New Nation, 29 January 1981

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  • 17 1 NewNation SINGAPORE Thursday, January 29, 1981 Price 25 Cents M.C.(P) No. 103/1/81 3092 w NEW NATION COMMENT
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  • 247 1  -  Use of aircons, exhausts for certain areas is out By Tan Choon Gan The government will no longer approve building plans that seek to have mechanical ventilation (or toilets, bathrooms, staircases and common lobbies. The Building Control Division took this tough line after it was found that
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  • 294 1 Tone of the market during the first 45 minutes of trading this morning: Mixed. First Sect!— BA Tobacco (2) 2.21 (3) 2 22 Boustead (7) 7.55 (1) 7.60 (6) 7.50 C Securities (1) 2.08 (1) 2 09 C Dev (6) 5.25 (1) 5.30 (7) 5.15 (2) 5.10 (12) 5.20
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  • 82 1 The top prize In the Big Sweep will be raised by to Mtt,- from August this year, Nmaynam SlMag Pm re parted today. However, ether prises will remain unchanged, It said. The paper alse said that the number of tickets put en sale will
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  • 64 1 A 45-year-old man, Ahmad bin Said, was this morning charged in a magistrate's court on seven counts of using criminal force to outrage the modesty of his daughter. Six of the alleged offences were committed in September 1974 in Jalan Laou and the seventh In July 1975 In
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  • 23 1 Hong Kong, Thursday Gold opened at U5J505.25 (about $1012.50) per ounce today on the Chinese metals market, down sharply from U*****.75»
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    • 83 1 Health Minister who has cancer jt; \Vv a Full story on Page 5 Kelantan: We're not barbarians Page 32 A I 1 C up '81 W/A(- t*L Two authors of cookbooks give their recipes on Page 10 A 14-page special to put you in the Chinese New Year. mood starts
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    • 179 1 Choosing pearls is choosing MIKIMOTO CI 'i;ri IRKI> /> C. T. HOO Re. Ltd. 27, Tanglin Road, Singapore 1024. Tel: *****43. *****53 Listen to Mobile Fidelity's Reference Cartridge: [i ii] fidelitv-rosoarcli "Closest to perfection," and "Incredible muslcallty," say Stan Rlcker, chief engineer and Gary Glorgl, vice president of Mobile Fidelity
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 33 1 Forecast Singapore's weather outlook from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. today: Fair and windy except (or showers in a few places in the late afternoon. Sunset today: 6.50 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.46 a.m.
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  • 157 2 Singaporeans yearning for flights on the Concorde have flocked to a travel agent offering them. The agency, Sino American Travel, said that all available seats have been filled. An official of the agency said: "The Concorde flight is a bonus included in a 10-day
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  • 31 2 Fiitance Minister and MP for Havelock, Mr Hon Sui Sen, will attend a New Year gathering and buffet party at the Havelock community centre on Feb 8 at 11 a.m.
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  • 203 2 Break-ins plunged from 13 to four! Paya Lebar police A new patrol scheme introduced by Paya Lebar Police Station has cut housebreaking cases in private residential estates under thedivision by more than half. The housing estates, about 10, under the jurisdic- tion of police
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  • 140 2 If a picture speaks a thousand words, then let these words speak about virtues filial piety, brotherliness, patriotism, trustworthiness, propriety, righteousness, incorruptibility,' decency, humanity or wisdom. This is the invitation to students of secondary schools, junior colleges and vocational institutes, from the Sai Oh Thye
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  • 30 2 MP for Kim Seng, Dr Yeo Ning Hong, will present Chinese New Year gifts to Social Welfare recipients at the Kim Seng community centre on Sunday at 10 a.m.
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  • 150 2 The Singapore Action Group of Elders (Sage) has turned down the offer of two sites in Sembawang for the proposed Elders' Village. This is because the 2000 and 6000 sqm sites may be earmarked for redevelopment. Sage president Dr Lim Chan Yong said:
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  • 157 2 Construction of the monorail system In Seatosa Is going fall swing. About M per eeat of the piling work hss been completed, with nbent tit metres of track laid. According to a Sentosa Development Corporation spokesman, work on the monorail is proceeding according
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  • 30 2 Parliamentary Secretary (National Development), Mr Lee Yiok Seng, will attend the opening of the Pan Island Expressway between Jalan Anak Bukit and Corporation Road on Saturday at 10 a.m.
