Singapore Monitor, 30 August 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Thursday, August 30, 1984 30cents
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  • 538 1  -  Union's leaders asked why they approved funds for study tour By EE BOON LEE THE Skills Development Fund has rejected a request by the United Workers of the Petroleum Industry (UWPI) to subsidise a controversial overseas trip by 14 of its officials to "study
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  • 180 1 Reuter ALPBACH (Austria), Thursday THE tentative world economic recovery is peaking and holds out little prospect of reducing mass unemployment in most advanced industrialised countries, international economists said yesterday. Economic growth in Western Europe this year and the next will continue at the
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    • 256 2  -  By BERTILLA PEREIRA A SINGAPOREAN is scouting for people to provide a bed-and-break-fast service to tourists for a fee. He is offering similar accommodation to Singaporeans who may want to live with families in the United Kingdom, USA, New Zealand, Europe and
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    • 795 2  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG MOST 'maid' employment agencies yesterday welcomed a Labour Ministry proposal to have madis paid by cheques but both the maids and their employers voiced reservations. The Ministry of Labour may amend the work permit regulations or
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    • 283 2  -  By BENNY ORTEGA DR HAN CHENG FONG, now Permanent Secretary (Labour), will become deputy managing director of the Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore on Sept 1. He will also be a government nominee on the company's board of directors, chaired by Mr J Y M
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    • 465 3 AN OFFICER of the sports centre at Kampong Java said yesterday he would look into a report that people have been sleeping there at night to book tennis courts for others. This follows a complaint from a Monitor reader about booking
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    • 307 3  -  By VINCENT FONG SINGAPORE is poised to buy two more mainframe computer systems from Japan's largest computer company, Fujitsu, at a cost of about $6 million. One is being tested by the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The other is to be installed
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    • 209 3 Lianhe Wanbao THE SUPPLEMENTARY bus driver who was involved in a brawl last Saturday, which sent another SBS driver to the hospital to receive 10 stitches, claimed that it was the injured worker who had started the fight. Mr Huang Ruifa,
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    • 132 3 Lianhe Wanbao THE SEMI-PARALYSED elderly woman whose only son had 'disappeared was admitted to the Da Bei Home for the Aged on Tuesday through the efforts of the Ministry of Social Affairs. Immediately upon admission, Madam Chen Yayu asked for a
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    • 359 4  -  By SIT YIN FONG THE NEW Hotel Nikko Singapore in Outram Road has shelved a staff recruitment scheme, although the hotel is 80 per cent complete. The owner, Bestland Development, yesterday declined to name an opening date. A Bestland spokesman said: "It's
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    • 149 4 Bernama BRUNEI*S Foreign Affairs Minister, Peneiran Muda Mohamed Bolkiah will visit Singapore as part of his six-day tour of two Asean countries. The minister, who is Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's younger brother, left yesterday for Thailand, said TV Brunei. He will discuss with his counterparts in
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    • 111 4 Bernama SINGAPORE and Brunei yesterday signed a new air services agreement in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. TV Brunei said the agreement was signed by Singapore's Communications Ministry permanent secretary, Mr Lam dnuan Leong, and his Brunei counterpart, Awang Ahmad Datuk Matnor. The agreement allows Royal
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    • 114 4 SINGAPORE will be host to a meeting of 600 experts on tall buildings. Papers to be discussed will make an edifice when piled on top of each other, With more than 100 presen--1 tat ions from 35 countries on design, planning, structure, management and construction
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    • AROUND THE COURTS
      • 61 4 A TAXI-DRIVER was yesterday accused of threatening a hawker with an iron pipe and a chopper. No plea was taken from Chia Eng Hai, 40, who was charged with trespassing and criminal intimidation of Lau Hock Hoon at his flat in Bedok. Chia is on
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      • 86 4 THREE Indians were arrested for overstaying in Singapore after their employer neglected to get work permits for them, a court heard yesterday. Krisnasamy Krishnasamy Sundaram, 31, took the men's passports when they arrived to work for Joo Leong Hardware as general workers at
