The New Paper, 17 May 1990

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    15 1 the new paper THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1990 MCI (P) 75/4/90 50 CENTS the new paper
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      148 1 cracr S SQUAD FORMED ■MM Q K P I I Almost 4,000 employers have been late in paying Central Provident Fund contributions this year. Most come from financial, manufacturing and business services. The number of cases has risen 10 per cent from last year. How can you tell if your
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      59 1 Mini-casino for your home m Mnlllll *I83E .|J!WH Put your money on, roll out the die...it's casino time in your own living room. HongkongBank is offering its credit card members, through mail order, casino games like roulette, blackjack and bingo. There's even a piggy bank that looks like a mini
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      4,000 employers late with CPF payments
      457 2 The CPF board tightened its rules in 1985 after two firms failed to pay CPF contributions for some 300 employees. Now it sends out twice-yearly statements to employees, who can also check over the phone using the computerised CPF Pal system. IRENE HOE reports
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      Call PAL, check on your boss
      91 2 732-9944 IS YOUR boss among the 3,900 who have been holding back CPF contributions? Here is an easy way you can tell. Call CPF Pal, the CPF*» automatic information service, on ~:{'2-9944 and find out. To check the total amount in your CPF account,
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      Lock icon 2 accords likely
      193 2 SINGAPORE and Turkey are likely to sign two economic agreements in future. The agreements, proposed by Turkey, will concern double taxation and foreign investment guarantees. This was revealed by Singapore's Foreign Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng in Ankara yesterday. Mr Wong was talking to Singapore reporters after
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      Cars: Carry on counting
      497 3 The dollars and sense of car ownership changed when the vehicle quota system was started on May 1. Last week, the Government announced more changes this time to the additional registration fee (ARF) and preferential additional registration fee (PARF). LENA SENAN tracks the rising cost of
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      RISING COST OF OWNING A MITSUBISHI GALANT 16OO
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      BUYING A NEW CAR
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      June 1: When you can recharge old cars
      313 3 THOSE who want to keep their old vehicles on the road for another 10 years can "recharge" their cars from June 1. All you need to do is pay the current quota premium to get certificates of entitlement from the Registry of
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      43 2 Hotuneplus IF you want to share a point of view, call our HotlinePlus on 734-7711, or write to: The Editor, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Rd, S pore 0923. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. JilMl] jJLUii SI® 734-7711
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      77 3 How do we spot 'hidden' salt? Often, salt is masked by other flavours We need to spot 'hidden' salt so that we can avoid it. Most preserved or processed food contains salt. Food such as barbecued meat, luncheon meat, sausages, smoked fish, pickles, cheese, seasoning, j ham, bacon, tomato and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Crack squad for Prisons Dept
      434 4  -  By Suresh Nair T HE Prisons Department has set up an elite unit called Spear aimed at controlling unrest in its 17 prisons and drug rehabilitation centres. The Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response will be a "special force of highly trained, able and outstanding officers",
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      DSP Lee 'thrilled' to lead Spear
      227 4 NEWLY-APPOINTED Spear chief Lee Kok Leong considers his posting a chance to start "a second career". He is "thrilled" because the Prisons Department offer came after his highly successful 11-month stint overseas. He was head of Singapore's United Nations police contingent in Namibia in
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      GLOSSARY
      149 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. anxious: Someone who is anxious is nervous or worried about something. loony: Loony behaviour or ideas seem mad, strange, or eccentric. martyred: If someone is martyred they are killed
