Singapore Monitor, 4 April 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 13/5/83 Wednesday, April 4, 1984 30cents
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  • 765 1  -  By SIT YIN FONG HONG KONG police have alerted Interpol to be on the lookout for an Indonesian Chinese who, they believe, holds the key to a bizarre flower trough "coffin" double murder of two Singapore brothers. He is Abdul Karim, also known
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    • 136 2 SINGAPORE Airlines is spending |5.S million refining its first class service. The airline's commercial director, Mr Michael Tan, said the modifications were being made to ensure that first class retained its exclusivity. Among the new first-class pas- senger amenities will be a
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    • 173 2 ONE OF the biggest Malay organisations here is organising a forum on Malay Identity And Trends in Malay Organisations. The forum, organised by the Central Council of Malay Cultural Organisations, will kick off the celebrations to mark the 15th year of its founding.
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    • 385 2  -  By YONG POW ANG TOA PAYOH residents who have harboured hopes for a reduced bus fare for the feeder service to compensate for the "inconvenience" created by the new interchange may be in for a disappointment. The Singapore Bus Service is
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    • 118 2 TRISHAWS will be racing along Orchard Road in October when the Singapore Jaycees help to raise half a million dollars for the Community Chest of Singapore. The trishaw rally is to further the Jaycees' aim of providing young people with a chance to
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    • 331 2 IN JULY 1982, goldsmith George Chia, then 26, amazed his friends by going on a retreat to a monastery in Sri Lanka. This is just one fascinating facet of the life of George who, together with his brother, Stephen, 31, are believed
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    • 390 3  -  He allegedly lured 24 Lankans here with promise of work By GANDHI AMBALAM POLICE have arrested an "employment agent" who is alleged to have lured 24 Sri Lankans into Singapore with the promise of jobs in a 300-hect-are poultry farm A police officer at Paya Lebar
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    • 177 3 AN ARTIFICIAL heart should be used together with a patient's heart, not as a substitute, says a heart surgeon. "Their own hearts work well, but not well enough, and the artificial heart is only supposed to take over the functions that the normal
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    • 246 3 THE CID has asked all police divisions to help clean up the market of any belts with metal studs or heavy buckles that could be used as weapons in a fight. The police consider these belts and also some studded wrist-guards
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    • 67 3 MORE than a quarter of the delegates to the Asean Tourism Forum '84 (ATF) succeeded in clinching business deals at the forum which ended on March 22. And 44 per cent of them consolidated existing contracts. Equally successful was the convention component, according to a
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    • 399 4 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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    • 442 4  -  40 Centrepoint tenants to take part in one-day closure By OEI SIN GIOK IT LOOKS like some Centre point tenants who have been pressing for a 40 per cent rent cut will close for the day after negotiations with the management of the
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    • 406 4  -  By YONG POW ANG THE NTUC SecretaryGeneral and Minister without Portfolio Mr Ong Teng Cheong urged unionists yesterday to exercise patience with the Singapore Labour Foundation. Speaking at a dialogue session with the SingaG>re Maritime Officers' nion (Smou), Mr Ong assured unionists
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    • From our EVENING EDITION yesterday
      • 60 6 THE Port of Singapore Authority will upgrade its ferry terminal at the World Trade Centre in anticipation of more passenger traffic. One more 200-seater ferry was added to the exisiting two last month. The PSA montmy newsletter reports that, on an average, about 5,000 to
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      • 49 6 A 32-YEAR-OLD transvestite committed suicide because he was unable to accept himself, a coroner's court heard yesterday. In October last year, Chang Liong Fook alias Chang Liong Hok alias Anthony, of Mimbu Road, was found dead on the toilet floor. He had a knife beside him.
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      • 50 6 SCHOOL BUS operators are finding it hard to get student commuters because more students are attending schools in their neighbourhood. According to a survey conducted by the Singapore School Transport Association, owners of 80 CB-plate buses said they were finding it difficult to get students.
