Singapore Monitor, 23 March 1984

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  • 14 1 1St Copy THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Friday, March 23, 1984 30cents
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  • 471 1  -  IT REJECTS MOVE TO HELP MAKE FEE COLLECTION EASIER FOR PUBLIC BECAUSE IT'S IMPRACTICABLE GANDHI AMBALAM THE Public Utilities Board has rejected a plan for it to take over the collection of radio and television licence fees but there is still
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    • 75 1 "They cheated me. Now I want justice. In cowboy movies you see that when somebody has been cheated, he will pull out a gun and shoot the guy who cheated him." the KFC boss who is waging a war against Bank Bumiputra: P 15 All-England: Icuk TOMORROW: Sugiarto Milk Cup
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    • 54 1 (deSilva V iifiiims y S.PH.DE SILVA JEWELLERS 01-18, Tanglln Shopping Centre. Singapore 1024 Tel *****28 Amociat« Company 1 Central Building, Hong Kong Coming to Ch 12: All Quiet On the Western Front and other movies: See Pages 20-21 WATER WASTAGE WITH NEW AUTOMATIC TAPS: See letter on Page 19 Another
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    • 390 2 NO-ONE HURT AS PANEL FALLS FROM 12TH FLOOR OF BUILDING AT LUNCHTIME AN ALUMINIUM panel hurtled down from the 12th floor of a building in the heart of the business district yesterday, narrowly missing a group of office workers on their lunch break.
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    • 83 2 A MOTORCYCLIST WAS hurt when he was hit by a piece of falling plank at Robinson Road a few days ago. Lim Chu Tong, 24, suffered injuries to his hands and head in the incident on March 12. He was treated at
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    • 412 3  -  By FOO MEY KIEN THIS morning's opening of the $25 million Eastern Research Company centre is another milestone in the Economic Development Board's efforts to attract research and development activity to Singapore. The Nestle Company's newest research and development
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    • 119 3 Lianhe Wanbao A HOUSEWIFE who forgot to turn off the stove before going to the market at 9.30 a.m. yesterday morning returned two hours later to find her kitchen had been damaged badly by fire. Fortunately, her neighbours living in B)ock 227
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    • 424 4  -  By LOONG SWEE YIN TWO FURNITURE manufacturers said yesterday that they would not withdraw chairs fitted with gas-springs from sale, after a competitor had placed a newspaper advertisement claiming that many such chairs could explode. Diethelm Singapore Ltd, which placed the advertisement, was
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    • 275 4 Emphasis on economies of Pacific Basin THE Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and the School of Management of the National University of Singapore will team up again to hold the second StanfordNUS Executive Programme for senior executives. The programme, which follows
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    • 357 5  -  By JALIL MISWARDI CREDIT CARD companies are upset because American Express has been given an exclusive arrangement to sell tickets for the Singapore Arts Festival. The other companies say they were not given a chance to participate but the Ministry
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    • AROUND SINGAPORE
      • 74 5 THE PRESIDENT left yesterday afternoon for the United States on a private visit. He will be accompanied by Mrs Nair. During the President's absence, Dr Yeoh Ghim Seng wifl be Acting President for the periods March 22 to 24 and
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      • 47 5 THE PRIME Minister and Mrs Lee Kuan Yew left for Hong Kong yesterday on a seven-day leave. During Mr Lee's absence, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Dr Goh Keng Swee, will be the Acting Prime Minister.
