Singapore Monitor, 11 January 1984, Afternoon Edition

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  • 19 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR *5® riTriT**"' EVENino EDITION M C (P) No 13 5 83 Wednesday, January 11, 1984 30cents
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  • 315 1  -  Latest raids bring the total number of firms robbed to 8 By K K FONG ANOTHER two goldsmith shops have been hit by snatch thieves, bringing the total to eight jewellery firms being robbed in the past three weeks. The two shops in
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  • 256 1 UPI ST LOUIS (Missouri) Wednesday AIRCRAFT that could travel anywhere on earth in less than two hours could be flying by the year 2000, a McDonnell Douglas Corp official said. The planes are Tavs, for transatmospheric vehicles, and
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  • 64 1 AP VIENNA, Wednesday A BULGARIAN airliner crashed while trying to land at Sofia's Airport yesterday, killing all 50 people on board, the East German news agency ADN reported today. ADN said the Balkan Airlines TU-134 left East Berlin at 11.40 pm yesterday. Normal flight time
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    • 380 2  -  DISCREPANCY BETWEEN POLICE STATEMENT AND EVIDENCE GIVEN IN COURT WORKERS' PARTY CASE By FAEZAH ISMAIL SENIOR district judge Michael Khoo this morning ruled that the court cannot accept a portion of the evidence of Mr A Balakrishnan, treasurer of the Workers' Party.
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    • 55 2 IN his police statement, Mr Balakrishnan had said: "After I was given the balance of $60 on May 27 last year, Wong Hong Toy prepared a receipt for $400 and handed it to me." Yesterday in his evidence in court, Mr Balakrishnan said he was not present
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    • 321 2 Colony's Public Sen/ice training director here for five days to find out how we do it Lianhe Wanbao FIRST it was our Keep Singapore Clean campaign. Now it is our Courtesy campaign. Hong Kong may still have the edge on Singapore
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    • 145 2 FOUR National Cadet Corps students have been chosen to represent Singapore at the Republic Day Camp to be held in New Delhi later this month. The boys are Cadet Lt Lu Liang Yuan from Queenstown Technical Secondary and Cadet Lt N Ravindran
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    • 51 2 THE Regional English Language Centre is offering scholarhips to officers in the education service for diploma, certificate and higher degree courses for the academic year of July this year to June 1985. Application forms are available at the Education Ministry. The closing date is Jan
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    • 205 3 Japanese expert will be here for a week's consultation FREE consultation for Singapore companies on developing and sustaining Quality Control Circles. That's what Japanese expert Mr Y Ueda will offer during a visit to Singapore next week. Mr Ueda will be here for a week
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    • 273 3  -  By LOONG SWEE YIN SEVERAL Thai construction workers got into a fight shortly after a lunch on Sep 3 last year to celebrate the Seventh Moon Festival. About three hours later, one of them, Nikom Kachai, was found lying in a
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    • 104 3 Lianhe Wanbao THE Singapore Armed Forces' Reservists Association (SAFRA) is keeping up its efforts to provide more cabbies for the Singapore Commuter's taxi fleet. The association began its fifth training course on Monday with 120 reservists. So far, 572 reservists had gone through the
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    • 352 4  -  Two Singapore schoolboys win competitions at a computer camp in Australia By BERTILLA PEREIRA TWO Singapore schoolboys, the only foreigners who took part in an Australian summer school for computing, have come out tops in programming competitions there. Lam Chih Chao from Hwa Chong
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    • 103 4 Lianhe Wanbao THE secondary one pupils of Manjusri Secondary School must be the envy of their peers as they have the first priority in using the school's 24 brand-new IBM personal computers. Manjusri, which has spent $200,000 on the new equipment, is
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    • 399 4  -  By FOO MEY KIEN THE EMPHASIS in the part-time Masters degree course in Computer Science at the National University of Singapore is on problem-solving techniques, a university lecturer said. Dr Ling Tok Wang, senior lecturer with the Computer Science Department, explained that the
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    • 200 4 His interest in research is one reason AN SAF captain's desire to further develop his analytical faculties spurred him to apply for the master degree in computer science course at the National University of Singapore. And since Captain Yun Ta Chun, 25,
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    • 344 6 PROMOTION AND TRANSFER EXERCISE WILL INVOLVE MOSTLY INSPECTORS Lianhe Zaobao THE Police Force is expected to launch a personnel reshuffle which will involve the promotion and transfer of at least 20 senior officers soon. While the exercise will involve mostly inspectors, a few
