New Nation, 20 October 1982

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  • 18 1 new nation PUBLISHED BY THE SINGAPORE MONITOR LTD. Wednesday, October 20, 1982 M.C. (P) No. 19/5/82 30 cents
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  • 322 1  -  By SEAH CHIANG NEE BRISBANE, Wednesday SINGAPORE investment in Queensland, Australia's fastest growing state, was believed to have figured high in the discussions this morning between Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and State Premier Joh Bjelke- Petersen. The two men met for an
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  • 441 1 US GIVES FIRST PUBLIC TARGET DATE FOR LEBANON WITHDRAWAL LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Wed. SENIOR Americam administration officials said publicly for the first time this week that their "target date" for a withdrawal of Israeli, Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organisation forces from Lebanon is "the end of
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  • 175 1 Reuter LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, BUCKINGHAM Palace intruder Michael Fagan has attacked a patient at the security hospital where he is being held, staff there alleged last night. One worker said Fagan clubbed a fellow inmate with a snooker cue to prove he was "top
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    • 157 1 OUR PIONEERS What have Sang Nila Utama in common with Tan Tock Seng? They are some of Singapore's many pioneers and their contribution to its development will be told to primary school children in the new subject called "social studies." Report in CENTREPIECE: Pages 18 U 19 Grays New Generation
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  • opinion / letters
    • 594 2 National Health Service on the critical list UPI LONDON, Wednesday. ALMOST every day now there are hospital strikes against Britain's National Health Service, once a source of pride that has fallen on rocky times. Hurt not only by the strikes but
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    • 133 2  -  PETER SIM CHENG KHOON for Commissioner of Inland Revenue. MR Awther Singh (NN, Oct 14) supports his finding that late payment penalties are results of "overzealous diligence" with another strange verdict. He sees no difference in the case of the company paying instalments from January
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    • 121 2  -  CHEW KING HWAN for Permanent Secretary (Education). I REFER to your news report on "New Chinese Syllabus" (NN, Oct 5). The last paragraph reported that "Students of CLI will be expected to master the usage of 3,500 characters 500 more than the present level and
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    • 284 2  -  By DELTA HONG I HEAR a number of burglaries have been committed with a most unusual housebreaking appliance a school bus. This was revealed by Mr Xavier Lim, head of investigations of the Central Police Station, who said that a school bus owner in Toa Payoh had reported
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    • 246 4  -  INTRODUCE WELL-ORGANISED MOTOR RACING THE DEBATE ON SINGAPORE'S HELL-RIDERS PHILIP SEOW MARTIN Marini's views on hell-riders (New Natioo Oct 15) should not be taken lightly. I recall tne time when authorities closed down several discos and put restrictions on others because of teenagers taking AMX pills
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    • 118 4  -  JOE SNAKE I STRONGLY agree with Martin Marini. During the good old days when Singapore had its own f;rand prix, illegal racing on pubic roads and hell-riders do not even exist. But after the grand prix was discontinued, motor-racing addicts turned to public roads to race. They
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    • 69 4  -  EVELYN LOH (MISS) for Controller of Immigration I REFER to the letter, "Skilled expats who aren't really skilled," by "Local Grad" (New Nation, October 2). Employment passes are normally granted to professional, technical and skilled foreigners who are considered to be of economic benefit to
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    • 74 4  -  E.M. NICHOLAS Operations Manager Commercial Industrial Security Corporation I REFER to the letter by "Road User" (New Nation, October IS) complaining about CISCO'S outriders who escort large trailers without allowing other motorists to overtake on the right thereby causing traffic jams. In order to investigate the matter,
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    • 240 4 Men are great only if they are determined to be so. CHARLES DE GAULLE (1890-1970) TODAY is Wednesday, October 20th, the 293 rd day of 1982. There are 72 days left in the year. HIGHLIGHTS in history on this date: 1587 Huguenots defeat Catholic League in
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    • 123 4 LETTERS on any subject ct puMc interest wtt be accepted tor pubtcetton They should be typed and mutt be signed. They must also Include the writer's neme and address even if the writer decides to use a peeudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be ueeM. We reserve the
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  • home
    • 163 5  -  By K. K. FONG THE Singapore Police are looking for two of their own men to help them investigate further into an alleged case of robbery and of outraging of modesty. A teleprinter message was flashed across all police divisions on Monday asking
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    • 103 5  -  Picture and story by CHUA NGENG CHOO THE $2-million Ang Mo Kio Methodist Church, completed only seven months ago, has cracks in the walls and has to be repaired. The project secretary for the church said the problem was not serious and the cracks were not
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    • 183 5 TO commemorate its 30th anniversary, the Singapore Children's Society nas introduced two new awards. It has named one after a doctor and the other after an educationist. The recipients of the two awards are Mrs Katie Liem, a housewife, and retired hospital matron Susan Vergnese.