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      • 82 5 ESAB Singapore has made further inroads into the Chinese market by selling its latest welding invention PRO-TIG 250 computerised rectifier to China's second boiler company, Shanghai Boilers Work. The deal is worth more than $250,000. Since January this year, Esab has sold more
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    • 422 6  -  Story: TYE KIM KHIAT THERE WAS a distinctly international feeling aboard the "most advanced and the world's largest" Russian research ship, Akademik Mstislav Keldvsh, last night. Returning Russian crew were hauling aboard all makes of Japanese electronic goods. The ship was built three years ago in
      Pictures: CLIFTON AW  -  422 words
    • 259 6  -  By K K FONG POLICE are hunting for a conman they describe as an "ageing playboy" alleged to have cheated at least 40 companies of several hundred thousand dollars worth of goods and property. Described as in his 40s, the trickster is
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    • 216 8 Lianhe Zaobao DRIVING instructors who received summonses for infringing rules in the Toa Payoh public carparks have Deen given a 50-per cent reduction by the Housing and Development Board. Nearly 200 of the summonses have been settled for $50 each, instead of the original $100.
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    • 424 8  -  Centre to attract Indonesians, Malaysians who come here for check-ups By YEOW MEI SIN A SINGAPORE hotel plans to set up its own mini-medical centre for its Indonesian and Malaysian guests. With an estimated 80,000 Indonesians and 80,000 Malaysians coming into Singapore for medical
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    • 357 8 THIRD ASEAN TOURISM FORUM THE THIRD Asean Tourism Forum ended yesterday with delegates agreeing that it had helped promote awareness of Asean countries as tourist destinations. Mr K C Yuen, director of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, said: There were buyers from
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    • 161 8 TRAINEES in the touristtrade will soon get opportunities to participate In job exchange programmes throughout The programmes may also be open to students of the Singapore Hotel Association Training and Education Centre. Mr K C Yuen, director of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, said
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    • 184 8 KEEP A PERFECT BALANCE WITH POCARI, THE ISOTOHIC DRINK. ''VVVVVI Lulu is a super secretary, whose life is made up of endless piles of paperwork and files, accompanied by her boss's loud voice and the consistent ringing of the telephone. All this fluster may leave her thirsty and listless. POCARI,
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  • world
    • 230 9 AP BANGKOK, Friday BURMESE Foreign Minister Chit Hlaing has summoned the Thai Charge D*Affaires in Rangoon and denied that Burmese government troops violated Thai territory in recent operations against Karen insurgents along the Thai-Burmese border, an officer at the Thai Supreme Command Headquarters'said yesterweeks ago,
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    • 174 9 Reuter NEW DELHI, Friday THE INDIAN Government said yesterday it was ready to resume talks with striking dock workers whose walkout has paralysed major ports, and ninted that it was ready to put more money on the table. Shipping and TransEort Minister
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    • 284 9 'DATUK LEE TOLD TO KEEP MOUTH SHUT' Lianhe Zaobao KUALA LUMPUR, Friday THE MCA crisis has taken a new turn with rumours that Datuk Lee San Choon has been warned to keep his mouth shut or find himself joining the 14 expelled party stalwarts
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    • 133 9 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Friday MALAYSIA'S economy is expected to grow by 6.7 per cent this year instead of the 6 per cent estimated in the 1984 Badget released last November, Depaty Finance Minister Ling Lioag Sik said yesterday. This was based on rapid expansion in the
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    • 383 10 Last year's claims totalled more than $900 million for air crashes that killed 988 Reuter LONOON, Friday AVIATION insurers around the world suffered their worst year in 1983, paying out more than US$45O million (Ss9oo million) for air crashes that killed a total of 988 passengers.
