Singapore Monitor, 26 February 1985

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  • 11 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Tuesday, February 26,1985 30cenU
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  • 406 1  -  65 pc rise in number of small firms going bust »y LINDA CHAN SMALL firms were the major casualties of the slowdown in business last year. But just how bad business was in 1984 is reflected in the 65 per cent increase in the number
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • home
    • 636 2  - Row over state of 2.5 million condos Floors defective, maintenance poor say residents By OEI SIN GIOK SOME owners and residents of Beverly Hill condominiums are anSf with the developers, Far East ganisation. The flat-owners say maintenance of the condominiums is bad, security is "non-existent" and the marble flooring in
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    • 45 2 THE SCIENCE Video Fair '85 Competition, organised by the Science Centre, will be extended till March 30. Its original closing date was Jan 31. However, the closing date for submission of the complete production and final script is still April 30.
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    • 440 3  -  By JOSEPH LEE LOCAL frozen TV dinners, the complete instant meals so popular in the West, will soon be on the supermarket shelves and they will be specially made to suit the Asian palate. The Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (Sisir) is
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    • 1039 3  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM and LINDA CHAN SEVERAL business leaders yesterday came up with a variety of proposals to overcome the downturn in Singapore's economy. They include: SETTING up of a high-level economic council; ABOLISHING the Payroll Tax; GIVING employers a temporary relief from
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    • 654 4  -  IN PARLIAMENT By EE BOON LEE PRESIDENT C V Devan Nair last night sketched the kind of better society that the Government hopes to build in the next five years with tne full cooperation of every citizen. It's a' society
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    • 337 4 SOON after the "live" telecast of the President's address at the opening of Parliament, the Singapore Monitor contacted some people by telephone at random for their immediate reaction. Here are their observations: MB S SUGUMARA, 36, a sports officer: He said he supported
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    • 267 4  -  By BENNY ORTEGA AS EXPECTED, Mr M P D Nair of the Workers' Party (WP) was not in Parliament to be sworn in as a non-con-stituency Member of Parliament because his party leadership had told him to reject the seat. His 48.8 per cent
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    • 620 4  -  By LOONG SWEE YIN MEMBERS of Parliament, whose debates will now be shown on television, were reminded yesterday to speak their minds freely and to have "the courage to agree and disagree without playing to the gallery." The
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    • 816 5 GNASHING of teeth is being heard in the Singapore dental profession over an international orthodontic congress. Most of the 300-odd dental professionals who attended the privately run congress the first held here said it was a success. But the Singapore Dental Association,
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    • 272 5  -  By JUDY WALKER SINGAPORE is being invaded. There are more television crews and journalists here than ever before. The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, having taken to heart the recent recommendations of the Tourism Task Force, invited newsmen from all over
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    • 78 5 THE TOURISM Task Force was set up on Aug 3 last year by the Ministry of Trade and Industry to And ways to revive the tourist trade in Singapore. It is headed by Dr Wong Kwei Chong, Minister of State for Trade and Industry and chairman of the Singapore
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    • 321 5  -  NUS administration says number of thefts on the rise 8* YONG POW ANG A MAN LOST his pants after a swim and a bath. A woman lost her cosmetics bag. A canteen owner lost his rice cooker. While thefts such as these are common enough,
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    • 965 6  -  SAF turns to civilian caterers for meals By ROBERT CONCEICAO MOST of the food served in Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) camps will gradually cease to be cooked by the army cooks as the armed forces turn to civilian caterers for their meals. About
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    • 183 6 A NEW special interest group for users of the IBM Personal Computer and compatible machines will be formed this Thursday when the Singapore Microcomputer Society holds its general meeting at the Singapore Conference Hall. The society, which was formed in 1968 and now has
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    • 705 6  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG PUPILS attending the lower secondary English course at the British Council all agree on one point learning the English language is not an unpleasant In fact, fun and games are very much a part of the lessons.