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  • 167 2 Fifteen Asian countries have submitted entries for the Asia Children's Art Exhibition to be held in mid-April. Abolit 2500 pieces of art from countries such as China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore have been received. The artists are all under
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    • 85 2 Secretaries' Favourites Smart, Silent Types... Clean, crisp office workers are also the boss's favorites. This new generation of printing calculators will be popular with everyone in the office-for their silent efficiency and errorless results. There's a double check via' the dear totalling print-out, and big, screqp-style display. It's a pure
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  • 167 3 Ob the evealag ef Jaa 17. lud driver Salalml Ida Neersaa, (left) went to the airport to leek for psseeagera, bat dashed off wltheat picking ap aay. The reacten was that he saddealy saw a plastic bag left behind by a passeager he had
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  • 197 3 They learn English and arithmetic in 6-month course Illiterate deaf children and young adults can now learn English and arithmetic through a special enrichment programme which began this month. Organised by a social worker from the Singapore Association for the Deaf, the six-month
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  • 202 3 It may soon be possible to predict the level of traffic noise at proposed roads even before they are constructed. By taking into consideration traffic factors such as the number of lanes on these roads, the noise level can be calculated. This project, done
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  • 89 3 The Official Assignee and Public Trustee (OAPT) offices, now at Supreme Court building, are expected to shift to Hill Street Police Station building by the end of this year. The present premises may be converted to another courtroom, according to
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  • 37 3 The Chong Boon Zone C Residents' Committee will hold a Chinese New Year get-together at the open space between Blocks 456 and 460, Street 44, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10, on Feb 15 at 3 p.m.
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  • 75 3 The National University of Singapore will hold entrance examinations (formerly known as the Joint Campus entrance examinations) (or serving, nonJraduate teachers in pril. Those who pass will be eligible (or admission to the NUS Science and Arts and Social Science faculties. They will also
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  • 233 4 Learning Mandarin will be livelier and more interesting with the use of pictures, words and songs. These are the latest study aids being produced by the Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore (CDIS). The first studv package is a series of 10 Chinese language supplementary
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  • 406 4  -  By Irene Hoe The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation put on its best show yesterday but not for broadcast. About 1600 people, including SBC staff, journalists and members of the public, were taken on a 90-minute tour of the rab- bit warren at
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  • 40 4 Drinks, cakes, games, a magic show and prizes will be given away at the Khe Bong Zone A Residents' Committee's children's party at the Heng Khe Bong school auditorium on Feb 14 from 7.30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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  • 229 4 The dental care section of thp Singapore Armed Forces Polyclinic has been attracting the crowds since it opened on Dec 15. It attracts more patients than the medical section because of the low consultation charges and the fact that it is open during the day,
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    • 68 4 *>• 1 U'J- MkL NewpHisoDan. Now you can control dandruff andputfifeandstyle back into your hair. Anti-dandruff shampoos may control dandruff, but most of them leave your hair dry, brittle and unmanageable. New pHisoDan solves this problem. It offers two treatments in one. First, it effectivelycontrols dandruff, itchy scalp and rids
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    • 65 4 Moneywords results The results of the New Nation Moneywords contest, LR, for the week ending this Saturday will be published on Tuesday, Feb II, Instead of Monday, Feb I. This Is because the Chinese New Year holidays fall on Thursday and Friday (Feb 5 and which are the usual processing
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  • 600 5  -  Despite bone cancer, Filipino Health Minister tours medical show By Julie Liau There was only the slightest wince of pain on the (ace of the Philippines Health Minister, Dr Enrique Garcia. Few noticed it. Fewer still, if any at all, knew it
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  • 91 5 The Tokyo-based Asian Cultural Centre for Unesco (ACCU) is holding a photography contest for member countries in Asia and the Pacific. Entries from Singapore can be submitted to the office by May 20, for Judging by 10 experts from the region in mid-June. Besides prizes in photographic
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  • 90 5 Science and mathematics teachers are invited to submit entries for this year's Commonwealth Association of Science and Mathematics Educators (CASME) awards. The topics for discussion may relate to the development of curricula and syllabi, and Investigation of the learning process in relaton to study and
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  • 261 6 So US commanders can fight back World Focus Reuter Washington, Tkarsday The US Defence Department plans to spend US$l.7 billion (about $3.5 billion) in the next three years to enable America's military commanders to survive a Soviet nuclear attack and fight back, officials said
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  • 134 6 UPI Washington, Thursday Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger called yesterday for a drastic rearming of America, warning the current world situation raises the chances the nation may have to use its armed forces to protect US interests. "The international political climate continues to deteriorate and the
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  • 41 6 UPI TODAY Is Thursday, Jan 29, the 29th day of 1961 with 336 to follow. A THOUGHT FOB THE DAY: Early American freedom fighter Thomas Paine said: "A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and Dad men.