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      141 4 l A New Paper Exclusive "j j i '77f/i May '90 THIS VOUCHER ENTITLES YOU TO ONE SILVER BONUS COUPON. Collect one whole week's set of vouchers (Monday Saturday) and redeem for I double the number of coupons. I I Vouchers redeemable at: j 277 Orchard Road, #01-41 Specialists' Centre
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      22 4 We have admin/defied jobs, sales/service jobs and other kinds of jobs for your consideration. n i #asids The Employment I Classified Section
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      71 5 lev i s < 7^^i2ylSßp--'A^Br^|^jM^Pj|B(jMj^B&^M^^BMM^g^B^K^^^MKp^u^^»fe^ 503. One of the Red Tabs. Mega denim. Tough. Heavy Duty. Fits like no other jeans can. m I LEVI'S BOUTIQUE #B1 -64 Wisma Atria #01 -09 Shaw Leisure Gallery #01 -24 Forum Galleria #01 -41 Parkway Parade Also available at: Daimaru, Metro Stores, OG
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Fame beckons for some slick chicks
      396 6  -  By Vivien Chiong IS there a fowl friend among your flock that will not chicken out when fame beckons? If so, you may have a circus star on your hands. Master clown Andrei Nikolaiev (more commonly known as Nico) from the Moscow State Circus
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      THE CLOWN PROFESSOR
      160 6 NICO is actually a college professor. He spends six months a year travelling with the circus. "My profession has nothing to do with clowning. I teach theatre arts and theatre production." Nico does not fall over his oversized shoes or make funny faces. Instead, he rides a
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      324 6 The New Paper II LEONARD 1 GENEVE "finer-things-in-life-quiz" Solve Our Crossword Win An Attractive LEONARD Timepiece HRBv" I 1 j Today's Topic: J Exotic Cars i i I 4 H I I 2] I I—l I I I I I 3] I I I I I I 1 [5 I
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  • Article
    Cardmembers get casino games offer
    435 8 A bank's big gamble is paying off. Its mail offer of casino games is being taken up with gusto, reports NG WAN CHING H ONGKONGBANK is making an unusual mail order offer to its Visa and Mastercard holders mini casino games. i 1 A il
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    Exec plans night of fun
    228 8 AN executive in his 30s, ordered the complete set of four games offered in the Hongkong Bank brochure. He said he bought it because it was a novelty and convenient. He did not want his name revealed. "I'm looking forward to receiving the sets. I'm
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    BANK GUIDELINES
    67 8 MR David Lim, Hongkongßank's manager of retail marketing, said the bank follows guidelines in endorsing mail order products. These include a ban on goods which are harmful to the environment or dangerous items such as guns and knives, even if thi latter are collectors' items. "It's the bank's
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    Possession not illegal
    109 8 IT is not against the law to possess items like the roulette, blackjack and bingo sets and the Bonanza Bank, said the Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mr Law Ah Kaw. He is the officer-in-charge of the Gambling Suppression Branch. He said: "We are only concerned about
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      197 8 Let Diners show you a Real Asian Holiday 1 I I I CHOICE OF RESORTS from $58 a day only! THAILAND MALAYSIA 3 Days Hatyai/Songkhla Tour 2 Days Desaru 5 Days Ko Samui Adventure 3 Days Tioman 4 Days Phi Phi Island/Phuket 3 Days Kuantan Retreat Combination 4/5 Days Phuket
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      28 8 cold, get f-ebs Cold Relief Tablets Because F-ebs with Vitamin C is specially formulated to effectively relieve the d'.comforts of coldlike a blocked nose. Another international product from
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    Upgrade, 2DPM tells engineers
    397 9 THE Government has done its part to help increase the number of engineering graduates in Singapore. But there is a need for the continuing education of professionals as well. This could be looked into by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (lES), says Mr Ong Teng Cheong.
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    Tickets for tattoo on sale today
    171 9 A MASS band display by army bands from the Asean countries will be one of the highlights of the military tattoo organised by the Singapore Armed Forces in June. The three-day tattoo is part of the celebrations for the SAF's 25th anniversary this year.