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    • 207 3 Its the Lunar New Year and time once again to celebrate with the family and friends |aH in the traditional 9P of the occasion jfi From Feb 19 to Mar 6, festive fare Fa Cai available lor lunch, 12nn to 3pm or dinner, 7pm to Vm 1030pm. Rita Sze entertains
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    • 117 5 Lunar New %ar Celebrations with the Meisan Difference Usher in the fcar i>f the Ox with a CrkhJ Fortune feast of fresh, delicate Raw fish or "\b-Sheng"; tossed with special ingredients, in true Chinese tradition. Complement it with other prosperity dishes Superior Sharks fin with Brown Sauce, Sliced Ahakne with
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  • World
    • 295 7 Agencies WASHINGTON, Tiwsday THE UNITED States, responding to the expulsion of the US military attache by Poland as an alleged spy, yesterday ordered the Polish military attache in Washington to leave the country. The action was ordered by Lt Gen James Williams,
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    • 51 7 A TOWER of moke billows aomc 4,Mt metres above the volcano Sakorajiina doriag its 51st eraptka la liMiyn ia Japu yesterday. The TBlrsas spewed large stoaes which shattered the wladow of more thaa 41 ■wh| aad parisd ears sear Its site, police said. PICTURE:
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    • 258 7 AP JAKARTA, Tuesday NORMALISATION of relations between the United States and Vietnam would help stabilise South-east Asia, Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja said yesterday. Mr Mochtar told parliament that stabilisation of the region was the strategic objective of the Association of South-east Asian Nations
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    • 182 7 AP BEUNG, Tuesday SOUTHERN China's booming special economic zone of Shenzhen will get an international airport, deepwater harbour and 240-kilometre express highway linking it with Canton, the Government said. The official Xinhua News Agency said surveying for the USs4!>-million (Ss99 million)-road is nearly complete
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    • 72 8 UPI BUDAPEST, Tues THE Hungarian Young Writers Union will protest against the imprisonment of a playwright charged with pornography in staging an Ezra Pound play with nude actors, dissident sources said yesterday. Eezso Forgacs, the Hungarian playright, was sentenced on Feb 13 to seven months
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    • 251 8 Reuter ISLAMABAD, Tims SIX people were lulled and over 40 injured in clashes between rival groups in Pakistan's first national poll since the armed forces toppled the country's electea Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1977, police said. More than 30 opposed to
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    • 213 8 UPI WASHINGTON, Tuesday THE SOVIETS are imposing a "manufactured famine in Afghanistan like the one Stalin used to starve millions of peasants into submission in the 1930s, a researcher told a Congressional panel yesterday. "Incapable of defeating the Afghan people militarily, the Kremlin has resorted
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    • 296 8 Reuter LONDON, Tuas THE Prince and Princess of Wales' children are the glue which sticks their marriage together, a former royal valet said in an interview published yesterday. Mr Stephen Barry, valet for 12 vears to Prince Charles, heir to the
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    • 127 8 NEW DELHI, Tu«« TWO people, including an alleged Pakistani spy, were killed by Indian security forces while crossing the border, the United News of India news agency reported yesterday. Bashir Ahmed, suspected to be a Pakistani spy, was gunned down on Saturday night
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    • 88 8 Reuter BANGKOK, Tims THE THAI Cabinet today approved a Finance Ministry proposal for a near zero growth government budget of 218 billion baht (5516.6 billion) for the *****986 financial year. A Cabinet spokesman said the austerity budget, compared with the total 213 billion baht
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    • 257 9 AP TOKYO, Tuesday FOR THE first time, a majority of adult Japanese women responding to a government survey have said that they disagreed with the traditional notion that "men belong at the workplace and women at home". In the survey, conducted
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    • 386 9 AP TAIPEH, Tuesday TEN SENIOR officials of a Taiwanese bank have been arrested in connection with alleged financial irregularities after runs by depositors totalling US$425 million (***** million), court officials said yesterday. They said the arrested included nine senior executives of the
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    • 362 9 UPI BEIRUT, Tuesday TWO VEHICLES packed with explosives blew up yesterday in a crowded market in a Shi'ite Muslim suburb of Beirut, killing at least six people and wounding 43. The explosions came as Prime Minister Rashid Karami called for a special
