Singapore Monitor, 31 December 1983

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  • home
    • 399 2  -  Lucrative trade will boost investment, says federation chief By GANDHI AMBALAM CO-OPERATIVE societies have been urged to branch into the "roaring and lucrative" fast food business rather than limit themselves to thrift and loan functions. The call to widen the activities
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    • 112 2 Lianhe Zaobao TOMORROW, New Year's Day, is Xie Yongjun's first birthday and his mother got him a rare treat for the birthday party a double-headed prawn. As he was bom on New Year's Day last year, the Xies have cause to celebrate Yongjun's
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    • 466 3  -  Thieves may have planned to ferry stolen vehicles away By K K FONG JOHOR or Batam island that's where the stolen trailer and wheelloader which damaged an overhead bridge at Upper Serangoon Road on Boxing Day may
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    • 173 3 Lianhe Zaobao A DEAF-MUTE labourer was buried alive yesterday afternoon while digging a trench in Reservoir Road, Bedok. The accident occurred at about 2.30 pm when 19-year old Liang Guohua, a born deaf-mute who lived in Block 55, Telok Blangah Drive, was working at
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    • 174 3  -  ORCHARD SQUARE By ANG PENG HWA METRO and Ngee Ann Kongsi will appeal tof [ether against the $16.8 million compensation or the acquired part of Orchard Square. This was confirmed by the managing director of Metro Holdings, Mr Jopie Ong, yesterday. Just how much they
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    • 323 4  -  Offer to do 36 vegetable carving demonstrations for dog's return By CONNIE YEE SINCE the 19th of November, Mr Akira Takahashi, 34, has not been able to sleep, eat proper meals or work. For on that afternoon, Boomer, his only friend for
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    • 253 4  -  By FAEZAH ISMAIL THE prosecution in the Workers' Party case is thinking of tendering alternative charges to meet possible submissions the defence may make, a district court heard yesterday. DPP Glenn Knight told Senior District Judge Michael Khoo that he
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    • 42 4 SARAWAK'S National Front coalition was returned to power in a state assembly election which split the vote of the majority Dayaks. The four-party coalition won 31 of the first 35 results declared for the 48-member legislative assembly.
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    • 45 4 HONG KONG businessman Aloysius Chu has bought three-quarters of the 8,000 sq m People's Park Katong Shopping Centre from local property developer Mr Ho Kok Cheong. The cost of the purchase is said to be a little under $100 million.
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    • 74 4 THE morning Area Licensing Scheme has worked so well that that there should be little administrative difficulty in extending the scheme to the evening rush hours. The Communications Ministry, in a statement on various suggestions on how an efficient transport system can
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    • 34 4 MORE pupils are opting for the nine Special Assistance Plan schools because parents are convinced that the schools' better facilities and experienced teachers help to produce better pupils.
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    • 511 6  -  SBC concert to say hello to 1984 will be an affair to remember Story by PHILIP CHEAH SBC just can't be kept away these days, not even from City Hall. Tonight, over 300 artistes and 100 technicians will swarm the steps of City Hall for
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    • 364 6  -  By ROBERT YAW SINGAPORE will welcome the New Year with a big bang as some $20,000 worth of fireworks are let off for a breathtaking Auld Lang Syne for 1983 and a fiery hello for 1983. Be at the Padang tonight if being in the
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    • 378 7  -  8,000 cu m of concrete to be poured for its base By OEI SIN GIOK THE New Year will get under way for the AdelE)hi Hotel with a 40-hour, non-stop operation to ay a bed of concrete forming the bottom most slab of its
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    • AROUND SINGAPORE
      • 120 7 THE LABOUR Ministry will raise the penalty for operating an illegal employment agency in a move against unscrupulous agents who cheat foreign workers and leave them stranded in Singapore without a job. Meanwhile, legal agencies will have to pay a security deposit of $10,000 which
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      • 164 7 CONSUMERS feel that as SBC is a monopoly, it is in a position to pressurise the public into paving higher radio and television licence tees At the 10th Annual General Meeting of the Consumers' Association of Singapore, its president Dr Lee Ngak Sang
