Singapore Monitor, 5 January 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 30cents Saturday, January 5, 1985
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  • 396 1  -  Mr Teh to concentrate on other National Development duties ■y EE BOON LEE A MEMBER of the Government's "New Guard", Dr Yeo Ning Hong, has taken responsibility for public housing. This ends Mr Teh Cheang Wan s long
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  • Article, Illustration
    171 1 PROVISION of low-cost housing was one of the promises which the People's Action Party made before the 1959 general election. Through the efforts of the Housing and Development Board, some two million people, or 80 per cent of the population, now live in public flats. From one to three-room
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    • 757 2  -  Eligible member Tan Chee Kien may accept post if party agrees Reports by EE BOON LEE and LOONG SWEE YIN All THAT is required for Mr Tan Chee Kien, 28, to enter Parliament is for the central executive committee of his party, the
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    • 386 2 TO MR J B JEYARETNAM of the Workers' Party, there can be no parliamentary system of government unless the people vote in opposition candidates. He insisted on this thesis during a Press conference held in his legal firm in Colombo Court yesterday. QUESTIONS
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    • 217 2  -  By SURESH NAIR RELATIVES of former travel agency worker Ng Yong Kwang whose body was found in the sea suspect that he could have been "silenced" after a business deal fell through. But police have ruled out foul play in preliminary investigations. The body
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    • 205 2  -  By JOSEPH LEE SALES of liquor dropped by as much as 30 per cent last Christmas, compared with sales during the same period in 1983. Most importers and retailers blamed the business downturn for the reduced sales. An importer of a famous brand
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    • 452 3  -  By SURESH NAIR AT LEAST 10 South Korean workers said to have been involved in the New Year's Day brawl at two construction sites will be sent home. Others have been given the option of ending their contracts early and leaving Singapore. "We
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    • 196 3 Lianhe Wanbao AN SBC ACTOR is heading for Hong Kong to take up a major film role. Chen Chenggui will be under the charge of veteran director Luo Wei who had created superstars such as Bruce Lee and
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    • 374 3  -  By OEI SIN GIOK SEVERAL potential home buyers had mixed feelings yesterday over property rules revised to protect them. The amendment to the Housing Developers'(Control and Licencing) Act Kissed in Parliament last August, the ousing Developers Rules, and the Sale of Commercial Properties
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    • 92 3 THE Hock Lee Bus Company is not anxious to develop its bus depot in Alexandra Road even though the SBS has moved its fleet to new premises in Bukit Batok. The company spokesman said that due to the downturn in the property market,
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    • 301 4 CHINESE clan associations should consider setting up a foundation to promote the arts. Second Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong said yesterday. Mr Ong said such a move would receive the full attention of the Government. Opening the
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    • 516 4  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM LEADING employers have accepted cashless paydays and are "receptive" to the idea of shifting the paydays for their staff to the third week of each month. The move is expected to lead to 400,000 workers in the private
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    • 332 4  -  By BENNY ORTEGA THE NEW Ministry of Community Development (MCD) will operate from the Environment Ministry's 25storey building in Scotts Road in mid--1986 if the building is completed on time. A ministry spokesman has confirmed that this is the accommodation plan of
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    • 520 6  -  ■INMIIItJJJ,I,IIIII.IIIIIIJIJJIJIJ,IJIIILIJJIJIIJIUI,U..I,I, REPORT: SEAH MEI KIANG A SHORT cut to school could mean a drop into the Whampoa River for some parents and their children. Since their original route over the river was cut off by construction of the Pan- Island Expressway, residents of St George's
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    • 138 6  -  By BENNY ORTEGA I tried crossing the steel girders to get to May Primary School. They looked safe enough. Asmah, the photographer, was not too sure that I could make it. I took the outside bar as I did not want to cross
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  • world