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    • 458 6  -  'She may be held captive' says mother By SURESH NAIR A 11-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl has been missing from her Toa Payoh home for six weeks and her family believes she may be held captive by person or persons unknown. Jayanthi Subramaniam, a Primary Five pupil of
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    • 119 6 LOCAL contractors may well be the most likely people to invest in computers for project management in the future. This was the conclusion drawn yesterday at a press conference from senior managers of Metier Management Systems International, which develops and —1 supports the Artemis
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    • 394 6  -  By EE BOON LEE IN SEARCH of a socialist path to Singapore's development, Mr Harbans Singh, 58, has changed parties four times in the past 30 years. He said he had been a member of the PeoRle's Action Party, the United People's Party
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 181 3 KEEP A PERFECT BALANCE WITH POCARI, THE ISOTONIC DRINK. Bill is an aspiring young executive who is fast climbing up the rungs of the hierarchy. With tight deadlines and quotas to meet, Bill has to entertain clients, attend meetings, write reports and H| fp EH even plan ahead of schedule
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  • world
    • 214 7 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UNREST CITED AS REASON Reuter TOKYO, Wednesday TOYOTA Motor Corporation, a major Japanese car manufacturer, said yesterday it ended technological assistance and agency contracts with its Philippine sales agent, Delta Motor Corporation, at the end of last month. Toyota, which holds about
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    • 315 7 AP KHUN HARN (Thailand), Wednesday ARTILLERY duels between Thai gunners and Vietnamese gunners stationed inside Cambodia lessened in intensity yesterday, a day after Thai forces drove out all Vietnamese troops which had crossed into Thailand on March 24, army officials
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    • 278 8 UPI NEW DELHI, Wednesday POLICE were ordered to shoot lawbreakers "on sight" yesterday to control violence in Punjab state that left 11 people dead, including seven killed by police and a member of parliament slain by a Sikh terrorist. The dead also
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    • 288 8 UPI NEW YORK, Wednesday FRONT-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination Walter Mondale and Gary Hart fought a tense battle for New York's 252 delegates yesterday in a primary in which Jesse Jackson could pick up a record black vote. More than 1 million voters
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    • 430 8 Reuter CESME (Turkey), Wed NATO Defence Ministers yesterday pressed the Netherlands to deploy its quota of 48 Cruise nuclear missiles as part of a Western plan to counter Soviet medium-range rockets. West Germany's Manfred Woerner said after the ministerial nuclear planning group
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    • 157 8 Reuter LOS ANGELES, Wednesday AN AMERICAN couple sued the Cunard Shipping Line yesterday for two million dollars, claiming a shipboard hypnotic act left the woman "unable to perform the pleasures and duties" as a wife. The Californian couple, Fred and Rosa Biles, alleged
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    • World Briefs
      • 75 8 Reuter HONQ KONG: Hons Kong Governor Sir Edward Youde and 10 members of the Executive Council left last night for London for consultations with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the negotiations on Hong Kong's future. The leases on most of this
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      • 74 8 Reuter DHAKA: The acting Indian High Commissioner, Satish Chandra, was summoned to the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry yesterday to receive a protest over India's move to erect barbed wire fencing along its border with Bangladesh, a government spokesman said. He said India began putting
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      • 57 8 Reuter ISLAMABAD: Islamic guerillas are holding more than 25 Soviet soldiers captured in attacks last month in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar bordering Pakistan, Western diplomats said. They said the guerillas seized the soliders after killing many of the soldiers at
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      • 60 8 AP QARWOLIN: Some 200 students reportedly returned to communist classrooms without crucifixes yesterday amid signs of a breakthrough in Poland's month-long "war of the crosses." Both sides appeared to have softened their stance in the conflict between church and state over a ban
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      • 75 8 AP SAO PAULO: A labour strike spread in major industrial suburbs of Brazil's largest city yesterday, stopping or reducing production in many for-eign-owned plants. The State Federation of Industries said more than 20,000 strikers shut down the local subsidiaries of General Motors,
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      • 98 8 Reuter GENEVA: Senior officials from some 40 nations yesterday began a detailed examination of proposals aimed at preventing a trade war in agricultural commerce by bringing it under the rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The world's
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      • 65 8 AP LONDON: At least a third of all nations torture or ill-treat prisoners, Amnesty International charged today, releasing a catalogue of modern cruelty that it said warranted international revulsion. In a major report, Torture in the Eighties, the London-based human rights organization laid
