Singapore Monitor, 3 April 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Tuesday, April 3, 1984 30cents
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  • 412 1 T It's Beijing's reminder on Hanoi's dry offensive MkMNQ, Tuesday CHINESE artillery opened fire yesterday at Vietnamese military positions along the Sino-Vietnamese border, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, describing the shelling as retaliation for more than SO Vietnamese attacks across the frontier last
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    • 394 2 NEIGHBOURHOOD is coming! This Sunday sees the launch of what we think is an exciting newspaper happening in Singapore. From that day and as part of the Sunday Monitor, well be carrying four separate but free weekly newspapers which will concentrate as never before on
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    • 494 2  -  CLERK HELPS THE OLD TO FORM THEIR OWN CLUB By SAVLIWALA DIN CHUA LAY CHIN is a senior citizen with a difference. The difference is that she is only 21. As well as being probably the youngest member of a senior citizens' club anywhere, Miss Chua
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    • 200 2 HONG Kong police are investigating on clues provided by namecards, including tboee of Singapore residents, found in the flat where two bodies were discovered entombed in concrete flower troughs in an apartment in Wan Tsai. The other namecards belooged to persons living in Hong Kong,
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    • 440 3 Singapore has one of the highest rate of savings in the world SINGAPORE has one of the highest rate of savings in the world mainly because thrift had been cultivated as a national virtue, Acting President Dr Yeoh Ghim Seng said this morning. Speaking at the opening
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    • 316 3 THE Ministry of Defence is using the mass media print, audio and audio-visual to communicate to everyone that the defence of a nation does not rest solely on the Singapore Armed Forces. SBC is also broadcasting a newly-com-posed SAF Total Defence Song. Simple
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    • 212 4 Lianhe Zaobao UNDER special circumstances, a person's Medisave account can be extended to cover his/her brothers and sisters, although the handbook states that "family members" usually include only one's spouse, parents and children. According to a spokesman for the Ministry of Health,
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    • 338 4 TRADE unionists interviewed by The Singaporean are opposed to the raising of the withdrawal age for CPF. But they support other recommendations of the Committee on the Problems of the Aged. Those interviewed agree that: THERE should be legislation to ensure that children maintain their
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    • 403 4  -  By EE BOON LEE AS A further sign of their symbiotic relationship, the National Trades Union Congress and the People's Action Party will for the first time celebrate May Day together with a carnival at the Chinese Garden in
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    • 190 4 THE UNITED People's Front of Mr Harbans Singh has come out against conscription and what it termed as wasteful spending on defence. In a statement, the party says those who want to be regulars and join voluntarily can be given two years' training "and become
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    • 190 4  -  By FOO MEY KIEN NEPTUNE Orient Lines wants to buy four 2700TEU containerships estimated to cost US$l4O million ($291 million). The national shipping line is currently studying quotations from European, Japanese and South Korean shipyards. NOL said the order was in
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    • From our EVENING EDITION yesterday
      • 52 6 IT WILL now-cost you 10 cents to use a public toilet. The 5-cent increase took effect last Sunday. The increase was due to rising operating costs. An Environment Ministry spokesman said yesterday, though it determined the fee, the toilets were managed
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      • 57 6 THE Labour Ministry yesterday warned factory occupiers and contractors at worksites to be on the lookout for bogus ministry officers. It said it had received comfilaints of bogus officers soliciting or donations. The ministry advised factory occupiers and contractors to ask the officers to
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      • 63 6 ROBBERS hauled away a safe containing $21,000 after tying up the guard A police spokesman said the guara Mr Rajah Subramaniam, 19, was on duty when five robbers pounced on him. The robbers ransacked the Ben and Company office before taking away the safe with
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    • 443 6  -  They were promised work in poultry farm by an 'employment agency' Story by GANDHI AMBALAM THE PROMISE by an "employment agency" of a lucrative job in a 300-hect-are poultry farm in Singapore, with free chickens and eggs thrown in daily, has left
