Singapore Monitor, 1 February 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Wednesday, February 1, 1984 30cents
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  • 436 1  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM SINGAPORE Airlines has ordered six of the eight top officials of the Singapore Air Transport-workers' Union, until today engaged full-time on union work, to return to their Jobs. It has been a practice since the early Seventies for the eight
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  • 82 1 BRING the umbrella along on your Lunar New Year outings as the rainy spell is expected to continue for at least another week. More afternoon showers are forecast for the next few days. However, bright weather is not too far away, according to the
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  • home
    • 390 2 CHANNEL 12 made its much heralded entry into Singapore lives last night, and serious minded or not, many Singaporeans tuned in out of curiosity or to get a glimpse of the sort of programmes to expect from the new channel. The Monitor spoke to a few Singaporeans
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    • 268 2 Channel 12 a needed alternative, says Mr Dhana STORIES: PHILIP CHEAH INTERVIEWS: WONG SING YEONG WHEN TELEVISION first began in Singapore 21 years ago, tne vision it gave was of people as they were, as cameras, for the first time, faithfully recorded them in schools,
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    • 228 2 Violinist returns 21 years after-appearing on the-then RTS LAST night, Channel 12's inaugural concert was a homecoming, even if temporary, for two of Singapore's most artistic sons. Seow Yit Kin made a dramatic return the night before the concert to perform his piece and then had to
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    • 28 3 1 I «a.« jilu to fctftM tke Y«v o< WHAT wt Mi^h*W* I i tailr< ia fc -TTT /i iWr I TwL-d
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    • 323 4  -  SECURITY OFFICERS OF DEPARTMENT STORES HEAVE SIGH OF RELIEF AFTER TWO MEN ARE ARRESTED j By K K FONG SECURITY officers and house detectives in department stores are heaving a sigh of relief the police have picked up two men believed to be
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    • 151 4  -  IT'S MADE OF GLASS FIBRE AND IS FEATHER-LIGHT By TYE KIM KHIAT IT LOOKS like a rock, it feels like a rock. But it doesn't weigh like a rock. In fact, the chunk of "rock" is almost feather light compared with the real thing.
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    • From our EVENING EDITION yesterday
      • 56 4 BUSINESSMAN Wee Mon Cheng was fined $22,000 yesterday by District Judge S Chandra Mohan after he was found guilty of evading income tax. He was found guilty on the first two charges of willfully omitting from his 1970 and 1971 returns income in the
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      • 51 4 AT A divorce hearing yesterday, the court heard the story of a woman, 30, whose husband wanted to be a woman. Judge Kulasekaram granted the divorce on the grounds that the marriage had irretrievably broken down. He granted the woman custody of her
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      • 51 4 THIS year's band competition of the Youth Festival will be downplayed because the highly competitive nature plays havoc with the schoolchilden's emotions. This year's Youth Festival band competition will have a festival of performances instead of a competition finals, said an official of the Education
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    • 273 6  -  Passengers who refuse to pay their {ares will be charged By YONG POW ANG THE Registry of Vehicles will be tough on commuters who take taxi drivers for a ride. There has been an increase in the number of passengers who refuse
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    • 307 6 THE government cannot shut down Kimetal, Singapore's only tin smelter, without harming investors' confidence. The Ministry of Trade and Industry, in a press statement yesterday, said tin has never been a controlled or dutiable item Any company in Singapore can trade in
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    • AROUND SINGAPORE
      • 95 6 The Culture Ministry will be featuring a play about the Babas and the Nonyas in this year's Festival of Arts. Those who are interested in Peranakan culture can apply to take part. Auditions for the play Mamantau, by Felix Chia, will be held in the Reception
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      • 84 6 THE Port of Singapore Authority is holding an exhibition featuring prints and drawings of sailing ships and steamships both past and present at the Maritime Museum at Sentosa daily. Among the drawings of interest is that of the Nippon Maru which calls at our port
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      • 49 6 THE American Women's Association yesterday gave away $57,000 to the charitable institutions they support. The money was raised through its annual bazaar at which ornaments and decorations were sold. The Association has donated a large portion of the money to the Community Chest of Singapore.
