The Straits Times, 13 February 1994

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  • 691 1 Way open for retaliatory action by Washington WASHINGTON In what officials called a grim turning point m economic ties between the United States and Japan, President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa admitted on Friday that an important set of trade talks had collapsed opening
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  • 495 1 Sanctions 'an option' if talks over nuclear checks fail WASHINGTON The United States has won support from Japan and South Korea to prepare United Nations sanctions against North Korea for refusing to open its nuclear sites to international inspections. Tokyo and Seoul
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  • 445 1 THIEVES broke into the Kaki Bukit branch of POSBank, at Bedok Reservoir Road, over the Lunar New Year holidays and made off with about $180,000 m cash. A police spokesman said the thieves forced open the back door of a neighbouring
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  • 116 1 LONDON A British Lord has signed on for unemployment benefits after resigning as a minister when his wife committed suicide, a newspaper has reported. The Sun said on Friday that former Transport Minister Lord Caithness was collecting £44.65 (SSIOS) a week dole, having been made
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 634 2  -  M. Nirmala Talks will take place behind closed doors By THE fight to give medical benefits to families of women civil servants has taken a new turn: one umbrella body of women's groups has dropped its confrontational stance and plans to talk
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    • 122 2 THE Government has all along given two reasons for keeping its policy of not giving women civil servants the same medical benefits as their male counterparts. The reasons are: THE men are heads of households; and MEDICAL benefits are provided to children of women who are widowed, divorced
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    • 113 2 'Enough of confronting the policymakers m public. We also know that if you go around beating your breast, you are not going to get anywhere. It's better to present your facts m a reasoned and mature way, and doing this behind closed doors might give the
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    • 168 2 ONE of the three survivors of Tuesday's fire at Jurong Shipyard died on Friday night. Mr Rosli Senin, 20, a pipe fitter from Malacca, was being treated at the Singapore General Hospital after he suffered 90 per cent burns m the fire
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    • 34 2 PARLIAMENT will sit on Feb 23 at 2 pm, thc Clerk of Parliament announced yesterday. Finance Minister Richard Hu will outline the Government's annual Budget plans at this sitting.
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    • 357 2 A time for remembrance MRS SHEILA Ritchie was only two years old when her older brother, James, died m Singapore as a 19-year-old prisoner of war. At the Kranji Commonwealth War Cemetery yesterday, she finally visited the grave of the brother she never knew. "It's a dream come true," said
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    • 123 2 and a time for romance LONDON A football fan who proposed to his girlfriend by popping the question on a scoreboard at a soccer match was named Britain's most romantic man on Friday. Mr Anthony Abbott, 29, won a holiday for two m Hongkong and Bali m a competition that
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    • 591 3 Militia withdraws artillery from city limits, hands over weapons to UN forces WASHINGTON Serb forces near Sarajevo are holding their fire and have finally begun complying wifh a Western ultimatum to pull their heavy weapons outside the city's 20-km cxc lusion zone. filter a slow
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    • 145 3 THE Singapore Government yesterday welcomed the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs to stop shelling Sarajevo and withdraw or hand over their heavy weapons to United Nations forces. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said m a statement that the immediate response of the
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    • 542 3 He looked like he had one foot m the grave, completely unaware of what was going on around him. The man we saw on TV can no longer be presented as the supreme leader, responsible for top decisions.' A diplomat. BEIJING A
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 290 2 Tw Weather JU Showers over several areas m the late afternoon and early evening. TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow: 31 mai., 24 mm. SUNSET today: 7.21 pm; SUNRISE tomorrow: 7.17 am. TRAVEUERS' HEATHER Amsterdam 0/5 C Cloudy Madrid 1/14 C Clear Athens 6/12 C Cloudy Manila 23/31 C
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  • WORLD
    • 373 4 US-Japan trade row Washington looking at ways to force open Japanese markets after trade summit fails 'Two very large trucks have collided. Now you have to pull the pieces apart and that's not at all easy.' Mr Robert Hormats, vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs International. WASHINGTON The
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    • 423 4 TOKYO Business leaders here yesterday said they were concerned about deteriorating trade ties with the US after summit talks m Washington failed to resolve the Japan trade-sur-plus issue. During the summit on Friday, US President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa failed to agree on
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    • 404 4 120 hurt m Tokyo freak storm Financial markets forced to close m New York TOKYO A freak snow storm brought havoc to the Japanese capital yesterday, causing scores of traffic accidents and delaying hundreds of thousands of air and rail passengers. The authorities
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    • 354 4 NUCLEAR ISSUE WASHINGTON Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa said on Friday that Tokyo had no intention of developing nuclear weapons, despite accusations by North Korea. "I see no possibility that Japan would decide to become a nuclear power. Such a policy would be
