voice test. "I want to perfect my pitch before going into recording proper,"
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        • 86 2 A FILM producer has confessed to Hongkong reporters that he is trying to woo Theresa Chang, wife of Kenny Bee. No, not romantically but for a movie role. After her recent marriage, Chang, who is not an actress, has become increasingly popular with Ah B's
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        • 103 2 TAIWANESE singer Lin Shu Juan is now in an unusual position. While her compatriots establish themselves first in Taiwan, she is just now trying to break into the home scene. Lin, who has signed a contract with a Singapore recording company, hopes in the near
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        • 72 2 MOVIE star Alan Tang, recently went to court for something that had occured two years ago. According to Malaysian papers, on the eve of Christmas 198(6, Tang had driven onto a pedestrian path and knocked down a policeman in Hongkong. His driver's licence had also expired
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      • 658 3 From the Fifties to the Eighties, these were singers who struck a deep chord From Page 1 CAI QIN, 91. Who can sound sadder? Who can go lower? The woman with a mole resembling a teardrop under her eye blazes a new trail m the 1980s
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        502 3  -  JOHN BLAKE (IPS) By Tina Turner won't play herself in movie TINA Turner and Mickey MtMtff Sa very likely but Disney Films otiating for the to develop a film :k star Tina Turner. i has said she will as a consultant on •oject, but she does ant to play
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    • TV EYE
      • 730 4  -  VAL MacQUEEN ON THE BLINK By THE first Video Ordnance (Monday, Ch 12, 10.30 pm) opened with some stunning shots of fighter planes. Today's fighters are machines of incongruous beauty. Their sleek and soaring lines are designed to facilitate killing, and
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      • 256 4 Aliens are flooding American living rooms STEP aside, Alf. More aliens are coming and it is no longer a laughing matter. The invasion escalates in the United States with the two-part Something Is Out There, about a beautiful alien (Maryam D'Abo) who comes to Earth to hunt down a shape-shift-ing
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      • 379 4 MEN will start over, raising kids, raising their consciousness. Women will be competent in their work, confused in their personal lives. And flashbacks to the past will provide a touchstone. The new television series announced this month in the United States for airing late
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    • CINEMA
      • 550 7 Crocodile tear jerker For actor Paul Hogan, the price of fame is his family life. SHAUN USHER reports WALKING over the painful debris of a marriage, Paul "Crocodile Dundee" Hogan, 49, seems to be travelling a stereotyped road. He may have conquered the entertainment world, but he packs his bags
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      • 339 7  -  John Cornell TAY YEK KEAK CROCODILE DUNDEE II I At Shaw cinemas I Starring Paul Hogan and Linda I Kozlowski I Directed by By THE MOST likeable tourist in the movies is back. Paul Hogan returns as Mick Dundee, the back-to-nature bushman from
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      • 238 7  -  Rob Reiner TAV YEK KEAK PRINCESS BRIDE At Prince 2 Starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright Directed by IT IS hard to believe in fairy tales. It is even harder to laugh at them. The Princess Bride tries to make us do both. The movie is in
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      • 331 7 THE movie Willow may wow them at the box-office, but name experts think George Lucas' new movie has a terrible title. "It's very soft," says Charles E. Brymer, president of Interbrand Corporation which specialises in the creation of names. These days,
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      • 74 7 NAME entrepreneur Charles Bryner says these movie titles are crowd-pull-ers: Body Heat: "Its has sex appeal." Ghostbnsters: "A whole new concept." Jaws: "Short, memorable." Vertigo: "Mysterious." Three Men and a Baby: "Memorable. It tells what the movie is about." Moonstruck: "It has a sense of mystery and appeal."
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      • 40 7 The Last Emperor: "A great movie with a lousy, dry name". Ishtar: "It's just awful". Above the Law: "Sounds like a lot of names already out there." Stand and Deliver: "Sounds like bits and pieces of other movies."
