Singapore Monitor, 16 February 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Thursday, February 16, 1984 30cents
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  • 648 1  -  Ng Teng Fong outbids rivals for cheap buy By PHILLIP BANGSBERG SINGAPORE property developer Ng Teng Fong has pulled off a coup in Hong Kong. Taking advantage of the depressed property market there, he and his partners have picked up a prime 66,000
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      289 2 AGH^ Lianhe Zaobao BE CAREFUL! Lamps like the one in the picture could be dangerous. The Consumer's Association of Singapore is looking into a warning issued by the International Organisation of Consumer Unions about the dangers posed by these decorative lamps. The lamps contain liquid and coloured plastic
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    • 103 2 THE number of PSLE pupils opting for a place in one of the nine SAP (Special Assistance Plan) schools has shot up by 40 per cent. The Education Ministry yesterday announced that 1,761 pupils among the top 10 per cent in the
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    • 420 2  -  By SIT YIN FONG FILING an affidavit from Singapore yesterday, a woman sued for divorce has told an Australian court of her suspicions of her inlaws' involvement in the estrangement of her husband. Madam Wong Lai Har, 35, was responding to
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    • 362 3  -  By LOONG SWEE YIN WHY DIDNT residents of Block 6, Jalan Membina respond to the cries of a young woman as she was stabbed to death just outside their doors on Monday night? Some of them claimed
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    • 377 3 AN INTERIM settlement appears to be in sight to resolve the industrial dispute between the Moscow Narodny Bank (MNB) and its officers' union, the Singapore Bank Officers' Association (SBOA). However, the outcome of such a settlement would depend on the
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    • 150 3  -  By OEI SIN GIOK MORE prefabricated flats have been completed and handed over to the Housing and Development Board. The blocks in Jurong West, Yishun, Woodlands and Serangoon are the second lot to be handed over to the board since
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    • 277 4 THE TRIAL on Henry Ernest Abbot, 45, owner of a pack of boxers which were alleged to have hurt four people in August, started yesterday. Ten prosecution witnesses were called to the stand to testify. Five of them were members of a family who
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    • 115 4 "HAVING JUST returned from your lovely city after an absence of 14 years I feel I would like to congratulate the people of Singapore for what you have achieved in that time. "My husband and I have always loved your city and we
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    • 442 4  -  More and more complimentary letters are landing in STPB's mail box By YEOW MEI SIN WHEN THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board opens a letter from a tourist, it's almost inevitably a complaint. With an average of 40 such letters a month, answering complaints has
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    • 167 4 Lianbe Zaobao THE Civil Service Institute has increased its staff and programmes to Erovide better training and consulincy for the public service. Among its new plans is an introductory programme for Division Three and Division Four civil servants designed to
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    • 319 6  -  By K K FONG IN CASE of fire, just press the button, and all fire exit doors will unlock automatically to allow escape. This is the concept behind a fire safety system which the security department of a local bank is prepared
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    • 173 6  -  By CAROLINE BOEY TEN STUDENTS in the secondary one gifted education programme are there only because the Education Ministry decided to allow them to do both English and Chinese as first languages. Initially, the ruling was that the 100 pupils in
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    • From our EVENING EDITION yesterday
      • 63 6 A LOCAL Chinese entertainment weekly magazine has been warned by the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation to stop printing synopses of the current TV crowd-puller, The Awakening, or face legal action. It is believed the SBC recently sent letters to the publisher and printer of
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      • 96 6 EVERY year for the last 17 years, Madam Ng Kwai Chee, 88, has turned up at the War Memorial at Bras Basah Road for the annual wreathlaying ceremony organised by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Yesterday Mdm Ng was again
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      • 82 6 A JEALOUS lover decided to rob his girlfriend when he caught her sleeping with another man in her room at Desker Road. Mohamed Hussein Abdul Najid, 23, woke up Indrany Ramasamy, 30, on Aug 31 last year at about 3.30 a.m. and threatened to assault her
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  • world
    • 133 7 Reuter JAKARTA, Thursday THE Indonesian army has launched an intensive campaign to weed out corrupt officers ana has taken action against at least 24 of them, army chief of staff Lieutenant-General Rudini was quoted yesterday as saying. Gen Rudini said in an interview
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    • 144 7 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs THAI Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday agreed to intensify diplomatic efforts to seek a peaceful solution to the Cambodian conflict. The two leaders, who met for talks three hours after Gen
