The New Paper, 28 December 1989

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  • 15 1 the new paper THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1989 MCI (P) 36/4/89 50 CENTS the new paper
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    • 87 1 Rom sexy to funny 4 v SBC actress Lin Guiye takes a break from her famous sexy roles. She becomes a comedienne in new TV serial. "For the first time, I don't have to act. I will be playing myself."/ Page 14 AUSSIE QUAKE W Several people trapped. Page 2
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 293 2 Reuter. A n earthquake hit the eastern Australian city of Newcastle this morning. One person was reported dead, 'several injured and dozens of buildings flattened. A number of people were trapped under debris. Newcastle, Australia's eighth largest city, is about 160 km north
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    • 267 2 THE number of tourists who have visited Singapore this year is expected to be 4.8 million. This is higher than the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board's earlier projection of 4.5 million, according to figures released yesterday. By October, the total number of tourists
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    • 195 2 AP. SIX suspected robbers shot and killed a police officer at a roadblock in Sabah. Two of them are Filipinos. The Filipinos and two others men arrested. Police Commissioner of Sabah, Syed Othman Syed said Lance Corporal Duman Kupok, 45, was killed on
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    • 312 2 AP. A RAPIST who called himself a vampire and drank a victim's blood is suspected to have killed at least six women in the US. Prosecutors are trying to build a murder case against him before he gets out of prison. "I don't feel comfortable with
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    • 103 2 AP. PRESIDENT George Bush is considering Defence Department proposal to launch "a virtual air and sea blockade" around Colombia to halt narcotic shipments by drug cartels. A senior administration of- ficial said the plan is being formulated in cooperation with the Colombian government. It is
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    • 429 3 Something else is about to stand up for Singapore a tower. It will be lit up in a grand launch party on New Year's Day. From then until August it will serve as the symbol and anchor for the nation's 25th birthday bash. LOIS NG reports
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    • 65 3 Launch: Jan 1,1990 Guost of honour The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Mr Goh Chok Tong Timo: 8 pm Vonuo: Orchard MRT Station Park Hoight: 20 m Platform diamotor: 10.67 m Cost: $450,000 Eloctricity to bo used on oponing night: Enough to light IV2 to
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 465 4  -  Policy affects students and immigrants By Lim Phay-ling Anyone who applies to study in Australia now has to take a compulsory Aids test. The new policy has been implemented by the Australian government worldwide. It staked on Dec 19. Immigrants have to take the Aids test
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    • 196 4 THOSE yellow cabs you always hear about in movies and on television have finally arrived in Singapore. Singapore Commuter has started painting all 700 of its red-and-white taxis a bright egg-yolk yellow. All will be converted over the next year, said Mr Lim Hung
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    • 179 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. accord: If people do something of their own accord, they do it freely, without being asked, persuaded or forced. bitchy: Describes a person who says nasty things about other
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 345 6  -  By Dominic Nathan o VER-THE-COUNTER baldness treatments could be I banned here if found to pose a health hazard. The Health Ministry will look into the matter because of an upcoming ban in the United States. A spokesman for the ministry said it will
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    • 200 6 SINGAPORE Airlines has extended the trial period for its telephone check-in service by another four months. The survey of the service, which started in October, was originally scheduled to end this month. But SIA has decided to extend it to the end of April next
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    • 237 6 IS that used car worth buying or about to fall apart? From to- day, vehicle inspection specialist Vicom will help answer that question. It is launching a new computerised evaluation service at its inspection centre in Sin Ming Drive this morning. It will
