Singapore Monitor, 12 September 1984

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Wednesday, September 12, 1984 30cents
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  • 528 1  -  Move may come after gambling suppression unit of police gets a new chief K K FONG A CRACKDOWN on illegal race-betting is expected to follow the appointment of one of Singapore s most experienced police officers as head of the force's anti-gambling squad. Deputy
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  • 244 1 Reuter WASHINGTON, Wednesday PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan yesterday offered to sell the Soviet Union an additional 10 million tonnes of US grain in the financial year beginning on Oct 1. Mr Reagan's announcement came only hours after he held a Press conference to say he would
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    • 214 2  -  By JANICE LIM LIFE-INSURANCE companies say they are not having serious difficulty recruiting employees despite a pass rate of only SO per cent in a new compulsory examination for would-be insurance agents. Industry sources this week said that while recruitment had been
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    • 135 2 THE $67 MILLION Funan Centre which is scheduled to be completed this month is a massive redevelopment in the North Bridge Road and High Street corridor. The Urban Renewal Authority says that it will produce shopping and tourist activities comparable to the Orchard Road area.
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    • 356 2  -  cerme By OEI SIN GIOK RENTS AT Funan Centre which will be leased to the public today have been reduced by an average of 20 per cent. This is in line with the policy of the Urban Redevelopment Authority to rent out its premises
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    • 326 2 A TEENAGER stole blank cheques belonging to her employer and used them to withdraw a total of $10,000 from his current account. Sim Yen Wah, 17, a former recep-tionist-clerk with an architect, also broke into her former employer's office on two
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    • 51 2 A REPORT in the Singapore Monitor yesterday stated incorrectly that Mr P C Lim is president of the Electrical and Radio Traders Association of Singapore. The president is in fact Mr Foo Kian Sack. We apologise to Mr Foo for any embarrassment caused to him or his
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    • 208 3 National Library registers an auspicious title for a special achievement Lianhe Zaobao IF it was a coincidence, it must have been a rather auspicious one when the National Library recently registered its two millionth book. The book was about the Chinese art of "Feng Shui" or geomancy.
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    • 311 3 Lianhe Wanbao IN A move to save costs, all supplementary or Scheme B' buses will be one-man operated from Jan 1 next year. The decision to convert the entire Scheme 'B' service into one-man-operation (0M0) affairs was made at the recent monthly
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    • 69 3 MEMBERS of the public have been reminded by the Prime Minister's Office to take down the State Flags flying at their premises now that the National Day celebration is over. Under the Singapore State Arms and Flag and National Anthem Rules, 1960, the
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    • 329 4  -  State aiming for 100% rise in S'pore visitors By YEOW MEI SIN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR projects are now under way to convert Malacca into a tourist state, aiming to attract more than 300,000 tourists by 1986. The Malacca State Government is looking into ways to make Malacca more accessible
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    • 705 4  -  By EE BOON LEE and LOONG SWEE YIN UNLIKE OTHER opposition parties, the Singapore United Front (SUF) believes in making its candidates known for the coming general election well ahead of the polls, now likely to be in December. "We want the people
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    • 188 4 Two Shell stations first to get automated teller machines today A NEW era in banking competition begins today with petrol station forecourts as the battleground. United Overseas Bank was set to become the first bank in Singapore to install an automated teller machine (ATM) at a
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    • 308 6 DISTRICT Judge Tan Soo Kiang reserved judgment yesterday on an application for forfeiture of a Lotus Esprit and a Porsche 944. He also reserved judgment on the sentence of the carv drivers, Boong Peng Keong and Low Kok Tiong, who nave pleaded
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    • 409 6  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM RIGID NEW security measures have been imposed on Air India passengers leaving Changi Airport, at the request of the airline's Singapore office. The alert is believed to be a reaction to last month's bomb explosion at Madras airport and
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    • 65 6 AT MADRAS Airport early last month, explosives hidden in suitcases checked in at the Air Lanka counter set off a blast killing 32 people. Sikh separatists, in their latest hijacking, seized an Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 93 passengers on August 24 and ordered it to be flown first