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    • 307 9 METZ (Franc*), Tuesday AN EXPLOSION killed 22 miners and injured about 100 yesterday in Prance's worst coal mine disaster for more than a decade, a pit spokesman said. The blast, some 1,050 metres underground in the Porbach Mine near
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    • 79 10 Visible at the lower right of the pirtare, a strenking Cruise missile passes Wandering River, Alberta, last Taesday daring a test by the (JS Air Force over aorthera Canada. A balloon and streamers at the apper right of the photograph are part of aa
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    • 215 10 LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Tues MEXICAN police permitted a prime suspect in the kidnapping of a US drug agent to flee by plane from Guadalajara on Feb 16, Francis Mullen Jr, chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), said yesterday. Rafael Caro Quintero, allegedly a member
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    • 355 10 LATWP TOKYO. TuMday THE IMPENDING expiration of quotas for Japanese car exports to the United Stales is cause for little celebration here. Government officials and car company executives seem convinced that some type of control will have to continue. News that a
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    • 147 10 Reuter LONDON? Tuesday TWO BRITONS attempting to ran round the world together say their biggest problem is that they have ran out of things to say to each other. Mr Henry Weston, 23, and Mr Robin Cross, 24, have battled on with their 2C,000-km marathon
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    • 241 10 UPI UNTTED NATIONS, Tuas THE UN Special Committee on Decolonisation is to hold a regional meeting next month in Papoa New Guinea to discuss independence for six territories, including East Timor and Guam. Indonesia considers the former Portuguese colony of East Timor
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 102 10 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS DIANE Keaton (above) and Mel Gibson showed how love can blossom In prison in the movie "Mrs Soffel" and the 100-year-old Allegheny County Jail came off looking stately. More than a dozen movies have been made at Alcatraz and now
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      • 144 10 JOHN Fogerty's hit record "Centerfield" has undergone some chances, apparently for legal reasons. One song, "Zanz Can't Dance," was changed lyric sheet, title and vocals on later pressings. The original got especially bad reviews from Saul Zaentz, chief of Fantasy Records in Berkeley, California, and
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      • 116 10 DEBORAH Shelton (above), who plays Mandy Winger on "Dallas," was stunned by viewer reaction after she insolently doused the fires of passion of JR Ewing by tossing a glass of wine in his face. Shelton, whose character plays the girlfriend of Cliff Barnes, said about
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      • 101 10 THE DODGERS moved to Los Angeles almost SO years ago but the folks in Brooklyn still are waiting for them to return. The New York Legislature passed a resolution marking the 30th anniversary of the team's only World Series title and members of that team
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    • 354 7 V\felcome the Ljnar Nevvfear at the Ckinaimm Where you can feast on 13 traditional iff' sumptuous dishes and enjoy demonstrations 1 mm of Chinese painting, calligraphy and seal a>» i ca n9 additional raw fish A w jZ o Chinatown special cold dish ff 0 Beef steak Chinese styte JK
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    • 131 8 Special Bar-B-Q prepared by Popular Hong Kong Chefs jjHHB FimnfiilikeMriles.congee i o',^ l^O °»«r rust meits and "daypot" c are specially prepared mJSSm) by Mr Hm| Km« Chefs. Business Hours It am to I lpm "s*^7 o Mi VILLAGE HOODLES MtTAOMHT we tn The Plaza (Plaza Holell 7500 A Beach
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  • money
    • 276 11  -  By CATHERINE ONG MALAYSIAN businessman Lee Ming Tee, former managing director of Sigma Metal, has won an As 47 million (5|74.7 million) contract to undertake a turnkey project in China for the making of printed circuit board plants. Printronfcs Ptv Ltd, a division
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    • 283 11 THREE MEN, well-known in financial circles here, are now working for Malaysian businessman Lee Ming Tee. Mr Tay Kim Kah, former finance director of Keppel Shipyard, is in charge of Mr Lee's Hong Kong and China financial services operations. They include gold dealing, securities trading
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    • 503 11 MR LEE MING TEE is probably the Malaysian answer to Mr Jack Chia as far as foreign aggressiveness in business in Australia goes. According to information culled from various Australian publications, Mr Lee shifted his domicile from Kuala Lumpur to Sydney at the end of 1983.