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    • 410 6 ROBBEN ISLAND Standing m the lime quarry where they used to toil with picks and shovels, African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela and other former political prisoners struggled on Friday to remember the songs they sang to lighten their load. It was one of
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    • 440 6 Beijing pledges to continue to deepen reforms Finance, trade and state firms the focus 'Development is the nations purpose while reform is the motive power and stability is the guarantee. The goal is to promote development through reform.' Vice-President Rong Yiren. BEIJING Chinese VicePresident Rong Yiren has reaffirmed that China
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    • 317 6 HONGKONG China was expected to resume negotiations with Britain over financing plans for Hongkong's new airport after the Lunar New Year holidays, a Chinese official was reported as saying yesterday. Mr Guo Fengmin, head of the Chinese side of the
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    • 505 8 Western forces prepare for air strikes against Serb positions ROME British and French aircraft carriers headed for the Adriatic on Friday, and the US prepared to send more fighter bombers to bases m Italy as Nato began formally the countdown for Bosnia's Serbs to lift their s?oge of
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    • 112 8 LNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Boutros Ghali has delegated formally the authority to call In Nato air attacks to his representatives ln the field m a move to speed a decision on air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs should it be needed. In
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    • OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
      • 147 8 picture. SARAJEVO The people of besieged Sarajevo went out yesterday without risking their lives, a week after a market massacre of 68 people brought a ceasefire and a threat of Nato air strikes. As peacekeepers negotiated with warring Serbs and Muslims for the surrender
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      • 114 8 GENEVA Peace talks by Bosnia's three warring parties ended yesterday without any progress but would resume here at the end of this month or early next month, UN mediator Thorvald Stoltenberg said. He said that the few weeks' interim period was needed
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      • 86 8 JAKARTA Several thousand young Indonesian Muslims had volunteered to fight alongside fellow Muslims m Bosnia-Herzegovina, the official Antara news agency reported yesterday. "Some 3,000 Muslim youths gathered m the Al- Azhar Mosque m South Jakarta to enlist as volunteers to fight for their
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    • 309 8 IWO JIMA Emperor Akihito paid tribute yesterday to the 20,000 Japanese troops who died defending the desolate Pacific island of Iwo Jima m one of the bloodiest battles of World War 11. The Emperor and Empress Michiko, both clad m mourning black, bowed
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    • 417 8 BONN Germany's most serious strike m a decade looked certain yesterday after the IG Metall, the country's biggest union, failed to reach a compromise with employers m last-ditch talks on Friday. Union president Klaus Zwickel told German radio he was
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    • PEOPLE
      • 120 9 LOS ANGELES William Conrad, who played the rotund district attorney m American television's Jake And The Fatman and whose booming voice narrated such popular shows as Rocky And His Friends and The Fugitive, died on Friday of a heart attack. He was 73. He became ill
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      • 195 9 picture. WASHINGTON An Arkansas woman, appearing at a news conference with others who had accused President Bill Clinton of sexual misdeeds, said on Friday that Mr Clinton had asked her for "a type of sex" when the two were alone m an Arkansas hotel room
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      • 170 9 Jailed Tyson now into Mao and other serious writers NEW YORK Former world boxing champion Mike Tyson has been biding his jail time by reading the writings of Chairman Mao Zedong and literary heavyweights, according to interviews published m the latest issue of Esquire magazine. Tyson, sentenced to
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      • 530 9 Classrooms getting caught increasingly m the crossfire 'There are certain kids you don't even look at because that becomes a provocation.' Harvard psychologist Alvin Poussaint. WASHINGTON Armed youths m US schools are becoming more common, bolder and younger, and classrooms are getting caught
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      • 236 9 PHOENIX (Arizona) A teenager convicted of the execution-style killing of six monks and three others m a Thai Buddhist temple outside this city m 1991 has been sentenced to life m prison. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Gregory
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  • ASEAN
    • 500 10 Embassy duo allegedly involved m drug ring linked to mystery death INDONESIAN legislators criticised the government yesterday for permitting the departure without trial of two US diplomatic officials allegedly involved m an international drug syndicate. It was believed that the syndicate might
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    • 378 10 Greenpeace urges US and Germany to take back unwanted hazardous garbage JAKARTA The Greenpeace environmental organisation, m its campaign against toxic trade with the Asian region, has urged the United States and Germany to remove thousands of tonnes of hazardous plastic waste from Indonesia. "Greenpeace
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    • 311 10 BEIJING China protested formally to Indonesia and the Philippines yesterday about Taiwan President Lee Tenghui's "holiday" visits to the two countries, said the official Xinhua news agency. "The Chinese Foreign Ministry today lodged a protest with the Indonesian and Philippine
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    • 150 10 BANGKOK Farmers from Thailand's arid northeastern region had ended a week-long protest and march on the capital after the government agreed to most of their demands, newspapers reported yesterday. The Bangkok Post said eight hours of talks over three days ended late