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      • 107 7 WANT TO meet the Incredible Hulk? And have your fortune told by computer? All these and more will entertain you and your family on Sentosa on New Year s day, if you make it across by 11 am on Jan 1. Evening highlights include
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      • 53 7 HDB and URA car park fees will cost 20 cents more from tomorrow. For the motorcyclists, the per entry rates has been raised to 40*. The CBD half hourly rates are also revised accordingly and motorists are reminded to double check with the signboards
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    • 76 6 otwnah OUtiikr v 9* I m. Rumah Melaka wishes /S5 4E one and all M mm SA HAPPY NEW YEAR!6I On New Year's Eve New Year's Day come and enioy Ketupat Rempah $10 per person And a wide selection of Nyonya specialities Normal business hours We also have a catering
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    • 263 7 the New Year with fun, food fare Celebrate a memorable New Year at SEA VIEW! Re-live old memories, make new resolutions. #J||M Welcome aboard LASER WORLD and storm up Ml \1 Ever popular with the crowd. Making music is M < I a scene the wee hours of the morning
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  • world
    • 406 8  -  SOLEMN CELEBRATIONS WILL USHER IN NEW CHAPTER IN OIL-RICH SULTANATE'S HISTORY From FOO CHOY PENG in Bandar Seri Bangawan AS THE clock strikes 12 tonight, Brunei will formally cut its umbilical cord with Britain and proclaim itself fully independent. Thousands of people from
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    • 505 8 RUMOURS ON CITIZENSHIP DIFFICULTIES DISPELLED Lianhe Zaobao THE PRESIDENT of the Seri Bangawan Chinese Chamber of Commerce has come forward to dispel rumours that the ethnic Chinese permanent residents would not be granted Brunei citizenship and that many Chinese residents there have
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    • 231 9 UPI WASHINGTON, Saturday IRAN appears to be training Kamikaze pilots for suicide missions against US warships in the Persian gulf area, US government sources said yesterday. The Iranians, according to the sources, also may be preparing to attack American military bases in West
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    • 237 9 SIOON (Lebanon), Saturday ISRAELI forces closed all roads into occupied South Lebapon with barbed wire today as a wave of protest which started in the southern Port of Sidon yesterday spread north to the capital Beirut Israeli officers said the three crossing points, at
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    • 220 9 AP WASHINGTON, Saturday DESPITE President Ronald Reagan's declaration that no commanders should be "punished" in the wake of the Beirut bombing disaster, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was prepared today to order reviews that could result in career-blighting reprimands for some officers.
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    • 213 9 Reuter TUNIS, Saturday PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat arrived here vesterday for the first of a series of crucial meetings aimed at redefining policy following his evacuation from Lebanon and a controversial meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The chairman of the Palestine Liberation
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    • 295 10 Chinese immigrant freed and will now be cared for by engaged couple UPI CHICAGO, Sat A CHINESE man who spent the past 31 years in a mental institution because no one could communicate with him was released on Thursday from
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    • 202 10 Reuter LONDON, Saturday BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher yesterday pronounced author George Orwell wrong about 1984. In a New Year message, she rejected Orwell's prophecy of a totalitarian state in his novel "1984" published in 1948, and said 1984 would be a
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    • 332 11 TIME to shake off the December blues the New Year is only hours away. Show out 1983 and usher in 1984 with the same style and elegance you would expect all throughout the new year, at the Marco Polo. As celebrations go, it
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    • 286 12 AP NEW YORK, Saturday MEXICO has negotiated a US$3 8 billion (557.9 billion) loan package at interest rates substantially improved from those available in March, when the world's second-largest debtor nation was trying to avert financial collapse, international bankers have announced. The
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    • 479 12 POTENTIAL WITNESSES INTIMIDATED BY THREATS UPI MANILA, Saturday A PANEL looking into the murder of Mr Benigno Aquino is asking Defence Minister Juan Ponce Enrile to order government agents to desist from interfering in its investigations, officials said yesterday. Mr