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    • 216 5  -  By JALIL MISWARDI THE Ministry of Education has told school principals that changing textbooks should be avoided in order to minimise wastage and the cost to parents. And it has isssued them with guidelines on the changing of textbooks. These say that textbooks
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    • 144 5 HELP is on the way for parents who have difficulty in contacting drivers of school buses. The Registry of Vehicles is compiling a school bus directory, which will also be useful to school principals. The directory will contain all the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the operators
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    • 307 6  -  By TOH SU FEN THE operators of the 19 Kallang shipyards in Jalan Benaan Kapal are sending a letter to their landlord, the Jurong Town Corporation describing its call to them to merge as unrealistic and impractical. They say the proposed merger of the 19 yards
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    • Article, Illustration
      164 6 MODERN technology has caught up with the trishaw. And hi-fi sets like the one in our photograph have been installed in this traditional form of transport. But few trishaw men realise that approval has to be obtained from the Registry of vehicles before they can pedal to the
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    • 80 6 THE National Crime Prevention Council wants to raise $1 million to finance its activites. And the kitty is almost half full. Nineteen organisations have each contributed $20,000 to be among the "founder members" of the organisation. On November 10, the SNPC will bold a film show
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    • 206 6 THE National Library's fine arts resource centre will open in January. The centre, which will have material on architecture, sculpture, painting, ceramics, engraving, drawing, art history and music, is being set up with $150,000 from the Singapore Cultural Foundation. And from
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    • 362 7  -  Rebated policies may actually cost buyers double the price By YEOW MEI SIN THE cut-price life insurance policy you bought this year could cost you double next year. For, some insurance agents in Singapore are not telling their clients that the policies are being
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    • 100 7 MOTORISTS along the Pan Island Expressway need no longer fear trucks coming at them from across the road divider. The traffic police will take action against them. A motorist complained: "I have had to swerve almost every day to avoid trucks whose drivers take
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    • 64 7 PUPILS covered by social welfare schemes or whose families earn less than $350 a month are eligible for free textbooks from Primary One to Four. Pupils in the other primary levels, in secondary schools and ju- nior colleges can borrow textbooks free of charge on a one-year,
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    • 46 7 A CYCLIST, Hanzee Mustapha, who was injured in a road accident on Monday died early yesterday. He was cycling along Jubilee Road when he was knocked down by a station wagon at about 9 pm. He was taken to the Alexandra Hospital.