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      • 76 8 Reuter ROME: An Italian state prosecutor has recommended that Turk Mehmet Ali Agca, Bulgarian Airline official Sergei Antonov and five others be sent for trial on charges of plotting to kill Pope John Paul Ilin 1981, judicial sources said Investigating
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    • 314 9 UPI UNITED NATIONS, Tims THE world's population has leapt 770 million to 4.67 billion in the last decade but the rate of growth has gone down and will continue to dron, UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said yesterday. In his final report
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    • 126 9 AP LONDON, Wednesday THE BRITISH miners' strike escalated yesterday when the Seamen's Union ordered a ban on coal movements and leaders of the major coalfields still at work said there must be no crossing of picket lines. In another action signaling toughening union attitudes in the
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    • 164 9 SEOUL, Wednesday SOUTH KOREA today called on the Hong Kong government to help repatriate from North Korea a South Korean actress and a film director alleged to have been kidnapped six years ago, foreign ministry officials said. "As the Hone Kong authorities
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    • 198 9  -  By YEOW MEI SIN from Colombo WITH THE recovery of the US and European economies, countries in the Asia-Pacific region can look forward to better times ahead in their tourism industries. Mr Ken Chamberlain, executive vice-president of the Pacific Area Travel Association, said at the opening
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    • 123 9 SRI LANKA hopes to more than treble the number of tourist arrivals from Asean from 8,000 to 25,000 each year within the next three years after establishing a regional tourist office in Singapore. Mr H M S Samaranayake, director general of the Ceylon Tourist
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    • 225 9 AP BEIJING, Wednesday CHICKEN FARMER Sun Guiying and her family have become the first ordinary household in Beijing to buy a car, spending 9,300 yuan (about 559,800) for a Japanese sedan in what the local Communist Party newspaper heralded as
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    • 919 10  -  By MICHAEL RICHARDSON The Age Newspaper, Melbourne, Special to The Singapore Monitor THE list of Asian nations committed to using nuclear power to generate electricity is growing steadily longer One newcomer Vietnam put its name on the roll call for the first
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    • 630 10 It will continue to cause uneasiness for Canberra and Jakarta CONTROVERSY OVER AUSSIE DEFENCE SECRETS LEAK CANBERRA, Wednesday THE DEFENCE document that singled out Indonesia as "the only serious threat to Australia" also suggests that differences over Timor would continue to cause uneasiness for both countries. "Relations
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    • 205 9 V +K j Australia^ the big country IMPORTANT NEWS FOR ALL AUSTRALIAN COMPANIES AND IMPORTERS On 13 May 1984, the The content will be of Australian goods and Sunday Monitor with a serious nature services and to the complete designed to show the encourage cooperation and importance both Singaporeans to
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  • money
    • 229 11 [viMLLSTREET^ WALL Street stocks closed lower yesterday in a session that analysts said was marked by continuing fears of rising interest rates. Bankers Trust and US Trust said they increased the broker loan rate to 11-1/2 per cent from 11 per cent, an indication
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    • 603 11  -  By JEANNE WONG THERE IS no rush to get into shipping shares, especially in the current uncertain market scenario. After last year's disappointing performance by the sector, one can understand why dealers and analysts are giving this advice, especially when any recovery in the
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    • 221 11 KEPPEL Shipyard, the last shipping company to release its 1983 results, posted its worst performance since 1978 with group profits plunging 83.2 per cent to 817.05 million from $101.2 million previously. Fortunately, there was a healthy improvement in investment and other income from
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    • 196 11 SHARE OF THE PAY j HOW WILL the stock market react to Keppel's disappointing results and cash-call? Over the past three weeks, Keppel shares have weakened substantially as dealers anticipated disastrous results. And, besides whatever setback in earnings, the group must also account
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    • 170 11 AP THE DOLLAR turned mixed in US trading yesterday after posting sharp gains against other major currencies in European markets. Gold prices edged higher in the United States after modest losses overseas. Republic National Bank in New York quoted gold as of 4 Gm at U5|380.75 a
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    • 230 12 THE Overseas Union Bank Limited (OUB) will officially open its Sydney Representative Office tomorrow, making it the bank's 22nd office outside Singapore and its 55th worldwide. Tne group, including the International Bank of Singapore and Overseas Union Bank of Singapore (Canada), now has 62 offices
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    • 794 12 Canberra now looking more towards Asia for business MR GEOFF E Mclntyre believes that Australia's future lies in closer ties with the AsiaPacific region. That is why he has taken on the job of OUB's Chief Representative in Australia. "My first objective is to call on Australian
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    • 30 12 RALEIGH Cycles requested suspension of trading in its shares yesterday pending an announcement to be made. Market speculation centres around a takeover bid for General Lumber.