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      • 202 13 A three-page feature to mark the country's 11th National Day which was on June 5 MESSAGE France Albert Rene President lication by the Singapore Straits Timoo f\t o crwitol llllltra Ul a. o|Jtf(_lAl Seychelles on the occasion of our National Day. Relations between
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      • 211 13 BORN on the island of Mahe in 1935, President France Albert Rene was educated at St Louis College in Victoria and Seychelles College. In 1953, he went to study in Switzerland, intending to become a priest; he later changed his mind and studied
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        172 13 Geography SEYCHELLES lies in the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Africa. It consists of a chain of islands with a land area of 455 sq km. The climate is tropical with temperatures ranging between 24 deg C and 29 deg C. Government Seychelles is a sovereign
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      • 1219 14 Seychelles a new nation on the march I republic in ?stern Indian i has made strides in ng poverty unemploysince the Liberation of June 1977. It has progressed on virtually all fronts, successfully contending with its economic problems caused by external factors. Since independence, the country has set up a
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      • 476 15  -  CYNTHIA YEO By I GROUNDED :he silky blue (rs of the Indi)cean, the 115 ids of the Seyles promise iaymakers a xing holiday away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Mahe, the main island of the Seychelles, boasts 97 km
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      • 397 15 Victoria from marshy ground to capital city NOT so long ago, Victoria was a mere seafront town with nearly all its people directly or indirectly engaged in commercial activities. These involved the export of primary goods and products obtained from the virgin forests of Mahe and the neighbouring islands. Today,
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      • 399 20  -  LEE SWEE HOON The plight of Brazil's Indian tribes has stung the socially-aware singer into firmly backing a Live Aid-type concert next year WHO would have guessed that pop star Sting would take to heart the plight of Indian tribes in Brazil? In fact, his
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    • 247 9 THE BMWJLLBSEJL I I I I I today's world SI I I /ALL B6HT, COO 1 A I I (^LIKB 6CWOR^A^y I pvAvO /^v^s^^» r^Jf^xL^ I "Don't you think it'a a bit risky doing your <«ke it it'« not just a common cold then, N o* tn you've developed an
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    • 149 13 A beach all to yourselves In the world of travel in the 80s this is a pro- natural beauty, smiling and welcoming people mise very few exotic destinations can live up to: and warm temperatures throughout the year, a deserted stretch of soft white sand shaded by Air Seychelles welcomes
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    • 50 13 Rj BEST WISHES TO THE GOVERNMENT PEOPLE OF SEYCHELLES ON THEIR NATIONAL DAY FROM H New Zealand Milk Products (S) Re Ltd 214 Pandan Loop, Singapore 0512. Jurong Town P.O. Box 184, Singapore 9161 Tel: *****68 Cable: 'DAPROMARK" Telex: RS ***** DAPSING Fax: *****00 SUPPLIERS OF NEW ZEALAND DAIRY PRODUCTS
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    • 84 14 Rj BEST WISHES TO THE GOVERNMENT PEOPLE OF SEYCHELLES ON THEIR NATIONAL DAY From CTTf NGO CHEW HONG GROUP OF COMPANIESJggl Ngo Chew Hong Edible Oil Pte. Ltd. &*y£^ Choon Heng Transport Warehousing Pte. Ltd. Containers Printers Pte. Ltd. Neo Chew Hong Oils Fats (M) Sdn. Bhd. Saber Hong Kong