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    • 390 6  -  THERE'S A SHORTAGE OF GUIDES FLUENT IN OTHER LANGUAGES BESIDES ENGLISH, CHINESE By YEOW MEI SIN THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board is planning to resume courses for new tourist guides this year. Such courses were temporarily shelved last year because travel agencies
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    • 12 2 Want to know what's happening in Property? Look in today's Property pages
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    • 129 4 Now we'd like to tell you about our extraordinary prices. Our new menu now offers a wider variety of delicious fare, including barheque and claypot dishes. But the most pleasant surprise of all is how inexpensive it all is. Take a look at these two sets of menu. LUNCH OR
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    • 10 4 Where are the best property buys? See today's property pages
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  • world
    • 334 7 Focus of drunkenness shifts from 'skid row' to drawing rooms of the middle class Reuter GENEVA, Wednesday THE INDUSTRIALISED world's drink problem is increasing, though at a slower rate, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) suggests that governments should clamp down on the availability
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    • World Briefs
      • 60 7 UPI WASHINGTON, Wednesday: The administration has decided to avoid provoking Syria by halting the announcement of US reconnaissance flights over Lebanon, Reagan Administration officials said. But Pentagon spokesman Michael Burch yesterday made it clear the reconnaissance sorties, generally flown by F-14 Tomcats operating
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      • 56 7 PARIS: An explosion and fire late last month caused serious damage to the pipeline under construction to carry gas from Soviet Siberia to Western Europe, sources here and in Washington said yesterday. The reports cast doubt on Soviet claims that the controversial project
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      • 56 7 BRISBANE: Minister for Main Roads, Government and Racing, Mr Russ Hinze (centre), strips off his shirt and poses with Beer Belly Competition Gold Coast Queensland Australian winner R Gordon Mather (left) and run-ner-up Neville Blake on Sunday. Mr Hinze came under fire the next day from
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      • 70 7 KUALA LUMPUR: The trial of George Tan, boss of the troubled Carrian Group, is unlikely to start for at least eight months, according to police sources in Hong Kong. They said prosecutors were having difficulty preparing their "intricate" case against Tan and
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      • 32 7 BEIJING: Chinese researchers have developed a method to cure barren cows by combining laser technology with acupuncture, the New China News Agency said.
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    • 523 8 The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday IMMUNITY of Rulers from court proceedings does not mean that they can commit criminal acts, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has told the Dewan Rakvat. The Prime Minister, who tabled the Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 1984, explained on
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    • 109 8 ROYAL ASSENT: 66 f5) A Bill shall become law on being assented to by the Kins, but no law shall come into force until it has been published, without prejudice, however, to the power of Parliament to postpone the operation of any law or to make laws
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    • 233 8 ROYAL ASSENT: 66 (5) A Bill shall become law on being assented to by the King. If for any reason whatsoever the Bill is not assented to within 15 days, it shall be deemed to have been assented to and shall accordingly become law. (SA) No
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    • 273 8 ROYAL ASSENT: 66 (4) The King shall within 30 days after a Bill is Sesented to him: assent to the Bill; or if it is not a money Bill, return it to the House with a statement of the reaons for his objection. (4A) If the
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    • 430 9 He says better Sino-US ties is prevented by American support for Taiwan Agencies BEUINQ, Wednesday CHINESE Premier Zhao Ziyang told President Reagan yesterday that China cannot promise to rule out the use of force to reunify Taiwan with the mainland, the
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    • 44 9 Pro-Taiwan slogans for Chinese leader UPI THESE demonstrators failed to ruffle Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang during welcoming ceremonies yesterday at the White House. About 100 demonstrators holding proTaiwan banners, chanted throughout Mr Reagan's and Mr Zhao's speeches. UPI PICTURE: AP
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    • 170 9 Agencies WASHINGTON, Wednesday PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan said yesterday the United States and China "stand on common ground" In the quest for peace and opposition to Soviet expansionism, bat Premier Zhao Ziyang says the relationship "is far below the level it should