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      167 9 aVRK. IST DRAW RESULTS Look who won a cool holiday of their choice on Pepsi! YEOMOYKIA (*****29 C) SERENE SIN PUI FUN (*****24 A) GOH TAN GHAUT (*****00 B) LEONG CHEUN KIT (*****70 Z) PATRICIA LIM P H (*****51 H) QIN TIAN CHANG (*****81 J) iffllTlf!f NEO SOCK LAY (*****08
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Park killers wanted to rob couple
      328 11  -  By SURESH NAIR TWO men who stabbed a couple at East Coast Park last night are believed to be foreigners. Police sources said they had intended to rob the couple. But they fled with nothing. Victim James Soh Fook Leong told his family that
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      We are international
      380 12 Last Sunday, Dr Tay Eng Soon, the Senior Minister of State for Education, described National Junior College as a "mini-Singapore" with students from thevarious races and backgrounds mixing well together. It could be an example to Singapore. GRISELDA LOO visits the college and talks to 10 students
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      WHAT DR TAY SAID AT NJC
      171 12 "UNLIKE some other JCs which tend to draw their students from certain types of schools, NJC is quite catholic in its ability to attract students of all races from most of our secondary schools. In this sense, NJC is like miniSingapore. Students from all
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      Celebration time for all festivals
      410 12 FORMER NJC STUDENT TRUDY LIM TELLS OF HER EXPERIENCES THE mooncake festival was just an excuse to eat, until I entered National Junior College in 1980. Then, it became a challenge. Every class would get together to shape wire into attractive shapes, and glue slippery
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      213 11 SING CELEBRATE WITH SINGAPORE In conjunction with Singapore's 25th Contestants Stand to win Anniversary Celebrations, The New Paper by courtesy of ATWA: and the Community Chest of Singapore have come together to sponsor th S Ist Prize nationwide English Karaoke dinging j $1000 cash Contest. Preliminaries 26 and 27 May
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      292 13 SET THE PACE WITH TEAM ESSO.,-AND WIN! Si? &S v A ii -_nt—.——__—2T Power The premium (TC)grade 4T Motorcycle Oil The 4T Power The super premium N Exxon Special Exxon Gear Oil The high Exxon Special motorcycle oil tor 2-stroke economical solution to high (SG) grade motorcycle oil tor Kettenschutz
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Tough law, culture deter rape
      595 14 A survey of American college students has revealed shocking facts three out of five admitted that they are likely to commit rape. Animal behaviour expert, Dr Mike Baxter, also found a link between rape and pornography. While pornography is easily available in the US, it
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      Is it Temasek or Raffles?
      271 14 WHICH sign to believe? The faded white letters beside the gate says "RAF LES INSTITUTION". But a brand new placard mounted on a post next to it reads "Temasek Polytechnic". The letter F may have fallen off the gatepost at this Grange Road school. But
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon US believes Gorby is in firm control
      329 15 Reuter. T! HE United States believes Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is in firm control in Moscow. This is despite the unrest in the Baltic republics that President George Bush says clouds a superpower summit opening in Washington in two weeks. "Gorbachev is in
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      Lock icon LITHUANIA WILL MAKE NEW OFFER TO GORBACHEV
      142 15 Reuter. LITHUANIAN Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene hopes to present Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with a new offer of independence talks tomorrow when she Hies to Moscow. A Lithuanian deputy, Mr Aloyzas Sakalas, said in Vilnius yesterday that the rebel Baltic republic's Parliament had
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      No formal word on inspecting bases: Mahathir
      239 15 THE Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, has said Kuala Lumpur has not received any official proposal from Singapore for joint inspection of military bases in both countries. He said that since the recent proposal by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is yet
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      Lock icon Third Thai worker dies in Malaysia
      180 15 Wire services. A THIRD Thai worker has died in Malaysia under mysterious circumstances. Somdoon Chaikoti, 40, who worked at a sugar cane plantation near Alor Star, 320 km northwest of Kuala Lumpur, died on Monday, health officials said yesterday. They said Somdoon came from
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      Lock icon Husband loses his shirt
      153 15 Reuter. YOU would have heard of irate husbands blowing their top off. But a Colombian man, infuriated that his wife hadn't washed his shirt, tried to blow up his house with his wife in it, a newspaper said on Wednesday. Luis Alfonso Borda was furious on
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      Lock icon Panic over British beef
      568 16 AP. B f RITAIN is gripped by fears about the spread of "mad cow disease". At least 13,000 cattle now have bovine spongiform en- cephalopathy, or BSE, a mysterious disease which affects a cow's brain and central nervous system. Some experts fear the disease can spread
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      Lock icon US cities to get $2 b Aids grants
      154 16 Reuter THE US Senate voted 95-4 yesterday to authorise up to $2.2 billion over the next two years to provide emergency relief in major cities for the Aids epidemic. The money would provide grants to cities with 2,000 or more diagnosed cases
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      Lock icon Moscow suspends troop pull-out