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      • 70 6 IF YOU are thinking of visiting the Jurong Bird Park over the next few days, you might want to take part in the Birdwatchers' Hong Bao Hunt. It is open to all visitors of the Park from Feb 2 to 5 and entry forms are available
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      • 85 6 A LITTLE bit of the moon is on display at The American Library Resource Centre at the US Embassy in Hill Street. The moon rock, gathered during Apollo ll's historic moon landing in 1969, was brought to Singapore by the National Aeronautics and
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  • world
    • 338 7 AP UPI LONDON, Wednesday A FORMER North Atlantic Treaty Organisation commander has accused the Soviet KGB of masterminding a smear campaign that led to the dismissal of West German General Guenter Kiessling as Nato's deputy supreme allied commander due to suspicion that
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    • World Briefs
      • 64 7 Reuter LONDON: A schoolboy who dreamt up a makeshift sailing craft during a seaside holiday in 1958 was declared by a British court today to be the .inventor of the windsurfer. the ruling by the Appeal Court in London that Peter Chilver's experimental design was
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      • 52 7 AP LOS ANQELES: America's most married man, Glynn Scotty Wolfe, displaying photographs of his 26 wives in the dressing room where he was preparing to tape a Merv Griffin special. Wolfe married his 26th wife last Saturday in Las
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      • 78 7 AP PARIS: A Paris civil court yesterday ruled a magazine which published photos of the mutilated body of a cannibal victim must pay the victim's family *****,000 damages. Judge Pierre Drai, who earlier had ordered "Phpto" magazine withdrawn from sale, fixed the amount
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    • 133 8 AP SAO PAULO, Wed A COMMUTER train was set on fire and several others were damaged by rock-hurling passengers angered by an hour-long delav, Brazil's Federal Railroad spokesman Joaquim Balbino de Carvalho Neto said vesterdav. Mr Neto said the incident took place
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    • 436 8 AP BEIJING, Wednesday WIFE-BEATING, a vestige of China's feudal past, is so serious that the government is publicising vicious cases and educating women about their legal rights. Last Friday, the Workers' Daily newspaper reported the execution of a minor official in the Henan provincial city
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    • 226 8 AP MANILA, Wednesday PHILIPPINE First Lady Imelda Marcos denied in an interview yesterday that she ever told assassinated opposition leader Benigno Aquino ner people might kill him out of misplaced loyalty. Her denial came as a protest tog yesterday by 300
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    • 326 8 LAT-WP, UPI NEW YORK, Wednesday BULLET wounds, land mine explosions and the psychological stress of being under Soviet siege have physically and psychologically shattered the civilian population of Afghanistan, according to three French doctors, who were among the few Western medical
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    • 102 8 AP BOMBAY, W«d NEARLY 250,000 opposition party activists volunteered arrest in India's Maharashtra State in support of a farmers' movement yesterday as a general strike virtually naralysed activity in Bombay, the state capital, authorities said. In neighbouring Kar-> nataka State, rail and road traffic
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    • 112 8 Reuter TOKYO, Wednesday JAPAN'S police want tougher laws to crack down on "no pantiescoffee shops with bottomless waitresses, porn shops peepshow theatres and "love hotels", which they say are corrupting young people. The National Police Agency wants the public morals
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    • 210 10 AP BAGHDAD, Wednesday THE IRAQI navy and air force yesterday destroyed five Iranian navy vessels and downed a US-made Iranian jetfighter over the oil-rich Gulf, a military spokesman announced. The spokesman said the Iranians suffered the losses in an air
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    • 109 10 Reuter LONDON, Wednesday PRINCESS Diana, whose wax effigy was voted the most popular at London's Madame Tussaud Exhibition last year, has been toppled by pop star David Bowie. Mr Bowie, featured in an orange suit surrounded by special effects, was overwhelmingly voted yesterday as
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    • 330 10 He accuses rivals of pushing an 'anti-business attitude' Reuter CHICAGO, Wednesday PRESIDENT Reagan, denying charges he was a rich man's president, accused his Democratic opponents yesterday of pushing the same anti-business attitude he said they favoured when they were in power. Mr Reagan
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    • 55 10 Students from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, wait in line to sign a giant heartshaped Valentine's card that will be sent to the marines in Lebanon for Valentine's Day. The valentine card which is 9.14 by 7.31 metres was the idea of a student Mark Johnson
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    • 343 12 Gunman dies in hail of police bullets after holding 4 hostages in bank robbery bid UPI SYDNEY, Wednesday A GUNMAN holding four hostages from a failed Dank robbery commandeered a car and led police, reporters and medical crews yesterday on a five-hour chase that ended with' his
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    • 274 12 AP BEIJING, Wed TWO senior scholars in China's Academy of Social Sciences have been studying in the Soviet Union for the last six weeks, the government said yesterday. The announcement by the official news agencv Xinhua said they left Moscow yesterday for home.