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    • 119 9 Lianhe Wanbao HONG KONG, Wednesday A LONG queue of TV stars, both well-known and unknown, formed outside the personnel department of Hong Kong's TVB network to apply for the purchase of the comKny's public shares scheduled for ting on January 26. The TV
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    • 277 10 UPI BONN, Wednesday WEST GERMAN authorities have postponed the trial of a suspected woman accomplice of the elusive terrorist "Carlos the Jackal," who threatened to assassinate the country's Interior Minister, if the trial went ahead. A West German Justice Ministry spokesman denied
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    • 56 10 UPI Cereal heiress Majorie Merriweather Post's 118-room winter home in Palm Beach (Florida) is expected to set a national record for the most expensive residence ever sold. An estimated $15 million (5531.5 million) !>rice is said to be nvolved in a preliminary contract for the
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    • 511 10 Rare Russian report hints at intrigue in killing of retired officer LAT-WP MOSCOW, Wednesday THE MURDER of a retired senior military officer, said to be an associate of the late President Leonid I Brezhnev, has cast light on an obscure corner of the vast
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    • 46 10 AP SALT LAKE CITY, Wed A University panel yesterday approved guideliness permitting surgeons to implant an artificial heart in a second human patient, although some members said more research was needed before the device could be used in soms heart cases. AP
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    • 85 7 p Bangkok I Situated in the commercial financial centre of Singapore. BI HI An office/banking building with glass-curtain walling. I Towers over the golden-shoe area. With a panorama view of the sea yonder. HI I Central Air-conditioning System Abundant Car Parking Lots in Basement HI Strict Security Measures Roof Top
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    • 81 9 ELIZABETHAN X Appetizing lunches I "yr\l I I and dinners in the old English manner. -fa $/y i Traditional Sunday CUTTV mUi A X M Dine and urine Wh\ I /Vl alfresco. By A v A. T candlelight You'll have nt evening. Our tradition is legendary With a Singapore Sling
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    • 189 9 \m| rWnM/ /zp MM *<WP* A LANGUAGE? Never has something so small done so much for so many. There's a world of difference between learning a language at home and in a school At home, you can control your own pace whereas in a school, the pace of study controls
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    • 196 11 J The privacy of a semi-dctachcd houseXhe facilities Individual preferences are well catered for, with 13 FrCC~holcl property r different choices ranging from 2031-2692 sq ft (188.69- ipcjrir^fion to fnrPiOnprQ Ar 250.10 sqm)-each with its own garden patio. Internal IVM3UUUIIUILHUtyU*. 9Bt SHKv finishes, too, are far better than the conventional
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  • money
    • 410 12 Duta Consolidated submits bid for 46.4 per cent stake A THIRD and lesser-known contender for Sealion Hotels, owner of the Hyatt Regency in Scotts Road, has emerged. The stock market yesterday was buzzing with rumours that the Yap family of Duta Consolidated Bhd has
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    • 262 12 Lianhe Zaobao THE VALUE of commercial land has dropped by up to 30 per cent since the property market Deaked in 1981, a lana deal in the Orchard Road area indicates. Sited behind the Holiday Inn in Scott's Road, a 3,274 sq metre
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    • 205 12 THE market was quite firm this morning with overnight leaders and second liners coming into play. Supreme Corp took pride of place as the top volume generator with 661,000 snares traded and closed the morning one cent lower at $1.90. Sime Darby was next with a
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    • 249 12 Selected stocks at midday. Market tone: mixed Boustead 3.04/3.06 Cold Storage 5.15/5.20 Esso 11.60/11.70 F and N 6.90/6.95 GIH 4.66 S Genting 5.25/5.30 Mulpha Ltd 1.87 B Haw Par 2.66/2.67 Hume 5.90/5.95 Inchcape 3.12/3.14 Intraco 3.50/3.54 Isetan 3.98/4.00 Jurong Cement 4.12 S Jacks Intl 7.05/7.10 Keck Seng 6.15/6.20
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    • 126 12 Your S$ to one unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DO TT DO US! ***** 2.1260 2 1170 sterling 2 9913 2.9692 2.9542 Australian 6 1.9501 ***** 1.9126 Canadian! 1.7122 1.6922 1.6772 New Zealand! 1.39*9 l 3708 ***** S$ to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.0126 10.5126
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    • 648 13 More fizz for F N despite competition Sun Hung Kai Investments recently carried out a market report on Fraser Neave. The following are excerpts of the report. «s£ Fraser Neave Limited F N is expected to maintain its leading market share for carbonated soft drinks and beer in Singapore and
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    • 101 13 UNITED Overseas Bank is the second buk to raise Its prime rate this year. The benchmark lending rate went np by a quarter point to 8.75 per cent from 8.5 per cent this morning. The change also applies to groap members Chang Khiaw Bank
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  • features