    • 422 7 AP LONDON, Saturday BRITAIN'S first commercial surrogate mother gave birth to a healthy girl last night for a couple who reportedly paid £14,000 (Ss3s,ooo)for the baby, a hospital administrator said. A local social services official said birth for a fee could be illegal
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    • 69 7 AP A model otwhat may become the world's largest optical telescope shown with Mr Howard Keck of the Keck Foundation, left, and Caltech president Dr Marvin L Goldberger. Construction of the 36-mirror system, 10 metres in diameter, will be funded by a US$7O million (Ssls3 million)'grant, it
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    • 288 7 AP GENEVA, Saturday AUSTRIAN and Belgian roads apparently rank among the world's most dangerous. Japan has the lowest cancer death rate of all industrialised countries. The relative frequency of homicide is 15 times higher in the United States than in England. In
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    • 177 7 Reuter LONDON, Saturday THE BRITISH rock singer whose Ethiopian famine appeal record has raised more than £6 million (about Ssls million) is flying to Addis Ababa to make sure the money is well-spent. Bob Geldof, who brought together a group of pop
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    • 85 7 Reuter United Nations, Saturday THAILAND has complained to the United Nations that four Thai paramilitary troops were killed and two others seriously wounded in an ambush by a group pf Vietnamese soldiers inside IW.territory on December 31. In a letter to secretary general
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    • 282 8 Three of them admit killing chaplain of Solidarity movement THESE ARE the four Polish policemen now being tried for assassinating Father Jerzy Popieluszko. The four men are accused of being the direct authors of the abduction and the assassination, on Oct 19, 1984, near Torun, of
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    • 604 8 'He aqted covertly agair>st priest' LAT-WP WARSAW, Sat A SECRET Police lieutenant has named a fifth, unindicted officer of Poland's Security Service as having taken part in covert "actions" against Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the slain Solidarity priest Lt Waldemar Chmie- lewski testified for a 1
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    • 187 9 Reuter WASHINGTON, Saturday PRESIDENT Reagan briefed members of Congress yesterday on US-Soviet talks to be held in Geneva next week to set an agenda for new arms control negotiations and participants afterwards expressed cautious optimism. Secretary of State George Shultz, who meets Soviet
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    • 52 9 Reuter Girl clerks in kimonos and other employees celebrating the first day of business for 1985 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange yesterday. Dealers, clerks and wellwishers gathered for the traditional "face-showing" New Year's greetings on the trading floor of the world's second largest share-dealing market after Wall
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    • 261 9 Reuter LONDON, Saturday AUSTRALIA'S Prime Minister angrily demanded an explanation from his British counterpart after a radioactive cloud from a 1956 nuclear bomb test drifted over Australia, an official inquiry was told yesterday. "What the bloody hell is going on?" Sir
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    • 311 9 Reuter HELSINKI, Saturday THE SOVIET Union apologised last night to Finland and Norway over an incident in which it said a 1960 design missile went off course during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea yesterday and overflew their territory. Norwegian Foreign Minister Svenn
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    • 194 10 j* SATURDAY PEOPLE OPA 9K THE GIRL squatting uncomfortably behind another model is a 111 TV star that viewers will never put a face to. M But most viewers in Britain probably know her hands like the mm back of their own. i||f Susan
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    • 172 10 OPA NANETTE Brooker always wanted a Daimler and told her husband Colin so. She meant the rather sleek version that purred while its occupants luxuriated. Features such as a bren gun and grenade launchers had not been uppermost in her mind.
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    • 27 11 THERE is a great deal of talk these days about the Pacific Community, but there appears to be little understanding of what it should be.
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    • 23 11 LATIN America has made tangible progress in easing its US$36O-billion burden of foreign debt in 1984, but many dark clouds remain.
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    • 27 11 MANY of Hong Kong's wealthy are snapping up real estate in Britain despite assurances by China that it will honour the Sino-British accord after 1997.
