Singapore Monitor, 11 April 1984, Afternoon Edition

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  • 16 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR EVEiniNG' EDITION m M C (P) No 13/5/83 Wednesday, April 11, 1984 30cents
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  • 465 1  -  MKT UPDATE By LOONG SWEE YIN PASSENGERS on the Mass Rapid Transit system will be travelling in 138-metre long air-conditioned trains designed and built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd, a Japanese firm. This was announced by the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRTC)
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  • 46 1 A FULL-SIZE model of the train car will be on show at the forthcoming National Exhibition to be held in November. You can play your part by giving your views on the interior styling of the train car to the Mass-Rapid Transit Corporation.
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  • 166 1  -  By SURESH NAIR THE alertness of two Civil Defence officers foiled a $60,000 jewellery snatchtheft at Campbell Lane, .off Serangoon Road, late this morning. The drama started at 11.20 a.m. when three Indonesian men confronted an Indian businessman, who was on his way to
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    • 362 2  -  10 union reps will see him on Saturday By ANNABELLE YIP REPRESENTATIVES from the National University of Singapore Students' Union (Nussu) will meet Dr Tay Eng Soon on Saturday to discuss the Primary School priority scheme for children of graduate mothers.
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    • 357 2  -  By CAROLINE BOEY HOW CAN clean habits being taught at school be extended to the home and areas outside the school? This question was asked several times this morning by Dr Tay Eng Soon, Minister of State for Education. He
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    • 451 2  -  By FOO MEY KIEN NANYANG Technological Institute's student loan fund is more than a third of the way to its target, after a $25,000 donation by a new Singapore company. The fund now stands at $275,000. NTI hopes
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    • 564 3 Lianhe Zaobao THE CHARCOAL dealers in Tanjong Rhu will move from their present premises to Lorong Halus, Tampines, next year to make way for new developments. This move follows closely the removal from the inner city area of traditional trades
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    • 111 3 A MAN was fined $400 today for having two cordless telephone sets. Cheong Min Tet, 51, pleaded guilty in a subordinate court to having the sets at his house in Din Pang Avenue on Mar 6 1983. The court was told that the sets
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    • 156 3  -  By MICHAEL LIEW FANCY a foot massage to revive your tired feet after a long day of shopping? We spotted yet another "unique" machine yesterday, this time on the basement of Bukit Timah Plaza. In yesterday's edition, we featured a pulse rate machine at the bus
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    • 145 3 SCHOOLS will be better matched with the teachers they need as a result of a Ministry of Education exercise now under way. The ministry is collecting data on teachers' proficiency in particular subjects in an effort to ensure that the schools get
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    • 514 4  -  A Journalists Notebook By Masaki Watanabe SHOULD newspapers, TV and other media play up as much as they do on incidents of dangerous, heavy objects being thrown out of high-rise HDB blocks? A look at how our "falling objects" scare has unfolded so
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    • 415 4  -  Mr Ong's comment on MNC bosses By YONG POW ANG EMPLOYERS in multi-na-tional corporations have diverse views on the quantum for the wage increases in the National Wage Council, says Mr Ong Teng Cheong, NTUC SecretaryGeneral and Minister without Portfolio. As a whole,
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    • 181 4  -  By YEOW MEI SIN BOTH THE National Productivity Board and the Singapore Hotel Association Training and Education Centre (Shatec) have moved into a Singapore hotel for the first time to provide m-house training. Its a matter of bringing the expertise closer to
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    • 277 4  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM THE INDUSTRIAL Arbitration Court will thrash out tomorrow whether 42 members of the Bank of America can be represented by a union. The 42 have been members of the Singapore Bank Officers' Association since April 1982.