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    • 39 14 BEST WISHES TO THE GOVERNMENT PEOPLE OF SEYCHELLES ON THEIR NATIONAL DAY FROM /f K JARK ENTERPRISE SDN. BHD ml VC 55A, Jalan 21/12, ***** Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. W0 Telephone: 60-3-*****32/60-3-*****30 Telex: MA ***** SKAN v Fax: 60-3-*****55
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    • 216 15 SKYTRUCK FORWARDERS (S) PTE LTD j General Sales Agent (Cargo) of Seychelles national Airline of Seychelles the people of the REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES on their 1 2zV^ LIBERATION UNIQUE c^BY A THOUSAND MILES /^<fwX\ or Cargo Enquiries, please contact: Gljp. SKYTRUCK FORWARDERS (S) PTE LTD i^^Efi-ai U5 Airport Car^ o
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    • 150 15 BEST WISHES TO THE GOVERNMENT PEOPLE OF SEYCHELLES ON THEIR NATIONAL DAY FROM Khong Guan Biscuit Factory (S) Re Ltd. 120, Tanjong Rhu Road, Singapore 1543. Tel: *****94 (5 Lines) Fax: *****05. Telex: KGFOOD RS ***** /^^a WOLECO HOTEL SUPPLIES PTE LTD Jj&ttdfY Block 2001, Bukil Batok Industrial Park A,
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    • 700 16 2 Eating Out it NORTH INDIAN M RESTAURANT I I Boulevard Hotel I I TEL: *****79 I I I Daily Set I I I 1 Lunch $12.90 I The most exquisite I Tandoon chicken. I delicate samosas and I the finest selection of I naans awaits you. I SUNDAY BUFFET
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    • 12 1 SUNDAY PLUS Mind and Body Arts Food Fashion G Travel Motoring T^ifii^^BM^^^rplKT*>s^Hi
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    • 277 1  - SECOND WIND CAREERS K.F. TANG By QUIETLY and unobtrusively, some workers are furthering government policy as well as fulfilling their own dreams. They are the retirees who go on working while many others put up their feet and call it a day. In so doing, they boost the available workforce:
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      • 117 1 07? THE WOMAN WHOJDESERVES THE I FINEST THINGS IN LIFE. I These exquisite pieces, priced frnm SS2JOO, represent just a small selection of the 108 pieces specially designed for Q the 'Diamonds of Distinction 1988' f^ Collection. This sparkling collection of M diamond jewellery is proudly brought J 4 to
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    • MIND & BODY
      • 508 2 Have you seen the white tigers at the Singapore Zoo? If so, you may have been disappointed at what you found two rare beasts lying there like a pair of brown and white striped logs, their blue eyes firmly closed, for hows
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      • 958 2 So many people have heart bypass surgery that it is often forgotten that it is still at an experimental stage. In addition, reports NEVILLE HODGKINSON of The Sunday Times of London, its opponents think that the technique is oversold. The grafts
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      • 549 2 YOU have been tapped to represent your department at your boss's next dinner party. You are scheduled to speak at the annual sales conference. You have got a job interview. And you have got the jitters. That is understandable, but it
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      • 253 2 Beauty treat for pretty feet. Scholl Rough Skin _J Remover JB It's specially for- £fi^^nM .4 -^M\ mulated to effectively .gg flake away rough, dry skin fv_- ■Jfl on your feet, knees and elbows. It also StCl -M^M helps to nourish >«j|^^H and moisturise m* them to restore JM their
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    • ARTS
      • 1425 3 QUESTIONS At 26, this multi-talented Deputy Public Prosecutor has written three plays. One was prohibited, the other two, gladly accepted for the current Arts Festival. This Thursday, Peter's Passionate Pursuit, her award- winning plky, opens at the Drama Centre. Interview by ANNE LOW. 1.