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    • 238 12 UPI WASHINGTON, Saturday US SECRETARY of State George Shultz will meet Soviet Foreign minister Andrei Gromyko in Stockholm on Jan 18, a US State Department spokesman said yesterday. Spokesman Alan Romberg said the meeting had been arranged through diplomatic channels. The meeting
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    • World Briefs
      • 64 12 Reuter TIMARU (New Zealand): Seven disabled Japanese climbers were airlifted off New Zealand's highest peak tonight on the orders of Prime Minister Robert Muldoon'. The climbers, all members of the Tokyo Deaf and Mute Climbing Society, were flown down from Mount Cook Dy airforce helicopter having
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      • 57 12 BOOTLE (England): Bluey, a pet parakeet addicted to television, was given its own midget colour TV for Christmas Bluey is seen here watching British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the screen. Bluey belongs to eight-year-old Jane Porter. The bird's TV has a 7.6
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      • 71 12 AP WARSAW: Food price hikes that were widely expected for the New Year will be delayed until February, a government source said on Friday, in a move that seemed to reflect concern over public opposition. A source at the price ministry who asked
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      • 87 12 QUINCY (Mass): Scott Grant, 12, of Quincy shows off his American Express card that arrived with a letter reading "It isn't everyone who can carry the card." The youngster, who said "it was only a joke," used his own name on the application,
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      • 48 12 THE VETERAN Chinese actress Li Lihua is to wed for the third time in three years after losing her second husband Yan Zun, also a movie veteran. The youthful looking star in her 60s is marrying an American Chinese widower
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    • 146 8 H > Cocktail Lounge i Ofr Presents T^TII 1: STEEHfm /BS/BB<BB/BS<BB/86<8B/88/88/8B 90^ '.H It's party time! Join in the celebration with us. Lots of prizes can be won. New Year Lucky Draw 10.30 p.m. Besides, you'll be entertained by THE STEED while you sip in your favourite drink. n k%AI
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    • 24 8 Brunei's major step forward: Page 16 Brunei joins the ranks of Asean: Page 17 New job? Belter pay? Look in (he Classifieds fiii i
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    • 173 11 jl m Complement Your Holiday Mood With Our Special New Year s Eve Menu Prawn Salad, Miso Soup, Special Mixed Sashimi, or Salmon with Sake Sauce, Oyster Teppan-Style, Fillet Mignon Steak, Mixed Fresh Vegetable Deluxe, Fresh Strawberry with Ice-cream at only $45.00 plus 10% 3% Complimentary: A glass of wine
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    • 73 12 Bigßaagßiaaßißisisisißißißigisi ill yvftf g] now offers you more "J vj] for your Dining Pleasure TAIWANESE CUISINE LIVE SEAFOOD 3 SZE CHUAN FOOD §j DINNER PARTIES jjj Airflown from Taiwan Kabayaki Abalone Clams Bean Sprout 31 11 30am 2.45pm 6.00pm 2.45 am rj] Ample parking space si MAY GARDEN RESTAURANT nl
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  • money
    • 62 14 MHLLSTREET PRICES registered mixed results in moderate preholiday trading yesterday as the stock market, which began 1983 with a bang, finished the year with a whimper. Transportation issues showed the most strength of any group. The biggest news of the day was Gulf oil's proxy
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    • 281 14  -  MARKET ROUNDUP By ALVIN LEE THE record-breaking feat by the stock market on Thursday in breaching the 1000 mark on the ST Index brought forth smiles after two days of inertia. Some attributed the fine performance to win-dow-dressing and speculation.
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    • 692 14 'We see a potential 1200 by the end of the year' MH§l WE BELIEVE that the Singapore/Malaysian stock market will continue to perform and to rise for much of 1984 in line with other financial markets. We see an intermediate high of 1050
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    • 305 14 Plantations set the groundwork for 1983, ftnancials came in SECTORS PLANTATIONS are the winners, surging ahead in the home straight while closest rivals, financials, faltered. Hotels are the losers, trailing the field badly. That is the result -of the Stockmarket Sectors Stakes for 1983. Those lucky or
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    • 81 15 AP Average, which fluctuated in a narrow range most of the day shedding 3.05 on Thursday, lost 1.52 to 1,258.64. It gained 8.13 points for the week, however. For all of 1983, the Dow gained 212.10 or 20.3 per cent. That compared with