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    • 235 7 We would like them (foreigners with three-year work permits) to eventually become part of the permanent work force. A Ministry of Labour spokesman F OREIGNERS on three-year work permits now qualify for training grants from the Skills Development Fund. "We would like them to eventually
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    • 241 7  -  By Thusitha De Silva ONE of the two Singapore women killed in a road accident near Seremban on Tuesday did not regain consciousness. Ms Tan Bee Huay, 28, died at Seremban General Hospital the same day. The other victim, Ms Priscilla Tay Gek
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    • 434 8  -  By Brenton Wong SINGAPORE will make its debut at next month's Hongkong Fashion Week '90. Two companies from Singapore will take part in this show, one of the largest and most important fashion fairs in the Asia-Pacific region. It starts
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    • 378 9  -  By Charmaine Chan A CLERK managed to cheat a cleaner of $10,000 half his savings because her victim could not speak English and did not know how to read and write. Fauziah binti Kalok, 21, pretended she was helping the cleaner, Mr Chan Yew
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    • 258 9 GEYLANG has seen about 20 of its brothels closed down, Lianhe Wanbao reported yesterday. The newspaper said this was because the police anti-vice unit has stepped up its raids and because the brothels themselves were finding it hard to get prostitutes who
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 340 10 AP. FORMER Rumanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu died "riddled with bullets" because the soldiers picked for the firing squad reportedly "lost control". An account of Ceausescu's last moments was given yesterday by a man who claimed to have served on the secret tribunal that condemned the deposed
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    • 123 10 AFP. A VIDEO recording of the trial of ousted dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena was heavily edited before transmission on Rumanian TV yesterday. The edited footage appeared to represent a compromise version between military and civilian factions in the new leadership with
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    • 223 10 Wire services. RUMANIA is returning to "normal" with about 90 per cent of its industries starting to work again, said the country's new leader. Soviet television reported Mr lon Iliescu, President of the National Salvation Front Council, as saying that his interim government has also
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    • 275 10 Wire services. AS the diplomatic stalemate over General Antonio Noriega's fate continued in Panama, the US military announced yesterday that it had arrested most of members of his Defence Forces. Only a few hundred of the 15,000-strong Defence Forces remain unaccounted for, the military said.
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    • 269 11 Wire services. THAI Deputy Prime Minister Bhichai Rattakul has resigned. Mr Bhichai also tried to get his Democrat Party to leave the ruling coalition government. But this was rejected at a stormy party meeting yesterday, officials said. Mr Bhichai, 63, is one of three deputy
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    • 237 11 AP. THE mastermind behind some of the biggest marijuana smuggling from Southeast Asia to the United States has confessed to his crimes. Brian Peter Daniels, 43, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a Seattle district court to shipping nearly 200 tonnes of the
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    • 289 12 AP. EGYPT and Syria have agreed to restore diplomatic relations after a 12-year rift. Relations between the two countries were broken off after the then Egyptian President Anwar Sadat held his peace negotiations with Israel. To put the seal on this coming together again, a summit
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    • 168 12 Reuter. AN East German girl has appeared nude in Playboy the first to do so. MS Anja Kossak, East Germany's first "Playmate of the Month" said she prefers to have sex in a cornfield than in her country's cramped fibreglass Trabant cars. "Making love in
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      282 12 Wire services. SHARE prices showed strong gains on the London stock market yesterday after a four-day Christmas break. The Financial Times 30share index climbed 28.7 points to close at 1,896.9. Trading volume was an extremely light 223.3 million shares, down from 375.3 million shares on Friday, when the market