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    • 187 10 PARIS, Friday THE FRENCH foreign debt reached a record U5555.2 billion (*****.4 billion) in 1983, making France one of the world's biggest debtor countries after Brazil, Mexico and the United States, Finance Ministry figures published yesterday showed. Total medium- and long-term borrowings were
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    • 272 10 WASHINGTON, Friday WHITE House counsellor Edwin Meese yesterday asked the Justice Department to investigate his affairs and said charges about his financial dealings were baseless. Mr Meese, who has been nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the post of Attorney-General, made his request in
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    • 158 10 UPI CHATTANOOGA (Tenmssm), Friday LINN Yann, the 13-year-old Cambodian refugee who became famous last year by winning a-series of Spelling Bees, has won another contest and is determined to advance to the National Spelloff in Washington. Linn reeled off correct spellings of such words as
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    • 437 12 It is likely to be the biggest offered by the Japanese AP, Reuter TOKYO, Friday PRIME MINISTER Yasuhiro Nakasone will make a commitment in Beijing later this week for possibly "the biggest" package of yen credits Japan has ever provided, covering a
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    • 317 12 AP BEUINQ, Friday WITH the stroke of a pen and clink of a wine glass, officials of Bank of America and the Bank of China signed documents yesterday inaugurating the country's first travellers' cheque service available in foreign currency. The
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    • 231 12 HONG KONG, Friday FURNITURE and other items worth HK$5 million (S|l.s million) owned by the defunct Carrian Holdings Ltd are to be sold at a public auction over the weekend. More than 400 pieces of quality furniture and expensive items will come under the hammer from
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    • 420 13 Israeli Parliament votes to dissolve itself Reuter JERUSALEM, Friday THE Israeli Parliament voted last night to dissolve itself and hold early general elections. Elections were originally scheduled for November, 1985. The ballot, 61-58 in the 120-seat house, was introduced by members of the
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    • 235 13 LAT-WP JERUSALEM, Friday THE Israeli government considers recent criticism of US policy by Jordan's King Hussein to be a diplomatic windfall that may do more for Jerusalem's cause than anything it could have done for itself. Israeli officials at first avoided direct comment
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    • 148 13 RIYADH, Friday OIL-RICH Saudi Arabia will help reconstruct war-ravaged Lebanon provided security there is maintained, the kingdom's representative to the Lausanne reconciliation conference pledged yesterday. Minister of State Mohamed Ibrahim Massoud, who attended the Conference of National Reconciliation as an observer, was quoted as
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    • 612 14 LAT-WP A news analysis by MILTON VIORST, free-lance columnist with The Washington Post WASHINGTON, Friday IT'S about time President Ronald Reagan takes another hard look at Iran because the Ayatollah may be staging one of the biggest geopolitical upheavals since World War 11.
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    • 272 14 Reuter TEHRAN, Friday IRAN has mobilised between 750,000 and a million regular troops and volunteers for what could be its biggest offensive so far in the Gulf War, Iranian officials and foreign diplomats say. Iranian officials say privately that a million men
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  • money
    • 1007 15 HE EXPLAINS HOW HE DEALT IN PALM OIL MARKET Q: MANY people have associated you with San Edible Oil Industries for the transaction of 753 lots of crade palm oil (CPO) on Feb 28. Can yoo tell as what happened oa Feb 28?
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    • 155 15 HS4LLSTREET Reuter INTEREST-RATE worries topped off by an anticipated large increase in the nation's money supply yesterday caused buyers to abandon the stock market, which closed sharply lower in moderately heavy trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gave up 14.97 points to close at 1,155.88. Losers
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    • 145 15 DOLLAR AND GOLD AP THE US dollar eased against most major currencies yesterday and dealers said markets were marking time to see whether interest rates go up. Gold prices were down. Trading was moderate and dealers noted that the dollar had been underpinned by
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    • 466 16 Money may be used to compensate those who have suffered losses M f.Vi.4 r "%fitii'ivag#rr ft— ill iimiiiMn -r- rfii'• r~ The Star ALL MONEY held in deposit by the Kuala Lumpur Commodities Clearing House (KLCCH) for the accounts of defaulting companies has been frozen until
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    • 353 16 The Star THE Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE) yesterday resumed trading in palm oil futures under emergency rules and some new regulations. Trading in the palm oil futures market was suspended after the massive default of some 5,000
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 135 16 NATIONAL Iron Steel Mills was saved by 915.2 million worth of extraordinary items, which helped it to increase group attributable profits by 12 per cent from $31.4 million to $35.1 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1983. Otherwise, the figures were dismal. The directors
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      • 122 16 BRITISH American Tobacco recorded a lower group 'turnover of $124.2 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1983 compared with (128.8 million previously. Lower operating profit, investment income and share of associated companies' results lowered group pre-tax profits by 10 per cent to
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      • 22 16 HYATT of Hons Kong Ltd has purchased 2.5 million Sealion Hotel shares at |4.08 each.