      201 16 AFP. THE Soviet Union has suspended unilateral troop withdrawals from East Germany. This was stated by a West German Defence Ministry spokesman in Bonn yesterday. Western military sources in West Berlin confirmed that all the indications were that the withdrawal of two armoured divisions planned for
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      Lock icon Nepal Minister confined to office for 7 hours
      129 16 AFP. MOKE than 700 provident fund employees prevented Nepal's Finance Minister and other senior officials from leaving their offices in Kathmandu for seven hours on Tuesday. Ministry sources said yesterday the employees struck work on Monday, alleging that provident fund directors had
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      Lock icon Bush: We don't need Philippines
      372 17 Wire services. THE US does not need Philippine bases to protect its security interests in the Pacific, US President George Bush said yesterday. He said he was studying alternative locations for US bases in case negotiations on the extension of lease fail. ''There are other
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  • STOCKS
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      Lock icon New York
      275 17 Wire services. WALL Street investors took a breather yesterday, but only after threatening to send the Dow Jones industrial average to its third straight record-breaking close. Prices opened higher, but then spent most of the day in the minus columns before rallying again. Late selling, however, brought the
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      Lock icon TOKYO
      74 17 Reuter. SHARE prices opened slightly higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange this morning as an absence of new market factors made for featureless trade. The yen was stable, maintaining recent gains against the US dollar, leading brokers to believe stocks would also continue to rest on recent advances. The
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      Indices/Closing
      51 17 FT Industrials Wed 1,739.80 (1,731.60) Dow Jones Average Wed 2,819.68 (2,822.45) ST Industrial Wed 1,524.35 (1,530.86) NST Industrial Wed 2,976.67 (2,977.61) Hongkong Hang Seng Wed 2,948.89 (2,965.09) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,494.50 (1,508.50) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 31,967.62 (31,997.04) Figure* in brackets refer tit those of the previous trading
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      Lock icon LONDON
      266 17 Wire services. SHARES ended higher but off their best of the day on the London stock market yesterday. An early boost on takeover hopes ran into resistance, and the market receded following a lacklustre opening on Wall Street. The Financial Times 30share index finished up 8.2 points at 1,739.8.
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      Lock icon Batam by night
      645 18 ON a clear night in Batam you can see the lights of Singapore flickering in the distance. It's a pity, therefore, that Singaporeans cannot see the lights of Batam. It is a pity because Batam Island truly has a nightlife that is as dazzling and exciting as
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      WHERE TO STAY
      265 18 BATAM Island, just a halfhour away by ferry from Finger Pier, is fast becoming a favourite getaway for Singaporeans eager for sun, surf, seafood and, maybe, a sauna. Once there, they seem to head for the island's main hotel the Batam View Beach Resort. The resort is
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      Great seafood, cheap
      323 18 THE chilly crabs came in a sea of thick gravy. And the peppered variety, when dipped into sambal belachan, brought tears to the eyes. The king prawns, steamed or stir-fried in soy sauce, were as fresh as the evening's catch. And the cuttlefish, fried in butter, were
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      155 19 Now CD quality goes on the move like never before, Technics SL-XP2 Portable CD Player 4 AW Technics SL-XP2. Poised to be the standard by which other portable CI) players will be judged. Hear it for yourself today. Outstanding features: Super-Lightweight A mere 360 gins (including batteries) in a new
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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      877 19 Wtißm Tim Pearson (C Tim Howell, left) in an escapade following I*4 jj B Blk Yjr s ßk jM the senior prom, drives his father's Cadillac into the stream li yjßk fljß Wk jflplß9&lP and hikes Cody Speedrome for a tow. There he meets Michele kv i "Mike" Cody (Jamie
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    Blood and horror win the match
    273 20  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Wong Sing Yeong LET'S assume you have five TV sets in your sitting room and you turned them on at the same time. Which show is most likely to grab your attention? I tried that out last night in my company's audio-video
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      84 20 I M P H A member of the Jack Chia-MPH Group Gre\TWVS 1 You can now also redeem your New Paper-Ken Air Holiday Bonus Vouchers at all MPH Bookstores. -A Ken Air Outlets 7 MPH Bookstores fPVWJI 277-Orchard Road #01-41, Specialist's Centre a MPH Shaw Leisure Gallery H|T9| WWM 35-Selegie
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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      175 20 THE HOGAN jjjjjjj mm WMffiflM i M BY MY SIDE V^W DAD'S FIRST DATE (SBC 5, 7.00pm) SPORTS CENTRE THE Hogan family, con- Duncan), Michael's younger /GRr ft MQtinm) sisting of 17-year-old David sister, newly divorced, has 0 1 f ,iT /.«r»p ('Jason Hateman), 15-year- come to start a new
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  • UPDATE
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      YOUR GUIDE TO TODAY'S ACTION
      1534 21 RIAjS GERMAN FILMS. Francesca, at 7 pm, is about a nun involved with the Mafia. The Little Attorney, at 9 pm, is about the struggle of a lawyer to put a man behind bars. The plot is complicated by an ambitious female commissioner. Goethe-Institut. Free.
