The New Paper, 11 April 1991

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    16 1 the new paper THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1991 MCI (P) 75/4/90 50 CENTS the ±y new paper
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      61 1 About 15 shoplifting cases are heard each day in court now. The shop cheats look like ordinary people including housewives and teenagers but their methods are somewhat extraordinary. Court reporter ANGEUNE SONG describes their tricks: FAIR EXCHANGE THE GUNNY SACK. TWO BAGS AND A BABY THE UNDER UNDERWEAR WRAPPED UP
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      100 1 \jjp j p >—■* "*^^l WHAT A H |Pj® II (i. |4f 111 InF If J jfl 111 J-1 ffl Ira Jfl[ v 1M wjti ii^hj $2,000 a month and the company car. That is what boss Mr Ng Ciok Soon, 52, (above) gives to the family of his operations
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Father’s gone, boss still helps
      380 2  -  By Chua Bee Hua THE family of an operations manager is continuing to draw his $2,000 monthly salary even though he is dead. It is a gesture of good will from his former boss, Mr Ng Ciok Soon, 52. Mr Francis Ke died on March
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      A BOSS WITH A HEART
      283 2 ONCE Mr Ng Ciok Soon flew the son of a quartermaster to Singapore from Indonesia just to have the boy's broken leg treated at Mount Elizabeth Hospital. On another occasion, Mr Ng helped the coffee-lady at his office make a downpayment for a new flat
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      Lock icon WHERE TO EAT NOW?
      493 3 2 POPULAR FOOD HAUNTS TO CLOSE Like Rasa Singapura and the old Orchard carpark, Whitley Hawker Centre and Esplanade Food Centre will soon become appetising memories. Both will close down on July 31 to make way for development projects. OVIDIA LIM asked patrons and hawkers what
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      75 3 THE Ministry of Environment (ENV), in a press release, said altogether 68 stallholders would be affected by public works projects. This comprises 21 from Esplanade Food Centre and 47 from Whitley Hawker Centre. The stallholders have been given the option of: (a) Taking up alternative vacant stalls in other food
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      25 2 Hotlineplus TO share a point of view, call Hotline Plus at 734-7711,0r write to The Editor, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Rd, S'pore 0923.
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      TRADE ROWS
      137 4 HOT STORIES SINGAPORE has rebutted criticisms made by Washington in the 1991 US Trade Estimates Report. The Trade and Industry Ministry released details of Singapore's response yesterday. The response related to US complaints of: Low tariff bindings, restrictions on foreign banks here, a closed telecommunications sector, and a
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        PM’s Manila trip
        40 4 MR Goh Chok Tong leaves for Manila today on his first official visit to the Philippines as Prime Minister. He will meet President Corazon Aquino and other top leaders in the Philippines during the two-day trip. PMGoh
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        Fight against dengue
        45 4 BIOLOGICAL agents may be used here in the battle against dengue fever. The number of dengue fever cases reported between January and April this year was 702. This was 10 times more than the number reported over a similar period last year.
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        Motorist jailed
        67 4 A MOTORIST was jailed yesterday for a week for endangering the life of another after a dispute over parking space. Lau Chak Mun, 31, deliberately drove forward, then reversed his car in front of Mr SMF Rosary Retnam, 54, the court heard. Mr Retnam had to jump aside
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        Hijack probe
        50 4 A MALAYSIAN has been questioned by police in Malaysia in connection with the hijack of a Singapore Airlines plane by four Pakistanis last month. The man had taken care of their travel arrangements. He was released after preliminary investigations. He had business links with many Pakistanis, said police.
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        NTUC election
        43 4 NINE new candidates will contest the 21 seats in NTUC's central committee at the end of this month, said Lianhe Zaobao. Among the new candidates is Tanglin MP Lew Syn Pau. At least 19 other existing members are standing for re-election.
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        Property bargains
        52 4 PRIME properties in Australia and New Zealand are up fur sale virtually at cost price or even less because of a depressed economy. Several Singapore firms such as DBS Land, UIC, Straits Steamship and Pidemco are said to have sent high-level delegations looking for likely buys, according to
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        A death fall
        43 4 Death of a model: Former beauty queen W<M>n Yoke Kwee (right) was found dead at the Itottom of a block of flats in Commonwealth Close last Saturday. She was crowned Miss Sinxa/Mtre when she was only 19 in If Mix
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      HEADLINERS
      37 4 The Straits Times: S'pore rebuts US trade charges. Business Times: Aussie, NZ properties beckon. Lianhe Zaobao: Mahathir attacks Australia. Berita Harian: West rejects safe haven for j Kurds. SBC: US warns Baghdad. BBC: US warns Iraq.
