The New Paper, 7 August 1996

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  • 12 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1996 MffA (P) 061/V96 60 CENTS
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    • 43 1 QSfrS. yA 1,-1 /y mm m IBl: ISfl questions for TV slap Xle T Your sexiest body part? aggßgß A woman's sexiest part? Favourite movie? /Page 24 CANCER STRIKES 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL'S OVARIES -wKm 4My*$ Nur Atiiqah Johari, victim of ovarian cancer 1, 5
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 672 2 Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad was interviewed by Utusan Melayu Group's editor-in-chief Johan Jaaffaron Radio Television Malaysia last night. The wide-ranging interview marked Dr Mahathir's 15 years in office. A Here are some excerpts U ON VISION 2020 QWe actually do not
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    • 107 2 MORE than 100 primary schools still have places for Primary 1. If you want to find out which schools still have vacancies, call The New Paper Infoline on 1900-*****03 and key in the code number of the school. The code numbers were on Page
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 542 3 Six doctors from the Singapore General Hospital will put on their dancing shoes and perform in a charity musical as part of SGH's 175 th anniversary celebrations. ALETHEA LIM checks out the talents of two of the stars FOR Dr Khoo-Tan Hoon Seng, it is a case of
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    • 98 3 SET in a busy hospital, Everyday Brings Its Miracles is about how the characters balance their personal lives with the demands of the job. With the original script and lyrics by well-known writer Ovidia Yu, the musical also explores their fears, hopes and aspirations. FORTY STAFF The idea
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    • 53 3 WHEN: Sept 19 to 22 WHERE: Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel TICKET PRICES: $30 and $50 for evening shows; $20 and $40 for matinees. Tickets are now available attheSGH Visitors' Centre at Block 6 level 1, from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm (Mondays to Fridays) and Saturdays 8.30 am
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 69 4 C HOT kSTORIESi Aiwa is moving its tabletop stereo-making business in Malaysia back homt to Japan. It was one of the most aggressive Japanese firms to expand into 'he region in the '80s. Why is it now contracting?_ IN the '80s, it was cheaper to manufacture in
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    • 22 4 The Straits Times industrials Index fell 2.7 points to 2126.66 at 9.15 am this morning from yesterday's close of 2129.36.
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    • 26 4 The Dow Jones industrial average was up 21.83 points at 5,696.11 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 349 million shares.
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    • 59 4 IN the '90s, it is more competitive to manufacture in Japan because the yen has fallen and business and labour costs in booming Malaysia have risen. US$1 (S$1.40) now equals 107 yen, compared with 80 yen a year ago. Also strategy: To focus more on sophisticated products,
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    • 55 4 OTHER Japanese firms have moved some operations home recently, including Matsushita (facsimile machines) and Hitachi (personal computers). Analysts say it is not a trend. Many firms still plan to go regional, as costs are still higher in Japan. Also, many want to tap new markets and avoid
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    • 140 4 CHINA is to buy elite airborne radar equipment from the British firm Racal, according to The Financial Times. It will give China more warning of an impending attack. It will also mean it is better equipped to patrol disputed areas such as the Taiwan
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    • 94 4 DARK WORDS Power failures will be history or many people will be history if I have my way. —Malaysia's International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz on the nation's 15-hour blackout on Saturday. It occurred days after she had reassured Japanese investors that a massive 1992 failure was a one-off'act
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 51 4 ORDERS have been made for interim judicial control of two more manufacturing arms of Amcol Holdings. This will help preserve the five firms while their future is sorted out. Directors of Amcol Engineering found irregularities regarding staff and Amcol Multitech had creditors' claims it wanted delayed at this
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      • 66 4 JAPAN has given health officials more power to contain its food poisoning epidemic. It classed colon bacillus 0-157 as an infectious disease yesterday the first time the legal classification has been applied in 20 years. It means patients can be isolated and road blocks set up to
