The New Paper, 26 May 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1989 MCI (P) 36/4/89 50 CENTS
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    • 62 1 26 H AY 1989 ,700 MRT MRT officials caught 3,744 cheats during the first four months of this year. The cheats had attempted to use other peopled concession passes. That was despite repeated warnings. Now tougher measures are to be implemented against cheating./ Page 2 MIXING ADVERTISERS SCIENCE COURT AND
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    • 8 1 JEFF LOW: IT WAS SOCCER SNOOZE /Pact 30
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    • 66 1 TWO HEROIN MEN HANGED Two heroin traffickers were hanged this morning. The two Singaporeans were involved in the biggest heroin seizure case here, anti-drug officials said. They are Ng Beng Kee, 48, and Tan Hock Bin, 36. They were found guilty of transporting 20.4 kg of heroin from Bukit 8
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  • 54 1 Pictures taken off NZ television Ms Chow Sing Har (left), 37, only wanted a 10-minute glance at the New Zealand snow from mid-air. Instead, she got 16 hours of hell. The survivor of the May 2 chopper accident recalls the horrifying crash which killed her two
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 225 2 SINGAPORE Airlines staff here will get an additional month's bonus next month, their second windfall in the last six months. The company, which paid out a three-month bonus at the end of last year, is making the one-month ex-gratia payment to 15,000
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    • 257 2 MASS Rapid Transit officials caught 3,744 people cheating in the first four months of this year. In April alone there were 594 cases of misuse of tickets. The cheats were using other people's concession passes. Most of them attempted to use student passes. Singapore MRT will
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    • 179 2 Wire services. A TEAM of Malaysian specialists plans to separate a pair of Siamese twins using a West German ultrasonic surgical system. Plans for the surgery, the first of its kind, were announced in Kuala Lumpur yesterday by Dr Goon Hong Kooi from the Universiti
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    • 64 2 On May 18 we reported the heats of the Look of the Year '89 contest. We incorrectly stated that the prizes for the winner include a $20,000 contract with Carrie Models. The winner of the international competition (for which the winner of the Singapore contest will qualify) will get
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 31 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over several areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Max temp: 31 deg. Min: 24 deg. Sunset: 7.07 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.56 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 599 3 Science and witchcraft make strange bedfellows. But there is a rational explanation for that, as students participating in a Science Fortnight at Yishun Junior college demonstrated. ERNEST YEO reports on the event WITCHCRAFT and science do mix. At the opening of the 12th Singapore
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    • 310 3 There will be fun and games in the name of science at the Science Carnival, to be held at the Singapore Science Centre from today to May 30. Games stalls and competitions at the carnival will be designed to bring out the fun element
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    • Article, Illustration
      123 4 This story resulted from a Hotline Plus call A BANNER protesting against the coming hike in carpark charges appeared overnight on Wednesday at Toa Payoh A member of the public called The New Paper's HotlinePlus to tell us about the banner at Block 157. A police spokesman said
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    • 340 4 YOU can't have your cake and eat it too. This seems to be the common reaction to the newest card in town: the cake card. A couple getting married just mails out "Wedding Bonanza" cards. The recipients of the card either claim their cake from
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 345 6 WHAT'S ON WHERE FREE expression is the name of the game. You can draw your moth-er-in-law's face. You can describe your neighbours. You can pen your likes and dislikes. And all in full public view at the Marina Park this Sunday. The 15-metre-long plywood wall
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    • 206 6  -  NEWBEAT By Esther Tan H OME is where the art is, for Chinese painters Tan Sin Huat and his wife, Madam Kong Yin Ling. They met at a community centre, did a painting course there, went overseas to study art further, and are
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    • 397 7  -  By Harinder Gill A H KOW drilled pieces of iron everyday at work. One day, he felt a slight pain in his right eye, but ignored it as the pain soon went away. A year later, he went blind. A piece of iron had pierced
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    • 219 7 SPEARED BY WIRE A construction worker was blinded when he looked up into a shower of wire cuttings. The man was wearing a safety helmet but no goggles. A piece of wire went straight through his eye. It pierced his cornea and went into the lens. By the
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    • 79 7 TEN Members of Parliament left this morning for a two-day visit to Johor. It is part of the regular exchange of visits between members of the Singapore and Malaysian legislatures, a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated yesterday. The team, led by the Minister of
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    • 171 7 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. contorted: Twisted into an unnatural shape that looks unpleasant. equivalent: Something that is the same. fluffed: Did something badly or unsuccessfully. hydrographer: A person who studies and charts the
