Singapore Monitor, 3 April 1984, Afternoon Edition

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    • 399 2 IS COMING YOUR WAY 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, we'll be carrying four separate but free weekly newspapers which will concentrate as never before on
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    • 251 2  -  By JEANNE WONG SAVINGS banks need to find solutions to the serious problems caused by the stagnating world economy, said Mr Helmust Geiger, president of the International Savings Bank Institute (ISBI), at the 14th World Congress of Savings Banks which started at a
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    • 39 2 What's this? No left turn or no backing to the left? This upside-down No Right Turn sign at Petain Road leading to Jalan Besar was spotted by one sharp-eyed reporter while cruising around the area.
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    • 110 2 THE ASIA Development Bank reaffirmed its commitment to strengthen international cooperation and remove Erotectionism and other impediments > sustain economic growth in Asia this morning when its president, Mr Masao Fujioka addressed the 14 th World Congress of Savings Banks. But it was important that each
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    • 317 3 AS EARLY as 1981 when he was only 25 years' old, George Chia found murdered together with his brother in Hong Kong yesterday was described as a leader in his field representing the new breed of Singapore goldsmiths. The corpses of George and
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    • 188 3 A VAN driver was lulled yesterday when his vehicle smashed into the back of a lorry along the Jurong Pan Island Expressway. Mr Ng Kian Huat, 27, was travelling towards Jurong Town Hall Road at about 5 am when the accident happened.
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    • 191 3 IN ANTICIPATION of an increased passenger traffic, the Port of Singapore Authority is upgrading its ferry terminal at the World Trade Centre. It has started, from last month, to upgrade its terminal so that it can accommodate three 200-seater ferries simultaneously, one more than what it can
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    • 178 4 THE INTERNATIONAL debt crisis is of concern not only to the advanced world and the affected developing countries; it is of importance to other countries, too. Singaporeans who want to know more about the crisis might be interested in attending a
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    • 415 4 THEIR PUBLIC-SPIRITEDNESS IS SELDOM RECOGNISED THERE is another side to taxi drivers that is seldom identified by the public at large their pub-lic-spiritedness, kindness and honesty. In NTUC Comfort, there have been many examples of cabbies who have been serving passengers from their hearts.
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    • 391 4  -  By FAEZAH ISMAIL A 32-YEAR-OLD man, described in court as a transvestite, took bis own life because he was unable to accept himself, the coroner's court heard this morning. Chang Liong Fook alias Chang Liong Hok alias Anthony, of Mimbu Road, was
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    • 225 6 Lianhe Wanbao SCHOOL bus operators are in a predicament because more students are going to neighbourhood schools. According to a survey conducted by the Singapore School Transport Association, owners of 80 CB-plate buses said they were finding it hard to get students. In the meantime,
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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 it Yu Pel. He it 76 and ttill working. Tht word retirement doot not regittor in hit vocabulary. Ha could have ttopped working many yeart ago, but he choee to continue because he wanta to remain
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    • 9 2 Investing in Properties? Read property section in Wednesday's Monitor
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  • world
    • 237 8 UPI CESME (Turkey), Tuesday NATO Defence ministers meet today to discuss nuclear planning in the face of a Soviet refusal to resume arms negotiations in the near future. Security was heavy at the Golden Dolphin Hotel on the Aegean
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    • 265 8 UPI WASHINGTON, Tuesday THE SOVIET aircraft carrier Minsk fired eight red flares at a US frigate in the South China Sea last Sunday in a rare outburst between the Soviet and American navies, Pentagon officials said. Three of the flares hit the
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    • 274 8 AP MOSCOW, Tuesday SOVIET Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko yesterday attacked American foreign policy and indicated Moscow will make no moves to improve relations with Washington in this US presidential election year. Speaking at a Kremlin lunch for visiting Indonesian Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja,
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    • 176 9 AP NEW YORK, Tueeday A JURY decided yesterday that Yoko Ono, widow of former Beatle John Lennon, must pay a record producer and engineer US$3 million (556.3 million) for work he did on the Lennons' record album, Double Fantasy.