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    • 518 11 TRENDS Economics AP THERE IS a great deal of talk these days about the Pacific Community, but there appears to be little understanding of what it should be. The Pacific Basin Community also known as "Pan Pacific Cooperation" and other names has yet to
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    • 307 11 Reuter LATIN America has made tangible progress in easing its US$36O-bil-lion (5|777 billion) burden of foreign debt in 1984, but many dark clouds are still on the horizon. Some two-and-a-half years after the region's debt crisis first erupted with Mexico's near-bank-ruptcy, officials and economists
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    • 293 11 Reuter MANY of Hong Kong's wealthy are buying safe ana profitable real estate in Britain. Despite official assurances, worries over what could happen after 1997 when China regains control under an accord signed this week and shrewd business interest have stimulated a
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    • 126 11 Overall economic development in Arab countries has shown a decline in the Eighties, mainly because of a glut in oil. A report prepared by the 21-nation Arab League Secretariat and other regional groups, put the Arab gross national product at US$422 billion(S|928.4 billion) in 1982 three times
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    • 97 11 A factory in southwest China's Yunnan Province will manufacture microcomputers of the US-based Burroughs Company. A contract has been signed by representatives of Burroughs, the Yunnan Import and Export Corp and the Everbright Industrial Corp, a Chinese governmentbacked firm in Hong Kong. The Yunnan plant will import
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    • 105 11 Canada has gone from "baby boom" to baby bust, and the population of this vast but sparsely inhabited country could start to decline by the 21st Century. Statistics released show that in 1959, at the height of the post-war baby boom, the average Canadian had S.9 children. That
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  • money
    • 584 12  -  By JANICE LIM SEVERAL department stores and supermarkets are promoting in-house credit cards to generate better sales. They prefer them to external credit cards such as American Express (Amex) because of commissions charged by card companies. Only one supermarket chain, Fitzpatrick's,
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    • 146 12 FITZPATRICK's will accept American Express (Amex) cards at all its supermarkets and pharmacies from Jan 7. This makes it the only supermarket chain in Singapore to accept the Amex card. Fitzpatrick's general manager, Mr Dieter Kops, said: "The acceptance of Amex provides improved customer service
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    • 190 12 Reuter WASHINGTON, Saturday THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking a preliminary look at how the increasing internationalisation of world financial markets will affect its regulation of the US stocks and shares industry. SEC staff members said agency representatives have begun informal
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    • 152 12 COMPANY BRIEFS INTERNATIONAL Wood Products Ltd is going ahead with its one-for-one rights issue of 8.4 million shares at $1.20 each. Approval in principle has been received from the Stock Exchange of Singapore. GENERAL Securities Trading Pte Ltd, the wholly-owned subsidiary of General Securities Investments
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    • 203 12 OVERSEAS United Bank will acquire another 5 per cent or 3.75 million $1 shares in Asia Commercial Bank Ltd from Mr Ang Keong Lan, raising its stake in ACB to 24.15 per cent. Mr Ang, ACB's former chairman, will be allotted 2.76
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    • 160 13 HHLLSTREET Reuter STOCK PRICES fell yesterday for the third straight day. Technology issues were the leading price losers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4.86 to 1184.96. Overall, losing issues led gainers 868 to 647. Volume fell to 77.48 million shares from
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    • 55 13 THE Straits Times Industrial Index closed yesterday at 795.72, up 2.54 points from Thursday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed yesterday at 398.13, up 1.63 points from Thursday's close of 396.50. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index fell 0.2133 points to 133.7347 at the close, compared
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    • 161 13 AP GOLD BULLION slumped below US$3OO an ounce on Friday, closing the week at a level last seen years ago and extending a slide attributed to the combination of falling oil prices and a strong dollar. The dollar was mixed on world foreign exchanges, fluctuating in a
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    • 566 13 THE WEEKLY STOCK MARKET ROUNDUP THE LOCAL stock market had a most uneventful start to the New Year as it opened quietly on Wednesday after two days of rest. Some dealers attributed the sharp fall that day, when the Straits Times Index shed 12.7
