The New Paper, 19 January 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1989 MO (F) 179/4/88 so CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 283 1 TOUTS TO A TIME BOMB New bill proposes stiff penalties for touts in public places. I Mah Bow Tan says brain drain is a time bomb for Singapore. BG Lee hints at non-partisan MPs from business and unions. H Government MPs debate each other not just opposition. Page 8 BABY
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    • 23 1 WORLD 10-13 STOCKS 12 SHOWTIME 14.20-22 TV GUIDE 15 FOOD 23 COMICS 24,25 RADIO 26 FASTADS/JOBS 27 SPORTS 27-31 MONEYWORDS 31 UPDATE 32
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 433 2  -  By Ng Wan Ching A YOUNG mother bitterly regrets having given her newborn baby away to be adopted in July last year because she was unmarried and had no money. It all went wrong. Adoption never took place. The couple who took the baby turned
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    • 113 2 ACCORDING to the Birth Registration Section of Toa Payoh Hospital, either the father or the mother can register a child's birth, because they have the necessary documents. These are: the identity cards of the father and mother mother's discharge card from the hospital where she gave
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    • 252 2 THE Skills Development Fund (SDF) provided $61 million for the training of workers last year. Employers came up with some $180 million more. Mr Mah Bow Tan, Minister of State for Trade and Industry, revealed the figures at the opening of SMC Manufacturing
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    • 124 2 A TAXI driver died this morning, two hours after his taxi hit a lamp post along the Pan-Island Expressway. Police said Yong Kim Lin, 42, lost control of his Comfort cab near Whitley Road while driving towards Jurong. The accident happened around 4 am and
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    • 60 2 PRESIDENT Wee Kim Wee is now fully alert, and requires no sedation, the Health Ministry said yesterday. President Wee underwent an operation on Monday morning to remove a cancerous growth in the rectum. He is now in the general ward of Singapore General Hospital having spent the first
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    • 72 2 AP. PRIME Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew has asked for talks with Indonesian President Suharto while they are in Japan to attend the funeral of Emperor Hirohito, a government spokesman in Jakarta said yesterday. The spokesman said Mr Suharto will also meet Japanese Prime Minister
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 29 2 The Weather THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over several areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24. Sunset: 7.17 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.14 am
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 389 3  -  By Loh Tuan Lee PRINTING companies are seeing red. Red meaning hong bao packets and profits, that is. Right now, the red packets are being churned out in the millions to meet the demand from banks, private companies and individuals. Take Koya Hotstamping Manufacturer
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    • 186 3 KITE-FLYING is an art form and Singapore is getting two American professors to show people how. Associate Professor Betty Street and Professor Bill Lockhart, both from Texas Tech University in the US, will fly a kite each at the annual Kite Festival, at Marina South this Saturday
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    • 191 4 A HOUSEWIFE locked herself and her young daughter in the toilet of their Jurong West flat when they were attacked by a man wielding a chopper. Madam Tan Boh Ngan, 39, smashed the glass-window louvres in the toilet and screamed for help, police said yesterday.
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    • 132 4 WORKING women want better child care facilities and longer opening hours at these centres. All those we interviewed agreed with Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon who said in Parliament on Tuesday that the Goverment should find a way to help working mothers raise their
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    • 245 4 Ms CK Goh, 34, accounts manager MENTAL stimulation and money are the two reasons why Mrs Goh works. She is an accounts group manager with a public relations company. "I enjoy my job very much. I enjoy the stimulation that comes with work. I
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    • 122 4 Ms Shirley Lim, 35, production operator MS LIM works the night shift at an electronics factory. She started working about five years ago to supplement the family income. Her husband, a salesman, earns about $800 a month. So the $800 she brings home is
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    • 259 4 A 38-year-old products manager THE woman, who did not want to be identified, and her husband have a 12-year-old son. The husband works in a bank and earns about $90,000 a year. She doesn't need to work now, but does. But when she first
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    • 332 5  -  By Irene Ng THIEVES now dare to defy the gods. Temple idols are being stolen with impunity. Last Sunday, five idols with gold chains on them were stolen from the Tua Dia Ahr Pek Temple at Dairy Farm Road. The statues cost a total of about