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    • 7 8 Goodjobs art plentiful! Look in the Classifieds
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    • 93 10 quaintness of a tavern in I m (iharles Dickens' England. u u Come bend your elbow with m Captain Cuttle and Sam Weller. m Relax to the sounds of one of M Singapore's top groups THE DOW NTOWN I appearing nightly except I Sundays. I so Marine Parade Koad *oiol
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    • 10 10 Where are the best property buys? See today's property pages
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • money
    • 219 13 OUTSTANDING loans by banks to customers continued their expansionary path to reach a new high of $32.76 billion in November, figures released by the Mone5, Authonty of Singapore show. Three categories general commerce, manufacturing and building and construction took up to 64 per cent
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    • 311 13 THE HANG Seng Index closed last night above the 1,100 market for the first time in six months. In so doing, it has again re-established itself at a higher level than the Straits Times Industrial Index in Singapore. The Hong Kong index stood at 1,102.38
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    • 376 13  -  By YEOW MEI SIN DESPITE the fact that the $1 billion Rahardja Centre project will be completed way behind schedule, large American chains are already eyeing the management contracts of two of the three hotels to be built on the site. Beaufort
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    • 176 13 r HHLLSTREET J Reuter WITH investors focusing on the national budget deficit and ignoring Sositive economic news, Wall treet continued its slide yesterday and sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average lower for the tenth time in the past dozen sessions. The Dow, which was higher going
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    • 286 14 BANK interest rates are showing clear signs that the falls of past months have come to an end. They have stabilised over several months and if anything, are rising, at least for the short term. Industrial and Commercial Bank has become the third Singapore
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    • 71 14 PART of the reason lor the receat aptread has beea Christmas when the demand for loans was highest. The Laaar New Year, too, to a contributory factor to the rtoe. However, Monetary Authority of Singapore statistics show that demaad for loaas to lad as try and
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    • 375 14 COMPANY NEWS KUALA LUMPUR Kepong expects the proposed acquisition of two plantation-based companies and the Hap mills in Sabah to contribute positively to the long-term profitability of the company. A circular to the company shareholders said this is in view of
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    • 482 14 Newsweek THEIR deals are pure Hong Kong which is to say, capitalist. Two weeks ago they snapped up eight huge blocks of luxury apartments. Almost simultaneously, they took a con- trolling stake in one of the British colony's leading electronics firms. Their earlier ventures have included
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 58 13 PALM COURT Dine and wine alfresco. By candlelight Moon and stars, balmy atmosphere and soft breezes, good food and drinks will make for a pleasant evening. Malayan Cultural Show eivry night in the Breezy Verandah. AMPLE FREE PARKING Our tradition is legendary S Raffles Hotel Brack Ron r< Si nftpart
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  • Gong He Xin Xi
    • 429 15 TO some, it is an annual test of nerves and raw courage. To others, it is simply a delightful experience that should be practised throughout the year. It, of course, refers to the Chinese ritual of eating raw fish, or yu sheng, for good luck during the
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    • 73 16 ON the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree and so goes the old English song spelling out the rituals of the 12 days of Christmas. Here in the East, the Chinese have their own