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    • 343 13 UPI NEW YORK, Saturday A DOZEN years ago, American Telephone Telegraph Co. had a secret plan hire business writer-consultant Alvin Toffler to peer into his crystal ball and predict the future for Ma Bell. Mr Toffler peered, and decreed that AT T should aivest
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    • 328 13 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday PILECON Engineering Berhad, Malaysia's leading piling construction company, plans to diversify into the Singapore construction market soon. Its chief executive director, Mr Hong Lee Pee, said the company believed that there was a lot of scope for expansion in the Republic,
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  • features
    • 613 14  -  By IRENA CZEKIERSKA R«ut«r MOSCOW: In Moscow's central market, with temperatures touching minus 15 degrees Centigrade, a dark-eyed Georgian woman in a colourful shawl entices shoppers to buy tomatoes. She is one of the thousands of private farmers in the Soviet Union whose small
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    • 470 14  -  By PATRICIA McCORMACK United Press International NEW YORK: The first dental drill Dr John L Bomba held in his hand rotated 1,500 times a minute. The one he uses today makes 500,000 revolutions in the same time. That increased speed is the biggest
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  • opinion / letters
    • 474 15 THEfIMEftEOBE honikk COMMENT NO ONE can help feeling incensed about the selling of pirated versions of the charity record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in Singapore.* The proceeds of the original record was meant to be a contribution for starving people in Ethiopia. We,
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    • 94 15 LET US help ourselves by helping the Singapore Bus Service (SBS) to save time between bus terminals. As a SBS commuter, I would like to suggest that the SBS implement a flat fare of between 60 and 70 cents for trips
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    • 133 15 THE BEST rendition of "Stand up for Singapore" I have heard so far was played by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) in the Familiar Favourites Concert encore at the Victoria Concert Hall on Dec 29. Conductor Choo Huey has converted the often-heard syncopated
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    • 350 15 I AM not a Singaporean but I visit your country very often. I am a great admirer of not only the material progress in your country but also the non-material progress, the sense of patriotism, national pride and multi-racial harmony which have been
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    • 90 15 FOE THE past two weeks a black dog with patchy skin has been roaming in the vicinity of Depot Road. It seems to be a stray dog. Be careful of it as its skin looks diseased. Women and children are afraid of
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    • 1438 16  -  By ROBERT HILBURN in Hollywood LAT-WP ELVIS PRESLEY was rock s greatest star. He didn't invent rock 'n' roll, but he largely defined both the music and attitude in the Fifties. Elvis sold more records than anyone in the history of pop (an estimated one billion)
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    • 801 16  -  r/^ial^imt Reviews by LIM SEK ALBUM: 84 CONCERT ARTISTE: Alan Tarn LABEL: Philips 824 224-1 Polygram BARELY a week after his record-breaking series of concerts in Hong Kong, Alan Tam came to Singapore to perform at a local live theatre. But instead of drawing capacity crowds
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    • 574 16  -  By ROBIN CORRY IPS JUST after midday on Jan 8, 1935, a very ordinary event took place that was to change the world of popular music for all time. Elvis Aaron Presley was born in a two-room slum the wrong side of the tracks in
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    • Article, Illustration
      363 18  -  SATURDAY'S BEST WITH LIM KWEE LAN Centrestage Great Performances: A Life in the Theatre (Ch 12, 8.30 pm) ART, for actors Robert and John, is not merely an imitation of life; it is life itself. John, Robert's understudy, is a realistic and enthusiastic learner. His teacher, on
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    • 497 18 Film Focus Jamaica Inn (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 12, 8.40 pm) THIS adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's classic romance stars Jane Seymour as Mary Yellan and Patrick McGoohan as Joss Merlyn. Mary goes to Jamaica Inn to live with her aunt and uncle after the death of her parents.
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    • 944 19  -  SOME LOW POINTS FOR HOLLYWOOD IN '84 By MICHAEL LONDON LAT-WP THE endless Top 10s and Bottom 10s of 1984 movies have come and, mercifully, gone. In the interest of full dis- closure, here is an uncut, untainted, and completely unauthorised list of off-camera Hollywood high or low
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1333 17 Live Sample v 1.00 Opening Programme Seta- Mr Smurfa (Cartoon). ImJMf 0 2.35 Saturday Matinee Mountain Wjmjji See Saturday s H| 4.10 Italian Football Napoli versus Sampdoria. '{RL Muzikarama V? fm g^W 5.40 The All New Popeye Show (Cartoon). joH Cultural Diary i 4',. 6.10 Programme Highlights. V/ ,f VlVf