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    • 261 7 ARMS SEIZED IN ATTACK ON REGIMENTAL POSITION UPI BANGKOK. Thursday KHMER ROUGE guerillas attacked a Vietnamese regimental position in south-eastern Cambodia, killing 45 enemy soldiers in two days of fighting, an insurgent radio report said yesterday. The communist guerillas said they also seized a
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    • 91 7 Reuter TOKYO, Thursday JAPANESE officials imposed tight secrecy yesterday on the activities of a visiting commission pro Ding the murder of Philippines opposition leader Benigno Aquino. The panel met Japanese Justice Ministry and police officials to discuss procedures for hearing evidence from Japanese who may
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    • 211 8 'THEY CRAM THEMSELVES WITH TRANQUIUSERS' AP LONDON, Thursday JOHN BULL doggedness, ChurchiHian resolution, the fortitude of the thin red line? You can forget it, says a medical report published here yesterday. The British in 1984 are "a highly neurotic nation" who cram themselves with tranquilisers, sedatives and anti-depressants,
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      257 8 CHERNENKO SPURNS ZIA'S REQUEST FOR MEETING Reuter MOSCOW, Thursday NEW SOVIET leader Konstantin Cher nenko has ignored a request by Pakistan President Mohammad Zia-Ul-Haq for a meeting. The Pakistani leader left Moscow yesterday for home. A Pakistan Embassy spokesman said Gen Zia had told Soviet officials he was
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      185 8 CONDITIONS NOT RIGHT FOR JAPAN TRIP, SAYS GROMYKO Reuter MOSCOW, Thursday JAPANESE Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe yesterday invited Andrei Gromyko to visit Tokyo but the Soviet Foreign Minister said conditions were not right, according to Japanese diplomatic sources. Mr Abe, who attended Soviet President Yuri Andropov's funeral on
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    • 76 8 Reuter MOSCOW, Thursday A WOMAN machine minder has replaced the late Soviet President Yuri Andropov as a parliamentary candidate in Moscow's Proletarski district. Electoral officials said yesterday his successor was Nina Motova, a turner in a ball bearing factory in the South Moscow
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    • 242 8 Reuter COLOMBO, Thurs ANGLICAN priest Mathew Peiris and his secretary Da Irene In£am were sentenced to ath by Sri Lanka's High Court yesterday for murdering their spouses. After a 165-day trial, the three-judge court said a prosecution charge that there
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    • 203 10 Motorway is turned into airstrip and planes are ready for a hasty escape SYGMA LEBANESE President Amin Gemavel has foreseen the possibility of having to make a hasty escape from Beirut, so difficult the situation has become, so precarious his power, in the second week of February,
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    • 470 10 Muslims close in on base after driving Lebanese off mountain ridge near Beirut Reuter KHALDE (Lebanon), Thursday MUSLIM militias now encircle the US marine base at Beirut airport on its three landward sides after seizing a swath of territory from the Lebanese army on Tuesday. The only way
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    • 8 8 Good jobs are plentiful! Look in the Classifieds
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    • 146 12 SHARE OF THE DAY J A SYNDICATED attempt to bring Duta Consolidated to a rally has apparently failed. Duta Consolidated looked as though it was ready to head above $2.50 when it breezed passed the $1.58 closing last Monday to $1.86 on Thursday. An
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    • 332 12  -  Link with three exchanges proposed for options deals By ALVIN LEE SYDNEY Stock Exchange has announced its intention to join hands with three other exchanges to provide the first 24hour options trading market in gold, silver and possibly US dollars. The proposed link-up
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    • 191 12 r i WHLLSTREET L i Reuter LATE selling pressure yesterday mainly in blue chip issues robbed Wall Street of a chance to extend its rally and prices closed mostly lower despite Ming ahead much of the session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which was up as
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    • 175 12 DOLLAR AND GOLD AP THE US dollar fell sharply against major European currencies yesterday as the west German mark regained strength. Gold prices rose in nervous tramng. Frankfurt dealers had no clear explanation for the market's sudden bullishness about the mark and its bearish
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    • 672 13  -  Laws are constantly improved upon to create a better legal environment AMENDMENTS TO COMPANIES ACT By AWTER SINGH ALTHOUGH Singapore Company Law began as identical to the Malaysian Company Law (in the shape of the Companies Act, 1965) it has repeatedly been amended
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    • 353 13 IF THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange claims to be going through hell and high water to computerise its clearing system, it will not be far off the truth. Among "minor problems" that En- cik Abdul Razak, exchange chairman, says have been cleared up was the flooding
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    • 187 13 OUB CENTRE has confirmed that the Kuwaiti Investment Office has become a shareholder in the company. The investment arm of the Kuwait Government has been issued with 80 million shares of $1 each for $132 million. The price of $1.65 a shares took
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    • 63 13 A pre-tax profit of 11.37 m for Batu Lintang Rubber BATU Lintang Rubber reported a profit before tax of $11.37 million for the 15 months to Sept 30 on a turnover of $36.81 million. A final dividend of 15 per cent, making a total of 20 per cent, is proposed.