    • 1003 14 PARENTS PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE IN CULTIVATING A CHILD'S TALENTS AP South Koreans aro literally into music from tho timo thoy aro born. Somo children aro given musical training when thoy aro only throe years old. It's more nature than nurture as far as Korea's musicians are
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    • 148 14 sji** m a, culinary ex P erience //^teyou atourCfunalDwn I tot Jjl x I« HB #H rff Jr Dine in a palace courtyard and savour p f Jj x If hMm&Jtßr Sichuan cuisine at its very best. For the months dCViT J^VvYY\\s^»flll\amlmmrf )e< em^>er anc January, the Chinatown I O
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  • opinion/letters
    • 490 15 THE SINGAPORE MCMTOR COMMENT THE final chapter to Malaysia's contitutional amendments controversy was Written yesterday when the Senate gave its imprimatur to the compromise worked out between the nine hereditary rulers and UMNO, the dominant partner in the ruling National Front coalition. With passage of
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    • 261 15  -  Pedestrians and cyclists who do not heed traffic signs must be fined LAZZARETTI VINER RALEIGH Singapore 1545 I WOULD like to comment on the views voiced by "Libra" (SM, Jan 7) on the need to curb cyclists in East Coast Road. There are
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    • 70 15 I READ with interest your report (SM, Dec 27) on "Union lashes at 'high-handed' Soviet banks." As mentioned, the bank has been operating in Singapore since 1971. One must be wondering why the officers have just decided to form a union
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    • viewpoints
      • 204 15 THE experience of your correspondent "A frustrated motorist" (SM, Dec 29) is similar to that which the unwary motorist faces at the Orchard Road/Patterson Road junction if he happens to enter Orchard Road from Claymore Hill and is headed for
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      • 121 15  -  EUSEBIO LEOPOLD Singapore 2879 ON JAN 5, at around 3.15 pm, I approached the URA car park kiosk at the Kampone Java fringe car park to exchange my old unused coupons. All the tabs were completely in tact, except that the vehicle number was
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      • 75 15  -  LUI BOH GLAH Singapore 1231 I WOULD like to enquire about the entitlement for the 13th month bonus in respect of a person who gave two months' notice to resign but was told to cease work immediately with IVi months' bonus. Is she or
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  • 366 16 The family at Westmere Home (Ch 5, 5.45 pm) EMINA'S mother calls at Westmere Home as she wants to be re-united with her daughter after six years. But Emina is unsure about it. Meanwhile, Paul is excited about a concert and the children prepare for it. They believe
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  • 44 16 English by Radio (Radio One, 7.45 pm) WE learn two popular folk rhymes tonight Polly Put the Kettle On and There Was an Old Woman in this lively series of English lessons. After some time, the other aborigines find Nagamma 11.44 Close
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  • 780 16  -  From cartoons to educational programmes TV Scene By I PHILIP CHEAH WATCH out kids. This is 1984 and Big Brother's looking out for you with new programmes. Cartoons, musicals, dramas and educational programmes will hold your attention when school doesn't. First, the goodies cartoons. The Smurfs
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1586 16 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by 4^ ■Shhi'' 4 4.30 Exorcise with Qloria. 4.50 The Feather This programme focuses on an Africa, where three-quarters of the world's biggest live. The semi-desert climate southern Afri- J ca makes for breeding Romper Room. v [W :|liL 6.10 Programme Highlights. 1/V News
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  • leisure
    • 1006 17 She's moved from country rut to pop-rock LAT-WP BONNIE TYLER'S monster single, Total Eclipse of the Heart, tends to elicit a passionate response from listeners positively and negatively. Most people either love it or hate it. Some say they love it so rapturously that it
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    • 421 17  -  SBC CAPTURES THE SOUNDS By PAT D'ROSE MUSICIANS from different groups cast aside their professional rivalry last Sunday and enjoyed the beautiful music they whipped up that afternoon. To the handful of people present at The Ship Lounge last weekend, they must have looked like a
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    • 748 18 UNHAPPY SITUATIONS FOR CAROL AND TERESA st££22£S CAROL CHENG has finally broken her silence. Despite malicious rumours during the shooting and publicity drive of The Last Affair (or Flower City), her recent movie with Chow Yuen Fatt, she kept her cool. It was not till the final
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    • 403 19 AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED ON JAN 28 AP BEVERLY HILLS, California: Terms of Endearment, a mother-daughter comedy-drama, and Yentl, Barbra Streisand's onewoman show about a Yeshiva student, each won six nominations for the 41st Golden Globe awards. The awards are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,