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    • 192 5 A WIDOW told the High Court she managed to get a packet of drugs through Customs in Johor Baru by pretending she had a sudden urge to go to the toilet But Jamala binti Hashim said she was an unwilling smuggler, having been beaten up
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    • 467 6 MOST OF the hawkers interviewed last night cheered like the MPs did in Parliament yesterday afternoon the Government's announcement that they no longer have to serve food in disposable tableware if they don't want to. Most also said they are going to switch back
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    • 184 6 THE new Tanjong Pagar is stirring. The first restored shop has opened there Bee Chun Heng, a household name in Chinese-style barbecued pork retailing. The shophouse, at No 11 Neil Road, opened this week. It is among the first group of 32 shophouses
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    • 169 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The notes will help you check their meanings. conjures: Produces something without difficulty. coquettish: Describes a woman who behaves in a playful way intended to make men find her attractive. deception: Trickery. dotty: In informal use, of a person who is slightly
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    • 85 6 FOR SLASHING the abdomen and face of a man who had scolded him, a car washer was sentenced to years in jail and six strokes of the cane yesterday. S Ramaiah, 41, slashed Housing Board sweeper Habeer Rahman s/o Buhardeen bin Yacob. 47. Ramaian confronted
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    • 162 6 Lianhe Zaobao. TWO half-brothers were sentenced yesterday to a total of 10 years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane on charges including a killing in a Geylang nightclub last June. The charges resulted from a fight between two groups. Mr
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    • 378 7  -  By Irene Hoe THE National Museum has a new director probably its only head whose first task has been to close it. Mr Kwa Chong Guan, 42, who continues to be director of the Oral History Department, took charge at the museum on Jan 3
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    • 141 7 A SECOND-HAND car dealer lost a fierce struggle to save his $5,500 Rolex watch when he was attacked by three men in a carpark yesterday. He ended up with three cuts on his hand and his watch stripped away. Mr Koh Khong Meng, 39, told police
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    • 79 7 THE NATIONAL Crime Prevention Council will launch its fund-raising Gold Sweep this Monday. It hopes to raise more than $1 million. The top prize is six kilobars of pure gold valued at $150,000. There are 147 other prizes. The council, a non-profit organisation, needs at
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    • 136 7 THE law put the brakes on a vehicle thief's career yesterday. His list included six vans, 10 cars and 16 pick-ups, all stolen in 11 months. The thief, Chua Lai Kuan, was jailed for four years and banned from driving for three years
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 103 5 LIFE WITHOUT SCANDALS WOULD BE INFINITELY BORING. But step mto Scandals and you 11 be dcwer to the real you. rUWIi, And there's a new Scandals every month. From the 18th to 21 st Jan '89, well be celebrating /m7LGi/2<» Nights In Hollywood. Weekday first drink charge IHKpwfl is $15++.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 477 8 DEBATE THE two opposition MPs both spoke in Parliament yesterday of the need for a constructive opposition. On that point they got no argument from Brigadier-General (Reservist) Lee Hsien Loong. Instead the Minister for Trade and Industry and Second Defence Minister (Services) revived the idea of non-parti-san
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    • Article, Illustration
      391 8 DEBATE GOVERNMENT MPs found themselves debating each other not just the opposition during yesterday's sitting. The lively exchange followed the Communications and Information Minister's question about Dr Arthur Beng's remarks at Tuesday's sitting. Dr Beng (Fengshan) said the Government should have sought public feedback before raising road
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    • 252 8 ALSO IN PARLIAMENT TOUTS would face severe penalties under a new bill to be introduced today. Senior Minister of State (Home Affairs) Dr Lee Boon Yang said yesterday the Minor Offences Act would be amended to deal more effectively with touting in any public
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    • 274 8 WHAT SOME MPS SAID THE PROBLEM of people who vote not with their hands but their feet was raised by Mr Mah Bow Tan, Minister of State (Communications and Information, and Trade and Industry). He was talking about Singaporeans who leave to live in a
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 288 10 Wire services. THE incoming Bush administration will consider changing the rules so that the US can take in more refugees from South-east Asia and the Soviet Union. Mr James Baker, picked to be the next secretary of state, said the glut of refugees trying
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    • 227 10 Wire services. A RICH dwarf seamstress in China castrated her tall, handsome but poor husband when she found that he was unfaithful. The story of 24-year-old Yu Meili, whose money couldn't buy her much happiness, was reported by a regional newspaper, the Legal Daily.