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    • 182 12 F r MONET TALK THE gravitation by professionals, mainly accountants, towards the stockbroking houses appears to have accelerated with the names of three more stalwarts being mentioned in the fraternity. Mr George Thia has had a change of heart since an earlier
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    • 451 12  -  By ANGELINE TAN HOUSING loans accelerated by 32.5 per cent to a record $1.2 billion at the end of last year to overtake hire purchase as the major lending activity of finance companies during 1983. This contrasted with the trend during
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 302 11 OVERSEAS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Seventh Annual General Meeting of Overseas Union Securities Limited will be held at Mandarin Court 'A', 4th Floor, Mandarin Hotel, Orchard Road. Singapore 0923 on Friday, 27 April 1984 at 11.00
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  • features
    • 661 13 Proposed change will allow Senators to hold Cabinet posts Reuter BANGKOK: A ROW is looming over a proposed amendment to Thailand's Constitution that would allow government-ap-pointed Senators to hold Cabinet posts. The proposal, backed by the army, is widely believed to be designed to
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    • 432 13  -  By GREGORY JENSEN LONDON: FOR the first time, well-loved paintings whose reproductions once hung in living rooms all over the world are being shown in London as a comprehensive group. The tides of time have swept the pre-Raphaelites in and out of fashion.
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    • 477 13 AP COLOMBO: THE hard-working librarian lives in fear. Although he has a good professional reputation and a comfortable home, he is packing his bags and taking his wife and year-old daughter to Madras, in Southern India. "All I want to do is
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  • opinion / letters
    • 250 14 I WOULD like to bring to the attention of the Urban Renewal Authority, Housing and Development Board and the Registry of Vehicles the following queries with regard to traffic rules. WHY IS it that only "G" plate vehicles are required
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    • 78 14  -  REPLY E M NICHOLS for General Manager Commercial Industrial Security Corporation I REFER to the letter headlined I was a victim of abuse of authority by a woman constable (SM, March 28) by Mr K B Soon. Mr K B Soon is kindly requested to
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    • 314 14  -  A departing Filipina's praise for Singaporeans MA MINDA U ACAYA Singapore 1545 I AM a Filipina who is about to leave Singapore after working for some time here, and would like to express, through your columns, my feelings for this country. Long
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    • 158 14 RECENTLY when I went to a department store to buy some batteries, I noticed that a special battery promotion was being held. I learned that many stores were having such promotions too. During the promotions, these alkaline batteries were sold in
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    • 294 14  -  K K CHONG Singapore 0718 HAVING read the pros and cons of the proposal to raise the retirement age and the age for the withdrawal of Central Provident Fund contributions, I would like to offer the following suggestions: (1) LEAVE the law
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    • 380 14  -  MONA OH Singapore 1955 I REFER to Mr Koh Yong Guan's (Ministry of Education) reply to my letter headlined More help for handicapped children. Thank you Mr Koh for confirming the Government's policy on the education for handicapped children that is, handicapped
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    • 430 15 COMMENT WE HAVE in the past called for the retirement age to be raised to 60 because most Singaporeans, at 55, are still healthy enough to avoid the boredom of an inactive life. Relatively few people work beyond 55 today. Figures released by the Committee for
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    • 241 15 I HAVE a former colleague who is now a clerical officer attached to a primary school. She was, from my observation, a very dedicated officer when she worked in my department. She had, and I believe still has, the potential to be
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    • 15 15 Imagination Is mora Important than knowledge Albert Einstein, German-born physicist (*****955).
