Singapore Monitor, 20 June 1984, Afternoon Edition

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  • 21 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR P Tffi EVENINt% EDITION i M C (P) No 21 5 84 Wednesday. June 20. 1984 30 cents
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  • 478 1  -  By BERTILLA PEREIRA MORE THAN nine out of 10 workers in the first two groups to introduce the new Cowec company welfare scheme have supported it. About 92 per cent of employees at Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS) have applied to join the
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  • 132 1 COMPANY welfarism is not a cure-all for raising productivity, the first two companies to introduce the Cowec scheme were told this morning. It has to be part of a management approach towards looking after workers well, Dr Wong Kwei Cheong, Minister of State for Trade
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  • 133 1 POLICE have detained a 37-year-old man and seized a .38 automatic pistol and 10 bullets after a raid on a hut at Lorong Persatuan, off Nee Soon Road, yesterday. The unemployed man will be charged tomorrow. ASP Ang Ching Teck, officer-in-charge of organised crime, said today
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  • home
    • 173 2 A WARRANT was issued today for the arrest of a man who failed to appear in court on charges of cheating women of more than $65,000. Ong Beng Hock, 29, unemployed, is on a$ 10,000 bail put up
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    • 393 2  -  Story and pictures by CHEW YEN FOOK CONGO the hippopotamus and his mate, Susie, possess such awesome power in their jaws that they can snap a full-grown crocodile into two. But they, together with baby Congxi, only want bananas to be fed
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    • 201 2 AN EFFECTIVE school is one with a dynamic principal, a well planned curriculum, realistic goals, good staff teamwork, close rapport between the head and the teachers, a good learning environment and well motivated pupils. This is the picture that has emerged from
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    • 128 3 THE NATIONAL Productivity Board (NPB) has reorganised itself. In a move it says is designed to make it more efficient and group-oriented, it has split itself into 7 divisions, 19 departments and 25 sections, and two separate units directly under the directors' control. The
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    • 413 3  -  COURT PRESIDENT REFUSES TO ALLOW ADJOURNMENT OF CASE By SIT YIN FONG THE HEAD of a film services company who failed to attend the Singapore Industrial Arbitration Court last week was rebuked by the court president this morning. Mr Ng Soon
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    • 539 3  -  THEY HAVE RISEN MORE THAN 40% IN FOUR YEARS, SAYS THE SYSTEM'S CHIEF By YONG POW ANG FARES ON Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway are 50 per cent higher than buses and have risen more than 40 per cent in four years,
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    • 64 3 A 27-YEAR-OLD German was charged today with possession of 0.24 grains of cannabis Klafft Thomas is alleged to have committed the offence at Woodlands Customs checkpoint at 5.05 pm yesterday. No plea was taken. Thomas was allowed bail of $3,000 in one surety. His passport
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    • 445 4  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO WE CAN bring the mass media to water, but can we make them drink? Ambassador Narciso Reyes of the Philippines set this poser to a conference on health education and the media, which opened this morning. He was referring
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    • 233 4  -  Yoga expert on how to attain lasting good health By JALIL MISWARDI AN INDIAN yoga expert will give a series of demonstrations to the public and other yoga enthusiasts at the National Yoga Seminar to be held from Friday to July 1. The expert Mr M
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    • 104 4 POLICE are looking for a man who duped a housewife into paying a $50 deposit after he failed to show up with the goods she ordered. Miss Zahara Mohd Dawood. 33, of Telok Blangah Rise, told police a slim-built salesman selling cloth and cushion covers
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    • 482 4  -  By YONG POW ANG TEN blocks of flats in Commonwealth Avenue and Stirling Road will be pulled down soon to make way for a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project and associated development plans of the Housing and Development Board. More than
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    • 79 3 flake a meak... Thursday Fashion Special June 21 5.30 pm At Mezzanine Lounge Watch the current fashion trends as you indulge in afternoon tea and cakes or unwind over cocktails. Then catch up on some eading or play backgammon in the cool serene comfort of the Mezzanine Lounge; for an
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    • 42 4 Dining At Raffles. Elizabethan Grill. International cuisine highlighted by English specialties such as Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding on the famous silver wagon. Ample parking at the rear. isg Raffles Hotel •JJIPR Our tradition is legendary Beach Road. Singapore 0718 Tel: *****41.