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      • 560 3  -  GEORGE HWANG By WHO'D be a cabaret girl? When- TheatreWorks announced auditions for roles in the chorus for their musical, Beauty World, they never expected as many as 120 people to turn up on a Saturday afternoon, said Lucilla Teoh, the production manager. Although they were
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      • 221 3 FROM painting to porcelain, watercolours to acrylic, mixed media to driftwood the Pavilion Inter-Continental hotel lobby has been a showcase for budding talents since October last year. Twelve of the artists have been invited to bring back their new creations until June 29 for the
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      • 269 3 HOME DECOR june july ss K^P^^ H Grow Glossy, Swaying PALMS Indoors A An Egyptian Palace in Hollywood for Superstar CHER J_fl A Knowing '*< Loving It, Living with It M ORIENTAL ANTIQUE FURNITURE M B No Paper Plates Please! We entertain properly, say S'pore hosts H Parisian designer Annie
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    • FOOD
      • 745 4 Setting off for an Arts Festival performance with some friends? Have tea just before, suggests MARGARET CHAN. EAT IN MAKE a party of the Arts Festival. Invite friends who have tickets for the same show to a late tea, after which you can all
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      • 190 4 Scones Serves 10 to 12 250 g self-raising flour Vt tsp salt 1 tsp cream of tartar 1 tsp castor sugar 50 g butter (hard from the refrigerator) 8 tbsps milk (or milk thinned half and half with water) milk for glazing L Set the oven at 225 deg
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      • 712 4  - Breadmaking kneads little effort THERESA HENG GADGETS By ANYONE who has baked bread will tell you that it is a process during which you would be wise not to loaf off. It takes time, kneading skills and a constant oven temperature of between 28 deg C and 30 deg C
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        262 5 ONE-PRICE MEAL House of Blossoms, Marina Mandarin: 338-3388. Choose from $50 dishes for only $19 a person. Until end of June. NIANG OOU FU Hotel Equatorial: 732-0431. Varied spread of niang dou fu in Hakka or Japanese style, and in curry or clear soup. $8.50 a person. COUSCOUS
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      • 966 5 Cloning a success story Three Peranakan restaurants are vying for as close a taste as possible to the favoured homecooked version of the cuisine. MARGARET CHAN reports. EAT OUT PERANAKAN cuisine, it is popularly believed, tastes best when cooked at home. Unlike the French and Chinese foods, its aromatic flavours
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      • 702 5 Supermarket buys are a problem for the person who eats alone, says THERESA HENG CONVENIENCE, food that keeps and in an amount just enough for one person is the magical combination that singles in Singapore look for when they shop at the supermarkets. But
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      • 822 4 Regular readers will know that this column always ends with a recommendation to clip the coupon and to find out more about The Wine Set. We lead with this today because a couple of weeks ago we held the first Wine Party of the season. Gathered in Silks Lounge in
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      • 210 5 COMMEMORATIVE STAMP ISSUE Date of Issue 6 July 1988 V jif^^^ Stamp Denominations 10c, 30c and $1 V^ iJ First Day Covers f%£S —7 These attractively designed envelopes complement the new F^L^^i^ fIH stamp issue. Customers can buy them at 15 cents each between 15 June 1988 and 6 July
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    • FASHION
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        1046 6 Or how two super-power women can offer lessons m dress sense. Your guide is CATHERINE ONG THE winner in the hotly contested sartorial battle between Mrs Raisa Gorbachev and Mrs Nancy Reagan was decided on Sunday, May 29. The moment the world's TV cameras picked up the vision
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      • 507 6 ADVERTISEMENT Warm weather skincare: Keep it light and simple How do I protect m> skin? |^HH^HHHH leaving thai uncomfortable The last thing you need are oi| V after feel, heavy or creamy skincare preparations that trap sweat Is Hazeline Light Lotion and dirt and leave you with «SJ' suitable for
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      • 47 6 A new look at Straits Times Supplements and home insurance. j J Your selling messages in households which is more UU rtxzxzi X y'^\^ on 730-5703, Peter Chong on 730-5449 or Rose Tan m F9BKSTWI^9I^W!T^If^ on 730-5656 and be seen by ■HPWfWSff^tifl UONmUmUQIS the people that matter.