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    • 71 15 I REFER to my letter which was published in The Singapore Monitor on Jan 30. To date, no action has been taken by the Ministry of the Environment to clean up the drain at the junction of Joo Chiat Road and Marshall Lane
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    • 144 15  -  LIM HONG Simgapore 0409 THE Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Yasuhiro Nakasone, who recently visited China, has expressed doubts over China's commitment to modernisation and to open itself to the outside world. Let us hope that things will turn out well so that the free
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 73 14 LETTERS on any subject of pubic interest wfll be accepted for publication. W They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve
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  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 675 16  -  By ANNIE CHIA PRIVATE home owners need no longer hunt frantically in the Yellow Pages when faced with a breakdown problem at an unearthly hour of the day. Last Sunday, April 1, Yumin Properties 6 Management launched its 24-nour M E mechanical and electrical
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    • 100 16 MONDAYS TO SATURDAYS 0800 hrs 1700 hrs 1701 hrs 2200 hrs 2201 hrs 0800 hrs SUNDAYS A PUBLIC HOLIDAYS CHARGES $20 per call for the first hour's work and an additional $10 for each
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    • 64 16 NUMBER OF UNITS UNDER MANAGEMENT CORPORATION Below 25 units 26 50 units 51-100 units Above 100 units Private houses REGISTRATION CHARGES $10 per unit per year $5 per unit per year $4
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    • 195 16 SALES LOCATION DESCRIPTION AREA A TITLE PRICE DATE* AGENT Hilltops 3-bedroom flat with 214 sq m $560,000 March 84 Knight Frank CairnhHI Circle servant s quarters (2,300 sq ft) Cheong Hock Freehold Chye Bailieu Draycott Towers 3-bedroom flat with 260 sq m $720,000 March 84 KFCB Dist 9
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    • 529 17  -  By ANNIE CHIA THE FATE of Winchester House awaits a court hearing. The 82-year-old building beside Change Alley will be re-developed once the Tenants' Compensation Board determines the amount of compensation. The owners are anxiously waiting for the court hearing so as to gain vacant
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    • 406 17  -  Development stopped last year By VINCENT FONG A PASSER-BY commented: "Is this all there is to Orchard Road's 'model of perfection'? What's happened to the Paragon? I'm curious to know what it looks like and it certainly can't be just a bed of
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    • PROPERTY TALK
      • 115 17 NORMALLY, you will not be able to use your CPF to service the booking fee (or option fee) at 10 Kir cent of the purchase price and e first 10 per cent payment upon signing the purchase agreement with a developer. If you call personally
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      • 78 17 THIS is usually 10 per cent of the purchase price laia down by the purchaser and is sometimes called the booking fee. Where a booking fee has been laid down and the purchaser fails to complete payment or exercise the option to buy, it will be forfeited When
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      • 96 17 MOST house buyers not able to fully finance a purchase would mortgage the property as collateral. One of the immediate problems of having a property mortgaged is realised in the event of a resale when the mortgaged deed will have to be redeemed. It has become customary with most
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      • 44 17 LOOK OUT for a clause which will not allow you to prepay the mortgage. LOOK F\)R "balloon mortgages." These mortgages are written for long-term amortization. But the entire remaining balance becomes due and payable long before the normal amortization schedule.
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 173 17 I mn. I I YONG AN PARK I I DISTRICT 9 4 Nestled within a residential haven in I District 9, we have on offer, a fine selection H I 0f2,3& 4-bedroom apartments from an H I asking price of $330,000/- on wards. H I This is a timely opportunity
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 730 19 2.90 SBC TEXT Livs Sample Page*. fltfjß 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlighta followed by a 1 Exercise with Gkxia 1 IL. 4 Animal*, Animate, Animals: Zebra. wBBBB^^^B 5.15 Romper Room (E). 1 Jff* I 5.45 Home. V j!*-* The Westmere residents help to look for Danny who is on jk
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    • 234 19 12.00 PM Programme Summary Werner Muller Orchestra 3. Hans 12.05 Musical Notebook: Borrow- Carste Orchestra 6.00 News-in-Brief irtgs, Arrangements and Paraphrases 6.05 Easy Listening (cont'd) 7.00 -1. Liszt: Six Paganini Etudes, An- News and Weather Forecast 7.15 dre Watts (piano) 2. Rachmaninov: World of Songs 7.30 Background to Rhapsody on
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    • 186 19 12.00 PM Newsdesk 12.30 Waveguide 12.40 Book Choice 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary 1.90 What's New 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.90 Omnibus 9.00 World News 9.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary 3.90 That's Trad 9.45 Report on Religion 4.00 World News