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    • 139 8 A NEW technique is now being used to strengthen the shores of Singapore's reclaimed land. The Sand Compaction Pile (SCP) method is being used by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) on works along the north-eastern coastline. At a press
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    • 535 8  -  By Trudy Lim T HE growing number of highly-paid women is making them a target for advertisements. In the last couple of years, more and more companies have aimed their ads this way. Gone are the days when only advertisements for household products such as soap
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 804 10  -  By Irene Ng SHE only wanted to see the New Zealand snow from a helicopter. Just a 10-minute glance from mid-air. Instead, Ms Chow Sing Har got 16 hours of hell. Still, Ms Chow, 37, a clerk, was lucky. She at least survived the
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    • 263 11 Wire services. C I HINA'S student rebels agreed today to step up protests despite renewed threats that troops would move in. About 300 student leaders voted on whether to continue the protest. A spokesman said more than half rejected withdrawal. A statement issued by Premier
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    • 132 11 Wire services. THAI officials now believe that brake failure and excessive speed were responsible for the train crash in northern Thailand. A senior police official, Colonel Sunthorn Boonchiang, said yesterday that the crash killed eight people. A wire service report on Wednesday quoted
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    • 183 11 Wire services. NAVY investigators say a murder or a suicide involving a "special relationship" between two sailors now figures in the probe of a deadly explosion of the USS lowa. Gunner's mate Clayton Hartwig, 24, who died in the April 19 blast with 46 other
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    • 75 11 g** I Boogie I Jon^Bay I 1 Dance on the most unique dancc floor in Singapore w f Anchored out on Marina Bay, with the glittering city '"v®-' 1 f affllf' I 5 *i jjSju: skyline as a backdrop, dance to a pulsating sound and |Mg y'' JhR J ll!f%'
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Article, Illustration
      39 12 Phew!: The heat and a full stomach make a catnap in Parliament Square simply irresistible for these British office workers during their lunch break. London has been hit by scorching weather in recent weeks. Picture/ AFP
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    • 215 12 Wire services. MR Mikhail Gorbachev has been elected by the Soviet Union's new-style parliament as the country's first executive President. The 58-year-old Kremlin leader was unopposed for the post similar in powers to that of the US presidency. The Congress of People's Deputies voted yesterday against
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    • 148 12 Wire services. THE US economy grew at a 4.3 per cent annual rate in the first three months of 1989. The Commerce Department's estimate of growth in the GNP was well below an initial estimate a month ago at 5.5 per cent Inflation
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      251 12 Wire services. SHARES closed slightly higher on the London Stock Exchange yesterday after the government reported, as expected, a current account deficit of £1.65 billion in the British balance of trade last month. The deficit in March was £1.68 billion. The Financial Times Sishare index closed 3.3 points up
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    • 92 12 Reuter. SHARE prices rose in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The key 225-9 hare Nikkei index rose 153.58 points, or 0.45 per cent, to 34,158.97 in 10 minutes of trade. It gained 153.57 points yesterday. Winners were led by communications, brokerage, non-life insurance, airline, rubber, trucking, oil,
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    • 52 12 FT Industrials Thu 1,777.30 (1,774.00) c Dow Jones Average Thu 2,482.59 (2,483.87) ST Industrial Thu 1,257.72 (1,280.57) NST Industrial Thu 2,179.44 (2,224.84) Hongkong Hang Seng Thu 2,752.51 (3,008.73) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,543.50 (1,570.40) Nikkei Stock Average Thu 34,005.35 (33,851.82) Figurei in bracket* refer to those of the previous
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    • Article, Illustration
      275 12 Wire services. WALL Street share prices were mixed in*quiet trading yesterday with blue chips dipping while the broader market was more positive. The Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials slipped 1.28 points to close at 2,482.59 points. Advancing issues outnumbered declines by about seven to five on
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 383 13 Thanying Restaurant Amara Hotel 11 am to 11 pm $4.50+ per dish onwards Reservations recommended Tel 222-4688 D I EAR Jongkolnee (restaurant manageress), 1 I must apologise for not reviewing your restaurant earlier, but here are three stupid reasons I hope you will accept as
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    • Article, Illustration
      359 13 PERANAKAN PEP-ME-UPS TWO hotel food outlets have gone Peranakan. The promotion is on till May 31 at Ladyhill, and until June 25 at Imperial Hotel. At Ladyhill Coffeehouse, the offerings include perennial favourites such as hee peow soup, ikan kuah lada, nangka masak lemak udang and itek sioh. Dishes