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    • 126 10 JAKARTA A writer has filed a lawsuit against President Suharto for banning a book which tries to link the latter with the failed 1965 communist coup attempt. Writer Wimanjaya Liotohe demanded 100 trillion rupiah (Ss7s billion) m compensation from Mr Suharto and AttorneyGeneral Singgih,
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    • 76 10 JAKARTA Indonesian police yesterday released the chairman of an independent trade union. Mr Edward Marpaung, a leader of the Sejahtera (Prosperity) Indonesian Trade Union (SBSI), said Mr Muchtar Pakpahan left for Jakarta yesterday from central Java, where he spent three days m detention. Central Java's Semarang
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    • 80 10 MANILA Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti's concert here has been sold out despite a controversy over high-priced tickets said to be as much as the Philippine President's monthly salary. The concert, scheduled for next month, triggered off a controversy after Senator Bias Ople criticised it as ostentatious
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 363 11 THE Johor state government is expected to approve a proposal by a local company for a MJ2.5 billion (Ssl.4 billion) project to build up to 100,000 low-cost houses m the state. The New Straits Times yesterday quoted Mentri Besar
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    • Article, Illustration
      48 11 picture. These toilets at Tanjung Malim are a welcome sight for travellers on the North-South Highway. Nineteen such rest-and-service areas will be set up along the 890-km highway. Each has a surau (prayer house), food stalls, toilets, telephone booths, a playground, petrol kiosks and parking bays. NST
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    • 468 11 Malaysia wants Japan to pay more for LNG supplies According to a Bloomberg Business News report, Malaysia's rationale is that if Japan is unwilling to pay, then perhaps China, Thailand or India will. RATIONALE MALAYSIA, m the first hand of a high-stakes poker game, is telling its best customer, the
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    • 318 11 Sabah elections THE National Front (NF) yesterday fulfilled its pledge to develop primary and secondary schools m Sabah when the federal government gave nearly Ms 2 million (SSI 1 million) m grants to 30 schools. Bernama reported that Deputy Education Minis- ter
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    • 140 11 KOTA KINABALU Deputy Prime Minister and Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has said that a person convicted of corruption is corrupt and there Is no such thing as a "technical conviction for corrupParti Bersatu Sabah president Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan had
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    • 104 11 KOTA BARU Kelantan Umno would contest the by-election m the Lundang state seat, Kelantan Umno deputy liaison chief Senator Datuk Annuar Musa said yesterday. He said the party would go all out to capture the seat. "I believe the by-election will provide a good
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    • 144 11 PENANG Chief Minister Dr Koh Tsu Koon has said he was shocked and concerned by the action of the Kota Baru Municipal Council m preventing the Chinese community from holding a dinner to celebrate the Lunar New Year. "Instead of preventing
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    • 58 11 KUALA LUMPUR Eleven famillies lost their homes and source of income when their shophouses m Jalan Tenteram, Cheras, near here were destroyed by fire early yesterday. Most of the shops dealt m food. According to an official, the fire spread very fast because of explosions
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  • HOME
    • 634 12  - Wetland nature park faces damage from humans Dominic Nathan By ABOUT 20,000 visitors converged on Singapore's first wetland nature park at Sungei Buloh m its first month. But, with this highly successful start the park opened m December has come problems. It is now trying to cope with littering, vandalism
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    • 118 12 THE feathered residents of Singapore's largest bird sanctuary at Sungei Buloh are getting new neighbours: 3,000 crocodiles. While some people might worry that siting a crocodile farm close to a nature park filled with free-rang-ing exotic and endangered wildlife is presenting the
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    • 451 12 National Museum raises fees to hold more shows MUSEUMS NEW FEES Adults: $2, up from $1 Children aged six to 16: $1, up from 50 cents Senior citizens: $1, up from 80 cents THE National Museum has raised its admission fees. Adults will now pay $2 instead of $1, while
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    • 848 13  -  Wong Ec Ling On S'porean couples who adopt children from China Reports by 'We can check up on the family background through other relatives and make sure it is not a problematic child. This way, we can also ensure that the parents are
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    • 499 13 MERE introduction of a prospective buyer to a seller is not a good enough reason for a real estate agent to be entitled to a commission, the High Court has ruled. The ruling was made when the court rejected an estate agent's claim
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    • 302 13 BEIJING has suspended child adoption because of a serious problem that comes with it: child racketeering. With foreign adoptions on the rise m China, child racketeering, with the resultant child abuse, has become a lucrative business, especially m the coastal regions of Fujian,
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    • 142 13 TEN or more men armed with crash helmets attacked 10 other men who had stepped out of a karaoke lounge at 2.15 am yesterday. Police said that the attackers left after the fight, which took place on the ground floor of Sultan
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    • 322 13 SINGAPORE couples are finding it difficult using official channels to adopt babies m China because some Singapore parents have rejected babies after the Chinese authorities have agreed to the adoption. From Beijing's standpoint, these babies have "emigrated" and are no longer Chinese citizens. But Singapore parents feel