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    • 6 4 Job seekers Look in the Classifieds
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    • 201 5 •CITIZEN Congratulates New Balance Team for winning thel9B4Citizen Team Tennis Championships Nice going champs a* 1 r v I 5 r i v v ir 5 r i* i -lartMh I f* 2 r v' .1 *t \i z jrafl^HEk_ m if" 11 fli it \rißJ m* liTii '/r w
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  • world
    • 550 6 AP DUBAI, Wednesday THE ECONOMIC downturn and threat of a wider Gulf war are forcing thousands of workers from developing countries to leave Gulf nations and worsening the lot of many who stay. Hundreds of thousands of Indians, Pakistanis, Filipinos and other
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    • 326 6 Reuter OSLO, Wednesday INDIA'S top diplomat in Norway, Sikh Charge d'Affaires Harinder Singh, announced yesterday that he had resigned in protest of the storming of the Golden Tem(>le shrine by Indian roops and applied for political asylum. Announcing his move at a press
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    • 152 6 UPI WASHINGTON, Wed THE CIVIL Aeronautics Board (CAB) voted unanimously yesterday to grant a temporary license to a Britisn airline for lowfare, non-stop service between Newark, New Jersey, and London to begin on Friday. In announcing the decision, the board said it
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    • 144 6 UPI MOSCOW, Wednesday THE KREMLIN charged that American pop singer Michael Jackson has sold nis black soul for white profit and is serving the Reagan Administration by keeping the American public's mind of! the country's problems. "The great showbiz swindle, known as The Thriller
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    • 148 7 UPI SYDNEY, Tuesday AN ESTIMATED 5,000 New South Wales doctors walked off their jobs at public hospitals today to protest legislation that punishes physicians for striking or resigning. The doctors refused to treat all but emergency cases. Three major hospitals reported that only their
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    • 380 7 UPI NEW DELHI, Wsdnssday INTERNAL SQUABBLES among Afghan guerillas broke into gunbattles that left several leaders killed or wounded, Western diplomats said yesterday. The disputes over tactics among commanders of resistance leader Ahmad Shah Masood led to falling morale and reduced guerilla activities
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    • 203 7 UPI SANTA CRUZ (Calif), Tuesday MAYBE BEING fat isn't beautiful, but overweight people have a place in society, saythe Fat liberationists. That's the point members of the Santa Cruz-Monterey Bay Chapter of the organisation are trying to get across these days, and
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    • 167 7 Reuter WASHINGTON, Tuesday US DEFENCE Secretary Caspar Weinberger said in a report yesterday that Japan and some Nato countries were not carrying their share of the Western defence burden. However, he added that all the allies, including the United States, should increase their defence
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    • 277 8 LABOUR UNREST IN ENGLAND Reuter LONDON, Wednesday STRIKING British miners today prepared to blockade major steel plants in an attempt to force a showdown in their three-month campaign against colliery closures. The move, in an increasingly bitter and violent dispute, threatened to cause a rift with
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    • 173 8 LABOUR UNREST IN GERMANY Reuter BONN, Wednesday METALWORKERS and employers' leaders confer with an arbitrator today to try to settle a five-week strike over working hours in the West German engineering industry amid signs that the union may be
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    • 363 8 AP CARTAGENA, (Colombia) Wednesday LEADERS of 11 Latin American nations that owe hundred billions to foreign governments and banks declared yesterday that they "refuse to be thrown into a situation of forced bankruptcy and continued economic stagnation." Their statement came at
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    • 297 8 UPI NEW YORK, Wednesday THE HIGH drama of the first quarter featuring Argentina and its lender banks is oeing replayed as June 30 approaches with Argentina still not making interest payments and apparently not close to agreement that would enable it to do
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    • 99 8 AP THE crew of a Soviet submarine working to free their tub which bed entangled in the trawl of a Norwegian fishing boat yesterday. They took threehours to disentangle the sub before steaming away, the Norwegian navy said in Oslo yesterday. Mr Onar Qudmundsen, skipper
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    • 464 9 AP BANDIRMA (Turkey), Wed ONLY one person now stands between the Oubykh language and oblivion. When Mr Tevfik Esenc, now 82, disappears, linguists say that what is currently the world's rarest living language will become a aead one A century and a
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    • 34 9 DAY IN and day out, politics seems to rule world news. In fact, a groat many other events take place that affect people's lives. We present on this page some of those events.
