The Straits Times, 19 April 1998

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    25 1 The Sunday Times April 19, 1998 82 Pages m four parts, including Sunday Plus mita (P) 1 13/12/97- •^PA Singapore Press Holdings publications t3O cents
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    Lock icon Regional crisis draws S'pore, Malaysia closer
    541 1  -  WARREN FERNANDEZ Leaders of the two countries say the financial turmoil makes clear the need for them to work together Bu THE regional economic crisis has brought Malaysia and Singapore closer by making clear the need for them to work together and the gains
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    Boost for S'pores creative arts?
    424 1 COMMITTEE SUGGESTS DEGREE COURSES SINGAPORE can expect an Institute of the Arts which will offer university degrees, and enhanced funding for education m the creative arts, if the Government accepts recommendations by a high-powered committee set up to boost arts education here. The committee was
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    THREE PROPOSALS: Join forces
    87 1 Set up an Institute of the Arts at NUS to run bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees m fine arts. LaSalle and Nafa with polytechnic funding to provide diploma and advanced diploma programmes. Set up an ITA. LaSalle and Nam to get polytechnic funding, but all three
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      105 1 HIGHER EDUCATION: Three more schools to offer programme for intellectually-gifted pupils page 30 m the HDB heartlands drive prices southward Soo Kee fired the first salvo. No way, says Soo Kee as it fingers Lee Hwa. Or maybe it was Lee Kong Chye. No goldsmith would admit to starting the
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      Jakarta ministers meet students
      434 2  -  SUSAN SIM Many student leaders did not come, but at the end of the seven-hour session, Abri declared itself satisfied By IN DON ESI A CORRESPONDENT JAKARTA More than a third of Indonesia's 36--member Cabinet turned up for the marathon talks, but a third of their
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      Lock icon Pol Pot cremated in low-key ceremony
      373 2 KHMER ROUGE LEADERS, FAMILY NOT PRESENT SA-NGAAM PASS (Cambodia) Former Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, one of the century's most reviled dictators, was cremated by his comrades yesterday m a low-key ceremony at a small village m north Cambodia. A Khmer Rouge spokesman told
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      Lock icon 'Pirate' told to end Net address scam
      223 2 'Pirate' told to end Net address scam SAN FRANCISCO A US "cyber-pirate" who registered more than 100 Internet addresses using corporate trademarks was ordered to stop, on the grounds he was violating trademark law. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower-court decision, which found that Dennis
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      Gold war in the heartland
      686 3  -  SHANNON TAN TAN YI LIN No one will admit who started lowering prices, though many say it was Soo Kee Jewellery. Angry, they undercut it By and TURN almost any corner m Bedok Central and you will bump into goldsmith or jewellery shops with posters
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      SLASHING PRICES: Just a sales gimmick
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      Hidden costs in low price
      336 3 Hidden costs in low price CASE WARNING DO not bait the customer, said the Consumers Association of Singapore, responding to reports on the "lower price of gold" gimmick. Case executive director Edmund Baker said: "We would like to remind all traders to be transparent and honest m their dealings and
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      418 2 INSIDE World 4-11 People 8 East Asia... 14,15 S-EAsia 17,18 Malaysia 19,20 Weather 25 Home 21-32 Money 33-35 Review 36-43 Sports 46-50 Racing 45,49 PLUS Smell good, feelgood: Making dollars out of scents Pages 2, 3 Medicine 5 Food 7 Interview 8 Mixed Media 12 TV Listings 10, 11 Cinema
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon US politicians seek death penalty for kids
      641 4 Sickened by the growing number of violent crimes committed by pre-teens and teenagers, US politicians say a strong message must be sent out AUSTIN (Texas) US State Representative Jim Pitts admits his idea sounds jarring. This is a drastic step," he said. "But
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      Lock icon SIMPLY 'HERR-MISING'
      36 4 AFP Two artistes from an Asiatic show happily share a cup of tea together while they hang from their hair tiecf up m a crane hook above the Hamburg harbour m Germany on Thursday.
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      Lock icon Nasa launches 'brain mission'
      253 5 CAPE CANAVERAL The space shuttle Columbia has blasted off on a mission to probe the workings of the Human brain and nervous system, carrying a crew of seven and a menagerie of creatures. The winged spaceship, the oldest of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's four
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      Lock icon Aussie dockers stand firm
      418 5 Police take control of two dock entrances m Melbourne but unionists withstand advance at main gate SYDNEY Police smashed picket lines to take control of two entrances to a Melbourne dock yesterday. But the main gate was still held by thousands of trade unionists m a
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      Lock icon 1ST KILLING SINCE PEACE PACT Cabby slain in Belfast
      251 5 1ST KILLING SINCE PEACE PACT Cabby slain in Belfast BELFAST A Catholic taxi driver v/as shot dead late on Friday m Belfast, police sources said, m the first killing since a historic peace accord was concluded last week after two years of talks. However, there did not appear to be
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    • THE WEEK AHEAD AND THE WEEK THAT WAS
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        Lock icon MONDAY
        131 6 Fire-fighting aid THE United Nations brings together m Geneva technical experts and donor agencies to discuss details of coordinating fire-fighting operations m Indonesia. A recent UN assessment of the inferno stated that at least 10,000 firemen and water-bombing aircraft are needed m Indonesia, where fires are likely to burn
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        WEDNESDAY
        80 6 WEDNES DAY Cross-strait visit MR CHAN Chih-hung, a deputy secretary-general of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), visits Beijing for the first semi-official talks between the two sides since they were suspended m 1995. An unprecedented trip to China by the SEF chairman is likely to be discussed during his meeting
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        THURSDAY
        75 6 N. Korea opens sky INTERNATIONAL commercial flights can now go through North Korean airspace, thanks to a landmark agreement between the communist country and South Korea last year. The opening of North Korea's skies, the first time since 1945, means that airlines can now shave between 20 and 50
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        SATURDAY
        115 6 SATU RDAY Talks on Kosovo ALL eyes are on Serbia's disputed Kosovo province: Will a negotiated solution be made Detween ethnic Albanian leaders, who favour autonomy, and Serb leaders m Belgrade who are dead set against Kosovo independence? Both sides have appointed negotiating teams since March 9, but the basis
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      LAST WEEK
      75 6 Indonesia set a travel ban on the top executives of 14 banks, which weir suspended or had teen taken over. PHQUQfIy a transaction valued at US$6O biHkn (Ss9s bifljon). World Bank Chief James Wolfensohn said that 20 million more Indonesians could become impoverished. Former Khmer Rouge leader Pol
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      Lock icon Torturer gets long jail term
      283 6 WOMAN SHACKLED AS SEX SLAVE NEW YORK A man who admitted to kidnapping and torturing a Myanmar woman m his New York City apartment for 11 days was sentenced to 19 years to life m prison. Richard Blau, 44, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors
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      Lock icon Palace seeks spin doctor
      366 6 Palace seeks spin doctor Buckingham Palace has approached top British firms for a communications expert to help transform the royals 9 stuffy image LONDON Buckingham Palace is asking Britain's biggest companies to supply a public relations supremo to help overhaul the British royal family's out-of-touch image, the Guardian newspaper reported