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    • 340 16 Partridge in a pear tree Lunar New Year style... HERE'S how the Chinese celebrate the days of their Lunar New Year. New year's eve: offices close early, everyone rushes home for the traditional reunion dinner which marks the start of the festivities and eating binges to come. Children, in new
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    • 136 15 The CrystaJ Court Restaurant made the Chine* Swtmmtng Club is open to the poblK M "'I Mfi^« (gn) CRYSTAL COURT RESTAURANT PTE LTD CHINESE SWIMMING CIUB NEW SPORT COMPIEX 21 AMBER ROAD SINGAPORE 1543 TEL: 34t 5050,*****63 "GONG XI FA CAI" presenting W« arc open for business on 3/2/84 'FA
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    • 65 16 Wishing all our patrons, business associates friends A VERY BRIGHT AND PROSPEROUS CHINESE NEW YEAR Business will resume as usual from 5-2-84 I RESTAURANT/ l \A jA t/ h'l -Mr~ff -fm c? J Ai WH£f jV; f M H >L i 1 r J rvS 1 I il f j
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    • 432 17 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR,\ J WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1954 n M 0 PAGE 17 m m m m > K *S >x ztwsm ih Wishing all our customers, patrons, J Lucky Raw Fish* Super Shark's Fins [SjjT jffijr "GONG XI FA CAI" *JJ SE ECOMPLB( i* H Uther In the New
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    • 460 18 »AGE 18 m m K I THE SINGAPORE MONITOR, WEDNESDAY,/X FEBRUARY 1, 1984 rj Yi *3 Bw s* s fk SSS^DSSES^SSBjTI^i^eIeISeISEISSSSSGIBISSSSSSSSSSSBSSSSSSSSSSSS Wishes all a Happy Prosperous New Year We will be closed at 3 pm on Ist Feb and re-open on 4th Feb 1984. M Traditional Raw Fish Porridge will
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    • 444 19 Wishing all friends and patrons a Happy HAIR wish S all client ALON Uinar New ifear sin associates i rKIhiNDS 8$ 23 ®f P Ut$ GOH0x FACAI C3j luiil 9« mil la #01-01 ORCHARD C& E (f) rA 220 ORCHARD ROAD S'PORE 0409 rm i (eft) M h NARD Tel:
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  • 863 20 High incidence of cancer near nuclear plant sharpens controversy features Reuter SEASCALE (England): A high rate of cancer among children living near a British nuclear plant is sharpening controversy over just how dangerous low-level radiation is. Britain's conservative government has appointed one of the country's leading physicians,
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  • opinion / letters
    • 438 21 THE SINGAPORE wmm COMMENT FROM tomorrow, when we celebrate Lunar New Year, the Rat will scamper to take its appointed place in the Chinese horoscopic scheme of things and leave its mark on our lives for the next 12 months, or so we are told. We've
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    • 218 21 PRIVATE CARS MUST BE COMPLETELY BANNED IN CITY AREAS I WOULD like to suggest a complete ban on private cars within a 1.6-km radius of the city centre. The fringe car parks scheme should be revived and extended, if necessary. The city shuttle service
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    • 25 21 BEFORE baying anything, It Is well to ask whether one could not do with out It. John Lubbock, English astronomer-mathematician (1803-1865)
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    • 83 21  -  MRS GRACIE WEE-LEE Sr Public Relations Officer Ministry of the Eavironment I REFER to the complaint "A Rude Awakening at Five in the Morning" by "Patience Drained" (SM, Jan 19 l The area is under tidal influence and, therefore, water has to be
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    • VIEWPOINTS
      • 59 21 I REFER to the Case reply, "Please Air Your Complaint" (SM, Jan 27). I think Case should go one step further and summarise complaints against retailers and shopkeepers in a regular bulletin. The bulletin can also highlight the compliments paid to those retailers and snopkeeprs
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      • 53 21 THERE shouldn't have been a shortage of new notes for the Lunar New Year. I feel that customs which are not harmful and do not really cost anything to anybody should be encouraged. The giving of hong bao with new notes is one such example.