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    • 559 5  -  1 'Professional singers will raise standard' 2 'Letting other Asean entries a good idea' SBC'S CHINESE TALENTIME '84 By WONG AH YOKE and WONG SING YEONG SINGERS who have performed professionally will be allowed to enter this year's SBC Chinese Talentime. The rules have been changed in
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 107 3 SOMMara 1 p™ r J I Highlighting some of Japan's latest I and most creative Summer Collections in the fashion scene. Every Friday night, from July 6to ,HL 31,1984 HL Poolside sth floor Royal Holiday Inn Singapore Time 7.30pm Lavish barbecue H buffet dinner with a selection B of Japanese
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  • world
    • 335 6 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday MALAYSIAN Airline System (MAS) has rejected outright claims by Japan that its proposed joint flight service with the North West Orient Airlines (NWOA) to San Francisco via Tokyo is "totally strange and unprecedented" in the airline industry. MAS managing director Datuk
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    • 31 6 Reuter SEOUL, Thursday THE JAPANESE Embassy's information centre was stoned yesterday as thousands of students demonstrated in H^! S nt!«LW )UB<S < J en Wdta« that President qbun Poo
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    • 251 6 AP BANGKOK, Thursday THE TOURISM Authority of Thailand (TAT) is concentrating on getting more tourists from the United States, Australia and Singapore as there has been a recent upward trend in the numbers from those countries, the Tourism governor said yesterday. Mr
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    • 119 6 Reuter OSTEND, Belgium, Thursday BELGIAN officials yesterday admitted for the first time that a French vessel which sank off the Belgian coast four days ago carried enriched uranium, raising prospects of a new threat of radioactive pollution. Mr Firmin Aerts, Secretary of
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    • 556 7  -  By E R Todd Special to the Monitor TOKYO, Thursday AT LEAST one Japanese engineer thinks the science fiction fantasy of a humanoid robot will, for better or worse, become reality before the next century is more than a few years old.
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    • 306 7 CAPE CANAVERAL, Thursday THE SPACE shuttle Discovery was again cleared yesterday for its first flight beginning today after officials expressed satisfaction with the solution to a computer problem which had grounded it yesterday. The problem was with computer commands which control the shuttle's release from
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    • 63 7 AP LOS ANGELES, Thursday SECURITY Pacific National Bank announced yesterday that it has reached preliminary agreement to pay U5542.3 million (SsBB.B million) for the 31 per cent of the Bank of Canton that it doesn't already own. Security Pacific 1
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    • 262 8 AP LONDON, Thursday PRIME Minister Margaret Thatcher yesterday canceled a four-nation Asian trip because of the five-day-old dock strike the second this summer in support of the miners' walkout. "The Prime Minister has decided that against the background of the present industrial situation
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    • 131 8 Reuter WASHINGTON, Thursday THE UNITED STATES ran a record trade deficit of USf 14.1 billion (5529.6 billion) in July, while economic data released yesterday indicates the economy's neadlong expansion earlier this year is slowing. The Commerce Department said the Government's index of leading indicators, a
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    • 50 8 A FIRST aid worker was carried to safety by friends after she was overcome by tear gas fired by riot police in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday. The tear gas was fired into a make-shift hospital, forcing injured people, doctors and medics to flee. PICTURE: UPI
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    • 185 8 AP WASHINGTON, Thurs FEARING a loss of overseas grain sales, a group of senators from US farm states asked President Ronald Reagan to block proposed regulations restricting imports of textiles. In a letter sent to Mr Reagan, the senators warned that implementation of
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    • 78 8 Reuter TOKYO, Thursday A KOREAN who has lived in Japan for more than 45 years was fined 10,000 ?en (SsB9) yesterday because he reused to have his fingerprints taken. Judge Tokio Matsumoto said in a Tokyo district court that Mr Han JongSuk had violated the
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    • 1206 9 Commission head says findings will be issued next month Newsweek THE COMMISSION into the murder of Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquino, headed by former Appeals Court Judge Corazon Agrava, promised to issue its findings next month and despite widespread fears of a whitewash, its
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    • 284 10 Reuter BARSTOW (California), Thursday A US$2OO million (***** million) prototype B1A bomber crashed on a test flight yesterday, killing one crew member and injuring two others after all three had bailed out in an escape capsule, a US air force spokesman said. Full details of the accident,