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      • 53 4 A RISE in cases of cross-border graft have alarmed Hongkong's corruption watchdog, commissioner Michael Leung. He says more local officers are taking part in smuggling, drug trafficking, gambling and prostitution with corrupt officials and triad members on the mainland. He wants all civil servants to reveal their
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      • 67 4 THAILAND has decided foreign workers should be paid the same as local workers to protect locals'jobs. In five provinces, they will now get 145 baht ($8.05) a day. In others, they get 126 or 118 baht. Bangkok made the pay deal under union pressure after agreeing to
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    • 69 4 The Straits Timet: Spending rise: Higher prices played small part The Business Times: Seagate refutes talk of cutbacks Uanhe Zaobao: Family expenses rise 76 per cent as more and better quality goods are purchased Berita Harlan: Two reasons for increased spending RCS morning news* Chief statistician explains why prices
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 496 5 Atiiqah's just nine... The chances of such a young girl getting this illness are one in 100,000 a year. NurAtiiqah Johari happens to be that unfortunate one. And to survive she needs your help. BERNARD PEREIRA reports Atikjahis one of only two girls under 10 to
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    • 181 5 ATIIQAH has to undergo chemotherapy to destroy the cancer cells. But chemotherapy also destroys other cells. That is why her bone marrow where blood cells are produced has to be removed and transplanted later. Said her doctor, paediatric cancer specialist Dr Allen Yeoh:
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    • 162 5 THE tumour removed from Atiiqah was 10 cm wide. The shaded circle here shows you how large that is. Ovarian cancer usually strikes adult women in the 50-70 age group. The chance is eight women out of every 100,000 a year. "But it also
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 278 6 Poor least hit by price rise says chief statistician The lot of the lower-income group came up for particular scrutiny yesterday at the Cost Review Committee. IRENE NG summarises THE low-income group is the least hit by inflation, said chief statistician Paul Cheung. Those earning below $1,000 saw their inflation
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    • 272 6 WORRIED about housing costs? The Cost Review Committee has noted your concern, and will devote a full session to examine how the price of housing has affected Singaporeans. Its chairman, Mr Lim Boon Heng, said the committee will summon the relevant parties involved, including the
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    • 166 6 Household spending has risen by 76 per cent between 1988 and 1993. But most of it (62 per cent) is due to Singaporeans buying more and better quality goods and services. Only 14 per cent of it is due to prices of goods going up.
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    • 302 6 WITH these words (left), Mr Lin Boo*. Heng thanked the SDP-PKMS team for appearing before the committee and asked it to leave. The 12 members £RC, which included businessman Chia Shi
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 386 9 Ex-supermodel Hanis Hussey has threatened to sue a social escort agency that used her photo for a Yellow Pages ad. Aids awareness group Action for Aids, which created the original ad she posed for, is backing her. RACHEL TAN reports Action for Aids (afa)
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    • 100 9 HANISwon the local Model of the Year award in 1982 and shot to fame abroad. She worked for Paris fashion houses such as Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Balmain and Christian Dior. She returned to Singapore about eight years ago. She ran a modelling agency, Hanis International, with Moroccan-born
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    • 328 10  -  BY Alethea Lim SECURITY guard Sundra Thangavellu liked to help his friends at the construction site he guarded. For the past two months, he did work that he was not required to do. On Monday night, his helpfulness proved fatal Mr Thangavellu, 31, was crushed
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    • 94 10 The police received a call about the accident at the construction site, Sengkang Lot NICI2, at 11.22 pm on Monday. When they arrived at the scene, Mr Thangavellu was found in the piling hole at the site on which an HDB block is being built. His head was
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    • 192 11  -  By Edwin Yeo Twisters damaged two homes in Commonwealth Avenue on Saturday. No, it was not the work of the fearsome tornado that goes by the same name. Instead, two huge banners announcing a charity premiere for the disaster movie, Twister, crashed into the homes.