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    • 492 14 ENV finds no repeat offenders among those who performed CWOs THE Corrective Work Order has been found to be an effective penalty against litterbugs and it has achieved its deterrent effect, the Environment Ministry has said. The ministry made this announcement following a review of
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    • NEWSFROM
      • 129 14 THE Econ Minimart chain has put out a new series of phonecards, which feature various trades during Singapore's early days. The eight phonecards m the series feature sketches of a tongkang worker unloading merchandise from boats along the Singapore River, rubber tappers and a samsui
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      • 100 14 A DETECTIVE died when his car crashed into a tree at about 1.15 am yesterday. Detective Corporal Tay Kok Thong, 32, from the Central Police Division, was driving his car along Orchard Boulevard when he lost control of the vehicle just after the junction with Tomlinson
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      • 134 14 CRUISE operators of a luxury liner plying the region are hoping that the tradition of giving hongbao during the Lunar New Year will extend to helping the less fortunate as well. Donation boxes will be placed m the Starlight Dining Room of the 900-passenger luxury cruise ship,
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      • 159 14 TWO men were each given three weeks* jail by a district court yesterday on two separate killer litter charges. In the first case, Sim Chin Lee, 28, a general worker, admitted throwing an empty bottle and a glass down from his ninth-level Geylang Bahru flat on Feb
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      • 177 14 TWO men, who stole a car from a carpark m Ghim Moh Road one night to go on a joy ride, were jailed for two years and 18 months respectively by a district court yesterday. The court heard that Tiang Chang Yen, 24, and Teo
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    • 443 17  - Biggest rough diamond to be put on show here Ray Dhaliwal By THE largest rough uncut diamond m the world, all of 620 carats, will be brought to Singapore for its first display m Asia, m July. The Sefadu, as the stone is called, will be exhibited m the first
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    • 363 17 MOST major shopping centres and stores m the Orchard Road belt have confirmed that they will take part m the Great Singapore Sale, from July 17 to Aug 14 this year. The stores will offer discounts of up to 70 per
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    • 278 17 FOR the past three years Madam Tang Hai, 80, and about 300 other needy elderly people have been treated to a Lunar New Year lunch at a restaurant by an insurance company. But this year, she and some others got to
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  • OBITUARIES
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      287 18 UM KIM KONG Departed peacefully on 12.2.94. leaving behind MMteOoh Hock Toh Son: Lim Pent; Soon David .Daughter: Lnn Pheng Kheang Grandson: Lim Yong Seng Daryl 1 Grand Daughters: Gee Ching Susan Lim Kui San Mathilda Lim Mci Ching Cheryl Lim Shan San Beryl Son-in-law: Choc Chun Kheng
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    • 175 18 THE FAMILY OF THE LATE THAM KOK SENG Departed 9th February 1994 wishes to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all relatives, friends and colleagues for their condolences, donations, assistance and attendance during their recent bereavement. The Family Of The Late M P MOHAMED IBRAHIM Managing Director
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      62 18 IN MEMORIAM IN FOND MEMORY OF HERBERT LAU GEOK LAM, FOUNDER/DIRECTOR OF DEAF AID EMPORIUM PTE. LTD. (ESTD. 1949) WHO LEFT US ON 13th FEB. 1967. REMEMBERED BY LOVING WIFE (DEC'D), SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SONS-IN-LAW, DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW .AND GRAND-CHILDREN. In Loving Memory Of LEE SUN YEW Departed 13th
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      215 18 With Deepest Sympathies To The Family Of Th< Vice Chairman Of Victoria Advisory Committee Mr. Ong Teong Pin On The Demise Of His Late Mother Mdm. Chua Teck Choon From: The Chairman Members of The Victoria Executive Committee, Victoria Advisory Committee, Principals, Teachers Pupils Of Victoria School A
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  • RACING/SPORTS
    • 347 19  -  Malcolm Bastians XL RACING By ON A showcase new track at Sungai Besi yesterday, homebased trainer Don Baertschiger made the Year of the Dog a memorable one for himself, saddling a double from three entries. It would have been a perfect score had Mesti Rajah, who
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    • 1259 19 RACE 1 CLASS 3 DIV 5 1,200 m 7 BLUE KNKHT 56 c 54 5 (388) Sharrol (4) 6 4 1 8 PRWCE LUCKY 56 (24 7) Asogan (1) 2 2 2 2 MESTI RAJAH 59 5(8 7) Sahab (2) 3 3 3 Others m
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    • 796 19 RACE 1: Zainal replaced apprentice Sam on King Leopard when the latter was certified unwell Here We Tome and Special Change were slow to begin. Approaching the turn at the SOOm. Here We Come had to be eased to avoid Kalessin (Kway). Kway was shown the tape of
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    • 339 19 BASKETBALL NBA All-Stars Game MINNEAPOLIS Magic, Larry and Michael have retired. Sir Charles is hurt. Yet somehow, the National Basketball Association is bigger than ever. Eleven of the 24 players and one of the two coaches m yesterday's scheduled NBA All-Stars Game will be appearing
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  • SPORTS
    • 187 20 A SPECIAL promotion offer means that it is now almost half as cheap to join Palm Resort Golf and Country Club. PRGCC, near Johor's Senai Airport, launched recently its new Individual Membership category. The offer, valid until the end of this month, is pegged at M
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    • 1327 20  - Palm Resort boom for the new, bane for the old Tay Chona Khoon TEE TO GREEN 'Unlike the bigger establishments, the small clubs may not have the financial clout to withstand the current slump. This may tempt them to short-term desperate measures like cutting down on course maintenance and other