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    • 242 6  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO THE MINISTRY of Health has urged mothers of children born this year to buy its new Health Booklet which will enable a record to be kept of the child's health and development up to the age
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    • 205 6 THE CORONER'S Court today recorded an open verdict on the death of a 50-year-old woman who was found dead at the hate of a block of flats. Khoo Yak Kee, also known as Khoo Eng Pa, was found below Blk 39 Upper Boon Keng Road
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    • 248 6  -  By K K FONG man's motor scooter at the side of the bridge. THE BODY of an accident victim is believed to have lain unnoticed beneath the Benjamin Sheares Bridge for five days before it was found yesterday. The family
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    • 156 6 THE WIFE of a Residents' Committee member was cheated of more than $100 by a man who claimed that her husband was involved in a traffic accident. Sources said that the impostor, in his thirties, called at the Aver Raiah home of
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    • 270 6  -  By JALIL MISWARDI MALAY PARENTS who want to give their preschool children the reading habit are invited to a workshop at the Marine Parade Branch Library at the end of this month. The workshop, starting at 2.30pm on April 28,
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    • 149 8 CASE 1: OCTOBER 17, 1983 A two-month-old Datsun Laurel rammed into a tree at Woodlands Road at 12.15 am and split in two. The driver, fortunately, suffered only slight injuries. CASE 2: NOVEMBER 19, 1983 A Honda Accord collided with a truck at Upper
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    • 482 8  -  WEST GERMAN TECHNICAL INSPECTION FIRM APPROACHED Storias by YONG POW ANG A POST-MORTEM will be carried out by an independent body in West Germany to ascertain why four Japanese-make cars split into two after accidents here over the past six months.
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      229 8 THERE ARE STRIKING SIMILARITIES IN FOUR MOST RECENT INCIDENTS FOUR LIVES have been lost and several others seriously injured in four freak accidents over the last six months. All the cars which split into two were of Japanese-make two Honda Accords, one Datsun Laurel and one Nissan Sunny.
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    • 118 8 This Easter, bring your family together at the Chez Bidou Celebrate the joys of Easter here and share some memorable moments with your whole family. Chef Bidou mimes and sings for your pleasure them. Then, catch them on video as well! Meet Strawberry Shortcake and your favourite Take part in
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  • world
    • 91 9 AP HONG KONG. W«d BISHOP K H Ting, head of the protestant church in China, said yesterday Hons Kong Christians should not fear for their religious freedom after China takes over this British colony in 1997. Bishop Ting, president of the China
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    • 353 9 BUT SHE SAYS, 'I HAVE LIVED WITH DANGER EVER SINCE I WAS BORN' Reuter, AP NEW DELHI, WadnMdty PRIME Minister Indira Gandhi returned from a brief overseas trip yesterday to more violence in Punjab but hit back by declaring she had lived with danger
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    • 67 9 UPI BEUINQ, Wed CHINA said yesterday it has launched an experimental communications satellite, which is "functioning normally." The launch, made on Sundav, was the second experimental communications satellite this year by China. The first named Long March Three, went into space on Jan 29.
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    • 255 9 UPI NEW DELHI, Wednesday SOVIET MiGs and helicopter gunships bombed villages along the strategic route linking Kabul with the Soviet Union, killing at least 35 civilians and four rebels, western diplomats said yesterday. The attacks came amid a flurry of diplomatic
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    • 118 9 Reuter BANGKOK, Wednesday THE THAI and Malaysian air forces begin a week of joint air exercises today along their common border, military authorities announced yesterday. The exercises, code-named Air Thamal 3, will involve 50 Thai officers and an unspecified number of aircraft, according
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    • 713 10 BROTHER OF DEAD SOLDIER POWERED CAR AT DEFENCE CHIEF DURING FUNERAL LAT-WP PARIS, W«Jrw«day A DRAMATIC burst of agony took place at a funeral yesterday when the brother of a dead soldier tried to run down France's minister of defence with his car, embarrassed
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    • 153 10 AP LAS VEGAS, Wednesday AT LEAST US$2.7 million (555.67 million) in cash was stolen from a vault at a Nevada National Bank branch over the weekend, the FBI said on Monday. A female employee who resigned last Friday from the Bank
