The New Paper, 12 September 1988

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  • 12 1 the new paper MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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  • 30 1 Policeman pushes crowd to safety just before another big blast. Explosion in Toa Payoh shophouse shoots gas cylinders like rockets. /Page 3 ill- BUumimniluuwini^nnmumiu* Oimphtn /PmimSmthtm
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 299 2  -  Stories/ Augustine Low SIX-YEAR-OLD Sie Sheng Ai's pink autograph book has the latest and one of Singapore's most famous signatures: that of Lee Kuan Yew. "I will show this to my friends tomorrow. I am very proud to have the Prime Minister's name in my book,"
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    • 271 2 NON-CONSTITUENCY Members of Parliament who are fined at least $2,000 or jailed a year or more will lose their seats in Parliament. This is because they face the same constitutional provision which applies to MPs. It was confirmed by Mr Ch'ng Jit
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    • 64 2 REMEMBER that Michael Jackson album called Bad? It was a bad Sunday for his fans. Some 3,400 needed medical help after a stampede at the US singer's concert in Liverpool, England. Yesterday's crush started when eager fans tried to force their way into the open-air arena without tickets.
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    • 115 2 A DAY of golf rounded up the three-day visit of Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan of Thailand. He spent his entire day yesterday playing golf with First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who also hosted a lunch for him at the Tanah Merah Country
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    • 139 2 Wire services. POLICE in South Africa say a dentist tried to murder his ex-lover's boyfriend with arsenic-laced chocolates and then tried to cover himself by eating some of the candy. Attempted murder charges are to be filed against Tinus Stunlinger, a playboy dentist with a
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    • 462 2  -  By Irene Hoe TODAY, she will find out what her duties will be at the Ministry of Community Development. Tonight she will hold her first meet-the-people session as MP for Bukit Gombak. On Nov 1, she will make history. For Dr
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    • 687 3  -  By Thusitha de Silva and Ambrose Poh A QUICK-THINKING police officer saved more than 50 people from injury when an explosion destroyed a shophouse in Toa Payoh yesterday evening. Station Inspector Jaswinder Singh of Toa Payoh police station was on patrol in his car when he
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 25 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Showers over many areas in the early afternoon. Maximum temperature: 30degrees. Sunset today: 7.04 pm.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 400 4  -  By Michelle Oh THEY cried foul and shouted "curry chicken". Some people at Jurong Bird Park yesterday shouted at judges of a national birdsinging contest because they felt cheated. "Curry chicken means they are doing a favour to their friends," said a 23-year-old bartender, Mr
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    • 159 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. Elegance: If a person or thing has elegance, it has a pleasing and graceful appearance. Evident: Clear. Something is evident if it is easily noticed or understood. Exploit: If
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    • 649 5  -  CABINET PRESS CONFERENCE Stories P N Balji LOOK out for the year 1990. That's when you'll get a clearer idea of some of the people who will see this giant "company" called Singapore through the 20th century. And perhaps take us into the 21st century. The
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    • 234 5 My key priorities: A priority is thinking up plans to help the poor, the 25 per cent of Singaporeans who have not benefited as much as others. IDPM hastened to add that handouts are out. "It will be on the basis of
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    • 214 5 IT WAS election night. Mr Goh Chok Tong had just arrived at Ping Yi Secondary School, one of the vote-counting centres. Then he was booed mainly by a group of young Malays, he said. The feeling of community leaders and MPs is not encouraging
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    • 400 6  -  By Ambrose Poh MR Wang Ah Sun is 72 years old. He does not hear well and has a failing left eye. Wang sells The New Paper to support himself and his wife Madam Ho Mun Soon, also 72, who cannot walk. They live in a
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    • 89 6 YOU heard 'em. There was this unknown station blaring out hot pops over your car radios, ghetto busters and home hi-fi, and you wanted us to solve the mystery. So we did. Hotline Plus callers were burning with curiosity. Their only clue was
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    • 303 6 IT'S open season on history in Singapore until Oct 10. These are the targets: people with secrets historians would like to know, interesting buildings, a nook, any outstanding personality, and undiscovered things in nature. So rare beasts, such as frogs, beetles and butterflies
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    • 322 6 SELLING of babies. Fashion of the 20s. Chinese wedding dress of the 30s. Picture the past in these donations to the National Museum, Library and Archives yesterday. They were among a small pile of treasures given by seven donors. There was also a Japanese-Chinese-Malay-English dictionary published
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    • 391 7  -  By Loh Tuan Lee F I iOURTEEN Operation Raleigh Venturers were left exhausted after a campfire sing-along on Saturday. The sturdy crew, who have braved heat and cold and the deserts and oceans of the world, fell... to 15 members of the Singapore Handicapped Welfare Association.