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    • 203 20 AHMEDABAD (India) India scored its third successive innings victory over Sri Lanka m the final cricket Test yesterday to clinch the three-Test series. Devastating bowling by left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju ripped through a nervous Sri Lankan batting order that finally collapsed with the total
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    • 298 20 TENNIS AMAGASAKI (Japan) Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere breezed past Mana Endo m the semi-finals to move to within a match of ending her professional career on a high note at the US$l5O,OOO ($240,000) Asia Open women's tennis tournament here yesterday. Determined to retire on a winning note, the
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    • 200 20 GOLF TURTLE POINT (Australia) Veteran David Graham produced some of his old magic on a golf course he helped design to take the lead on the first day of the Australian Skins game yesterday. Graham, who entered the event at just 18 hours' notice, birdied the
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    • 964 20 ATHLETICS 1 1| Cattrnatlonal ladoor meet la Madrid, men's llm: 1 Bruni Surin (Can) 6.sosec 2 Leroy Burrell (US) tS3 3 Andre Cason (US) 6.58. Mm ■rdlec 1 Greg Foster (US) 7.58 2 Mark McCoy (Can) 7.60 S Arthur Wake (US) 7.62 IMm: 1 Samuel MMete (Zam)
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    • 334 20  -  Lee Yulin EQUESTRIANISM By SINGAPORE'S top showjumper Peter Abisheganaden stamped his class on the first day of the Samsung International Showjumping competition at the Bukit Timah Saddle Club yesterday. The 33-year-old posted two clear rounds and the day's fastest time of 66.45 ec on Mr
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    • 29 20 picture. England captain Michael Atherton ducks to avoid a bouncer off Barbados fast bowler Vasper Drakes at Kensington Oval on Friday. Reuter
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    • 167 20 CRICKET BRIDGETOWN (Barbados) England, kept on the field longer than it should have by inept catching, allowed Barbados to reach 348, its highest score of the season, on the second day of their four-day cricket match here on Friday. Led by captain Mike Atherton's
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    • 206 20 AUCKLAND Pakistan, steadied by an exuberant 78 from opener Aamir Sohail, beat New Zealand by five wickets m the First of three Test cricket matches here yesterday. Sohail was the top scorer m a lowscoring game that ended after just 2hr 30min
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    • SPORTS People
      • 150 20 COREY Pavin (right) produced what he described as perhaps the best round of his golf career m posting a sev-en-under-par 64 m cold and windy conditions to take the lead at the Los Angeles Open on Friday. His splendid second-round tour of Riviera Country Club put
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      • 147 20 MADRID Canadian Bruny Surin, the world indoor champion, beat Americans Leroy Burrell and Andre Cason to win the 60 metre m 6.sosec m the Cagigal Memorial track meet on Friday. The Haitian-born Surin, who has won four of his first six races over the distance this season,
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      • 122 20 MAGDALENA Maleeva of Bulgaria spoiled top-seed Martina Navratilova's quest for a 13th Virginia Slims of Chicago title, posting a 6-4, 6-3 upset victory m the quarterfinals on Friday. Navratilova, 37, (right) who is making her farewell tour this year, received an emotional standing ovation from the
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    • 285 21 good football with them m the past and I expect this game to be the same. "United has lost at Chelsea and Stoke this season, so though it doesn't lose many games, it is not infallible. What we have to remember is that there's one
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    • 398 21 Pele on Maradona 'He was a good player. But he doesn't shoot well with his right foot, nor does he head well. Bobby Charlton was better than him, Rivelino, Zico as well.' Pele (left) RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil's greatest-ever soccer player Pele
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    • 459 21 He hopes to get coaching job after World Cup Finals BUENOS AIRES Diego Maradona, sacked by his club last week and at war with the Argentine press, still has his sights set on a fourth World Cup and then wants to become assistant national team
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    • Article, Illustration
      46 21 'We're playing the best team m the country, but we're not afraid of it. We've had some great tussles full of goals and good football with them m the past and I expect this game to be the same.' Wednesday manager Trevor Francis (above).
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    • 59 21 Warming up for the long run downhill picture. French flair: Luc Alphand of France displays the form that put him ahead of the pack during Friday's training run m the Men's Downhill course m Kvitfjell, Norway. The Frenchman, preparing for the Winter Olympics which started m Lillehammer
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    • 209 21 ENGLISH LEAGUE LONDON Third-placed Arsenal vowed to recover quickly from its midweek Cup upset against First Division Bolton today at Premier League soccer match Norwich. "We've had major setbacks before and bounced back m style," said Arsenal manager George Graham. "I can recall when inside
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    • 244 21  -  Thomas Koh By PHUA SHU VAN is widely tipped to be the next Joscelin Yeo m the making. The 11--year-old swimmer splashed her way into contention for December's Coca-Cola/Sun- day Times Sports Stars Award with a record-break-ing performance at the Tricountry invitation clubs age-group
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    • SPORT IN SHORT
      • 80 21 England midtieid general Paul Ince is set to sign a new six-year deal with runawayPremiership leader Manchester United worth about £2,8 million ($6.72 million). The 26-year-old, who still has about 18 months to go on his current contract, has been holding out for
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      • 48 21 Manager Tele Santana nfcid that he approves effort^Qo bring midfielder Rai bark from France to Brazil, tfle Folha de Sao Paulo daily reported on Friday. "Sao Paulo misses Rai on and off the field," said San tana. "'He's an excellent litter, and a true leader."
