Singapore Monitor, 10 January 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 j Thursday, January 10,1985 30cants
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  • 464 1  -  Move to include them in Parliament panels under Govt consideration i> EE BOON LEE THE GOVERNMENT is considering whether the two elected opposition Members of Parliament should be given places on any of the House committees. If they are, it will be the first time
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  • 144 1 BY THE NATURE of its duties, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hat attracted the most attention. It works closely with the Auditor-General in ensuring that money allocated for public expenditure is properly accounted for. In the old Parliament, the PAC was headed by the Deputy Speaker, Mr Hwang Soo
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  • 197 1 Reuter WASNUMTON, Thursday CAMBODIA'S Vietnamese-backed Government is clearing foliage and digging ditches in areas bordering Thailand in moves apparently connected with its drive against opposition guerillas, Western diplomatic sources said yesterday. They said thousands of workers were being moved to the border
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • home
    • 221 2 Several people robbed by men carrying knives A SPATE of lift robberies hit housing estates last week. Several people, most of them housewives, have reported that they were robbed at knife-point. The thieves followed women into the lifts, then held them up, police
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    • 160 2  -  $100,000 fund for families of lost seafarers still untouched By JOSEPH LEE A FUND set up to help the families of lost seafarers has had no claims since it was formed almost five months ago. The $100,000 fund, established by the National Maritime' Board, is
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    • 234 2 'I do not know why 4 thugs beat me up' Lianhe Wanbao THE SBS driver who got beaten unconscious on Monday night at the Ang Mo Kio inter- change is puzzled why the four thugs had turned against him. Speaking to the Press
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    • 105 2 Press Review of 1984 at Hoover Lianhe Wanbao HOOVER Live Theatre ushered in the new year with a very' special programme. Right after the clock chimed zero hour during its New Year Eve Special, two comperes went on stage and gave its midnight show audience a Press Review of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      152 3 THE PROCEEDS of the charity record "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was meant to be a contribution for starving people in Ethiopia... Every pirate copy sold represented precious dollars to feed them. It is a moral issue. A line must be drawn between taking coins from the
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    • 511 3  -  Sound tape retailers agree not to sell or produce pirated versions of charity hit WHAT SSRA WILL DO N By JOSEPH LEE MEMBERS of the Singapore Sound Tape Retailers' Association (SSRA) will not be allowed to display, sell or produce pirated copies of the charity
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    • 124 3 A BUDDHIST Temple organisation has given $53,900 to charity. The Thong Teck Sian Tong Lian Sin Sia organisation donated the money to 10 charities and 226 needy persons recommended by the Ministry of Community Development. The donations were part of the organisation's 35th anniversary
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    • 101 4 A NEW bus ticketing system will be put on trial on Monday. For three months, passengers of selected services at Bedok and Jurong interchanges will be able to buy their tickets from self-service machines before boarding their buses. With the new system, the Singapore Bus Service hopes to
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    • 494 4  -  ?y CHEE LI CHOO and OEI SIN GIOK IT IS a good idea, say passengers of a new Singapore Bus Service ticketing system going on trial on Monday. All the passengers interviewed after the announcement welcomed the move. Most thought boarding time could be
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    • 123 4 TICKETS issued by the machines will be similar to those on the buses. The service number, boarding point, fare paid, time and date of issue will be printed on the tickets. During the first week of the trial, SBS inspectors will be
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    • 367 6  -  Kallang fire destroys 2 brothers' home and savings STORY and PICTURES: CHEW YEN FOOK TWO CHINESE brothers who lost their home in a fire yesterday also lost $9,000 they kept in a Chinese tea tin. The fire destroyed three shophouses in Sin
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    • 158 7 1.7 million case adjourned Suit by man who broke both legs in crash between motorcycle and car A $1.7 MILLION road accident damages case was adjourned yesterday to a date to be fixed. The plaintiff, Mr Geoffrey Ronald Atkinson, 30, an engineer, broke both legs in a collision between his
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    • 316 7  -  Thanks to suggestion by salesman, centre can now start computer club B* SEAH MEI KIANG SIGLAP COMMUNITY Centre wanted to buv some computers, but decided it couldn't afford them yet, despite a special price offered by a salesman. But tne centre will
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    • 98 7 A BOOK and a seat in the son helped this woman spend a quiet afternoon. Eyes glued to her book, she sat on a stool outside a disused shophouse at the junction of Banda Street and Spring Street in Chinatown. Apparently she was