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    • 77 8 H Bestsellers. Chart toppers. Prime time TV. Box-office hits. And misses. NEVER A DULL MOMENT Travel spots. Nightspots. Read about what's boring and what's not. (And who's bonng, who's not.) Beauty advice. Downtown chic. Talking points. Trends to keep up with. Plus shopping ideas we know you'll buy. Where it's
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 247 9  -  By Angeline Song THERE were more than 200 babies in the Shuqun Primary School hall yesterday, at the Yuhua Baby Show '88. Only a handful went home with more than photographs for the album. Three-time baby contest winner Julianna Lim Siew Yi was one of them. The
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    • 215 9 TWO men suspected to be touts were arrested by the police at Lucky Plaza yesterday. They were taken away by two officers in a police car, watched by crowds near the taxi stand at the entrance to the shopping centre. This happened at about
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    • 414 9  -  By Chitra Rajaram THEY came from all over the world moms, dads, grandpas, even babies to take part in a historical road race at 10 pm yesterday at Marina Square. Sport Aid '88 was no ordinary race. It was
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    • 231 10  -  By Chitra Rajaram AT MIDNIGHT on Friday, Miss Singapore/World 1987 returns to just being Ms Janicia Koh, graphics designer with a printing firm. Sixteen girls will try for the 1988 title on that night. Koh, 22, will give up her crown and throne to the winner. "It's
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    • 196 10  -  By Danny Tan COLLEEN Britton is used to hunks. The 23-year-old, brown-eyed Hawaiian model has rubbed shoulders with Tom Selleck in 15 episodes of the TV series, Magnum PI "He was really friendly," said the ex-art college student who was born in Portland,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 54 11 A camp or a refugee prison? Unwanted: Since the late 70s, thousands of Vietnamese have fled in search of a better life. The earlier welcome has worn thin. This Vietnamese family of four is among 4,000 refugees in Hongkong's San Yick camp, a prison-like place that offers foul air and
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    • 64 11 Wireservices. A BUILDING under construction collapsed in central Bangkok last night, killing at least one person and injuring eight. Police said 16 people escaped before the building collapsed completely. Rescue workers today were still trying to find six others believed to have been trapped. The
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    • 202 11 Wire services. PRINCE Charles as governor of Hongkong? The Sunday Times of London says Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has suggested to him that he take the job in time to hand the British colony over to China in 1997. The newspaper quoted from a new biography
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    • 277 11 Wire services. ZIMBABWE Foreign Minister Nathan Shamuyarira has accused Singapore of lacking sympathy for Third World nations. He also says that Singapore is wrong in minimising the importance of the NonAligned Movement (NAM). Shamuyarira, in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation, protested against a speech delivered
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    • 477 11  -  By William L. Chaze FOREIGN EDITOR A LOOK at US political history shows why Democrat Michael Dukakis has come under heavy pressure from backers to get down and dirty with Republican George Bush. The two are fighting for the right
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    • 334 12 Wire Services. IRAQI President Saddam Hussein said he turned down an offer to swap an advanced Soviet tank for American cannons during the war with Iran an apparent violation of US law. His comments yesterday came at a time when US-Iraq ties have taken a
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    • 190 12 Wire services. AN AMERICAN retreat from Asia would harm Washington's security interests, warns US Defence Secretary Frank Carlucci. Carlucci says he would reject calls at home and abroad for a cut in US security spending overseas. The official, who made
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    • 186 12 Wire services. BANGLADESH has received $236 million in foreign relief to fight the worst flooding in the nation's history, an official says. "The world has responded promptly and generously to our appeal for help to the flood victims," Information Minister Mahbubur Rahman said at
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    • 45 12 Triumph: Indian tycoon and newspaper publisher Vijayapat Singhania has set a world record for long-distance flight in a super-light plane. He flew 10,000 km from Britain to India in just 23 days, shaving 11 days off the old mark. Reuter. Reuter.