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      Lock icon Courting trouble the DIY way
      530 8 'The courts favour their own. Everyone there knows one another. My experience has been very negative. Ma Pat Martinez, a 54-year-old Texas redJent who has spent three agonising years litigating her divorce, which is still not settled. More and more litigants m the US are
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    • DATELINE ASIA
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        JAPAN
        132 8  -  K wan Weng Kin Wanted: Butterfly keeper SOME play golf, others play mahjong. But former Japanese Education Minister Kunio Hatoyama raises butterflies to relax. Last November, the deputy leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan put an advertisement m a job-hunter's magazine for a "butterfly researcher" to help
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        PHILIPPINES
        126 8  -  Luz Baguioro MELDA STRI GETS $380 STATE PENSION IMELDA Marcos, who is accused of helping her husband, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, pilfer upwards of US$lO billion (Ssl6 billion) from the national treasury, still collects her meagre monthly pension of 8,000 pesos (Ss3Bo). The 68-year-old former First Lady "religiously
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        PHILIPPINES
        82 8  -  Nirmal Ghosh CANDIDATE'S SUP OF THE TONGUE FILIPINO politicians are bound by law to disclose their assets. At a recent conference on corruption and governance, six candidates for President all self-declared peso mul-ti-millionaires were asked about their worth. Philippine Amusement and Gaming chief Manuel Morato raised a raucous laugh
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        MALAYSIA
        76 8  -  Brendan Pereira STATE COUNCILOR IN HOT WATER THE knives are out for Datin Paduka Rakibah Abdul Manap. As the state executive councillor m charge of infrastructure, water supply m Selangor comes under her. The press has panned her for not responding fast enough to the water crisis m the
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        THAILAND
        88 8  -  Edward Tang PMCHUAN, THE ARTIST MOST Thai politicians play golf. Not Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, who prefers to sketch m his spare time. After an interview with foreign reporters recently, he displayed his artistic talent at their request. With a few deft strokes, he drew a commendable portrait of
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        HONGKONG
        82 8  -  Wang Hui Ling NEW JOB FOR EX-PERE6MNE HEAD THE former chairman of the defunct investment bank Peregrine Investment Holdings, Mr Philip Tose, is joining Templeton Franklin Investment Services as a consultant. Hongkong newspapers reported that Mr Tose would advise Templeton on the development of its direct-equi-ty business m Asia.
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      Lock icon DEEP COVER
      4 9 C. CHANDRADAS
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      Lock icon Around the sun in 8 years
      328 9 Around the sun in 8 years NEXT STAGE I Described by ESA as "the fastest man-made object in the universe", it hit speeds of 126 km per second, with its power generated by 11 kg of plutonium 238. The plutonium caused a controversy when environmental and anti-nuclear groups argued there
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      Lock icon Green light for self-chill can
      256 9 ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE LONDON A self-chilling drink can, attacked by environmentalists as a danger to the planet, has now gained green credentials ana is to go into production later this year, Tne Times reported yesterday. The can, which can chill a fizzy drink m two minutes,
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      Lock icon Italian cities sue the Mafia MOTOR HOME
      201 10 Italian cities sue the Mafia MOTOR HOME FLORENCE Italian cities and regions on Friday lodged million-dollar lawsuits against the Mafia for damages suffered m a wave of bombings m 1993, adding to an already hefty claim made by the government. According to a judicial source, Florence and Milan are each
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      Lock icon Too few blacks in US use the Internet
      260 10 Study warns of threat to future economy arising from a wide racial divide m access to cyberspace WASHINGTON A "digital divide" between blacks and whites m cyberspace threatens the future US economy, said researchers. The gap was biggest among high-school and college
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      Lock icon Rape-murders in the Mexican desert
      439 11 At least 70 women have been raped and murdered m Juarez m the past five years while official investigations have been criticised as mismanaged JUAREZ (Mexico) Juarez is a city of factories m the Chihuahua desert, with most assembly lines worked by women. And one
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      Lock icon CAULI-POWER
      29 11 REUTERS A bed of cauliflower all 400 tonnes of it was dumped onto France's Morlaix motorway bridge on Thursday by Brittany farmers m protest against plunging vegetable prices.
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    • WORLD FILE
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        Lock icon FORMER GENERAL'S JAIL TERM UPHELD
        46 11 PARAGUAY'S Supreme Court on Friday upheld a 10-year prison term for former general Lino Oviedo, the front-runner m the May 10 presidential vote, for plotting a coup against President Juan Carlos Wasmosy. The ruling means Oviedo cannot run for President AFP
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        Lock icon FATHER AND SON FRAUD TEAM
        39 11 A FATHER and son, believed to be US citizens, have been charged m a Johannesburg court with bank fraud, including falsifying credit letters, totalling US$4OO million (***** million), South African police said yesterday. Reuters
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        Lock icon COUPLE JAILED FOR PITBULL DEATHS
        43 11 HUNGARIAN Tibor Erasmus Pap and his wife were jailed for two years and one and a half years respectively on Friday, after a court found that their three pitbulls had inflicted fatal wounds on a 72-year-old la- AFP
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        Lock icon GERMANY'S FAMED SNIFFER PIG DIES
        37 11 GERMANY'S most famous sow, Louise, who spent three years sniffing for drugs and explosives for the police, has died at the ripe old age of 13 equivalent to 100 human years. AFP
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      Lock icon Turin Shroud goes on show again after 20 years
      413 11 PROOF OF JESUS CHRIST OR A MEDIAEVAL FAKE? TURIN The Turin Shroud, hailed by some as the only tangible proof of Christ on earth, dismissed byothers as a mediaeval fake, goes on show this weekend for the first time m 20
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  • EAST ASIA
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      Singaporeans form club in balmy Hainan
      366 14  - Singaporeans form club in balmy Hainan MARY KWANG The 100-strong club will serve as liaison body between its members and Chinese officials fly CHINA CORRESPONDENT SHANGHAI A group of more than 100 Singaporeans have banded together to form a Singapore Club m Hainan, the southernmost Chinese province known for its
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      Lock icon Mucking in for teamwork
      114 14 THESE G.I. Janes are no sticks-in-the-mud. They were among 14 women who heaved and lifted poles, and rolled m the mud during team exercises conducted at a training camp on Friday. On a normal day, however, they work for South Korean company Hungchang Ltd, which makes
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      Lock icon SINO-ASEAN TRADE LINKS China set to barter and extend credit
      297 14 SINO-ASEAN TRADE LINKS China set to barter and extend credit KUALA LUMPUR China is prepared to engage m barter trade and offer credit extensions to Asean countries to expand trade links with the nine-member grouping, China's Assistant Foreign Minister Chen Jian said yesterday. According to Mr Chen, China regarded the
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      Lock icon aim: 8% growth
      60 14 aim: 8% growth BEIJING Chines President Jiang Zemi has called on China 1 achieve an objective of 8 per-cent growth set fo this year, despite signs o a first-quarter slowdown m the economy, reports said yesterday. Prime Minister Zh Rongji said early thi month that the firs quarter's Gross Domest