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    • 164 9 WASHINGTON, Wednesday THE US Government has granted approval for the world's second implant of a permanent artificial heart, a spokesman said yesterday. Food and Drug Administration spokesman Mr David Duarte confirmed the agency had approved the implant, but said few
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    • 119 9 UPI BOSTON, Tues RESEARCHERS say those who combine two bad habits coffee and cigarettes may unknowingly be helping themselves because caffeine may counteract some of the bad influences of nicotine. Mr Reid von Borstel and Mr Richard Wurtman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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    • 214 9 UPI FAIRFIELD (Texas), Wednesday DESCENDANTS of a Texas slave who bought land a century ago will file a lawsuit to reclaim thousands of acreage allegedly taken by White families through systematic fraud, the family's lawyer said. The federal suit will
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    • 196 9 UPI LONDON, Tuesday A MEMBER of one of Britain's richest families confessed to shooting his beautiful American wife and keeping her headless body in a half-finished sauna for months, a jury was told today. "I walked out and I went back home
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    • 687 10 TRENDS ONE OF America's television networks, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), talking with South Korea about the broadcast rights for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, has already encountered a serious roadblock as a result of the Soviet Union's withdrawal from the Los Angeles Games:
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    • 62 10 OFTEN, apparently insignificant events or political decisions outside Singapore may signal the start of trends of vital interest to you they may affect the way you live, the way yon conduct your business. Reports of such events may be confined to specialist or trade publications. In TRENDS,
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    • 285 10 Reuter MOSCOW, Wednesday A LEADING Soviet magazine has bitterly condemned the damage done to the environment by state economic planners and called the present management of raw material resources "barbaric." In one of the most outspoken articles on ecology ever to appear in the Soviet
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    • 510 10 AP SYDNEY, Wednesday A CONTROVERSY over the fate of the world's first orphan human embryos shows how the creation of life in the laboratory is becoming a major ethical issue. Scientists and govern- ment officials must decide whether they should try to revive or
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    • 78 10 Reuter A SOVIET newspaper expressed incredulity yesterday that a rock group called Kruiz was able to perform in Moscow, filling the concert hall with crimson smoke and deafening music which it said endangered health. The daily Vechernyaya Moskva said that after hearing the "heavy metalstyle" group,
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    • 301 10 LAT-WP IRVINE (California), Wednesday IN THE past few decades, scientists such as Peter Bryant have been studying lower life forms like salamanders in the hope that humans could learn the secret of regenerating parts of their bodies. Dr
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    • 302 7 The ever popular Ford Telstar two litre Fastback is now also available in a The elegant Telstar 1.6 Ghia is now fitted with an energy efficient automatic power-packed 1.6 litre version. transmission to give you an even fleeter, smoother drive. What's more, a lowered roofline and its aerodynamic wedge shape
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    • 8 8 Good jobs are plentiful! Look in the Classifieds
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    • 56 10 is so popular? The answer is at our place. CLUBHOUSE Vietnamese Restaurant A division of Singapore Tennis Centre 1020 East Coast Parkway Singapore 1544 Reservation call: *****66 The Best Vietnamese Cuisine in Town 50 Popular Dishes at your choice Dinner: Traditional taste, Tropical atmosphere, Reasonable price. Lunch: Economical, Fast, Peaceful.
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  • money
    • 170 11 THE SINGAPORE market ended in very mixed trading this morning. Pahang Ord closed a cent up to 91.54 as the highest turnover of 416,000 shares. Sime Darby and TDM had turnover of 408,000 and 306,000 shares and closed at $2.10 and $3.28 respectively. Federal Cables and
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    • 32 11 AT the mid-day break, the OUB composite share price index was down 7.03 points to 470.23.. THE OUB tradeweighted Singapore dollar exchange rate index was up 0.0482 to 130.7322.