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    • 105 7 Lianhe Wanbao IF YOU ARE a member of the NTUC taxi service and do not know how to fill in your income tax return, ask the NTUC Comfort office. The cooperative will be able to help you out free of charge. For those who
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 201 3 Mandarin Singapore: Female Magazine Discovery ofthe\fear 85 <Q£i jflHjj i Moddofthe^ar'Bs' In search ofthe woman \\ho dares to dream. The Glamour Awards are being held for the first The prizes are worth well over $100,000. Never time ever. And it promises to be the event of the before has a
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 86 6 A 5-course candle-light steak dinner FOR ONLY For only $18 nett. anjoy V > Consomme Celestine v Red Snap,.* rolled in Salmon M Grilled Ashley Airflown Sirloin K Steak Cafe de Pans' M M potatoes and vegetables Gratinees I I Coffee/Tea yS«OL- la Carte diners between 7 and will get
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  • world
    • 553 8 THAI AND VIET TROOPS GLARE AT EACH OTHER ON TENSE FRONTIER OTHAI Army reinforces units along the border after Vietnamese troops defy Thailand's demand that Viet troops withdraw from the tense frontier O Casualty figures in the two-day conquest of Ampil remain uncertain But Red Cross figures
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    • 363 8 AP NEW YORK, Thursday SINGAPORE, China and Taiwan will be the star performers among Asian economies in 1985, a big New York bank predicts The bank forecast an 8 per cent growth rate for Taiwan and 7.5 per cent eacn for
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    • 264 8 AP PORT HURON (Michigan), Thursday A SHERIFF'S deputy was shot between the eyes while pursuing two suspected bank robbers on Monday but continued a five-kilometre chase until the men were apprehended, authorities said. St Clair County sheriff's deputy Ray Gleason, 39, of Emmett,
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    • 121 8 Reuter PARIS, Thurt COMMERCIALLY-held oil stocks in the non-com-munist industrial world have been run down to their lowest January levels in at least 10 years, the International Energy Agency (lEA) said. The run-down, predicted by the agency a month ago and confirmed in
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    • 627 10 Agencies WASHINGTON, Thursday GOVERNMENTS around the world yesterday hailed the US-Soviet agreement to hold sweeping new arms control negotiations as a move toward "a safer world" but most warned that the historic superpower talks will be long and arduous. President Reagan said
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    • THE BIG FREEZE
      • 327 10 FRANKFURT, Thursday THE DEATH toll passed 125 yesterday as bitter cold weather from Europe to North Africa ravaged crops, stranded travellers and froze major waterways. Roads turned into icy .death traps and the foul weather spelled delay for countless trains and planes.
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      • 355 10 GRANDVILLIERS (France), Thursday AN ELECTRICAL fire, triggered by frozen pipes, killed 24 residents of an old-age home early yesterday, police said. Another 156, some bedridden, escaped into freezing weather. Social Welfare Minister Georgina Dufoix, after visiting the scene with
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    • 201 10 LAT-WP PENNYSLAVANIA, Thursday YOU'VE undoubtedly have heard of noise pollution. But how about fighting pollution with noise? Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have been studying a way to clean pollutants from smokestacks with high-intensiiy sound. The sound waves cause tiny soot particles to clump together, making
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 83 10 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS TELLY SAVALAS (above) will be returning to television as Kojak in a television movie, "Kolak: The Belarus File," to be aired over CBS >n Feb 16 but he says he never really left the role. "Telly Savalas is Kojak
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      • 73 10 A SO-YEAR-OLD woman gave birth to sextuplfts four boys and two girls in Rome's San Camillo hospital yesterday, doctors said. The six babies were born by Caesarean section after only 6Vh months pregnancy. But doctors said they were in good condition and not particularly small, although
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      • 73 10 PRINCESS Caroline of Monaco (above), the erstwhile road rally racer, is angry about coverage of her showing in the Paris-to-Dakar, Senegal, race -especially talk that it was her husband who was driving wnen their truck overturned. Caroline and husband Stefano Casiraghi dropped out of the 22-day,
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      • 71 10 REPRESENTATIVE Bob McEwen will sponsor legislation that would allow Charlie Two Shoes, a Chinese farmer informally adopted by US Marines 40 years ago, to stay in the United States. Charlie, whose real name is Cui Zhxi, has been staying with the Rov Sibit family in
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      • 43 10 EXILED Czechoslovak writer Milan Kundera, whose novels explore the problem of individuality in both Communist and Western countries, has won the 1985 Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society, it was announced yesterday. FROM AGENCY DESPATCHES
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    • 30 11 THE JAPANESE have added another product to their long and highly successful export list by sending overseas biNions of dollars, making 1964 a record-breaking year for Tokyo bankers.