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    • 246 10 Reuter WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday that a strong growth in industrial countries' economies may be lagging somewhat this year, but should still remain relatively brisk into 1985. The IMF, in its semi-annual World Economic Outlook, said some of the
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    • 214 10 AP WASHINGTON, Wednesday ter this year, PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan's Administration yesterday revised its budget forecast to cut the projected deficit for this fiscal year by US$5.9 billion (5512.39 billion) to U*****.8 billion (*****.3 billion). The slightly smaller deficit is attributed partly to the
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    • 265 11 Reuter JAYAPURA (Indonesia), Wednesday INDONESIA plans to move nearly 700,000 people from the overcrowded island of Java to the remote province of Irian Jaya over the next five years, the head of the Provincial Transmigration Office said. Mr Eko Sarwoko told a
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    • 157 11 Reuter GENEVA, Wednesday AFRAID of car thieves? French garage owner Manuel Martins believes he has found the solution simply remove the steering wheel and take it with you. Mr Martins, whose business is in Paris, says he invented the removable steering wheel after four
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    • 349 11 AP PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday WALTER Mondale rolled to a "very strong win" over a fading Gary Hart in the Pennsylvania primary last night and took convincing control of the Democratic presidential race at its midway point. With almost half the votes
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    • 100 11 UPI MOSCOW, Wednesday COMMUNIST Party leader Konstantin Chernenko will likely be named Head of State by the rubber stamp Parliament opening today, giving him all three key posts in tne Soviet hierarchy, Western diplomats said. The decision to award Mr Chernenko the largely
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    • 504 12 Vote is slap in the face for Reagan's Central American policy UPI WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE US Senate handed President Reagan a sharp rebuke yesterday, voting overwhelmingly that the US should not in any way be involved in the mining of Nicaraguan ports. The
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    • 164 12 Reuter WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE Soviet Union uses military aid to the Third World as a major tool of policy, exporting more arms and sending more military advisers abroad than any other country, the US Defence Department said. Since 1978, Moscow has
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    • 239 12 LAT-WP BONN, Wednesday UNCHARACTERISTICALLY sharp West German criticism of President Reagan's administration plans for an anti-missile defence system in space has raised the threat of a major new rift between the US and Its key European ally. Unlike last autumn's emotional
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    • 47 12 THIS photograph, released by tho Pentagon shows ths recovery of a Soviot "space plane" after orbit and splash-down in the Indian Ocean. The Pentagon says the craft could be a test vehicle or a scale version of a military space plane. PICTURE: AP
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    • 151 12 LAT-WP BEIRUT, Wed ONLY hours after the signing of an agreement to create a Beirut area buffer zone between Lebanon's warring factions, barrages of heavy artillery fell on both sides of the divided Lebanese capital yesterday. The heaviest bombardment came late afternoon in mostly
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    • 131 12 AP MOSCOW, Wednesday PYOTR Kapitsa, the Nobel-laureate physicist who made major contributions to science and helped build Soviet industry after Josef Stalin forced him to live in his native land, is dead at the age of 89. The official news agency Tass said yesterday
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    • 389 11 Intixxiudng the New Lancia Prisma In Europe, they're waiting in line to buy tnis impressive new-comer. With a body fashioned by Giugiaro, one of Italy's Digiplex static electronic ignition system, the most foremost designers, the Prisma is not a car which could advanced in existence today, all help to turn
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  • money
    • 238 13 THE Singapore market stayed on a course similar to yesterday's, but with General Corp losing its top volume position to the 230,000 Facer Merlin shares traded, climbing one cent to close at 11.77. G Corp, which attracted mucn attention recently, fell two cents to
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    • 247 13  -  By JOYCE QUEK MALAYSIAN shares have reacted well to the country's downbeat economic review marking the mid-term of the current five-year plan. Despite an initial easing of share prices after the announcement on March 29, the market has picked up so far.