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      340 4 I j) FISHING POND SEAFOOD VILLAGE JfflPftTAvSklv 59, Lorong Chuntum, Singapore 2775. LV BI Tel: *****91 < 3 Llnes) 2s 9 *****09 Fax: *****21 v v ea,,n9 ?viFtS\ Yl The first restaurant in t 1 South East Asia to combinc the svis vwfiiV rr"** ambience of a countryside Fishing pond
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      56 5 THE LANGUAGE OK TIME. AibA Sole Affcm A Si-rxue Centre THONG SIA CO (S) PTE LTD VI Hiddord Road #(U-)*». ThtHlgsia Bldg. Singapore <W22 Tel: 7.T7-M22 THONG SIA SDN BHD 45 Jalan luanku AKIul Rahman. *11(111 Kuala I umpur I'd: 03-2«OmiH/2W>4IV. ACi .W <V A 214. 2nd Floor. Wisma Mcrdcka.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Shop cheats exposed
      551 6 An average of 15 shoplifting cases are heard at present in court everyday,say legal sources. The cases are as varied as the shoplifting methods. ANGELINE SONG gives some examples culled from court reports and interviews I give you, you give me A teenage girl went into the
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      FROM PREVIOUS PAGE
      95 7 AM wrapped up Housewife Chen, Ching Shequ-Ning, 40, tried to sneak off with a pair of men's briefs by wrapping it in another pair of briefs she had bought. The incident happened on April 7 at NTUC Fairprice, Yung Kuan branch. Besides the briefs which cost $3.30,
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      TYPES OF SHOPLIFTERS
      106 7 THERE are two types of shoplifters: Those who operate in syndicates or groups, and the petty shoplifters. The second type works singly or in pairs. A spokesman for Isetan stores said those who operate in syndicates are professionals. The same groups strike at different stores and swoop
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      TYPICAL PICKS
      43 7 TYPES of goods that typical shoplifters go for include: CHILDREN: Small items such as key chains, toys and stationary items. TEENAGERS: Clothes, clothes and more clothes! OLDER STUDENTS: Branded and leather goods WOMEN: Clothes, accessories, jewellery, cosmetics. HOUSEWIVES: Foodstuffs or toiletries.
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      PUNISHMENT
      62 7 IF convicted, a shoplifter can be jailed for up to seven years and may also be fined. A criminal record can also jeopardise a person's career. F,mployers and others value honesty and trustworthiness in people they deal with. Police records show that shoplifting cases are on the increase. In
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      Be active in worthy projects: Dr Tay
      222 7 S INGAPORE should be a "more vigorous and outwardlooking society in the next lap", says Dr Tay Eng Soon. "We want Singaporeans, using Singapore as their homebase, to venture out in business enterprises overseas. Young Singaporeans especially those in our tertiary institutions can
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      Lock icon Great-granny’s last wish to see grandson
      387 8 G I REAT-grandmother Madam Neo Gek Neo, 88, hopes to i live long enough to see the return of her missing grandson. He is businessman Lawrence Leow Boon Siong, 30, who disappeared mysteriously three-and-a-half years ago. His parents, Mr and Mrs Leow Choon Teck,
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      Another WWII shell found
      134 8 ANOTHER piece of World War II artillery shell was found yesterday morning. It was discovered at the site of the partially-built Yishun Stadium in Yishun Street 81. The 7.5 cm mortar is the fourth piece of British artillery shell found at the worksite since Monday.(Bapr) On
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      GLOSSARY
      126 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. dock: The dock is the place in a law court where the person accused of a crime stands or sits. influx: An influx of people or things into a
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      125 6 I i Areyou lonesome tonight^ Well, if you're at Club 5. it's unlikely you'd have the t to feel this way. With the music and mood so right, there's just so much you can do for romance. Dancing cheek-to-cheek. Making dedications in the name of love. Sharing a concoction of
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      27 7 The Sfralts Times Classified H Where ££as] buyers I?' sellers ~fT-r 'tit. frlT Hod die light \*S I' of wheel* IS? fffr >,»V C.A.14. ___J 717-11** I
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      155 7 BStargazers' Nite Sat., April 20 (Overnight) B.oopm Siloso Beach Stargazing enthusiasts, make a date with us at the new Siloso Beach. Catch a glimpse of the crescent moon and deep sky objects. Tell a tale or two with the galaxy of stars you'll see. You'll also he treated to slide
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      189 8 Enter the RIiTECO Super Glue 'siucmxr CONTEST and win Hl Ist Prize-A round trip package to /£a Osaka. Japan 6 3rd Prize A package weekend at Club Med Cherating V 4,h Prize A package trip to PulauTioman(3l 100 Consolation Prizes 4 tubes of Alteco Super Glue each It's so easy
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      30 9 mro-AOEC. |k Jf k I iM SOLE AGENT: SUN SING TRADING (S) PTE LTD CITIZEN WATCH SHOWROOM SERVICE CENTRE, 304 ORCHARD ROAD, #01-16 LUCKY PLAZA, SINGAPORE 0923. TELEPHONE 235 9310.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Man bums kids with cigarette
      366 10  -  By Charmaine Chan A HAWKER burnt his girlfriend's six-year-old niece with a lighted cigarette for no apparent reason. He later burnt his victim's four-year-old sister for knocking into him. Then he burnt the older girl again for teasing the other child. Zaki Hahmat, 28, also
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      HAWKER PLEADS GUILTY
      45 10 ZAKI Hah mat (left) yesterday pleaded guilty to causing hurt with a lighted cigarette, abetting one girl to bite another, and taking morphine last year. He is on $10,000 bail until April 23, when he will make his mitigation plea before sentencing.