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    • 107 3 OLD PARR International Match play'B4 Singapore vs Malaysia lasek Utara Golf Club, Johor Baharu September 14 to 16,1984 Watch top professionals of smgapoca T«a*n Singapore and Malaysia do sSwX &^s^& t^ Ann battle Once 3Qain TOT th 6 Chong, Urn Swee Chew. Fung Hee Kwan prestigious Old Parr Trophy. Ptiua
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    • 43 4 I The East Asiatic Company (S'pore) Pte. Ltd. I I on behalf of I I PHILIP MORRIS INCORPORATED I I wish to announce the price of the following brand I I imported from U.S.A. I PHILIP MORRIS I 20's at $2.30 I 9328
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    • 392 7 I Freehold Land. I I First-class homes on hill-top at Holland Road I SMTIISHVIUME I High-class condominium I I Spanish-style Luxurious Interior Layout Ample Outaoor Facilities I Outdoor focittes match that of country H I QMfIMHKI Resident's dub house Squash court H H flMj 8 My|« |W,rl 3fl| Swimming pool
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  • world
    • 58 8 IT'S all hands for Mondale! Democratic Presidential candidate Walter Mondale reaches out to shake a sea of hands during a campaign walk through the Centre City complex in Philadelphia on Monday. Mr Mondale has been hitting the campaign trail harder than usual recently in his
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    • 505 8 Agencies MIRI, Wednesday A JUNGLE retreat for the very rich is now in the making in Sarawak but you must dish out Msl million in entry fees to Join. Plans are also afoot to offer honorary memberships to all the six Asean heads
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    • 300 8 Reuter BANGKOK, Wednesday PRIME MINISTER Prem Tinsulanonda departs this Friday for a medical checkup in the United States, leaving behind a simmering political row which could boil over in his absence. The controversy centres on a move to amend
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    • 151 8 HYDERABAD, Wrt POLICE fired into crowds of clashing Hindus and Muslims in Hyderabad yesterday in the third straight day of religious bloodshed in India that left 17 people dead and more than 150 others injured. Officials said at least two people were
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    • 44 8 Reuter BANGKOK, Wednesday TAXIS IN Bangkok are being fitted with rooftop alarm lights to deter robbers. The lights start blinking when a button inside the cab is pushed to tell police that a hold-up is taking place. Reuter
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    • 219 9 UPI NEW DELHI, Wed AFGHAN guerillas "virtually" control parts of the strategic Panjshir Valley Soviet forces captured from the insurgents in a costly spring offensive, Western diplomats said vesterday. The development comes as the government, frustrated with its attempts to repopulate the valley
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    • 337 9 CHERNENKO STILL ILL AS JOSTLE FOR POWER GOES ON IN KREMLIN UPI BONN, Wednesday APPARENTLY aimed at filling the vacuum in leadership, Moscow television has been reporting widely on the activities of Mikhail Gorbachev and Grigori Romanov, the newspaper Die Welt reported yesterday.
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    • 120 9 Reuter WASHMQTON, Wednesday THE REAGAN Administration yesterday unveiled a plan to offer asylum to Vietnamese political prisoners and to accept as refugees aU Asian-American children in Vietnam. The plan was announced by Secretary of State George Shultz who told members of Congress the administration
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    • 355 10 AP JAKARTA, Wednesday IN AN EFFORT to promote slackening business and increase tourism, the Indonesian Government has eased entry procedures for citizens of Hong Kong and Taiwan, the Department of Tourism, Post and Telecommunication said yesterday. Mr Achmad Tahir, Minister of Tourism,
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    • 286 10 Reuter COPENHAGEN, Wednesday UNIVERSITY students in Denmark are falling into debt and pressure is growing for a reform of study courses which many see as over-long and outdated. Of the 50,000 students at the county's five universities, around 8,000 owe 150,000
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    • 472 10 JAKARTA, Wednesday INDONESIA is worried over a sharp fall in investment which businessmen and economists blame on new taxes, red tape and unrealistic policies. The government is anxious to dispel the impression of a chilly investment climate. It urgently needs funds to
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    • 67 10 Burning coals a test o£ faith A MAN runs through a fire at Man Sao Ping in Hong Kong yesterday to mark the "birthday" of the legendary Monkey King, an ancient Chinese god who created havoc in Heaven with his pranks. The man, who believes he is
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  • world / trends
    • 28 11 The Malaysian Prime Minister is gambling his nation s future on a strategy of moving into niches of heavy industry that he expects Japan to abandon.