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    • 134 13 SHARE OF THE DAY LIGHTLYTRADED North Borneo Timber surprised the market when it made two appearances in th* top active counters this wt»k. Interest in the tightlyheld counter could be sparked off by talks that NBT has just been awarded a timber concession. If this
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    • 160 13 PROPERTY AND CONSTRUCTION SECTION WILL BE HIT THE FIRST reaction by a listed company following proposed spending cuts in Malaysia's mid-term review has come from IGB Corp. "In view of the cutdown in government spending and signs of oversupply in some property sectors, the
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    • 110 13 BROKERS tee most sector* of the Malaysian economy benefitting from the current phase of the five-year plan, with companies involved in exports and oil being the ones to look for. Exports are expected to increase by 14.6 per cent from higher
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    • 112 13 THE US dollar ruled steady in Singapore, around New York's closing levels in quiet early trading with operators reluctant to trade in the absence of fresh factors, dealers said. It rose marginally to 225.25/35 yen from New York's 225.20/30 close and to 2.6220/30 marks from 2.6210/25. Sterling
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    • 572 14 THE LATEST round of interest rate increases took a new twist yesterday when two banks raised their deposit rates as well as prime rate. Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation became the second of the big four banks to raise prime rate, adding a quarter point
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    • 252 14 LINGUI Development Bhd has recorded a two-fold increase in group pre-tax profit to $1.6 million for the first half ended Dec 31, 1983, from $545,000 previously. The company said in an announcement to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange that group turnover had risen sharply
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    • 277 14 Selected stocks at midday. Market tone: slightly higher Cold Storage 4.30/4.32 Fraser Neave 6.20 B Haw Par 2 58/2 60 Jacks Intl 5 80/5 90 Keck Seng 5.75/5.80 Magnum 3.84/3.86 M Cement 8.45 B Arab Mai Dev 1.27/1.28 Boustead 2.73 S Esso 13 00/13 10 Genting 5.60/5.65 G
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    • 120 14 Your S$ to one unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/DD TT DD US$ 2.0925 2.0825 2.0735 sterling 3.0066 2.9846 2.9746 Australian 1.9315 1.9074 1.8924 Canadian 1.6433 1.6232 1 6082 New Zealand 1.3884 1.3683 1.3533 S$ to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.4644 11.1643 11.1143 Belgian franc/comm
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    • 407 14 COMPANY BRIEFS PEGI Malaysia announced that the Malaysian Capital Issues Committee (CIC) has approved its acquisition of a 81.7 per cent interest in Swee Lam Estates for M 537.4 million. This will be met by an issue of 18.7 million new
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    • 145 13 We pay more interest in more ways than one. All Rates effective 2 April 1984 subject to change without notice. BRANCHES Main Branch: 6 Battery Road Quaanstown: Crosby Housa: 71 Robinson Road Blk 74 Commonwealth Dr #01 -451 Alexandra Circus: 40 Clarence Lane Salagia Road: Peace Centre Bldg Bukit Timah:
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous


  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 591 15  -  Main difference between past and future is greater emphasis on quality By B ORTEGA In conjunction with the Urban Redevelopment Authority's 10th anniversary calibrations, we paapad behind the building facades to ascertain URA's planning philosophy, its evaluation of completed projects and the plans for the city
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    • 545 16  -  Three of our local architects feel that URA should adopt this in the future 1 By VINCENT FONG COME Apr 16, three prominent professors in architecture, Samuel Josua van Embden.Kenzo Tange and Erik Emil Lorange of the Netherlands, Japan and
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    • 235 16 COMMENTING on the future role of the URA, Mr Tan Cheng Siong said, it will have to develop greater professionalism and confidence. Having earlier agreed that the URA had done a good job over the last 10 years, he said, it (URA) must try to