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      Lock icon Taiwan seeks data on military exercises
      328 15 Taipei takes steps to increase military communication with Beijing, but the mainland is unhappy with the Island's continued restrictive policies TAIPEI Taiwan hopes to exchange information on military exercises with China to reduce hostility and avoid misunderstandings, said Prime Minister Vincent Siew yesterday. The
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE OF RECRIMINATIONS High-level Korean talks break down
      369 15 EXCHANGE OF RECRIMINATIONS High-level Korean talks break down BEIJING High-level talks between North and South Korea fell apart yesterday as both sides exchanged recriminations, dimming hopes of a resumption of talks m the foreseeable future. "South Korea is responsible for the failure to reach agreement because it politicised a humanitarian
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        Lock icon BANKER TO BE EXTRADITED TO HK
        86 15 FORMER Hongkong investment banker Ewan Quayle Launder, 61, has been extradited from Britain to Hongkong to face charges of corruption m the closing chapter of the 15--year Carrian fraud saga, investigators said yesterday. The Independent Commission Against Corruption said Launder, former chief executive of
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        Lock icon CHINA OUT TO STOP RED TIDE SPREAD
        59 15 EMERGENCY measures have been adopted m southern China's Guangdong province after fisn farms were engulfed by the toxic red tide which has devastited Hongkong fish slocks, the Ming Pao Daily News reported yesterday. It said the measures include better control of industrial waste
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        SINGAPOREAN HURT IN BUS ACCIDENT
        73 15 A SINGAPOREAN was among 10 passengers injured m an accident when their tour coach collided with a dump truck on a busy Guangdong highway on Fn- day. The Hongkong driver was killed m the accident. The tourists from Hongkong, Korea, Japan and Singapore were on
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        Lock icon EX-BANK HEAD SENT HOME AFTER GRILLING
        45 15 SOUTH KOREA'S forme central bank governor wen home yesterday after 15 hours of grilling by prosecu tors m a probe of policy fail ures that led the country to seek the largest bail-ou from the Internationa Monetary Fund. AFP
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        Lock icon TEAR-GAS FIRED AT PROTESTERS
        35 15 RIOT police m South Korea fired tear-gas m central Seoul yesterday to disperse more than 3,000 union workers and students who had gathered to protest against massive layoffs, witnesses said. AFP
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        Lock icon BEIJING TURNS DOWN KIM JONG IL'S VISTT
        58 15 Chinese President Jiang Zemin recently turned down a request from North Korean leader Kirn Jong II who wanted to make a trip to China, his first foreign visit since becoming the state's leader, a Japanese daily. Sankei Shimbun reported. It said Mr Jiang
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      Lock icon No Japan-Russia accord on projects
      191 15 KAWANA (Japan) Japan yesterday steered clear of agreeing at a leaders' "noneckties summit here to join Russia m building infrastructure on a disputed island group, a government spokesman said. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto told President Boris Yeltsin that any joint economic projects on the disputed
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      Lock icon POL POT'S DEATH Phnom Penh has doubts
      354 17 POL POT'S DEATH Phnom Penh has doubts PHNOM PENH Although Cambodian newspapers have acknowledged that Pol Pot is dead, the Cambodian government is still not convinced, saying that the body which was ere- mated yesterday may not be 'that 01 the hated "killing ►fields" dictator. "We don't know if the
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      Lock icon 'More rebels will defect'
      183 17 SA-NGAAM PASS (Cambodia) Although Khmer Rouge guerillas m northern Cambodia had vowed to continue fighting government forces occupying their last stronghold at Anlong Veng, defections from the guerilla group would accelerate, said Thai military sources. Even before Pol Pot's death on Wednesday, he could not keep
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      Lock icon US puts squeeze on Khmer Rouge chiefs
      346 17 In a bid to bring Khmer Rouge leaders to trial, US commissions experts to prepare indictments against them and tries to block any amnesty deals WASHINGTON The Clinton administration has stepped up efforts to bring Khmer Rouge officials to trial, commissioning experts to
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      Lock icon Eight senior Manila cops replaced in reshuffle
      328 18  -  LUZ BAGUIORO RISING CONCERN OVER POLL FRAUD m MANILA CONCERNS that the May 11 general election will be marred by fraud intensified last week, following the surprise reshuffle of the police force and reports that thousands of so-called "flying voters" have been added
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      Lock icon Brunei to help put out fires
      115 18 BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Brunei and Indonesia will cooperate to fight vast forest fires m the Indonesian region of Kalimantan, said a senior official yesterday as a choking naze spread over the region. Urging countries such as the US to help, Mr Zakeria bin Saruddin,
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      210,000 Thais for jobs overseas
      362 18  -  EDWARD TANG Bangkok will export its workers to earn foreign exchange. But it will be tough placing these mostly-unskilled ones as countries close their doors THAILAND CORRESPONDENT BANGKOK Thailand plans to send 210,000 workers overseas next year to ease soaring unemployment at home, a move
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        Lock icon PREMIER CHAT GETS HOSTESS GROUNDED
        60 18 A THAI Airways stewardess was grounded for sitting down with Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai during a domestic flight m January. She was grounded after a police aide complained, the Bangkok Post reported yes terday. Ms Chittiporn Api barnpuwanart, who said the Premier had invited her
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        Lock icon DENGUE KILLS 207 IN INDONESIA
        31 18 DENGUE has killed 207 people m the last few months, the Jakarta Post reported yesterday. The health ministry said the outbreak might last until June. Reuters
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        Lock icon MAMA REVOKES MARCOS PRESS BAN
        38 18 FOREIGN journalists barred by deposed dictator Ferdinand Marcos will be taken off a blacklist, said Immigration Commissioner Homobono Ada/a. They were blacklisted for supposedly engaging m political activities, ne said on Friday. AFP
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        Lock icon THAI-MYANMAR TOURISM PLAN
        34 18 THAI-MYANMAR TOURISM PLAN THAI and Myanmar officials will meet to discuss a plan for turning border areas into tourist attractions. The plan would promote eco-tourism m forested areas, the Bangkok Post said yesterday. AFP
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        MOTORBIKE 'THIEF' CLUBBED TO DEATH
        51 18 A MAN accused wrongly of stealing a motorcycle was clubbed to death at a housing complex, said the Jakarta Post yesterday. Yono, 22, was asked by a friend to help push a motorcycle when someone snouted Thief!". The friend escaped but Yono was caught and
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      Lock icon CRIME-BUSTER'S FAREWELL PERFORMANCE
      53 19 SUN Datuk Ismail Che Rus wields the baton for the police brass band at his farewell parade m Kuala Lumpur on Friday. Known as the crime-buster among his colleagues, he is leaving the force after 35 years of service. His last posting was as director of the
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      Lock icon Police deny they are trigger-happy
      325 19 Police deny they are trigger-happy CID chief rebuts report suggesting that suspects shot dead by police may have been killed indiscriminately KUALA LUMPUR Trig-ger-happy criminals killed 322 civilians and security personnel over the last five years, police said, defending their record of shooting dead suspected criminals. Criminal Investigation Department (CID)
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      GUN CODE: When to aim
      41 19 PoHct cm open fire m only three circumstances: H the criminal is armed and danoerous. If Hrn criminal's actions threaten the safety of the m»Hc or the police officers. To prevent the criminal from taking hostaoes.