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    • 190 12 Wire services. IN YET another bid to calm protesting millions, Burma's Parliament has cleared the way for the country's first real elections since 1960. Parliament said the multiparty elections could be held as soon as late October. The opposition seemed unimpressed. Leaders
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    • 195 13 Wire services. TAMIL rebels killed 11 people in Eastern Sri Lanka even as Colombo forged ahead with a peace plan, police report. Officials said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam attacked two villages about 210 km east of Colombo. A 15-member gang carried out the weekend
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    • 43 13 Heated protest: Student protestors in Seoul vent their anger at the US by burning an effigy of Uncle Sam. Radical students blame the presence of US troops in South Korea for the continued division of the Korean peninsula. Picture/ Afp
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    • 264 13 Papal warning against "lust for power" Wire services. SOUTH Africa seeks to thaw relations with Mozambique before a visit by Pope John Paul II to the neighbouring country later this week. President Pieter W. Botha left Pretoria today for the first-ever talks with the
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    • 206 13 Wire services. PHILIPPINE Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus says more than money is at issue in the military-bases dispute between Manila and Washington. Manglapus departed yesterday for a speech to the UN and talks in Washington about the future of the bases.
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    • 131 13 Wire services. AFGHAN rebels say 500 people were killed over the weekend when government bombers raided a guerillaheld town in the south-east. Bodies were "lying like goats or sheep slaughtered en masse", a rebel spokesman said. They named Spin Buldak as the target.
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  • Showtime
    • 450 14 Last Wednesday was a night to remember for Australian super pop group INXS (pronounced In Excess). MTV, rock's premier music video station in the US, crowned the six-man band with no less than five trophies for their video, Need You Tonight Mediate. DANNY TAN takes
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    • 444 15  -  Story and Pictures/ Geraldine Goh R I ADIO buffs who tune in to FM 101.6 this Friday will get to hear weird noises from a h "zoo" at Batam Island. Actually a music station, Amazing FM Zoo 101.6 has deejays called Joe Monkey,
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    • Article, Illustration
      224 15  -  By Sonja Tan and Toh Hai Leong BIG (Orchard) BIG is about a 12-year-old boy who wishes he were big. He wakes up the next morning all of 35 years bigger. A funny and often true-to-life story with deeper messages about boys, men and corporate land. Times: 11 am,
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    • 247 15  -  By Adeline Woon FORGET the idea of music being relaxing. "Music is stress to me now," said Robert Seng lySo speaks a guy whose hobby has taken over his life. It is practically everything he does these days. And Robert's expertise in computermade music is taking
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    • 60 15 COMPUTER-generated music started when the personal computer appeared about 20 years ago. Some musicians experimented by hooking up instruments to PCs. They did this to program and store music and to create unusual sounds. Since then, keyboards cum computers are able to make sounds from a
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  • BEST-CASE SCENARIO
    • 746 16 ELECTIONS '88: A COMMENTARY It's been a week since the general election. Enough time to mull things over. See if you agree with H L LIM of The New Paper. He says the election results are the best for this time: In Singapore THE general election
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    • 1319 16 HEARD the latest political riddle? It's post-elections '88 vintage: What do Potong Pasir and Eunos GRC have in common? Answer: A swimming-pool and Teleview. Follow-up riddle: What do a swimming-pool and Teleview have in common? Answer: PAP. During the campaign