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    • 165 15 [jjOLLA^ANI^y^L^ AP THE US dollar turned in a mixed performance on foreign exchange markets yesterday in Europe and tne US to close out a year in which it rose 12.2 per cent in relation to the currencies of
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    • 395 15  -  CITY SECURITIES By CHIANG WEE TIONG Director of City Securities 1983 is best remembered as a year in which the 'Buy and Hold' strategy proved to be profitable for investors in the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur stockmarkets. There also is a general consensus in
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    • 193 15  -  FINANCIAL SERVICES By LIM POH CHUAN General Manager, Financial Services Division, UOB Group THE UOB Index is based on 100 of the more active listed stocks which account for about 75 per cent market capitalisation, and is designed to be representative of price
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    • 335 15  -  NEW ISSUES By ALVIN LEE IT HAS become almost a certainty these days that new public issues of shares get overwhelming responses and sustain prices well above issue prices. It is recognised that stags, opportunists going for a fast profit, are the main
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  • 1499 16 features THE last time I visited it in 1974, Bandar Seri Begawan was a somnolent place. The most striking building is still the Sultan Ali Saifuddin Mosoue built by the father of the present ruler. Millions of pieces of Venetian gold-leaf mosaic, which glint in the
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  • opinion/letters
    • 474 17 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT IT WILL be an unusual ceremony in many ways. There will be none of the traditional trappings of national accouchement. Instead, Brunei's 210,000 people, enjoying a per capita income that exceeds even that of Japan, will greet the event in
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    • 601 17  -  REPLY HAN FOOK KWANG For Permanent Secretary Ministry of Communications I WOULD like to comment this week on suggestions concerning restrictions ana charges on the use of a vehicle rather than its ownership. This idea is evidently attractive because it appears
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    • 25 17 A small dally task, If It be really dally, will baat the laboars ol a spasmodic Hercules. Anthony Trollope British novelist
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    • 72 17 LETTERS on any subject of public interest win be accepted for publication They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the wnter decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number wotrfd be useful We reserve the
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous

  • 504 18  -  WITH VALERIE TREVOR The Best of the Midnight Special (Ch 5, 7.50 pm) PRODUCER Burt Sugarman has another starstudded package for you. Australian singing star. Helen Reddy, plays host in tonight s programme. Her guests include the Bee Gees who will give us a medley
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  • 58 18 Profile (Radio One, 12.05 pm) THE Alan Parsons Project is featured in this excerpt, and you get to hear many great hits, including Eye of the Tiger plus interviews with group members. Moments to Remember (Radio One, 11.15 pm) PRODUCER Belinda Yeo has compiled this special package of
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  • 512 18  -  TV Scene By PHILIP CHEAH SBC will not only celebrate its fourth anniversary on Feb 1 with Channel 12 but also with a set of impressive firogrammes. Beginning on Jan 27 and stretching over he Chinese New Year festivities, it has lined up musicals, Academy Award-winning films,
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    • 170 18 NordMende. The standard for pace-setting technology, superlative quality and advanced design. NordMende incorporates the very latest technology in its range of colour televisions. Technical advances such as the selfconverging, precision in-line picture tube with its high brightness, an improved electron beam system for greater sharpness, and pigmented phosphors for better
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 916 18 TV fmmgm] Wml /■'jmßofl J y Q :§i ma "bP WUIP =rzri by Sesame I 200 Flash Gordon (Cartoon) jßKflQo r jflHV 41 M 1 J U The Top Variety iX-f The variety worlds come together again r^LPW w-*IJ3 under the Big Top Smart s Circus. Host Bernie Clifton introduces
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    • 339 18 12.00 PM Programme Summary 12.05 2. Accordion Music played by Horst Wende 3. Musical Notebook The World of Chamber Golden Trumpets Music played by various Orchestras: 1. GF Handel: Overture from artistes 6.00 News-in-Brief 6.05 Easy ListenSolomon, English Chamber Orchestra/Ri- ing (cont'd) 7.00 News and Weather Forecast chard Bonynge 2.