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      • 60 21 Lazio playmaker Paul Gascoigne will this weekend .attempt to show new England coach Terry Vena bles that his the player around wtofn Venables should build ms side. Venables will witness Gefccoigne's return from suspension against Cagliari m Ncas« today, when the midfielder will be seeking to
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      • 58 21 Jens Nowotny scored the**vWnner m Karlsruhe's 2-1 victory away to Borussia MoentTO+i gladbach as the German First Division soccer resumed tin Friday after a two-nfl?|iJh winter break. Eighth-placed Karls^ifKe. 0-1 down at half-time to Christian Hochstaetters 30th < i[«Jhute goal, equalised through Rainer Krieg just after' the
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      • 54 21 Antonio Martin, a rising star of Spanish cycling, was h**le<! m an accident on Fujta* while training near his Bomr at Torrelaguna, outside 4 -Wa ili ni. police said. Martin, 23, who this season signed for the Banesto ttbm led by Miguel Ind main. involved m a
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      • 61 21 Veteran driver Neil Borrfittt was killed on Friday w)ipn his car crashed into a waH at Daytona International Speedway. He was 47. Bonnett lost control of (lis Chevrolet Lumina during a practice run and hit the wall, collapsing the entire frofcitrof the car. Bonnett appeared to
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  • The Sunday Times
    • 557 22  -  Joe Dorai Singapore passes first test with 3-1 victory SOCCER By i will not win the Malaysia Cup for Singapore. I will only lay the foundation for you. Maybe m three years' time Singapore will win the Cup.' Coach Worden IT WAS a great start, claimed
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    • 425 22 $5,000 FAS compensation PREMIER League champion Geylang International and Tyrwhitt Soccerites are unhappy about the $5,000 compensation from the Football Association of Singapore for the transfer of their big-money players to the national squad. The two clubs have appealed for more money on the grounds that
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    • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
      • 113 22 Uzbekistan's soccer captain Abdulraimov Asaimat is tipped to be Pahang's third foreign player for the Malaysian Premier LwgM this year. He is expected to edge out two other contenders ex-Australian national player Scott Ollenrenshaw and Bulgarian Mario Dashnev for the third foreign-player slot. Said a Pahang
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      • 76 22 A local-born Australian professional will replace Zainal Abidin Hassan who declined to play for Terengganu m the Premier League. Twenty-year-old Wee Lynn Kirk had played previously for the state's Combined Schools' team. He would be tested m a friendly match against a South Korean club
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      • 70 22 Czech striker Jan Janonivich has earned himself a two-year deal with double champion Kedah with some impressive performances during a recent tour of Bangkok. Kedah coach Robert Alberts, who was pleased with what he saw of Janonivich, confirmed yesterday that the Brno FC player was
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      • 112 22 The Malaysian Amateur Boxing Federation has acquired the services of two Russian coaches, Mikhail Rushanskiy and Piotr Gumennikov, to prepare the national team for the 1998 Commonwealth Games. They arrived m Kuala Lumpur last night. Six other Russian coaches would also be working with the National
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    • 85 22 RADIO AND TELEVISION MALAYSIA and TV 3 will, between them, telecast all 52 matches of the World Cup soccer tournament m the United States from June 17 to July 17, The New Straits Times reported. Germany and Bolivia kick off the tournament on June 17. The
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    • 254 22 ATHLETICS KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian long-distance runner M. Ramachandran's outburst against Johor sports officials has landed him m hot soup. He has been asked to appear before the Johor Amateur Athletics Association disciplinary board. Ramachandran, one of Malaysia's medal prospects m the Asian Games this
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    • 355 22 CRICKET TWO of the world's all-time greatest cricketers lan Botham and Viv Richards will give a talk show at the ANA Hotel m Singapore on Friday (7pm). Highlights of the evening include a video presentation of the duo's colourful careers and a
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    • 51 22 HEAVY rain ruined Singapore's opening match against Canada m the International Cricket Conference Trophy tournament m Nairobi, Kenya yesterday. The organisers have decid- ed to re-schedule the match for today. Twenty teams are taking part m the competition from which three nations qualify for the World
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    • 216 22 SNOOKER LONDON Scotland's Alan McManus maintained his remarkable consistency m major snooker tournaments here on Friday night by reaching the semi-finals of the Benson and Hedges Masters. The 23-year-old, a finalist six times and a semi-finalist on another 11 occasions, clinched his place m the last four
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    • SPORTS Update
      • 67 22 Britain's Colin Jackson set a world indoor record for the 60 metres hurdles when he clocked 7.355 ec m an athletic meet between Britain and the United States at Kelvin Hall m Glasgow yesterday. Jackson, the world outdoor champion and world recordholder over 110 m hurdles,
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      • 75 22 Thailand B edged defending champion China 2-1 after a goalless draw at half time m the opening Group B match m the 25th King's Cup soccer tournament m Bangkok yesterday. Suchin Panprapas scored both goals for the host m the 54th and 62nd minutes respectively.