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  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      549 20 JTMSGENEI HONG KONG: It looks like HK-TVB has backed down in its war with Commercial Radio and RTHK over the live telecast of two musical events next month. The two radio stations are to telecast live the annual Gold Disc Award Presentation at the Regent Hotel on
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    • 453 20 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS T J Hooker A Matter of Passion (Ch 5, 9.20 pm) HOOKER finds the body of a young girl floating in a tide pool while jogging one morning. When he learns that no one has identified the body, he is determined to get to
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    • Article, Illustration
      986 21  -  Marvin Gaye warm smiles covered pain By RICHARD HARRINGTON in Washington LATWP HE WAS Mr Midnight, and before that, for so many years, he was the Prince of Motown. Marvin Gaye, born in Washington, D C, 45 years ago yesterday, died last Sunday in Los Angeles after he
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    • 523 21  -  By DENNIS HUNT i n HfißiiiMn n fi in noiiywooa LAT-WP INTERVIEWING Marvin Gaye wasn't really work. It meant spending lew hours with one of the most delightful pop artistes. Gaye had terrific artistic credentials. A primary architect of the Motown sonnd,
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    • Article, Illustration
      540 22  -  CERTAIN DISHES ARE A DELIGHT By INEZ WEI SHAIK Maderaah Lane is a tiny side road lined with shop-houses that seem to shy away from the busy thoroughfare that runs alongside them. But come evening, the corner shop (No 69) comes to life. A lighted box announcing Lai
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    • 209 22 THE can of sardines you buy at the provision shop may not be exactly what it says it is. Very often, some other fish most often mackerel or tuna is mixed with the sardines, says Mr Laurence Kwek, managing director of Sunream Trading, an importer of sardines from
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    • 733 23 STATIONS VYING FOR VIEWERS ISTJLRSrRUCKI THERE are two commercial television stations in Hong Kong and the competition between them is kept alive with new ideas and gimmicks. TVB, the leading station, is fierce in its fight and every year, new programmes are launched to clincn a
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 451 23 ftoJIA OUIO€DALIT (*****16): THE DEVIL'S OFFSPRING (C) ANG MO KIO (*****71): BLOOD REINCARNATION LIWAQU (*****30): BRUTAL SORCERY (C) (C) PLAZA (*****71): THIS VIOLENT WORLD (C) BEDOK (*****7): THE GREAT SURPRISE (C) Starring: Lin Qingxia, Sylvia Zhang, Son Yue, Hu Synopris°A corned, in which the notorious thief. Rob- 23*'™ Lltll bin,
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 68 24 ********************000 o CATHAY: 14TH HILARIOUS DAY O (*****00) S SHOWS: 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30 4 9.15pm Q OFrom the same producer JAMIE UYS who gavo you Q O "THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY" O 8 ORCHARD 1 S "-ORCHIS TOMORROW!- 1 S 9 The story of a woman who wanted
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    • 278 24 JADE: Next Change! More terrifying man the china SYNDROME because It is true the story of the death of Karen siikwood is a shattering account of corruption cover-up and death at the white not core of the world's deadliest and most powerful Industry Karen Siikwood worked at the Kerr McCee
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    • 148 24 THE LAST BATTLE THE Chinese Theatre Circle will present The Last Battle at Victoria Theatre on Saturday at 7.45 pm. This is a drama about the patriotic deeds of a couple during the end of the Sung when China was invaded by the Mongolians. Tickets at $10, $5 and $3
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    • 502 24 HERZOG FESTIVAL |MMI WERNER HERZOG*S films will Ik* shown at the Goethe-Institut Audito- Jm rium from today to April 26. Admission is free Today, there German dwumen tary (with English subtitles) on Her l/M ~V zog, titled I Am My Films, at 6.30 pm. fIJLf Herzog talks about his childhood,
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    • 114 24 COMPUTER COURSE LENG KEE CC will start a computer course, on the Visicalc programme, today, 7 pm to 10 pm. The fee ranges from $15 to $30 per person. For further details, please contact Mr Cheng Huang Leng at *****7. TALK ON STRESS A TALK and film show in English
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  • sports
    • 144 30 AP BANGKOK, Wednesday BOXERS from South Korea, the .US and Kenya won their bouts on Monday, the opening day of the 16-nation tenth King's Cup Amateur Boxing Tournament. South Korean boxers won all five of their bouts, followed by the US
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    • 331 30  -  With 1,132 points he gets berth for China shoot By K SILVAM UNKNOWN Eric Khoo of the Singapore Armed Forces burst into the archery limelight when he ang a surprise to qualify for a Ece in the Republic's team for International Friendly Archery Shoot to
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    • 162 30 Reuter MOSCOW, Wednesday A MOSCOW newspaper said yesterday that the US authorities were planning to urge Soviet bloc athletes to defect to the West when they comEite in the Los Angeles Olympic ames. The daily Sovietski Sport said the US State Department