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    • 165 18 EEMK'.'^ja 12.00 PM Newsdesk 12.30 Let There be Drums 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 British Press Review 1.15 About Britain 1.30 New Ideas 1.40 Book Choice 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Album Time 3.00 World News 3.09 News about Britain 3.15 Short Story 3.30
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  • leisure
    • 881 19 BEFORE we raise the curtains on 1984, perhaps it will do us good to take a long, long pause, sink into our armchairs and look back through 1983 in its last hours and grasp what we've learned from both our
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    • Article, Illustration
      740 19 IT'S all said and done the year 1983. Yet, precious little seems to have been done to achieve peace and harmony in the world. Several Singaporeans speak of their disappointment with the year but also their satisfaction. It was not easy to get their views though restaurant
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    • Article, Illustration
      834 21  -  MUSICIANS ON THE YEAR PAST AND AHEAD By PAT D'ROSE SUDDENLY, it's time to say goodbye to 1983. Goals that you set over the year have either chalked up points on your success chart, been shelved for the coming year or abandoned totally. And how did the year treat
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    • 87 20 p 1 Rasa Sayanf grand festive jwoes^ Quick-lunch Hong Kwlyto ARE HERE AGAIN! Noodles served 11.Smr. In t a I# the evening drink dance to TROPICANA presents a Star-studded country western mueic. Show and varief y ol special non-stop programmes. Le Bistro Enjoy your night of joy and fun. A
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    • 731 21 fllAi GUIO6 Midnight show: THE SENSATIONAL PAIR Midnight show: THE WRONG STEPS (C) (C) DALIT (*****16): THE DRUMMER (C) orpmard rnMirRAPK /p\ MJr"* Zha l! G00r0,,,! Wo SfMSSL^J^ C Synopsis Directed by Yang Quan. the plot p r O J s^1 a ev Che,l EdW rd Woodward Prlscil,a ANQ MO
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    • 88 22 JADE: 31st Jawsome DAY! (*****80) 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30, 9.00 No Free List Admission Prices: CIRCLE $4 ft STALLS $3 Spectacles lor 3-0 viewing available at 40* each. HURRY-HURRY! SEE IT NOW! The most amazing 3-D film avar made! "JAWS nr tm JWIWRHi JWilll IMP lIWIIS HISS AHMSIKNi MNtoIMIWI' IMS
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 355 22 CHINESE OPERA EXCERPTS UNDER the Ministry of Culture's Play Production Assistance Scheme, the Chinese Theatre Circle will present Chinese opera excerpts at the World Trade Centre Auditorium today at 7.30 pm. Excerpts will be from The Patriotic Princess, A Parting Song of Love, Meeting at West Lake and Stealing the
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    • 496 22 ART INDONESIAN BATIK THE Modern Art Society, South-east THIS exhibition focuses on the tradiMia Art Society and Art Hut are hold- tional batik patterns of Indonesia, ing an art exhibition by Koo Mei at the their method of production, signifiChinese Chamber of Commerce and cance, usage and regional differences Industry
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 641 23 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 20 p 9 oo You have a great deal to do to- pte mber 23 J***" 22 dav and there will not be much Devote y° urse,f to family and KIL P^-ihZi!o n! k£ friends today and you should help forthcoming. By this
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    • 240 23 ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECRET By Bill Barry 171 jl/ THERE IT \S! V— x /•IMPtgITEN W* Al IfcMnOM/^q jl. A 1/ ASO MEGATON 11 1 J F*?.. v OUR m 9CORPIOUS J y^r^' II I atomic I --jj: fji toft/- r'A PIS<&UISED A» p WE HAVE visual J J 4 fl.
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  • THE SINGAPORE MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 256 24  -  He has been burning up the track in morning gallops BY WONDER BOY CONSISTENT Longevity 11. who finished only once out of the frame in all his eight starts so far, looks set to provide another good performance in Race Six, the
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    • 101 24 1 st 2nd 3rd Alwin Tweedie 58 48 42 M C Lam 48 42 43 Terry Lucas 48 23 20 M Rahmat 38 27 30 Leslie Khoo 37 21 30 Nigel Tiley 35 38 31 Gerry Donnelly 29 25 21 YKFoo 28 20 34 Sairi Suliman
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    • 96 24 Ivan Allan 67 43 50 Garnet Bougoure 56 51 47 George West 55 41 40 Teh Choon Beng 54 64 54 Samsuri Abdul Rahman 46 41 36 Gary van Breukelen 43 30 33 Buang Abu Bakar 41 46 25 M Zafir bin Matban 33 25 38 Eddie van
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    • 118 24 Aeras should win Race 4 AERAS (4) has improved tremendously. Paired again with jockey Vela, who knows him very well, Aeras should start hot favourite and win Race 4. Race 6 is a very complex field of favourites and outsiders. Successor (1) is improving well and has an