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    • Article, Illustration
      54 10 VMmrt Miami: These youths are among some 200 people nabbed by police aince violence broke out in Miami's black neighbourhoods on Tuesday. The American city remains tense aa police brace themselves for more trouble. The unrest was sparked by the shooting of a black motorcyclist by a
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    • 280 10 Wire services. BRITISH police smashed their way into a church to arrest a Sri Lankan holed up in the building for two years to avoid being sent home. Viraj Mendis had handcuffed himself to a radiator when 16 policemen and two immigration agents broke into
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    • 143 10 Wire services. MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad is in hospital because of chest pains and is likely to remain there for a few days. "He is still in hospital but it is nothing serious," his spokesman said in Kuala Lumpur. He
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    • 47 10 Wire services. AT LEAST 32 people were killed after a passenger train plowed into a bus in north-east China. Fourty-one bus passengers were injured in yesterday's accident, reported the Xinhua News Agency in Beijing. The accident occurred in Jilin province. Wire services.
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    • 272 11 Wire services. FORMER French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing yesterday in Moscow detailed sweeping cuts in Soviet military power. The reductions were announced by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev last month at the United Nations. Mr Giscard d'Estaing said 200,000 soldiers would be taken out of
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    • 225 11 Wire services. THE gunman who turned a California school playground into a killing field was a young drifter with a long criminal record. Patrick Edward Purdy, 26, shot himself in the head after firing some 60 rounds from a Soviet AK-47 assault rifle at hundreds
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    • 155 11 Wire services. GREECE is beefing up its maritime anti-terrorist squad against guerilla attacks on tourist cruise ships. Another 150 experienced divers and commandos will be added to the squad, the deputy merchant marine minister said in Athens. Mr Antonis Dedithakis told a news conference that this
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    • 30 12 Solitude: Only a pair of legs is visible at a Frankfurt park as a visitor eqjoys a quiet moment watching ships on River Main. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 362 12 Wire services. OUSTED Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos is reported to be dying and unable to travel to New York to face trial on charges of corruption and conspiracy. The report on Mr Marcos' health was made to a US Federal Court judge in New York yesterday by
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    • 88 12 Wire services. BURMA'S Election Commission has set a Feb 28 deadline for registration of political parties seeking votes in the general election. The announcement was made over government radio in Rangoon yesterday. No details were given. Thus far, 182 parties have been legalised by the commission
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    • 56 12 Wire services BRITAIN has become one of Europe's dirtiest countries and London it even dirtier than other comparable cities in Europe. That's the report from the Royal Pine Arts Commission, published yesterday. The commission complained that pet excrement soils sidewalks, refuse litters the streets and graffiti defaces basse,
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    • 269 13 MALAYSIA'S main opposition party has turned down the government's invitation to sit on the panel to frame the country's economic policy for the post-1990 period. Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba named the 150member panel at a news conference in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. He
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    • 205 13 Wire services. AFRICAN students who accuse China of racism, claiming they are in danger, have appealed to their governments to do something about it. "We would seek to strongly advise all African states to recall all African students from China and effect scholarship transfer
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      278 12 Wire services. DESPITE disappointment with the latest set of US trade figures, London shares extended their rally in active trading yesterday, reaching their best levels since the 1987 stock crash. Equities took their cue from the US dollar, which was not affected by the news that the US trade
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    • 86 12 Reuter. SHARE prices rose to record heights in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today following a higher Wall Street overnight, brokers said. The Nikkei index gained 94.18 points, or 0.30 per cent, to a new high of 31,448.73 in 10 minutes of trade. Gainers were led by