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  • features
    • 85 14 Recriminations over "Who lost Lebanon?" were inevitable. But the very question suggests a fundamental misunderstanding. No one has had control of the country for years not its own feeble governments, not any of its warring factions, not the United States or Israel or Syria. In fact, outside
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    • 266 14 TO Israeli Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, Lebanon presented a Broblem and an opportunity in le spring of 1982. Determined to remove the PLO terrorists from harassing Israel on its northern border, Mr Sharon also saw a chance to drive Israel's tormentors all the way out of Lebanon and
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      167 14 PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan quickly sent US marines, who had just finished escorting PLO fighters out of Beirut, back in to buy time while Bashir Gemayel's brother Amin, Lebanon's new president, forged a stable government. But from the start, American goals for Lebanon were contradictory: A democratic Lebanon safely
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    • 233 14 AMERICAN officials seemed surprised that with US gunfire killing Lebanese, the Lebanese would start killing Americans. Limited marine retaliation for some sniper and shelling attacks did silence the guns from time to time, but Syria's allies soon found other ways to menace the Marines: On Oct 23,
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    • 160 14 US Secretary of State George Shultz committed perhaps the worst blunder of all by seeking a simultaneous Israeli-Syrian withdrawal, but negotiating only with Israel. Naively, he assumed Syria would go along. The Israeli-Le-banese accord, signed on May 17, 1983, was immediately spurned by Syrian President Hafez Assad. Mr
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    • 132 14 THE terrorist bomb that killed Christian Phalange leader Bashir Gemayel, Lebanon's presidentelect, in September 1982, should have shattered all illusions. Mr Gemayel had won office under an archaic, unwritten law, based on the 1932 census, stipulating that the Lebanese president be a Christian Maronite, even though Muslims had
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    • 132 14 TO QUELL rising dissent back home, Israel suddenly withdrew from the Shouf mountains south of Beirut last September and dug in south of the Awali River despite US and Lebanese protests. Only the Israeli units had stood between warring Druze and Christian factions in the Shouf. In their
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    • 136 14 DESPITE the compound fractures in Lebanon's body politic, the Reagan adminstration officials last week still professed optimism about the future of the Gemayel government. Mr Shultz insisted US forces would continue to defend "the legitimate government of Lebanon" and continued to call for implementation
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    • 489 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT THE SOVIET Union has a new leader, Konstantin Chernenko, and as in previous occasions of a change in leadership, his emergence has provoked renewed speculation about "new hopes" for international relations. Reinforced by the tone of his inaugural speech on
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    • 1050 15  -  IT WILL YIELD GOOD RESULTS WITH INTELLIGENT USE OF SYSTEM ANG POH INN (MISS) Public Relationi Officer Ministry of Labour I REFER to the letter "Worker's Welfare must not be sacrificed for productivity" by Law Graduates (SM Jaa 31). The letter is
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    • 137 15 LETTERS on eny subject of public interest wtt be accepted for publication. They should be typed end mid be tvoed mutt be sianelThey must also inducts the writer's name end addrees even If the writer decides to use a pseudonym in prim. A contact telsphons number would be useM. We
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  • 436 16 TODAY'S nigniignts Thursday Feature Special: Golden Gate (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) THIS is a familv drama about a young and determined man, Jordan Kingslev (played by Perry King), who tries to revamp tne family-owned newspaper after learning that'his family is broke and his fatner is partially
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  • 469 16  -  TV Scene By JAY SHARBUTT LAT-WP HOLLYWOOD: Johnny Carson, the silver-haired veteran of late-night television, has signed what NBC calls "a new agreement" to continue as the star of The Tonight Show he has hosted since Oct 1, 1962. His current multimillion-dollar contract with NBC expires