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    • 262 6  -  By K K FONG THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) has asked a travel agency here to show proof that it had a bus waiting in Penang where a group of teachers and students was stranded last Christmas. But it has been
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    • 320 7  -  By SAVLIWALA DIN MORE than 40 of the 82 tenants at Centrepoint have decided to close tomorrow for a day to protest against the management's alleged "indifference" to their requests for a rent reduction. Those tenants who are* not closing
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    • 299 7  -  By ANGELA TOH THIS man is Yu Pei. He is 76 and still working. The word retirement does not register in his vocabulary. He could have stopped working many years ago, but he chose to continue because he wsnts to remain
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    • 9 2 lavMtinf in PropHrtiM? Read property •ectioo In Wednesday's Monitor
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    • 89 6 CLUB HOUSE Vietnamese Restaurant A division of Singapore Tennis Centre One of the best tennis complexes in Asia 1020 East Coast Parkway, Singapore 1544. Tel: *****28 *****66 80 Popular Genuine Dishes At Your Choice Have a traditional dinner in a tropical atmosphere. Right by the aea-side. 3fe Enjoy a fast
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    • 73 7 ASIA COMMERCIAL BANK LTD in all your banking needs. Our range of services include: Current, savings and fixed deposits accounts Asian Currency Unit (ACU) deposit accounts Overdraft and loans Trade financing and other credit facilities Head Office and Main Branch: Branches: 2 Mistri Road Singapore 0207 415-417 Jalan Besar 25
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  • world
    • 185 8 AP LAS VEGAS, Tuesday THOUSANDS of culinary workers, stagehands and musicians went on strike yesterday against 28 hotel-casinos, cancelling shows by such stars as Shirley MacLaine and Suzanne Somers. Gambling was unaffected by the back-stage strike, and the smaller lounge shows were expected
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    • 504 8 That's what Mondale calls today's crucial New York Primary showdown Reuter NEW YORK, Tuesday DEMOCRATS Walter Mondale and Gary Hart yesterday wooed voters at factories, shops, and airports all across New York State on the eve of their biggest Presidential Primary showdown. With the
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    • TRENDS
      • 60 9 Reuter ISRAEL: Israeli politicians, facing a general election in July, moat rapidly settle leadership disputes and puty lists before hitting the campaign trail Electioneering in Israel usually spans six months and the relatively short campaign seems likely to help Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
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      • 74 9 The Washington Post MTERNATONAL DEBT: Money centre banks are bracing for the likelihood that their first-quarter profits will be reduced by a failure of Argentina to meet a March 31 deadline for making interest payments on its loans. Argentine officials have announced
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      • 79 9 Chicago Tribune THE GULF WAR: The Iran-Iraq war has failed to live up to the worst fears of the West that it would spread beyond the two antagonists and precipitate a crisis for the oil-con-suming world. While the situation still
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      • 54 9 Reuter GRENADA: Grenada's interim government faces a growing dilemma over its aim to return the small Caribbean island to democracy in elections later this year. According to recent opinion polls, the Granadian people, disillusioned by the island's politicians, are far from universally in
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      • 70 9 Reuter SOUTH KOREA: Smoking cigarettes has become almost a patriotic duty for South Koreans, as long as they stay addicted to local brands More than 400 government officials and other prominent people have been fined, dismissed or reprimanded over the past few
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    • 175 9 AP DAYTONA BEACH, (Florida) Tuesday THE discovery of a cascading series of genetic "triggers" that may start tumour growth suggests that cancer might be easier to treat than once thought Biochemist researcher, Charles Stiles, of the DanaFarber Cancer Institute in Boston said
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    • 331 9 JAKARTA, Tuesday INDONESIA is expected to end its countertrade in petroleum with Singapore in the near future as a result of enhanced refinery capabilities. According to Press reports, the countertrade arrangement will no longer be needed by Indonesia as its domestic refineries expansions are nearing