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 99 13 Apply now for July 1989 intake No government quota, visa fees Murdoch University is pleased to announce that it will offer a limited number of places in July 1989 for Singapore residents in: Undergraduate Post-graduate Programmes Programmes Economics English and Master of Applied Commerce Comparative Psychology Computer Sc. Literature Master
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  • Showtime
    • 479 14  -  Stories/ Lo Tien Yin WHAT'S in a word? A lot of time and effort, if it happens to be part of a subtitle on your telly. TTiose tiny words and letters that clutter up the bottom of the screen may sometimes irritate. But just as often,
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    • 147 14 CHINESE subtitling may one day be high-tech. SBC is experimenting with a Chinese character generator. The computer would help ensure that the subtitles match the the scene on air. English subtitles are already done using a computer called the Aston Character Generator. It projects the
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1642 15 lelevision s "»i§BL GEMS(3.OOam, SBC 5) by this final match of the Through the experiences of three teenagers of Niirloar niohtmar*- r 0 *ai a r t*. j** B Liverpool IS a clear Canada's minority groups, the programme shows how NUC,e3r n, g htmarK Jane Alexander in a scene from
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  • spotlight
    • 934 16 Fair play and sportsmanship are what British sporting contests are supposed to be about The motto, surely, is "The Gamers the thing" Or 'May the best man/team win." Not so in the football grounds, as we have seen in tragic ways. Those not used to
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    • 234 16 THE National Front, England's neo-Nazi organization, sees soccer matches as a perfect recruiting ground. A Young National Front magazine, Bulldog, became a soccer hooligan's bible in the early 80s when it began a "League of Louts" in which rival fans vied in retailing their exploits. The
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    • 368 16 IT was night when the game between Arsenal and Manchester United ended. Out in the street a noise became louder and louder, bouncing back and forth in the narrow street between the rows of houses. Then it took shape. It was a helicopter
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    • 173 16 May 1985. Liverpool United fans attacked fans of the Juventus team from Turin, Italy, in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, just before the start of a European Cup final game. Thirty-nine people were trampled and suffocated to death. Four hundred and fifty were injured. January
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  • FASHIONTODAY
    • 434 20 Wire services. CHRISTIAN Dior hopes its new artistic director will update its image as well as increase its share in the luxury goods market. Veteran Marc Bohan, 63, was replaced by Gianfranco Ferre. 45, earlier this month. Fashion critics will assess Ferre's efforts when
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    • 158 20 FIRST there was aloe vera, now there is jojoba. Jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-ba) is a peanut-sized desert bean, and the rich oil extracted from it is normally used in cosmetics. Two new additions to the Glseve hair-care range contain oil from this bean. There is
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 307 21  -  By Ting Mei See CUSTOMERS thought Mr Hans Schirmer was only joking when he promised to shift his Ginivy pub lock, stock and barrel. But if the old place had locks, stocks and barrels, no doubt they will now be in the new
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    • Article, Illustration
      224 21  -  By Debbie Henson SAM BROWN: STOP (A&M) YOU'VE got to listen to this lady sing! So stop and listen to her incredible bluesy voice filled with emotion. Apart from the title track, there is a lot to thank her for especially when one listens to Walking Back to Me
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    • 573 22  - When two beauties meet again By Vivien Chiong SILENCE befell Chatterbox when a lady in red strolled into the Mandarin Hotel coffee house. Some may have recognised her as Hongkong actress Elizabeth Lee. Others may have been struck by her beauty and that of her companion, SBC actress Jazreel Low.
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    • 169 22 CITY KIDS 1989 (Cathay cinemas) THE film portrays the city kids, convincingly played by Andy Lau and Mok Siu Chung as victims of circumstances. It is taut with toughness, depicting a society where one cannot succeed without being strong and beastly. DANGEROUS LIAISONS (Prince 2) AN enthralling tale of
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    • 498 22 Mel's climbed up from Down Under CLEVER guy, this Mel Gibson, with his clean-cut looks and cool manner. Sprung from the outback to Hollywood, he's the one that's done it the right way. First he built his image as a sexy beefcake with lethal charm, rippling muscle and burning blue
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    • 459 23  -  The Tiffany Party Neptune Theatre Restaurant 7 and 10 pm Yesterday By Adeline Woon s i HE can't vote, can't drive and can't drink. If she walks into Brannigan's they would ask to see her identification and then politely recommend a Coke. But at 17
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    • 120 23 LEGAL Exile was formed in June 1986. They were the champion of Rainbow Lounge's "Battle of the Bands". Just before they came together to form the band, all members, except David, were retrenched from their commercial jobs. The name reflects the fact that they were
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    • 165 23  -  08GENLAS1>flGHT By Geraldine Goh I WATCHED with admiration and respect Shahira Fawzy working alone in a desert in Shahira Unusual Lives (SBC 12). She sin-gle-handedly helped improve the lives of a group of Egyptian nomads. Raised in an upper middle»class Egyptian household in