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    • 28 11 Iran's economy was not hit as hard as Iraq had wished for when it began its tanker war in May. Its economic management appears to be improving.
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    • 25 11 Hong Kong's international airline is anxiously waiting for the outcome of the negotiations between London and Beijing on the future of Hong Kong.
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    • 54 11 The Malaysian Government is considering imposing a levy on ships using the Straits of Malacca as a way to overcome the problem of pollution there. However, this would depend on the outcome of talks now going on with Singapore and Indonesia, said the Land and Regional Development Minister
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    • 53 11 The value of the Chinese currency unit, the renminbi, dropped to 41 US cents in late August, marking a new stage in its progressive devaluation, the Far East Economic Review says. In the past 12 months, the rate has declined from Rmb 1.98 (Rmb 1 US$O.5l) to Rmb
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    • 283 11 TRENDS Economics Finance KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Prime Minister is gambling his nation's future on a strategy of moving into niches of heavy industry that he expects Japan to abandon, International Businessweek reports. In a special report on the country under Prime Minister Datuk
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    • 211 11 HONG KONG: All companies in Hong Kong are nervously scanning details that emerge from the negotiations in Beijing over its future, but none has more to lose than Cathay Pacific Airlines, according to International Businessweek. If China takes over all civil aviation authority for Hong
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    • 119 11 TEHERAN: Iran's economy was not hit as hard as Iraq had wished for when it began its tanker war in May, and its economic management appears to be improving, the Economist of London reports. Oil revenue Iran's only big source of foreign exchange
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  • money
    • 409 12 10% FOUR OF the six Singapore banks listed on the local stock exchange have 10 per cent prime rates from today. The four are DBS Bank, United Overseas Bank, Overseas Union Bank and Industrial Commercial Bank.
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    • 647 12 Investors feel the pinch and get bailed out at a price AMONG those feeling the pinch of high interest rates are investors who fail to pay for their share purchases on time. They have been bailed out by broking firms or remisiers at a price. Stockmarket sources say the practice
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    • 224 12  -  By JILL HUM THE NEW Zealand currency has been easing against the Singapore dollar since the end of last month when it traded at $1,077. Yesterday, it eased to $1,060. Most dealers attributed the NZ unit's downward movement to the strength of
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    • 107 12 PAN ELECTRIC shares are on the move again. The counter that was the centre of controversy when it spurted ahead before announcing excellent interim results has enjoyed heavy turnover and price gains so far this week. The counter closed last night at $3.16 cents
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    • 747 13 We carry the second part of our stock market advice from Chiang Wee Tiong of City Securities. Part One appeared in The Singapore Monitor last week. r STOCK MARKET ADVICE UNDERSTANDING what the market psychology is helps when one is thinking of investing in
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    • 523 13 Currency review by Manufacturers Hanover Trust ITALIAN LIRA AFTER briefly firming to Lit 1766.00 in Mid-August, the Lira began September at Lit 1815.00, an all-time low against the dollar. The unit's upward potential against tne dollar has been limited by some recent
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    • 213 13 VW4LLSTREET NEW YORK, Wednesday JOGGED BY reports that Salomon Brothers economist Henry Kaufman had turned bullish on interest rates, the stock market moved higher early yesterday only to close mixed after late blue-chip selling. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 4.53 to 1197.99,
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    • 64 13 NEW YORK, Wednesday THE DOLLAR fell slightly yesterday in the United States after staging a mixed performance in Europe, as traders sold dollars to cash in on its recent surge to record highs. Gold prices rose. In after-hours trading, Republic National Bank in New York auoted gold
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  • letters / features
    • 287 14 THE WORLD has now reached a stage for international unity. What we need now is a 20th century Emperor Chin Shi Huang Ti to unite the world. Planet Earth today is divided among three superpowers, namely, the United States of America, Union
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    • 122 14 YOUR paper reported about two athletes, Miss Yong Lai Yong and her eldest sister, Miss Yong Lai Chee, who will be prominent in the field of sports in years to come. This is provided they train properly and regularly with determina- tion
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    • 114 14 THERE is a "vacuum" of automatic teller machines (ATMs) in northern Singapore, especially around Bukit Panjang/Teck Whye area. The nearest ATMs are at Bukit Timah and in Woodlands Centre which are very far and inconvenient for residents in this area. I hope the POSB could
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    • 120 14 IS IT necessary to pass legislation to ensure that foreign maids are paid their salaries every month? I do not think so. A simple record card which keeps track of the date and amount paid together with a column for the employee to acknowledge
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    • 913 14  -  By WILLIAM DROZDIAK Washington Post BERLIN: Each evening, just before the seven o'clock news, a parade of brisk commercials appears on West German television. Old ladies brag about their dentures, candy explodes out of a circus cannon, kids pop and jerk in a breakdance of
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  • opinion / letters
    • 462 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT ANYONE who can hold a hammer is a skilled worker. This was how an architect reacted when approached by a Monitor reporter about some of the horror construction stories that have been making the newspaper headlines recently. It is, of course, not
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    • 84 15 THE traffic lights for motorists coming from Dhoby Ghaut towards Serangoon at the Bukit Timah/Selegie Roads junction are inadequate. Except for one inconspicuous light at the former Kandang Kerbau market corner, the other lights are not visible to the motorists at the head of the queue.