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    • 213 9 LONDON, Tum LONDON policemen guarding President Reagan and other visiting heads of state will carry automatic submachine guns for the first time, Scotland Yard said yesterday. The weapons 9mm Heckler and Koch MPSK quick-firing automatic guns will be issued to "fewer than a dozen"
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    • 103 9 Reuter TORONTO, Tum PRIESTS wiH use golf carts to give holy communion to a crowd of one million people expected at an open air mass by Pope John Paul here in September. A spokesman for the organisers of the mass
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    • 234 10 AP AMMAN, Tuesday KING Hussein of Jordan will tour the Arab Gulf countries this month for talks on Middle East problems and formulation of a new Arab strategy, an official source announced yesterday. The official, who requested anonymity in
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    • 487 10 TEHERAN CLAIMS IT CAN PRODUCE CHEMICAL WEAPONS Reuter, AP LONDON, Tuesday IRAN is capable of producing its own chemical weapons and may retaliate if Iraq continues its alleged use of such weapons in the Gulf war, Iran's delegate to the UN
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    • 181 10 Reuter LONDON, Tuesday BRITAIN'S Queen Elizabeth has been invited to visit Israel as controversy lingered over whether she expressed pro-Arab sentiments on a trip to Jordan last week. The invitation was informally extended by British-born Israeli President Chalm Herzog when he had lunch
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    • 177 10 KUWAIT, TuMttey A KUWAITI labour unionist was quoted yesterday as warning that South-east Asian expatriate workers constitute a "vanguard of American forces in the Arab region should the US decide to seize the Gulf oilfields." Mr Mohamed Al-Osaimi, president
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    • 107 10 Reuter ST JOHN'S (Newfoundland), Tuesday A TEENAGER who lost a leg to cancer set out at the weekend on a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research. Battling wind and rain at the start of his run, Steve Fonyo, 18, who has an
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    • 244 12 Reuter LONDON, Tues BRITAIN'S striking miners yesterday claimed their three-week-old stoppage was having a damaging effect on coal stocks. In a report that conflicted with government estimates of the stock position, the industry's union newspaper The Miner said power stations would start running
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    • 566 12 But both sides fight fiercest artillery duels since Hanoi forces crossed border AP KHUN HARN (Thailand), Tuesday THAI forces drove out all Vietnamese troops from Thai territory yesterday, but Thai and Vietnamese gunners stationed inside Cambodia fought their fiercest artillery duels since
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    • 336 12 AP BEIJING, Tuesday A SENIOR Chinese official told a European Parliament delegation yesterday that China supports a Western Europe nuclear deterrent against the Soviet Union, a sharp departure from Beijing's publicly stated position endorsing disarmament. "If a lion is going to
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    • 192 12 Reuter MOSCOW, Tuesday SOVIET Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said So-viet-Indonesian relations, strained by old political differences and allegations of spying in recent years, were ripe for a new impetus. Mr Gromyko was adaressing a dinner for Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadia, the highest ranking
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    • 157 12 UPI LOS ANGELES, Tuesday MARVIN Gaye had clashed in the past with his father, a retired preacher accused of gunning the soul singer down in a family feud, but the squabbles had never been violent, police said yesterday. "There was some bad
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    • 132 8 WLEEFMANCE (A Subsidiary of Tat Lee Bank) 7Vi M i A (pa Fixed Deposits Savings 7% p.a. Interest on your savings account will be calculated on a daily basis and credited monthly. CS it Us TAT LEE FINANCE LIMITED Head Office: 90 Cecil street. #01-0) Dunn House, Singapore 0106 Telephone:
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    • 103 9 Every Wednesday an d Friday at Lunchtime Food and fashion go together every Wednesday and Friday with different shows to reflect different moods. Wednesday Jingles Boutique steps up the pace with trendy original creations in smart and casual wear. Friday Raya Fashion House comes up with an elegant collection for
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  • money
    • 167 13 WHEN Overseas Union Bank launches its Phoneßank next month, you won't need to go to the bank to find out about the rates for fixed deposits, gold and silver passbook and foreign exchange. Such information will be available at the touch of a push-button