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      KL to lobby intensively for UN seat
      300 19  -  SALIM OSMAN SECURITY COUNCIL HD Bu INNEWYORK MALAYSIA will soon lobby intensively for a seat m the Security Council to maintain its high profile m the world body. Announcing this was newly-appointed Permanent Representative to the United Nations Datuk Hasmy Agam, who said
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      Lock icon Govt not out to mislead, says Mahathir
      238 19 JOHOR BARU The government has no intention to deceive the people or to use their money for what some parties claim to be bail-outs tor certain companies or individuals m tne country, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. Speaking on
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      Five complete joint project
      268 20 SINGAPORE- JOHOR TECHNICAL COOPERATION FIVE trainers from the Johor Skills Development Centre (JSDC) have been presented with certificates, after formally completing a technical cooperation project between the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and the JSDC. The project was the first joint initiative between Singapore and Malaysia
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      Lock icon Man charged with murder of 18-month-old daughter
      249 20 PENANG An unemployed man was charged on Friday with the murder of his 18--month-old daughter. V. Ayakanu, 25, was brought before magistrate Amernudin Ahmad and charged with murdering Malini Priya m a hotel room at between 3 pm on April 2 and 10
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      Lock icon Water rationing may last 6 months
      405 20 Water rationing may last 6 months Till October that is how much longer Selanoor might have to put up with it, if the drought does not let up KUALA LUMPUR Water rationing m Malaysia's capital and its surroundings may last till October if the drought caused by the El Nino
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      Lock icon Peat fire threat at airport
      88 20 KUALA LUMPUR Peat fires could ignite at any time along the highway leading to Kuala Lumpur's new international airport because of falling swamp water levels, a report warned yesterday. "Without sufficient water m the swamp, fires can ignite on a hot day," State Science, Technology
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        546 21  -  TAN HSUEH YUN Reports bt HER ideal home was a semidetached house with four bedrooms. After two years of scouring classified advertisements and despairing over prices that were always beyond her reach, she spotted it m a listing for a property
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        life was a whirl for couple until economy took a downturn
        598 21 IT was 1993. Never a day passed without their friends telling them about the money they had made on the stockmarket and m buying and selling property. The frenzy proved heady for Mr and Mrs Lim (not their real
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      ITE examiner acquitted of indecent act
      485 23  - ITE examiner acquitted of indecent act LJM LI HSIEN An ITE examiner accused of making sexual advances to a policeman was acquitted as the key witness' police report contained false statements *L THE Institute of Technical Education examiner accused of making sexual advances to a policeman m a public toilet
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      NOTED: Discrepancies
      100 23 ACMrttte* Siah (left) was cleared after the judge found discrepancies between key witness Mohammed Asry's police report and statements m court. In the report, former policeman Mohammed Asry Mohaimi said he went into the cubicle to urinate but did not mention Siah Lin Fook rubbing himself against him,
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      Low had 'no way of knowing'
      312 23 DEFENCE IN JOB PASS CASE THE lawyer for a veteran opposition politician submitted yesterday that his client had no way of knowing that a foreigner he sponsored for an employment pass here had produced a forged university degree to support the application. Mr Choo
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      Lock icon Seaborne: Navy's newest patrol ship
      190 23 Seaborne: Navy's newest patrol ship THE last ship m a family of 12 home-made patrol vessels was launched yesterday. The RSS Independence, a "Fearless" class vessel, will serve alongside some of its sisters witnin the next few weeks, patrolling the territorial waters of the Republic to keep intruders out. Rear-Admiral
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      THE WEATHER PAGE
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      Lock icon Here come the Haze Busters
      565 25  -  DOMINIC NATHAN Tired of the haze here, entrepreneur Jeremy Cama has launched a private sector initiative to fight the forest fires and prevent them from recurring 5* NAZE: How to help CONTRIBUTIONS to the Asia-Environment Charitable Trust (Act) fund will go to: Immediate fire-fighting efforts.
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      Lock icon 'I'm only going to get worse'
      707 26  -  ALLISON LIM MJD, a rare and untreatable brain ailment, leaves a former breadwinner m constant pain and almost an invalid 51 PAIN fills his every waking moment, a pain which is both sharp and stabbing yet dull and throbbing at the same time. He
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      MJD: A disease which has no cure
      313 26 THE Machado- Joseph Disease (MJD) Is aM patients with it have an affected parent. Each of their siMinn sand children has a 50 per cent chance of developing the disorder, which affects the patten? s co-ordmation. Doctors here were unwilling to talk about
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      Steel to dress up roofs in Toa Payoh
      295 26 Steel to dress up roofs in Toa Payoh AN OLD idea the steel roof may return m a new package, if residents of Lorong 4 Toa Payoh vote for the Main Upgrading Programme (MUP) m their precinct. Now, residents of the 12-storey Blocks 66, 69 and 73 get an eyeful
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      Mahathir rules out toll cut
      493 28  -  WALTER FERNANDEZ The Malaysian premier says the tolls will stay, and that motorists will eventually switch to the new crossing Bu THERE is no need for further cuts m the tolls at the Second Link, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday, despite repeated calls
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      CLOSER TIES: What the two leaders say
      157 28 CLOSER TIES: What the two leaders say "The regional economic crisis has made our strides towards the new millennium a bit more tentative. But progress has not stalled. As close neighbours with historical ties, Singapore and Malaysia have much m common, and much to gain from working together. Troubled economic
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      547 28  - Significant that event took place WARREN FERNANDEZ NEWS ANALYSIS Bui ARMED with a black marker each, the prime ministers of Malaysia and Singapore signed their names on a gold plaque to mark the opening of the new Second Link between their countries. A quick snip of a ribbon, much shaking
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      Minor hurdles to water pact, says KL
      328 28 Minor hurdles to water pact, says KL THERE are just a few minor formalities that have to be sorted out before a water agreement between Malaysia and Singapore is reached, Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. Speaking to reporters after the Second link opening ceremony, he said that
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      Lock icon Museum offers YIP treatment
      524 29  -  LEONG WENG KAM The first 30 visitors today get the Asian Civilisation Museum's director as their guide. The rest enter for free. It is the museum's first birthday By FREE: Visit today The first 30 visitors, if they show up at the door by 10 am,
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      EXHIBITIONS: Coming
      69 29 Works that the Chinese master Xv Beihong created when he was ia Singapore and Malaysia between 1938 and 1942 will be shown from June 23 to Oct 4. The museum's biggest event will be the exhibition of Egyptian treasures from the British Museum next February, including Egyptian mummies
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      3 more schools to have gifted education
      370 30 3 more schools to have gifted education GIFTED: Schools m the scheme PHwiryi Anglo-Chinese (Barker Road), Nanyang, Raffles Girls' Primary, Rosyth, Tao Nan Primary, Henry Park, St Hilda's and Catholic High. fltHiwy Dunman High, Anglo-Chinese (Independent), Raffles Girls' Secondary and Raffles Chinese High, Nanyanq Girls' High and Nan Hua Primary
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      23 30 STEPHANIE YEOW The school at Buldt Timah Road was picked for its exemplary academic results, excellent facilities and central location.