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 366 18 Tomorrow's programmes 8.30 SBC TEXT Live Sample Page*. 9.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Muaic Box Instruments. 9.20 The Electric Company.* 9.50 Fraggle Rock. 10.15 Teka Tepat (M). 10.50 Jazzoo. This programme depicts the beauty of early morning hours at the zoo. 11.10 lAC Cross-Country Ipswich. 11.30 World of
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 724 20 KUCYNA INTERNATIONAL COMPO- submitted with their original negaSITION PRIZE tives or colour transparencies. Each THIS is organised by the Boston Uni- participant may submit up to a maxiversity School of Music and its aim is m m fou r entries, but he can win to promote and encourage the compo-
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    • 370 20 T m±M POLYTECHNIC BAND THE Singapore Polytechnic Band will stage a concert called Musical Delights VIII at the Victoria Concert Hall today at 8 pm. The 60-member student band, led by Mr Dale Rhodes, Director of Music of the Far Eastern Academy, will play Marche Slave, Alvamar Overture, Barnum and
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 689 21 leisure comics I FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook 1 Uto bo *4 7 umt«r. tmw flßnfcJJwyr <HV£ AR£ DIRECTS Ti*D feXttltftWT WDWC. J CAU-* FOR A I 1 1 x, S? AI OHA 4 'Mick fromcr* wrrx Mil**, h»H*ical V ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA I H f Questions
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  • THE SINGAPORE MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 224 22  -  2 PAGE TEAR-OUT Wonder Boy DATUK Sunny Khoo's last start beaten favourite Magari II should make amends for his last week's failure by taking the six-horse event in Race Five at Batu Gantong today. The Sharivari four-year-old was not disgraced when he
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    • 205 22 WONDER BOY MA-ZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zao Bao) (Wan Bao) Race 1 y 5 Unforgettable 3 Fneco 3 Fneco 3 Fneco 5 Unforgettable 5 Unforgettable 2 Swing Top 8-Mandate 9 Kim Phoenix Race 2 3 Repertoire 3 Repertoire 3 Repertoire 7 Beyond Belief 8 The Three Krgdoms
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    • 220 22 1 st 2nd 3rd Nigel Tiley 57 63 38 Malcolm Johnston 51 32 29 App L N Dams 49 43 31 Terry Lucas 39 41 19 Laslia Khoo 33 23 20 Alwin Twaadia 31 33 35 Q Cook 25 20 26 Lam Mun Chaw 25 19 21 Subian
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    • 498 22 WONDER BOY sums up the form and chances ot today's runners at Penang: RACE ONE 1. Keeping form well, better if there is rain. 2. Working keenly. 3. Looks well, should be there. 4. Fair trackform. 5. Fair race last week, chance in this field. 6.
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    • 1491 23 RACE 1 2.15 CI 3 Div 7-1400 m Stakes: $14,500 1 ***** TRICKY STEVEN 1-267(8) 57,0 V*lu 1/2 smg E Breukelen £YSH/29-GY3SH 2 (8000 Swing Top (2) 57 0 Lucas 1/5 6eg Allan GYSO/27-2G 3 71- FRIECO 1-266(5) 550 Tweed* 1/3 3nzh West GYSO/02-G 4 ***** Data Bank
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    • 208 23 BEST PICKS RACE 1 3 Fneco* 6 Handy Andy 9 Kim Phoenix 2 8 The Three Kingdoms* 1 Brave Performance 7 Beyond Belief 3 1 Champagne Charlie 11 Double Adios IV 3 Commander Three 4 3 Kinta Valley II 4 Dow Jonea H 10 Blaze Ahead 9 3
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    • 124 23 1 83-31 BAY THUNDER 1-54 (7 56 5 i«W 1/4 4 rug Ahmad OOSOrfH-OS l 4 <*«* ni, toons ngnong m Stddi hotm s Bmi Btrw Jockay Numbar Ongn Track Trackworfc Numbar Nam* Tima ofndat and San Condftons today PraMOua Wm&fi Horsa t Tranar Numbar
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  • sports
    • 676 25  -  ASIAN JUNIOR SQUASH CHAMPIONSHIPS Preview by HARIDAS NAIR WILL 1985 see the dawn of a new era in the development of junior squash talent? Yes, going by the efforts of the Singapore Squash Rackets Association over the last three years. There i£ every reason for
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    • 81 25 Reuter DETROIT, Saturday FORMER World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Leon Spinks plans to make his return to the ring after a 21month absence later this month, Escot Boxing Enterprises said. Spinks, 31, will fight in Detroit on Jan 31. His opponent has not yet been
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    • 368 25  -  By K SILVAM NATIONAL cyclists Yusoff Sulaiman and Jamaluddin Mohd are likely to spearhead the national team to the inaugural Asean cycling Championships in Kuala Lumpur in April. Trials to select the 12 cyclists, five for the road races and seven for
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    • 133 26 LEEDS 0 EVERTON 2 Reuter LEEDS, Saturday HOLDERS Everton dismissed Second Division Leeds 2-0 in the third round of the English Football Association (FA) Cup here last night. This is the round in which clubs from the top two divisions enter the
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    • 44 26 CHARLIE Magri is only clowning around during a press conference in London on Thursday. Under that hat with the plaited hair is a tough British boxer. Magri is to fight Sot Chitalado of Thailand for his World Flyweight title in February.