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    • 175 16 LOCATION DESCRIPTION AREA TITLE PRICE DATE* AGENT Lakeview HUDC Est Dist 20 3-bedroom flat partly furnished mid-floor 164 sq m (1,770 sq ft) 99 years lease $280,000 March '84 Vanda Realty Farrer Court HUDC Est Dist 10 3-bedroom flat partly furnished high floor 144 sq m (1,550 sq
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    • 259 17 WHAT determines land values such as those along Holland Road? Prices have risen from 15 cents a square foot ($1.60 per sq m) in the 1950s to $100 today. That is an increase of 666 times, or about 30 per cent compounded annually. What caused land
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    • 501 17  -  By ANG PENG HWA SMALL really is beautiful in real estate. Not only is the market for small apartments thriving, but so is the market for small plots of land. According to some estimates, while the prices of large plots of land
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    • 93 15 Buying a home? Take advantage of OUB's Housing Loan Scheme Vi A ii Mandarin Gardens Lli IBctS OUB's Housing Loan Scheme offers: Easy loan repayments with CPF contributions Longer repayment period of up to 25 years l_oan with Overdraft facility Competitive interest rates Currently: Up to 10 years 9Vs% p
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    • 155 16 CUT OUT AND KEEP When you go j shopping for the best home financing package... j j v rf-g&f-W* J °e^ toan j Soe c\a\ br,d9 rt?erS a^eedS j I iust9 v 0/o pa Rales j w^ w26vK,re I tgg&x**** j "«ssss€SSs i I < fefti. 1,., i ..just stop
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    • 302 17 Are you thinking of buying an HUDC term loan and overdraft up to 80% of valuation (Phase 1) apartment? or CPF plus term loan plus overdraft up to 80% of valuation. Talk to Chase today. We believe our new Competitive interest rates at 934% p.a. for loans housing loan scheme
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  • opinion/letters
    • 386 18 MUCH has been said and reported in our newspapers about conmen. They appear in many forms, mostly deceiving the ignorant, sometimes depriving the poor and at times making Singapore a very unsafe place to do business. I am very alarmed
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    • 554 18  -  DR GOH LEE GAN Honorary General Secretary 3rd Council of Management The Association of Private Medical Practitioners of S'pore Ltd I REFER to the letter of "A Consumer" (SM, March 30). We are glad to note that "A Consumer" appreciates the
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    • 44 18 I REFER to my letter headlined Not myopic published in your letters page (SM, April 7). The correct name of the drug should be diphenhydramine and not diphendihyramine. I am sorry for the slip-up. NG ENG KHIAM Singapore 1027
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    • 442 18 ISSUES OF ALL the forces to influence American society in the early 21st century, the least unpredictable is the number of young people entering adulthood. You can calculate fairly closely how many Americans, barring catastrophe, will turn 20 in the year 2003.
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    • 194 18 I AM very surprised and angry that there could be such an insolent, rude taxi driver in Singapore. On April 3 at 9.30 pm, I waited for a taxi at the Shangri-La Hotel queue. One taxi came alone but stopped
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    • 446 19 THE SINGAPORE MONITRO COMMENT ONE of the endearing hallmarks of civilisation is the sense of honour in professionals. Without fail, most professions have a code of ethics to regulate the behaviour of their practitioners towards each other and the public. Some codes are backed by
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    • 381 19 YOUR editorial headlined An open letter to Singaporeans (SM, April 6) cannot but strike a responsive chord In the heart of every Singaporean who feels that the increasing carnage in the vicinity of highrise flats should be brought to an
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    • 20 19 PERFECTION is attained by slow degrees. It requires the hand of time Voltaire, French writer (1694-1778).