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  • 67 6 Tws gkeep Mem to eajey toelr walk a pMten gnui ea top ef a hnae in Haaaa, aear Frankfurt, in Wirt Germany. lie grass reef waa desiped by arehltoet Jens Drefahl to make the hease leek mere like a iMfc-M and to aveM the Impression
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  • 67 6 UPI Saee (Maine,) Thursday Aa amateur redee rider aad Ids flsaoee will exehaage their marriage vews sa Saturday ea a mecbsalesl hall la a westera style saleea. "I thiak It's going to be a geed start/' said Seett Chandler, 71. lie bride aad greem will faee eaeb
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  • 178 6 UPI Jakarta, Thursday Rescue workers using searchlights to cut through the murky night plucked 21 more bodies from the Java Sea last night, bringing to 55 the number of confirmed dead in the tragedy-struck Indonesian passenger ship, which caught fire on Monday night
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  • 59 6 Reuter New York, Thursday A major bank in New York cut two key interest rates to 19.5 per cent yesterday, raising hopes on Wall Street that other banks will follow its lead towards cheaper money. Marine Midland of Buffalo, the country's 12thlargest commercial bank, lowered its prime
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 361 6 The Greedy Monk Sami Yang Tamak TALES FROM THE ORIENT DONGENG-DONGENG DflRI TIMUR mk H tfvVVV ((5 m KSrcS Wk m m 1 d iz/. as III wm X zm r i m I mvmw! mm* *a#Kn M ffefn*f£5**SiW fflW° P*NtR9l» IDii&K&Jsffi 4>m«*tfc£ «*«T o *X mnxwzx&n HM* —»fsa ffi
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  • 107 7 World Focus AP London, Thursday Britain's strike record in 1980 was the best for 38 years, the government said yesterday. The Department of Employment said there were 1262 work stoppages, the lowest total since 1941 and less than half the 2600 average for the
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  • 141 7 AP West Chester (Pennsylvania), Thursday A former marine, sentenced to a prison term for her part in a U*****,000 ($500,000) antique silver theft, has six personalities, a psychiatrist says. Amy Darow was sentenced on Tuesday to three to 10 years jail by judge D. T. Marrone.
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  • 61 7 Reuter Washington, Thursday US Secretary of State Alexander Haig accused the Soviet Union yesterday of promoting international terrorism and said US willingness to resume arms control talks de- pended on Soviet behaviour abroad. Mr Haig said Soviet "risk-taking" through Cuban proxies in Latin American and Africa was
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  • 187 7 UPI New York, Thursday Stock prices turned lower yesterday, breaking the momentum from the previous session. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials dropped 6.91 to close at 94£56. Losers outnumbered gainers by a narrow margin on the New York stock exchange. Yesterday's prices followed by the
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  • 32 7 AP New York, Thursday Final Dow Jones stock averages yesterday: 30 industrials 942.58 (down 6.91): 20 transport 305.43 (up 0.79); 15 utilities 112.49 (up 0.77); 65 stocks 367.25 (down 0.83)
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  • 212 7 Hundreds watch but don't help him AFP Paris, Thursday A man was murdered in a crowded metro train on Tuesday afternoon in terrifying conditions and hundreds of passengers pretended to ignore the incident. But a visiting student from Zaire, Mr JeanJacques Ngangweshe„ 28, bravely confronted
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  • 137 7 Reuter London, Thursday A new organisation to investigate marine frauds around the world has been making inquiries in Taiwan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Spain, its director said yesterday. Mr Eric Ellen, director of the International Maritime Bureau, formed on Jan 1 by the International
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  • 302 8 "Half a million soldiers went to Tokyo. All of them remember one girl on the shore." Those were the words of a 1950s song. Thirty-five years after the Second World War, the tide has turned. For soldiers, substitute "Japanese men," and for Tokyo, "Manila" or In the
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  • 111 8 A round of appeals has been made to W President Reagan to renounce the deal Jimmy Carter's government made to get the hostages released. We feel the event is more complicated than that. If the United States has no moral obligation to kidnappers, it certainly has a moral
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  • WHISPERS By ISPY
    • 54 8 After a lorry crashed near the DBS building last week, someone working in Sbenton Way asked a passer-by whether there had been an accident. The passer-by said: "No, it was not an accident. It lpoked like another of those travelling exhibitions. Must be Police Week again. They like
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    • 25 8 Has the word "beautician" gone out of fashion? The name card given out by a girl in a beauty salon says "aesthetician."
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  • 807 8 O Are you one of those car owners who squabble with their insurance agents whenever they renew their car insurance policies? You ask why your annual premium has remained the same, or worse, has been increased, and insist that the agent has fouled up his
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  • 164 8 Do you know you can pay your monthly fee for Rediffusion through the Post Office Savings Bank Giro system? All you have to do is to complete the POSB's standing order form available from any of its branches. The POSB will then deduct from your
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  • 391 8 AFP Switzerland's "James Bond" Colonel Albert Bachmann of the Security and Information Group (GRS) planned, in the event of an invasion, to send the government to safety in Ireland where it would organise further resistance, it was revealed here yesterday. The plan will
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  • 476 9 DPA Paris: A grave danger is hanging over the French language and President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has given his official blessing to a government attempt to rescue it. From what? English? "The French language Is In peril," Mr Giscard warned recently as he announced
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  • 321 9  -  Y.L. GUO It is a pity Mr Richard Lim managed to see only two of Werner Herzog's films and two of the more enigmatic ones at that. Why he has ventured to write an article on Herzog and his films after admitting that
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  • 50 9  -  S.P. CHANDRA MOHAN The introduction of the official minutes of Parliament (Hansard) for Telok Blangah residents is a welcome move (NN, Jan 19). It would be better, however, if all the 75 electoral divisions, get this "privilege" a privilege unheard of in Singapore's political history.