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      • 374 6 Are you handicapped by your English? Are you content with the way errors. How to express your ideas you speak and write? Are you fluently. sure that you are not making The study requires only a mistakes that cause people to little time, and very moderate underrate you? You are
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    • TRAVEL
      • 662 7  -  CHARLES PARR By TINY Manyara, in Tanzania, is a strip of scrub and forest between the steep walls of the Great Rift Valley and a huge moon-like lake. It is so small that from my room on the rift's rim, I
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      • 1360 7 It's easier to suit a man in Hongkong V Bags stuffed with heavy Scottish tweed and matching silk thread, AMANDA MAYER STINCHECUM of the New Yak Times" put the colony's tailoring reputation to the test IF YOU think having a suit made m Hongkong, where the tourist association booklet lists
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        568 7 Seoul for the sleepless at night LOOKING for more than a thoroughly laid-back stroll after a kimchi-spiced dinner? In Seoul, visitors wishing to make the -most of a long night can ask for new night tours which loop through shops, spot-lit facades of cathedrals and grand municipal buildings,
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    • SPOTLIGHT United Kingdom
      • 676 8 MESSAGE Michael Pike High Commissioner IT gives me great pleasure to introduce this supplement, marking the occasion of the Birthday of Her Majesty The Queen, and devoted to British high Britain is, of course, an ok country, with a monarchy dating back over 1100 years
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      • 305 8  - Queen's Award: Double honour for 1 2 companies YEO KIM SENG A special feature to mark the official birthday of H M Queen Elizabeth II on June 1 1 By TWELVE British companies have won double honour for this year's Queen's awards for export and technology. They are among the
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      • 21 8 Economic growth rates (Percent change in real GNP) Manufacturing productivity (Percent change of average annua) output per employee)
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        209 8 Geography GREAT Britain comprises England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It is a member of the European Community. Population Its population in 1986 was 56.8 million. England is the most densely populated with 362 people per sq km, and Scotland the least densely-populat-ed with 65 people per sq
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      • 602 9  -  YEO KIM SENG By SURFACE SCIENCE, the study Imditions and ges on the ces of solids interfaces, be taught at National University of Singapore next academic year. This is made possible following the installation of a $1.6 million equipment at the National University of Singapore physics
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      • 661 9  -  TONY OLIVER By ROBOTS may be used in the future to fight fires that are too dangerous for humans to attempt, predict British scientists. Already, research to design the first fire-fight-ing robots that are able to "see" in smoke-filled rooms, direct jets of water
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      • 850 10  -  HARRY COLE By THE vast majority of modern display systems make use of the übiquitous cathode ray tube (CRT) and there is at present no serious contender to this remarkable Since its invention more than 50 years ago it has been used in the cathode ray
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      • 583 10  -  ERIC FORD By IN THE continuing search for energy, the world's oil and gas men are being forced to seek new sources of supply in ever more difficult locations. Offshore means exploiting reserves at much greater depths, in rougher seas, under increasingly hostile conditions, and
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      • 1006 11  -  JOHN NEWELL By R techniques ntinually beioneered in nited Kingdom to enhance maternity care for both mother and A recent report by the official British Maternity Services Advisory Committee says: "The aim of antenatal care must be to ensure as far as possible
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      • 865 11  -  BARRY SHURLOCK By SURGEONS will, in the near future, be trained as mi-cro-endoscopists and bio-engi-neers rather than as butchers and carpenters, according to Mr John Wickham, head of the Academic Unit of London's Institute of Urology. This radical change in surgery is already well
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      • 1157 12  -  LEON CLIFFORD By DELICATE microsurgery to repair faulty silicon chips was performed in Britain for the first time last year. It was done by a team of engineers from a small high technology company which now plans to turn it into a money-spinning business. The company,
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      • 352 12  -  OR WILFRID FOX By COMPUTER modelling for oil and gas field development, especially reservoir simulation, is very important in evaluating technical risks and costs. Stimulated by the need to develop the large reserves of North Sea oil and gas, Britain's Department of
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      • 296 13  -  ROY DAVIES By ■IN THE era of powerful desk-top computers, information technology is reshaping many aspects of the modern world. Two of them are image analysis and machine vision. The first concerns the systematic use of computers to extract information from images, whether they involve
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      • 465 13  -  ERIC FORD By -]THE first major advance since welding replaced riveting in the *****. That is the claim made for a r esearch project t>eing undertaken by the School of Marine Technology at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in north-east England. As one of only four Centres for
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      • 776 14  -  DR ALFRED LINk MEY By A NUMBER of medica 1 imaging systems now in use i produce cross-sectional imag es of the human body. The mos t important of these is the X -ray computerised tomogra phy (CT) scanner. This system
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      • 308 14  -  YEO KIM SENG By Singapore meets half of world's supply of anti-ulcer drug IC Glaxochem b produces Id's supply of lajor compoof an anti-ul-drug that has scored most-pre-scribed-drug status in the Guinness Book of Records. The output of the component, ranitidine hydrochloride, an active
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      • 205 14 RAW material for the manufacture of ranitidlne hydrochloride arrives as a solvent from authorised suppliers. The solvent is then discharged to the solvent storage area and tested. Through a series of chemical reactions, the starting material, a liquid bi-product of cereal nature, is converted into ranitidlne hydrochloride.