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    • 599 12  -  By JANICE LIM KENTUCKY Fried Chicken share price continued to surge forward yesterday with purchases totalling nearly $7.2 million. And it was the day's top gainer with a total volume of 1.79 million snares traded. This is a jump from 1.04 million shares last
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    • 112 12 OVERSEAS UNION BANK has established its second representative office in China at Shenzhen in the Guangdong Province The office, located at Suite 81, Friendship Hotel at 4, Ka Pun Road, will be headed by Mr Wu In Chuan, who is also the representative
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    • 162 12 TOKYO, Tuesday FOREIGN Minister Shintaro Abe said yesterday Japan must continue to make efforts to open its markets wider to the products of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean). Answering a question in the Diet (Japanese Parliament], Mr Abe said
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    • 222 12 THE NET tangible backing of Singapore Glass will increase from 88 cents a share to $1.62 with its acquisition of Parkway Properties and Parkway Land. This will be further increased to $2.32 a share if the revaluation of Parkway Parade and Astrid Meadows, developed by
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    • 229 12 HMLLSTREET Reuter WALL STREET stock prices closed mostly lower yesterday although blue chip issues improved for the first time in three sessions because of an improving bond market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.66 to. l .277 50 but overall, losing
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    • 55 12 THE STRAITS Times Industrial Index closed yesterday at 814.76, up 3.86 points from Friday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed yesterdav at 410.26, up 1.13 points from Friday's close of 409.13. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index rose 0.1650 point to 134.0856 at the close, compared
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    • 133 12 UPI LONDON, Tuesday THE US dollar surged against principal European currencies yesterday, closing at record highs after a day of volatile trading described by one Zurich dealer as "crazy". The dollar reached its highest level ever against British sterling, the Belgian and French francs and the Italian
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    • 203 12 GOLD is expected to trade within the US$2B5 (*****) and US$3O2 range over the next fortnight, says UOB Bullion and Futures in its weekly newsletter. The newsletter said that technically, gold was extremely weak and its immediate downside potential around US$2BO "could be reached
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    • 341 12 ARAB-MALAYSIAN Merchant Bank (AMMB) and Malaysian Tobacco Co (MTC), the country's two biggest companies in their respective fields, are to become joint owners of the insurance firm, Arab-Malay-sian Insurance (AMIB), it was announced yesterday. In a joint Press statement, they explained
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 51 11 FOr Business Or Pleasure, Lunch Ar The IHII Elizabethan Grill Menu: Continental and Seafood with English Specialties like Roast Beef and Steak Kidney Pie. m For reservation please call *****41. Free parking- lots reserved at the front for Elizabethan Grill patrons. js£i Raffles Hotel Our tradition is legendary Beach Road,
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  • 511 13  -  PHOTOGRAPHY By LEE CHIU SAN Those wanting to take pictures of the decorative lights of Chinatown still have a few more nights in which to do so. Local lensmen with some experience of taking good night shots along Orchard Road during the Christmas season
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  • opinion / letters
    • 408 14 I AM in agreement with most of what President Devan Nair said in his address to the Association of Surgeons of South-east Asia. It is important that in every case the Eatient's welfare must be paramount, and e should be a participant
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    • 331 14  -  JIMMY LIM Singapore 2056 IN A stench-filled alley between Desker Road and Eowell Road, ladies of the night sit at doorways, assuming seductive poses to entice prospective clients. Not too far away, in Bugis Street, transvestites in alluring attire prance around to the lascivious
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    • 178 14 BEING an observer at the recent upgrading test conducted by the Singapore Taekwondo Federation, during which an incident occurred, prompted me to write this letter. Without doubt taekwondo has been popularised as a modern sport, though it still retains the
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    • 525 15 THE SINGAPORE montior KBfBfIWI WE CAN, if we want to be neighbourly, overlook the annoying incidents of inconsiderate behaviour by some among us. Put it down to isolated lapses in manners. By all means remain cool with the few smokers srsaking puffs in
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    • 411 15  -  TAN HENG HUAY Exec Asst Secretary (Public Relations) Housing and Development Board Y*UX recast editorial (ML Jaa 29) conMated that fee Hooting aai Development BoardfHDS) has, la am arbitrary way, baitt and offered (lata with rtwsiy Quit are not accepted by the
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    • 137 15  -  TAN ENG KIAT Singapore 2057 MY WIFE is a civil servant in a department dealing with the public. She was allowed to leave office after a half-day's work on Lunar New Year's Eve. All civil servants were allowed to leave
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    • 74 15  -  WILLIAM KOH Singapore 0314 AS A matter of curiosity, I would like the Central Provident Fund Board (CPF) to furnish us with the state of CPF accounts as at Dec SI, 1984, as follows: 1) How many accounts (active)? 2) Percentage of accounts below
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  • 1056 14  -  features By LEWIS M SIMONS Knight-Riddsr Newspapers TOKYO: Chizuko Ohyama, a 37-year-old dentist and mother of two, has had two abortions. In Japan, she asserts, a woman seeking to limit the size of h?r family has no alternative. "Since there's no
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 72 14 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wM 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
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 71 15 aSN "V LETTERS on any subject of public interest wW be accepted for publication. They should be typed and must be signed. They mutt also include the writer's neme and a«w to un peeudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be ueeful. We reserve toe right to edM letters.