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    • 292 7 THE installation of equipment for an automated inspection line for diesel vehicles, the first of its type anywhere in the world, has been completed at Vicom, the NTUC-owned vehicle inspection centre in Sin Min Drive. Trial runs are now being carried out
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    • 495 8  -  By SALEHA SALLEH PARTNERSHIP? What partnership, ask local travel agents. They were responding to a speech by SlA's deputy chairman, Mr Lim Chin Bene, who told the Travel Agents' Association of New Zealand (TAANZ) convention on Monday at the Hyatt Hotel that SIA believes
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    • 156 8 PHOTO '82 at the World Trade Centre next month will not only be an exhibition of photographic equipment, there will also be a display of of work by participants in the 33rd Singapore International Salon of Photography. Among the photographs to be displayed are
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    • 116 8 Story and picture by HAIRIS THIS is no ordinary grandfather clock that Miss Lynn Rosalind David is admiring. The clock was made in Thailand with rosewood box and inlaid with mother of pearl. It takes a skilled craftsman about five months to produce one and it
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  • world
    • 277 9 Schmidt in hospital for medical tests BONN: Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will enter hospital this week for several days of medical tests, West German Radio said yesterday. Mr Schmidt, 63, has told his Social Democratic Party (SPD) executive that the results of the checkup will influence his
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    • 136 9 AP HARARE, Wed THE Zimbabwe government yesterday offered a US$l3,OOO ($28,600) reward for information leading to the safe recovery of six foreign tourists two Americans, two Australians and two Britons kidnapped in the Matabeleland Province on July 23. It was the first time that
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    • 342 9 600 Israeli soldiers suffered mental breakdown in Lebanon Agencies TEL AVIV, Wednesday ABOUT 600. Israeli soldiers, mostly reservists, suffered mental breakdowns during the war in Lebanon and 100 of them are still undergoing treatment, Israeli newspapers said yesterday. The Ha'aretz and Yedioth Ahronoth newspapers based their reports on
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    • 187 9 Reuter AP JERUSALEM, Wednesday ISRAELI Prime Minister Menachem Begin last night comfortably won the first Knesset (parliament) test of strength since the Beirut massacre last month. After a two-day debate, he gained a 56-50 vote of support for his policy on the Palestinian issue.
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    • 341 10 Step up in campaign against leftists LAT-WP BEIJING, Wednesday CHINA'S top leader Deng Xiaoping appears to be gathering momentum for a major fiush to consolidate support or policies adopted at the Communist Party National Congress last month with daily disclosures being made of action against
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    • 83 10 UPI SEOUL, Wednesday THE 25-year-old Chinese pilot, identified only as Woo, who flew his MiG-19 to South Korea to defect is seeking political asylum in Taiwan, a request that could make him rich but prove touchy for Seoul, diplomatic sources said yesterday. Although Taiwan's
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    • 291 10 UPI ORLANDO (Florida), Wed THE spectacle of two supersonic Concorde jets landing simultaneously for the first time created a traffic jam so big that outbound passengers on ordinary jets missed their flights because they couldn't get to the airport. "This is the biggest
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    • 138 10 UPI NEW DELHI, Wed A SOVIET-LED offensive against civilians and rebels in towns on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital of Kabul has entered its second week, a Western diplomat said yesterday. Several anti-commu-nist guerillas had entered Kabul's international airport last week and tried to blow
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    • 77 10 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday A DENSE haze which enveloped Malaysia in September and early October was caused by the largescale burning of vegetation and not eruptions of the Galunggung volcano in Indonesia, weather satellite pictures have shown. Acting Transport Ministry Secretary-General Zainal Abidin Jamalulail said at a
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    • 300 11 Reuter AP WASHINGTON, Wednesday AMERICA'S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) yesterday reported a five per cent drop in crime in the first half of 1982 but confessed it did not know whv. One FBI official said privately he thought it was simply
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    • 113 11 AP WASHINGTON, Wed THE United States, which maintains it is still committed to a comprehensive test ban treaty, has detonated more nuclear weapons so far in 1982 than in any other year since 1970. There have been 17 announced explosions at the Nevada test site
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    • 137 11 UPI SAN SALVADOR, Wed A TOP rebel commander yesterday appealed for peace talks with the Salvadoran government amid a bloody 10-dav guerilla offensive that has engulfed half the country in warfare. Broadcast by radio, the appeal came as government troops retreated from a village and