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    • 144 12 MR Loke called up Yeo Hiap Seng to complain. The soft drinks giant is Schweppes' local distributor. Yeo Hiap Seng recalled the remaining cans from that batch of cans. It found the can had been dropped before it was served to Mr
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    • 362 12  -  By Gerard Wong WHEN Mr Loke Wah Kay opened a can of Schweppes Tonic Water last Monday, the drink turned on him literally. He was hit with a loud blast of gas and drink which sent the ring-tab flying into his face. Mr Loke, 49, a
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    • 346 13  -  PARACETAMOL OVERDOSE JAILED A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl was given more than three times the amount of paracetamol for a child of her age. Chan Hua Xin, who had a fever, died two days later from acute liver damage caused by paracetamol poisoning. The medicine was prescribed by
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    • 114 13 PARENTS are advised to check the dosage of paracetamol their child is consuming. Three common brands are Panadol (tablet form), Calpol (syrup form) and Dhamol (syrup and tablet forms). Paracetamol also comes in liquid form for children. Standard dosage for three to six year olds is 600 mg
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    • Article, Illustration
      354 14 Yesterday was ballot-day at 39 schools, as parents tried to get their children into Primary 1 in Phase 2C of the registration process. TEO HWEE NAK and TRACY QUEK accompanied the two parents who were featured in a recent report in The New Paper. One, sales manager Lim
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    • 230 14 GIVING PARENTS AN OPTION EVEN before balloting began at Northland Primary yesterday morning, another primary school half a kilometre away was making a sales pitch. Principal Ho Yoon Kee (left) of Naval Base Primary in Yishun Avenue 4 still had 160 vacancies to fill. So, at the
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      313 15 JUST a difference of two! Mr Ulaganathan's disappointment showed when he looked at the number he drew from the ballot box at Northland Primary yesterday. The school was conducting the balloting for Phase 2C of the Primary 1 registration. The popular school at Yishun Avenue 4 received 341
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    • 195 15 ST NICHOLAS GIRLS': Principal Mrs Hwang-Lee Poh See asked each parent to check the registration number and drop the slip into a transparent plastic balloting box. Mrs Hwang then asked some little boys who had come along with their parents to pick the lucky numbers. One
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    • 131 14 It's fun! fW) o 9kcm 2[ niair^ Cols are charged at 55cents per minute. For 18 years A above only You may have been unable to get your Business Times, Straits Times, Sunday Times, LianHe Zaobao and other daily newspapers from your usual newsstand because of the higher demand lately.
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    • 328 15 Multinational Management Industrial Operations Management This is a 12-month course comprising five modules of study and management project, with the emphasis This 15-month programme equips participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to contribute onJhe application of management theories. It is tailored to equip ihe participants with the ability to
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 170 16 I've also learnt... what it's like to live as a politician. I did it for a few days last week. And it is impossible. It is impossible to think straight. It is very easy to screw up and it is unrelenting. But they (politicians) do
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    • 325 16 AFP. RUSSIAN leader Boris Yeltsin has returned to the Kremlin in time for his re-inauguration as President, after more than a month in a rest home in the Moscow suburbs. A spokesman said it was a "normal working day" yesterday for Mr Yeltsin, who will
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    • 343 17 BUILDING UP NAVAL STRENGTH AND FIREPOWER Reuter. IRAN is building up its naval strength and firepower around the mouth of the Persian Gulf, increasing its capability of shutting off a fifth of the world's oil supply, Jane's Intelligence Review said. Recent developments on two tiny islands
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 301 19 Slapped female colleague's bottom AFP. INDIA'S most celebrated cop was sentenced to five months' jail on Tuesday for slapping a female colleague's bottom eight years ago. Kanwar Pal Singh Gill was given three months' jail for molesting the woman and another two months in prison
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    • 490 20 FIRST CASE REPORTED IN BRITAIN Pregnant British woman tells doctor she's too poor to raise twins Doctor sugg£ot£sHe abortoiteef the healthv,twn foetuses. She agrees Anth&bortion group&tfrotest, court arder to stop th«foperation Operation takearpi&ce, say* (j J Source: Wire services. A FREGlfANT woman has aborted
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    • 38 20 The involves y pierci ngjhe selectdTfoetus said the\eAiB is then caml for the full shrivels and mummifies" in the womb. fli n Among tne unanswered aborted and whether the woman is told the sex of that foetus.
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    • 50 20 BRITISH law permits abortion up to the 24th week. The law allows this because it accepts psychological rejection of childbearing as grounds for abortion even if there are no health risks to the mother or child. After 24 weeks, the law allows abortion if there is physical abnormality.