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    • 34 11 HONG KONG'S economy is gradually emerging from a cloud of uncertainty over the colony's political future but it is likely to grow at a slower pace this year, say businessmen and economists.
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    • 30 11 SOUTH KOREA'S export-oriented economy overcame growing global protectionism and grew by 7.5 per cent in real terms in 1964, down somewhat from 1983 s robust 9.5 per cent.
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    • 135 11 The socialist government of Greece, seeking to curb unemployment and a worrisome trade deficit, is backing a Buy Greek campaign designed to persuade Greeks to cut down on imported luxury items in favour of local products. A press and television campaign launched by the Greek Goods Promotional Board
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    • 524 11 TRENDS Economics THE JAPANESE are adding another product to their long and highly successful export list. Money billions and billions of dollars of it. A tidal wave of Japanese cash is flooding through the banking halls of Franfurt, London, New York and Zurich, making
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    • 314 11 HONG KONG'S economy is gradually emerging from a cloud of uncertainty over the colony's political future but it is likely to grow at a slower pace this year. Economists and businessmen expect a moderate decline in economic growth in 1985, triggered by reduced exports to
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    • 213 11 SOUTH KOREA'S export-oriented economy overcame growing global protectionism and grew by 7.5 per cent in real terms in 1984, down somewhat from 1983's robust 9.5 per cent, according to official estimates. The government also predicts that the 7-8 per cent growth rate will
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 43 11 IJ For all motoring Ajfr/ Ij enthusiasts. SpS j! I" The Sunday Monitor's first motoring I 1 supplement of the year! MOTOR SPORTS 9 85 'I j| THE YOKOHAMA SPRINT -j !j A Special Feature in ■I The Sunday Monitor, January 13. I;
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  • money
    • Article, Illustration
      626 12  -  The bellwether stocks which indicate which direction the market will take The blue chips have solid foundations built over a long period By JANICE LIM THE YEAR started on a quiet footing in the stock market just as it haa ended last year. As we move into another
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    • 244 12 DBS Bank the bellwether stock to watch? DBS BANK may be the current bellwether stock to watch, say market observers. Yesterday, it fell below its net tanf;ible asset backing per share to $4.98. t is expected to fall further, say market observers, in tandem with the market indices. The bank's
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    • MARKETPLACE
      • 58 13 AT-A-GLANCE NEWS AND INFORMATION SOMETIMES, dust flies before a new broom can sweep. About 80 per cent of the applicants for the post of credit officer with an American bank are said to have been DBS Bank staff members. The post was advertised soon after Mr Howe
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      • 43 13 DBS BANK'S credit department has undergone its annual overhaul. Perhaps in the light of the Chop Hoo Thye case, it has reorganised staff and restructured loan portfolio responsibilities to ensure that more attention can be given to each case.