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      • 37 16 PALMCO Holdings Bhd has informed the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange that its new rights and special shares are not eligible for any dividend declared for the year ending June 30.
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      • 37 16 MR CLAUDE Rupert Brown has been appointed director of Boustead Holdings Bha with effect from March 9. DR CHAN Bow Ling has resigned as a director of Development Commercial Bank with effect from March 14.
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    • 243 16  -  By FOO CHOY PENG THE Singapore banking scene will see some expansion with the proposed upgrading of Italy's largest bank and the addition of County Bank's regional representative office. Banca Nazionale del Lavoro has applied to the Monetary Authority of Singapore
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    • 62 15 Fashion rides high at The Stables Saturday Fashion Show a M Tuck into a delicious set lunch Price: $25 nett per person. And J watch an exciting collection of fashion wear and accessories that look terrific anywhere. Di Enchantress Harveys Bristol Cream Hoya Corporation For information and reservations, V X
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    • 25 16 If service V For (Mais write to Lombard North Central PLC, Banking Sarvtcaa, Dapt 604, 17 Bniton Straat, London WIA, 30H, England Tlaphona: 01-409 3434.
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  • 506 17  -  features By FRANCIS DANIEL Reuter SINGAPORE has unveiled a blueprint for a defence plan designed to ensure that it will never again be captured as easily as it was during World war 11. Officials said that Singapore, situated on the Straits of Malacca at the
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    • 225 17 f How about a career 1 in JOURNALISM? 1 i If you are a graduate and have worked one or opportunities for career advancement many. The i H two years, or have passed 'A' level and have at best will be given top training opportunities. I H leastfour years' working
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  • opinion / letters
    • 174 18  -  K KAMALANATHAN Singapore 1953 THE recent happenings in the Indian Association (IA) have never ceased to amaze me. The latest incident as reported in The SingaCre Monitor, "IA Official cleared" (March 13), d me literally gasping for air. A recnt circular
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    • 102 18  -  WINIFRED YEE (MRS) Singapore 0511 WE CONTRIBUTE 23 per cent of our monthly income to the Central Provident Fund. We can only make use of this savings for the purchase of a flat or the purchase of designated shares (like SBS shares).
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    • 582 18 Cops should have realistic interpretation of RZ THE ability to adapt to changing circumstances has always been one of the valuable pointers given by our Government leaders in their speeches. However, this is easier said than done and I must mention
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    • Article, Illustration
      75 18 LETTERS on any eubfeot of putoOfc interact wlI Da accepted for puHcaMon. They ate**) be typed and mutt be atoned They tnuat aieo mdude and. er a name and addraaa even if the writer deoMee to uee a peaudonym In print. A t telephone number would be ueeM.