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    • 118 13 ASIA Commercial Bank and Chartered Bank raised their rates yesterday. ACB's new rate is 7.25 per cent per annum for savings and fixed deposits for 1,3,6,9 and 12 months. Its prime lending rate is 9.25 per cent per annum. This places the bank among those
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    • 454 13 MANY reasons have been offered for the quietness of the stock market here recently. One of the reasons offered is the political situation in Malaysia. Another is the lack of impetus in the market. Yet another is that the Dow Jones movements have
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    • 168 13 SHARE OF THE DAY j DESPITE bad results and grim prospects, General Lumber continues to attract much interest from investors albeit not in the intensity it saw in the last two months. January and February saw a flurry of speculative interest in the counter which
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    • 164 13 HMLLSTREET j Reuter PRESSURE on the Federal funds rate caused new interest rate concerns on Wall Street yesterday and stock prices turned sharply lower in moderately heavy trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which was ahead about 3-1/2 points at noon, finished the day
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    • 236 13 AP THE dollar offset losses in Europe with a sharp advance in heavy US trading yesterday, a rebound backed Dy higher US interest rates. Gold and silver prices fell sharply in US activity. Republic National Bank in New York quoted gold as of 4 pm at US$379
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    • 275 14  -  The most sophisticated systems can be penetrated By LAU TIONG LIP THE introduction of electronic banking in companies and banks is hindered by security and privacy problems. A telephone number has been known to be the only physical access needed to penetrate the most sophisticated
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    • 105 14 MONEY is not quite what it used to be. In his book Megatrends, John Naisbitt said that money nas become information in motion it is now possible to store and transmit cash electronically. Technological changes have made cash "become electrons moving through the circuits
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    • 185 14 Reuter BONN, Tuesday EUROPEAN firms must boost investment in the Asean countries and not just regard them as export markets, a senior West German official said yesterday. Mr Alois Mertes, Minister of State at the Foreign Ministry, told the opening day of a
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    • 398 14 World Report TOKYO, Tuesday THE Tokyo stock market entered the new Japanese financial year with a boom yesterday as snare prices hit record highs for the sixth successive trading day. The market indicator shot over the 11,000 mark for the first time
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    • 178 14 Reuter PRELIMINARY talks have started on the possibility of including the London Financial Futures Exchange (Liffe) in a planned mutual offset system linking the Chicago and Singapore markets, financial industry sources said. Senior officials of the London International Financial Futures Exchange have
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 93 14 MENANG CORPORATION did not live up to market expectations by turning in a disappointing set of results for the year ended Dec 31, 1983. Group pre-tax profits plunged 34 per cent from M|26 million to Msl7 million on a lower turnover of 148.85
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      • 85 14 HONG LEONG CREDIT Bhd's group pre-tax profit for the year ending June 30, 1984 is expected to rise to' Ms3o million from $21.4 million after its acquisition of Malaysia Pacific Land. This will raise prospective earnings a share from 40.97 sens to 41.27
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      • 47 14 BATU KAWAN Bhd agreed to purchase from Asiatic Development Bhd its wholly-owned subsidiary, the Shanghai Kelantan Rubber Estates for M 518.5 million. Shanghai Kelantan, incorporated in Hong Kong, owns an estate in Kelantan and has a wholly-owned subsidiary, K H Syndicate.
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      • 50 14 TASEK CEMENT announced interim pre-tax profits of M 522.9 million for the period ended Dec 31, 1983, up from M 517.4 million. Turnover was M) 106 million compared to M 597.7 million previously. The company declared an interim dividend of 10 per cent.
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      • 46 14 TEMASEK HOLDINGS now owns 58.2 per cent of Intraco with its latest purchase of 118,000 shares. UIC Ltd owns 16.86 per cent and Chip Lian Investments (owned by UIC managing director Oei Hong Leong) holds 0.13 per cent.