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      • 59 13 'Lone Ranger' Part III KENTUCKY Fried Chicken chairman Loo Cheng Ghee is not taking any chances with the Jan 18 extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to oust director Masamichi Yazawa. Until technical difficulties set in, the company was going to take out six pages of advertisements in the press later this
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      • 78 13 SINGAPORE may have its Golden Mile but Bahrain's "gold half-mile" is literally lined with gold for haggling over. The advantage of the "souk", the lane cramped and bustling with buyers, is the bargaining place for discounts on gold, foreign currency or jewellery, which few markets
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      • 38 13 There, a limit to Hanyu Pinyinising names. That limit may have been reached when a Hong Kong newspaper seemingly and automatically referred to our Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam as Mr Dony Ban Keng Yam.
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    • 160 13 HHLLSTOEET L A THE STOCK market chalked up its third straight winning session yesterday, fuelled by Wall Street expectations of a fresh round of interest rate reductions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 11.04 to 1202.74 and advancing issues lea
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    • 55 13 The Straits Times Industrial Index yesterday closed at 770.45, down 12.23 points from Tuesday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index yesterday finished at 381.38, down 8.85 points from Tuesday's close of 390.03. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index rose 0.2233 point to 133.9581 at the close, compared
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    • 696 13 GENTING Bhd yesterday announced further details of its proposed participation in the Burswood Island resort in Western Australia and the Adelaide casino project in South Australia. The company will seek its shareholders' approval of the proposed participation at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) later.
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    • 225 13 WHILE some American economists offer good reasons why US interest rates will go down, and others spell out equally good reasons why they will go up, but Financial Digest, published yesterday has concluded they are more likely to go up than down.
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    • 163 13 AP THE US dollar retreated in light US trading yesterday as the price of gold jumped above US$3OO (S$880) an ounce again. Gold was bid at U*****.25 an ounce at Republic National Bank in New York, up US$B.25 from Tuesday. On the Commodity Exchange in New York,
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    • 54 13 MESSRS Robert Cheng Ping, Chan Sik Fan, Gordon Shen, Chan Fu Yun, Richard Li Lap Fung and Wang Chao Yuen have resigned as directors of Roxy Electric. The new board now consists of Messrs Li Dak Sum, Abdullah Datuk Abdul Rahman, Thomas Mun i-»ng Lee and
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  • opinion / letters
    • 281 14 WHILE Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has taken a bold step in bringing fresh young blood into Government and Parliament, I notice, with some surprise, that the process of renewal has not been carried out as diligently in one important area of
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    • 81 14  -  PETER BOYD Singapore 1335 DURING pay-day you can see many people, especially workers, waitins in long queues at the POSB branch in Great Eastern Hotel building off MacPherson Road These POSB branches are always so crowded during peak periods. I am writing on
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    • 239 14 FOR TWO days at the beginning of the month, I saw long queues at the POSB counters. Curiosity got the better of me and I went near to see what was happening. I found that most of the queues were for
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    • 206 14  -  -REPLY DERRICK TAN Public Relations Officer Telecoms WE REFER to the letter "Unlisted number should be free of charge" from "Making Money." (SM, Dec 10 L The phone book is produced for the convenience of the public in obtaining the names, addresses
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    • 1037 14  -  ■■features By MICHAEL BROWNING Kntght-Ridder Newspapers BEIJING: A tiny, five-month-old bureau in the Beijing City government has made a small dent in China's monolithic job assignment system, which normally ensures that a Chinese worker keeps the same job for life, whether he likes it or
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    • 471 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR THE REPORT of the inquiry committee on the $2.2 billion loan scandal involving Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) is not likely to satisfy all Malaysians. But there are enough details in the reE>rt about how the loans to Carrian, the ong Kong