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      • 74 22 Australian batsmen hit early tour form on the first day of their four-day cricket match against Northern Transvaal at the Centurion Park m Johannesburg yesterday. Opener Michael Slater, Matthew Hay den and Dean Jones hit half centuries to cap an impressive rain-shortened first day for
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      • 54 22 Finland, with solid goal-keeping by .Tarmo Myllys, gave the Winter Olympics m Lillehammer, Norway, a rousing start by upsetting an established hockey powerhouse m the first competition of the Games yesterday. The Finns defeated the Czech Republic 3-1 m a game that ended about two hours
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      • 47 22 Italian Mario Cipollini grabbed a hotly-contested sprint to win the sixth stage of the Mediterranean Tour cycling race m Hyeres, France, yesterday. He edged out Belgian Wilfried N^ilesen and Italy's Giovanni Lombardi. Italian Fabio Baldato, who came m fourth, retained the yellow jersey.
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      • 71 22 More than 100 people made history yesterday with a charity walk through the new Channel tunnel, the first people to travel on foot between England and France since the last Ice Age. Showbusiness and sports personalities were among the mostly British sponsored walkers, with some admitting
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  • SUNDAY Review
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    • 2454 1 LOOKIN G F O R T ROUB L E Will the clash of civilisations thesis become a self-fulfilling prophecy? In the search for potential world conflicts, the clash of civilisations is still the most talked-about theory. But drawing battle lines now would make enemies where none existed.
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    • Viewpoints
      • 255 2 The Sunday Times Competition holds the key THE Government decided recently to examine the idea of introducing a "bus-plus" service, which can help to make the road transport system more responsive to the needs of commuters. Mini-buses can offer an alternative service on routes where there may not be enough
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      • 86 2 On this day TODAY is not only the 13th of February according to the Christian calendar. It is also the last day of the Chinese 13th month. Next year will only contain the conventional 12, but three years hence, the difference between the Chinese lunar month and
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      • 1082 2  -  Tan Sai Siong ARE employees who own shares of the company which employs them an invention of today's capitalist society? Or is it, m fact, a case of old wine m new bottles? I mused on this when I read reports
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      • 928 2  -  I Zuraidah Ibrahim THE vast majority of Singaporeans probably neither noticed nor cared that a new book on ethnic relations was launched last week. Yet the three major ethnic policies discussed m the book, published by the Institute of Policy Studies,
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    • Profile
      • 1263 3 Soft-spoken US Deputy Defence Secretary William Perry hesitated publicly before accepting promotion to the top spot. Does he have the stomach for the job? RAVI VELOO reports. 7 did not want to drive my family into my decision without their support, and so
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    • Money on Sunday
      • 1599 4  -  Louis Beckerling Serious Money THE change m the investment climate since the new year got under way has sharply narrowed one window of opportunity favoured by investors on the Singapore share market last year, namely warrants, or Transferable Subscription Rights (TSRs). Warrant trades were
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      • 722 4 TRADE m the warrants of Causeway Investment Ltd, which lead the list of pricegainers for the year to date, captures the casino mentality which has driven many punters on the Singapore share market. As of Feb 7, Causeway Investment Ltd warrants 1994 (due to expire on
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      • 236 4 Warrants Exercise j Warrant i Share Premium Gearing price price price (discount) i Amcol9B 1 3.46 4.48 (0.45) 1.29 CityDv9B 3 4.18 7.1 1.13 1.70 CPoint97 1.76 3.72 5.75 (4.70) 1.55 J3BSLA_ 3.1 1.4 4.42 1.81 3 16 DBSLR 3.5 1.1 4.42 407 4.02 EML96 02 0.645
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      • 362 4 NOVICE investors have been advised by Mr Norval Loftus. senior analyst with Thomson Financial Services m Singapore, to regard warrants with extreme caution m the present market circumstances. A sharply lower demand for warrants m line with the bearish mood on the market, he says, has
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      • 696 4  -  Alison Tan You Your Consultant RISING health-care costs are a worldwide concern and m Singapore, as elsewhere, they have come under the spotlight. In the United States, healthcare costs have risen dramatically as the population profile ages. The cost of health care for US
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    • Cover Story
      • 27 5 'Politicians use nationalism, religion and ideology as clarion calls, but events are still determined by paramount economic interests. Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
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      • 38 5 'Differences between civilisations will become more important as the world gets smaller. Conflicts between civilisations will be more frequent, more sustained and more violent than conflicts between groups m the same civilisation. Professor Samuel Huntington
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      • 41 5 'Far from seeing a world that is divided by differences m culture and civilisation, I see a world that is increasingly being globalised and integrated, based upon mutuality of interests, based upon economic complementarity Singapore's Ambassador-ai-large Tommy Koh
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    • Focus