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      • 191 14 MALAYSIAN RESOURCES CORPORATION agreed to purchase 600 acres of land from Inch Kenneth Kajang Rubber for M 519.2 million. The price was negotiated on a willing-sell-er, willing-buyer basis and funded from MRC's internal sources. MRC said that the property has a long
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  • features
    • 822 15  -  By JIM ABRAMS AP TOKYO: In Japan, where business is very much a man's world, the effort to end job discrimination against women has been rough. The nation is trying to legislate job equality so it can ratify a United Nations convention
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    • 572 15  -  800,000 tune in to Budapest radio's classifieds By KITTY McKINSEY KNIQNT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS KNT International BUDAPEST (Hungary): One of the more popular features on Hungarian radio these days is a five-minute programme of commercials personal ads on the airwaves. Introduced last December, the show,
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  • opinion / letters
    • 300 16 Schools have drill practice only during PE periods I REFER to the letter "Compulsory parade rehearsals for Pre-U 3" by Worried Students (SM, March 16). Our school has been chosen to provide a tableau block of boys for the Singapore Youth Festival
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    • 152 16 I GATHER that the latest much-talked-about subject is parents-children relationship. I feel that children should, as far as possible, stay with their parents or at least support them. The incentives like tax reliefs and priority in HDB allocation are fair. But, sad to say, other
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    • 259 16 I WOULD like to clarify through this letter a matter concerning "slippers" and "sandals". On March 22, my husband and I went to a lounge called The Peppermint Park Theatre Lounge at Parkway Parade. I was not allowed to enter because the manager
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    • 215 16  -  C C HO Singapore 0314 I REFER to my letter (SM, March 7) which appeared under the heading "Early Medisave refund to pay for funerals." I am indeed surprised and disappointed to note that no reply or clarification whatsoever has been given
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    • 213 16 I REFER to the letter "There is no economic reason to attack us" by "Alternative View" (SM, March 3). May I remind him that he is not living in a Utopian state. By suggesting that it is futile and unnecessary to
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    • 269 16  -  PATRICK TEOH Singapore 1544 I REFER to your columnist Rodney Hobson's comment on slow-moving vehicles along the Pan Island Expressway and East Coast Parkway in his column "Hobson's Choice" (SM, March 18). As a driver of one of those vehicles
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    • 441 17 law PREPARING for war is the business of any defence establishment. The very nature of military strategy is to consider every single eventuality. More to the point, the nature of military planning is such that it does not, indeed should not, take into consideration the
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    • 252 17  -  RONNIE SOO Sales Promotion Manager Yaohan Singapore Pte Ltd WE REFER to the letter by "Customer" (SM, Mar 23). Self-service packing is new to the retail scene in Singapore and it is understandable that this usual packing service is missed at Yaohan. We
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    • 125 17  -  REPLIES CHEW KING HWAN I REFER to the letter headlined Prefect having a rough time carrying out her duty by "Worried Mum" (SM, March 10). The school prefect plays an important role in maintaining discipline and order in school. At no time
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    • 178 17 EVERY evening between 4.50 pm and 5.10 pm the bus lane in Robinson Road comes to a standstill because of inconsiderate Scheme B bus operators. These buses come just before 5 pm and linger around refusing to move until they have
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    • 67 16 LETTERS on any subject O* puttc interest w* be accepted for puMcabon They should be typed and must be signed. They must «so include the writer's name and address to use a peeudonym m print A contact telephone number would be useful Wis reserve the right to edit letters Address
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  • leisure
    • 1749 18 VISION BEHIND HERZOG'S FILMS The Goethe-lnstitut will hold a Werner Herzog film festival this month. Fifteen films, 13 of which were produced by Herzog between 1966 and 1978, will be shown. STEPHEN TAN takes a look at the themes that recur in Herzog movies, and following are
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    • 217 18  -  ENDING ON BRIGHT NOTE By INEZ WEI IN HIS 20 years at the House of Chloe, designer Karl Lagerfeld became a superstar and crafted the Chloe label into one of the best known in the world. But with his spring/summer '84 collection, he bade farewell to the establishment
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    • 462 20  -  ITVSWB By WONG SING YEONG AS expected, Chinese programmes continued to fill the top 10 SBC positions in the latest survey results released by Survey Research Singapore. SBC's Monday-to-Friday music variety proEamme, Live from Studio One, which took the four p spots in the previous
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    • 508 20 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Drama on 12 The Citadel (Part 1) (Ch 12, 9 pm) BEN CROSS, who starred in the award-winning film Chariots of Fire, plays Dr Andrew Manson in this 10Krt dramatisation by Don Shaw of A J Cronin's st-selling novel. Manson, newly-graduated from
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    • 936 21 LAT-WP By SHEILA BENSON in Hollywood TENDERNESS, a defining intelligence and the sting of real emotion are perhaps the last things you would expect to find in a Tarzan story, but Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is to the Tarzan saga what
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 871 19 2.25 SBCText Live Sample Pages. 1 4r 3| 2.55 Opening and Programme Highlight* followed by My I' f' 9 I Fea'tvMing The Brahmin's Gold a Brahmin gives his gold «V Vfl I coins, hidden in a pot full of dahl, to his neighbour for V« m H* I, > safekeeping;
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    • 341 19 12.00 PM Programme Summary 12.05 Easy Listening: 1. Sound Romantic 2. Musical Notebook Borrowings, Arrange- Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra 3. ments and Paraphrases: 1. Henselt: Con- Sounds Latin 6.00 News-in-Brief 6.05 certo in F minor for Piano and Orchestra Easy Listening (cont'd) 7.00 News and Opus 16 2. Liszt/
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    • 182 19 12.00 PM Newsdesk 12.30 PatricK Martyn's Music Box 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary 1.30 A Treasury of Musick 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Hall of Fame 3.00 World News 3.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary 3.30 Iberia, Iberia 3.45 Network U.K.