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    • 236 10 UPI LONDON, Thursday THE SOVIET Union has developed a new version of its vaunted AK-47 Kalashnikov rifle that is possibly better than anything used by Western forces, the authoritative British defence publication Jane's said today. The latest edition of Jane's Infantry Weapons Annual
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 306 7 m V-— J1 ;ff f m j>m I^m u > jpr jj^c A select few for the fashionable few Here's a rare opportunity for a For a limited period only. fashionable few to own a See your Favre Leuba dealers superbly crafted Favre Leuba. now> W hj| e stocks last,
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 113 8 nn VbSII REDUCTIONS Ml 31 st August to 16th September only 4^l'he Shangri-La International Hotels in Penang Amake you three offers you cant refuse. From now until October 31st, you can enjoy the sun and sea at three of Penang's best-known hotels at incredibly low prices: MSQO Msss MSgQ Single
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 101 9 Add some pizzazz to your weekend! y at the Poolside i ORT t I g§\ W'J >j\ y/ IrS <r V II m vL jfcbJ h Feast! And for even more fun, catch the look that's new in a sensational fashion show by Ivor's Models Call now for reservations on
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 40 10 Woocfc#i's C 7-v jtk gyii py y Fancy Short Sleeves Shirts A| $9.50 each (2for $15.00) Baby suits -w I H Af L- $9-90 each Dep t Blue Denim Strechable Jeans Children's long pants j# 1 Globe—the family shopping centre
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  • features
    • 819 11  -  The plight of thousands of Chinese youth in their thirties end still unmarried is a serious social problem in modern China. Women suffer most. The older they get, the less desirable they become. But help is on the way. By JOHN
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    • 554 11  -  •v ERNEST CONINE Los Angeles Tlmws LAT JUST about every European politician or journalist who has visited the West coast during the last two years has asked the same questions: Is there really a Pacific tilt under way in American
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 89 11 Taste the heady flavours of Provence. Festival de Cuisine Prcrvengrte au Restaumnt Ilesmrgri again L'escargot brings to you the French provincial specialities. Provence is reputed for its aromatic specialities. Savour salade de Moules St. Tropez' a combination of mussels and vegetables with nuts and sherry dressing or the 'Poulade de
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  • money
    • 709 12  -  By JOHN CHOW JUBILATION in Singapore greeted news that the green light has been given by the Washington-based Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to the Singa-pore-Chicago mutual offset link. Officials of the two exchanges announced that all systems are in place to begin mutual
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    • 315 12 The Star PERTH, the Western Australian city, is sitting on a tourism gold mine, according to a Singapore international hotel entrepreneur, Mr S C Huang. Mr Huang is backing his judgment with an investment of As 26 million (Sss2 million) on a 280-room,
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    • 148 12 WHLLSTREET NEW YORK, Thursday STOCK prices rallied yesterday morning on Wall Street on news that the leading economic indicators fell 0.8 per cent in July, but by day's end blue chip issues ran out of momentum ana the market finished mixed. The Dow Jones industrial average,
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    • 137 12 AP NEW YORK, Thursday THE dollar fell broadly early yesterday after the US Government reported the second straight monthly decline in its main economic barometer and a record monthly foreign trade deficit. But after the initial setback, the dollar stabilised in quiet trading, failing to break out
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    • 381 13 Part 12 of our weekly series on financial futures by Mr Benny Tan, financial consultant, Sharson/Amex. BEFORE giving orders to a broker to buy or sell futures contracts, one must be familiar with the basic types of orders that are available. Different types of orders
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    • 85 13 MINUTES of July's Federal open market committee meeting released last Friday indicated an unchanged tight monetary policy by the Federal Reserve Board. This implies that interest rates will be high for the time being, the US dollar remaining strong and the inflation rate under control. With the
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    • 140 13 PAN-ELECTRIC is buying a 64.5 per cent stake in property company FL Investment for $22.13 million. It is also forming a joint venture in marine activities with an Indian firm. FLI is the owner of First Building in Robinson Road. Its main
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    • 193 13 KEPPEL Shipyard saw an increase in operating profit but a loss in attributable profit in the first half of 1984. Group operating profit more than doubled to $52.93 million. Interest on group borrowings tripled to $45.57 million and an associated company showed
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous