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    • 97 11 Reuter COLOMBO, Wed SRI LANKANS vote today in a presidential election that will decide whether this tiny Indian Ocean island republic stays on its existing economic and political course. More than eight million voters have a choice of six candidates, but the contest is virtually between President
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    • 97 11 UPI LONDON, Wed NEW West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl yesterday met Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for dinner and three hours of talks centred on the Common Market's 10-month-old steel dispute with the United States, the Siberian pipeline and other European Community problems. Accompanied by his Foreign Minister,
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    • 64 11 Reuter ANKARA, Wed TURKEY'S political party leaders before the 1980 coup would be barred from politics for 10 years under a new constitution published by the ruling National Security Council (NSC) here yesterday. The five-man NSC, led by Head of State General Kenan Evren, altered and ratified the
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    • 146 12 TURBULENCE 2 Reuter TEL AVIV, Wed. THE board of directors of Israel's national airline El Al decided last night to liquidate the ailing company after employees voted only limited support for a drastic reorganisation plan. A spokesman for the board said the "conditional
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    • 272 12 Carrier's $1.9 billion loss matches only steel industry's 1979-80 record deficit TURBULENCE 1 LONDON, Wednesday STATE-OWNED British Airways yesterday announced a loss of more than £500 million ($1.93 billion) in its 1981-82 financial year, equal to the biggest corporate deficit ever incurred in Britain.
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    • 195 12 UPI LONDON, Wednesday PRINCE Philip's rebuke to Pacific Islanders to stop having so many babies put the House of Windsor back oi> Britain's front pages yesterday. With Fleet Street reporters watching the royal family's every move, it was natural that an offguard remark
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    • 106 12 UPI LONDON, Wed. ROYAL Air Force warplanes in the Falklands scrambled twice after Argentine fighters were detected flying toward the islands, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said yesterday. But tne spokesman declined to give details of the alerts, whicn he said occurred on Monday. A short statement
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  • business
    • 183 13 STOCKS finished mixed yesterday after an early surge, sparked partly by Henry Kaufman's lower interest rate prediction, ran into profit taking. Trading was heavy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which soared 26.12 points to an 18-month high on Monday, surrendered 5.42 to 1,013 80. It jumped more
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    • 499 13  -  By N BALAKRISHNAN TRADING value on the Stock Exchange of Singapore topped $30 million yesterday for the second time in a week. The market is seeing its busiest period since the bullish months of June and July last year. Stockmarket analysts attributed today's heavy
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    • 181 13 Bank cuts prime lending rate THE Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp cut its Singapore prime leading rate by a quarter point to 9.75 per cent today. The rate is still a quarter point above the big four banks. THE Tea Auction Association of Singapore says there was more general
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    • 301 14  -  NOW... ...THEN Move to end confusion with another hotel Story and picture By CATHERINE ONG PLAZA HOTEL in Singapore? Where? There it is, sticking out like a sore thumb along busy Beach Road The prefabrication construction method which can rustle up a concrete mass in
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    • 157 14 YEO Hiap Seng Holdings has done an about turn and increased its stake in Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd. YHS Holdings said in an announcement through the stock exchange that it has bought 500,000 YHS shares. It did not mention who the seller was, how
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    • 55 14 GOLD is finding underlying support at US$425 and is awaiting fresh factors for direction. United Overseas Bank says. Concern over Soviet gold sales last week stunted the rally. Meanwhile, the price of gold increased in London and Zurich. It closed in London at $440 an ounce,
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    • 409 15  -  By CATHERINE ONG THE SIME Darby group is giving up the Cadbury chocolate agency. Sime Darby Singapore will pass the agency to Boustead Marketing and Management Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bousteadco, on November 1. This move comes four months after Sime in Malaysia terminated its
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    • 209 15 Tim* Date Venue Robinson 11.00 a.m. Oct 30 4 fl Specialist Ctr Berjuntai Tin 10.00 a.m. Oct 29 Kuala Lumpur Sime Darby 3 oo p.m. Nov 8 Kuala Lumpur Benta Plant 11.15 a.m. Nov 5 Kuala Lumpur Taiping Cons 12.00 noon Nov 5 Kuala Luippur Khong Guan 12.00