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    • 425 21 fllM OUIP€ i m f f i VENUS (*****97): HONGKONG EMMANUELLE (C) DALIT <*****16): THE DEVIL'S OFFSPRING (C) LIWAQU (*****30): 24 SHAOLIN MOVES (C) M 0 K, (******1): BLOOD REINCARNATION PLAZA (*****71): THIS VIOLENT WORLD (Q BEDOK (*****7): THE GREAT SURPRISE (C) m HMMMp II 11 i'l M——. Starring: Lin
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    • 119 22 !l ODEON —ni OPENS TOMORROW! i O DUE TO FILM'S LENGTH, PLEASE NOTE TIMES O 4 SHOWS DAILY: 11am, 2.15, 5.30,8.45pm O YUL BRYNNER FRANCO NERO O HARDY KRUGER SILVA KOSCINAg O CURT JURGENS ORSON WELLES jjgrj 2 ODEON: LAST DAYI Q (*****16) 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 630 9.15pm g CATHAY:
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 38 22 TODAY: TOMORROW: Low tide: 6.31 am Low tide: 7.01 am (O.S m) (0.4 m) High tide: 12.35 pm High tide: 1.05 pm (2.7 m) (2.7 m) Low tide: 6.52 pm Low tide: 7.13 pm (0.5 m) (0.7 m)
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    • 665 22 Russian pianist Alexander Siobodyanik to play with the SSO on April 13 and 14 SSO STRING QUARTET $3 are available at Cold Storage CenTHE Singapore Symphony Orchestra trejwint Tangs Superstore an<T VictoString Quartet will give a lunchtime na concert at Shell Theatrette, 3rd floor, 330 Shell Tower, on Friday from
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  • PHOTOGRAPHIC CORNER
    • 513 23 JACK'S Marketing Services Pte Ltd, distributors of Tudorcolor II films, are now holding a promotion in which they promise every customer a winning ticket. In this Tudor Tic-Tac-Toe promotion, a ticket with a Tic-Tac-Toe game printed on it will be given away with the purchase
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    • 426 24  -  #y LEE CHIU SAN THE super-wide angle lenses with focal lengths of 21mm and less open up a whole new world to the photographer. Unlike fish-eye wide-angle adaptors, these rectilinear wide-angle lenses do not curve lines. Lines which are straight in the
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    • 457 25 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA Do one job at a time today. September 24 to October 23 There are signs of a muddle A unique opportunity may due to conflicting interests come your way, and you and general distractions. This should take full advantage of is
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  • sports
    • 536 29 They lose their League Cup chances although they remain unbeaten Kelantan l Armed Forces 1 KELANTAN won a place in the Malaysia Cup quar-ter-finals but lost their chance for the League Cup after they drew 11 with Armed Forces at the Sultan Mohamed
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    • 245 29 Reuter BRIGHTON, Tuesday WORLD squash champion Jahangir Khan, unbeaten for the last three years, had to survive a spirited challenge by his cousin Daulat Khan when he launched the defence of his British Open title here yesterday. Pakistani Jahangir, who took the crown last year
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      • 200 29 Reuter LONDON, Tuesday ENGLAND striker Trevor Francis yesterday insisted he wants to continue playing Italian League soccer despite being angered by his controversial substitution during Sampdoria's 3-0 First Division win over Udinese the previous day. Francis, who is here for England's
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      • 126 29 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO, Tuesday FIVE of Brazil's top soccer teams failed to reach the third stage of the Brazilian League championship in weekend matches. Sao Paulo and Palmeiras of Sao Paulo State, International of Porto Alegre, Atletico Mineiro of Belo Horizonte and Botafogo of Rio
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      • 125 29 Reuter HAMBURG, Tuesday EUROPEAN soccer champions Hamburg yesterday suffered a serious blow to their hopes of taking their third successive West German title when sweeper Holger Hieronymus was ruled out for the rest of the season through injury. Team doctors said Hieronymus, 24, who has