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    • 149 15  -  REPLIES LOOI MEI FONG for Permanent Secretary National Development WE refer to the letter about the pedestrian bridge at the Upper Serangoon Road and Yio Chu Kang Road junction (SM, July 20). We wish to inform your writer that the overhead bridge leads
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    • 92 15 A NOTE of appreciation to the courteous and pleasant officer, Ms Tan Say Beng, on duty at the Departure Immigration Office on Aug 18. A careless omission made me realise on the evening before my departure for Malaysia that my passport had expired. The friendly
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    • 159 15 DISASTER struck when our parent company in Hong Kong decided to transfer an expatriate to Singapore to take over as chairman of our company. The first thing he did was to reduce our annual increments. Next, he reduced our bonus. Then he pressurised
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    • 68 15  -  TAN HENG HUAY Exec Asst Secretary Public Relations Housing Development Board PLEASE refer to the letter "Porridge rains down from eleventh storey" (SM, Sept 7). As no address was given, we are unable to in- vestigate the matter. The writer is requested to contact
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 71 15 LETTERS on any subject of public interest will 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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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 108 15 |fr t' X s I' 1 J* H <w y N NATURALLY SOME ASPECTS OF HIE FERRARO HELLDI WHAT? "VDURS iWI COVERAGE SEO4 EXCESSIVE DOWjASKWONTHE n ORUNWRANPMA'PEEPEK HNANCALSTATUS OF _ff PUBLIC RESENTMENT OF THE Lw j[ INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN FfeSTHEY CANT THE AREA-TWTS NICE. VIK APPRECIATE OUR IV WOULDIBC WIUIN6
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  • leisure
    • 1498 16  -  By VIOLET OON COST sheet for staging three concerts by the New York Philharmonic: Sum total: $800,000. Cost of staging the outdoor concert at the National Stadium: $300,000 of which $13,000 went into the fireworks display alone. The rest of the money went into bringing the
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    • 361 18 Applause: Evening at the Pops The King's Singers (Ch 12, 9.10 pm) THIS programme features John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra with their guests from Cambridge, England, The King's Singers. The King's Singers, who have been together for the past 14 years, are wellknown for
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    • 394 18  -  w&mm By WONG SING YEONG THE first bubble of controversy in the English Talentime has surfaced, almost immediately after the first quarterfinal. A member of the group, pHd, phoned yesterday to express dissatisfaction over the group's elimination. According to him, the sound system in the auditorium was
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    • Article, Illustration
      663 19 TERESA TENG was the first to try it. Michael Kwan followed suit, and Paula Tsui and Frances Yip also scored remarkably on their ventures. We re referring to Chinese live-recording albums which are slowly catching on in this part of the world. Such albums are not a novelty
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    • 5 16 Cuisine will be carried tomorrow
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1529 17 leisure /tv |fjBBPS Mtz WHjStoAy!«Ft3SS 12,1964 '181 2.30 88CTEXT Live Sampto Pages. V'' V 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by This M Land la Nine (C) 4.90 The Richard Simmon# Show. 4.99 Animate in Action Treaeure islands. IMB C' JWi This programme focuses ori the birth of islands in
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 363 19 fllM GUlOe I TOA PAYOH (*****34): THE WRONG WEDDING trail (o DALIT (*****16): THE WRONG WEDDING TRAIL <4M#407 THE WRONG WEDDING Starring: Ye Dexlu. Zkung Qing Er HOLLYWOOD (*****64): THE WRONG WEDDING Synopsis: A middle-aged spinster searches for a hus- TRAIL (C) band in this comedy. LIWAGU (*****30): THE WRONG
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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    • 738 20 ihtofffv" Brie, France, June 1968. By Henri Cartier-Bresson. CARTIER-BRESSON daily. Exhibits comprise graphics that THE Cartier-Bresson (Photographer) date hack to 1950. exhibition will be held at the National Admission is free. Museum until Sunday, 9am to 7pm NAVY CAREERS doily Tki n K ntnn r, n i,„ AV kiK>*i n