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      HANYANG GIRLS' HIGH
      28 30 IW school, which will move to a new home off Dunearn Road next year, was also chosen for its good academic results, facilities and location.
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      NAN HUA PRIMARY
      46 30 Fhe school was picked because many of its students qualified for the gifted programme. Furthermore, it is a mixed school, has good results and is popular with parents. As it is m the west, it will serve the strong demand for places there.
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      Photo contest on monuments
      174 30 SINGAPORE will mark International Day for Monuments and Sites, which was yesterday, for the first time with a photographic contest on national monuments. The Preservation of Monuments Board (PMB) and the Photographic Society of Singapore (PSS) are organising it jointly. It is the first of a
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      Lock icon Dental Board to get more bite
      392 32  - Dental Board to get more bite ALLISON LIM Changes to the 50-year-old Dentists Act will be made so that it will remain relevant to dentists' needs, and continue to make treatment safe Reports bu Ijjjl Being considered wMirtintfNlfatfMrtlftliflttopratflK. THE 50-year-old Dentists Act is to be updated, so that it will
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      A clinic where teeth don't chatter in fear
      238 32 A clinic where teeth don't chatter in fear YOUR next trip to the dentist may give you less cause for anxiety. The National Dental Centre, which opened officially yesterday, is a far cry from the government dental clinics of old, where row upon row of dentists' chairs were lined up
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      AFTER READING ST ARTICLE... Swiss helps free meals programme
      361 32  - AFTER READING ST ARTICLE... Swiss helps free meals programme Joanne lee §1 IT STARTED as a wild idea over breakfast at Starbucks, but it materialised into a gift of 4,000 meals for old needy folk m Bendemeer. After reading a Straits Times report last week on a scheme to feed
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      Rental income won't win loan
      661 33  -  TAN LI ENG Most banks are shying away from considering potential rental income m determining a buyer's debt-servicing ability for home loans *L RENTAL: Why banks say no favourable light, as when these leases are renewed, the rate may be lowered m the current soft
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      115 33 Dow closes at new high NEW YORK The Dow Jones Industrial Index roared back m late trading on Friday, notching up its third record close of the week as drug stocks gave it a steadying shot m the arm. It closed up 90.93 points at 9167.50, its third record close
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      More EC flats for the public soon
      325 33 More EC flats for the public soon LAST OF EXEC FLAT APPLICANTS OFFERED SWITCH MORE private executive condominium (EC) flats will soon be available to members of the public to buy under the Open Category. The reason is that after this month, these privatelydeveloped projects will no longer nave to
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      100 33 M1 starts quick info service STOCK quotes, currency exchange rates and flight schedules, useful information to have on the go, are now available to Mobile One's cell phone users. Starting today, Mi's Info on Demand service will dish out bite-sized information to these users. Other short messages provided include weather
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        401 34  -  YEOW PEI LIN AUCTION WATCH AT FIRST glance, a District 11 freehold semi-detached house m Shrewsbury Road auctioned off recently for $1.1 million appears a steal. The same applies to a Greenleaf Place semi-de-tached house, off Holland Road, which was knocked down for $1.5 million m
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        878 34 0: GIVEN the situation m Asia, and the US and European markets being at all-time highs, do you suggest that I invest m a bond trust, m anticipation that the markets will go into a prolonged consolidation phase, or m specific funds that target certain industries, regions and countries?
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        897 35  -  NG WEI JOO CITIBANK MONEY SERIES BY Investment portfolios are not only for the well-heeled. Family Money talks to the experts about the ABCs of portfolio management THE first thing those entering the apparently rarefied world of professionally managed accounts need to ask is: what exactly
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        182 35 YOUR investment portfolio should contain an asset mix that matches your I objectives and temperament. Check out these questions to be clear about your investment profile: What is your current Investment objective? Is it to get a high current income, or a steady future income stream?
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        186 35 that can be applied across-the-board to everyone. This is because the asset mix of a person's investment portfolio is a function of many factors such as age, income, risk appetite and desired lifestyle. However, professional financial planners do work with general scenarios as a preliminary
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      1262 36  - YOU ARE BEING WATCHED! PETER H. LEWIS Bank ATM machines, credit cards, hotel bookings, security cameras: These are the tell-tale electronic trails. Nowadays, you can't escape those prying eyes fiyl NEW Y9RK Surveillance cameras followed the attractive young blonde woman through the lobby of the midtown Manhattan hotel, kept a
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      888 37 GOODBYE PRIVACY, HEUO CAMERAS I TOOK a trip to New York recently, but not before asking Evan Hendricks, editor of a newsletter, Privacy Times, how to protect my privacy on the journey. "Do not allow a record to be created m the
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      Spinning his way out of Watergate II
      1029 38  -  LOUISE BRANSON Clinton Strikes Back In a public-relations triumph, the White House has taken the fight over the recent sex scandals to the Republicans instead By m WASHINGTON PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON has long been known as tne Comeback Kid. That nickname has taken
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      167 38 sophisticated use of the media. MIT BACK. NIT HARD: An official with the Democratic National Committee has 'threatened' to dig up dirt on the private lives of Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, which decides on impeachment matters. ATTACK THE ACCUSER: The Republicans'
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      554 38 TOKYO Until last year, Mr Tadashi Nakamura knew just what he wanted to be. He would become a bureaucrat and help run Japan. That has been a natural aspiration for bright young men m Japan for about the last 1,200 years. So there seemed a
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      995 40  - They can pay so give them more legroom ROBERT B. REICH Catering To The New Elite Growth m special personal services to affluent American professionals is changing the way the US works B± BOSTON US Airways recently removed a row of seats m each wide-body plane to make room for
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      FAST TRACK: How the rich have changed
      136 40 on a slow, luxurious lifestyle. They are money-rich but time-poor. So what does this mean? In the air, American airlines are earning more from domestic first- and business-class seats than before. So seats m those cabins are bigger, and there are more flight
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      STRAIT ROAD: The middle-class squeeze
      138 40 i liti otggesx irony, pemaps, is tnat middle-class folks are being pushed out of their traditional jobs into new ones which revolve around giving personal attention to people who live much better than they do. Where else is the middle-class being hit? Economy-class seats are
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      How Asia can shrug off its colonial legacy
      785 40  -  TOH HAN SHIH And find itself m fruitful Asian-Europe exchange 5s In Europe, I discovered a vast trove of resources on Asia, m museums, libraries, universities. Museums m France have vast collections of Khmer art. THERE is a missing link m Asia's
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      777 43 kflbYPHHHni^kfltrElf'BHllfll^Bi ID 22 is Earth Pay. This year is abe htenatioMl Year Of lit tan. octaß curtate ami sistaws wjajw ifeptMeii FOO HUB WEN t trffcufa In Hmc if r— l ~u* n lhia mli MMMTlilter HIMSt. OMTY FROM THE SEA The sea is the Mqojtst
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      624 43 The total length of the world's coastlines The average ocean depth is 4 km. is about 504,000 km, about 12 times the The Marianas Trench m the Pacific Ocean circumference of the equator. is. with a depth of T1.7 km. the deepest Canada has the longest coastline
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        286 39 THE case of a child who was slapped by a man m a bookshop for making too much noise can be repeated m any number of variations. Think cinema, concert hall, museum or a library, and a child's prattle or high jinks can provoke even the mild-mannered.