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 385 16 Daily Mail HE'S beautiful and famous. She's even more beautiful and extremely rich. Together, they are currently tne pop world's most exciting new couple. They are, as any music fan below 25 would know, Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes and his exotic model wife, Julie Ann.
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    • 145 16 Philip Cheah THEATREWORKS Pte Ltd, the newly incorporated professional theatre company, wants talent for its first production in April. Titled Goose Pimples, this tragicomedy about unexpected happenings at a small dinner party will be directed by Lim Siauw Chong. The company needs about five actors
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    • Article, Illustration
      330 16  -  LOH; Clothes by Estique and Sketch boutiques Co-ordination by INEZ WEI YOU'VE had your share of festive feasting. But the sweetmeats and rich delicacies that you have put away over a few indulgent days have already turned into unsightly extra centimetres that you cannot hide. So, you
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    • 939 16  -  By BRUCE NIXON in Dallas LATWP EVERYBODY takes the power of advertising for granted these days, more or less. First of all, you take a brand of beer that tastes as though it's made from river water. Then you mount a massive television, billboard and
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    • 484 18 wmm [J@K«LW© Kennedy (Malay subtitles) (Last episode) (Ch 5, 10.10 pm) IN this final episode, J Edgar Hoover confronts the President and the Attorney General with the results of his investigations regarding the President's womanising. At the same time, the threat of tragedy looms over the
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    • 523 18  -  TV SCENE iminnlnnnriinrnnrnnJ By VALERIE TREVOR EVERY Tuesday and Thursday between 7.15 and 7.30 pm over Ch 5, various presenters appear on your TV screen with a story for young children. The series Share a Story has been running for some three to four
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    • 1089 19  -  By SHEILA BENSON in Hollywood LAT-WP SURPRISES? A few. Disappointments? More than a few. Overall reaction to this year's Academy Award nominations? The Academy is the Academy is the Academy, and nobody will ever get hurt on its cutting edge. In this year of studio
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1360 17 f7 A 3|\ THE SINGAPORE MONITOR leisure -TIV. A A,.; TUESDAY, February 2«, 1985 I U __j Q t 1 Live Sample Pages. 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The AHr k 1| Bp'iiP^HrJ Struggle (C) (r) (English subtitles). .»J 4.30 Story Time (T) (r). <9 iL L 4SS>W'4.55
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 555 19 fVLM ouioe JffWflVlviliM PLAZA (*****71) (1.30, 4, 7.30, 9.30): MR 800 MEETS POM POM (C) CLEMENTI (*****51) (1.30, 3.30, 7.15, 9.30): DALIT (*****16) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): MR GIRL STUDENTS' DORMITORY (C) 800 MEETS POM POM (C) nm npu /MAtAMt in l m 4 fi 45 9 3#v SUrrtoj: Terry
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 79 20 CAPITOL: Season ENDING SOON JADE: NOW SHOWING (*****80) 11am, 1.30, 4.00, 6.30, 9.00 No Free List Funniest ACTION COMEDY ot the YEAR... NOW BREAKING BOX-OFFICE RECORDS in AMERICA! (CHANCfc OPENS THURSDAY) He's been chased. i thrown through a window, and arrested Eddie Murphy is a Detroit cop on vacation in
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    • 329 20 Z (391)400) S SNOWS: 11m, 1.30,4.00, 1.30 ft 1.15pm X 5J CASH SOOWNQS/NO FREE UST/NO BUTAAY CONCESSION 5 2 BETTER THAN THE LAST! 2 9 THE MOST VISUALLY EXCfTMO BREAKDANCE FIJI 80 FAR g O J E OTR O O imw alii SWMMHIC •WW wunSr man I O O. IMS
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 167 20 LE PLAISIR ALLIANCE Francaise will screen Le Plaisir today at 9 pm, at the Cultural Theatre, Cuscaden Road. Directed by Max Ophuls, this film, adapted from a novel by Maupassant, is about the wonder and gloom of pleasure. Admission is free. H-MOLL-MESSE (MASS IN B MINOR) GOETHE-INSTITUT will screen H-Moll-Messe
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    • 624 20 CHINESE BRUSH C ISBBDE'VsMj 7~1 PAINTING EXHIBI- THERE will be a Chin- Si exhibition by Nanjiang Jf y fiA artists Li Yai and Shi W> £&S \cJHr if at the Yu jg for this month. SCHUTz" exhibition SCHUTZ exhlbiUon f will be held at the Goe- .afll Riff the-Institut Art
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 682 21 leisure comics «SfttSSJKW™ A "*1 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook PuiHß HSO'S, VoUTH f AMD WHAT ABotfT wnctto w THE io's T©wtf,B©6?Ho<dixtfs .MA mirror. w THE ttfc.ite' I 7 TH£V IWWfcD IT.. 11 THE !<tourH of THEaofc IV V W\l gg| f*^|jjJ^P M Rffttutp A&A'iJST IT/ J V iA VIEW AUTHoRTTV?