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    • 716 13 PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK Comparative Statement of Condition In Million Pet*) EXPENSES ASSETS December 31 December 31 Interest on Deposits P2.172.9 P2.134.9 1983 1982 Interest on Borrowed Funds 4,008.5 3,464.1 Interest Others 34.1 6.7 Cash Other Cash Items P 1,220.1 Pi 129 5 Compensation/Fringe Benefits 378.5 366 0 Due from Central
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  • opinion / letters
    • 161 14 I READ With interest the letter (SM, Aug 28) on the need for. an Upper House of Parfiament. He says that this House should have men of ability who need not be elected. If the Government appoints the Upper House members, opposition parties and
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    • 384 14  -  NGIAM TONG FATT Singapore 1542 THE PRESS reported that Professor Liu Ts'un Yan from the Australian National University said at a National University of Singapore forum that if Confucius were alive, he might seek votes in the next election
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    • 106 14  -  nrnr *VTfi MISS LEE HONG LENG Information Officer 2 for Permanent Secretary (Education) I REFER to the letter "Risky for students to seek aid from strangers" by "Concerned" (SM, Aug 3). Pupils have always been instructed by their principals not to approach
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    • 224 14  -  TAN HENG HUAY Executive Assistant Secretary (Public Relations) Housing and Development Board PLEASE refer to the letter, "Stamp out void deck gambling at Bedok" (SM, July 30). The Housing and Development Board's Area Office is aware of a group of aged residents and a few youngsters who
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    • 414 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT THE CHOLERA outbreak at the Woodlands Home for the Aged has come as a shock to Singaporeans. That conditions at the home were so appalling as to lead to the spread of a fatal disease leaves much to
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    • 197 15  -  LIM KWANG YU Singapore 1953 I WONDER whether police officers are above the law or there is one law for the public and another for the Registry of Vehicles officers. I snapped a photograph of a ROV motor scooter parked adjacent to double
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    • 210 15 "NEVER LOOK a gift horse in the mouth" but sometimes it is unavoidable. One gift horse which invites closer inspection is the admirable proposal to compensate owner-oc-cupiers of residential property at current market value in compulsory acquisition proceedings. Unfortunately, the method
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    • 263 15 I WRITE in defence of my mother, who is an illiterate housewife. We moved to our new residence in September 1967. On July 4 we received a Public Utilities Board notice instructing my mother to settle a bill of $131.83 within 14 days.
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    • 141 15 WE REFER to your report "URA developers get more time to complete projects" (SM, Aug 27). On behalf of the members of the Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore (Redas), we wish to commend the Government for its prag- matic and realistic move in view of
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous

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    • 72 15 LETTERS on any subject <tf public interest wM be accepted tor publication. 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 the
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  • leisure
    • 721 16  -  RESPITE FROM H K CITY CLATTER By DAVID SCHWEISBERG in Hong Kong UPI NOT far from Hong Kong's crowded shopping districts and endless neon is a Elace where life is easy, cars are anned and windsurfers share the waters with old-style fishing junks. The escape is
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    • 507 16  -  SUPERGIRL FAILS TO IMPRESS FILM: SUPERGIRL DIRECTOR: Ilya Salkind STARRING: Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter OToole Showing: Bedok, Broadway, Golden Sultan, Gala, Regal, Majestic, Venus and Kong Chian Reviewed by WONG SING YEONG WITH Krypton destroyed, Zalter (Peter OToole) organises the survivors into a new community
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    • 549 16  -  Drama Festival 1984 By WONG SING YEONG WHEN King Solomon exhorted humans to learn from the ants, little did he realise that centuries later, the ants would be taking his example learning from humans. How they do it and the results are revealed by 10
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    • 417 18 Thursday Feature Special Ruckus (E) (Chinese Subtitles) (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) DIRK BENEDICT stars as a lonely, misunderstood stranger who arrives in a new town and meets the grief-stricken Linda Blair, whose husband was killed in Vietnam. Both find solace in one another and Linda,
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    • 519 18  -  w®mm By WILLIAM MARSHALL WHEN Howard Keel, billionaire Clayton Farlow of TV's Dallas, sang on the London stage recently, ladies of the age of Miss Ellie and Sue Ellen loved it. Howard, singing of old-fashioned things like love, satin and laces, was singing for them.