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    • 210 18 WHEN I was young, my father brought me to Empress Place, Supreme Court, City Hall and Parliament House (Legislative Assembly at that time). Now I bring my young children to see these places They have not changed much over
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    • 352 18  -  LIM HONG Singapore 0409 LATELY, substantial interest has been generated about the Cambodian issue as a result of utterances by the Vietnamese Foreign Minister, Mr Nguyen Co Thach. In one of them he insisted that before the start of
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    • 471 19 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT EVEN the best laid plans sometimes go awry. So, despite the many months of poring over blueprints to ensure that things go smoothly when the digging starts, the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation was clearly aware of the potential for trouble when
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    • 404 19 No way to stop them before they are turned off automatically RECENTLY at a public swimming pool, I took a shower before slipping Into the pool, something we are advised to do. But I was puzzled because I could not stop the flow of
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    • 143 19  -  HEALTH HAZARD Singapore 1953 DURING the recent months, construction work has taken place in the area behind Aroozoo Avenue and Charlton Road. The heavy rains and the nature of the work sites have helped mosquitoes to breed. The situation has become so intolerable that residents
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    • 89 19 I REMEMBER when Yaohan first set up its supermarket at Plaza Singapura its staff helped customers to wheel out their purchases to the taxi stand. Later it stopped this practice. And now customers are required to pack their own purchases after the counter cashier has collected
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  • leisure
    • 909 20  -  GOOD MOVIES COMING TO CHANNEL 12 By PHILIP CHEAH THE Film Focus slot on Channel 12 will, from April 6, switch to the Evening at the Ballet/Opera slot on Sundays. Film Focus has so far given great hope to film buffs with its telecast of Costa-Gavras' The
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    • 477 20  -  ACJC BRINGS BILLY LIAR FROM ENGLAND TO SINGAPORE PHILIP CHEAH BILLY LIAR is 19. So is the actor playing him. Billy tells a fantastic load of lies when he wants to. Gary Leong, who plays him, said that "80 per cent is me. I have the imagination
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    • 404 22  -  \l SCENE By WONG SING YEONG VIEWERS will see the first bare breast in a local TV production tonight but not as a thine of beauty. It will be shown from a medical viewpoint The subject breast cancer. Friday Background brings you a 13-min-ute focus on
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    • 536 22 Showcase Theatre The Invincible Mr Diaraeli (Ch 12, 8.35 pm) TREVOR HOWARD, in his Emmy-Award winning role as Disraeli, and Greer Garson lead the cast in James Lee's original teleplay. This is a drama depicting the career of an accomplished man, and his bitter conflicts with
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    • 424 23  -  BRENDAN STEVEN DE SOUZA Singapore 1544 CHANNEL 12 should give us a classic-film showcase with opportunities to view the distinguished black and white films of the past. Unfortunately, SBC has become so preoccupied with screening colour movies that it has forgotten the fact that the
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    • 66 23  -  KARAMJIT SINGH Singapore 1545 ALMOST everyday I watch the English news bulletin on Channel 5 at 8.45 pm and I have noticed that the English bulletin on Channel 10 covers more sports events compared to Channel 5. I was surprised especialanow that the news bullehas been extended to
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    • 174 23 I WOULD like to thank the Senior PRO, SBC, for his clarification (SM Feb 9) in connection with my complaint of "no reply" to letters. However, he appears to have missed my point. 1 nave previously, on two occasions, written to Radio S firstly, concerning
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    • Article, Illustration