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    • 282 9 UPI WASHINGTON, Tuesday A FEDERAL Court jury found US senator George Hansen guilty on all four counts of filing false financial disclosures by omitting a US$B7,OOO (*****,700) silver deal and loans involving Texas billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. Mr Hansen's lawyer Nathan
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    • 181 9 UPI ESCONDIDO (California), Tuesday THERE is no "for sale" sign on the lawn and prospective buyers need an appointment plus a good word from their bankers, but the owner of the 19 hectare estate is definitely anxious to sell. The property belongs
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    • 534 9 LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Tuesday ANTICIPATING that the Democratic presidential primaries may end indecisively in June, Mr Walter Mondale and Sen Gary Hart have launched comput-er-aided battles for the loyalties of delegates already chosen for July's Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. Both sides
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    • 243 10 The Star KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday THERE ARE owners of cars costing more than $50,000 who have not paid any income tax, according to the Auditor-General's report on the Malaysian Government's accounts for 1981. Auditor-General Tan Sri Ahmad Noordin said that there were 220
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    • 196 10 A NOVICE NUN, SHE HAS NO MONEY BECAUSE OF POVERTY VOW Reuter LONDON, Tuesday A NOVICE NUN who is an heiress to the Hong Kong fortune of Jardine Matheson risks going to jail because she cannot pay a fine for a motoring offence. Teresa Keswick,
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    • 397 10 AP TOKYO, Tim JAPAN'S top agriculture official left for Washington today in search of an elusive compromise on Japan's beef and citrus product imports, a major sore point in the US-Ja-Ean US$63-billion (Ssl32 illion) trade relationship. Agriculture, Forestry and
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    • 235 10 UPI WASHINGTON, Tim WHILE strategic thinkers and disarmament groups are focusing their efforts on slowing the arms race between the superpowers, the real danger to the world by the end of the century may come from a new direction SNF, or small
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    • 97 10 AP WASHINGTON, Tuesday AS THE GENERATION of US citizens born following World War II grows older, the number of births in the country is declining and there may be little prospect of reversing that trend, a new government study indicates. Both weddings and
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    • 338 12 Agencies WASHINGTON, Monday PRESIDENT REAGAN told Congress yesterday that he is committed to the development of a satellite killer system, and he ruled out any new negotiations with the Kremlin to ban such futuristic space-age weaponry. In a 16-page report to Congress, Mr
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    • 875 12 Military hardware funnelled through North Korea LAT-WP, UPI BEIJING, Tuesday DESPITE its claim to "strict neutrality" in the war between Iran and Iraq, China has covertly supplied the Iranians with combat aircraft and other military equipment funneled through North Korea, according to foreign
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    • 211 12 Reuter JERUSALEM, Tuesday ISRAELI security authorities are examining ways of combating what they described as a new type of terrorism following yesterday's guerilla attack in central Jerusalem which wounded about 50 people. Calling the attack a new phenomenon, Jerusalem police chief Rahamim Comfort tola Israel
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    • 209 12 AP WASHINGTON, Monday A US diplomat's wife, who spent years abroad serving as hostess, cultural adviser, chief cook and bottle washer while her husband held various posts, is pushing for legislation to pay spouses for their efforts. "Many people think representation
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 100 9 rA Every Wednesday and Friday at Lunchtime 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.the smart young
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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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    • 210 13 THE SINGAPORE bourse continued trading in yesterday's quiet tone. Supreme Corp leads again with a top volume of 229,000 shares traded and closing a cent lower at $1.90. Gen Lumber closed at $2.56 with 108,000 shares traded, while 104,000 UIC shares was traded,
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    • 160 13 IN SINGAPORE, the US dollar eased slightly against most currencies in quiet early trading on some profit-taxing after its rally in New York, dealers said. They said that after initial activity between 2.6235/50 and 2.6175/85 marks, the dollar settled around 2.6190/6200 against New York's 2.6215/30 close with
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    • 380 14  -  Money has become information in motion The most sophisticated systems can be penetrated By LAU TIONG LIP THE introduction of electronic banking in companies and banks is hindered by security and privacy problems. A telephone number has been known to be the only physical access
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    • 185 14 Reuter BONN, Tuesday EUROPEAN firms must boost investment in the Asean countries and not just regard them as export markets, a senior West German official said yesterday. Mr Alois Mertes, Minister of State at the Foreign Ministry, told the opening day of a
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    • 272 14 Selected itockx at midday. Market tooe: slightly lower Cold Storage 4.22/4.24 Fraser Neave 6 05/6 10 Haw Par 2.52/2.53 Jacks Intl 5.50 S Magnum 3.72/3.74 Arab Mai Dev 120/121 Boustead 2.63/2.64 Esso 12.70/12.90 Genting 5.15/5.20 Hume 5.10 B Inchcape 2.86/2.87 MUIB 2.81/2.82 N 0 L 2.73/2.74 Oriental 5.70/5.80
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    • 122 14 Your 8$ to one unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DO TT DO US| 2 0950 2.0850 2.0760 sterling 2 9914 2.9693 2.9593 Australian 9 1.9770 1.9268 1.6118 Canadian 1.6469 1.6268 1.6118 New Zealand 1.3955 1.3754 1.3604 S$ to 100 units of foroign currency Austrian schilling 11.5087 11.2086 11.1586
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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
      • 94 14 MENANG CORPORATION did not live up to market expectations by turning in a disapSointing set of results for the year ended Dec 1, 1983. Group pre-tax profits plunged 34 per cent from Ms 26 million to Msl7 million on a lower turnover of
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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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      • 48 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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      • 49 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 Mslo6 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 Mf 19.2 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 ■y KITTY McKINSEY KNIQHT-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 feast support them. The incentives like tax reliefs and priority in HDB allocation are fair. But, sad to say, other
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    • 258 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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    • 333 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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    • 212 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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    • 151 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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    • 440 17 COMMENT 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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    • REPLIES
      • 124 17  -  CHEW KING HWAN for Permanent Secretary (Education) 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.