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    • 49 16 > X*im Keep pace with the latest news of the day Pick up the evening edition of The Singapore Monitor. Monday through Friday, for the latest news each day. Now on sale at hawker centres, bus-stops and street stalls wherever Lian He Wan Bao is on sale. THE SINGAPORE KK3NITOR
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1301 16 behhis IGUIDE 300 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by t| BR9 r J phhhv^m^i Tip Top! ~~m |^»^ippMWH| 4.10 The Bionic Woman: Road to Nashville (r). j^HI 5.00 Camp Wilderness: Hang Glider. I BHI 5.20 Buster and Me: Trying to Please. BHJ The Birds (M) Mr I Featuring birds survive
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    • 851 17 FLASHDANCE RE-IGNITES IRENE CARA'S CAREER LAT-WP IRENE CARA was addled. The young New York singer best known for her hits Fame and Flashdance, What a Feeling semi-sprinted out of ner hotel bedroom. After pacing in the living room, she sat down at the kitchen
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    • 484 17 LIKE MOZART, THEY STRUGGLE TO EARN A LIVING UPI MOVE over Mozart. Back up Beethoven. Make room for a new generation of composers straggling to earn a living from their talents. More than 7,000 music executives and others involved in writing, recording and distributing the
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    • 914 18 NUTRIENT-DENSE VEGETABLE MANY people still think of the potato as just a starch. Yes, the potato appears to be a bulky vegetable (and that's where its fattening image probably originated). But actually, it is 80 per cent water. So all too often, the potato is
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    • 209 18 6 medium potatoes Vt cup melted butter or margarine 1 teaspoon soy sauce Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees C. Scrub potatoes thoroughly and pierce each with a fork. Bake until potatoes are tender, about 45 minutes to an hour. Cool, then cut in quarters lengthwise and then
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    • 99 18 4 medium potatoes V« cup butter 1 tablespoon grated onion salt and pepper dash of paprika 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese Pre-heat oven to 220 degrees C. Cut washed and unpeeled potatoes into four-mm thick slices and place in a single layer on lightly buttered baking sheets.
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    • 128 19 Replies from SBC WE REFER to the report in your TV Scene column (SM, Jan 30) headlined "Old Hat, New Sets on SBC" by Mr Wong Sing Yeong. Some of the statements and assumptions are inaccurate. It is unfair to insinuate that money and air-time
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    • 44 19 WE refer to the letter headlined "Wrestling Fan Misses Show" (SM.Jan 5). We wish to inform the writer that all the episodes of the series, On the Mat have been telecast. V S Sandram Senior Public Relations Officer SBC
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    • 171 19 PLEASE refer to the letter from JOYE (SM, Jan 5). We wish to clarify that: It is not our practice to announce the final score at the beginning of a "delayed" telecast of a soccer match. We are conscious that such disclosure will minimise the viewing pleasure
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    • 61 19 IN your TV Scene column (SM, Feb 7), there was a reference to Mr Brown and Miss Cockney. I have been following the series, too, and for the life of me, I could not place this Miss Cockney unless, of course, you meant Miss Courtney, the
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    • 77 19 I WOULD like to take this opportunity to thank SBC for showing such wonderful movies as The Magnificent Seven and Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? SBC certainly deserves a pat on the back for screening them. 'Chefs' was shown very late on Saturday,
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    • 88 19  -  H LENG KANG Singapore 1543 I REFER to the programme, Dances of the World, which was telecast by SBC on Channel 5 recently. I found it to be a very interesting and educational programme which tells us about the culture of people of other countries. For
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      433 21  -  Livvy and Johnny move from Grease to sugar TITLE: TWO OF A KIND STARRING: John Travolta, OUvia Newton John SHOWING: Orchard Reviewed by PHILIP CHEAH WHEN a film starts casting God beside John Travolta and Olivia New-ton-John, you begin to suspect that credibility is desperately needed. Not for
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    • 370 21 ONJ talks about her new movie MATURITY dictated changes In my life and career. Tea year* ago, I couldn't have done the songs I do now because I didn't have the confidence to carry them off. It's the same in any profession. Yon have to