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  • FA CAI YÚ SHÉNG
    • 297 22 HAPPY Birthday! Even if you don't realise it, according to Chinese tradition, today is supposed to be your birthday, and everybody else's as well. The Chinese version of Genesis says that Man was created on the seventh day of Creation, and all Mankind should celebrate a
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    • 477 23 ON THIS seventh day of the Lunar New Year, tradition-minded Chinese will be trooping to restaurants to partake of Yu Sheng (raw fish), the name of which is a pun on the words "generating an excess", and other dishes with equally auspicioussounding names. SWATOW RESTAURANT
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    • 229 24  -  By LEE CHIU SAN CONTRARY to popular opinion, the eating of raw seafood is not a uniquely Oriental custom. The French, and the English, have been guzzling their oysters uncooked for years. And many Dutchmen have the ability to put a whole raw
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    • 287 24 RUMAH Melaka, a Nyonya restaurant in Far East Plaza, is serving raw prawns instead of fish for the annual Yu Sheng ritual. The new dish is known as "Har Sang" is priced at $20 per serving including salad and $10 for each additional plate of prawns. The
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    • 87 22 maa fuwb kstmrmt pie lib Wishing al oar pa trims, basiaMS associates and frieads a Happy aad Prosperoas Iwar New Year SPECIAL NEW YEAB DISHES fVoeperity Ram FM *Sbmksm with Cidbmemt Sw» Romt Cktekrn Steamed Fith Mtmhroom milh Pak CTioy Lok (Prwmm) Vsna wMfc Shrtaps Oyter with Seameed* Brocoat wan
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    • 89 22 aii Wishing all our patrons, business associates and friends a Happy and Prosperous Lunar J«l New Year. A Join us from the 22nd Feb to 6th March as igrj we 11 be serving Swatow's 'Prosperity Raw nPNI Fish and a host of Traditional Teochew fc dishes for the festivities. SWATOW
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 274 23 TOSS UP A K OF GOOD LUCK H^JHfl Enjoy our Good Luck Raw Fish (Yu Shcng) with special Chinese New Year menu at Pin Hsiang this festive season. Our special Chinese New Year menu prices from $250++ $300++ per table. The special menu include Yu Sheng, Melon Ham Soup with
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    • 66 23 ■Will k Our Dotty \fik iil Pomfrot Sambal ™*!V*'".' 1 x Steamod Crab Craws 2 Ayom Goreng \\^aT~-«-.m— /ir~"J.'' /fl 3 xiroy Ayom G Kombiog /SB Bk 4 Touhu Telor. ere X^BB| i\Wc eater for buffet, wedding dinner, birthday party and all occasions. Fully air-conditioned. 250 ample parking space. Business
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    • 48 23 Red Coral Restaurant PORTWORKERS' UNION HOUSE 140 Cantonment Road, Singapore 0208. J nresefis TTT Draught A. failaku i- rn 'wBIWO'w rWly Wl WISH YOU A HAPPY A A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR \ry LOONG YtCK KEE RESTAURANT wishing you all "LAO Ql" ftSM&± 31*32 Bugla Street Singapore. > :3W1T09 M
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 69 24 Ymmaarm Celebrate the Lunar New Year with SPECIAL RAW FISH Traditional Cantonese dishes supervised by Hool Kok Wai and specialities from our kitchen. ♦Hongkong Roast Chicken *Fried Deer Meat JtChilliCrab 1 Birthday f Wedding Parties, 1 buffet lunches and f private functions. I Live music and 1 songs for your
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    • 239 24 *<l May Fortune Smile onYou. Gelebrate the New year at the Yu sheng for dinner with shark's fin Noodle Garden Restaurant. Start soup, slewed chicken with yam, baked with "yu sheng" (raw fish salad) for pomfret, ahakmc and mushrooms, good luck and prosperity, then treat are some delights waiting to
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 533 25 van Classified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Sooday Monitor Ward* 0.35 crali per word 0.55 cmli pmr word Display $7.70 par cat. cai SlO.OO per col. cai Mmm Hrs Woo Frl. fm-ifo Sat. faa-lpa A 1 ACCOUNTMG 280 7777/ 2801 157. A ADO ALL 274 7474/ 221 7177. Looeeieof Books. Accounts.