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      • 71 21 I WISH to protest against the changing of the Balmoral Park entrance from two wav to one way. As a resident of Balmoral Park for many Sars, I can assure you that turning right on to Imoral Park from Stevens Road was never the cause
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 35 21 PREMIERZWfi s fIE PRESIDENT^ Cif vnii rwr<wp <*iiimT\ SW® HE EHJOYED WANIS©KM*| ffimuiwwHnl HISTRIPANDI<HED .like billions HAVEWJSEEM WILUAMSBURS.' IN/WLIIARYAID DISNEYVW3P y TO KNOCK mi YET?? J v TMT IS^NPLIKE w,y 'ill JL\ 1 u *'iyi
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  • 336 22  -  TV Scene By WONG SING YEONG THE Joy of Spring, tonight's Lunar New Year live celebrations from Caldecott Hill, will include short excerpts of New Year greetings from the superstars, namely Jackie Chan, Carl Mak, Lu Xiaofen, Frances Yip and Samuel Hui. Although these recorded greetings
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 2224 22 K2135H BEIL film 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by IBMBBBV m Exercise with Gloria. MBr*' P 4.50 The Animal World: F Romper Room (E). I 1 JILt 5.45 Home. it. The children at Westmere House witness real es- Jp tate agent Sinclair threatening to evict Joe from his M
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 289 23 fjci* We are opening 1 soon at Jackie's Bowl/Orchard I L»p vt Theatre A I I JUTvkLiIU 1 .AJL Prizes Galore/T/f% I IJm FACAI Hong Bao Treat! ymjk I I TO ALL OUR CUSTOMERS Celebrate the Lunar New Year with I I iT* Orange Julius at all our stores located
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  • leisure
    • 899 24  -  Reunion dinner much more than just a meal By PAT D'ROSE It's time to start afresh again! Not the rat-race but a new year the Lunar New Year. PAT D'ROSE looks at the reunion dinner a tradition she has enjoyed with her Chinese friends and reminds us
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    • 756 25 Celebrities, like everyone else, are celebrating, too. WONG SING YEONG spoke to 3 singers from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore on how they spend their New Year. FOR SARAH CHEN SHUHUA, Taiwan's up-and-coming singing star, it will be the traditional overnight session of chatting, playing cards and
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    • 656 25  -  By INEZ WEI RATS! RATS! RATS! It's that time of the year again. The city's all dressed up in good-luck red to herald in the Lunar New Year. Out there in the streets, frantic shoppers are making a dash for the best in festive goodies. Over at
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    • 698 27 STARSTRUCKj mk OTHER singers may make the headlines with sensational gossip, but not Frances Yip. Her career and marriage are steady. For the past few years, she was contented with her television work, as one of the three hosts of KlOO, a weekly HKTVB
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    • Article, Illustration
      386 29 QIN HAN HERE ON SINGING STINT By WONG SING YEONG QIN HAN, known for bis many appearances in Taiwanese soap dramas, is in town. But he is here not to act but to sing. "I had never done a full show before. When I was singing on stage
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    • 765 31 LION AND DRAGON DANCES TO usher in the Lunar New Year, lion and dragon dances will be staged at the Goodwood Park Hotel tomorrow, at the car park facing Tudor Ballroom, from 11 am to 11.30 am and at the Main Poolside from 11.35 am to
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 622 27 12.00 PM News-in-Brief followed by Programme Sum- 12.00 PM Newsdesk 12.30 Waveguide 12.40 Book 12.00 PM Programme Summary Eras: Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symmary 12.05 Your Lunchdate 1.00 News 1.10 Your Lunch- Choice 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 12.05 Musical Notebook: Stravinsky phony, Symphonic Orchestra of the a'ooiwlMiSf J.OSOn
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 141 31 CAPITOL TONIGHT 0.80 ft 8.15pm UDO-ÜBERTY: TONIGHT 0.15pn SEASON FROM TOMORROW SEASON FROM TOMORROW TlMy tttfe FIRST BLOOD ft tfeM In M loassl It's FIVE YEARS later and for Tony Manero fMAMOUNT PCTURESPWSfNTS AOHRISIMO nOOUCTOI-A STIVIStER SMIIOWIIIM MARK GREGORY BO SVENSON RAYMOND HARMSTORF S CffllHl* RHOOtS 11*01* HUMS STEVE NMDO