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    • 165 15  -  ROBERT CHAN Singapore 0410 FORMERLY bicycles had to be registered. The registration number served to identify the bicycle. The number was also embossed on the frame. However, the registration of bicycles had been discontinued, for a couple of years now. The reason given then
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    • 493 15  -  LAWRENCE WEE Singapore 0207 MY HEART aches each time the leaders of the governing party utter some remarks about the possible change of our voting system or the possible consequences to the constituencies that voted in the opposition. I feel painful because these were
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    • 57 15  -  WILLIAM KOH Singapore 0314 WILL THE Housing Development Board (HDB) consider putting up directory boards at strategic points in all its housing estates so as to enable visitors to the estates to locate their friends' or relatives' flats easily? These information boards should contain the
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 69 14 LETTERS on any eutyect of pubic interoat w* be aootfHaJ tar puHteatton They ahould be typed and muat ba atoned. They muetatoindudetfw writer's name and addraaa even K the writer 4nw?We> to uie a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be uaelul. We raaerve the right to edt
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 71 15 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wiM be accepted for 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 right
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

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    • 1357 16  -  rmrrni By DAVID BIRCH IT is significant that the National University of Singag>re Literary Society's annual vening of Poetry and Music on Nov 30 last year was in celebration of youth. Because youth has dominated the drama scene in English since then. The last weeks of 1984 were
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    • 352 16  -  Pat D'Rose A GOOD school bran hnnd mny possibly capture the limelight in the musical production, The Mntlc Man, to be staged in Mny. "Part of the surprise of the production li to include n brat* band. So if there's n school with
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    • Article, Illustration
      502 16  -  Talentime winners leave behind sales jobs for musical careers By PAT D'ROSE LAST year's English talentime winners, Connie Chew and brothers Frank and Robin, have avowed themselves to showbusiness. But while Prank and Robin Anthony (the country duet that took first place in the group section) are feeling
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    • 522 16  -  Clash of the Amateur Bands Victoria Concart Hall Reviewed by LIM TECK LIN THE first-ever Clash of the Amateur Bands was held in the unlikely setting of the Victoria Concert Hall. For once, gone was the usual distin-guished-looking SSO audience reared on Bach and
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    • 812 18  -  TV SCENE ?y LIM KWEE LAN and WONG AH YOKE THE road is long over seven thousand kilometres and fraught with danger. But men were willing to trudge through deserts and mountain ranges to obtain that precious commodity silk. For in the pre-Christian age, a sheaf of
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    • 389 18 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Thursday Feature Special The Red Tent (Chinese subtitles) (ChS, 9.50 pm) IN 1928, an air ship, led by General Umberto Nobile, crashed on an ice pack while on an expedition to the Arctic. The 10 survivors erected a red tent so that it
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    • Article, Illustration
      630 19  -  By STEPHEN TAN CITIZEN KANE Screened by the Singapore Film Society at the Goethe Inatitute Auditorium, Singapore Shopping Centre tomorrow at 6.30 pm and 9.00 pm. Admiaaion ia by membership IN THE prominent British film journal, Sight and Sound, Citizen Kane was voted all-time best film in 1962,1972
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    • 146 19 ARE YOU one of those who feel frustrated because films like The Dresser, and The Natural have very short "lifespans" in our cinemas and you've missed them? Are you one of those who enjoy "quality" movies and wished that SBC's Channel 12 would show more of these?
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1177 17 jjiWWg— Live Sample Pag^^ 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The 1 Pi|-T Immortals (C) Tarzan Steal the Rising Sun Frank and Fearteaa (Part two) (Laat episode) tBBf I 5.40 360 Degrees Views of Our World: Wales (M) (English "f WW* 7 JSP&f We take a trip to Wales,