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    • 147 11 THE MUI group is planning to build a massive training centre on a 3 2 hectare site overlooking the Subang International Airport in Kuala Lumpur. The multi-million-dollar complex will be used for integrated staff training. It will house a lecture hall
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    • 471 11  -  By PHILLIP BANGSBERG in HONG KONG SINGAPORE International Monetary Exchange (Simex) is confident of winning authorisation for its mutual offset agreement with Chicago's International Monetary Market (IMM) despite the slow progress so far in obtaining US regulatory approval. Mrs Elizabeth Sam, a director of
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    • 703 11  -  By YEOW MEI SIN in KUALA LUMPUR THE MALAYAN United Industries (MUI) group, undaunted by the downturn in the hotel industry in Singapore and Malaysia, has launched its hotel expansion programme through the $14.6 million acquisition of a second Canadian hotel,
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    • 222 11 Reuter IN SINGAPORE, reports that the West German Metal Workers Union is willing to compromise on its demand for a 35 hour week helped the mark rise in early trading, dealers said. Selling of dollars against the mark pushed the West German currency to an early high
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    • 728 12 Increasing influx of tourists results in high profits and high room occupancy HONG KONG FOCUS OVERVIEW OF HONO KONG'S HOTEL INDUSTRY REVIEW BY SUN HUNG KAI RESEARCH OF HONG KONG THE TOURISM industry is proving itself to be one of the most stable sectors in Hong
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    • 146 12 Destination 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 (USS) (USS) (US$) (USB) (USB) (USB) (US$) Hong Kong 32.28 38 18 43 67 49.10 58 56 56.67 61.41 Bangkok 25.42 25 59 31.93 40 38 48 50 53.39 62 64 Jakarta
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    • 26 12 Revenue Expenditure Earnings 1983 $2,970mn* N.A. N.A. 1982 $2,645mn N.A. N.A. 1981 $2,599mn $1.935mn $664mn 1980 $1,989mn $1.451mn $538mn 1979 $1,616mn $1,228mn $388mn Estimate
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    • 32 12 Profit expenditure of Hong Kong hotels, 1981 Group A All hotels HKsmn HKsmn Profit 269 54 22.2 660 36 25.4 Total expenditure 943.28 77.8 1,938.64 74.6 Total revenue 1,212.82 100.0 2,599.00 100.0
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    • 181 12 SECURITY Pacific National Bank, the ninth largest US bank, formed a Sin-gapore-based merchant bank, Security Pacific Bank Asia Ltd, with an initial paid-up capital of US$25 million (S$S2.5 millionV "The merchant bank will permit us to underwrite and trade in Eurobands
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    • 329 12 DBS BANK have revised their interest rates on mortgage loans for residential properties with immediate effect. The rates are now 10 per cent per annum, up half a per cent, for a one to ten year period and 10.25 per cent per
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    • 249 12 Selected flocks at midday. Market tone: slightly lower. Arab-Mai Dev 1.06 S Boustead 2.32/2.35 C Storage 3.26/3.28 F and N 5.55/5 60 Genting 5.05/5.10 GIH 2.46 S Haw Par 2.15/2.16 Isetan 2.98/3.00 Esso 17.70/17.90 Hume 5.00 S Inchcape 2.72/2.75 Intraco 2.97/3.00 M Cement 6.95 B Mulpha 1.25/1.30 Oriental
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    • 116 12 Your S$ to on* unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/DD TT DD US| 2.1155 2.1055 2.0965 sterling 2.9183 2.8962 2.8862 Australian 1.8787 1.8547 1.8397 Canadian 1.6332 1.6131 1.5981 New Zealand 1.3675 1.3474 1.3324 S$ to 100 units of foreign currency Austrian schilling 11.0852 10.8352 10.7852 Belgian Franc/Comm 3.7870
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  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 764 13  -  Shopping-cum-hotel complex will draw them back to East Coast area By ANNIE CHIA ROXY SQUARE, a shopping com-plex-cum-hotel development when completed, will bring the Katong crowd back to the East Coast area from Parkway Parade. Parkway Parade is
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    • 349 14 They will have decorated ceilings and imported carved timber doors BUILDING contractor Soil Build is developing a landed property project through its subsidiary, SB Properties. Like any contractor, the move into property development is an alternative means to diversify into a known area
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    • 119 15 SAL1S «Pipt;| V. :^< s: LOCATION DESCRIPTION AREA/TITLE PRICE DATE AGENCY Allsworth Park Hawaiian Two-bedroom apt, low floor 100 sq m $350,000 June Housing Dist 10 with full condominium facility (1076 sq ft) LEASING LOCATION DESCRIPTION AREA PRICE PATE AGENCY Elegance View House Three-bedroom apt with 163 sq