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    • 422 19 fllM GUIDE has been devastated by a nuclear war, the story is about few survivors who try to DALIT (*****16): GO A LITTLE CRAZY (C) CLEMENTI (*****51): PAPA, CAN YOU reach a distant area which shows signs of UWAOU (*****30): GHOST NURSING (C) HEAR ME S NG < c >
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 104 20 liSfe EBH CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY THE Singaoore Jaycees Mandarin Chapter, with the Singapore Cultural Studies Society and the Shu Yi Tao, will hold the second National Hui Chun Competition on Sunday from 10 am to 12.30 pm at Toa Payoh Garden. The competition is divided Into three sections open, secondary school
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    • 783 20 «3s£K One ot Charan Sharma 'a paintinga which will be exhibited PAINTING 8, 9 am to 5.30 pm daily. A PAINTING exhibition by Charan The show wilf highlight the interestSharma, a renowned artist from India, n K v na j!®J ls brass, ornaments will be held at the Alliance Francaise,
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 678 22 leisure comics ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECRET ARIES March 21 to April 19 I Wl YOU 1 •'-1 A settlement made today will pocket money. An after-school work in your favour. Measure job provides valuable exper- .W MADAM... IT'5 A TRAP' 7 1111 11 > i 111 your words when speaking in
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  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 358 23  -  IT WILL GET OFFICIAL STATUS IF IT IS PROVED SUCCESSFUL By ANG PENG HWA THE Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (SISV) will hold a course in March, which, it hopes, all new entrants to real estate agencies will have to pass before they
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    • 243 23  -  By ANNIE CHIA THE WILSHIRE, a small condominium development at Farrer Road, will be the first residential project to feature semi-circular corner glass windows, giving a panoramic view which is often obscured by angular corners. Belgium-made, the windows afford a 180 degree view,
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    • 280 23 DEMAND for private residential properties from March to September 1983 was more than 30 per cent higher than projected by property experts. According to a survey on the occupancy of private residential properties by the Re-search-Statistics Unit of the Ministry of National Development, some
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    • 282 23  -  By TYE KIM KHIAT THE developer of Es-el Court, comprising just four units of townhouses, has taken the plunge he is providing a solar-heated swimming pool, believed to be the first for a housing project in Singapore. Mr Lim Eng Seong will live in one of
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    • 550 24  -  By TYE KIM KHIAT FEW buildings can claim to have space for architects to play with and to "dispose of." After all, space is at a premium in Singapore, especially in the "pricey" Orchard Road area. But one such building is Claymore Plaza.
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    • 858 24  -  By ANNIE CHIA THE answer, says Mr Wan Fook Kong, a partner of Jones Lang Wootton, is "no" because most condominium owners neither have the skills nor the experience to manage their own properties. In this sense, even real estate professionals trained in
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    • 81 24 Now Credit POSB housing ban rates are down Our interest rates are down to maximum repayment period of just 9% pa for all housing loans up to 25 years and use your CPF savings. 10 years. And 9V*% for II to 25 years. Credit POSB. as always, offers the You
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    • 532 26 classified s 273-9090 L EMPLOYMENT _________J Situations Vacant Jfe The largest iftmanu- factoring Company In R Singapore rwjulrai: LIFT MECHANICS (For our offlctt at E Bedok/Toa Payoh/ E Ana Mo Klo/ Tatok Btangah) PRODUCTION E OPERATORS E (Male/Femate) S AN are welcome to ap- I ply TRANNG WM be 3
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    • 219 26 Situations Vacant Here's your ZZZ chance to grow with us. Join one of the world's largest 'ridge compressor makers also one of Singapore's fastest growing companies as:— PRODUCTION OPERATORS Male $510.00 ZZ Female $460.00 |fl Requirements: P'«f«r»bly male applicants who have completed National Service I* Able to work on 2
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    • 734 27 classified 273-9Q90 Situations VjKjmt Singapore News Publications Ltd S N P L BUILDING Singapore News Publications Limited is developing a 6-storey printing factory at Genting Lane, Singapore. Suitably qualified persons are invited to apply for the posts of: 1) 1 Senior Architectural Clerk-of-Works 2) 1 M ft E Clerk-of-Works Applicants
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    • 143 27 cam nmnmmt rom rental/ sale 26. Greenwood Avenue (off Hillcrest Rd). Tel: 469-0478/ 468-4241 Opens Sundays/ Public I Holidays jtmt contract Mmr Kitchen Carbine I. Bedroom Wardrobe. Panting and Mosaic/ Ceramic Flooring Contact 273-2257 for your choice Interior Decor /Renovation Ala. Decorative Secsrlty Doors Windows Box Awning Iron Grilles h
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