      54 23 LETTERS from Leisure readers on subjects pertaining to onr columns will be selected for publication weekly in this column. Please address your letters to Leisure Box, The Singapore Monitor, 2, Alexandra Road, 03-01 A Delta House, Singapore 0315. You may'use a pseudonym but actual names, addresses and telephone
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    • 118 23 OF late, I have noticed that SBC has not even been telecasting international soccer featuring England during public holidays. So all we international soccer fans get to see on TV is Big League Soccer and the Road to Wembley series featuring English clubs. flow that SBC is
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    • 169 23  -  JOANNE AW (MRS) PnbUc Relations Officer SBC PLEASE refer to the letter by RTM Fan (SM, March We would like to assure the writer that SBC strives to bring a variety of quality programmes for all its three channels. Programmes we have telecast have
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    • 108 23 WE refer to the letters of H Leng Kang and "ET See TV" (SM Feb 16). We regret that the programme, Dances of the World, cannot be repeated as it was contracted for only one telecast However, we shall be able to repeat the film, Who's Killing
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    • 83 23 MUSIC fans in Singapore are waiting eagerly for SBC's telecast of the Grammy awards presentation. Having read that Boy George of Culture Club appeared in the programme, I appeal to the censors of SBC not to take that part of the programme away, |vatas they did when
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 804 21 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by A L Houae Is Not A Home (C) (r). E* V lV^ v %*mm m^k Viewers will hear the story of an 11 -year-old roller-skater, rf: meet students involved in a school movie. The Outer W'- Space Connection, and get to know a
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    • 264 21 12.00 PM Programme Summary •bossy: Fragments Symphoniques Prin--12.05 Musical Notebook Pivotal temps, Orchestra de Paris/Daniel BarComposers: 1. Hector Berlioz: Sym- enboim 5.00 News-in-Brief 5.05 Easy phonie Fantastique Movement 3: Listening: 1. Various Orchestras 2. Scene Aux Champs, Movement 4: Guitar Music played by Spotnicks 3. Marche Au Supplice, Movement 5:
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    • 169 21 12.00 PM Newsdesk 12.30 Country Style 12.45 Financial News 12.5S Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 TwentyFour Hours: News Summary 1.30 After Hours 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 A Night to Remember 3.00 World News 3.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary 3.30 Rock Back the Clock 3.45 Merchant Navy Programme
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 437 23 FILM GUIDE SkmnmGltn CHANOI (*****59): RETURN OF THE J™""™}™ REGAL (*****59): ESPRIT D'AMOUR (C) ***** SWORDSMAN (C) DALIT (*****15): YOUNG AND WILD (C) Starring: Xu gfcmhM, Was Lia UWAQU (*****30): YOUNG AND WILD Xaeku (C) ZZZV™ Synopsis: This sequel to The ***** Swordshi-- TT'|iiraLT||||'iirri (*****51): TRAVELLER (Q man sees a
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    • 144 24 ODEON: NOW SHOWING! g j [(*****16) 5 SHOWS: 11am, 1.30.4.00, 6.30 6 9.15pm; PATRONS PLEASE NOTE: X > The main film feature will start almost immadiately 2 after the advertised show times. S 1 i NOW AT NORMAL PRICES < > I STUDENTS CONCESSION t) < 1 1 CIRCLE $2.80
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 145 24 ESH^B RTM AND SBC CONCERT THE RTM and SBC orchestras will give a concert at Singapore Conference Hall on Sunday at 8 pm. Guest singers will include Elaine Kang and Mohamed Abdillah from Malaysia, and Ali Ahmad, Linda Elizabeth and Qiao Feng from Singapore. Tickets at $3 and $2 are
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    • 685 24 ■I 1 r -O Last performance by the Guangdong Chaozhou Opera troupe here will take place tonight CHAOZHOU OPERA Guangdong |4llß^Hi^|^H|||^^^^^En2 Chaozhou Opera Troupe from China will FIDDLER ON THE ROOF perform tonight at Pal- MING Court Hotel will screen Fiddler on the Roof at ace Theatre at 8 pm.
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    • 45 24 MALAYSIAN FOOD FESTIVAL A MALAYSIAN Food Festival will be held at the Royal Holiday Inn Singapore, sth floor poolside, till Sunday, 11.30 am to 3 pm for lunch ana 6.30 pm to 10 pm for dinner. Charges are $13.50++ for adults ana $10++ for children.