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      999 39  - Does Aware dare change its image ZURAIDAH IBRAHIM MY VIEW h DR PHYLLIS Chew is a brave woman. Those who have followed developments m the women's movement here would nave read last week of her decision to bring more men on board the Association of Women for Action and Research.
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      982 39  -  KWAN WENG KIN LETTER FROM TOKYO By TOKYO One major social event m Tokyo that many people, including myself, look forward to every year is the "Cherry Blossom Viewing Party" hosted by the prime minister of the day. The event is held m the
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      1496 41  -  BRAEMA MATHI Equality For All A ware's new president had a shaky start m life and an early introduction to women's rights. Today, Dr Phyllis Chew is all for open consultation *L BIOBOX: National Institute of Education, was born m Singapore m December 1952. She
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      890 42  - Get set for big boom in next 20 years DEBORAH STEAD Outlook For The Global Economy A spurt m productivity, better education and computerisation will herald a new era of prosperity, say two economic correspondents ECONOMICS PROSPERITY: THE COMING 20-YEAR BOOM AND WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU By Bob Davis
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      FUTURE GAINS: What the authors see
      146 42 technology but not used to its full potential as it takes decades for technology to produce prosperity. (Not until the '20s, did electricity produce sizeable productivity gains.) Wealth from computerisation will be spread more widely thanks to more widely-available post-secondary education m America's 1,100
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      756 42  - Can an ape read your expressions GALEN STRAWSON ANTHROPOLOGY ■■■■■■■■■HMaaii THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS (1872) By Charles Darwin Third and previously unpublished edition By THIS is the third and previously unpublished edition of Charles Darwin's great work The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And
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      126 42 ways m which we display emotions are not only innate and universal iri our species, but also related to expressions of emotion m non-human primates and other animals. These emotions are not the result of one's culture and do not vary from society to societv. His point:
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      585 44 TAN BONG CHEE <§> TING KIM CHAI AGE: 67 p« jtd away ptacttully on Saturday, 18/4/98, Itaving btnlnd loved onts. Husband: Lee Henq Seng, deceased) Sons: Daughttrs-ln-law: Daughter. Lee Ec Tee Ng SocK Wie Lee Met Yee Henry Lee Tan Lay Tju Adam Lee
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      202 44 LEONG AH SUM AGE: 80 called homt to bt with tht Lord on 17 April 1998 Itaving bthind lovtd onts. (Husband: Liew Sic Yong, deceased) Sons: Daughters: (Eric, deceased) Sally William Kirn Ying Leonard Nancy Michael Mary Nallie Jennifer Daughters-in-law, Sons-in-law, God-Son, Grandchildren, Grandchildren-in-law, Great Grandchildren,
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      213 44 Chiang Kum Kwai II I paiacd away peacefully on 17 Apr 98, 11 I leaving behind beloved ones II H Wife: Loh Sheat Chin U II Som: Daughters-in-law: fl Patrick Chiang Judy Chew Cheh Hiang Chiang Key WanFookVng Jimmy Chiang Lilian Yuen 11 Chiang Hoi Kwtmg
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      260 44 HHMHIiIi KOH CHOON SIANG TANG I PENG Departed 17.7.64 Departed 19.4.97 Forever remembered by all loved ones. If IN LOVIMGMEMORY^^ KWAN CHEE YEW Dntrttd 19 April 1981 Gone From Our Lives One So Dear, But m Our Hearts Forever Near. Alw«y*
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      36 44 "In Memoriam" Is for the loved ones whom you remember....... His portrait m its silver frame, The ravages of time may dim. But m our hearts hes still the same, We hold bright memories of him.
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      48 44 His smiling way and pleasant face Are a pleasure to recall: He had a kind word for each And died beloved by all. Some day we hope to meet him. Some day, we know not when. To clasp his hand m the better land. Never to part again.
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      142 45 Mn ht Tat 3rf L_J_Salmee 156 28 32 17 2 KKLoh 144 K 19 14 3 LBallantyne 132 15 11 4_ SMarzuki 64 14 4 4 5 I Ismadi 103 12 K) 11 6 lAzhar 92 12 10 9 7 KLOo 105 11 14 17 8 SSam 65
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      124 45 ht bd 3rd 1 MThwaites 25 17 14 2_ N Landers 19 6 3 J Brink 17 11 16 4 deck 16 14 8 5 M Kent 13 17 10 6 Y_Nathan__ _J 3 7 7 K Stone 2 6 8_ WKSeow 8 13 5 9 BAnq 8
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        44 45 His third to Admiral Benbow last week should have sharpened him up for today s assignment over his winning trip. Apprentice Samsir likely to make his only ride for the day count. Juicy dividends m store.
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        Tan Thean Loon LYRICAL LAD Race 10 No. 6
        43 45 Looks a top proposition now that he is reverting to his winning trip after finishing a good third over 1,850 m last Saturday. Won on his second weekend engagement m a splendid lmin 35.95ec.
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        Danny Khoo SPEED CALLING Race 7 No. 8
        43 45 1 his American-bred colt is due/or an early win. Showed promise at his debut when second to Secret Formula over the Ipoh 1,200 m last month, Impressed with two solid hit-outs m the past week.
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      387 45  - Shorthead, shorthead, shorthead sizzler MALCOLM BASTIANS SINGAPORE RACING Magical Power storms home m time to nail Merlion Trophy rivals *L IT WAS a dream day for visiting rider Michael Cahill as he rode a double, including winner Magical Power m the main feature, the $100,000 Merlion Trophy, at Bukit Timah
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      33 45 April IB 1996 FIRST 0477 SECOND 4854 THIRD 9489 STARTERS 0713 5597 1353 4362 6705 9142 0747 0236 9071 6150 CONSOLATIONS 9507 9222 6700 9017 9807 6730 3398 6251 4105 4145
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      YESTERDAY'S BUKIT TIMAH RACE RESULTS
      981 45 SINGAPORE RACING ■ACfi CUSS5MV7 UOO. 3 HIGH COLOURS S5.5 (11-7) Marzuki (12) 7 3 1 9 bpicht cold («;7-iA) toft (4) 10 9 2 7 JASMINE 53 (33-9) KW Leong (5) 7 11 3 Others In finishing order: Magic Circle (341-72) Sam, Asean Gold (491-88)
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      1356 45 SINGAPORE RACING Going forecast: Good to yielding lACCI Class 5 Div 2 1,400 m (SO 1.00 Ratings: 48-28 Stakes $22,000 1 54 806 Apache I<3ac Kent-Twenty Nine) Sofhan 57 2 ***** Imperial Finish 9 (3*g B Anq-Ontop) Ballantyne 56 3 5-8780 Hoon Hoon 8 (6nzm W
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        102 46 BYRON Black refused to join the exodus of seeds from the Japan Open tennis tournament m Tokyo yesterday, beating Daniel Vacek m the semi-finals. The lOth seed fought off the huid-serving Czech for a 6-3, 7-5 win m 86 minutes. A host
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        69 46 LENS remained on course for its first French soccer championship on Friday with a 2-0 win at lowly Cannes. Second-placed Metz had to fight hard to beat Nantes 3-2 at home and keep Lens m sight with two matches left. Lens extended its unbeaten
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        48 46 ALBERTO Berasategui became the man to beat at the Barcelona Open tennis tournament on Friday after brushing aside top seed Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6-4, 6-4 to book a semi-final place. He will meet fellow-Span-iard Carlos Moya, while Italian Andrea Gaudenzi will play big-serving American Todd Martin.