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    • 80 12 Reuter. TOKYO share prices rose to new highs when the stock market opened today. Brokers Expect investors to scoop up low-priced metal, chemical and other stocks as well as blue chips. The key 225-share Nikkei index climbed 55.11 points or 0.14 per cent to 38,856.74 in 10 minutes after
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Wed 1,896.90 (Closed) Dow Joins Avorago Wed 2,724.40 (2,709.26) ST Industrial Wed 1,483.40 (1,487.76) NST Industrial Wed 2,811.41 (2,822.10) Hongkong Hang Song Wed 2,929.25 (Closed) Australian All Ordlnarios Wed 1,651.40 (Closed) Nikkei Stock Avorago Wed 38,801.63 (38,681.31) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      273 12 Wire services. SHARE prices rose in quiet Wall Street trading yesterday. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, down 2.13 yesterday, gained 15.14 points to close at 2,724.4. Advancing issues outnumbered declines by about five to three on the New York Stock Exchange, with 931 up, 549 down
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  • UPDATE
    • 1146 13 Gallery r~yY YOUNG KOREANS This fr exhibition showcases 1 paintings by children from Korea. 9 am 9.30 pm. Ends Sunday. Ground floor, the exhibition gallery, The Empress Place. Free. Call 336-7633 ext 109 for more details. SINGAPORE SCENES. See the works of local artist Alan
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    • 15 13 GALLERY: YOUNG KOREANS FOOD: GOLDEN SEAL NIGHTLIGHTS: CHRISTMAS GLOW COMING UP: YISHUN CELEBRATES
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    • 75 13 A play based on a German classic written by Bertolt Brecht which in turn is based on Chinese legend. It is about a court case in which two women claim to be the rightful mother of a baby. An unusual test was set to determine the
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 73 13 On January 22,1990, The New Paper will present "The Modern Office", a special feature on office automation products, stationery, office furniture and furnishings. The New Paper, read by many office workers and with an average circulation of more than 50,000, is an effective way to showcase your products to your
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  • 443 14  -  Showtime By Lo Tien Yin s HE is saying bye-bye to plunging necklines, showers and kissing scenes ,at least for now. Comic relief from such breathlessness is on the way for SBC actress Lin Guiye. Guiye had often featured in steamy scenes and bitchy
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1843 15 GETSMARTII I THE T ATCHER |T LOOKER 12.00 PM Naws ia Malay 4.50 PM Programaie Suannary 3.00 PM Programme Highlights followed by A Dream of 5.55 PM Programme Highlights: followed by God Mars 7.30 PM Programme Highlights: followed by Tha 12 15 Karataa Akhhar NewsDaDer cliDDines 5.00 iaycao and tha
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      640 16 PIECING TOGETHER A At 7.11 pm on Dec 21 last year Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in the skies over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people and shattering the lives of their families and friends. Investigators have reconstructed the jumbo jet and found the chilling truth behind the incident
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    • 247 16 THE big piece in the Lockerbie puzzle was a little piece of plastic. It was a printed circuit board that fell from the shattered luggage pallet during the reassembly of the jumbo jet's fuselage. A Scottish policemen picked it up. It was sent to Britain's
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    • 1825 17 GETSMARTII THE T ATCHER t LOOKER 12.00 PM Hews la Malay 4.50 PM Prograaiaia Suaiaiary 3.00 PM ProgramaM HigMigbU followed by A Dream of 5.55 PM Programme Highlights: followed by God Mars 7.30 PM Programme Highlights: followed by The 12 15 Kerataa Akhhar NewsDaDer cliDDines 5.00 iaycaa aad the Wheal
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 104 19 A MOTHER S LOVE: EPISODE 34 A Mother's Lovt Today SBC i, 9.30 pm HERE is really the worst. During the struggle between Zhaohui and Xiaoliang, Yining is accidentally pushed off her wheelchair and her condition becomes worse. Her cousin, Ruiwen, stricken with remorse and grief, wants
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    • 147 19 TODAY’S PIN-UP THE Miss Singapore Universe pageant has been an eye-opener for May Chew. "Beauty contests look glamorous from the outside, but it is a lot of hard work," said the contest newcomer. She has also had to deal with the attention that comes with being
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    • 509 19  -  My Country, My Singapore Dec 31 Singapore Indoor Stadium Live en SBC 5,10.45 pin By Lo Tien Yin CHRISTINA Ong belting out Madonna's number, Like A Prayer. And Lee Ee Wurn singing You Drive Me Crazy with a vengeance. If you cannot imagine that, you