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1791 17 Television s JLia AFRICA is a haven for many species of a Oberor 1 SINGER and musician Billy of birds. The cormorant is one of them. Queenie r J Joel gained fame for his hits In this documentary, we see these beautiful half-caste, rises J Uptown Girl, Just The Way
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    • 241 17 fc BBS 10.45 pm Pop Club Billy Joel In London: See Screen Gems. 11.25 Crime Story Strange Bedfellows: Frank Holman, who is in Federal custody, implicates Lt Torello with his testimony, claiming that Torello is corrupt and involved with Luca. Crime's grime: 21.25 pm, SBC 5. 12.15 Close O 10.30
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
  • 160 18 This chameleon of a lady changes her image with each new album. She's been aj;eddy girl, Arabian princess, sex kitten and more. An all-round entertainer, she sings, acts and dances. Nan*: Anita Mui Birtbdate: Oct 10, 1963 Aft: 24 Height: 1.67 m Weight 46kg Family
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  • BEST-CASE SCENARIO
    • 745 21 ELECTIONS '88: A COMMENTARY It's been a week since the general election. Enough time to mull things over. See if you agree with H L LIM of The New Paper. He says the election results are the best for this time. In Singapore THE general election
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    • 1321 21 HEARD the latest political riddle? It's post-elections '88 vintage: What do Potong Pasir and Eunos GRC have in common? Answer: A swimming-pool and Teleview. Follow-up riddle: What do a swimming-pool and Teleview have in common? Answer: PAP. During the campaign
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  • 522 22 FOODNOTES I "T"S NICE to tuck into a juicy steak. Opinions vary as to how cooked they should be, but moBt people have theirs "medium-rare". Don't drown your steak in tomato or chilli .sauce a good piece of meat does not need any help with flavour.
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 125 22 KITCHENTIPS POTATOES SALTY FOOD FROZEN MILK PLASTIC BOTTLES Baked potatoes retain A raw potato added to a soup If you use milk only for tea Cut empty plastic soft drink virtually all their vitamin C, or stew that has become too or coffee, chances are it will bottles in half.
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  • FASHIONTODAY
    • 166 23  -  By Brenton Wong TO KEEP up with the trend towards mannish clothes, department store Isetan has launched a collection called Soft Masculinity. The tailored look of the '30s and '40s has been adapted to softer, more current styles. "Conservative" and "mannish" are the key words
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    • 204 23 THINK tailored that is the message coming through loud and clear from the catwalks of Paris. A simpler, cleaner silhouette is the latest look. Fussy details are out. There is a continued trend towards restrained elegance. There are lots of pants and suits, with only a few
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 434 24  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang FOR five hours early this morning, nearly 50 million people from 128 nations ran and partied to raise money for the world's starving children. The event Sport Aid 88 was a gigantic project organised by the Sport Aid Organisation based in London.
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    • 464 25 USA Today. NOTHING pleased Liberace more than too much of a good thing. Which is why Mr Showmanship might be smiling today if he knew how Hollywood is scrambling to tell the story of his life. Duelling TV movies have been racing to get on
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    • 318 25  -  By Wong Sing Yeong IT was Studio One Presents brought to the doorstep. About 3,000 people saw SBC's first road show this year at Alexandra on Saturday. It was the first of seven shows called Together...We Celebrate. These shows will be staged around the
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 94 26 COMICRELEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne Y Wgfeg Merrill f HIT US (|4oW,THBfJ—tiOYIajOSBP TO>gQ j AllgUStS/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill Y T\w& that IS A tvX\s) NO rJ^N{MC>Tmi*A™& George the Robot/stephen Stanley IN* G/ar A p" ..IT mas AW J "TV. "Thc w.-fvi«r is tbo Sn? y t v#usrser. k. sww. AA