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    • 199 15 THE STEADY drop in Singapore's inflation rate since January has come to an end. Even so, eorisnmer prices were only 1.3 per cent higher in September than they were a year earlier. Prices rose 0.2 of a point on the consumer price index to 129.3,
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    • 210 16 THE prospects of an economic recovery in Western Europe appear to be receding savs the Financial Digest, published by Manufacturers Hanover Trust (MKT). It adds that the upturn, even when it does come, will be smaller and weaker than earlier forecast. "Overall growth in Western Europe
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    • 640 16 COMPANY law and related legislation in the Securities Industi7 Act contain provisions which are like fierce barking dogs with sharp teeth ready to bite anyone who tries to short-change another in company matters. That some of these are recent, signals fresh attempts to add an
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    • 116 16 A KeUogg's Bran. A snazzy sun-visor, T-shirt and shorts in red and white can be yours with KeUogg's Bran cereals. All you need is: 4 box tops from Kellogg's Bran cereals Redeem them at Singapore Shopping Centre, Clemenceau Avenue. 1 7 November. 11am 7pm. Enjoy a free Coca-Cola while the
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    • 296 17 Popular. Proven. And now improved. The Now Mazda 323 offers increased driving comfort. The Mazda 323 is one of the world's most popular cars more than one million have been built to date. And no wonder. Mazda 323 has received numerous Car of the Year awards and enthusiastic reviews from
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    • 468 18/19 WHAT have Sang Nila Utama, Stamford Raffles, Narayana Pillay in common with Syed Omar Aljunied, Dr Jose D'Almeida, Whampoa Hoo Ah Kay, Alexander Guthrie, Hajjah Fatimah and Tan Took Seng? They are all pioneers of Singapore and their contribution to its development will be told to primary school
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    • 153 18/19 Our pioneers and their contribution to Singapore Whampoa Hoo Ah Kay HE WAS born in Whampoa near Canton around 1816 and came to Singapore in 1830 to assist his father in business. His knowledge of English gave him a distinct advantage over the other
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    • 88 18/19 Alexander Guthrie IT WAS in 1820 that Mr Alexander Guthrie came to Singapore and started his own business. He had been in the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Mr Guthrie left Singapore on February 8, 1847, after having lived here for 27 years. He
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    • 141 18/19 Sang Nila Utama THE account of the man who gave Singapore its name is shrouded by time. Sang Nila Utama, also known as Sri Tri Buana, was the ruler of Palembang in Sumatra, heart of the great Malay Maritime empire of Srivijaya. While touring
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    • 165 18/19 Stamford Raffles RAFFLEJS was the founder of modern Singapore. He was the Lieu-tenant-Governor of Bencoolen in 1819 when he set out to protect the British trade route through the Straits of Malacca from the Dutch. He wanted a site from where this could be done and
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    • 127 18/19 Tan Tock Seng BORN in Malacca in 1798, Tan Tock Seng came to Singapore shortly after its foundation. He had no capital but was industrious and thrifty. He started as a vegetable, fruit and poultry seller, going into the countryside to buy and
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    • 191 18/19 Dr Joze D'Almeida DR JOZE D'Almeida had been a surgeon on board a Portuguese man-of-war, and, while passing through Singapore in 1824 was struck by the advantages of its position and prospects. He decided to settle here and built a house in Kampung
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    • 71 18/19 Narayana Pillay NARAYANA Pillay was a well-known early 19th century merchant from Penang. He accompanied Raffles on his second visit to Singapore in May 1819. Narayana Pillay started a brick kiln and became Singapore's first building contractor. He also had a shop selling cotton-piece goods. He
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  • leisure
    • 1232 20  -  Table Talk GO for broke this week. Thrill your lady love with a soft whisper that says: "Do you fancy a tryst in Sri Lanka? Or perhaps your tastes run to France and the wine country of Bordeaux. Let's stick nearer home and visit Thailand or
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    • 455 24  -  Petite 60s pop star to take to stage after long layoff By LO TIEN YIN WHATEVER happened to Rita Chao? Bell-bottoms, hot pants, kneelength boots, black stockings...they belonged to petite Rita wno made hearts beat a little faster in the 60s and 70s. She was
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    • 145 24 "I THINK I have improved now," says Rita. 'I am more talkative and approachable I suppose. And I don't have to rely on my mother to answer my questions for me. "Bat I am still very attached to my mother. Friends tease me
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    • 3 20 WHERE TO FEAST
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    • 48 21 THE MAGIC OF SRI LANKA Goodwood Park Hotel till Oct. 21. Tudor Ballroom: Lunch buffet without the show at |20. Main Poolside: Dinner buffet with cultural show at $35. Tel: *****11 NEXT WEEK Recipes from different countries. Chefs psrticipating in the food fests share their secrets with you.