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    • 327 26 Reuter BIRMINGHAM, Saturday WEST GERMAN Boris Becker, at 17 one of the world's most exciting tennis prospects, blitzed his way into the semifinals of the Young Masters Tennis Championship today by ousting giant-killing American Ricky Brown 6-3 6-4. Becker, ranked
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    • 85 26 Reuter PARIS, Sat CARL LEWIS will not compete in the world indoor athletics championships here on Jan 18 and 19, his manager Joe Douglas said. He said Lewis, winner of four Olympic gold medals in Los Angeles, had decided to spend the winter preparing
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    • 239 26 KARPOV-KASPAROV TUSSLE Reuter MOSCOW, Saturday WORLD CHESS champion Anatoly Karpov defended staunchly against strong pressure from challenger Garry Kasparov today to force a draw in game 38. After 25 moves and just under four hours of play, they agreed to draw and avoid a repetition
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    • 92 26 Reuter MARIBOR (Yugoslavia), Sat TEENAGER Michela Figini led a near rout of a world Cup women's giant slalom by the Swiss team with a masterly display of tech* nique ana control on a treacherous course that claimed many experienced victims yesterday. Finding the form
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    • 301 29  -  By K SILVAM TWO REFEREES, who were in line for promotion, have been suspended by the Football Association of Singapore for officiating in a match without any sanction from the parent body. Class Two referee John Lewis and Sunny Ramalingam, a Class Three referee, were
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    • 306 29  -  By B KULA SINGAPORE'S hockey internationals have finally responded with a full turnout for the first time since training began for the Asian Cup. However, despite the full parade of the players, team manager Farouk Marican and coach V K Chelvan
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    • 521 29  -  Best six amateur players will miss Serapong action By ERNEST FRIDA SELETAR Country Club will open their campaign for the Singapore Golf Association Premier League title without six of their best amateur players at the Serapong course tomorrow.
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    • 152 29  -  BRUNEI 0 S'PORE 0 By S GULAM SEAK POH LEONG, the FAS soccer development director, felt that during the BruneiSingapore clash, there was no support for each other among the Singapore players. He said: "Most of the time the player seemed to hit the
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    • 183 29 FROM PAGE 32 Pengiran Aziz Sani. "Singapore had just come after competing from the Asian Cup while we began preparations only two weeks ago. We're going to celebrate tonight. Though it is a draw, we consider this a victory for us." Singapore coach
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    • 40 29 Shots on target: Singapore 5, Brunei 0 Shots off target: Singapore 8, Brunei 4 Freekicks: Singapore 14, Brunei 8 Comers: Singapore 9, Brunei 3 Offside: Singapore 6, Brunei 1 Crowd: 10,000 Referee: Ismail Yakob (Selangor) Match rating; 7
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    • 469 30 SELANGOR 2 JOHOR 1 The Star SELANGOR, the defending Malaysia Cup champions opened the new season with a shaky win on the heavy Merdeka Stadium pitch last night. Selangor, who are also the League and Charity champions, scored a goal in each
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    • 435 30  -  SABAH 1 TRENQQANU 3 By COLIN FORSYTH from KOTA KINABALU (Special to The Monitor, SABAH PAID the price for fielding an inexperienced goalkeeper here last night when they lost their opening Malaysia Cup match to Trengganu 1-3 at the Likas Stadium. Putin Itin, a
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    • 94 30 ALOR STAR, Saturday A 69TH MINUTE goal by Maznan Talib gave Malaysian Armed Forces a 1 o start to their Malaysia Cup soccer campaign, reports Malaysian daily, The New Straits Times. Maznan moved well to connect to lob taken by Mohamad Nor Bakar to
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    • 142 30 P WD L F APU TRENQQANU 110 0 3 13 SELANGOR 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 ARMED FORCES 110 0 10 3 BRUNEI 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 SINGAPORE 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 JOHOR 10 0 10 1 0 KEDAH 10
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    • 29 30 TODAY: Perak vs Perlis; Pahang vs Federal Territory. TOMORROW: Penang vs Armed Forces; Negri Sembilan vs Malacca; SAB AH v« SINGAPORE; Sarawak vs Kelantan, Brunei vs Trengganu.
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    • 557 31  -  ?r S GULAM IN BRUNEI IT WAS the kind of welcome that would have warmed the hearts of any team, especially one whicn had been away for three lone years. The crowd roared and cheered as if the visitors were their own team.
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    • 53 31 BRUNEI 0 SINGAPORE 0 "PENG KEE missed two chances, Hazali two, Tukijan one, Malek one, the list could go on. It was a tale of misses for us. The midfielders and defenders failed to give enough support to the forwards. We have to improve to beat Sabah."
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