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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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      • 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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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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    • 60 16 w accepted for publcaiion Thay should be typad and muat be signed. They mu»f Mo mduda the wotera nam* and addrtaa to un a paaudonym m print. A contact telephone number would ba useful. We raaarva tha right to adrt letters Addrasa your letters to Tha Editor. Tha Sraipon Monitor.
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  • leisure
    • 1740 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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    • 216 18  -  ENDING ON BRIGHT NOTE By INEZ WEI IN HIS 20 years at the House of Ctaloe, 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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    • 464 20  -  HV SJgENI 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-Fridav music variety progamme, Live from Studio One, which took the four p spots in the
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    • 507 20 HIW 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 medical
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    • 937 21  -  By SHEILA BENSON in nouywooa LAT-WP 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
    • 1247 19 KBIhISQ ,^fnipa 2.25 SBCText Live Sample Pages. A '<£ 1| I 2.55 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by My 1 w.y(o(r). f jMPI 4.35 Storvtime (T) (r). $,>B I Featuring The Brahmin's Gold a Brahmin gives his gold i »if 1 coins, hidden in a pot fuN of dahi, to
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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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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 50 21 COMING SOON! 'France Hy'lfWHifflSßWr HEAR BIGGEST HIT T^^sSPSlw UP I %pl U■■ I 111 I OVER 4 3 MILLION TICKETS SOLD (4,325,578) Jjj 1 TM PeCOrded hY GROSSED OVER 63 MILLION F/F (F.F 63,288.649 00) f J^L A onnl Qn V on OUTGROSSED all 007 bond films J|f jenmier TBn
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 395 21 fllM OUIO€ fIMipPMMM VENUS (*****97): HONGKONG EMMANUELLE (C) DAUT (*****16): THE DEVIL'S OFFSPRING (C) UWAQU (*****30): 24 SHAOUN MOVES (C) A* o KIO (*****71): BLOOD REINCARNATION PLAZA (*****71): THIS VIOLENT WORLD (C) BEDOK (*****7): THE GREAT SURPRISE (C). Starring: Lin Qingxia, Sylvia Zhang, Son Yue, Ha Guanzben Synopsis: A comedy
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 195 22 JADE: Next Change! me Killing of Karen Sflhwood la Mm M r r nnnt m is vvw aerinmve occoum or tihm com wtilcti put the mid—r liwHmry on trial. Nominated for v 5 ACADEMY Wtflw f AWARDS I-MjLfcJ m Jrn, SILKWOOD MERYL STREEP, Urt Bissau ft Cfcar CAPITOL: NOW SHOWING!
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    • 113 22 p^ODEOiT S^: OPENS TOMORROW! DUE TO FILM'S LENGTH, PLEASE NOTE TIMES i, I 4 SHOWS DAILY: 11am, 2.15,5.30,8.45pni 2i YUL BRYNNER FRANCO NERO {HARDY KRUGER SILVA KOSCINAj I i CURT JURGENS ORSON WELLES j ijnrii ODEON: LAST DAYI j| (*****16) 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30 ft 9.15pm J i S CATHAY:
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 39 22 ESSSi^Kii TODAY: TOMORROW: Low tide: 6.31 am Low tide: 7.01 am B.S m) (0.4 m) ilk tide: 12.35 pm High tide: I.OS 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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    • 669 22 IJii^BLIZ^SBBJ Ruaalan pianist Alexander Sbbodyanlk to play with the SSO on April 13 and 14 SSO STRING QUARTET $3 are available at Cold Storage CenTHE Singapore Symphony Orchestra trejjoint, Tangs Superstore and VictoString Quartet will give a lunchtime na Theatre concert at Shell Theatrette, 3rd floor, 350 Shell Tower, on
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  • PHOTOGRAPHIC CORNER
    • 514 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  -  By 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
      Picture of the Outler Formation, New Zealand, by LEE CHIU SAN  -  426 words
  • Page 23 Advertisements
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 455 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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    • 249 28 cla»»if iod 273-9090 Situations Vacant The Singapore Monitor has immediate vacancies for the following positions: 1. DARKROOM ATTENDANT G.C.E. O Level Experience in processing and developing films 2. EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS GCE A Level with a good grade in English Typing speed of 40 wpm Salaries will be commensurate with qualifications
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    • 588 29  -  "MUUUUk^™ RACING TODAYS TRACK WORK By WONDER BOY CONSISTENT Gala Display II continued to show improvement with an attractive workout on a good track at Kuala Lumpur today. Taken out by his regular rider Jimmy Lam, the Medical Man three-year-old was raring to
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    • 349 29 a 2 Div 1 1200 m Shajehan II was not keen to make time when restricted to do 44.2, striding out keenly at the finish. Meor Romeo, looking fitter after his last win a fortnight ago, was kept well in hand to do 42.8.