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    • 277 24 WONDER BOY MA-ZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zoo Boo) (Wan Boo) RACE 1 3 Dynarrocron Moon Travel 6 Fu|t*an 6 Fufson III 6 Fuasan III 2 Tey 7 Noma Game 2 T«|i 4 Cempaka San 8 RACE 2 Mm Mum 7 Pno*aphone 10 Toy Drummer 1 Mustang in
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    • 6014 25 Today's card begins ham] 1 RESTRICTED TERMS *2.00 CLASS 4 DIV B 1,200m Stakes $13,000 1 0 Fighting Princess 57 Oo 3bnzm Rodgers Royalty (s) (Mussorgsky Brandy Snap) !Oth 25/12 C4-B 57 KW P1200g GWtenng Pnze 1st 1:14.3 2 7 Teiji 57 Aziz 4Mknzg West
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    • 256 27 Solar Control Ind Co 747-4362/ 747-4410(Soiar control film for glass windows I doors, to prevent heat I glare) Teck Chua Long Renovation Construction 282-4463/*****74 Whee Lee Inter Furng 440-2498 MASSAGE SERVICE Katong Sauna Et Massage 345-5116/345-5117 MODELLING Elsa Yeo Model Centre 338-0740/337-5791 Ivor's Model (The Ist Male Modelling Agency) 338-6862
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    • 195 27 Singapura. 5{0923) 337-7611 I No 6 Scotts Rd, #03-19. 3rd fir. Scotts. 5(0922) 235-9131 1 176 Orchard Rd. #02-03. Centre-point. 5(0923) 733-5222 Unison Corpn 468-2451 PACKERS M MOVERS A-Frwghtra 533-3617 Europac Transportation 469-7415 F M Group 440-3255 tTan Clearing Agency 270-7161 Winland Transport 337-1211 PARKING ATTENDANTS Armstrong Security Consultants 293-5419
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    • 108 27 PROPERTY Precious Gold Real Estate Agency 338-4871. SECURITY GUARD AGENCIES Everpro Pte Ltd 225-7288/9 Harmon's Pte Investigation L Security Ag *****78/*****77 (24 hr answering service 337-2255, ask for Harmon Singh Intertec Pte Ltd 223-0749 M Salomon Secur 298-8263 Pan Island Secur 339-4541 Prop Invest Serv 447-3691 Tom-Reck Security Serv9l-9343 SERVICES
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 220 28 classified 273-9090 Situations Viant I HMTm THOMSON-CSF I J£ I S E ASIA PTE LTD L 'C_ Bendemeer Road. eoiufMifnnoto #05 05. Kallang Basin I jfTflT |Sr ,ndus,r al Estate. I jfel; MPO Singapore 1233. /__A FIRST ENGINEERING tl PLASTICSPTLLTD. require 1. ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT (FEMALE) Secondary school education with intermediate
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    • 629 28 Situations V*c*nt We are an established multinational semi conductor company, locally based for more than 14 years. In line with our expansion programme, we require dedicated and suitably qualified individuals to fill the following positions: PRODUCT ENGINEERS PRODUCTION SUPERVISORS yWd improvement pro- (ONE TO WORK PERMANENT 'C' SHIFT) grammes, initiate
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    • 70 28 AGRICULTURAL SPECIALIST. Well known international firm have vacancies for agricultural specialists. Applicants must have at least 3 to 5 yrs. experience dealing in agricultural products. Female artist also required. Must have at least 3 years practical experience in batik designing with well known company. Please apply to: S.M. Box. 483.
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    • 40 28 AN ESTABLISHED OPTICAL requires: (1) Factory Operators (Male/Female) (2) Trainaa Technicians Completed National Service Experience not necessary as training will be provided Interested applicants please call personally for an interview at: HILITE PTE LTD 16 KALLANQ PLACE #07-19 SINGAPORE 1233
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    • 259 28 Situations Vacant «0> I SANYO! T «iK'»ONiCS( >>»'« .'C T requires T Female Production I Operators rAr years and above ■J. Primary educa- tion Benefits: T T Attractive salary "ifL 1 T Gift vouchers as j attendance in- centives i Purchase of Sanyo products at staff price < 5-day week
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
    • 308 29 classified 273-9090 Situations VjKJint I LEADING INTERNATIONAL JAPANESE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, with major projects including the MRT, invites A suitably qualified applicants tor several positions of:- H CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN Singapore Polytechnic Diploma in Building or equivalent. H *At least 2 years supervisory experience in Building I Construction. H Applicants with GCE
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    • 166 29 Situations Vacant NIXDORF COMPUTER IF A STABLE JOB IS WHAT YOU WANT, WE GOT IT! Ii i MORE FEMALE I PRODUCTION OPERATORS I I I I 111 I l-rl —I NEW Starting Wage on Ist Jan 1984 Ss4l2 p.m.; I 1 1 1 With increment 1 after 3 months. i
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    • 234 29 Situations Vjcjnt I iflK CARLEE HU ELECTRONICS N|l|y PTE LTD No. 16 Kallsmg Placm fto3-19/27 Slmgmporm 1233 requires PRODUCTION OPERATORS We provide Attractive salary. Attendance bonus. Aircond. comfort. Good working environment. Free hot drinks. Friendly atmosphere. No scope work. Upgrading opportunity. We are expanding and we require more operators to