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      • 554 14  -  WILLIAM PRINCE By A RADAR set shrouded in icicles turns on its pedestal and a technician monitors its performance carefully. The radar inside a large freezer cabinet is undergoing environmental testing before being installed on board a warship. It will have
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      • 91 8 British Airways new A I )\i( MAI 1 1 C'lub World has been created to H ensure that you arrive W 1 1 i i relaxed and refreshed no matter ANYONE ELSE how long your journey. Through London Heathrow r over 145 destinations in 65 V s HIH I^"*^ V
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      • 222 10 BARCLAYS BANK IS IN ASEAN TO HELP YOU EVERYWHERE INTHEWORLD What can our High Tech Managers do for you that low tech managers can't? To ensure that our managers have the specialist knowledge you need, they have the technology to help. Because they have the backing of our high tech
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      • 48 11 CONGRATULATIONS and best wishes to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her birthday. GLAXOCHEM (PTE) LTD 1, Pioneer Sector 1, Jurong, Singapore 2262 Tel: 861 21 1 1 Telex: RS ***** Glaxem Fax: 861 1806 Manufacturers of Pharmaceutical Chemicals A member of the Glaxo Group
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      • 509 12 WARMEST CONGRATULATIONS BEST WISHES TO HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II ON THE OCCASION OF HER BIRTHDAY from Plessey (S E Asia) Pte Ltd 400 Orchard Road #21-07, Orchard Towers, S'pore 0923 Tel: 732 5000 Telex: RS ***** PLESSIN I FAX: 732 9036 J BY APPOINTMENT TO HER MAJESTY THE OUEEN
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      • 79 14 lAI I I H A I 1 Blfl I 1 I 1 1 WWHamfm If Blnlll I I I I 1 3 1 itfl 1 ot?/// H w A H ■nirfl smWt/t, I V A I II llii/ Kt :F Reference Series Model 107. "Hi-Fi Grand I D rix Award
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      • 70 14 THE COMPETITIVE EDGE 85SBCB"' (Mnw MWIY»VMK»SaiVHSnW»IEUMnED 3) Aircraft Sales l^^irTT II 21 Lovang Crescent, Singapore 1750. ChangiPO Box 36, Singapore 9150 4) Avionics, Instrument And Electrical SinCanOrY* *****55 Fa *****36 Telex DOWTYS n^S 5 I B €t t J%jrG 1075 Great West Road. Sektar Airport, Singapore 2879 Jalan Kavu P
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    • MOTORING
      • 491 15 When the female is less deadly than the male WOMEN may well have their share of knocks and scrapes when driving, but when it comes to accidents involving people, the female is definitely less deadly than the male. A study of every accident on British roads during the course of
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      • 477 15  -  WINSTON LEE By THE Fiat "babies" currently available in Singapore stand out for their peppy engines and competitive prices. Not everyone will like their tall silhouettes and van-like tails but no one can say they lack character: the Uno will certainly stand
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      • 218 15  - Brake fluid neglect it at your own risk WINSTON LEE Q: When I sent my two-year-old ear for service the other day, the mechanic suggested that the brake fluid should be renewed. Is he right or Is he trying to earn extra money? After all, my brakes still work. A:
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      • 85 15 LET YOUR ADS TSKE CENTRESKGE While the editorial looks latest developments and at the popular watering trends affecting and holes, the hottest nightspots, influencing Singapore's exciting theatres and entertainment industry, relaxing lounges, your ads For early space can steal the limelight in It's reservations in this premier Entertainment. Straits Times
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      • 343 15 $58 m Oil change (Helix 4 Spark plugs (4pcs) ifckl) Contact point Cleaning engine Mfv Engine tuning by Vjj Pi lie cßce .7* r«tfe 3 boxes Qf (|SS(^ an<j Brake test by 3 cakes of soap OR 2 computer of 1 25 l.tres Wheel alignment test of F& N drink