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    • 35 19 Tiger cup 96 2ND LUCKY DRAW WINNERS Congratulations to the winners of the 2nd Lik k\ I )raw: Top prize winner of < vSI 0.000: I C'lian Siana Bw 142 1-401 ■I i i, c* Tiger
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    • 166 20 NIC H T WORST-DRESSED CONTEST Imagine jaarself caught la a tornado and present jaur shabbiest torn outfit it our Dance Quk and jrou could stud to wla Fflߣ Music World memberships "TWISTER" DANCE CONTEST Twist jiir bad] aid frtezi the spotlight aa joarself tbroagb air "Twister" Daice Caitest. Seagram Hamper
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  • DEARAGGIE
    • 288 21 957 You can leave us your problems on the Hotline and listen to selected answers given by trained counsellors. Identities will be kept confidential Call* are 30 cant* a minute This week's topics: Covering business losses Crush on teacher Say No Kiss him goodbye Quit
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    • 178 21 I ALWAYS think of ending my life. My life at home is miserable. My father scolds and beats me. My mother is dead. Please advise me. A gfri who wants to end her life COUNSELLOR SAYS I am sorry that you are in such
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    • 230 21 USUALLY, boys ask girls to go steady, right? But my girlfriends do it the other way and get positive responses. So I decided to follow their style and I wrote to a boy I like. When I called him the next day to talk
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    • 241 21 I HAVE been going out with a man for six months. I've heard he is divorced. Yet he keeps telling me he still has a good relationship with his wife. He hints he still loves her. I think he doesn't want me to know
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    • 28 21 MS WONG SING CHEE, counsellor, Singapore Polytechnic If you need advice, write to: Dear Aggie,The New Paper Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road. Singapore *****5 Or fax: 737-5375
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  • Showtime
    • 453 22 Contract dispute delays TCS signing on Fame Awards overall champion, Sean Ghazi, reports LEEYIN LUEN Movie reviews will appear tomorrow instead of Friday. The New Paper will not be published on Friday, a public holiday. PLANS fall apart. This is what happened to Sean Ghazi.
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    • 191 22 ONE of the conditions for first prize winners in the four categories of the Fame Awards Host, Comedian, Actor and Singer is that they sign a contract with TCS as Channel 5 artistes. If this is not complied with, TCS has the right to take back the prizes.
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    • 525 23 Brad Pitt's girlfriend fumes over the way they paw him ACTRESS Gwyneth Paltrow is fuming over what some women have been doing to her boyfriend, Brad Pitt. "Women come right up to him and press their bodies against him from behind," she said. "And I'm right there! "Women
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    • 708 24 KHANNE^^^HJ^XIE^HAO^SJ^i^^^ANG^OI^^OK His childhood nickname was "cha shao bao" (roastpork bun in Mandarin) a spin from his dialect name Cha Shao Kwong. YONGSIEWFERN chews the fat with the Channel 8 star on love, women and the mole that he can talk about but can't show What's
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    • 162 24 Favourite actor Anthony Hopkins. He's versatile. The younger actors I like are Brad Pitt, Matt Dillon and Hongkong's Tony Leung Chiu Wai. Favourite movie: Louis Malle's Damage. It is about a politician who has an affair with his son's girlfriend. The chemistry among the cast Favourite
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    • 405 25  - Hello Singapore Japanese businessman charts our history on CD By Hazel Tan JAPANESE businessman Tomomi Shintaku has spent $70,000 to realise his dream: An album of songs about Singapore, his home for the past 17 years. The expenses include studio rental, and payments to production houses and the music arrangers.
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 172 27 HIGH-living John Travolta has several homes, private jets and antique cars but friends insist that his true luxury is his full-time chef. "As far as I can tell, John eats eight full meals a day," Njora Ephron, the director of Travolta's new movie, Michael, told the
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    • 125 27 ARMED with a bagful of snacks, actor Jim Carrey and his actress girlfriend, Lauren Holly, went to see an acclaimed Broadway show, Rent. As the two stars munched away noisily, the crackling and unwrapping sounds annoyed the audience around them, reported Star magazine. During the interval, one
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    • 139 27 ACTRESS Patsy Kensit, of Lethal Weapon 2 fame, is set to marry British rocker Liam Gallagher, of Oasis fame. The two have a stormy relationship, says English paper The Daily Mail. Since the pair met last Christmas, they have had several public rows, with the singer admitting