      • 1667 10 With growing economic ties mth China, Malaysia sees a need for its people, both Chinese and non-Chinese, to speak Mandarin. What does this mean for the school system? DA VID CHEW ofthe Foreign Desk examines the issue. While the government wants to promote Mandarin
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    • 294 1 Profile: %J The new US Defence Secretary William Perry does he have the stomach for the job? I F^ ly K^Sm-PtS h^ m^^ F^fl Hfl H Hi'iMH,M Tthe House you brands as as the A /Mizino gjgjp. Ulilum.^&m s?a^ng lacoste aU i!A study m detail, Golf House is conceived to
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    • 13 1 10 As China beckons, is there nezv hope for Chinese schools m Malaysia
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    • 104 3 Looking for a way to attract travellers and holidaymakers? If you are m the travel or related industries, this is an opportunity you must not miss. Grab a piece ofthe action by advertising m our coming TRAVEL '94 special feature, published m conjunction with the annual travel fair organised by
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    • 259 3 L 'w. im I A Touch of Thai... A Touch of Romance An enchanting evening of wine, roses and the charm of exotic Thai fare will make your Valentines a night to remember at Thanying. Romance the night away with a mouth-watering set dinner featuring all-Thai favourites. An array of
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    • 61 1 Hard Rock goes big in the Region /tard i?oc& Holdings is leading the Singapore leisure industry's expansion into the region by setting up Hard Rock Cafes m Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Jakarta and, most recently, Taipei and Bali. More will follow-, the Singapore-owned franchise tells ONG SOH CHIN, who also visits
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      • 1198 2  -  ONG SOH CHIN Cover Story Hard Rock Cafe, ni hao ma? JUST as the Singapore Government was recently encouraging entrepreneurs to go regional, Hard Rock Cafes were sprouting up m Jakarta, Bali and Taipei, almost as an immediate response. In truth, Singapore's Hard
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      • 357 2 TAIPEI THE Taipei Hard Rock Cafe, situated m Minsheng East Road, a stretch known popularly as Taipei's Wall Street, is the largest m Asia. And it promises to be one of the most exciting. Said Mr Colin Syn, executive director of Hard Rock Holdings: "I picked this
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      • 245 2 BALI THE Bali Hard Rock Cafe is a totally different animal. Laidback, relaxed and breezy, and situated m Kuta Beach, its exterior blends m nicely with the surrounding wooden lodges that are typical of the island. About 600 sq m m size, the two-storey structure is similar
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      • 652 3 Berbuka buffets are becoming a popular way to break the fast m hotels and restaurants here among Muslims and non-Muslims. TUMINAH SAPAWI reports. RAMADAN, the Muslim fasting month, began yesterday and some hotels and restaurants m Singapore are cashing m by offering the berbuka (breaking
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      • 106 3 DR JAMMAL AHMAD ESSA, a doctor m private practice, advises those who fast all day long not to gorge at buffet table. According to Dr Jammal, eating too much too fast can cause stomach cramps and severe pain. He describes it as "a shock to the
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      • 489 3  -  HO SHEO BE By AT FIRST, they were spotted only m cinema lobbies and amusement parks. But toy-retrieving crane machines have become so popular m Singapore that they are now invading shops m Housing Board estates as well. The machines allow players to work
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      • 1117 4  -  Ida Bachtiar Sunday Plus takes you to Langkawi, Malaysia, today m this series on how Singaporeans can enjoy The Good Life when holidaying m the region. S$ power 'I love Langkawi. It's so relaxing and different from Singapore Tve never seen such sunsets clouds
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        829 6 Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. HANNAH PANDIAN takes a wry look at aphrodisiacs through the ages and SOMEWHERE m a quiet corner of the sixth century BC, the Greek goddess Aphrodite burst out, naked, from the foaming sea and, ever since, has been worshipped as a fertility gc Mess.
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      • 699 7  -  MAH KAN KENG EAT OUT WITH the conservation programme m Singapore well under way, homely restaurants converted from old shophouses and warehouses are no longer a novelty. Still, it is hard not to be charmed by J.P. Bastiani Mediterranean Bar and Restaurant, which opened
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      • 504 7 The Les Mizyusheng connection BITES BUY 10 $140 Les Miserables tickets and get a free dish of yusheng plus one complimentary drink (beer or non-alcoholic punch) per person. Theatre-goers will get to toss the yusheng (the ikan parang or salmon variety) at the second-floor foyer of the Kallang Theatre before
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      • 692 10 Twice with Jaws, top, and The Color Purple, above he has received the ultimate snub. His films were nominated but he was not. ■H ROM the rampaging dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to the sugar- coated fantasies of ET, Steven Spielberg has proven himself to b
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      • 265 10 EMILY SCHINDLER, widow of the hero of Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nomi-nated Schindler's List, wished the movie success and said she was getting a cut of the proceeds. "I'm discussing that with a man from New York," Mrs Schindler, 86, who lives m a tiny, two-room
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    • 790 11 AMERICA is revelling m a Bad Girl binge. A country that regularly wins more Nobel Prizes than other seems to be discovering une Bad Girl after another to titillate the tabloids and talk shows Madonna, Sharon Stone, Lorena Bobbin, Amy Fisher, Heidi Fleiss and
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