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      112 46 BOWLING SAM GOH, the 1996 Sportsman of the Year, boosted his chances of regaining a place m the national team when he finished sixth m yesterday's OP Challenge Masters finals. He knocked down 2,133 (average 213) pintails. There are two major assignments this year: the Commonwealth
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      311 47 BASKETBALL LOS ANGELES Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's Fox Group expanded its sports empire by agreeing to acquire a stake m a new arena here and options m the city's Lakers basketball and Kings hockey teams. Fox, which recently acquired the baseball
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      296 47 GOLF HILTON HEAD ISLAND (South Carolina) Jay Haas chipped m on two successive holes on his way to a onestroke lead after the second round of the MCI Heritage Classic. "Two chip-ins made my round," said Haas, who shot
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      61 47 THE LPGA Tour clearly is going to the dogs. There are almost as many pet dogs on tour as caddies. According to the New Yort Times, Liselotte Neumann has Pee Wee. Colleen Walker has Hershey, Dottie Pepper has Furman, Emilee Klein has Callie, Donna Andrews has
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      258 47 SOCCER PARIS Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger hopes to stay with the London club until the end of his contract m 1999 and has no wish to become France's manager for the time being, he told French sports weekly I'Equipe
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      431 48 MOTORCYCLING Doohan back m the hunt with flying start m qualifiers ITALIAN Massimiliano Biaggi had a bumpy qualifying session m Johor yesterday, falling twice but avoiding injury m a bid to better rival Michael Doohan's flying lap times m the Malaysian Grand Prix. Biaggi, known as
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      670 48  - Of yin yang and the losing theory WILFRED YEO SPORTS LIGHTS By THE acronym STC stands for Singapore Turf Club, but you wonder if it should not be Superstitious Tipsters Club instead. For, gathered inside the club's Bukit Timah premises every weekend, is probably the biggest congregation of superstitious people.
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      63 48 GOLF SHANGHAI A birdie on the 18th gave American Aaron Meeks, 31, the thirdround lead m the US$4OO,OOO (*****,000) Volvo China Open at the Sunisland International Club yesterday. The Californian returned a five-un-der-par 67 after firing a three-wood second shot 227 yards across
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      151 48 CRICKET SINGAPORE qualified for the final of the Tuanku Ja'afar Trophy Un-der-13 cricket competition despite losing to Hongkong at Balestier Road yesterday. The Republic's fourwicket defeat to Hongkong left all three teams, including Malaysia, on two points each m the triangular competition. However, Singapore and
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      841 48 SCORES STATISTICS BASEBALL American Ltaoot: Boston 3 Cleveland 2 (10 innings). NY Yankees 11 Detroit 2. Toronto 6 Chicago White Sox 1. Seattle 11 Minnesota 6. Texas 6 Baltimore 4. Anaheim 5 Tampa Bay 0. Kansas City 4 Oakland 1 (12 innings). National League: Los Angeles 11 Chicago Cubs 3,
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      703 50  - It's full house at new Juronq S. MURALI TIGER BEER S-LEAGUE SOCCER Packed fans add to drama as Warriors take sting off Cobras By IT WAS a night when passions ran high on and off the pitch. Fueled by a capacity crowd of 2,000 and two of Singapore's favourite footballing
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      303 50 ENGLISH SOCCER LONDON Arsenal knocked Manchester United off the top of the English Premiership for the first time since October here yesterday with an emphatic 5-0 win against Wimbledon. United could only draw 1-1 against Newcastle at Old Traftord, leaving it a point behind the Gunners, who
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      177 49 TODAYS EVENTS ATHLETICS Caltex National Junior Championships, 3rd day (Serangoon Stadium, lpm). CRICKET SCA Div 1: UWC v CSC (UWC), SRC v IA (SRC) 10.45 am. Div 2: SCC II v SCC 111 (SCC), SCRC v SIA (SCRC). Div 3: SIA v SCRC (Changi) lpm. HOCKEY SHF Women's League: CSC
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      228 49 Struggling champ out to revive flagging fortunes NFL SOCCER DEFENDING champion Mountbatten FC will be looking for a win over Tampines Rovers SC tonight m a bid to resurrect its chances of retaining the National Football League crown. Mountbatten lies sixth m the Singapore Pools/NFL table, five points behind leader
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      545 49  -  THOMAS KOH TIGER BEER S-LEAGUE SOCCER Gusta stars but it was a team effort as Protectors win at Bishan GUSTA Guzarishah, the prodigal son of Singapore soccer, nred the hearts of 3,500 fans at Bishan Stadium last night with a superb showing for the
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      447 49  -  TAY CHENG KHOON Bu FOOTBALL is a team sport but often there is that one bright spark who makes it seem that he is the team. At the Yishun Stadium last night, that gem was J. Surachai, the ex-Thai international playing his
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      258 49 TANJONG Pagar United survived a couple of early scares before overcoming a vastly improved Marine Castle United FC at Hougang Stadium last night. The Dolphins from Marine Castle put on an entertaining match for their 1,900 fans and came closest to scoring m the 15th
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      844 49 SINGAPORE RACING RACE 1: Be My Banker jumped awkwardly and was slow to begin. Be My Banker must pass a I,ooom gallop trial from the barrier and a vet exam. It's A Bird, who did not stride out freely, must pass a
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      77 1 Making dollars out of scents hese days, you are spoilt for choice when it comes to products that make your life smell better. You can have vour rooms, cars, even shoes, wafting with the scent of flowers, sea breezes or pine forests. Over the past five years,
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      589 2 TO lED, TO RED, WITH CHANEL WHEN Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe was asked by a reporter what she wore to bed, her answer was XhanelNo.s. w BURNT FLESH, SWEET SMELL PERFUME was first used m ancient Mesopotamia as incense offered up to gods to sweeten the
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      988 2  -  TEO PAU LIN Scent Sense These days, people are washing and burying not only their natural odours with cleansers, but also scenting the environment around them Bj NAPOLEON once told his paramour, Josephine, not to bathe during the two weeks that he would be away so that he
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      458 2 'When you create a fragrance, you create more than just a fragrance, you create a mood. It's a work of art which requires a mixture of art and science.' Perfumer Michael Williams iMALriiN t, naving a nose so sharp you can give names to
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      587 2 SO YOU are lapping up the scent explosion. Your room wafts of apples and lemons from scented candles, your wardrobe reeks of the Atlantic Ocean from marine-scented ceramics, and your cleansed and moisturised body smells good enough to eat. But, says Mr Koh
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      404 3 NOT only is the nose the most neglected of the human sense organs, it is also the most mysterious. To this day, biologists and chemists alike still do not know how we smell. What they know is this. Scent molecules enter the nose
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      831 4  -  KATIE ROIPHE Perils Of Singlehood Why oh why must all mothers be anxious about their daughters' biological clock ticking away h THE other day, standing m the middle of Pottery Barn innocently looking at glass coffee tables, I glanced up at my mother
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      686 4  - I saw red and finally loved it PETER SIOW A car called Ferrari has a lot to do with that change I HATED red. Ever since I was old enough to be m school and have a report card, I have disliked almost all things red except wine. Forty years
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      592 5  - The pain plagues one in 10 MAGDALENE LIM Head Ache Doctors still do not know what causes those severe outbreaks called migraines but they have some ideas how they may be triggered off By MADAM JULIE ONG, a businesswoman m her 50s, has suffered from severe migraine for more than
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      430 6  - Mmmm, it's like dinner hugging you TEO PAU LIN American Icon That's how chef Paul Prudhomme describes his favourite fare traditional fiery Louisiana mix YOU know you have made it m the world of cooking when your face appears on a canister of seasoning. In the case of chef Paul
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      113 6 home, and somebody had to help my Mum with the family meals," he recalled. From just "watching the pots", he learnt about flavours and taste and now to make them work. By the time he graduated from high school at 17, he had opened his first
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      497 6 OHow does it feel to look so much like Dom DeLuise? A Actually, I'm older than him so he looks like me! But we go along with it. For years, he s been taking orders on the street from people who
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      505 7  -  Teo Pau Lin Big On Value C1IKAP FATS When Ng Siew Choo opened her stall 12 years ago, she charged $2 for a huge meal. The prices remain the same now WHAT can you eat these days with only $1.50 m your pocket?