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    • 214 25 Eating Spots tUPUNQ'S CHOP HOUSE, 15th Floor. Asia Chambers, McCullum Street, where Execukvee lunch In cooy ambiance Economically. Tel: 221 2639. FURNITURE/ RESTORATION/ REUPHOLSTERY ANNE FOO Sofa Centre 255 7280 GROOMING Beauty Aids M FACIAL FOR Gents 339 3311/2. MADAMF NCl's facial for problem skin 748 5016. Modelling MODELLING TEACHERS
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    • 270 25 Cleaning Swvlcti^ DRY CLEANING Carpet Servicee Cal Magna Dry 732 1234. Domestic Services^ MAIDS CAREFULLY SELECTED guarantee EngMah apeekrtg. No naad to deposit $5,000. Babysitters al rounders Cafl Inter Maraa (Mtaa Chin), Tal: *****90. Aflar office hours *****22, direct pagar 401 1932 (Mr. Tan). Interior Decor/ Renovation M I mm
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    • 336 25 PEN PALS GOOOLUCK FRIENDS CENTRE introduces ideal friends, lifetime partners oonfldsntWly. Plaeae aand stamped self addressed envelope to gat tew huvSeda members particulars See of charge to Brae Baaah P.0.80k 289, Singapore 9118. Tal: *****05, *****23 11am to 10pm. Reg No: *****1/OOC (Es« 1979) ARE VQUFEBJNG lonely, bored or hawing
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    • 549 25 NOTICES PUBLIC AUCTION CHAPTER 222 (rAWntWUKtKj) llMoonsstm of fold and sifcer ornament* teaeNerieselcplaitaed wimtfw lii[wniiii«i»lii|wwlhf«'*<>vp"Wir auchon Ban Hbi Pawnahap B>i 2 Jin Buiut Merah ******2 Baa Jaa Pawnahap B>i 1 TgPagarPlanNOl 15 iMUntaMiMp 296 Balesher Road ■■ilihiPamdiia Bfc 466 North Bntfeeßd ******7 FiiwLniMPaiiiirfiip B* 214 Bedc* North St 1****** fJ»l—»>■■■■!
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  • sports
    • 246 26  -  By ERNEST FRIDA SINGAPORE will send a contingent of 191 (148 competitors and 43 officials), representing 11 sports to the Pesta Sukan Merdeka Games in Brunei from March 24 to 31. S S Dhillon, the secre-tary-general of the Singapore National Olympic Council
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    • 102 26 ATHLETICS: 38 (21 men, 10 women and 7 officials) BADMINTQN: 9 (6 men and three officials) BASKETBALL: 16(12 men and 4 officials) BOXING: 15 (10 men and 5 officials) SOCCER: 23 (18 men and 5 officials) HOCKEY: 19 (16 men and 3 officials) SEPAK TAKRAW: 15 (12
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    • 464 26  -  By ALFONSO CHAN THE SQUASH Rackets Association of Malaysia has called for a re-think on the annual Ovaltine Salver match between Singapore and Malaysia which goes into its third year this Saturday. Association secretary Prasad Pillay, in an urgent telephone call to the
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    • 154 26 PARIS, Tuesday AN INTERNATIONAL tribunal hearing an appeal by Belgian race director Jacky Ickx, sanctioned for the way he ended the Monto Carlo Grand Prix last year, has ruled that his fine should be reduced but that his licence as a race
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    • 419 27  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO SOME run for fun, others run to be fit. We invite you to run for charity. Which is not to say you can't combine them all and run just for the hell of it When the Puma/Monitor 10km Charity Run is
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    • 206 27 CHARITY is reason enough. Your effort will help the Singapore Cancer Societv. 10km is not an impossible distance. There are attractive prizes to be won. Keep an eye out for this page every Tuesday to see the prizes we have lined
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      213 27 DAY 1: 20 minutes, jogging and walking. You start by jogging until you become short of breath, uncomfortable or unable to easily talk with a companion. Should that occur, stop and walk, again at a comfortable pace, until you fully recover. Then, jog again. Repeat programme for 20
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    • 527 28  -  By ANNE BARRY I'M GOING to discuss the subject of diet because although it's not directly related to sport, I feel it's one of the most important tnings that sports people should know. Vegetables, especially fresh ones, are very delicate items of food