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  • Page 30 Advertisements
    • 273 30 classified 273-9090 Situations Vacant g-HwUil Join us as: FEMALE fg PRODUCTION I i OPERATORS 1 Choice of 3 fixed shifts P nst/2 n d(3rd) I plus so much more! p! Shift Allowance w/s Ay. Matching Payment for Employee Savings Plan My a 5-day work week yyfr a Medical Benefits MA
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    • 147 30 Situations Wanted WAMTtD fICMHUt WORKKRS age 16 and above to work at designated areas Transport provided Can Selamat at 338-0025/6 FOOD CORNER/ CATERERS Lunch, Dinner problem? Tel: 747-0876, 747-7890 (8.00 am 5.00 pm), for delicious food prepared by creative cooks. Monthly 4 dishes $60 per person per meal. L CAPITAL
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    • 300 30 FOR SALE SECOND-HAND YAMAHA UPRIGHT PIANO MODEL P2F Tip-top condition as confirmed by Yamaha technician. SPECIAL OFFER! $1.800 only Interested, please call 779-3278 DECEMBER 82' YAMAHA ELECTON ORGAN A 505 Highest offer above $1,450 eocuro. Tel: 560*4257 (after Ip.m.) MATtOMAL HV—37O KM VCH only $925 NV-600 EN VCR only $1050
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    • 337 30 Business Services NAME CARD EMBOSSING Ready in 4 hours. WENG SENG PRINTING SERVICES International Plaza Anson Road, 002-13 Singapore 0207 Tel: 220-7403 Cleaning Services Specialised in all types of cleaning, such as spring cleaning, steaming cleaning. We also offer gardening, floor polishing, carpet shampooing and general housecleaning. CONTACT *****24, *****57
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    • 319 30 WANT TO PURCHASE URGENTLY Large area naar sea-front-At least 30,000 to 60,000 sq.ft. Please contact Mr. Wang. Tal: 253-7383 (between SJOO p.m. 6.00 p m) iuumtn wnawri. •aawwwtl Road Luxuriously furnished njaisoonetle for rant Interested parlies please cal 734-9181. Ms Ng MMMLMM/ JALAM KAYU/ in IMilKri $850 Serangoon/ Bedoh $1,500
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    • 291 30 I NOTICES I IN TNI MATTER OF TNI COMPANIES ACT, CAP 185 AND MOKtfSMM tIHCAroUE PMVATV LTD NDTICEOF IFDSNM. RESOLUTION (Pursuant to Section 254(2(b» At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held at 9-32 Nakacho 2 Chome, Musa-shino-shi, Tokyo 180 Japan on 30 December 1983 the following Special Resolution
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  • sports
    • 170 31 v ■[:Tl m laafcalfc alt IwvV 4Vv W Ww Thursday's Results: Cleveland 86. Atlanta 77. Houston 107. Boston 94. San Antonio 138. Kansas city 127. Chicago 100. Portland 99. Denver 101. Philadelphia 89 Saturday's games: No games scheduled W L PCT oa PMwMpta 21 6 .778 Boston 23 8
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    • 304 31 They edge Portland 100-99 in cliff-hanger reiafeijSßßMßßiiaiuin INTERNATIONAL WEEKEND SPORTS ROUND-UP AP NEW YORK, Saturday DESPITE a 14-point deficit entering the final quarter, the Chicago Bulls were not to be denied their seventh straight National Basketball Association victory. "We had to make it hard for
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    • 235 31 Mtcfcty Itijit (Top four in ssch division quality for Stanley Cup playoffs.) Thursday's results: Buffalo 8. Quebec 5. Detroit 6. New Jersey 1; St Louis 3. Toronto 1 Saturday's games: Washington at New Jersey. Quebec at Montreal Chicago at Detroit. N Y Rangers at Buffalo Los Angeles at Toronto.
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    • OTHER NBA GAMES
      • 160 31 AP THE Boston Celtics learned the same lesson that ancient warriors did: always be ready for Sampson. Sampson in this case Ralph Sampson scored 27 points and Allen Leavell added 12 points and four assists in the fourth quarter on Thursday night to lead the Houston
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      • 94 31 AP AT Denver, the high-scoring Nuggets registered their second-lowest point total of the season, but they also allowed the fewest to hand Philadelphia only its sixth loss in 27 games. Dan Issel scored 28 points and Alex English 23 for Denver, which snapped its five-game losing
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      • 86 31 AP SAN Antonio got 44 points from George Gervin to give Bob Bass a home victory over Kansas City in the first game of his third stint as Spurs' coach. A 16-2 streak in the second quarter gave the Spurs a 55-39 lead and the Kings,
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      • 125 31 AP AT Richfield, Ohio, Cleveland snapped a six-game losing streak and held Atlanta to the lowest point total in the NBA this season. World B Free scored 23 points and rookie Paul Thompson 20 for the Cavaliers, who were one of three teams who had scored
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    • 317 32 Discarded Arsenal striker gets to prove his old club wrong in Sunderland colours nglish League Ere view Reuter LONDON, Friday LEE Chapman, the striker Arsenal decided.was not good enough despite dishing out £500,000 (551,525,000) for his services in August 1982, gets an early chance to show the troubled