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    • 39 20 EQBSH^H^jg TODAY: TOMORROW: Low tide: 6.39 am Low tide: 7.07 am (0.3 m) (0.3 m) High tide: 12.39 pm High tide: 1.01 pm (2.4 m) (2.5 m) Low tide: 6.33 pm Low tide: 7.05 pm (0.6 pm) (0.5 pm)
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 740 21 leisure comics —————FASTRACK By BM Hdbrook tvast *iL No.J>* AH.VW... VMMMMM. K F*ST IS THIS t*4£ftt V*S, lfl ATreMMNG- A 1 HtMfrft TAUC Oi £XSClfltVft 3.000-SIKV V X «rrfU» WN Irr «//w wkwo*. his urfi** «hh»»ah> am*- convent** C giG-nr) is APPfAIUM6-? f /ON IMmH AMCC, CfINDOCTfP MAH HAU. on
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  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 133 22 ONE OF Australia's biggest residential development schemes, the Asl billion (Ssl.B billion) South Yarra project in Melbourne being built for the Jack Chia Group of ComKnies, has been officially started by the emier of Victoria, Mr John Cain. The group is headed by Singapore
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    • 600 22  -  By ANNIE CHIA THE MAINTENANCE industry should not depend on the whims of clients who see only as far as their nose in terms of money spent or be influenced by the apathy, negligence and disinterest of managers who do not take
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    • 365 22 THE HIGH percentage of passes for the first real estate agency course and the good response to the second one run by the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (SISV) is a clear sign that unqualified real estate agents have recognised the
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    • 282 23  -  By FOO MEY KIEN ORCHARD Bel-Air is ready for occupation. The temporary occupational licence (TOL) has been awarded for this 25-storey condominium. Developed by United Boulevard, a wholly-owned subsidiary of United Overseas Land, the condominium has a total of 71 apartments three units on
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    • 132 23 TUCKED away at Jalan Tua Kong, off East Coast Road, is Eastwood Gardens a row of double-storey terrace houses nearing completion. The developer, Greenwood Enterprise, says the project is expected to be ready by the end of the year or early 1985. There
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    • 285 23 A NEW HOUSING CONCEPT CAVES CAVES in the Loire Valley are well soughtafter for summer retreats and many also choose to live there all year round, a report in Perumahan Housing Property said. Since historic times dry, warm caves in the western part of France have been popular with cave-dwellers
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
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  • 375 24 HOME SERVICE HOME FURNISHING AN important point to note before you use cutting tools, such as scissors and knives, is to ensure that the blades are sharp. Perhaps the greatest danger in using a blunt tool is that it can easily slip
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    • 343 27 Staggering $315 million in profits UPI LOS ANGELES, Wed CITING "unbelievable" Bublic support and enlusiasm, organisers of the LA Olympics yesterday announced a staggering US$l5O million (Ss3ls million) surplus, with most of the profit going to benefit amateur American athletes. The Summer Games, the first-ever run by a
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    • 185 27 AP MOSCOW, Wednesday THE FIRST match of the Women's World Chess Championship was declared drawn after champion Irina Levitina and challenger Maya Chiburdanidze each made 25 moves, the official news agency Tass said last night. The last three moves were identical and
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    • 232 27 AP PARIS, Wednesday DEFENDING French League champions Bordeaux, undefeated in seven matches, yesterday stretched their league lead to three points with a 3-1 home victory over sluggish Paris-St Germain. Bordeaux, with six wins and a draw for 13 points, gained a point
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    • 128 28 TENNIS, anyone 7 Not aftor tho disgusting bohaviour by two of Singapore's national tonnis players, say two roadors. Thoy comment today about tho fighting incident more than two weeks ago in the Pesta Sukan national championships. Yet another reader speaks up for a footballer guilty of a
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    • 227 28 We need someone with his talents to bring back the crowds I FEEL that the Football Association of Singapore should lift the ban on Salim Moin. Yes, he attacked a referee in anger. He knows it's wrong to hit a referee but he did not know