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    • 51 12 FT ladastrtals Wed 1,540.00 (1,521.30) Dow Jones Average Wed 2.238.75 (2,214.64) ST Industrial Wed 1,094.41 (1,104.82) HST Industrial Wed 1,887.85 (1,907.98) Hongkong Hang Sang Wed 2,913.05 (2,896.65) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,502.10 (1,501.90) Nikkei Stack Average Wed 31,354.55 (31,227.52) Figures in brackets refer to thoae of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      270 12 Wire services. WALL Street had a see-saw session yesterday following the publication of disappointing US trade figures for November, but the bulls prevailed, sending the Dow Jones industrial average soaring to a new poet-crash high. The Dow even broke through the 2,240-barrier, but a wave of profit-taking cut
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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  • Showtime
    • 543 14  - On-screen lovers four times in a row I By Vivien Chiong LI NANXING and Chen Liping have become lovers on the company's orders. They are SBC's latest perfect match. You may think familiarity breeds contempt. They have their meals together and go on durian-eating dates. But that doesn't prevent them
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    • 220 14 THE course of true love never did run smooth this cliche describes the onscreen relationship of TV lovers Li Nanxing and Chen Liping. In yet another untitled series on swimming champions due out at the end of August, they have a love-hate relationship. In the end,
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1657 15 Television F3E3 M Applause Cleo Sings Expressions SSO Concert Thursday Feature Special: f. V SCREEN m Sondheim, Jacksonville Jazz The Music of Strauss Dangerous Affection GEMS r Festival VIII I —jjK 1 (9.30 pm, SBC 12) (10.35 pm, SBC 5) 1 M W (11 pm, SBC 12) UNDER the baton
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  • spotlight
    • 717 16 You too have listened to their albums, and you have seen their movie. Now, read about U2,1988's top rock group. You have a choice. There's U2 Rattle Hum The Official Book of the U2 movie. And there's Unforgettable Fire: The Story of U2. Both are
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    • 366 16 Rattle Hum: Many pictures, less talk l U2 Rattle Hum, a largish coffee-table book. It's an easy read, with the print taking only the top third of each page. The rest of the page is full of colour pictures, most of it movie montages. Very little is said fif US
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    • 266 16 I 2 their patents' lnariiafles. you'™ true Ian. I? gj'" Otherwise why bother with the political background at Northern Ireland, Bono's parents' marriage, Adam Clayton's school report, Edge's conventional suburban childhood and Larry Mullen Jr's stamp and coin collection. Author Eamon Dunphy has dona some
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 443 18  -  By Ting Mei See Y I OU don't expect to see sailor boys in a classical Greek tragedy by Sophocles. But be prepared for the unexpected from Cheek by Jowl productions. This British theatre company is well-known for its refreshing and innovative treatment of plays,
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    • 192 18  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Sonja Tan THERE were either boring old sitcoms or documentaries on yesterday's evening menu. The documentaries won. Tell Me Why (7 pm on SBC 5) provided pots of information on insects, or bugs as I call them. For instance, did you know that mothballs may
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    • 258 18 Far North Princ 1 Jan 26, 9 pm Tickets: $5 PREVIEW LAT-WP. SAM Shepard is known for breaking new ground in his movies. So one expects a good deal more in Far North, his latest movie, than this family comedy set in
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    • 133 18 SHE is known to the world by just her first name, Sabrina. This 20-year-old sex siren shot to fame in Europe with the runaway hit, Boys (Summertime Love), and was instantly compared to the sexy Samantha Fox. At last year's Montreux Pop Festival,
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    • 339 19 B RAZILIAN actress Sonia Braga has many assets talent, a great body, Robert Redford and hit movies to her name. One critic called her "the most life-enhancing movie star in the world". She started acting 20 years ago but only made an impact on
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    • 262 19  -  Moon Over Parador Opening today Capitol, Changi 1, Savoy 2 PREVIEW/ By Wong Sing Yeong PICTURE this: The dictator of a Latin American country has just been knocked out by the bottle. Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss), a visiting New York actor, seems
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    • Article, Illustration
      127 20 MOON OVER PARADOR (Capitol, Chang! 1, Savoy 2) THIS hilarious comedy stars Richard Dreyfuss, Raul JuHa and Soma Braga. WILLOW (Cathay) WILLOW has too much of fantasy for anyone who's seen all of George Lucas' films. Otherwise, it's well produced. Times: 10.30 am, 1.15,4,6.45, 9.30 pm. MY HEART IS
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    • 182 20 Wire services. FORMER Beatle Paul McCartney is about to get a chance to talk to his fans and maybe even some of his critics in Moscow. He will answer questions from Soviets in a live phonein radio programme to be beamed to the USSR
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    • Article, Illustration
      217 20  -  By Adeline Woon GUNS N' HOSES: GN'R UES (WEA) GNU Lies span more than two years of recording. Side G was done in 1986 and Side R in 1988. Side G was recorded in front of a live audience and there are rather rude introductions to a couple of