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    • 181 15  -  By ANNIE CHIA RIVIERA Court, a condominium development under construction, will sit on the former site of the Sin Min Chinese School, demolished about three years ago. To be built on freehold land at Riviera Drive, off Upper East Coast Road,
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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    • 89 13 Buying a home Take advantage of OUB's Housing Loan Scheme Mandarin Gardens OUB's Housing Loan Scheme offers: Easy loan repayments with CPF contributions Longer repayment period of up to 25 years Loan with Overdraft facility Competitive interest rates Currently: Up to 10 years 9Vb% p a. 11 to 25 years
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    • 217 14 If you are looking for the right home financing we invite you to come in and talk with us. At Chase we make it easy and fast for you to own your home. We have the loan package that suits you. And because we know time is precious we give
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    • 86 14 Sal^^ R By Public Auction Q To Be Held at No. 6 Cecil Street #02-04 fIR People's Insurance Building. Zfl on Wednesday, 11 th July 1984 J^j at 3.00 p.m. Particulars Kfl 1) No. 38 Namly Crescent pB (2-storey detached bungalow) ufl Land Area 840.4 sq.m. (9,046 sq.ft) pKj Title
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  • letters/features
    • 556 16 JEFFREY LAW has written a thought-pro-voking letter concerning job-hopping ana its effect on productivity (SM, June 14). Some of his reasons for job-hopping were that trained workers were not placed in the right industry, and supervisors were unsympathetic. I feel that there are other reasons too.
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    • 302 16 Isolationism in the Soviet Union FROM July 1, it could be considered a crime in the Soviet Union to provide even routine hospitality to foreigners without official permission. That is the practical effect of a vaguely worded new law that provides a range of punishments, from fines to possible
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    • 262 16  -  HO CHEOK SUN for Permanent Secretary (Communications) I REFER to the recent Press reports on the use of buses to participate in our celebration of our 25 years of nation building. Contrary to reports, the Communications Ministry welcomes the adding of colours to the gaiety
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    • 715 16  -  EEC Parliament poll embarrassment for national leaders ANALYSIS By DON COOK of LOS ANGELES TIMES LAT-WP BRUSSELS: When government leaders of the European Economic Community countries were being pressed during the 1970s to convert the European Parliament into an elected rather than an appointed body, they were
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  • opinion/letters
    • 519 17 MfiNrroKEsfflfflfl REGULATING businesses is a minefield. Governments that step into it must walk between the need to protect the public and the fear of snuffing out the entrepreneurial spirit. Singapore has rightly insisted on the imGrtance of public protection, which goes nd in hand with
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    • 110 17 WHEN I signed the agreement for the purchase of a HUDC flat at Gillman Heights, I was told that the flats would be ready in mid-1984. The estate is still not ready. I understand that the contractors will have to pay liquidated damages to the
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    • 222 17  -  Hospital does not use patients as 'guinea pigs' REPLIES DR TULIP TAN Medical Director Middle Road Hospital I REFER to the letter "Girl treated as 'guinea pig' at public hospital" (SM, Jane 13) by Sim S Hoon. Miss Sim's sister attended the Irrawaddy Road
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    • 110 17  -  SYED GHAZALY SYED AGIL Singapore 2573 ON MAY 24, a pregnant woman was killed by a bicvcle thrown from a block of flats. This was a very sad case. Dangerous litter has caused death because some people are not concerned about the result
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    • 95 17  -  SEEK HANG PENG for Registrar of Vehicles I REFER to the letter "Introduce the 'Blue Arrow' in these Areas" (SM, June 4) requesting for a direct bus service from Fulton Hill Estate to the Orchard Road Area. As commuters staying in Fulton
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      541 18  -  Making dancing dreams come true By WONG SING YEONG SLEEPING BEAUTY and her Prince Charming flew in from America on Monday night. Yesterday, she was wide awake, but he yawned time and again to ward off the jet lag. Bonnie Moore and John Coding principal dancers with the
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    • 410 18  -  By LO TIEN YIN SHE is just slightly above 1.5 metres, very slim, very compact. When she talks about ballet, her green eyes light up and srow very big. Because ballet is her life. Bonnie Moore, just 19, the youngest member of the Washington Ballet,