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    • SPOTLIGHT Philippines
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        472 16 Geography THE Republic of the Philippines lies in the western Pacific Ocean, east of mainland Southeast Asia. It is flanked by the island of Kalimantan in the south-west and New Guinea in the southeast. The main islands are Luzon in the north and Mindanao in the south. In
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      • 246 16 A special feature to mark the country's 90th Independence Day today MESSAGE Corazon C. Aquino President I TAKE pleasure in greeting my countrymen in Singapore on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of Philippine Independence. This is a rare occasion when
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      • 233 16 MESSAGE Francisco L. Benedicto Ambassador NINETY years ago on June 12, Filipino revolutionaries declared the independence of the Philippines. Through these years while the Philippines was going through various phases in its economic and political development, it has learned to nurture its
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      • 265 16 THE Philippine economy posted a 5.7 per cent growth in the gross national product (GNP) last year after five years of negative growth. The growth, considered a triumph of economics over politics by Dr Bernardo Villegas, a well-known Filipino economist, was achieved despite disturbances in
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      • 886 17 A FEW years ago, the Philippines was known mainly as a provider of raw materials to a few industrialised markets. Its exports were heavily dominated by traditional and mostly agricultural products such as sugar, logs and lumber, copra and coconut oil, bananas, and
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      • 84 17 THE Philippines is a country where visitors are welcome with open arms and generous hearts a welcome as warm as the friendly smiles that invite visitors to share in the Philippines' rich culture and unique way of life. The Philippines offers myriad attractions as varied
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      • 161 17 Gomnratiiktim u to the Republic of the Philippines on their 90th Independence Day. I Come and try our Popular I varieties including 'E^X Drunken Prawns, Peking 'fek. Wagon etc. Only at I 1^ V Facilities: 220 luxuriously I >tT Vi\ furnished rooms. Coffee 0f j i^^ Tft\ House (24 hours).
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      • 448 17 Once again, throughout I Q BB, guests staying in our suites will enjoy free use of a car and chauffeur. After all we would do no less for our other celebrity guests. Most luxury hotels The car and chauffeur are arrival to departure. and chauffeur before provide first class yours
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    • WORK
      • 812 18 No' to idleness: it killed a friend 'SECOND WIND' CAREERS From Page 1 FORMER hotel manager Mr Stephen Wee, 58, has always had an aversion to retirement: "My uncle stopped work at 65 and died three years later. A friend from my Raffles Hotel days stopped at 66 and died
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      • 816 18 FOR Mr Bhajan Singh, 56, life after retirement two-and-a-half years ago has come full circle: he is back to cleaning for a living, which he did in his very first job as a 13-year-old way back in 1946. From
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      • 520 18 FOR those contemplating work beyond the normal retirement age of 55, cheerful grandmother Madam Foo Juck Buay, 62, is a pathfinder of sorts, having already chalked up seven years of "second wind" work. A medical attendant at the Singapore Cheshire
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