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  • 536 29  -  T CETERA win BRIAN MILLER IT was an issue that split the US. But on Sunday morning, good sense prevailed. The great Carl Lewis was left out in the cold. And the US ran the 4 x 100 m relay and suffered its
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    • 236 34 2630 Solos Positions An established and fast moving company soaks suitable candidates for the above position. Aged 20-28 preferred ORD personnel may also apply Min. 'O* levels Direct sales experienced preferred but not esaential aa intenaive training will be provided. Allowance Plua High Commission 5 day week I Interested applicants,
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    • 292 35 2642 Hotel/ Restaurs nt/ Loungs Positions WN&E&WSM "Heard Of Our $87 pillion Expansion "Plan? s:' S JaHtf Secretaries negotiable Outstation Cashier 838 -$1053 3 j Housekeeping Supervisor $1039-$1329 Waiter/Waitress 837 -$1077 jjir- M E TECHNICIAN I $1007-$1332 ROOM STEWARDESS 837 -$1077 Security Officer 988 -$1278 Accounts Assistant $816-$lO7l Apollo Hotel
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    • 245 36 2648 Administrative Clerical Positions ——a— AEG T&D AEG Energy Systems Pte Ltd has an immediate vacancy for: Minimum GCE 'O' level with LCCI Higher Accounting or Diploma in Accounting Minimum 1 year's relevant experience PC literate Interested candidates, please call Ms Hooi Kwan at *****81/*****09 Mon Fri to fix an
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    • 292 36 2648 Administrative/ Clerical Positions ACCOUNTS CLERK 1 1 1 (TempV Full Time) I J I i" i required. i" i[ i PC literate. iJ i Attractive salary. <■ iJ i Walk-in interview at 111 No. B1 Anson Rd. X X Anson Ctr. #07-67. X i (9.00 am. to Spot.) P—
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    • 485 37 2684 Technical Positions "I make a difference in Singapore's economy every day. Technically speaking, that is." -Technician f" Because when port technicians will be required to serve PSA for 3 years. If you're Interested In a rewarding and challenging :quipment and machinery technical career with the world's busiest port, complete
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    • 107 37 2654 Tochnical Positions 1 I 2672 DespatcK/Delivery Positions An established compeny requires Must possess Cless 2 licence own bike Pleasant personelity Singaporeans or PRs are welcome Part-timers are elso welcome Interacted epplicanta, pi66M call: 748 5042 Ext. 201 fof int#rv»#w ippointm#fit I CHINESE CLASS 3 DELIVERY DRIVER ft ASSISTANT required
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    • 194 38 T r TT i 7 2683 PerMlmW Temp. Positions CALLING ALL 'ITS', N\ 'OV awaiting NS. Overseas undergrad and Graduates 2-6 mths Temp Jobs available immediately Data-entry, A/Cs, Receptionist Store WANTED! I^WP II Age above 25 years O Perform simple duties eg. Forms-Filling) L. II OFlexi days IN O Open
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    • 84 38 2638 Othf Position* i J CAR-WASHER REQUIRED I FULL-TIME Working hours 9«m-6pm Salary $1000 above PART-TIME Working hour* 6pm-11pm Salary WOO above n Interested please call *****6 a I 141 Bt. Thnah Rd I Singapor* 0922 (Naar Esso station at Newton Circle! required at Woodlands. Salary $1116 $1300 Pit. contact
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    • 256 39 2689 Other Positions BIG SPLASH SWIMMING COMPLEX Vacancies available 1. FULL/ PART TIME LIFEGUARD (Male/ Female) Bronze Medallion Lifesavina Certificate or C.P.R. Certificate holder knowledge of first aid 2. FULL TIME SECURITY GUARD (Mate) 3. FULL TIME TICKET SELLER (Femala) 4. PART TIME MASTER-OF-CEREMONY ADJ (MaiW Female) 5. PART TIME
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    • 435 40  -  SAFSA AWARDS By Calvin Low THE silver trophy Ronald Tan held up at the annual Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association (Safsa) Sportspersons dinner was the child of a love affair which blossomed some 20 years ago. That was when the adolescent Tan first learnt his French,
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    • 94 40 Piste: The elevated stage Foil: One of three weapons used. As a thrust weapon, hits can only be scored with the point. The target area is the torso Epee: As a thrust weapon, hits can only be scored with the point. The target area is the entire body
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  • 440 41  -  TIONG BAHRU 3 (Lint Tnrw Hgj 20th min: Mohd Hgfiz 28th: Bam Halis SQjh) SAF FC 4 (VSsMm IML Jurp Em 2MI Ivica Ruuuz 43rd: YelimjrCHien 60th) OTHER "SUITS Sembawang Rangers 1 Geylang United 2 Tampines Rovers 0 Police FC 0 fm91.3 The New Paoer Sportsfile on