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    • 55 9 MAIL [I BAG WHITE TO the Eorroa. NEW NATION LOCKED BAG 15, STPOKE 90S1. sfo.-*. i\am nds diamonds As direct importers, uc are able to sell our diamonds at wholesale t or S it.-! hu, your S.HI IIM SUVA HAM I I .l-.KS 'f* s mij *n;4 ti M T
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    • 143 9 JANUARY 30 LCJNCHTIME This week s "Fashions on Friday", presented bv Dynasty Boutique, features an exclusive range ot silk attire suitable for both da\ and evening wear. On displav vw 111 also be spec lal pieces bv Dvnastv designer Marguerit Ihuishv.Co sponsored bv Raffaella Leather Boutique and Revue Hair Centre.
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    • 1033 10 Two of Singapore's cookbook writers share Just a week to New Year's Day and already the annual flurry in the kitchen has started. You can expect more excitement when two of Singapore's cookbook writers do their thing. We spoke to Mrs Leong Yee Soo and Mrs
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    • 463 10 Lu Ya (Teochew stewed duck) Ten slices of lengkwas, each about the size of a 50-cent coin; l'/j cups cooking oil; Vi cup sugar; five tteps black soya sauce; Vt tsp five spice powder; two star anise; six cloves; one duck; 75C g belly pork; 10 hard boiled eggs.
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    • 362 10  -  r What's Cooking? M. Chan The prices of New Year musts are going up and up. For example, Pussy willows cost around $15 to $18 a dozen. If you are patient and search the out-of-town markets like Bed ok and Tampines, you might
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    • 129 10 We live in a high-rise condominium which is under "strata-titles". Some of the occupants persist in stacking their old boxes in the common areas along the corridors, which is a fire hazard. Can't something be done? Your block of flats is managed by your
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    • 331 11 Copley News Service Awesome is a good word to describe the transformation of the simple provision store from an informal cornerstone with items haphazardly placed, to an airconditioned supermarket stocked with 10,000 items. The store itself is designed so that if you go
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    • 65 11 The A-Zin kitchen ware to grace the most elegant kitchens. We specialised in the finest quality Householdware. Kitchen Utensils, Glassware. Porcelain Ware. Electrical Appliances. Handy Tools, etc. HOUSE OF KITCHENWARE UNIT 129/132, IST FLOOR BUKIT TIMAH PLAZA, JALAN A NA K BCJKIT 1 1 K,M„ UPPER BUKIT TIMAH ROAD SINGAPORE
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  • 958 12 For women who want to have it both ways NYT New Y«rk: Nancy Jones wanted it both ways. "I love corporate America," she said, "but I love my family, too." When Mrs Jones became pregnant in 1974, she wanted more than the usual
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  • 518 12 DPA Sinn: West German women are well on their way to penetrating one of man's last bastions: technical jobs. They compensate lack of physical strength with greater skills. This is the conclusion of a survey just published by the West German Education Ministry
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  • The Year of the ROOSTER
    • 1052 13 By Xiaoshuang CHINESE New Year was a noisy event in the Chinatown of the old days. In fact it was kept deliberately noisy to scare off a certain nasty monster who prowled about whenever the old -year drew to an end. This
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    • 444 14 By Xiaoshuang LAST week I read the story of a calllgrapher from an old calender. And then I dreamt a dream wonderful to tell. In the dream I saw myself in China, outside the door of a thatched hut, a cloth bundle slung over
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    • Article, Illustration
      830 16 Gloria Chandy previews some of the festive films THE MOVIES, of course, are going to be the big attraction for many in between visiting relatives and friends during the festive season. Cinema operators, in anticipation of the holiday crowds, will be screening some films that you might
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    • 418 18/19  -  SOMETHING FOR THOSE BORN THIS YEAR Gloria Chandy discovers gift buys bearing the sign of the cockerel In keeping with its character Gloria Chandy THE ROOSTER, that flambouyant king of the barnyard, loves to make his presence felt, it says in the Chinese horoscopes.
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    • 803 20 WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND TOWN THERE may be a ban on firecrackers. But that's not going to prevent most of the major hotels in Singapore from ushering in the Year of the Rooster with the proverbial bang well, figuratively speaking in any case!