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    • 177 17 Noon Newsdesk 12.30 Classical Record Review 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 1.30 Peebles' Choice 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Nature Notebook 2.40 The Farming World 3.00 World News 3.00 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 3.30 Cole Porter and His Music 3.45
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 471 19 FILM OUTOf TOA PAYOH (*****34): HOST FOR A GHOST (C) JUBILEE (*****07): HOST FOR A GHOST DALIT (*****16): HOST FOR A GHOST (C) HOLLYWOOD (*****64): HOST FOR A GHOST (C) LIWAQU (*****30): HOST FOR A GHOST (C) 2SESHI METROPOLE (*****27): EVIL VERSUS EVIL (C) BEDOK (*****7): LAST NIGHT OF MADAM
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 250 20 UDO?OPENSTODW^ DAILY 5 SHOWS AT 11amj.30,4 00,6.454 9.15pm-No Free List SOPHIE MARCEAU (the BROOKE SHIELOS of Europe) pQ^ltl■ 30 Top Prizes I One "Ready tor Love 2"( La Bourn 2) original Soundtrack Cassette Tape each H CHIANG HUAT (CO) PTE. LTD. f iqs i<» (wiOT p».k 5,..i«p0.» 03i6 j Official
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    • 34 20 JADE: 34th HILARIOUS DAY! (*****80) 5 SHOWS at 11am, 1.30,4.00,6.30,9.00 Shhh! roltaT canter «fgv.g«g*. and more gags. Sm it and share the seer*." vm *M% j Sunday Mail GUMS! uip/J VAI. KILMER LUCY GUTTERIDGE
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    • 63 20 iIuTsPMVMMiH! m: ADM: H00 3 t 6 t3.00 j| lam, 1.30, 4.00,6.30 8 9.15pm i» S GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 1 ■iCTURE (Musical or Comedy) Q ■.L MURRAY 4 I SONG j i F Effect* la > I (*****00) 5 SHOWST 4 9 ■.TAN PLAZA, JALAN SULTAN j ■10 30am, 1.15,4
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 201 20 1 'L fc<vH •-v 1 fl J!*"MT-J "*w Kg^«+ iL— Chinatown by Tiong TUn Tong, on display at Alliance TIONG TIAN TONG ised by Bukit Merah Constituency's THERE will be an exhibition of Consultative 't tee. m l y sketches by Tiong Tian Tong at the £j ntr^J _inSS?Snk?iisSi» Alliance
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    • 417 20 AUDITION FOR ST*ARS MUSIC MAN BINQ ALONG THE first round of auditions for the Music Man will be held this Sunday from 7pm to 9pm at the National Theatre. All potential cast members will be required to attend a singing/dancing audition on either Jan 15 or 17 at 7.30 pm
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    • 32 20 YOUR RIGHTS AND DUTIES ON MEDICATION A talk on your rights and duties on medication in Mandarin will be held at the Kampong Chai Chee Community Centre on Saturday at 8 pm.
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  • 522 21  -  C- »y SANDY ROVNER LAT-WP GETTING around the world In 80 days may have seemed pretty swift in its day, but did you ever hear of a Jules Verne character with jet lag? Or, for that matter, La Turista? The latter, of course, has less to
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  • 484 21 LAT-WP DR WOLFE and his staff keep a day-by-day record of which disease may be breaking out in what countries so that only those immunisations required need be administered, and no one will go off without necessary immunizations. "People," he says, "are going more and
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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    • 88 21 Seaflyte to Batam This 240 seater Sea tl yI e is 'ullv dir with rflrnhmfnu Available on board li takes only 20 minutes of pleasant cr<jisinq from Ninqa pore to Raiam Island and vice versa Note Free trips Will be provided lor number of Batam Island Countr\< tub and In
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 411 22 leisure comics M mtstse S£?r? pleted Focus on "loose ends," Highllthtdiplomacjr, real,.. Lie tasks, willingness to en- hig^JSri^Kl gIffWSS 5 «*<*«* SCORPIO TAURUS April 21 lo May 22 October 23 to November 21 Love dominates, you get to c le hi h techniques are heart of matters, vitality re- perfected
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    • 243 22 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook ft.UEV* MAD* A DO MoU THIKIK X Ort/tt*.' PEOPLE ARE A /OF COURSE, THERE V" MAM EFFORT "TO J u)£'RE MAKING- 1 M»Oi MOR* RECEPTIVE. I ARE 5TitL SoME ERADICATE CPMfttKfh I I PRO6IUV? J To H»GM TkCH«ioLOGr*rf I POCKETS OF J PH*6»A MERE AT IV
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  • PERSONAL ADVANCEMENT
    • 566 23 CAN one learn effectively by taking a correspondence or home-study course? Can one really hope to achieve the same results as compared with lessons in a classroom? Researchers who have concluded a study on the subject are of the opinion that you
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    • 192 24 THE Lancastrian School of Supervisory Management (UK) has been issuing certificates and examining the Supervisory Management courses in Singapore since 1980. This Is a joint venture with the Institution of Industrial Managers (UK). The Lancastrian School of Supervisory Management (UK)