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 52 31 CHINESE NEW YEAR ART AN exhibition on Chinese New Year Art will be on at the Yu Yi Exhibition Centre at Blk 231, #03-03, Bras Basah Complex today. Admission is free. ART KAREN HOISINGTON'S collection of 16 graphic collages will be exhibited at Paper Moon Gallery, Centrepoint, from today till
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    • 37 31 TODAY: Low tide: 4.56 am High m tlde: 10.37 am (2.6 m) Low tide: 5.33 pm (0.2 m) TOMORROW: Low tida: 5.30 am (1.3 m) High tida: 11.15 am J m) Low tide: 6.07 pm (0.2 m)
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 793 32 leisure comics ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECRET By Bill Barry WE PLAN TO PLY OUR TOP l/l GIVE YOU TASHA\J LTASHA WILL PILOT THEN^MJ^MH-. A EXECUTIONER INTO MOSCOW NAVAYA. MAJOR AH, RUSSIAN BOMBER OVER J 1 POR THIS TASK WE HAVE A CORRECTION FORMER gaJ MOSCOW AT A PRESELECTED) TT A g%
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  • PROPERTY Section
    • 606 33  -  By TYE KIM KHIAT COME July, the Hyatt will be a veritable tropical retreat of the first order; for, on the roof of its new four-storey car park, will be possibly the world's largest and most intricate roof garden and man-made "interior" waterfall, cascading down a 14-metre
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    • 105 33 SALES i—«m)j V;T'". —cmmon wiici »m*[ZL Kim Lin Mansion 3-bedroom walk-up apartment 130 sq m $360,000 mid-Dec district 20 (1,400 sq ft) Freehold Newton View 4-bedroom, fifth storey, 250 sq m $700,000 early Jan Admer district 11 condominium facilities (2,688 sq ft) Realty Sing Freehold Pte Ltd Goodluck
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    • 554 34  -  By ANNIE CHIA THE MANAGEMENT council of Pandan Valley feels that the task of managing Singapore's biggest condominium, comprising 605 residential units and 18 shops, is bevond it "It should be left to the professionals because none of us is qualified
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    • 587 34 A MANAGEMENT council, no matter how active, is still limited in many ways, says MR TAN KHIONG KHOO, managing director of YUMIN PROPERTIES MANAGEMENT. His remark follows our publication of the Ridgewood model on Jan 18. Immediate staff replacement to ensure continuity of
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    • 279 34  -  By ANG PENG HWA YOU'VE GOT to be more professional if you want to survive in the face of recession and higher public expectations. That was the advice offered to real estate agents by Mr Robert Pennington,
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    • 133 34 I ■sums HStLSIYLS I I LUXURIOUS APARTMENTS I lAt the junction of Scotts/Orchard Roads. Next to Hyatt Hotel. Icreates a new era in cosy modem living. QQQ2E33S3S&D2E3&D I INDOOR a OUTDOOR FACILITIES M* M.OOOsq ft Hotel style lobby •Tropical garden Closed circuit TV I* Standard swimming pool Man-made waterfall cum
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    • 224 35 WWM&i .<-■ x m m I^SCSv T. y ■Jh f X NAM HO TRAVEL SERVICE (S) PTE LTD Haed OHIo* Pa*r« Cantra Grd Floor. 100 Eu Tang San St. #01-14. #01-16, #01-16 S'por* 0106 Tel: *****33 (7 ImM) Tdw NAM HO RS ***** Catta "NAM TRAVEL" Illicit omorn PaopJa's Park
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    • 294 35 i{| TO ALL OUR PATRONS. SUPPLIERS |§j PI AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATES. jjfj El JJTIL El Ei P 4L. n El El 4Kb. EJ El 44v Ei El El 121 EI Ei J a U a EI -ul y qi El I El 0 v_»» El EJ 82t St SJ El
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    • 270 36 /4 >3 Kim Travel Senice Re. lid. 750QA Beach Road. #01-326, The Plaza, Singapore 0719 Tel *****42 (7 lines) We wish all our Clients, Friends and Business Associates GONG XI FA CAI The Reliable Travel Service Company TA 309 |J MAIM lAKTI TMMHC COMPANY Wish customers. 1 business associates and
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    • 157 36 rapl lr Jewellery jl bib< wL_Ta B g Wishing all our friends patrons A Very Happy Prosperous Chinese New Year SHOWROOM AT: 206/ 208, South Bridge Road mmm Singapore 0105 P""i ■*■1 Telex: RS ***** LEEONN I mm TEL: 223-5533 L Wishing all our fxitrom, J W friends "CONG XI