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    • 23 21 THAI FOOD FESTIVAL York Hotel till Oct. 31. Venue: Bamboo Court Lunch Buffet at $16 A la carte menu for dinner. Tel: *****11
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    • 148 21 THE BEST OF BORDEAUX Restaurant 1819 till Oct. 30. A la carte menu of Bordeaux specialities for lunch ana dinner. Tel: *****33 RESTAURANT 1819 K-' s I I. I < ♦^1 •m %s 0 r Lasting Impressions A feast to remember• presenting the food and wines of Bordeaux From the
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    • 30 21 A FEAST OF OYSTERS Marco Polo Hotel's Brasserie la Rotonde till October 29. Oysters from France, the United States, New Zealand and the Netherlands at the oyster bar. Tel: *****41.
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    • 23 21 FIESTA MALACCA Oberoi Imperial Hotel's Rose Room from Oct. 22-25. Lunch buffet at $32 nett and dinner buffet at $39 nett. Tel: *****66
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    • 26 21 SEASON OF THE HUNT Holiday Inn's Baron's Table and Cafe Vienna. A la carte menu of game dishes like venison, pheasant, rabbit, wild boar. Tel: *****66
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    • 29 21 LES MARCHES DE PROVENCE Ming Court Hotel's Chez Bidou Restaurant from Oct. 29 to Nov. 7. Bufffet lunch at $26 and a la carte menu for dinner. Tel: *****33.
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    • 1288 22 tv radio CHANNEL 5 HIGHLIGHT Golden magical carpet ride The Phoenix and the Carpet tasy stories for children. (5.45 pm) CHILDREN will be delighted Four curious children find a large golden egg nested in an by this tale written by E Nes- old carpet they bought from a bit, a
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    • 1477 23 tv radio channel 8 6.00 Opening, followed by The Book Bird: Rece Against Death This book by Seymour Reit is about how a group of huskies brave the snow to bring fresh serum from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. 6.20 Kimba The White Lion: Such Sweet Sorrow Kimba and his friends
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    • 63 24 JADE: HURRY! HURRY! (*****80) 5 SHOWS: 11am, 1.30. 4, 6.30 ft 9.00 For the first time in 42years. ONE film sweeps ALL the MAJOR ACADEMY AWARDS BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR Jack Nicholson BEST ACTRESS Louise Fletcher BEST DIRECTOR Milos Forman BEST SCREENPLAY Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman m if United
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    • 1188 25 leisure/ comics v: USSR film festival AS part of the 11th Soviet Film Festival, Spartacus, a ballet film will be presented at the Victoria Theatre at 7.30 pm tonight. This film depicts not only the collision of two powerful and contrasting personalities, Spartacus and Krass but also the complex relationship
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    994 26 Hu&ng jin mei ydu zhong zi, ta zhi sheng zhang zai qin jian de jia li. (Chinese) jiao yu bu wei hua wen jiao shT kai she (Chinese) yu pin yTn su chfeng ban 1 t ft# #sXif *B M 1) o *51 4 1 iA' ft'Sßii