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    • 423 30  -  By KEN JALLEH JR THE SKY'S the limit and so it is for Stewart Ballard who has chosen to devote his energy, chasing a career in the clouds with the Republic of Singapore Air Force. After a week of East Asia squash, when
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    • 103 30 EX-NATIONAL Soccer Players Club beat Royal Malaysian Navy 2-0 at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Both the goals came from Abu Bakar Saad. In two weeks time, the two teams will meet again for another friendly. The Navy team were runners-up in the Johore Bahru Premier League
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    • 537 31  -  BRADDELL SECONDARY SCHOOL 8 UPPER AUUNIED TECHNICAL SCHOOL 0 Report: B KULA AFTER 20 barren years, Upper Aljunied Technical football team reached the semifinals of the National School's North Zone B Division competition. But their hopes of making it to the final on Wednesday were dashed
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    • 585 32  -  With proper coaching he can beat the qualifying mark, says Eng Yoon By ERNEST FRIDA PLANS are under way to have Singapore's sprint champion Haron Mundir train with the United States Olympic athletes in Arizona in June. Tan Eng Yoon, a former national
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    • 413 32  -  By S GULAM TOA PAYOH UNITED are in a position to surge to the top of the NaI tional Football League Division One if they win tonight's game. Toa Payoh, with 22 points, are
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    • 198 32 THE Tsingtao quadrangular may be enlarged this year to include more participants. The Football Association of Singapore plans to extend the tournament to more than the four participants last year. And there is also the possibility that the Ex-National Soccer Players Club may
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    • 200 32 LOCAL referees, who have recently come under much criticism from every corner, received a morale booster when a shoe company decided to provide them with football boots. The company, Power, which also sponsors NFL Division One team Safsa, took the decision to sponsor
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    • 693 35  -  COMMENT I IT came as something of a shock last week when the Football Association of Singapore held its AGM and couldn't even attract a quorum. What seemed even more shocking to the ordinary football fan were some of the responses of absentee officials who felt
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    • 191 35 AP LONOON, Tuesday ENGLISH Second Division soccer team Derby County was saved from extinction yesterday only a few hours before it was due to fold. The famous East Midlands team, who won the First Division title twice in the Seventies but has recently suffered
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    • 225 2 Congress brings together 1,200 financial experts FOR the first time in history, the World Congress of Savings Banks will be held in Asia. This event opens at the Shangri-La Hotel today, and it brings together 1,200 financial experts from all over
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    • 178 2 Mr Masao Fujioka President, Asian Development BankThe Importance and Role of Asia in International Economic Relations Mr Jacques Dandelot Assistant to the Secretary General Banque de France, Paris The Continuing Challenge of Technological Advance in Banking Mr Peter Elkjaer President, Danish Savings Banks Association Savings banks
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    • 248 2 ISBI respresents 113 members in 73 countries THE International Savings Bank* Institute, founded in 1924, is a non-governmental body which at last count represents 113 direct members in 73 countries, with a total of 3,000 savings banks. It serves as a centre for contact
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    • 106 2 THE regional office of the ISBI for Asia and the Pacific is located in Bangkok. This office works as a centre for the exchange of information through its quarterly publication, Asian Savings Development Information. This bulletin covers the savings activities and operations of
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