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    • 145 19  -  REPLY YAP YEOW WOON Public Relation Officer Republic of Singapore Police I REFER to the letter headlined Why did CCD loan out books to Indian Association? from K Kamalanathan (SM, March 23). We wish to inform K Kamalanathan that the account books
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    • 130 19  -  ROBERT CHAN Singapore Mil RECENTLY there was telephone cable work in the vicinity of Depot Road, and this involved digging up some pavements ana fields. Unfortunately the repair work was not properly done. For example, the red brick pathway leading from Block 114
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    • 49 19 Alexandra 0815. LETTERS on any auUact of pfWr intaraat wW ba aooaptad for publcattoo. Thay ihould ba typed and muat ba signed. Thay mu«t alto tndude jha writar't nam® and addreee therighttoedKietter*. Addreaa your to: Tha Editor. The Singapore Monitor, 2 dra Rd #03-01 A, Delta House, Singapore v-
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 603 20 GLAMOUR AND GRIT AT THE OSCARS HOLLYWOOD: A wildly cheering, at times almost frenzied crowd, ringed the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Monday night to witness a bit of glamour at Hollywood's grandest event of the year, the 56th Annual Academy Awards. Police estimated the turnout
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    • 658 22  -  TV SCENE By WONG SING YEONG SBC'S drama unit pulled off another publicity stunt last Sunday when the lead cast from The Awakening gathered at the Chinese Garden for a meet-the-viewers session. Despite a drizzle, many turned up to watch their favourite TV artistes The
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    • 447 22 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Henrik Ibsen Certainties and Doubts (Ch 12, 8 pm) IBSEN is acclaimed as the greatest Norwegian writer, a leading dramatist in the world and a national hero. This drama centres on Ibsen's own apparent certainties and inner doubts, a theme central to his
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    • 793 23  -  PRESLEY'S EARLY DAYS m^- B* ROBERT HILBURN LAT-WP ONLY two of the musical selections on Elvis: The First Live Recordings are especially noteworthy, but the banter between songs is an invigorating reminder of lust how radical a figure Elvis Presley was on the Fifties pop scene. Introducing
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    • 720 23 iSTARSTKUCKj THE Tokyo World Song Festival came to a successful close after Laura Branigan, representing the United States, walked away with the top prize of the evening. Among the three silver award winners were Hideki Saijo and Ouyang Fei Fei, both representing Japan. The latter sang ner
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    • 642 24  -  By MICHAEL LONDON and DEBORAH CAULFIELD in Hollywood LATWP "NOTHING about this picture was ever easy," said James L, Brooks backstage on Monday at the Music Centre after Terms of Endearment, a film he wrote, produced and directed, captured the major creative awards. "Everybody
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    • 762 26  -  *&uisine FROM FAST FOOD TO FANCY FARE By CH'NG POH TIONG THE RADIO got progressively fainter the nearer I approached the airport. Very soon, the chimes of Big Ben for 0400 hours GMT were but distant peals of almost indecipherable sound. Radio reception under the control tower, I
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    • 831 27  -  FANNY AND ALEXANDER WINS 4 OSCARS By LARS FOYEN in Stockholm AP IT has been a good year for Sweden's controversial film and stage director, Ingmar Bergman. Bergman, Scandinavia's most acclaimed cultural personality, is back home. And his Fanny and Alexander, the 65-vear-old director's self-pro-claimed grand finale as
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    • 137 20 There's a part for everyone We have sailors, we have airmen Chorus: \!y w land where we belong We have soldiers, brave and good men Put your heart, your mindj your to our defence %Hi V y To keep the peace we want. Help them all to \elp us all
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 1211 21 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Paget. 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Hotel Bl[ '^W Exercise with Gloria. 4.55 Animals, Animals, Animals: Goose. 5.15 Romper Room (E). f 5.45 Home. WfflHj f The children find that they do have enough funds to k run Westmere Home and feel that nobody
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    • 187 21 12.00 PM Newsdesk 12.30 Waveguide 12.40 Book Choice 12.45 Financial News 12.58 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 2.30 Omnibus 3.00 World News 3.09 Twenty-Four Hours: News Summary 3.30 That's Trad 3.45 Report on ReUgfon 4.00 World News
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    • 198 28 BUDDHIST ART THERE will be a slide-show and talk on Buddhist Art in South-east Asia at the National Museum Theatrette tomorrow at 8 pm. Admission is free. HISTORY OF SINGAPORE A TALK on Singapore's history from sea-town to Lion City will be held on Friday at 9.30 am and 10.30