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    • Article, Illustration
      240 18 FOE those who could not get tickets to Bumboat!, there is a chance for you to catch it on TV next month but only for seven minutes of the opening segment. The Broadway-style "overture" to the seven playlets featuring the entire cast of 16 will be telecast on the
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    • 578 18  -  By LO TIEN YIN WOMEN in China play important roles in the arts. Ana in the Guangdong Nationalities Song and Dance Troupe, they are in the lead. Out of the 38 artistes who arrived two nights ago, 21 are female. The art director is Chen
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    • 685 18  -  Gemala Tari is ri vetting By PAT D'ROSE THE dances of Gemala Tari were not of a religious nature, yet the experience that came with watching them is akin to a spiritual awakening. They aroused from the subconscious, memories of an ancient culture whose wonders
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    • 427 20 The Immortals (C) (English Subtitles) (Last Episode) (Ch 8, 9.35 pm) XU-ZHU, Qiao, Ling, Duan Yu and Yuyan manage to get out of the cave. Qiao suggests that they go to Liao Guo to stay with General Ju. They are spotted by Fu's subordinates
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    • 659 20 iaaaßiKi IPS FALCON CREST producers have fired Mel Ferrer and Cliff Robertson from the series and are very close to sealing a mil-lion-dollar deal with Sophia Loren. In a bid to challenge Dallas and Dynasty for TV's top ratings spot in America, series brass
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    • 600 21  -  Some masterpieces included By LIM KWEE LAN THE works of prominent directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Reinhard Hauff and Nicklaus Schilling will be presented at A Festival of German Films, to be held at the Goe-the-Institut from today until June 29. The festival opens and closes
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    • 466 22 MAIM EVENTS PILEH MENANTU PILEH MENANTU (Choosing a Daughter-in-Law), a play-cum-wedding pageant, will be presented today at 8 pm at The Drama Centre. It takes a lignthearted dig at the prejudices of old Peranakan families. The wedding Kigeant will be staged with authentic costumes and paraphernalia from
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    • 643 23 ZHANG AIJIA, NORA MIAO APPROACHED MICHAEL CIMINO'S recent quest for Asian actors and actresses for his new movie, Enter the Year of the Dragon, caused a minor sensation in Singapore. But there were more disappointments than happy faces, especially in the selection for the female
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    • 531 23  -  By GREGORY JENSEN in London UPI EVEN with the formidable Peter OToole as Professor Higgins, the shadow of My Fair Lady hovers over a fine new London production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. By now, it is impossible to disentangle Shaw's original play from the Lerner-Loewe musical
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    • 548 24  -  EAT IN COOL COMFORT AT McMOHAN By LO TIEN YIN FEASTING on North Indian food need not cost a lot now. Brakash Singh, who owns the popular McMohan stall at the canteen of High Street Centre, has opened a restaurant, also at the centre, on the
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    • 141 22 OHQ SOUND OF STRING THE Melo Art Choir, comprising Mr Lee Yuk Chuan's 16 violin students, will present Sound of String today at 8 pm at DBS Auditorium. The programme will include solo pieces and violin concertos by Bach, Handel, Beethoven and Mozart. Tickets at $3 are available at the
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    • 172 22 NATIONAL DAY PHOTO MULTIPLE ART THE Ministry «j Culture .wlllhold the 1984 National MORE than 90 works ifAuS"' g prints. Pnotos on display will be the winning entries of lithographs, reliefs and the competition now on. The pictures should capture sculptures will be on Singapore's progress, development and achievement display
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    • 341 28 classified 273-9090 Situations Vacant 1 1 1 J A manufacturing S Company in Jurong invites applicants for the following positions due to rapid expansion Maintenance Technicians NTC 3 holders m Maintenance. Mechanical or Electrical Shift work on rotation Salary w« commensurate with quaklications experience Junior Q.C. Assistants Minimum Secondary 3
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    • 553 28 BALMORAL PARK APARTMENTS 2/3 bedrooms (2 bathrooms) Walk-up apartments Located in Prime Residential area Minutes to Orchard Road $1,750/$1,950 Unfurnished Interior Decor /Renovation Acttruc coHsrmtcnoti COUP AMY (HDB licensed contractor) We speciakse m renovation of HDB and private houses We offer reliable and good workmanship at reasonable prices for marble.