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      DON'T MISS:
      17 21 OUT AND ABOUT: JEWELLERY EXHIBITIONS: TREASURES OF HAN FOOD: INTERNATIONAL BUFFET COMING UP: FRESH WORKS
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      PRABHAKARA AT THE ORIENTAL
      56 21 T pm. Atrium Gallery, fourth floor, The Oriental. Until May 31. his is the Sanskrit name of Jimmy Quek. This is his third solo exhibition. In The Spirit of Nature he experiments with shades of light and colour to create a dream-like quality. Forty paintings will
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  • Showtime
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      LIFE LIKE
      583 22 A body washes ashore somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Shocked, a Chinese woman (played by Joan Chen) shuts down her sawmill: "Push the plug!" she orders. And her English is not the only thing that's twisted in the tale of Twin Peaks. PAUL ZACH takes a peek at
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      Smoke, not fire, on China wall
      303 23  -  Fire on the Great Wall Coming to Cathay cinemas PREVIEW/ By Wong Sing Yeong Wong Sing Yeong t i HIS China-Hongkong film is a throwback to the gongfu films of the early 70s. It even tries to resurrect tne myth of Bruce Lee by
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      One in 12 Americans watching Twin Peaks
      201 23 I LIFE LIKE NEITHER television critics nor viewers have quite figured out what Twin Peaks is all about. Perhaps, that's why they keep coming back for more each week in ever increasing numbers. One in 12 Americans now tunes in every week, even
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      Group to hold auditions for two plays
      170 23 HERE's your chance tc go on stage. TheatreWorks will hold auditions for two Singapore plays which are part of the season of local plays called Retrospective: A Festival of Singapore Plays 1960-1990. The festival is to celebrate this 25th anniversary year. Auditions will
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      Lively debate on the radio
      507 24  -  By Wong Sing Yeong y OU have seen them on television, some thrashing out their opinions like demogogues, while others timidly put in a word or two. TV forums such as Points of View and Contact-Y are usually rather formal affairs. With a million eyes
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      Lock icon Lambada — with two left feet
      185 24 Lambada with two left feet USA Today. The Forbidden Dance Next change at Orchard THE Forbidden Dance is the second of the lambada movies to grind its way into Singapore and it certainly manages to find the "bad" in lambada. Rate it only one out of four stars. The film
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      113 23 TIMES Learners' Thesaurus The Timet Learners' Thesaurus has been specially written to assist young English Language learners develop their writing skills and expand their vocabulary of English words and phrases. The thesaurus contains over 940 word-groups, each consisting of words and phrases with closely related meanings. It explains the meaning
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      38 24 A story you'll read again and again uggzKAMPUNG CHICKEN Vi $6.50 The archetypal Singapore novel Business Times An impressive command of the language The Sfraits Times Fight scenes charged with drama, extremely visual qq Magazine Times Publishing Group
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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      475 25 THURSDAYRADIO euhku iseh NOON News In Brief NOON News In Brief 12.05 Lunchdate 12.03 Popular Classics 1.00 News and Weather Report 1.00 News and Waather Forecast 1.15 Lunchdate (cont'd) 1.10 Currency Exchange Rates 2.00 News In Brief 1.15 Popular Classics (cont'd) 2.05 Words And Music (cont'd) 1.45 Midday Market Report
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      199 25 COMICRELEF Curry-Puff/Raymond Lee A k f\M. IVs "Durban a ¥^4, <fC\ %v Augusta /Dominic Poelsma Angus McGill ~~Tw&7\ A 6^ i OMCP \re. I/vU/K IT UP/ p George the Robot/Stephen Stanley Duffy /Bruce Hammond r gov, mi«s* handwriting is bap) can \T ft 'Iff wiawrl SOL) hV\KS OUT U3WT j|
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      672 26 COMICRELIEF THURSDAYRADIO Orchard Road/coim Goh jilli NOON Good Music, Company And Me NOON Newsdesk ti 12.1S Sentimental Journey 12.30 Off The Shelf EH.ftAVI MOvO'S QOllETeftOK, Ia)HO tORS OHiHIWL. 12.30 Keeping Track: Jason Donovan, 12.45 Andy Kershaw's World Of Music VOURJO&IN LAH.. BOTVOO *r\ THftT 01A5KED HE'S THE A Neighbourly Kinda
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  • TRAVELNOTES
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      Genting facelift