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    • 56 20 Something special at the Marco Polo will be the open spit at the El Patio garden terrace restaurant, where Just for the festive season, yon can get roast suckling pig served crackling crisp straight from the fire. Other .specialities will be the Cantonese roast
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    • 266 22 If the Botanic Gardens could talk they would tell you a tale or two. About Chinese New Years past and about the changing fashion scene through the ages. For The 122-year-old gardens have long been a favourite place to "makan angin*\ particularly over the
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    • 1068 23 When your thoughts keep turning to food YOUR thoughts must certainly be turning to food by now. Because isn't that the most vital part of any celebration? We asked the chefs from the Chinese kitchens of some of Singapore's top hotels to share a
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    • 123 24 SHOPPERS' GUIDE Two pages of gift buys to help you make up your mind Semetklag like tke CtverbUl |mm thai ys galden eggs? Bnt this brilliantly galden hen (nbave) lays white eggs as well. What's mere, geldea mr white each egg that
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    • 81 24 No, this "egg" Is not for Easter. It's ft kitchen item vm could use ftt any time ftt Chinese New Year too. The egg-shaped Item comprises three compartments the dome-flhaped top which can be used as a salt container, the middle portion for holding your breakfast
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    • 100 24 IF you fancy a classy Guy Laroche towel at a special price for Chinese New Year, you could get it in the course of shopping for your grooming aids. Don't be misled by the name, the offer applies to women as well. The men need to buy two
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    • 278 24 CHINESE New Year may not be a period for gift-giving like Christmas is. But there is one gift which has become more or less traditional during the Lunar New Year one that is used to express festive greetings to a business acquaintance or family
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    • 472 25 ONE of the biggest thrills of Chinese New Year for the kids is getting new clothes. This is the time of year when department stores and other children's stores put out a very impressive range of children's wear pretty alluring little dresses for
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    • 597 26  -  By Bharathi Mohan CHINESE Now Yoar is welcomed with noioy gong boating, lion and dragon dancos and thrilling pugilistic displays in London's Wost On that auspicious day, the city's small Chinese population takes time off from their family businesses to join in the celebration which is observed
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    • 207 26 AT Chinese New Year, you'll have a lot of entertaining to do. This is the time when you want to be the perfect hostess and need a good refrigerator for your food and drinks. Besides, your old refrigerator may need to
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    • 113 14 I IVin limits up the season i% •it giving or n ceivmg, the Win naii*' ;s syrntx. jlic of all the. joy our fe< \lings c i festive holri :> Win s (-oniph -to family c rrr -fern lighters has m\:de it *he indisputabl* fashi> >n ibfe p -cpA' throughout
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    • 162 24 Lunar New Year atthe Beefeater SPECIALITIES Join your family and friends and enjoy your choice. Grilled Pork Loin Chops $14.50 Grilled Lamb Chops $13.50 Chicken In The Basket $12.00 Includes Soup, Sweet Coffee Plus 10% +3% A La Carta Monu also available BOOK EARLY PHONE *****25 Off* 11.30 A.M.-11 P.M.
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    • 29 25 VA r x, IT <~ tt- £> fe NTI ~-v > I V K I -> V< ■<- 23.1.81-1.2.81 10.00 am.-5.00 pm (open on Sunday.) J* r~ <» V WM-. p. JL. >■ n". > D ixi
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 191 26 1 'lie ii WW iiti I*s^ JSC Av-V HAPTY HOURS-4 pm-7pm 10% off for all drinks ipm lem-Set/Pubic hoßdey* 4pm-2em The terrific, sizzling TWOHONEYPLUSONE will entertain you; whikryou relax or dance In the company of baautiful hostesses. iwr V•> 'V* 3rd Floor. Orchard Shopping Centre (Mohan) (Next to Mandarin Hotel).
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    • 159 26 HAIR BHAI I V SAI.ON No: 47. BIK. 510. Bedok North Street 3 Singapore 1646. TEL: *****92. -r-. I r» The Place for Hair Beauty A modern salon with full trained staff to give you the latest cut. perm. blow, tinting, weaving, braiding, facial treatment. hot cold waxing, bridal makeup.