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    • 477 31  - RI stopped from a landslide victory thanks to the ref RAFFLES INSTITUTION 18 TECK WHYE 0 |J PORTS IN JCHOOLS] REPORTS: B KULA POOR refereeing was one big reason that prevented Raffles Institution from a landslide victory against plucky Teck Whye Secondary School in an Under-17 Group A rugger match
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    • 262 31  -  NEW TOWN SEC 20 QUEENSWAY SEC 0 BUONA VISTA 18 SAINT ANDREW'S SEC 6 WATERPOLO By DANIEL WEE NEW TOWN Secondary and Buona Vista Secondary scored convincing wins in the national schools wateipolo Division C playoffs yesterday to qualify for the
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    • 371 32 IT WOULP MAKE IT HIS FIFTH APPEARANCE IN 10 YEARS Reuter BRIGHTON, Wednesday PAKISTAN'S Qamar Zaman took a decisive first step towards a filth final appearance in 10 years when he needed only 28 minutes to win his opening match in the
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    • 89 32 Reuter BRIGHTON, Wednesday THE WORLD'S leading squash players are to study a possible change in the game's scoring system. Delegates to a meeting of the International Players' Association discussed today the possibility of switching to the US system, whereby all points count and games are
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    • 179 32 AP MOSCOW, W«d SOVIET grandmasters Garri Kasparov and Vasilv Smyslov played to a 26 move draw yesterday, leaving Kasparov ahead 74 and within 1.5 points of winning the right to challenge Anatoly Karpov for the world chess title. There are five games left in
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    • 528 33 The ex-Watford striker has not only lost his amazing scoring touch at Italian club A C Milan, he has also been shut out of Bobby Robson's England squad. Today, we take a look at what Blissett, who has more than his share of unflattering epithets,
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    • SHORT PASSES
      • 87 33 Reuter WARSAW, Wednesday GRZEGORZ Lato, Poland's most capped soccer star, will quit international soccer after his 104 th appearance for the national side on April 17 against Belgium, the newspaper Przeglad Sportowy said today. Lato, a 33-year-old midfielder and forward who plays for the
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      • 185 33 Reuter BRUSSELS, Wednesday SUSPENSIONS handed out in Belgium's soccer bribery scandal will rob the national team of five key players only two months before the European Championship finals start in France. The Belgian National Soccer Union's Committee of Inquiry yesterday announced that Belgian captain
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      • 95 33 Reuter RIO DE JANEIRO, Wednesday FORMER football "King" Pele said here todav that Waldir Pereira (Didi) would be the right man to succeed Carlos Alberto Parreira as head coach of the Brazilian football team. Speaking to newsmen at the airport shortly after arriving from
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    • 110 34 DIVISION TWO ON SUNDAY, Changi United beat previous leader Jurong Town 3-1 to take over top place. Changi who started off badly with two draws and two defeats are now leading the table with three wins in a row. They must now be
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    • 487 34 7 OUT OF THE 10 TEAMS ARE STILL IN RUNNING FOR TITLE WITH three-quarters of the season over, the National Football League Division One race is still wide open, with seven teams in the running for the title. Until last week, Police Sports Association seemed the likely
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    • 97 34 DIVISION THREE MOUNTBATTEN continued to extend their lead at the top of the table with a 3-0 win over Ponggol on Saturday. They are now seven points clear of their nearest rival Gilbraltar Crescent. Coached by former national youth trainer Yusoff Mohd, they are firm favourites
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    • 292 34 DIVISION ONE P W D L F A Pts TOA PAYOH UTD 15 7 4 4 17 13 25 POLICE 14 8 0 6 26 21 24 8AFSA 12 5 4 3 20 11 19 FARRER PARK D'MOS 12 6 1 5 21 18 19 TIONG BAHRU
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    • 453 34 TAMPINES ROVERS 0 TOA PAYOH UNITED 2 TOA PAYOH UNITED gave their club president Robert Tan a tlrthday present by beating Tampines Rovers two-nil at Jalan Besar stadium last night to head the National Football League Division One table for the
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    • 370 35  -  13th SEA Games: The search for a home By ERNEST FRIDA THE Olympic Committee of Thailand may respond favourably to a reSuest to host the next South-east Asia lames. The request that the 13th Southeast Asia Games be held in Bangkok came from the Singapore
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    • 187 35  -  By S GULAM WITH a record number of 311 journalists from 11 countries, including Singapore, covering the Olympic Qualifying Round starting in ten days' time, the Football Association of Singapore faces a big problem of accommodating the press. The press box
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    • 168 35 THE Football Association of Singapore will invite this year's Malaysia Cup champions and runners-up to take part in the $50,000 Anchor Chip six-nation soccer tournament. The tournament will be held at the National Stadium from July 14 to 21. FAS secretary
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