      212 27  -  Stories/ David Brazil SPURRED on by Desaru's major expansion plans, Genting Highlands is embarking upon a five-year, $315 million facelift to boost its claim as the "region's premier fully-inte-grated holiday resort". The project will be carried out in three stages. Phase One will see some $6 million spent
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      COMPASSPOINTS
      331 27 STAND ON THE EQUATOR THAT'S what you can do at the Equator Monument in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, thus having one foot in the southern half of the world and the other in the north! It's a highlight of an unusual 61) tour for $575 organised by Satrya Travel. This
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      244 31  -  By Bernard Pereira T HE Singapore-Denmark badminton exchange programme will take off next month. Four top Danish juniors will arrive in Singapore on June 22. They will play a few matches against selected Singapore squads as well as a team from Malaysia's Project 88-90 squad from
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      266 31 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: SOCCER UEFA Cup final 2nd leg: Juventus 0 Fiorentina 0 (Juventus win 3-1 on agg). Div Two England: Newcastle United 0 Sunderland 2,(Sunderland 2-0 on agg), Swindon Town 2 Blackburn I,(Swindon 4-2 on agg). Div Three: Notts County 2 Bolton 0 (Notts
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      149 31  -  REFEREES'CONTROVERSY. By S Gulam V N Samy, one of the four referees whose complaints set off the probe into the Referees Committee, is still an unhappy man. The Board of Inquiry virtually agreed with all his complaints and the Football Association of Singapore has said
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      329 32 May 26 Division Four: Cambridge v Chesterfield. May 27 Division Three: Notts County v Tranmere. May 28 Division Two: Sunderland v Swindon. AFP. SEVERAL fans and two policemen were hurt after a pitch invasion at Newcastle yesterday. It came before the end of
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      339 32 Reuter. UEFA CUP FINAL 2nd LEG: Fiorentina 0 Juventus 0 JUVENTUS won the Uefa Cup yesterday on a 3-1 aggregate despite being reduced to 10 men in a very physical match. Juventus faced a fierce second-half onslaught from its compatriot after Pasquale Bruno, who was booked in
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      161 32 WORLD CUP WARM-UP: REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 1 FINLAND 1 Reuter. THE Republic of Ireland kept its fouryear unbeaten home run intact yesterday. It drew 1-1 with Finland in a match that also marked Liam Brady's final international appearance. Finnish substitute Vesa Tauriainen stunned the home
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      HOW THEY LINE UP
      629 33 9 Previously with Bristol Rovers. Moved for a British record fee for a goalkeeper to Palace. A solidly built player at 1.78 metres. A rising young talent whose confident display has boosted the Palace defence. Previously with Wimbledon and Newcastle. A strong, uncompromising defender who is
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      414 34 AFP. FA CUP FINAL REPLAY: LIVE ON SBC 5 (2.30 am, tomorrow) MANCHESTER United's own "Supersub" Mark Robins has dared lan Wright to repeat his performance in the FA Cup Final replay at Wembley today (2.30 am tomorrow, Singapore time). In last Saturday's exciting 3-3
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      223 34 AFP, Reuter. CRYSTAL Palace manager Steve Coppell is hoping to prove an old theory wrong when his side takes on Manchester United. "Everyone keeps telling me favourites always come through given a second chance," explained Coppell. "Recent history at Wembley proves that. We'll see." Coppell was
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      351 35 Egypt serves warning to England, Holland AFP. EGYPT destroyed Scotland's credibility as a serious challenger in Italy last night with a 3-1 win in Aberdeen. Egypt, drawn in the same group as England, Holland and the Republic of Ireland, stunned Scotland with two goals in the opening 28 minutes.
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      247 35 'Defensive mistakes' lead to Soviet defeat Reuter. THE Soviet Union suffered a surprise 3-2 defeat against Israel in Tel Aviv yesterday. The Soviet Union twice came from behind in the first half before Tal Banim, making his international debut, got Israel's winner in the second half. The Soviets suffered another
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    182 35 AFP DAVID Seaman became the world's most expensive goalkeeper yesterday. He moved across London, from Queens Park Rangers to Arsenal, in a £I..'{million ($H.96m) deal. Seaman, 26, who has played three times for England, almost made the move in March but the deal broke down at
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