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  • SPORT STARTS HERE
    • Article, Illustration
      470 27 So Ipswich on course for a double Soccer AP London, Thursday Ipswich Town, powered by two Dutchmen in midfield, stay on course for the elusive English soccer double the League championship and the Cup in the same season. Frans Thijssen and Arnold Muhren, as usual, were in the
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    • 997 28 He will be too good for Class 2 company BRIAN MILLER'S TOP 10 FOR KUALA LUMPUR Trainer Ivan Allan's last-start winner, Marlooks to be the sprinting find of the season and I expect him to continue the good work in his first Class 2 test at
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    • 1129 28 SATURDAY ClaM Dtv. 1 IJOOm Ylng Yang 57 0 1 Never Die MLS 13 Duroc 58 5 14 Valentino II MO W Buklt Rlncglt 56.5 17 Royal Romeo 56.5 I The Atom 56.5 S The Olant n 555 7 Captain Mouton 56.0 Hoyeah II
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    • 259 28  -  a On the track By TURF RAY Kuala Lumpur, Thursday Insider should be marked down as a good bet in the Class 6 Division 2 1200 m sprint here on Saturday. With K. C. Ng astride, Insider strode out keenly over 600 m in 37.1 on
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    • 108 28 SATURDAY Race 1 (2.1) G I Div I 1211 m: Qaeea's Caeaael. Race 2 <2Jt) CI I Div I > 1244 m: Impreaarrte, Tea Pliat, PenUa Bm4. Kmc S (SJ) CI 4 IMv 2 18Mm: Speeiniater, Ceatary Mm, Little Mlaaga. Raee 4 (JJ4) Q I Div 2 12Mn: GeMea
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    • 467 29  -  STBC are waiting for the greenlight BOWLING by Brian Miller If everything goes well, Singapore will be represented at the first World Games in (California from July 25 Aug 3. The STBC have received an invitation from the organisers, and the only thing holding them hack Singapore
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    • 219 29 Reuter Rome, Thursday The Olympic movement must forget the word "amateur" and open their doors to the world's best athletes, the new president of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Anto- nio Samaranch, said yesterday. "The Olympic Games are now the major sports event in the world,
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    • 233 29 E3 Boxing AFP London, Thursday When promoter Micky Duff meets manager Doug Bidwell today to discuss the future of Alan Minter, the name of Tony Sibson is bound to crop up and September is likely to be pencilled in for the biggest domestic showdown of the decade. Sibson,
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    • 136 29 EflGolf AFP London, Thursday After a three-year break, former British Open golf champion Tony Jacklin is going to try his luck again on the United States Circuit. Jacklin, 36, has been granted special permission by the US Professional Golfers' Association to play in three tournaments. He leaves
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    • 35 29 AFP London, Thursday Tony Kellow scored three goals for Third Division Exeter yesterday to eliminate First Division Leicester from the Enffliah FA Cup in the fourth round replay before 15, M spectators. AFP
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    • 425 30 Many minus points for the No 2 woman player Table ■fl tennis Poor Leow Lian Moy! Though Singapore's No 2 woman table-tennis player Is a mature 20, she's acting like a crazy, mixed-up child these days. All because she's been dropped from Singapore's World Cup team for
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      319 30 Only 13, but she will be tops in two years forecast Patricia Kim May Wong is only 13, but she'll be South-east Asia's top woman table tennis player in two years' time. At least, that's the opinion of Chia Chong Boon, who has just relinquished his duties as
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      271 31  -  Tien Jit turns to rugby to keep in shape PROFILE By MAURICE NEO Former national soccer player Lim Tien Jit believes in keeping super-fit the rugby way. Though out of the soccer limelight, Tien Jit does not believe in fading away. In fact, he still harbours hopes of
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    • 451 31 Soccer' UPI LmmUb, Thursday Clive Allen, Crystal Palace's million-dollar striker, is up for sale again. New manager Dario Gradi, who took over from Malcolm Allison two days ago, confirmed that Allen wants a move and that he will not stand in his way. Gradi has
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    • 634 32  -  M »tlav*>i<* Cup *81 SURESH NAIR Singapore must put courage and defiance before speed and skill even to bring home one Malaysia Cup point from Kelantan tomorrow It may sound unduly ps—lmlitic, but that'* my unhappy summing up of the situation as the national team
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    • 244 32 The Bangkok-bound ?outh squad are the ourth Japanese soccer team who will play In Singapore during the next five weeks. The team, who are on their way to the final rounds of the Asian youth tournament from Feb 21 to Mar 1, will play their Singapore
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    • 589 33  -  Stay cool to net the goals... Malaysia Cup '81 By JEFFREY LOW Singapore's caretaker coach, Ibrahim Awang, has been laying emphasis on shooting during training but it could prove a useless exercise if the forwards don't put into practice what they've learned. Already, Ibrahim and many officials
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 508 27 LASSIFIE ADS AT YOUR SERVICE Telephone Servlce:Weekdays 8.30 a.m. 5.00 p.m. Saturdays 8.30 a.m. —3.00 p.m. Public Holidays 9.00 a.m.— 1.00 p.m. £•4-***** Counter Service:1 Regular office hours CJLT.S E3 ACCOMMODATION VACANT FOR SALE OTHERS ROOM TO LET preferably single dist. 1545 Tel *****45. 5 AIRCON/ REFRIGERATOR REPAIR G3E lu
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    • 475 27 NOTICES NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Mr Ong Kah Lye of No 214H Blk 533 Upper Cross Street Singapore (0105), have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop licence in respect of premises at M/s. Hup Hin Ho, 48 Blk 531 Upper Cross Street, Singapore (0105), and that this
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    • 120 27 NOTICE TTiTTm NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Mr Ong Kah Lye of No 214H Blk 533 Upper Cross Street Singapore (0106), have applied for a Wholesale Liquor Shop licence in respect of premises at M/s. Hup Hin Ho, 48 Blk 531 Upper Cross Street, Singapore (0105), and that this
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 168 27 YOUR LUCKY STARS IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are an exceptionally persuasive individual. Intelligent, energetic and self-confident, you should have little trouble moving up the ladder of success once you determine what you wish to do with your life. TOMORROW... W ARII K (Jan 20-Feb 18) Minor health
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    • 140 27 cide an important issue without delay will not go unnoticed by your superiors. LEO (July 23-Aug 22) Though you may be under pressure today, you should be able to make considerable progress with relative ease. VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 22) Consider quality first of all. If you go quantity instead, you'll
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    • 49 29 paasjoaiaii smen miSifCXS&S Large reduction of prices on SUNBRIDGE, EBONITE, COLUMBIA, AMF, etc, etc. 10-50 discounts on all goods. BS J IfOAfS PRO-SHOP STAB &OWL,Sdi Flow. Pmm C«rtr.,l fcplh Bm4. §'pon Tdt SNI4#I,LaM latall II pa to II pa. KINGPIN PTE. LTD. SOLE AGENT FOB CLABO. IMPORTERS FOB COLUMBIA.