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 107 27 COMICRELIEF Orchard Road/coim Goh Cathy/cathy Guisewite HO HUM... 1 f I'M NOT II B H/WE TO 6€\ If WHV DOCS IT WAS I V'HDU *K T WE SHOULD If RCAON TO 60 jUP E/WW FOR IffVOUR STUPlO PAID FOR YOUK AH6ZL HAlR jST/W-J|HAVE LIVE J THERE FR/WKlE .1 ffECTlNO. City/Stephen
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    • 55 27 Single Slices/peter tohlsaat H I llfl ,-«^||fjgB^P.. 1J Air in I I "We will grow together. We will weather storms together. We will lay down roots together....If we could only have children." Ziggy/T° m Wilson Herman/Jim Linger W I "Oh. that's nice. It says,'Our company took every precaution to see
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 252 28 W VvAAy (\al [I AA rSySyS* Jy\SSS* w ■"■s <V\AAAAAJ yyyyyys Voices From The u Heart (RadlO 1, 8.05 pm) 3KT Vcr J CO S I~* AM MTIIP nnurrommo AN IN IUC programme for members, with special requests for their family and friends played by Thomas -1 rpi i j
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    • 893 28 RADIOGUIDE EMiEM CVJm'Hl'Kl NOON News In Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Good Music, Company And Me: 12.05 Lunckdate: Join Jeanette Jo- A musical entertainment for seph for a programme of enter- NOON Easy Listening: Featuring the y° u from DJ Jacqueline Tan taming music and songs with Clebanoff String Orchestra
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    • 450 28 NOON Newsdetk 12.30 Where A*|di Fear To Tread 12.45 Reflections 12.50 Wavegaide 1.00 World News 1.00 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary. 1.30 Nature Notebook I.45 Recording of the Week: A personal choice of new record releases. 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 The Stuarts: In 1660, the Puritan rule of England collapsed and the
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
    • 341 29 APPOINTMENTS 730-5393 *****66 CLASSIFIED TELEPHONE SERVICE Monday to Friday: Oam to spm (3:3opm deadline for next day) Saturday: B:3oam to 2.*oopm (10.30 am deadline for Monday) Public Holiday: Sam to Ipm (for publication day after next) RATE* $6.30 per column cm. (Minimum lcm x 2col) BOX SERVICE: $10.00 for replies
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    • 203 29 APPOINTMENTS *?nith travel pte ltd has vacancies for the following positions: Minimum GCE 'O' level and preferably possess a driving licence. Preferably with 2 years of experience in the service industry. To develop service corporate accounts Minimum GCE 'O* level. To attend to tour enquiries and bookings. Minimum GCE 'O'
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    • 286 29 A leading packaging company situated at Randan (off Clementi) invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for the post of: 1 RECEPTIONIST Our requirements: min GCE 'O' or "N" level female age 18 to 28 years old speaks English and Mandarin able to type pleasant personality The successful candidate can look
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    • 226 29 Established garments buying agent has vacancy for QUALITY CONTROLLER Requirements: Minimum 1-2 years relevant working experience Must be able to communicate in English and Mandarin Possess initiative and able to work independently with minimum supervision Interested applicants please apply in writing with resume complete with photograph, present and expected salary
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  • Article, Illustration
    263 30 Singapore portrait SEOULBEAT Presenting, Singapore's best hope for a medal in Seoul, Ang Peng Siong. The fastest Asian swimmer, Peng Siong hopes to be the fastest in the world. he makes OLYMPIC FACTSHEET FULL NAME: Ang Peng Siong BIRTHPLACE/DATE: S pore, *****.62 HEIGHT/WEIGHT: I.Bom, 81.5 kg HOME:
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  • SPORTS
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      197 31 us OPEN AP. MATS Wilander ended Ivan Lendl's three-year reign as US Open tennis champion with a dramatic five-set victory yesterday in the longest final in Open history. Wilander, who won 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in four hours and 54 minutes, also took over the No.