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    • 443 24 ARE you among those who have to work full-time while coping with your studies? Certain people in this category attempting to squeeze in some time for their studies should be able to succeed if they possess the will to do so. However, will and
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    • 554 25 THERE is the story about an advertising agency which got its contract terminated by an important client. Reason? The ad agency accountant's letter to the client was said to be "so insulting" that the latter decided to take their business elsewhere. The accountant's poor writing
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    • 124 25 THE International Nam Wah Pai Kung Fu Institute of Self-Defence will conduct courses on Nam Wah Pai Kung Fu between this month to March 1985. The courses will be held at the Institute Headquaters at No 6, Geylang Road (rooftop), Lorong
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    • 125 23 Correspondence Courses DECIDE ON A NEW FUTURE WITH A STAMFORD HOME STUDY COURSE. You can now study for professional and academic qualifications from the comfort of your home Stamford courses arc thorough and up-to-date For over 3 decades, its international expertise in correspondence education has helped thousands of students achieve
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    • 168 23 THIS is the Personal Advancement market place where various courses for those seeking such information will be listed. Call IDA YUNOS for information and ad placement at *****90 ext 27. I I Awaiting results? Let Powers i prepare you for the j next Big step. j I Be ready for
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    • 158 24 IV* CERTIFICATE IN SUPERVISORY MANAGEMENT (UK) Art approved examination course leading to Certificate in Supervisory Management (UK) is now being conducted by the Management Development Institute of Singapore (formerly known as Supervisory Management Training Association of Singapore) in conjunction with Lancastrian School of Management (UK) Institution of Industrial Managers (UK).
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    • 126 24 Systematic Commercial Training Centre offers yti the opportunity to start a' career in management, accountancy and other related commercial areas, or progress on to university with the following courses: 'A' Level Commercial Streaib Subjects offered include: General Paper, Economics, Accountancy, Management, Mathematics, Chinese as a second language (entry requirements are
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    • 105 24 SE Computer Training Centra's team of consultants will work closely with students to plan a suitable schedule. According to its spokesman, the centre also provides a good monitoring system to help students achieve their goals. For further details call *****55. WTBUUIMNM. HUM WM Ml HHK HI of 'A Internal strength
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    • 36 25 Market place for various courses THIS is the Personal Advancement market place where various courses for those seeking such information will be listed. V Call IDA YUNOS for information and ad placement at *****90 ext 21
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    • 1133 26 M W Claaaified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Sttitdiy Monitor: Word* 0.35 crat* per word 0.55 c«nU p«r word Dtoptey $7.70 par col. cm $10.00 p«r col. en Mmm Mr* Mon-Fii, 9tM-spn Sat. 9aai-ipm MONITOR'S DIRECTORY ANNOUNCEMENT BUSINESS BuihtMi U^onufnlios I I Active/ Sleeping Partners required S by expanding com- S
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  • sports
    • 278 27  -  By K SILVAM WITH $4.5 MILLION already in the kitty and the completion of piling work costing $500,000, it is almost certain that our badminton players will have their own home by the end of the year. The new stadium will be sited
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    • 161 27  -  By HARIDAS NAIR SINGAPORE stormed past hosts Hong Kong with a merciless 3-0 win in the boys team event of the Asian Junior Squash championships to strengthen their hopes of taking second spot behind Pakistan in the colony yesterday. The Republic
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    • Article, Illustration
      947 28 A 'man in black' answers critics: 'Referees can't please everybody' IPS KEITH HACKETT is one of the top Football League and Fifa referees in Britain. In this article he writes about some of the problems facing the "man in black." REFEREES CANT please everybody. A marginal decision is