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    • 277 19 LETTERS from Leisure readers on subjects pertaining to our columns will be selected for publication weekly in this column. Please address your letters to Leisure Box, The Singapore Monitor, 2, Alexandra Road, 03-01A Delta House, Singapore 0315. You may'use a pseudonym but actual names, addresses and telephone numbers must be
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    • 331 19 f\lM Guioe DALIT (*****16): COMEDY (C) EMPRESS (*****67): COMEDY (C) LIWAQU (*****30): COMEDY (C) MANDARIN (*****01): COMEDY (C) JFJI'," H JP NEW HAPPY (*****63): COMEDY (C) TOA PAYOH (*****34): COMEDY (C) BEDOK (*****7): ACES GO PLACES 111 OUR MAN FROM BOND STREET (C) -'rMjP Starring: Carl Mak. Samuel Hal, Zhang
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 143 20 ciSaS; AUSTRALIAN ART AWARD 1984 THE Singapore Australian Business Council, in association with the Australian High Commission, is holding the Australian Art Award 1984 competition, based on the themes Asian Impressions and Images of Australia. Artists are invited to submit their works in any medium but all paintings must be
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    • 649 20 Wendy Chan's photographs on display at Bistro Toulouse-Lautrec PHOTOGRAPHS The museum is open from 9 am to AN exhibition of Wendy Chan s J pm Mondays to Saturdays, and black and white photographs will be 9 a to 6Pm on Sunda y s and on at the Bistro Toulouse-Lautrec P
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 650 22 laS»i»A THE SINGAPORE MONITOR eisure comics THURSDAY, February ie, ism £.U I— ASSIGNMENT: TOP SECRET By Bill Barry A Wr MUST SAY, WMY MOTHER V Fl WONDER IF YOU uS J^yy^msy.V ft EO** YOU PEOPLE IN YOU SHOULD W SOVieT AIRCRAFT IS 1 f TOLD ME 1 BE A 6
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    • 259 23  -  By MICHAEL GOH THE first thing about Baguio that strikes a visitor from our hot and humid island is an apparent contradiction: The sun is shining brightly, but it is cold. This is hardly surprising, as Baguio nestles some 5,000 feet above sea level on the rugged mountains
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    • 449 24  -  By MICHAEL GOH BEING a popular convention as well as tourist venue, a network of hotels of every category can be found in Baguio. These range from the 5-star Hyatt Terraces Baguio and the 4-star Pines Hotel to no-frills establishments above coffeeshops in the heart
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    • 137 24 THE cool nights may make you want to just curl up in bed, but it would be a pity to miss the action at night. Some of the discos here are equipped with rock video, where you can dance and at the
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    • 291 26 classified s 273-9090 Situations Vacant WlOWg* Hiflh starting salary. InOfWMnl on complatlon of 3 month* probation A 6 month* aarvioa. Annual Jncromant a Attandanca iHowmoa MtuNnt pKminot. a BhM aNCrtwsnoa, (2nd ahlft $3, 3rd ahlft MJM). No microscopic work. Transport protMad. a Fraa Chinaaa taa prowtdad. a Proa rnadical aximlnatlon
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    • 186 26 Situations Vacant (1) MALE OPERATORS (GENERAL HELP) (2) STORE ASSISTANTS Able to speak and understand English Interested applicants please call personally at: FAIRCHILD (S) PTE LTD 11, Lorong 3, Toa Payoh, S'pore 1231 Tel: 253-1066 A Schlumbtfger Company W« cm promlM jm a Mara kKiw we arc remitted ta the
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    • 124 26 Situations Vjcjnt NEMIC LAMBDA requires FULL-TIME OPERATORS Minimum STARTING wage $375/- SOLDERING minimum starting wage 1395/R*quirem«nts. 14-35 years ok) Primary education iawellia DVllVlllV. 5-day week (no shift) Adjustment after probation Job grading and salary adjustment Paid tea break time AWS more than one month and many attractive benefits i Recommendation
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    • 99 26 Situations Vacant RAKON Manufacturing electroaic compoaeau reqaires Starting salary up to $350 per month Confirmation increment 5-day work week Transport allowance FREE, medical benefita, uniform, tea break, etc Aircondition environment 14 day> annual leave No shift work No microscope work Interested appllcaats please call perwaally at RAKON (S) PTE LTD
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 236 27 classified 273-9090 Situations Vacant JOIN US l L AS J FEMALE PRODUCTION LoperatorsJ AND TAKE 1 I HOME I (AFTER CPF J f $305.00 1 L on the Ist mthJ $320 L after 3 mths 1 I $377 after 6 mths J NO SHIR WORK] I FIVE DAYS WEEK I