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    • 191 37 r i m es w s m f 8 I m s—> t' uish to take this opportunity to uish all our (0? clients, <ivmk uiti'.s c* frunuU Jg "GONG XI FA CAT' S jsl/ uiui aim uish to .vrui thou our appreciation for their kiml support. W'e are looking
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    • 197 37 I S Jj RESTAURANT WELCOMES YOU THIS HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR We have our 'finger-licking' specials prepared just for you for this Lunar New Year. Curry Fish Head Fish In Banana Leaf 1 King Prawns k Tomato Puri Chicken Mutton It Chicken Beryani Prata Murtabak Thosay Sweetmeats Vegetarian Si Non-Vegetarian
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    • 220 38 il' i Classified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Smday Monitor: Words 0.35 cent* per word 0.55 ceati p«r word DM*y $7.70 p«r col. cm $11.00 par col. cm S—in— Hra Mon-Frl, 9am-spm Sal. 9am-lp«n Commercial Serv 280-1157/8583 Daniel Chan Mint Serv .296-4765 Francis Acctg Serv. 333-5552/« Ling ft Co -Beach Road
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    • 327 38 Advance Car Rental 215-2704 A 1 Car Rental 2*2-3179 Elvin Transport 741-4791 Keng Soon Auto 337-7533 Kin Sal Veh Rental 214-4171 Pleasant Car Rental 244-4171 Trinity Rent-A-Car 235-9293 C ft R Caterer 284-3780 Cornerstone Foods 251-0511 Hamidsh Caterer 269-1691 Indonesian Buffet 440-3255 Nice ft Easy Home Delivered Dinner 440-3255 Memory
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    • 375 39 classified 273-9Q90 AFTM TRYINO TNI HIST. COMB TO 1 MORNINO OiORV FLORIST FOR TNB M MORNING GLORY FLORIST gh ANooirr shop 2|K WE SPECIALISE IN:- <« A, FLORAL BOUQUETS ARTIFICAL DRIED A, CD STANDING BASKETS FLOWERS FRUIT BASKETS POTS FLORAL STANDS lA WREATHS HAMPERS |gfa FLORAL ACCESSORIES And ONta For
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    • 167 39 PROPERTY Property For Site BROOK BROOM PLAT, tastefuty furnished, well maintained, good location Highest offer above $140 000 secures Cal 444-7036 VACATION Tours NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I. Guenther A J Dirks of No. 2 Arang Drive #03-24 Arang Court, Singapore 1335, have applied for a Wholesale Liquor
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    • 254 39 In th« Matter off Th« Companies Act, Cap 18S and In tha Matter off PANTHEON PRIVATE LIMITED (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 1. Colombo Court, #04-15, Singapore 0617 on Saturday, the 28th day of January 1984, the
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    • 42 39 Our Deepest Sympathy And Condolences to DR CHENG TONG FATT, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture and Deputy Chairman of Singapore Broadcasting Corporation on the demise of his beloved mother MDM CHIANG SOK GUAN i The Management Staff of The Singapore Monitor Limited
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  • sports
    • 559 40 He admits taking bribes at Ascot races last year AP LONDON, Wednesday BRITISH jockey Billy Newnes was banned from riding for three years yesterday after admitting that he took bribes at the Royal Ascot race course last summer. Newnes, one of Britain's leading
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    • 233 40 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO, Wednesday GIULI COUTINHO, president of the Brazilian Football Association, has said the Jules Rimet Trophy stolen on Dec 19 might not be the original but merely a replica. "From what we understnd, the original cup
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    • 106 40 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday TOKYO beat Rio de Janeiro 2-1 in a bruising game to collect the third spot in the Inter-Cities Soccer Tournament here last night. The final between Swansea City of Wales and Seoul will be played today. Rio de Janeiro,
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    • 102 40 AP KARACHI, Wednesday THE Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan has constituted a two-mem-ber disciplinary tribunal to look into alleged breach of code of conduct by Pakistani batsman Zaheer Abbas. Zaheer Abbas returned from Australia last week on personal grounds and wrote