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    • 498 31 U_U VI) LEISURE SPORTS MART 80) Laisur* Activities RAJA YOGA MEDITATION for peace ol mind, Kappmes* and contentment Free Introductory course start* every Monday evening. B. K. Rata Yoga Centre. Tal: 447-427* for detail*. 77) Boats A Outboard* 17 FOOTER IMIOBOAT Changhai Hull. Without motor. Chaap Sal*. Contact Richard Toh,
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    • 270 31 LCCI INI EXAMINATION. Registration Is in progress! ACCOUNTING Intensive course tor LCCI IMS examination starting: Tkurtdsy, 21/10/12, 7.00 pm Boeh-fcaealng (Intermediate) Frl 22/10 82, 7.00 p.m. Sat, 23/10 82, 2.30 p.m. Mon., 25/10/62, 7.00 p.m. Shorthand (Speed, 70-90/100 words) Starting today, 7.00 p.m. Typewriting aM stages for LCCI 1903 Examination
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    • 304 31 NOTICE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY *II7T^TuiTC REGISTER OF 6RADOATES The University intend* to update its Register of Graduates. This consists of three parts: Part A: All persons who are graduates of Reffles College, the King Edward VII College of Medicine and the University of Malaya (established in Singapore by Ordinance 1949) who
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    • 29 32 ITT Qnl y $64/ per month ITT Ideal Color 3303 r. v ENQUIRIES PLEASE CALL: UNIVERSAL TELEVISION MAINTENANCE Block 154, 01-36, Mei Ling Street, Singapore 0314. Office Tel: *****96
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    • 222 32 I I I I I I ITT new nation IIAJLi* I WEDNESDAY PD-3 $10, Mil N.R.I.C TEL: FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW CUT HERE CLUES FOR PD-3 1. Hazy, general, or indistinct 2. Things transported in one shouldn't come to any harm 3. Large number of bees,
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      • 420 32  -  Season's classic draws 38 stayers and sprinters Racing By B. J. SMITH PENANG trainer Teh Choon Beng has entered nine horses, three more than his nearest rival, for this season's classic sprint event, the $103,000 Perak Gold Vase. The Vase, to be
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      • 178 32 Stake $103,000 1,000 metres Added Advantage (Goodman) Teh Bellus Domina (Golden Arrow) West Cakrawala (Memo) G. G. Breukelen Camberley (Inderapura) Teh Charrette (Sherwood) Buang Chummy's Special (Goodman) Yeoh Cincinatti (K. L. Chong) Zafir Dawn Command (Agasam) Bougoure Qao Hsing (Olympia and Credit) Teh Hawaiian
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      • 426 32 DUE to heavy conditions at the Penang track yesterday morning, only five horses were tested against the clock on the wet sand track. All of those which gallopped did not race last weekend, but have been handicapped to race this weekend. Fast
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    • 469 33 Many top players may miss second-round matches AP LONDON, Wednesday TOTTENHAM Hotspur in the Cup Winners Cup and Werder Bremen in the UEFA Cup both reported serious casualty lists yesterday on the eve of second-round matches in the three annual European Club Cup competitions.