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      Self-help through songs at concert
      104 10 SPREADING the message of self-help through song. This is the aim of a group of 12 disabled Singaporeans who will he communicating their feelings and aspirations at a national concert given by the disabled on April 20. The concert, a first to be held here
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      Lock icon Crash cab’s bumper on roof
      475 11  -  By Dave Ang A TAXI which flew off Holland Road and crashed into the backyard of a two-storey house left more than just a smashed window and a crack on the house. It also left its bumper there on Sunday morning Until last night, when
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      THE ACCIDENT
      86 11 SUNDAY'S accident happened at about 2.45 am. Mr Cheng Tien Tuan, 36, the driver of the taxi, was driving along Holland Road towards the city when he lost control of his car. The taxi mounted a road kerb, hit a road sign, smashed into three road railing panels,
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      50 10 P a fantastic living experience." q O Examiner O Imssm Q 16/6 -3 pm -7 pm iSTM^^Q Tickets at $45, $35, $20 J^ jIA a|C "1 A/] Group $30 (10 or more tickets) 7\ M C 3 from Indoor Stadium Parkway Parade yJ ('f nnK >< Marina Square Forum Yamaha-
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      180 11 |A taste OF vru cam llirifl HOUUANO GUN WEST COAST Grilled King Prawns 19.50 $19 00 18.50 Baked Seafood In Foil $14.50 $14.00 $13.50 j Prices sublet to 10% service chirge ind 3 government ujt Add $3.00 more for a Complete Meal which includes Garlic i Bread, Soup of the
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Doctor tricked patient into sex
      187 12 AFP. A NEW York doctor allegedly tricked his patient into having sex with him by saying it was the best way to administer a secret vaccine. The woman later sued the doctor, Julio Soto, for $1.8 million. On Tuesday, she agreed to settle the matter
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      Lock icon Teens in brothel infected with Aids
      380 12 Reuter. ALL but one of 18 Thai teenage prostitutes rescued by police from a brothel in a Bangkok suburb have the deadly Aids virus, childcare activists said yesterday. Health workers said the tragedy of these girls, aged between 14 and 19, showed that Thailand's
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      Lock icon Aids blood used for suicide
      171 13 AFP. A I WOMAN tried to commit suicide by injecting herself with Aids-tainted blood and contracted the disease. Doctors from a Paris hospital reported this in a letter published yesterday in the New Rngland Journal of Medicine. The 41-year-old woman injected herself with two to
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      Lock icon Aids victim jailed
      120 13 Reuter. A MAN with Aids was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison for biting a nurse and spitting at three policemen in Los Angeles. Under a plea agreement, Michael Newbrough, 24, will return to court in four months after undergoing psychological and other tests, his lawyer
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      Lock icon Gorby cartoon wins Pulitzer
      33 13 The winner: This Gorbachev cartoon by Jim Borgman of the newspaper, The Cincinnati Enquirer, won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartixming in New York on Tuesday. Picture/ Reuter
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      Lock icon Mum faces murder rap after son’s recall
      165 14 AP. A MAN'S sudden recall of the night his father was slain 15 years ago has resulted in murder charges against his mother and a former neighbour. Police in Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania, say the two were romantically involved. Arlene Montgomery, 39, has been charged
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      Lock icon Major seeks help for Kurdish plan
      327 14 Reuter. BRITAIN yesterday stepped up efforts to win support for a plan for a safe haven in Iraq for Kurdish refugees. Prime Minister John Major's proposal for safe havens under United Nations supervision will be discussed by President George Bush and European Community leaders
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      Lock icon US cuts aid to Jordan
      194 14 Reuter. US President George Bush has signed a bill that cuts off American aid to Jordan. But the bill allows the President to restore the funds if he feels it would help the Middle East peace process. The emergency appropriations bill also provides for $1.1