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  • 330 41 SEVEN goals, several near-misses. Tremendous pace, terrific spirit. Brilliant skills, fiery end-to-end attacks. What a cliff-hanger! Till the end, you could never predict the winner. Though the Warriors won 4-3, it could have easily gone the other way. It was better than any 5-League match so far. To
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  • 536 42  -  MIfSnER 5 (Goran Paulic 37th mm. 43rd. 54th. 91st: Esad Sediic 44th) WOOPUUiDS 1 (Palis Subait 33rd) By. Jeffrey Low "B" IS not only for Balestier, it's also for balance the most balanced team in the S-League. As the Tigers took their unbeaten streak to five
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  • 117 42 I didn't expect a 5-1 win. A winy yes, but not so big. It may have looked easy, but Woodlands just lost concentration and its defence became disorganised. Hopefully, we can maintain our unbeaten run before the break for the Tiger Cup, then we'll know where we
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  • Atlanta'96 THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE GAMES Look
    • 157 43 Mongolians bug out JEANNIE LONGO: cycling champ Reuter. Strange things went bump in tfie night in the Olympic city of Atlanta, even Mongolian athletes carousing in a golf cart. According to Pat Young, official attache to the Mongolian team, a small group of
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    • 175 43 AFP. Chinese weightlifting gold-medallist Tang Ninsheng almost missed his chance at glory. His singlet split at the crotch shortly before his competition. The Chinese team did not have a spare with them and they spent a worrying hour looking for a replacement preferably in the red of
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    • 218 43 WHAT THEY WERE SAYING DAVID LETTERMAN (David Letterman appears on Singapore's Premiere 12 on most nights after 11pm) LETTERMAN'S REJECTED OLYMPIC EVENTS Hide the javelin Tackle the French guy Speed blinking Trouser hockey Synchronised shrugging 100m dash with a fat guy on your back Female weightlifter
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    • 572 44 MATT Ghaffari weighs 130 kg, has legs like pillars and if you ever cross him at a door, please step aside. He is so big that only one person can pass. Every night before the Olympic Games, Ghaffary went to bed dreaming about another man. A man
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    • 194 44 NYT. MATT GhafTari cried when he won the silver medal. But was it because he had lost to Alexander Karelin, or that he was just glad to have taken part? "A bit of both. I was so emotional because I left a job and
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    • 426 45 AFP. BRITAIN'S former Olympic and World 100 metres champion, Linford Christie, said Britain will never produce another 100 m Olympic champ. Christie, disqualified from the 100 m final for two false starts, told English newspaper the Daily Mirror that the lack of funding for British
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    • 264 45 AFP. RAIN may have kept down the numbers, but it did not dampen the spirits of those who turned up to welcome home Ireland's golden girl, Michelle Smith. Despite the downpour, Michelle walked bare-headed across the tarmac to be greeted by Irish President Mary Robinson.
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    • 187 45 Reuter. HARD on the heels of the Atlanta Olympics, 50 sportsmen are preparing for the Melon Seed Spitters World Championship on Aug 18. Each competitor, at Agen in South-west France, will be allowed three attempts to spit a seed in the village's "Melodrome" sports arena.
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    • 125 45 Reuter. SPRINTERS Donovan Bailey and Gail Devers in the 100 m will be among a host of newly-crowned Olympic champions on parade in Monaco on Saturday. The organisers of the Grand Prix meeting said there would be about 20 Olympic champions, ana more than 50
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  • SPORTS
    • 455 46 CHARITY SHIELD: MAN U v NEWCASTLE UNITED, Sunday, 11pm, Wembley The whole city of Newcastle came to a virtual standstill yesterday as the world's most expensive footballer Alan Shearer made an emotional homecoming before thousands of fans. It was his first appearance in front of the
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    • 114 46 Shearer's the final piece cf the jigsaw. He makes the difference between finishing second and finishing on top. Everybody has his price f but when the Premiership title comes home to Newcastle next year, the money will seem like chlckenfeed. Tony Taylor, a Newcastle fan for 30
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      329 46 LAN BROWN taps in on the latest in the English League JonS Cruyff: On the face of it, Manchester Unlted's signing of Barcelon a Dutch star Jordi Cruyff for a mere £800,000 (S$1.8 million) looks like the pinch of the season...or is it? "He does his best but he's
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