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    • 802 29 The Vocational and Industrial Training Board (VITB) is in the process IHj of computerising its operations and developing a Management Infor. ma tion System to support management'decisions. The mainframe I computer which wiM be acquired is expected to service 7 main appNca- tion systems for trainee records, staff records, facilities,
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  • sports
    • 334 30  -  Invitations to Suria and Pathma hailed as 'good' move WILLIAM TEH Singapore 2056 KUDOS TO the present Football Association of Singapore (FAS) administration for doing a good job even without the Malaysia Cup these past two years. The present FAS administration has been criticised as being a
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    • 237 30  -  HIvICTIOiVS MICHAEL CHONG Singapore 1545 RACHEL TAY LENGTAI Singapore 0923 I WISH to comment on the letter from "Realistic Fan" (SM, June 14). He rated Zainal Abidin as a better allrounder than our own Fandi Ahmad In my opinion, it is unfair to compare the two.
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      210 30  -  Be thankful for the weekly sports shows that we receive RACHEL TAY LENGTAI Singapore 0923 MANY OF your readers are dissatisfied with SBC's poor coverage of sports programmes and especially "live" telecasts of soccer matches. I must admit that I share their view since I am a sports lover
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    • 111 30  -  How about some answers to these hard questions? JOHNSON CHAN Singapore 2056 WHY IS it that whenever there is an important game in Singapore, we feel compelled to recall Fandi Ahmad? Why can't we play the game without him? Why must Fandi's fans insist on seeing the "old" Fandi?
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    • 200 31 Reuter LOS ANGELES, Wednesday NO MATTER how brilliantly or how disastrously some athletes perform at the Summer Olympic Games, Dr Robert Gregor of the Department of Kinesiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), will be fascinated. Kinesiology is the study of
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    • 192 31 Reuter BELFAST, Wednesday OLYMPIC 800 metres champion Steve Ovett won his second 800 metres in 48 hours today and then said he would not ran again before the British Olympic team is announced next Sunday. Ovett, 28, clocked one minute 46.15 seconds
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    • 666 31 Lewis clocks the second-fastest time ever at sea level during US Olympic trials AP LOS ANGELES, Wednesday CARL LEWIS, bursting from the start with ferocity and maintaining that force most of the way, ripped off a dazzling 19.84-second clocking yesterday in a secondround heat of
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    • 759 31 AP MEN'S 110 m HIGH HURDLES HEAT 1: 1 Greg Foster, 13.22. 2 Milan Stewart 13.65. 3 John Timpson, 13.78. 4 John Johnson, 13.80. 5 Sam Turner, 13.93. 6 Larry Cowling, 13.98. 7 Alex Washington, 14.08. 8 Kerry Bethel, 14.09. HEAT 2: 1
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      517 32  -  Our youngest ever waterpolo side return from their Europe competition cum training tour with high hopes for the future By DANIEL WEE SINGAPORE'S youngest national waterpolo side ever to be picked by official selectors, ended their two-week European competition tour yesterday, favourably. They won the majority of their
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    • 160 32  -  By KEN JALLEH Jr. AFTER a burst of record breaking activity from Alvin Lim, Wong Soon Tong and Yuen Shuang Ching on Monday's opening day, last night's Chinese Swimming Club junior championship events at Amber Road plunged into poor times. Only Singapore's star age-group
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    • 45 32 A RHYTHMIC exercise class for beginners will be conducted at the National Stadium from July 10, every Tuesday and Thursday (Bpm). Registration fee for the 24 session course will be ?>45 and the closing date or applications is July 2.