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 330 26 loiguro comics ARIES Marck 21 to April 19 LIBRA You have innovative plans for September 23 to October 22 the future, which may include A loved one has good news. An travel or education. Intellects office rumor has little basis in ally you're stimulated. fact. Work progress is erratic but
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  • PAKISTAN NATIONAL DAY
    • 299 27 IT WAS on March 23, 1940, that the Muslims of South Asia resolved to form an independent state for themselves, under the dynamic leadership of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Although Pakistan was actually created more than seven years after that date, yet
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    • 605 28 PAKISTAN launched its Sixth Five-year Plan this year. The Plan is a blue-print for the rapid development of the economy. The objective of the Plan is to prepare the economy for continued self-sustained growth during the nineties. The Plan is equally divided
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    • 376 29 THE Sixth Five-Year Plan aims at an industrial growth rate of 9 per cent per annum-almost twice as high as that planned for agriculture. The share of the manufacturing sector in the economy is expected to increase to roughly 20 per cent by the end
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    • 175 29 THE public sector would focus during the Plan on its role of providing badly needed physical infrastructure and acting as a catalyst for social development. Out of a total Plan size of Rupees 495 billion, the public sector share is Rupees 295 billion a little less
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    • 60 27 Congratulations and Best Wishes to the Government People of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the occasion of their National Day PATEL HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. Suite 2705-8, 27th Roor, OCBC Centre Chulia Street, Singapore, 0104. Tel: *****2 Telex: PATEL RS ***** RS ***** Cable: JAYANTIN PATELHOLD Importers and Exporters of
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    • 65 28 Congratulations and Best Wishes to the Government and People of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the occasion of their National Day OE OVERSEAS ENTERPRISES (PTE) LTD. GAYLORD ENTERPRISES (PTE) LTD. 10, Anson Road, #28-12, International Plaza, Singapore 0207 Telex: GAYLORD RS ***** Tel. Off: *****23, *****55 (3 lines) Tel.
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    • 61 28 Congratulations Best Wishes to the Government and People of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on their National Day TWIN BIRD PTE LTD Block 102, Towner Road, #01-276 Singapore 1232. Tel: *****49, *****48, *****01 Telex: RS ***** TQBIRD Congratulations to the Government and People of Pakistan on their National Day. Pak
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    • 90 29 Congratulations Best Wishes to the Government People of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on their National Day from AITCHISON ENTERPRISES PTE. LTD. 63, Market Street, #09-97, Tat Lee Building Singapore 0104. Maxwell Road P.O. Box 1476 Singapore 9029 Tel: *****27/*****20 Telex: RS ***** AELSIN Importers/Exporters, Dealers in Spices, Edible Oils,
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    • 132 29 Congratulations to the Government People of Pakistan on their National Day. We come from the country of carpet weavers and our staff are ivell trained in the carpet industry. Our job is to help and advise you on the choice of your carpets and to offer them to you at
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    • 197 33 classified 273-9090 Tours TAOO3/281 APPOINTMENTS The Singapore Monitor is looking for an ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER If you are a top-notch marketing person looking for a challenging and rewarding career in the busy world of newspapers, then this is the job for you. You will be responsible for a multi-million dollar
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  • sports
    • 559 34  -  Player and fan argue in tennis court Head Junior Open Championships 1984 By ALFONSO CHAN GILAD BLOOM punctuated the hot afternoon with a heated verbal exchange with a Filipina, even as he was trading strokes with Filipino Manuel Tolentino in the quarter-finals of the Head
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    • 276 34  - Gilad the girl By ALFONSO CHAN JEANETTE Tong was understandably miffed, piqued and fuming. The slim, bespectacled 20-year-ola Filipina had just been the victim of a fiery verbal assault by Israeli junior Gilad Bloom. Fortunately there was a fence separating the two, because the verbal exchange threatened to escalate into
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    • 560 35  -  SUDDENLY, THE SAINTS ARE THE RAGE TO MAKE IT A CUP AND LEAGUE DOUBLE QUEENS PARK RANGERS vs SOUTHAMPTON ENGLISH LEAGUE SOCCER BY SIMON BARNES SUDDENLY, the talk is all about Southampton for an FA Cup and League championship double. The Saints nave barged their way