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 247 29 ACROSS 1 Choice 5 Flat-bottomed boat 10 Screen 14 Tract 15 a Grecian Urn" 16 Woodwind 17 Job done perfunctorily 20 Trained in a hospital 21 Salem's state 22 Did garden work 23 Tribe 24 Complete 27 Kind of Job 31 First-rate 32 and penates 33 Anais 34 Fleshy fruit
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    • 49 30 sQ^ Q saV,SW nQO°^ aVNaS ne*^acW**^ e tfS&SSTiT^Tl Rackets That Score A triumph! Trade Enquires (OS p.T. Crown Sports 40 B p intu Air P O Bo* 2814 Jakarta Pusat Indonesia Tel <***** (3 lines). *****5 Cable CPOWNSPORT JAKARTA Branch Friends Company 79Stamforrl Road Singapore 0617 Tei *****26 *****32
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    • 82 30 MISTER CAPP.' IVE POPPED* HOUNOTD THANK NOU fOR FINWNO OUR LITTLE tXX3«< FDR US. EDWARD>ANt>ME AREEVR9O GRATEFULy ft <3 JUST T 1 SHOW OUR APPRECIATION, WE'VE SOUGHT NOU HALF A BOTTLE OF SCOTCH IJP 1 IT WAS NOfmr A FULL bottle <AT least/ J SHORT RIBS #Tv 6 INVENTED soMrrwiN6
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 317 31 NOTICES 55 a M:<' ill (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) PRELIMINARY REPORT OF RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 ST DECEMBER 1900 The Directors of Sembawang Shipyard Limited have the pleasure of announcing the UNAUDITED results of the Group and the Company for the year ended 31 st December
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    • 79 31 IT S NOT EXPENSIVE 7 TO ENJOY STYLE AND CLASS AT 4-$. Al%.- f' Goldci* Shiii' Nihc-GUih SHOW TIMES n/ e& A CABARET Nl IE CLUB c<; e /-*V\ v 0'^ N .fa €>e il \<<J <e o 1 WtV e< s STAR c,xOQ >s i- PIM-u.'O £> 5 AE
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    • 32 32 rs m 3 g r > a- a- a <*■ a a a a-' a a: a-, a. a' a a a or a: a PPP^^WPPI t a *tt***«**t A MESSAGE TO ALL SECRETARIES
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    • 47 32 SEASON EXTENDED by Popular Demand I. tilu M I ill (*****88) MOTE TIMEB: I li I BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR i 2J jmmi /i j The most wanted man in Wakefield prison is the Warden Iran HUMAN cr i sm A JOURNEY INTO TERROR AND MADNESS...!