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1330 26 RADIOGUIDE Hd,llddlLM'l|rTT—NOON News la Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Nam ia Brief aad Weather NOON Qeed Mask, Ceapany aad Ma: NOON Newsdesk "J* NOON Beaut Hal Mask: Instrumental A h^ P yOU J*!?,**!!! A 1.00 News aad Weather Retort and sentimental music is the 12.05 Yesterdays: Recapturing the fa- company
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  • SPORTS
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      241 27 Reuter. I CHINA clinched a place in the semi-finals of the inaugu- ral Sudirman Cup World Team Badminton Championships when it crushed Denmark 5-0 yesterday. It underlined its strength in depth by winning without world champions Yang Yang and Han Aiping. The pair were rested but Xiong Guobao
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    • 185 27 Reuter. BEN Johnson and other Canadian athletes went on a crash programme of banned substances last summer to build them up for the Seoul Olympics, his doctor told a government inquiry in Toronto yesterday. Dr Jamie Astaphan, in his second day of testimony about Canada's greatest
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    • 357 27 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA SMILE wound up his preparation for the Rothmans International 100 Triple Crown race on Sunday with a sparkling gallop at Kuala Lumpur this morning. With stablemate Starfire (Saifudin) for company, the Teh-trained pair matched strides over 600 m in 36.3 with little
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    • 382 28 AP, Reuter. ARSENAL faces a daunting task tomorrow in its bid to snatch the English League soccer title from defending champion Liverpool. Not only must Arsenal win its first game at Anfield in 15 years, but the Gunners have to triumph by at least two goals. And
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    • 240 28 EUROPE KICKOFF Reuter. GERMAN LEAGUE JUERGEN Wohlfarth's hat-trick secured a 3-1 win for League leader Bayern Munich in its long-awaited duel with second-placed Cologne yesterday. A crowd of 60,000, including West German President Richard von Weizsaecker, waited almost half-an-hour for the first strike. Bayern's Stefan Reuter
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    • 142 28 Reuter. DUTCH CUP PSV Eindhoven completed the Double when it beat FC Groningen 4-1 in the Cup final. Libero Ronald Koeman, playing his last match before his move to Barcelona, failed to shine. But Brazilian striker Romario made a strong impression at the end of his first season
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    • 123 28 Reuter. FRENCH CUP LEAGUE champion Marseille took a big step towards completing the Double yesterday. It beat Auxerre 2-0 in a Cup semi-final first-leg match. Goals from Jean-Pierre Papin 11 minutes after the start and from Philippe Vercruysse 11 minutes from the end gave the champion a well-deserved
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    • Article, Illustration
      328 28 Wire services. LIAM Brady is considering a $513,000 offer from Turkish champion Galatasaray. The 33-year-old midfielder's one-year contract with West Ham is due to end shortly. SECOND Division Portsmouth has completed the signing of Tottenham midfielder Shaun Murray for $342,000. LEEDS has signed Welsh international Mickey Thomas. The fee
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    • 358 29  -  By Shahiron Sahari THE Singapore athletes left for the Asean Schools Track and Field meet in the Philippines this morning, knowing that, if nothing else, they have each other. A good spirit has been forged after a fourday camp at Sembawang, and it will be needed
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    • 263 29  -  Stories/ Alfonso Chan PETER Hill will be paid for the time he spends playing in the East Asia and World Championship teams, but no one, least of all the Singapore Squash Rackets Association, wants to say how much. "We had a good meeting, there
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    • 342 29 HO Wing Leong has set his sights on being squash's next national champion, once he gets his school books out of the way. The secondary four student of Saint Joseph's Institution has not been playing much squash because he is preparing for his 0 levels this
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    • 454 29 Wire services. np RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON Sudirman Cup team championships: China 5 Denmark 0, South Korea 5 England 0, Japan 5 Soviet Union 0, West Germany 3 Poland 2, Scotland 4 Australia 1, Chinese Taipei 3 Hongkong 2, Thailand 3 Canada 2, Holland 3 Malaysia 2.
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    • 798 30  -  MALAYSIA 1 SINGAPORE 0 Jeffrey Low from Seoul EXPERIENCE told in the end as Malaysia again struggled to gain two more points in slumberland soccer at the Tongdemun Stadium in Seoul yesterday. All expectations of yet another fierce traditional fight came to nought largely because of cautious
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    • 297 31  -  SOUTH KOREA 9 NEPAL 0 Jeffrey Low from Seoul SOUTH Korea's mean attacking machine was merciless despite having a sort of training match against the innocent Nepalese in the second match yesterday. Worse still, the thrashing was meted out by a Korean side filled with reserves, who
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    • 232 31  -  By S Gulam TELOK Kurau United is the National Football League Division One champion. It scored a hard-fought 3-2 win over Kaki Bukit Sports Club on Wednesday and went beyond the reach of nearest challenger, Gibraltar Crescent. Telok Kurau has 22 points from 13 matches,
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