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    • 74 28 I AM WRITING to you in the hope that you can highlight the disgraceful manner our national tennis players Abdul Karim and Melvyn Pereira showed when they fought on court during the Pesta Sukan national championships recently. Many people have put in valuable hours to promote sports
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    • 118 28 I SUGGEST that some of the older players in the national rugby squad retire gracefully. In rugby, if you can't ran and can't tackle, leave it to the younger players who show much more enthusiasm. I have watched the recent un- der 20's and
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    • 81 28  -  MICHAEL CHONG Singapore 1545 I WOULD like to appeal for more table-tennis matches to be shown on TV. The smashes and spins of the game are fascinating to watch, but unfortunately, SBC tends to concentrate too much on the more popular sports. We have
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    • 107 28 THE ENCOUNTER between Abdul Karim and Mervin Pereira at the Pesta Sukan Tennis Tournament was most disgusting. National players fighting like hooligans in the presence of guests and young spectators is most unbecoming. Tennis is a non contact game and yet players are allowed to throw
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    • 278 28  -  By ALFONSO CHAN THE TWO key figures in the Pesta Sukan tennis court fracas at Kallang three weekends ago will know tomorrow exactly how they will be punished according to international rules. The behaviour of the duo, Abdul Karim and
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    • 169 28  -  By S GULAM SINGAPORE Armed Forces Sports Association, led by national soccer coach Hussein Aljunied, returned last night from Brunei with an impressive bag of three victories in the country's Independence Day Invitation competition. The Singaporeans beat Royal Brunei Armed Forces 2-0 in their
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    • 1008 29 Things are finally starting to coma alive at Highbury WHEN Arsenal boss Don Howe swooped to sign up Ipswich's England striker Paul Mariner, he was not stabbing in the dark or plunging into the unknown. He knew all about the product he was getting. Howe had had
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    • 65 30 PICTURE: UPI FIVE superstars of women's sports have been nominated for the honour of being named the "Greatest American woman athlete of the last 25 years." From left to right: Former track star Wilma Rudolph, tennis stars Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert Lloyd, Billie Jean King, and track star
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    • 317 30  -  By B KULA in Kuala Lumpur SYNTHETIC turf that's the cure for Singapore's hockey ailments. Without it, Singapore hockey will be buried under the tall green grass of home. The Repub- lie's juniors, who have been soundly beaten by South Korea 0-5,
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    • 100 30 Lai Chee surges ahead thanks to hubby's tips BEHIND every successful man is a woman so they say. Malaysia's Choo Lai Chee, surprise leader after the first round of the Singapore Women's Amateur Open golf championship, says she has her husband to thank for coaching her. Lai Chee, handicap four,
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    • 72 30 OMAN'S fullback Moosa Khamis is losing his vision. He was hit in the left eye in a friendly match against the Pakistani juniors on a training tour of Karachi four weeks ago. He will have to undergo an eye operation when he returns home early
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    • 183 30 PAKISTAN 7 MALAYSIA 0 INDIA 3 AUSTRALIA 1 MALAYSIA, riding high after three successive victories over Hong Kong, Bangladesh and New Zealand, were brought down to earth by the much fancied Pakistanis in this Group B match of the Asia-Oceania Junior World Cup
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    • 433 31  -  By S GULAM FANDI Ahmad yesterday made a personal appeal for the six-year ban on Salim Moin to be lifted, simply because he felt that the national soccer team needs a player of Salim's calibre. The council of the Football Association of Singapore
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    • 357 31 WORLD CUP QUALIFYING ROUNDS Reuter STOCKHOLM, Wednesday tSWEDEN and Portugal, both weakened by injuries, meet in a World Cup Group two soccer qualifying match nere today. New Portuguese manager Jose Torres arriveu without key players Chalana, Rui Jordao and Tamagnini Nene, all of whom were instrumental in Portu§al
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