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    • 85 18 THE Experimental Theatre Club is seeking players for its play, The Life and Times of Mr X, which is specially written for Singaporeans to celebrate Singapore's 25 years of nationhood. Those interested in acting in the play or help in the
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 83 16 TV: Page 18 RADIO: Page 20 I Iff I Drama Festival 1984 by Experimental Theatre Club presents Under The Sycamore Tree THU 30, FRI 31 AUG and 1 SEP at 8.00 PM The Drama Centre Tickets at $3 and $2 are available from Central Booking Office (Victoria Theatre), Cold Storage
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    • 76 16 sP® 6 Problems with V&° Y,e^ et eyebrow, eye lashes? ti eX> Don't be upset! »a\\\ 50 We are here ***<>* to solve your vkie* \<&°° j N problems. <& 6 «\o^ e We have the expertise and techniques to serve our ladies, for the beauty conscious, Course fee of
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 39 17 B^j| m S^°nabl if^n rl i fAlba SOp Sales Service: Thong Sla Co Re t #04-00 Thongaia Building, 30 Bideford Road, Singapore 0922. Tel: 737-61£2. j 1 J f>< r j It^ho^9toSl^Bh< Jlr^Tuc^k<jAJ:)du> JfohEWfr Kuala Lumpur 01-08, Tel: 927-302/926-330.
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 576 17 f I THE SMGAPORE MOMTOR H 1 eisuro /IV *9r THURSOAY, AUGUST 30,1964 I w n V™/ Live Sample Opening and Programme The Fantastic Arthur Vision Woods. Camera on the Move: The Sponge-Divers (M) (Last For centuries, sponge-diving has provided the people a barren the Dodecanese with their main income.
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 998 19 i.'lccloe If ©26 12.00 PM Programme Afternoon Concert: 1. Mary 8.05 Musical Mo- 12.00 PM Newsdesk Summary 12.05 Musical CPE Bach: Oboe Concer- ments with Marta Deyan- 12,30 Classical Record Notebook The French to in E flat, Heinz Holliger o va (piano) 12 5 F' n a nc,al Revl^ Accent
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    • 134 19 Four Hours: News Sum- it from Here 7.00 World Yours mary 3.30 Swinging Six- News 7.09 News about i 0.30 Traveller s Tales ties 3.45 Network UK Britain 7.15 New Ideas 11.00 Radio Newsreel 4.00 World News 4.09 725 The Week in Wales 11.15 Outlook S?TwSe 4 «.J0 M jX
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 227 20 ********************0001 O OPENS TODAY! O ODEMMMTONG I JURONG DRIVE-IN Q 3.30, 7.00, 9.15pm 2 Shows: 7.30 9.30pm X Of SATURDAY MIDNIGHT At .O O BROADWAY REGAL (11.46PM) g 2 KONG CHIAN VENUS (12.15 AM) 2 O L BEDOK MAJESTIC GALA PLAZA j O g SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 2 O
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    • 186 20 JADE: HURRY-HURRY! LAST FEW DAYS! ADMISSION PRICES $4.00 A $3.00 No Fit* Utt (*****00) S SHOWS at Him, 1.30,4.00,0.30 S 0.00 MME ftctM mm JUnata-ol MME Ha art Eicttoasat tkaa MYTHMC YOUJffiIVER SEEM adf twmmwmmmmm uu»« ~~j«w LIDO: SEE IT NOW! (*****14) 5 SHOWS at 11am, 1.45, 4.00, MS, 9.15
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 39 20 miiii TODAY: TOMORROW: Low tide: 7.48 am Low tide: 8.30 am (0.1 m) (0.3 m) High tide: 1.46 pm High tide: 2.20 pm (2.6 m) (2.6 m) Low tide: 7.56 pm Low tide: 8.39 pm (0.3 m) (0.3 m)
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    • 492 20 CHINESE BRUSH PAINTING kAdk THERE will be a Chinese brush painting exhibition, entitled ZhongKui, The I j Demon Slayer, at Yu Yi Exhibition ML Centre, Bras Basah Complex, until tomorrow, 10 am to 6 pm daily. Admisis free. POSTERS OF A GERMAN GALLERY THERE will be an exhibition on Posters
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    • 70 20 OTHELLO THERE will be a talk on Othello, the play by William Shakespeare, at Queenstown Library Branch lecture theatre tomorrow at 7 pm. Admission is free. ARCHITECTURE TALKS on Contemporary Architecture in South East Asia by Prof Udo Kultermann and New Buildine in Historical Urban Environment by Prof Jan Pieper
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  • GO PLACES
    • 431 21  -  DATELINE: PANAJI, Goa By R V PRABHUGOAKAR THE body of St Francis Xavier will be on public view from November 15 this year when a large number of devotees from India and abroad are expected to visit Goa. The body has been
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    • 68 21 PASSENGERS flying Alitalia's Top Class and Business Class can now enjoy the privilege of receiving world news on economics, politics, sports and the weather instantly, in English and Italian from the Italian news agency ANSA. Travellers to the Orient and Africa boarding from Rome