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    • 296 31 Wire Services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: ATHLETICS Brussels men's Marathon: 1 Vesa Kahkola (Fin) 2:16:53 2 JeanPierre Paumen (Bel) 2:18:41 3 Willy van Huylehroeck (Bel) 2:18:54. MOTOR RACING Italian Grand Prix: 1 Gerhard Berger (Aus) Ferrari 2 Michele Alboreto (Ita) Ferrari 3 Eddie Cheever (US) Arrows 4 Derek
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    • 157 31 Reuter. BARCELONA stormed to the top of the Spanish First Division soccer standings with a 3-0 away win over Elche yesterday. Barcelona's new signing from Atletico Madrid, Spanish international striker Julio Salinas, cele- brated his 26th birthday with two first-half goals. Captain Jose Alexanco netted Barcelona's third in
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    • 92 31 Reuter, AFP. CINDERELLA soccer club AUXERRE consolidated its lead of the French First Division with a 1-0 victory over lowly but tough Lille. In Monaco, the host took the lead through a header by Glenn Hoddle, but Nice drew 1-1 with a penalty goal by Daniel Bravo. Results:
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    • 172 31 RACING ...with DENNIS CHIA I BUKIT Timah trainer William Chua has continued his buying spree of yearlings in Karaka, New Zealand. He bought another 21 lots on the second day of the Horses In Training sales, emerging as the top buyer. In all he bought a
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 122 31 TVSPORTS -30-^ US re v sir (:,,p j 10.15pm: Sportsview: Tennis US l0 Pre-Olympics. >HH adies Sin les 11* TUES IfiJTl Pre-Olympics. 10|MB: Olympics. 11pm: Malaysia Cup. SAT |(112 ®-25am: Seoul Olympics '88 Open I'—wj ing Ceremony 'live'. WW |/|«2 10.30pm: Countdown to '88. r. i m IJ 11pm: Midweek
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  • ASIANJUNIORATHLETICS
    • 383 32  -  As China pipped Japan yesterday in the overall medals tally by just one gold with its haul of 14 golds, two silvers and two bronzes, there were shadows of doubt cast on at least two areas Reports by SHAHIRON SAHARI and ABDUL SHUKOR; I lAI WAN'S
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    • 227 32 JAPAN will rue the one that got away but there was also one they almost didn't win. The Japanese finished the 2nd Asian Track and Field meet yesterday with 13 gold medals, one short of overall winner China. One more gold and Japan
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    • 87 32 THE women's high jump mark was yesterday shattered by Taiwan's Su ChunYuen and China's Zhang Tong. They cleared 1.82 m breaking the 1.74 m mark. However, Zhang was named the winner after a recount. Zhang led the favourite Su all the way until the bar
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    • 144 32 JAPAN'S spiky-haired Tatsuo Sugimoto was crowned the Asian Junior 100-metre king and then made clear his next conquest. "I will be the Asian champion next year," said the 17-year-old after breezing to the tape in 10.535ec. And in next year's Asian Track and
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  • SPORTS/SQUASH
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      334 33  -  Stories by ALFONSO CHAN AND SO it came to pass that everyone who predicted a Jahangir win in the battle of the Khans came to grief. Jahangir was king for six years, but when the young pretender Jansher dethroned him in the 1987 World Open and at the
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    • 227 33 SQUASH is alive and well, judging from the fans streaming into the West Coast Recreation Centre to watch nine of the world's top 10 players in action. The Singapore Squash Rackets Association could be laughing all the way to the bank, with over $40,000
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    • 109 33 JANSHKH KHAN'S DAILY DIET: 6.00 am: 20km running for 2hr. 9.00: Light breakfast of fresh orange juice, milkshake and fruits. 9.30-11.00; Rest 1112.15pm. Solitary training on court drills, ate. 12.30: Light lunch of chicken, salad and juice. 2.00-4.09: Sleep. 4.30: Tea. 5.00-7.80: Series of matches against six to
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    • 304 33 The Newftroer-IetstreamTour Contest \fiAnalkxpense ink P 3 in isyoura. Every day, there are stories marked with a tick in The New Paper. But only one has a double border. Look for the tick with this double border L5jI and write down the headline of this story in the ff"™? space
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  • MALAYSIACUP
    • 678 34 ENTERTAINMENT of a different kind took place in a football match last night. It raised laughter in the stands, broke spirits in the park, and sent Singapore officials spinning with confusion. It was worth every cent of the small crowd's money. And every single minute of its time.
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      232 35 MIDFIELDER Hasnim Haron was literally floored by the shock of his first Malaysia Cup goal. In a dazzling solo run, Hasnim left three Sabah defenders chasing shadows before blasting a right-footed shot to the roof of the net. Hasnim then tried to celebrate the goal with the usual
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    • 147 35 SINGAPORE'S victories over Brunei and Sabah may have been unconvincing but the six points have certainly brightened its quar-ter-final hopes. The Republic can confirm its place in the last eight with a win over Negri Sembilan on Sunday at the National Stadium. If it can also
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