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    • 422 29 KARPOVS KASPAROV 1 KARPOV-KASPAROV TUSSLE Reuter MOSCOW, Thursday THE 40TH game of the World Chess Championship was adjourned last night after 40 moves and witn challenger Gary Kasparov one pawn ahead of defending champion Anatoly Karpov. The game is scheduled to resume
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    • 276 29  -  By K SILVAM and ALFONSO CHAN FUTURE fitness tests for football referees will be conducted by neutral, official testers "from non-sporting organisations appointed t>y the Football Association of Singapore (FAS). This comes after written protests made by certain referees on the
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    • 355 29  -  By ALFONSO CHAN THE BOARDSAILING Association of Singapore (BSAS) will start off 1985 with a new lease of life to its most important event the Singapore Open with new sponsors and a $30,000 boost. The Open was threatened with a slow death after its sponsors,
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    • 261 29 Reuter NEW YORK, Thursday ANDERS Jarryd of Sweden swept past Davis Cup teammate Henrick Sundstrom 6-4 6-1 and Johan Kriek of the United States beat 17-year-old compatriot Aaron Krickstein 7-5 6-3 last night in the ojpening matches of the Masters tennis championThe 23-year-old Jarryd's victory foiled an
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    • 253 29 Reuter HYDERABAD (India), Thurs MARTYN Moxon virtually assured himself of a test place as England took control of the four-day cricket match against South Zone here yesterday. Moxon lashed a brilliant 153 to equal his career best as England, replying to South
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    • 719 30 NEGRI 1 TRENQQANU4 The Star SEREMBAN. Thursday SINGAPORE import Ahmad Paitan played hero for Trengganu, masterminding his team's win over Negri Sembilan at the Municipal Stadium yesterday. Ahmad was dazzling with his spectacular ball skills and defencebreaking passes. He accounted for two of Trengganu's goals and
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    • 270 30 The Star JOHOR BARU, Thursday THE DRAW Johor earned against Pahang on Tuesday must be the most precious point for Johor skipper Hassan Yahaya in his team s quest for honours in this year's Malaysia Cup competition. with his sterling ngformance, Hassan was certainly tneman of the
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    • 253 30 Punishin g drills for Selangor KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday ONCE A WEEK, when the players least expect it, the Selansor coaches will put the team through a punishing physical routine. Tne players dread it but in truth, this is one of the exercises responsible for Selangor's fantastic success in the Malaysia
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    • 403 27 Accommodation Vacant ails re a a road (OPPOSITE GokJhtft Plaza) Unfurnished/ furnished 3/4 bedroomed apartment. $1,200/ $1,600 p.m. Also rooms for single/ students. $280/- per person. Tel: 253 6241/ 469 2119. Property For Sale CLEMENT! PARK (DIST. 2159) 4-bedroomed Condo apartment. Close to Mini-Mart recreational facilities. Approximately 1,700 sq.ft. $550,000.
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    • 295 27 NOTICES IN THI MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 185 AND IN THE MATTER OF ELTAC FASHION HOUSE (S) PTE LTD (Incorporated in Singapore) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of ELTAC FASHION HOUSE (S) PTE LTD. duly convened and held at 2-A St George's Road Singapore 1232 sth day of
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    • 208 27 NOTICE IIIHDB TENDER NOTICE TENDER FOR HYDRAULIC REFUSE BIN DUMPERS Tenders are invited for the design, manufacture, delivery, installation and commissioning of hydraulic refuse bin dumpers complete with accessories and maintenance tools to various HDB estates. COST OF HIRING TENDER DOCUMENTS IS $50/TENDER COLLECTION DEPOSIT IS $500/-. The deposit will
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 360 31  -  Plans afloat to get out of Hussein wrangle By ALFONSO CHAN and K SILVAM THERE is no reason for panic. That is the impression projected by the Football Association of Singapore over Mindef's refusal to extend coach Hussein Aljunied's term with the national team.
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    • 88 31 THE NATIONAL team's practice session at the National Stadium last night was made conspicuous last night by coach Hussein Aljunied's absence, as the team played a "probables vs possibles" practice match. Assistant coach Rahim Yati was left to take charge of the training
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    • 136 31 The Star KUANTAN, Thursday PAHANG'S controversial star Zainal Abidin Hassan will have to fight for his place, just like the other players, if he returns to the team. "He is not an automatic choice for the first 11. He will have to work for it,"
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