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 182 21 f We're Proud To Announce That We're 10 Years Old. Come celebrate with us and receive gift vouchers redeemable NTUC Fair Price ores if you join any of .these tours: T Ur P Cg Voucher Med an Indonesia From P J& r Bali From this once V CSs^H I ytf
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 639 22 leisure comics ~~—^—_——FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook J^— ARIES March 21 io April 20 LIBRA i' j^ ,v v,, 'Wllp'; j°l IBBB& Some unexpected luck over September 23 to October 22 money is indicated, but there Beware of carrying your heart are signs of many calls on on your sleeve Don't
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  • PERSONAL ADVANCEMENT
    • 246 23 SALESPEOPLE aspiring to acquire paper qualifications and others intending to embark on a career in sales, can look to the Managing and Marketing Sales Association (Mamsa) Examination Board of the United Kingdom. Mamsa offers three graded diploma examinations. They are: Diploma in Salesmanship, Diploma
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    • 88 23 1. Diploma in Salesmanship The syllabus consists of four sections (a) Communication (b) Salesmanship (c) Organisation for selling (d) Distribution Channels 2. Diploma in Sales Marketing The syllabus consists of five sections (a) Practice of selling humanities (b) Practice of marketing behaviour al aspects (c) Administration control (d) Accountancy/legal
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    • 262 24 HUMAN ambition, they say, is inborn. And it is markedly so in education. Not unnaturally today, students all over the world are thirsting for learning and education, perhaps as never before. It is not simply a matter of a paper chase for career advancement and
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 207 23 SINGAPORE CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 47, Hill StPMt S pare 0017 offers TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS Increasing interpersonal effectiveness for Business. 6 lectures by Dr Victor Tai. Management Consultant Psychologist Dale 1 Sept Oct IM4 (Saturday) Time 11.00 am 1.00 pm Course Fee MO Transactional Analysis or TA, is an effective technique
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    • 293 26  -  By K SILVAM THE CHINESE women's volleyball team world champions and Olympic gold medallists will turn up with most of the stars who played in Los Angeles for the Quadrangular Superstar Women's Volleyball Championships in Singapore from Nov 9-12. Lang Ping, the outstanding Chinese
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    • 250 26 Reuter BARCELONA, Thursday CONNIE PARASKEVIN of the United States won the rain-delayed deciding race against Soviet hope Erika Saloumiaee in the women's sprint final at the World Cycling Championships here yesterday. The controversial event was held up by bad weather last night after officials
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    • 339 27  -  RAFFLES INSTITUTION 7 ST ANDREW'S SEC SCHOOL 6 By B KULA SAINT Andrew's Secondary School failed to live up to their pre-match promise in the under-14 final of the Dr Goh Keng Swee Challenge Shield at the Padang yesterday. The Saints came with banners
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    • 220 27 POLICE 16 SINGAPORE 15 IT'S HIGH time the Singapore Rugby Union raised a question over the ability of some of the older players in the national squad. Their pathetic display at the Police Academy yesterday caused the national team to go down tamely to
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    • 401 27  -  sFngrm gmnsmss a®@4s By JEREMY YEO UNSEEDED Kelvin Sng stole the limelight at yesterday's matches for quarterfinal berths when he ousted sixth-seed David Lee in the Milo National Squash Championships Men's Open at Kallang. David, who is back on holiday from studies in
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    • 18 27 SQUASH: Milo National Championship men's, women's, Veterans Quar- ter-finals (Kallang, 6pm) NETBALL: International Inter-Club (NUS,B.3Oam, 7.30pm)
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    • 213 27 AP MOSCOW, Thursday ARVIDAS-ROMAS Sabonis scored 31 Gints to help the Soviet Union beat Poid 139-81 last night to win a berth in the basketball final of the Friendship *84 Games. The 19-year-old Lithuanian, youngest player on the world champion Soviet
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    • 160 27 AP BIRMINGHAM, Thursday BARI Brandwynne of the United States shot a firstround 75 to share the lead in the U5535,000 (5|74,000) European Women's Open Golf Championship at the Belfry course yesterday. Brandwynne, aged 23, who scooped a U5512,600 necklace prize for an