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    • 291 20 p k OP stars such as Michael 112 Jackson, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston and Robert Palmer have all lent their names to boost sales of soft drinks. Now Malaysia's singing sensation, Sudirman, has jumped on the bandwagon. But he is not content to just
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    • 356 20  -  Tarzan Raja Rimba Showing at Raja Cinema REVIEW/ By Wong Sing Yeong DID she or did she not strip? That is the question everyone is asking about Malaysian actress Ziela Jalil in the Malay movie, Tarzan Raja Rimba. You won't get the answer at
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    • 211 19 PICK THE MISS SINGAPORE-UNIVERSE WIN THIS NIKON BEAUTY AN ELEGANT CARVEN TIMEPIECE.^ The finalists of The Miss Sinaapore-Universe 1990 will be featured in our pin-up page from December 21,1969 to January 9,1990. A full line-up will appear on January 11,1990. All you need to do is to oicfc the contestant
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 835 21 THURSDAYRADIO I COMICRELIEF E2S3MSMM Curry-Puff/Raymond Lee NOON News la BrM (Programmes in Mandarin) 12.95 I aathdrte A musical election *00* Maatlfal Masic: Instrumental for your listening pleasure. numbers featured for your f. HI I ~v asirrr M Or fni 2.M Nam la BrM (Programmes in English) P 1 Jf Jv
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 821 22 COMICRELIEF THURSDAYRADIO Orchard Road/coim Goh I; 1 mm r—- f NOON Coed Music, Company and Me: NOON Newsdesk THIS IS IT-OPBJIKI6 ITi AH MAS SIN6IN6 I HE Noon-time musical entertain- 12.30 Off tho Shotf NKWT«ftfTfMHIS, M ACTOR WHO MIS w m SfIOVJE* 3UST ■I Ht CAN t)0 HIS PART 411
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 376 25 I BK 831 Employment 831 Employment 831 Employment TRUCK J jf.*.j| MECHANICS ■r~"~tfHHHfro' *NTC3mMVMorHDDM 2 3 years'relevant experience Suitable candidates may be considered for training in Japan ■MmFORKLIFT J 'ir*-)l MECHANICS ,r NTC 3 in MVM or HDDM ,B *2-3 years' relevant experience Those with Class 3 licence may be
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    • 235 25 S3l Employment I HESHE Immediate employment BOUTIQUE ASSISTANTS Pleasant a outgoing personality Have com* sales experience Gross salary $560 $700 p.m. depending on experience Pleaae apply personally on mtum. tpm la opm ai wlia SooMe Shopping Centre #01-17/1* Bcotta Shopping Cwitn Singapore 0023 Pleaae bring along photograph and Identity card.
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    • 231 25 831 Employment An sotsblishsd Elscifkiil Contftd* PROJECT aUPERVMOR Mala/ female a Diploma In Electrical Engineering Fresh graduates or 1 to 2 years relevant experience Interested applicants, pleaae write In to: The Advartleer Mk aooi, Badak M. Parti C #04-2282, Badak Raaarvair Rd. lioQspoft 1447 Students above 16 years i old
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    • 269 25 aae' M I w ai—a opl Ni tmptoymtni MARINA CENTRE HOLDINGS PTE LTD #01-400 Marina Square 0 RaMss BrtWi Singapore 0103 Tafc S30-07S7 has vacancies for CLERK TYPISTS e OCE O* or'N 1 level, e IS to V years old. e Minimum 1 year working experience. e Typing 36 to
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    • 253 25 831 Employment toe In Itafipifv urgently fi^ukw srn mmvuoiw Have relevant technical experience i Able to read architectural plan Have clan 3 driving licence Willing to work hard Those Interested please write In with full particulars to: NOJ JALAM JSMTSRA MNOANM HS1 DYNAMIC IAL1I CO-OMMNATON I II you have basic
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    • 283 26 881 Employment 881 Employment i An sstaMahed manufacturing organisation t I invites applications for the position of: f SALES EXECUTIVE i (Male or Female) i f Diploma in Engineering or 'A' level Certificate i Preferably with 2 or 3 years' selling experience f I Possess own transport. f i For
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  • TRAVELNOTES
    • 295 27  -  Q yj'poreans want to know much more about a country. They ask for 100 per cent or even more. —Ms Chua Swee CHoo.a tour manager with Reliance Travel. By Thusitha De Silva T I HE fussy Singapore traveller demands more from a package tour than
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    • 80 27  -  By David Brazil A YEAR-LONG carnival is promised for every part of Malaysia during 1990. A grand reception in KL's Merdeka Square on the evening of Dec 31 kicks the whole thing off, but there is just too much going on to list it all. Far