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      473 7 SPORE CHEFS WIN 170 MEDALS THE Singapore national team did not win the coveted Battle Of The Lion trophy at the Salon Culinaire 1998 last week- The Swiss team did. Nevertheless, homegrown chefs fared pretty well m other categories of the competition. The Singapore regional team won the silver
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      616 7  -  Ch'ng Poh Tiong DRINKS By Champagne to pop for the WorlaCup LAST week's bi-annual Food Hotel Asia Fair saw the relaunch of what was once the world's best-selling wine and this year's official World Cup Champagne by separate Singapore wine companies. Most of today's
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      Italian goes casual and fun
      506 7  -  Wong Ah Yoke EATS By CAFE MODESTOS pitches itself as a fun restaurant, not a fine outlet That modest self-apprais-al is right on the spot. The new casual Italian joint m Orchard Parade Hotel is certainly a fun place m the evenings. It has live
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      1668 8  - I know nothing, you teach me Susan Long Reality Bytes (>\(. f.vi'i-.infi.u 7 7 realised early on I was +00 independent-minded to toe the line. Instead of getting fired, I decided not to take a job. Only later I found out freedom ana business are quite a contradiction m terms.
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      871 9  -  TEO PAU LIN Charlie Chaplin's Daughter Her father was her Number One fan and, once she made it through her adolescent years, she became his Hu CELEBRITY kids hardly ever appear so stripped of glamour. Actress Geraldine Chaplin sits m the lobby of the
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      390 9  -  CHIN SOO FANG They are dream partners who have churned out top hits WHAT happens when two people with the same interest spend long hours making music together? The songwriter finds himself penning love ballads with the singer m mind. He
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      BILLY AND KIT: Just good pals
      129 9 launched Kit Chan. When the Chinese music scene in Singapore was still in its infancy in the early '90s, he head on to the vision that the aspiring finger would become a household name. He sent her to Taiwan so she could silence Singapore
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      232 9 PLAYING Mother Teresa is her most challenging role to date, "and I'm not saying this just because I'm promoting it", said Geraldine Chaplin. "It was hard because I was playing a real person that everyone knew and loved." Mother Teresa: In The Name Of God's
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          112 10 EXECUTIVE DECISION HBO Ch6o,Bpm Repeats: April 25,11.15 am; April 28, 6.45 pm TERRORISTS hijack a 747 bound for Washington DC and threaten to kill all on board if their leader is not freed. An elite team of commandos, together with an intellignece analyst (Kurt Russell),
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          63 10 DUTCH FOOTBALL FC GRONINGEN VS AJAX ESPN Ch 23, 8.25 pm (live) APRIL is a month of foot- ball and more football. There is the electrifying English Premier League drawing to a climax, the UEFA Champions League, the Asian Winners Cup and more. Tonight, catch Dutch
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          80 10 Write yourself into the story NEIL SIMON'S: JAKE WOMEN Halhnark Entertainment Network Ch36,Bpm BASED on Neil Simon's famous play, this comedy drama has Alan Alda as Jake, a writer who gets up caught up m his creations. The fictional characters and the dialogues he invents become real m his mind.
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          126 10 Say it with flowers ...tonnes of 'em BED OF ROSES Cinemax Ch 59, 10 pm Repeats: April 25, 12.15 am; April 29, 8.30 pm SUCCESSFUL investment banker (Mary Stuart Masterson) with zero social life ahd a recently-dead abusive father weeps at her window. An intelligent, handsome and rich young man
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          76 10 Party till handover Hongkong style THE RETURN OF HONGKONG COUNTDOWN 100 CELEBRATION TVBZ Ch 48, 8.30 pm DOES it not surprise anyone m Hongkong that there is a celebration 100 days before an event, this time the histor- ic return of Hongkong to China? This variety extravaganza features lion dances,
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          99 10 TITANIC -ANATOMY OF A DISASTER Discovery Ch 12,8 pm STILL caught up m Titantic mania? Here's more to indulge those besotted by the mystery and grandeur of a ship that sunk almost a century ago. This programme features dramatic investigative footage and
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      909 12 Epic Movies Movie moguls know a good plot when they see one. In The Ten Commandments you get grand themes Tike the battle against tyranny and a hero leading the masses out ofbondage. Ten Commandments, that is. Mammoth films produced m the '40s and v
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      254 12 Threefilms on the time of innocence HOLLYWOOD Reading the daily headlines about sexual harassment and the consequences of drinking and smoking, it is clear this is a complicated time for men and women trying to fathom the responsibilities and the etiquette of being, well, .nen
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      640 12 Early week, ARIES be less inde- y^ 21 to April 20 pendent and listen to the advice of other people. Midweek sees you ready to throw caution to the wind and enjoy yourself but it could be expensive. Late week, domestic affairs are prone to sudden changes and
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      1275 18  -  PAUL ZACH French Connection Like many Singapore artistes, Marina Xavier has gone abroad and found fame. Now a Malay dance ditty has Singaporeans singing her praises fiii 7 nearly flipped and fell into the Seine. They kept saying Keep your balance', it was wet. I
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      488 17 LIFE! COMICS ]_HlZ!fl^B HER BOYFRIEND T MEET ft WO^LIKE^ T 111 i^^/QY^^pv\ M*M*\ ["AKE:Zv\ k O\J Cl i/)CCi 1_- Ant u1 CC I |i I _^^^^^^^^^^^^^fc. 1 1^ i_J V/ll MY NAME IS NIRVANA miriw^ /y \Vi rs€: MY y^V HI MUM, HI DAD... r"l\ SO WHERE'S 1(1 7^ BUT
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