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    • 531 28  - Shoes the runner's most important piece of equipment m r ON THE ROAD with Louise McGrillen THERE is a cardinal rule for athletes travelling abroad to race: "Always carry your spikes as hand luggage." There are light racing shoes for track and crosscountry running. The athlete guards them in the
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    • 448 28 Take it easy above all, enjoy yourself "The runner is like a child at play, his actions are an adventure in freedom and the only purpose of his breathless chemistry is to explore the limits of his own strength." Dr Bronowski's marvellous definition of a very primitive inclination of the
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    • 594 29  -  Chew HAKmba U REPORT: ALFONSO CHAN M T FIRST, squash was boring for Chew Kok Keene Ho was told to hit the ball on the wall for long stretches of time. It got to be ao be wanted to quit. Bat he never did because he simply
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    • 149 30  -  HITACHI 2 SBS 0 By ALFONSO CHAN HITACHI CONSUMER relied on old war-horses Arshad Khamis and Brian Batcbelor but it was AuYeong Pak Kuan who put them on the road to victory over Singapore Bus Services. Au-Yeong scored with a simple flick
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    • 463 30  -  Preview by B KULA $1 THE HEAT will be on TrenggS Malays when they take on pore Malays tonight (8) in second leg of the Sultans' Gold Cup at the Jalan Besar Stadium. Not only will they be up against a
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 540 26 classified s 273-9090 In tht Matter off tha Companies Act Cap. 185 And In tha Matter off PIK WAN RESTAURANT (S) PTE LTD PIK WAN RESTAURANT (S) PTE LTD (Incorporated in tha Rapublic off Singapore) (IN MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed company duly convened
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    • 428 26 NOTICES OFFICIAL NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME Notice is hereby given that in consequence of the intended purchase of a ship by our clients, Namibia Shipping Co Pte Ltd, we have applied to the director of marine under section 417 of the Merchant Shipping Act (Cap. 172) in
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 261 27 OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM CTurHßnDi: PUMA-SINGAPORE MONITOR 10 Km CHARITY RUN, HIIHIII 1 Sunday, 9th June, 1985 (Under lAAF/SAAA Rules) rlllllll IVILIIMIIvJtv (Only first 8,000 entries will be accepted) Protection Clause/ SURNAME MALE FEMALE In consideration of your accepting this entry, I the undersigned, CHRISTIAN NAME Intending to be legally bound,
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 56 28 WELL-BALANCE ROUTINE TAKE YOUR TIME AND ENJOY YOURSELF. RELAX YOUR MIND WHILE YOU EXERCISE YOUR BODY. ROWING MACHINES AND OTHER EQUIPMENT —7 SUPPLEMENT THE I BENEFITS OF V RUNNING. a fi •t jt'Himh a vW I > r <m s CALISTHENICS AND WEIGHT TRAINING ARE PART OF AWELL" 7 ROUNDED
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  • Page 30 Advertisements
    • 67 30 ONE WINNgfSCV NO COHTI Wherever people are serid£y/ f /La? about their football Asian Cup, or Malaysia Cup A// w r they choose the football |v/ they xJm I m 7, If I -I A soleAoentCSGUl PtOLtd flOlfiriQ Showroom: #81-19, The Orchard Point, Tel: *****14. S Sales Office: 554 Havetock
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    • 400 30 r Hp ii > ***** Bscsum of a break In fixj^PVW//'ißk turns, the coupons from last week are beXtA CONTEST Predid the score SjSM and win $14)00 1) The otopct of the contest is to predict outright If there ere more then one corcorrectly the scorehnes of six Malaysia rect
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  • 650 31  -  Schools' Council nominates her for Sportsgirl award MONITOR sports By K SILVAM SWIMMING Olympian Oon Jin Gee and Sportswoman of the Year Lim Seok Hui are among the 11 nominated by the Singapore Schools' Sports Council for the annual Sportsboy and Sportsgirl awards. Seok
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 71 31 "I^WAyA SatMDspamnant N-E Jafcn Pwnimptn. SwwPQf 2067 T1 *****77 The rugged D 300P can manage all the rough and tough activities of the active men. Ifs the perfect sport watch. fry. WS^^iaHm D 300P watch Alarm Stopwatch Water-resistant 30m Also available the LD 300P for ladies. SANYO EVERY MINUTE OF
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