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 200 32 N.R.I.C. No: QQDBDI i>:l r CLUES Cut along her® CLUES FOR LR 4 1. TravtlM around, as for pleasure 2r Body blows that hurt con oosily moko o boxer 3. Equipment for fishing, soy 4. It's only sonsiblo to position o 5. Corriod on o conversation 6. It's boon known
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    • 320 33 A "THE SEA WOLVES" §R GUINNESS STOUT U CONTEST Since the story of "THE SEA WOLVES" is based on a true incident, all you need to do is to answer "true" or "false" to the following questions. Write your answers on a separate piece of paper together with your name
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    • 62 33 LIDO: Lunar New Year Attraction CHRISTOPHER WALKEN (Academy Award Winner for Bast supporting actor In "The Deer Hunter") Is the leader of the mercenaries in Frederick (Day of the Jackal) Forsyth's explosive novel *< X 4 r CHRISTOPHER De«r Hunter WALKEN TltaMfcMi ini| TOM BERENICE* JADE: Lunar New Year Attraction
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  • What's On 1
    • 545 34  -  Radio, TV producers pool their resources to put up SBC show J.H. It seemed onfy logical that a radio producer who has had wide experience putting together stage shows should be responsible for the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's first anniversary special at the National Theatre. And
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    • 183 34  -  JUDITH HOLMBERG Ai IwoHMg programme that will provide parents with everything they want to knew a beat the Primary School Leaving Fhtamw bat cant get the answers to, will be telecast en Channel t to marrow. SBC executive producer Chan Heng Wing said
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    • 83 34 wvww»vvvv I < u 1* > ■s? < fc < I > V* I Jk ;r i '< Mmmi ?T <fs < f Neil Simon's Seems Like Old Times COLUMBIA PICTURES Presets A RAY STARK Product™ CHEVY CHASE GOLDIE HAWN CHARLES GRODIN IN NEIL SIMON S "SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES"
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 255 34 At the cinema BRUBAKER: It traces events in the career of Henry Brubaker, a reform-minded Eilogist who fought a losbattle against an estabd but destructive prison system. Stars Robert Redford. Orchard: 12, 3, 6 and 9 P TWO WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT: A Chinese comedy. (Mta: 1.30, 4, 6.45 and
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  • What's On 2 two pages to tell you what's happening on TV and In town
    • 360 35  -  They had a ball at singing contest M.C. It was the first semifinal of Rediffusion's Pre-Asian Amateur Singing Contest. Compere Nigel Mosbergen duly warned everyone in the auditorium: "We're going to have a ball today, folks." And the folks certainly had. They applauded,
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    • 443 35  -  By Patricia Wei Stravinsky's Firebird did not have the same sort of reaction as his music for The Rite Of Spring, which was premiered In 1913 and caused a riot in the audience. The Firebird, written earlier in 1909, was Stravinsky's first important
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    • 45 35 Enjoy $2.50 per 2 hour video tape per week by being a member. > Join now and racaiva a fraa 18k gold platad L< Nacklaca. (Offac good whila Block* laat). VIDEO-TAPE LIBRARY PTE LTD. Suite 2 29, Peninsula Shopping Complex, Coleman Street, Singapore 0617, Phones: *****32/*****25
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    • 276 35 Dresses from Italy (Each Worth $295) TO BE WON IN 20TH CENTURY-FOX'S ■r t «f SPOT THE DIFFERENCE CONTEST Some bOMM hav« very keen tyaaighl when it com** to spotting typing •rrors which, of course, had boon modo without any doliborato intentions. In this contest, lot's soo whothor you can
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 69 35 Twlay: 4.22 a.m. (2.2 m), 11.0 l a.m. (1.2 m); 4.56 p.m. (1.8 m), 10.35 p.m. (1.3 m). T«m«rr«w: 5.18 a.m. (2.2 m), 12.39 noon (1.0 m); 7.28 p.m. (1.7 m). Saturday: 12.15 a.m. (1.5 m), 6.33 a.m. (2.2 m); 2.01 p.m. (0.8 m), 9.15 p.m. (0.6 m), IO.OT p.m.
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    • 52 35 Rediffusion 12.00 Noon The Fabulous 240 1.30 News and Share Market Report 1.45 The Fabulous 240 3.00 Star Watch 3.02 Did You Know?...a revealing series on things around us 3.04 The Fabulius 240... 3.30 Top Of The Pops.. Brian Mathew from London hosts another half-hour with today's chart toppers 4.00
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    • 54 35 8.00 The Paul Cheong Show... Paul Cheong our Thursday night personality churns out "live" today's hits together with information and news with the telephone in use 9.00 News 9.15 Top Tunes Of The Week...9.45 The Paul Cheong Show... (cont'd) 11.00 News 11.10 The Paul Cheong Show...(cont'd) 12.00 midnight to 6.30
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    • 208 35 In and around town TOM BAWYER: Musi* cal performed by Chinese High School at the Drama Centre. Based on Mark Twain's novel. There will be solos and group singing backed by the school choir. Students' matinee (or today and tomorrow. Tickets at $1. BONSAI EXHIBITION at the Chinese Chamber of
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  • 48 36 AH FOOK: Although he has cancer, the Philippines Health Minister is still doing his Job without so much as a whimper in public. ME1 LIN: That's what I call devotion to duty. Didn't 1 hear you groaning the other day when you had a slight fever?
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 1059 36 On TV THE 8T0BY OF CHINATOWN. (Ch 8, 8.05 p.m., in colour). This documentary on Chinatown concentrates on the area bounded by Mosque Street, Keong Slab Street, South Bridge and North Bridge Road, (or which in local term is Ngow Chia Suey or Bullock Cart Water. How the area and
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