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    • 663 33  -  40 sports associations involved PESTA SUKAN 1984 By K SILVAM THIS YEAR'S Pesta Sukan which coincides with the Republic's 25th anniversary celebrations will be one of the biggest in the series as 40 National Sports Associations will be organising various sports events from Aug 1
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    • 205 33  -  STEVE CHUNG, PRO Singapore Sports Council PLEASE REFER to an article by Kenneth Jalleh on the above matter published in The Singapore Monitor on Thursday, Aug 4, 1983. Thank you for your suggestion about considering changing Pesta Sukan into the Singapore Games. We have
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    • 182 34 Reuter LAUSANNE (Switzerland) Wednesday THE INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee (IOC) is ready to consider the eligibility of former South African runner Zola Budd to compete in the British Olympic team, an lOC spokeswoman said today. Budd, 17, is the world's fastest woman over 5,000 metres, but
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    • 87 34 Reuter LUXEMBOURG, Wednesday AMERICAN Sandy Mayer became the second seed to crash out of Luxembourg's first Grand Prix Tennis tournament when he was defeated 6-4 6-2 by unseeded Brazilian Joao Soares today. But fifth-seeded Mayer said he was not too upset. First round results: Wojtek
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    • 292 34  - By GERALDINE LOH LELA ZAINAL is the little girl, said by world famed coach Peter Burwash, to be of tennis championship material. And over the weekend, she unleashed some of her championship grit to walk away with the Port Dickson Open girls' junior singles and doubles titles. After having lost
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    • 885 36  -  ■l.luNllul RACING TODAY'S TRACK WORK By WONDER BOY EQUUS STABLE'S champion Andermatt might not be starting in this year's weight-for-age $140,000 Sultan of Selangor Gold Cup over 1600 m on Sunday. The versatile gelding who captured three Classic events last year, the Sultan of
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    • 340 37 PREVIEW OF EUROPEAN SOCCER SEMIFINAL MATCHES Reuter LIVERPOOL, Wtdiwtday JUST IN case Romanian soccer champions Dinamo Bucharest forget where they are today there is a small plaque above the tunnel leading to the pitch to remind them. It says simply: "This is
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    • 289 37 Reuter SPLIT (Yugoslavia), Wednesday KEITH Burkinshaw prepares his Tottenham side for their UEFA Cup semifinal with Hajduk Split here today desperate to bow out on a wave of success. Burkinshaw announced his resignation as Tottenham boss last week but knows a disciplined performance
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    • 115 37 Reuter NOTTINGHAM, Wednesday BRIAN CLOUGH is not a man to shield his young side from the truth. The outspoken manager of Nottingham Forest leads his side into a UEFA Cup semifinal clash with holders Anderlecht of Belgium today, apparently fearing the worst. "Anderlecht
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    • 106 37 Reuter PORTO (Portugal), Wednesday PORTO WILL have to stave off an attack of first night nerves today when they run out at their Antas Stadium here to face holders Aberdeen of Scotland in the European Cup Winners' Cup. For the Portuguese, who have
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    • 227 37 Reuter LONDON, Wednesday ON THE face of it, Dundee United's European Cup clash with Italian soccer champions Roma appears a mismatch the type of contest which, if held in a boxing ring, would see the towel thrown in before the first
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    • 684 38 Reuter PRESTON (England), Wednesday ENGLAND continued their reign as European team badminton champions by taking the title for the fifth time in seven attempts with a 3-2 victory over Denmark last night. England wrapped up their triumph with a match to spare, leaving
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    • 238 38 Reuter BONN, Wednesday KARL-HEINZ Rummenigge, who missed West Germany's last game because of influenza, returns to the national squad announced by trainer Jupp Derwall today for a friendly match against France in Strasbourg on April 18. Rummenigge was attacked in the media
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    • 171 38 Reuter KAISERBLAUTERN (W Germany), Wed THE PROPOSED transfer of Swedish soccer star Torbjoern Nilsson to Benfica of Portugal has fallen through, the player's West German club Kaiserslautern said yesterday. Kaiserslautern rejected a 5|400,000 offer from Benfica yesterday for the 29-year-old striker. The
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    • 127 39 Reuter AMSTERDAM, Wednesday MANCHESTER UNITED have completed the signing of Danish soccer international Jesper Olsen from Dutch side Ajaz Amsterdam, it was announced yesterday. Ajaz vice-chairman Adrie van Eijden said the clubs signed a contract at a hotel here on Monday but refused to give any
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