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 374 21  -  Stories/ Lim Swee Hong IT'S the gift with the right-sound-ing name that counts during the Lunar New Year. So the Chinese say it with hou si, bao yu and fa cai. Hou si is dried oysters. Pronounced "ho see" in Cantonese, it sounds like "fortunate
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    • 221 21 Ng Siong Mai Enterprises 34 Upper Crass St, #02-150 Tel: 532-3203 Hampers from $50 IT all began with a hamper she packed as a gift for a friend's wedding in June last year. Now Madam Ng Siong Mui's made-to-order hampers for all occasions have become her new line
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    • 140 21 IF you thought hampers were only for Christmas or the Lunar New Year, think again. To Madam Ng, a friend who's ill, a new baby in the home, a house-warming or birthday is ample occasion for a hamper. Gifts for one occasion can
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS
    • 363 25 AP. PROMOTER Don King culminated a four-hour deposition in New York yesterday by testifying that Bill Cayton was "Satan" and then erupted into an expletive-filled tirade at boxer Mike Tyson's manager. Testifying in the heavyweight champion's lawsuit against Cayton and the widow of Jimmy Jacobs, Tyson's
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    • 278 25 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS PERESTROIKA, who is due for a win this weekend, wound up his preparation today at Bukit Timah with a bright 38.7 sec gallop on sand partnered by Japanese rider, M. Michikawa. The Gay Apollo gelding was a long third to Primegold
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    • 176 26 Reuter. ARGENTINE midfielder Ossie Ardiles broke his right leg last night. It happened during his club, Queens Park Rangers' Littlewoods Cup quarter-fi-nal clash against Nottingham Forest. Ardiles limped off after 31 minutes, following a tackle, but the full extent of his injury did not become clear until
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    • 189 26 AP, Reuter. DEFENDER Gienn Roeder must have had a sleepless night He deflected a shot into his own goal in the closing minutes of extra time last night to hand Watford a 1-0 victory over Newcastle in a FA Cup third-round replay. That came after
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    • 233 26 AFP, Reuter. NOTTINGHAM Forest manager Brian Clough was reported to the police last night after hie tide had stormed into the Littlewoods Cup semi-finals by crushing Queens Park Rangers 5-2. Clough landed himself in hot water when he took it on himself to give the police
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    • 383 26 Wire services. TERRY Venables, manager of English giant Tottenham Hotspur, is the reported target of Second Division struggler Portsmouth. Jim Gregory, chairman of the ambitious South Coast club, is said to be keen to renew his partnership with Venables, which flourished at Queens Park Rangers. He is reported
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    • 371 26 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON Japan Open Siiffoi Sad rd: Women: Li Lingwai (Cj bt Lilik Sudarwati 11-7, 11-3; Hwang Hyeyoung (SK) bt Julie Muaday 11-1, 11-1; Susy Susanti (Indo) bt Hiaako Takamine 11-6, 11-7; Halen Troke (Brit) bt Elena Ryhkfaia 11-6, 11-2; Tang Jiuhong (C)
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    • 348 27  -  By Shahiron Shahri TWO more promising athletes have been "adopted" by the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association under its unprecedented "Adopt the Athlete" scheme. Sprinter Hong Jinsheng and Asean schools high-jump champion Wong Yew Tong will join Ng Chui Fong and Xie Yuru in the scheme, which
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    • 445 27 BOWLING... with ALFONSO CHAN HE came, he saw, he adapted. And shot to the top with a fine technique executed by an agile mind. South Korea's Yoo Chung Hee flew into Singapore late on Tuesday night, went straight to the lanes, bowled three games and
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    • 270 27 The use of the Professional Bowling Association format of 36 games bowled over three different squad timings in the Super Classic '89 has proved to be a hit with many bowlers. Veteran S Y Loh, former national champion of the 70s, said: "I
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    • Article, Illustration
      374 28  -  By Shahiron Sahari THE two clubs involved in last week's "Toa Payoh Soccer Riot" Farrer Park United and Ang Mo Kio CSC have been let off with only a verbal warning. Larry Thambiah, chairman of the National Football League Tournament Committee, said there was "no proof' that the
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    • 377 28 MALAYSIA'S SEMI-PRO LEAGUE NST. THE Kedah Football Association has set aside a staggering Msl.3 million for its assault on the Semi-Pro League. Most of the money will be spent on salaries, allowances and incentives for players, administration of the team, transport and accommodation. Kedah is among the
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    • 238 28 NST. KELANTAN'S Semi-Pro League players can expect big cash rewards if they make it to the later stages of the Malaysia Cup but there's a big catch to it. The Kelantan Football Association has decided to scrap the payment of match bonuses. KFA president
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