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    • 160 29 SCOTTSDALE, Tues VITAS Gerulaitis, who says he has never beaten Bjorn Borg in a tennis tournament, kept his record intact as Borg racked up a 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) victory in an exhibition match here on Sunday. Gerulaitis, a 29-year-old resident of
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    • 517 30  -  East Asia championships mark the end of on on of our superiority In omotour squnsh By ALFONSO CHAN THE East Asia Championships which ended last Saturday at the Blast Coast Recreation Centre may well seem to appear as if it was Singapore's last stand at the
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    • 145 30 OF the 400-odd people who streamed in for last Saturday's Singapore Airlines' carnival affair at the East Coast Sailing Centre, slightly more than 30 went for the Windsurfer World Championship trials in the morning. The light wind conditions favoured the smaller boardsailors for the
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    • 537 31  -  BRAODELL SECONDARY SCHOOL S UPPER ALJUNIED TECHNICAL SCHOOL 0 Rtpwt: 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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      120 32 EVER since Kramer vs Kramer fathers have come back into the spotlight of family life. Here are two sports personalities British soccer stars with their young ones. Both fathers, Graham Roberts and Glenn Hoddle, play for English First Division club Tottenham Hotspurs. SOCCER star GLENN HODDLE (above) was
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    • 183 32 Reuter MOSCOW, Tuesday THE Soviet newspaper Izvestia said yesterday pornographers were joining capitalists to cash in on the Los Angeles Olympics and debase them. The newspaper's United States correspondent told Soviet readers magazines were on sale showing naked girls in mock-Olympic poses while others
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    • WORLDFRONT
      • 79 32 Reuter CARACAS, Tuesday TWO title fights scheduled for Saturday for the World Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight and juniorflyweight championships have been suspended, promoter Rafito Cedeno said yesterday. Junior-flyweight title-holder Lupe Madera of Mexico was due to face the Dominican republic's Francisco Inmaracaibo and featherweight
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      • 93 32 Reuter BANGKOK, Tuesday SOUTH Korea made it immediately clear yesterday that they intended to retain the team championship in the King's Cup boxing tournament when their fighters won all five bouts on the opening day here. The most impressive of the
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      • 111 32 AP SILVERSTONE (England), Tuesday ROBERTO Moreno of Brazil won the first European formula two race of the season on Sunday after a dramatic crash with team-mate Mike Thackwell 200 metres from the finish. Five times the lead changed hands as both drivers destroyed the
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    • 164 32 Reuter BOSTON, Tuesday HANA Mandlikova unleashed a barrage of groundstrokes to beat Helena Sukova 7-5, 6-0 last night to win the all-Czechoslovak final of a US$l5O,OOO (*****,000) women's tennis tournament. It was Mandlikova's fifth victory in her last six tournaments. She pounced on her opponent's
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      1361 33 COLOUR The film sets at the Hollywood studios and animated characters at Disneyland will temporarily take second place to the greatest sporting show on earth which California, and Los Angeles in particular, is staging this summer. We take a look at what treats are in store both in
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    • 398 35 IPS IRISHMAN Liam Brady's lucrative contract with Sampdoria draws to a close at the end of tnis season, but he's on a winner whatever happens. Last month, it looked odds on as if the former Arsenal star would be on his way back to England,
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      59 35 PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan winds up and throws out the first ball prior to the start of the opening day game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox in Baltimore yesterday. He was reviving a presidential tradition of throwing the first ball in the opening game of
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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 AssociationSavings banks The
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    • 247 2 ISBI respresents 113 members in 73 countries THE International Savings Banks 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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      • 59 2 Congratulations to the Post Office Savings Bank, Singapore for hosting the 14th World Congress of Savings Banks. With Compliments From SECURIKARD PTE LTD 89, Short Street, #04-18, Golden Wall Auto Centre Singapore 0718 Tel: *****34 Tlx: RS ***** O SECURIKARD Distributors of specialised Banking and ATM Cards, including the M.I.D.S.
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    • 404 3 THE POSB has come a long way since its establishment as a part of the Postal Services Department in 1877. The main aims now, as then, were to encourage thrift and to mobilise domestic savings for national development. Its share of the savings market has
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