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    • 84 32 UPI WEEKEND: Nottingham Forest v Liverpool, Mancheser United v Stoke, West Ham v Tottenham, Southampton v Arsenal. Luton v Sunderland, Aston Villa v QPR, Everton v Coventry, Ipswich v Notts County, Leicester v WBA, Watford v Birmingham, Wolves v Norwich. MONDAY'S MATCHES: Liverpool v Manchester United, Luton
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    • 976 32 DIVISON ONE P W D L F A PI Liverpool 2« 12 5 3 35 IS 41 Manchester Ctd 20 1 1 S 4 38 23 38 Southampton 20 1 1 4 5 22 14 37 West Ham 20 1 3 S 31 18 36 N. Forest 20 1
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    • 215 32  -  JANSENITES 1 KHALSA 1 By B KULA ROY Moheira's Kiwi shine was riot enough for pale looking Khalsa to beat ever green Jansenites in the Singapore Hockey Association's senior.knock-out semi-final at Tanglin yesterday.» i*• o v The game which>as.^eicfi£<JWo extra, time with
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    • 174 33 MONITOR action camera FOR all the excitement that was to come, Fandi Ahmad's magnetic presence and the almost carnival atmosphere of yesterday's friendly duel between two close neighbours, the organisers and players from both sides did not forget who this match was dedicated to the late Choo
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    • 165 33  -  By S GULAM DOLLAH Kassim, the Singapore Ex-Interna-tional striker whose name was announced in the lineup at the National Stadium before the Singapore Ex-Internationals versus Malaysian ExInternationals match last night did not take to the field. He rushed home just
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    • 270 34 HERE'S HOW YOU CAN STILL QUALIFY FOR THE BIG SPORTS QUEST L SO you thought it might be aN over if you didn't ma* in your vote for the top sports stars of 1983 in time yesterday Wed. there IS a way you can still make it
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 173 31 SENTOSA COMPUTAMATCH Presents the newest computer applications in Singapore:- Genius a software designed to give you an IQ rating in 5 minutes Crystal discover your strength and Ball weaknesses in just 60 seconds on our computer Luv Byte a demonstration on computerised N/ matchmaking \-A FOR DETAILS PLEASE CALL TEL:
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  • Page 32 Advertisements
    • 34 32 But Hurry! Only while stocks last (Inclusive of professional drilling) Available at: STRIKE LINE PRO-SHOP Kim Seng Bowl Tel: *****09 PLAYMORE The No 1 Name in Bowling jdt Jackie's Bowl, Orchard. Tel: *****? 1
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  • Page 33 Advertisements
    • 87 33 Open from 10JO am -11 JO pm. We've given Orchard Grill a new look to let you dine in luxury and comfort We've also expanded our menu. Besides our popular steaks and ox-tail, you can now enjoy all your favourite local dishes like Indian Mee Goreng, Hainanese Chicken Rice, Chilli
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  • Page 34 Advertisements
    • 105 34 0 $1,000 CASH Q $500 o $200 4-5: $100 6-10: A set of Lotto track suits 11-25: Track shoes 26-45: Anchor Beer carton 50 consolation prizes of an Anchor tee-shirt each PLUS National CTV for the sports star who polls the most votes MY MALE STAR OF 1983 (in ordtr
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    • 120 34 PEPSI Youth Squashlburnament CPSfI TRADEMARK REG'D Kalfang Squash Complex, January 14th-22nd It's open to all squash players, both boys and girls, in four age groups: under-19, under-16, under-14 and under-12. Entry forms are available at SSRA Singapore Sports Council Reception Counter and Kallang Squash Complex Sports Shop The closing date
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  • 655 35  -  A GOOD, CLEAN FOOTBALL LESSON SINGAPORE EX-INTERNATIONALS 4 MALAYSIAN EX-INTERNATIONALS 4 (MALAYSIA WIN 4-2 ON PENALTY KICKS) Same time, same place next year? MONITOR sports By KENNETH JALLEH THE NIGHT of the Singapore and Malaysia Ex-Internationals was a fitting climax
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  • Page 35 Advertisements
    • 54 35 [Sports Quest '83 Your last, last chance: 35 FIND OUT IN PAGE 34 FULL-TIME COURSES I COMMENCE 9 JAN 84 I MORNING CLASSES I FEE: $12.50 per subject I AFTERNOON CLASSES I FEE: $7.50 per subject 1 PLEASE ENROL EARL Y TO I ENSURE A PLACE I For more information
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    • 160 35 RACE CMP m&k 3-PAGE TEMROUT: PUBIS 25-27 r JHL m >*+ I*9 Pitney Bowes. World's No. 1 Franking Machines Mailing Products. Pitney Bowes is the world's leading supplier of mailing products. These products include postage meters and mailing machines, letter and parcel scales, inserters, folders, collators, addresser-printers, and plastic and
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