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    • 145 27 What is possibly the biggest travel bargain on the local market continues into the New Year. Sri Lanka for 4D at $599 all-in the standard return air ticket to Colombo alone costs $700. The reason for the offer is obvious. Political turmoil and violence on the island
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    • 98 27 It's a striking holiday image. The "wild frontier cowboy" village of Darra in northern Pakistan, is close to the border with Afghanistan. The village where, it is said, almost every home is a "gun factory", and where every "able-bodied male" carries a gun. A visit to Darra
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    • 304 27 Try Sibu for size and for peace SUN-LOVERS, here is another Malaysian getaway to add to your list Pulau Sibu Besar, off the east coast. This small island, six km long and just one km wide, has three sandy beaches, lush tropical vegetation and a few hills. Laze on the
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  • SPORTS
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      179 28 AFP. BRIAN Clough, one of the longest serving bosses in English football, clocks up his 1,000th League game as a manager on Saturday when Nottingham Forest's plays at Tottenham. Clough has been in charge of one club longer than anyone currently working in the League. He is also the
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    • 279 28 AFP, Reuter. RUUD Gullit, plagued by injury over the past 15 months, has set himself an April comeback target. The Dutch international returned to Milan yesterday from Belgium. He had undergone a third operation in eight months on his right knee there on Dec
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    • 187 28 AFP. JOHN Toshack, manager of Spanish champions Real Madrid, wants to sell off two of the club's current foreign stars as he plans for next season. Even though his own future at Real appears in doubt after premature elimination from the European Cup,
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    • Article, Illustration
      313 28 Wire services. AMERICAN sprinting star Carl Lewis and East German 400 m ace Marita Koch have been named as the athletes of the decade by British magazine Athletics Today. Lewis, winner of four gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics and two in the Seoul Games, collected 26 per
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    • 84 28 Wire services. Results of yesterday's HOCKEY uiUSSiS international sports: Asia Cup Men'g champion- Malaysia 1 Laos 1, Thailand 0 irr unrKFV ship in New Delhi 3 r <* place Spore 0. ICEHUCIItT playoff: S Korea 1 Japan 0. 7th ■TENNIS World Junior Champion- D i ace nlavnff- Mnlnvsio s
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    • 665 29 Sixteen days to go before the kickoff to the new Premier League soccer competition and our Primer on the League hopefuls continues. Today, the spotlight falls on fledglings Tyrwhitt Soccerites. From champions of Division Two in 1987 to champions of Division One last year. Then,
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    • Article, Illustration
      443 30 National coach Jita Singh is looking ahead to next year's Malaysia Cup. He wants to bring back all Singaporeans based in Malaysia. He wants Finn Sixten Bostrom. His proposals are with the FAS. S GULAM reports IF Jita Singh has his way, Singapore will have its strongest Malaysia
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    • 138 30 RACING with DENNIS CHIAI FORMER Singapore trainer William Chua has engaged Leslie Khoo as his second jockey for his string of horses at Macau. Chua, 40, will use the former local champion jockey for all his lightweighted horses in all races. New Zealander Bobby
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    • 141 30 WILDSNAP, a runaway winner last week, has improved further and looks too good for his present class. He wound up his preparation for Saturday's race at Penang with a sizzling gallop on a good track this morning. With Yeap up, Wildsnap trotted round and breezed over 600 m
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  • Article, Illustration
    69 31 JITA SAYS: National coach Jita Singh has a master plan to revitalise the Singapore team for next year's Malaysia Cup. He has proposed the recall of several former members of the team, including those based in Malaysia. On his wanted list are Fandi Ahmad, Malek Awab, V
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  • Article, Illustration
    39 31 Ruud Gullit has set himself an April comeback target. The Dutch international, who underwent a third operation on his right knee on Dec 1, is aiming to return in the European Champions Cup semi-finals Gullit: Recovering well
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