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    • 55 32 THE GOODWOOD Group will hold a walkathon in aid of the Community Chest on Tuesday to raise a targeted 910,000 for the Chest. About 200 Goodwood employees will be taking pan in the walk. The hotel chain will also match dollar for dollar the
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    • 318 32 FOR THE first time in national under-19 soccer competition history, eight teams have been seeded and placed in different groups before the kickoff on July 7. The seedings were based on last year's performance, with last season's quarter-finalists making
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    • 460 32  -  SPORTS PEOPLE By S GULAM PATIENCE has paid off for Tay Peng Kee. After seven years of waiting on the fringe of international stardom, the Geylang International striker has finally won a place in the national team. But that doesn't mean he's made it.
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    • 530 33 FRANCE 3 YUGOSLAVIA 2 (France top Group One and qualify Cor semifinals) Reuter ST ETIENNE, (France) Wednesday MICHEL Platini continued his remarkable goal-scoring feats in the European soccer championship finals here last night, collecting his second hat-trick in succesive games to lift France to
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    • 641 33 DENMARK 3 BELGIUM 2 (Denmark in semifinals as Group One runners-up) Reuter STRASBOURG, (France) Wednesday LIKE the true romantics they are, Denmark save their huge following a hint of heartbreak before supplying the happy ending by reaching the semifinals of the European soccer championship here
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    • 182 33 m —mi" ■■■iirffTmilßiffrm t* iiffiii r How Michel got his second hat-trick AP FRENCH captain MICHEL PLATINI was undoubtedly the man of the match in last night's France-Yugoslavia match. He scored twice within three minutes to put France ahead for good after his team were a goal down.
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    • 214 33 AP MICHEL PLATINI started his international career eight years ago in the style he knows best with a goal. Since that first match in March, 1976, against Czechoslovakia, Platini has become the captain of France, Europe's Player Of The Year and his country's record goalscorer in international
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    • 372 34 PREVIEW l: WEST GERMANY vs SPAIN Reuter PARIS, Wednesday TITLE-HOLDERS West Germany will be involved in an exciting climax to Group Two of the European Soccer Championship Finals here tonight for which there is an irony that will not be lost on them.
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    • 385 34 PREVIEW 2: PORTUGAL vs ROMANIA Reuter NANTES (France), Wednesday PORTUGAL and Romania, who are among the less-fancied sides at the start of the finals, both have a chance of European soccer glory when they meet in the last round of the
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    • 135 30 If the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation has boon receiving too many brickbats of late, here's one that ought to make the day for some people up In Caldecott H11L If you want to air views on sports, why not write to The Sports Editor, The Singapore Monitor, 2 Alexander Road, #03-0lA
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    • 413 35 Focus on France's lethal marksman and its manager MICHEL PLATINI OF FRANCE Reuter PARIS, Wednesday MICHEL Platini, the extrovert executioner, and Michel Hidalgo, the auiet schemer, provided France with another thrilling win in the European soccer championship finals last night. Platini scored all France's eoals in a 32
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    • 372 35 Reuter STRASBOURG (France), Wednesday WHILE not yet looking as out of place as a dinosaur in a modern zoological garden, the old fashioned centre-forward has become the endangered species of soccer. While England manager Bobby Robson may decide to persevere with the
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    • 47 35 TONIGHT'S do-or-die matches: West Germany vs. Spain, Portugal vs. Romania: PAGE 35 DENMARK cap praliminariss with a fairy-tale ending: PAGE 34 PLATINI savss Francs from tha blushss in match against Yugoslavia: PAGE 34 MAN Of The Match: How Platini scored his second hat-trick last night: Page 34
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