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    • 251 28 AP KOBLENZ (West Germany), Thursday ED MOSES scored his 106 th consecutive victory, clocking the world's best time this year of 47.32 seconds in the 400 metre hurdles at the International Permit Track and Field Meet in
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    • 421 28  -  By ERNEST FRIDA INCONCLUSIVE, unfair and misleading. Vice-president Maurice Nicholas used these words to give vent to the ruffled feelings of officials of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association over the publication in a newspaper two days ago of a TV picture taken iust short
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    • 224 28 GARY STENLUND, former World Junior javelin record holder, ends his three months' coaching stint in Singapore today. Athletes and coaches speak highly of what he has done. In particular, shot putters, discus and {'avelin throwers have cause to oe thankful for his telp
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    • 320 28  -  By S GULAM THE NEED for someone with proven abilities to step in during the absence of coach Hussein Aljunied was the main reason for Samsuddin Rahmat's appointment yesterday as the new national assistant coach. Hussein, besides coaching the national team, also has a
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    • 203 29 LAN MJiH COLUMN THERE has rarely been a more popular choice of club captain than the election of Phil Neal to lead Liverpool this season. I say election. In fact it was a walkover nocontest once Graeme Souness left Anfield. The boss has
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    • 144 29 Reuter LONDON, Thursday TWO GOALS in four minutes, one from new signing Johnny Metgod, last night gave Nottingham Forest their first win of the season when they beat a troubled Arsenal 2-0. Brian Clough's side bounced back from their 3-1 weekend defeat by Sheffield
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    • 295 29 IPS THIS IS the first in the series off Brian Clough columns that we will be running every Thursday. The experienced Forest manager will give you the insight into British League soccer which only managers have. This week he starts with his team Nottingham Forest.
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    • 130 29 I'VE GOT the perfect remedy for Bobby Robson's eternal problem of not having players at his disposal. Why doesn't he consider the possibility of calling up his potential England squad during the pre-season build-up? I wouldn't mind him one min- ute for calling up any
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    • 376 29 Bernama KOTA BARU, Thursday MALAYSIA beat Liberia 3-1 in tfceir Group 'A' match of the Merdeka soccer tournament at the Sultan Mohamed IV stadium here last night. All the goals came in the second half. The game which was palyed on a soggy
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    • 422 30 NAVRATILOVA, MCENROE AND LENDL SHOW WAY INTO THE SECOND ROUND AP NEW YORK, Thursday SPEARHEADED by Wimbledon champions John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova, the big guns yesterday blasted their way into the second round of the United States Open tennis championships with easy opening victories. Czechoslovakia's
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    • 268 30 RESULTS of matches played in the first round of the US Open tennis championships (all players US unless otherwise stated): Men's singles Michael Kures bt H Simonsson (Sweden) 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, 6-4. Juan Aguilera (Sp) bt H Schwaier (WG) 46, 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Francisco Gonzalez (Paraguay) by C
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    • 332 30 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday Cai Zhen-Hua of China suffered a controversial defeat on the opening night of the World Table Tennis Cup championships. The world number one was told before his Group A match with Sweden's Ulf Bengtsson that the maroon and black faces
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    • 418 31 MODEM CUPNB4 LAN RUSH, the English League's top goalscorer last season, begins a weekly column for Monitor Sports. Today the Liverpool and Wales international talks about his 50-goal target for the new season. I WAS thrilled when I was voted the English League's most
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    • 125 31 LATEST Reuter LONDON, Thursday LIVERPOOL and Wales striker lan Rush is to go into hospital today for an exploratory operation on the knee injury which has kept him out of First Division soccer action the last week. Rush, who hit 47 goals for
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