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      255 12 Kiwi Sneaker Shampoo^' WORD HUNT v. ■ffiliAi f ISfek Kiwi Sneaker Shampoo is made 1 from specially selected _n_ to clean dirty sports shoes easily. Just press the unique patented il I 1 against shoe. Scrub with bristles, then clean off foam. -'3t 1 is""" t V>%*\ A £Sk\-- J
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      211 13 FOR ENDLESS FUN AND UNLIMITED FOOD, SPLASH OUT AT THE mermaids CHARITY DINNER DANCE. ■818 v Make it an evening of fun for the whole family. Begin by pitting your skills at our mini fun-fair and the water dunking pool. After which, enjoy the BBQ spread which features unusual dishes
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      314 14 OVER $10,000 WORTH OF PRESS MUST BE WON! PLUS! it. VJR ym £jv winners will be jj JmL entered into a draw if\ orthe 8 ran< ®p rize a one^ear mem )er Simple! Just answer two questions about 'Sesame Street Live' and its characters, and you're on your way to
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Mum locks daughter, 10, in chicken coop
      215 16 POLICE in Malaysia have rescued a 10-year-old girl locked up in a chicken coop. They found her on Tuesday confined in a 1 m wide by 1.5 m high chicken coop with some hens in Kuala Kangsar, about 50 km from Ipoh. According
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      Lock icon Prison walls crumble but inmates stay
      146 16 AP. LIFE is so hard on the outside that inmates of a jungle prison in Peru chose to remain there even when an earthquake toppled the prison walls. An earthquake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, last Thursday levelled the walls of the prison
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      Lock icon Albanian Jews slip into Israel
      251 17 AP. M ORE than 30() Albanian Jews almost the entire Jewish community there have been secretly airlifted to Isra- el. The last 11 Albanian Jews were expected to arrive today, said Israel's national news agency, Itim, yesterday. News reports said the first Jewish immigrants from
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      Lock icon Reunited with $3.5 m violin
      47 17 French kiss: French violinist Pierre Amoyal planting a kiss on his 17th century Stradivari us violin stolen four years ago. Valued at $3.5 million, it was recovered by Italian police on Monday. Mr Amoyal's wife, Leslie, is at his left. Picture/ Reuter
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      Lock icon Ice-cream rack kills man
      97 17 AP. A DAIRY delivery man in Florida was killed when a 250-kg rack of ice cream fell on him, crushing his skull. Police said Mr Joseph Laßose died early on Tuesday when he unloaded a delivery of Nutty Buddies ice cream at a supermarket in Tampa.
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      Lock icon Mountains of Death
      427 18 Less than a month ago, the Kurds thought most of northern Iraq was under their control. Today, up to two million Kurds are on a desperate flight to nowhere to escape President Saddam Hussein's wrath. ROSNAH AHMAD reports IRAQ'S three million Kurds did not stand a ghost
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      210 18 WHY did the Kurdish uprising fail? On the battlefield, the Kurds were certainly no match for Mr Saddam's men. The Iraqi army may no longer pose a threat to its neighbours. But Mr Saddam still has enough men and machines to crush a much weaker threat such as the lightlyarmed
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      72 18 THERE are about 17 million Kurds scattered throughout the world today. Turkey has the largest number of Kurds, between 8 million and 10 million. Iraq and Iran have about 3 million each. Syria and the Soviet Union have hundreds of thousands each. According to a UPI report, after World War
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      127 18 ON THE THE Kurds are not the first people to flee their homeland in large numbers. And they will not be the last. In March, Italy played the unwilling host to Europe's first "boat people" the Albanians. Some 20,000 Albanians, fed up with decades of political repression and impatient for
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      803 19 thursdaytv SHE WAS MARKED I JHT I POWER IN BEHIND BARS FOR MURDER THE PACIFIC (Channel pm) (Channel 5, 10.30 pm) STEFANIE Powers (right) stare Jjf (Channel 12. 8.05 pm) (Ma'doN "."left Y f!>T r.- I THIS programme studies Mffll successful magazine editor/owner I 1 economic power in the Pacific,
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      Lock icon Show stopper
      548 20  -  By Ravindra Kumar A VOICE from the past saved and stole the Vesakhi 91 show last night at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Mahendra Kapoor's entry was dramatic. And with an oldtimer's sure touch for drama, he sustained the show for close to three hours. He sang Hindi songs.