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    • 285 40 Manager Bearzot's move to revive ailing soccer fortunes Reuter ROME, Wednesday MANAGER Enzo Bearzot has called up midfielder Sergio Battistini in his latest bid to revive Italy's ailing soccer fortunes. Battistini is named in an 18-strong squad for Italy's first match of
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    • 493 41  -  IT WILL NOW BE HELD ON TWO DIFFERENT COURSES By ERNEST FRIDA THE on-and-off prestigious $60,000 Rolex Masters is definitely on, according to Loh Siow Whatt, the captain of the Singapore Island Country Club. Siow Whatt said: "The Rolex Masters, one of the oldest
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    • 437 41 OLYMPIC GAMES FRONT AP SARAJEVO (Yugoslavia), Wednesday JUAN Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said yesterday that all the communist countries are getting ready to send their athletes to the Olympic Games at Los Angeles. "I have
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    • 234 41 Reuter ATHENS, Wednesday SPYROS Foteinos, the mayor of ancient Olympia who says he is determined to stop the commercial sponsorship of the Olympic flame, met one of the Los Angeles Games organisers today but emerged to say he was still
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    • 273 41 A TEAM of British golf professionals led by Paul Downes, one of England's best amateurs, will play against Singapore and Malaysia this month. The Britons, a mixture of three established plavers and three future stars, will play against Malaysia
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    • 297 41 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO, Wednesday FORMER world motor racing champion Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil said today ne would test the new Spirit Formula One car late next month before deciding whether to return to Grand Prix racing. Fittipaldi, world champion
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    • 506 42  -  Nine NFL matches postponed due to soggy pitches ALL STORIES BY S GULAM NATIONAL Football League matches over the weekend were badly affected by the rain. Nine of the 14 scheduled matches were postponed due to the soggy grounds
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    • 203 42 THE FOOTBALL Referees Association of Singapore (FRAS) is preparing new guidelines on now offences on the soccer field should be punished for the benefit of the Football Association of Singapore. According to a source in the FRAS, the implementation
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    • 271 42 P W D L F A Pts SAFSA 4 2 1 0 10 3 10 TIONG BAHHU 4 2 2 0 7 4 8 FARRER PARK D'MOS 3 2 0 1 6 3 6 TAMPINES ROVERS 3 1 2 0 5 3 5 CHANGI CSC 3 1113 3 4
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    • 282 42 SAFSA 3 POLICE SPORTS ASSOCIATION 0 SHARI RAHIM, the Police Sports Association goalkeeper, could have been in a festive mood last night. Otherwise, he would not have conceded three 'hong bao' goals to present Safsa with an easy win in a National Football
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 301 43  -  SBA WILL HELP FINANCE HIS EUROPE TRIP IF HE CAN PUT UP A GOOD SHOW IN THOMAS CUP By ALFONSO CHAN WONG SHOON KEAT may not have to pay through his nose to compete on the European badminton circuit in March,
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    • 269 43 PLANS for a $40 million indoor stadium in Kallang Park have been submitted to the Ministry of Social Affairs for approval. The proposed stadium, with a full seating capacity of 15,000, promises to be one of the befct indoor sports centres in Asia.
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    • 126 43 BUDAPEST, Wednesday HUNGARY'S most consistent soccer team has been expelled from a local league, because it never existed. The official Communist Party daily, Nepszabadsag, reported that the youth team of the Nak village club in southern Hungary had lost all their matches this season by a 3-0
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    • 329 43 FA CUP 4 TH ROUND Reuter LONDON, Wednesday A SECOND-HALF goal from Bobby Barnes gave West Ham a 2-0 win over fellow-Londoners Crystal Palace here last night to put the First Division club into the last 16 of the English Football Association (FA)
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