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    • 367 27 Situations Vjcjuit JK APPLIED MAGNETICS T (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD Applied Magnetics, the largest independant computer magnetic heads manufacturer in the world, is now ready |H to provide excellent employment opportunity in its newly M established subsidiary company. Applied Magnetics ialah sebuah syarikat pembuat H computer magnetic heads yang terbesar di-dunia
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    • 337 28 Reuter LONDON, Thursday EVERTON took a giant step towards a Wembley final clash against Liverpool when they beat fellow First Division club Aston Villa 2-0 in a English Football League Milk Cup semi-final first-leg match at Goodison Park last night. Goals in each
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    • 269 28  -  By S GULAM LUCKLESS Toa Payoh United will have the chance to get out of the cellar if they beat Fairer Park Dynamos tonight (7.50) in a National Football League Division One match at Jalan Besar
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    • 344 28  -  By ERNEST FRIDA THE INAUGURAL clash between Singapore golf professionals and their British counterparts promises to be even match at the Bukit Course on Saturday. The reason is that the draw that took place at the Singapore Island
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    • 529 29  -  Peng Siong stops bowlers from making a clean sweep of awards By ERNEST FRIDA SWIMMER Ang Peng Siong stopped tenpin bowlers from making a clean sweep of the annual national sports awards yesterday when he was voted the 1983 Sportsman of the Year over
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    • 337 29  -  By ALFONSO CHAN DELIA Milne's voice quivered with emotion when The Singapore Monitor broke the news to her that she won the Sportswoman of the Year award, barely minutes after the announcement was made. "How do I describe what I feel right now? I'm at
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    • 263 29  -  By TONY LIM TORN between a career and her love for bowling, Delia Milne had a tough time deciding which should come first. Bowling was her first love. And if she worked, she would not be able to concentrate on bowling. She realised that
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    • 307 29  -  By K SILVAM ARCHERY queen Sam Tan was the only rose among the meritorious award winners announced by the Singapore National Olympic Council yesterday. "Wow! I'm elated," she said when we broke the news to her. "I don't know what to say." Sam
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    • 583 30  -  Swimming star Ang Peng Siong wins Sportsman of the Year for the second time By KEN JALLEH Jr He was dreaming of better times, Olympic glory and of meeting higher and higher expectations when a telephone rang shrilly in the night. Ang Peng Siong, the local
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    • 122 30 ANG TECK BEE, father of Peng Siong, was delighted when he learnt that his son has again won the Sportsman of the Year award. Beaming with Joy, he said: "fm very proud of Siong. The award comes at the right time, especially when the Olympics
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    • 502 30 SINGAPORE'S squash heroes walked off into the sunset with heads hung low and hands empty once again. Passed over in favour of the bowling team for the second time in two years, few would blame them for feeling like illegitimate children
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      691 31  -  MONITOR SPORTS was first with the mwi of the awards dscisloas to hath Sportsman Aag Pang Slong and Sportswoman Delia Milne, within minutes al the announcement. While Delia's first reaction was one of sarprlse and doubt. Nag Slang taoh It la his stride. He had bigger things Uhe
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    • 519 28 cla»»Hi»J 273-9090 APPOINTMENTS Trainee Marketing Executives I (BuiinM Accounting Computer) I O— to tha awpendad renga of nnalH» aeeo anting whwm the Commodors M >»■*"■■ Computet oHw, wo respite young, dynamic and rsspnasfcli man and ladies to our ttun. H Tha candidates we look for mutt possets at least OCE
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    • 88 31 More reports and pictures on Pages 30 and 31 m (A credit in English at "O" LevelhasanH important bearing on your future). H We have specially programmed H the following classes for the GCE "0" LEVEL. 1984 Examinations. 1) Mon 2.30- 4.00pm 2) Mon 4.00 5.30pm 3) Mon 6.30 B.oopm
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    • 40 31 EVERTON TAKE A COMMANDING LEAD LONDON, Thurs: Everton took a commanding lead in their Milk Cup semifinal against Aston Villa yesterday when they won the first leg 2-0. The winners will face league champions Liverpool. Full report on Page 29.
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