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      New Kid in the dock
      345 21 o NE of the New Kids on The I Block is in the dock. Donnie Wahlberg faced the music last month when he was accused of setting fire to a hotel carpet. Looking pale and exhausted, the 21-year-old singer denied the arson charge during a
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      Pet Shop Boys plan theatrical dazzle
      226 21 THK Pet Shop Boys art* replacing live musicians with ballet dancers and backing singers. They claim that bands who perform with guitarists and drummers are "boring," the Malay Mail reported. They insist that the format for their new four-month tour will be a theatrical
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      53 21 Mm 1 mtfm How many EH "Thou Shall Nots" H at the MRT station? H Sports: "I've been stoned!" exclaims Maradona, the soccer star. Bsa Entertainment: Samo Hung is rich and famous, but why is he so full of regrets? Ififl For subscription, please call *****11 or arrange with the
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      113 22 KEVIN CURREN WALLY MASUR KELLY JONES SHUZO MATSUOKA TODD WOODBRIDGE SCOTT DAVIS w i\ r±vi: M I Wit n®^. th action 22 to 28 april 1991 LIVE at the Kallang Tennis Centre EDCAM ACTION STARTS AT 4PM (WEEKDAYS) wr and SPM (SATURDAY 8t SUNDAY) SINGAPORE -tickets IDED 22 April DOLLAR
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      Bogarde returns for ‘last film’
      440 23 A I FTER 13 years away from the cinema, Dirk Bogarde is back, in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgia. He plays an ageing businessman, 'with a French wife and an English daughter, confronting death with elegance and irony in a modest villa in the south of
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      Lock icon Selleck strikes out in baseball
      206 23 UPI. TOM Selleck struck out on his own in baseball. The famous television star of Magnum fame pinch-hit in the Detroit Tigers exhibition game recently. But about the only thing he hit was a little girl. Selleck went to the plate for the Tigers in
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      Quiet jams that boom with hope
      526 24  -  By Lo Tien Yin ONE thing can be said about the Marina jam. It is more orderly than a traffic jam. Marina Village organises the music concert every Sunday. •lamming is a jazz tradition where musicians come together to play spontaneously, often working up
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      67 24 gfk, SADAO WATANABE'S See him LIVE in Singapore! Venue: ALKAFF MANSION GARDENS ||M\ Date: 12th and 13th April 1991 it Time: 7:00 pm (Performance begins at 9:15 pm) V Tickets Prices: SS3OO. $200. Si2s nett per person SS3OOO, S2OOO. ***** per table 7 Tickets on sale at Alkaff Mansion from
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      295 25 THURSDAYRADIO FM 90.5 FM 92.4 News on the Hour iB 12.03 PM Popular Classics 12.05 PM A Lunchdate with Peter King 1.00 News and Weather Forecast and Rose Tan Musk and a 1.10 Currency Exchange Rates Mystery Voice Qui* j Popular Classics (cont'd) 2.05 Feminine Flair with Olive Saw j45
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      140 25 COMICRELIEF 1 PHippS/Joseph Farris *X X I AdSfTI/Rnan Basset WOK ADAM.I(WAPPRECIATE I I'LL NEW KMOW 1 rmrrUTW I WfeIftETOAttSJWtPIZ UNTH.ITW.r-'. X" J^! T *nfW, TOTOfcZAZZ.EWDOW OK, IF YOU V HWIMK »NS3M« T SANSO fiJsL*fPfi»T Dllffy /Bruce Hammond I ITS THE. FIRST Pi*- W OH. HAfW HWI MX) WEAK V IffI.jNTWS
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      609 26 COMICFELIEF THURSDAYRADIO Orchard Road/coim Goh EES2EH3H 12.30 PM Sentimental Journey FM 88.9 a, 100 News NOON Newsdesk IGHKTUfc w ©-WE' 3 ATAWKROI£ 'K)M. 'fcIAUmCN OF I 110 Calling All Maids 12.30 PM Off the Shelf 50Q^Ul-RElfcVf\NV VNr t ♦TMIGbAVJU* HI CBttOftSttlPC* I 2.00 Pop Around! 12.45 From Our Own Correspondent
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