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    • 139 35 SHEFFIELD Wednesday have a chance to salvage the pride they lost at Southampton by taking on Derby County in the Second Division. Derby, troubled by financial problems off the pitch and horrific form, are in a terrible state, and teams in the pink of
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    • 115 35 MEANWHILE, Manchester United, who went up to the top last week have a real crunch match against Nottingham Forest, in third place. Skipper Bryan Robson said: "There is noboay, and I mean nobody, who wants to win the title more than me. "I want
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    • 114 35 IPSWICH vs WATFORD ARSENAL vs WOLVERHAMPTON AT the less fashionable end of the table, Ipswich seem to have relegation written all over them. They have a visit from Watford, currently showing every sign of storming back into Europe. Watford have the FA Cup very much in
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    • 293 35  -  POLICE SA 3 JUBILEE 0 By B KULA POLICE sent Jubilee deeper into the relegation mire when they hammered three goals past them in this National Football League Division One match at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. The scoreline does not, however, reflect
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    • 95 35 Reuter LONDON, Friday BRITISH sailor John Ridgway set a new round-the-world sailing record of 194 days today, smashing the former Dutch-held record by 95 days. Ridgway, 45, set foot on land again yesterday at Ardmore, northern Scotland, after seven months at sea in a 17-metre (57-foot)
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    • 572 36 HIS PRESS CRITICS SAY HE SUFFERS FROM 'RUSHES OF BLOOD' KKUUE*GROBBEIfft T flß^ LAST year, Bruce Grobbelaar was within a whisker of causing a Milk Cup sensation by becoming the first goalkeeper to get sent off at Wembley. The occasion was a charge through by Manchester
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    • 219 36  -  By S GULAM PIYAPONG PUEON, Thailand's answer to Singapore's Fandi Ahmad, will lead a strong Thai team tor the second round of the pre-Olympics qualifying soccer competition, which starts at the National Stadium on April 14. Piyapong was a hit with local
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    • 596 37 Sieckmann cards a score that has eluded him for years AMERICAN Tom Sieckmann produced an exciting round of five-under-par 66 a score which had eluded him these years on the first day of the Singapore Open golf championship yesterday. He rightfully leads the pack of 159 competitors from
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    • 284 37 LU CHIEN SOON, winner of the Malaysian and Thailand Opens, leads the Asian Circuit table with 397 points out of a possible 600. Chien Soon, who finished 15th and 50th respectively in the Hong Kong and Indian Opens, shot a 72 in the first round
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    • 349 37 66 Tom Sieckmann (US) 33-33; 67 Terry Gales (Aus) 32-35, Lu Hsi Chuen (Tai) 34-33, Ho Ming Chung (Tai) 35-32; 66 Hsu Chi San(Tai) 33-35, Frankie Minoza (Ph) 33-35, Paul Foley (Aus) 37-31, 69 Tsao Chien Teng (Tai) 35-34, Steve Cook (US) 33-36, Alan Pate (US) 35-34,
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    • 473 38  -  A string of first round defeats OUR TOP SHUTTLER IN EUROPE By KEN JALLEH Jr FOR Singapore's badminton ace Wong Shoon Keat, the European circuit has been one big first round defeat. From the Danish Open to the All England championships, the
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  • Page 35 Advertisements
    • 317 35 The Legend Surrounds In 1953. Ben Hogan. 66. he went on to establish challenged the fact that no Today, athletes run playing on ailing legs, not a new Masters record. 14 golfer had e\er won a faster, jump higher, hit fully recovered from his under at '274. beating Ed British
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 119 39 LONDON, Friday CHINA were named the favourites for the two world badminton team competitions when the draws for the final stages of both events were made here yesterday. The Chinese were seeded first for the Thomas Cup men's crown and the Über Cup for women.
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      506 39 MONITOR Milk Cop Special ALL-ENGLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS LONDON, Friday WORLD champion ICUK SUGIARTO of Indonesia was bundled out of the All-England badminton championships last night. His defeat to unseeded Michael Kjeldsen of Denmark was a replica of defending champion Luan Jin's the night before. The Chinese star also lost
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  • Page 39 Advertisements
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