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    • 406 33  -  DUNHILLIPGA/I 1(0/| CHAMPIONSHIP By ERNEST FRIDA LAU YIP KWANG, a Jurong Country Club 20 handicapper, played himself into golf history with one of the finest nine holes ever recorded in a pro-am tournament in Singapore. Yip Kwang, an exective director of a shipping firm,
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      • 67 33 UPI ATHENS: Takis Persias may be a Greek international soccer player but he's a failure as a student. Alecos Sofianides, the national team trainer and a soccer professor at a sports academy, called Persias a threetime failure when it comes to soccer
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      • 66 33 UPI PARIS: Argentinian World Cup star Osvaldo Ardiles said yesterday he will finish his playing career with Tottenham. Ardiles, on loan to Paris St Germain for one season following the Falklands war between Britain ana Argentina, returned to Britain for the first time since the war yesterday
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      • 76 33 UPI NEW YORK: World welterweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard, who underwent surgery in May to repair a detached retina in his left eye, will definitely retire on Nov 9, the New York Daily News reported yesterday. The paper said Boxing Illustrated, a monthly magazine, will carry
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    • 262 34  -  Request for a break from S'pore meet shocks MAAU Athletics By SURESH NAIR MALAYSIA'S sprint champion Rabuan Pit has pulled out of this weekend's Singapore Amateur Athletics Association Open championships at the National Stadium. The Selangor-born Rabuan, together with ace decathlete Hanapiah Nasir, shocked Malaysian Amateur Athletics
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    • 204 34  -  HOLIDAY INN 0 OBEROI IMPERIAL 0 (Inn won 4-2 on penalty-kicks) By R MANORAJ OBEROI Imperial's hopes of a "double" went up like a wisp. And with it a five-day trip to Jakarta as the Holiday Inn outkicked them 4-2 on mandatory penalty-kicks in the Singapore Business
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    • 192 34 CHUA Chu Kang Constituency Sports Club will organise the first-ever intra-constituency women's soccer tournament next month at the Tengah Grounds. The 11-a-side tournament, for the Tang See Chim Cup starts on Nov 7. For entry forms, see M K Mydeen at 48-H, Jalan Wak Selat, S'pore 2573 or phone
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    • 187 35 WATCH out, Zainal Abidin! Australia's Ricky Hill is out to settle an old score in this evening's squash exhibition match between the two star players at the Kallang Centre (6.30). Ricky, ranked No. 24 in the world, badly wants to extract revenge for his quarterfinal defeat
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    • 303 35  -  Move to have a bigger 'carrot' for winners in the Singapore Open Squash By SURESH NAIR THE Singapore Squash Rackets Association may increase the prize money for next year's Anchor Singapore Open squash championships. Ana the SSRA will almost certainly get the full
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    • 135 35 BIG-NAMES will come here if the prize money is good. We're professionals and the monetary factor is the main deciding factor. Your (the SSRA) organisation is good. Facilities are very impressive. Hospitality is superb. It will be a tragedy to see good administrative potential to host
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      143 35 CAPTIVATING! Thai, in one word, aptly summarises the entertaining exhibition matches pot op by foor well-known Pakistani professionals at the East Coast Recreation Centre last night. The Gal brothers Rahim, Fahim and Jamshed and Umar Hayat thrilled the capacity crowd for 80 minutes with an amazing repertoire of shots
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    • 266 36 Police probes alleged multi-million dollar 'fixing' Soccer AP RIO OE JANEIRO, Wednesday THE Federal police have opened an investigation into a reported multi-mil-lion dollar soccer fixing scandal that has rocked Brazil's national sport. The police in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, said yesterday it was checking
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    • 285 36 Reuter HELSINKI, Wednesday PART-TIMERS JK Helsinki, of Finland, pulled off a major upset when they toppled former champions Liverpool, of England, 1-0 in their European Cup soccer second-round first-leg clash last night. A 44th-minute goal by striker Atik Ismail enabled JK Helsinki to triumph over a Liverpool
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    • 225 36  -  Squash By SURESH NAIR WORLD squash champion Jahangir Khan may make a dream debut at the Anchor Singapore Open championshim next year. The wonderful news was announced this morning by Yusoff Kader, director of Glory Sports, the sole distributors of Unsquashable Rackets, who plan to
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    • 113 34 *7ne teCMOK Come October and it's time once again for oysters. For it's the season when the oyster is at its peak perfect in size and succulent in taste. So we've gathered to this new oyster season, a delicious variety for your enjoyment: Belon, Fines de Claire, Speciales de Marennes
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