Singapore Monitor, 27 February 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Wednesday. February 27. 1985 OUcents
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  • 591 1  -  By ANNIE CHIA INTERNATIONAL property consultant firm Richard Ellis is being sued for alleged professional negligence in valuing a piece of land in River Valley Road. The case is being defended and the trial has been set for the end of this year. Richard
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  • 231 1 LONDON, WMhMsday THE US dollar dramatically fell back from record levels on currency markets yesterday in highly nervous late-afternoon European trading, shedding more than six pfennigs against the West German mark in SO minutes. There were rumours of central bank intervention but dealers later
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  • home
    • 342 2 But not all complain about the weather HOT weather may raise tempers and laundry bills, but for sellers of cooling confections, it's a boon. Above-average temperatures in the past week sent customers scurrying to drink stalls and ice cream parlours. Swenson's, an ice cream parlour with shops in
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    • 70 2 IN THE Singapore Monitor of Feb 16 in an article headlined "Controversial unionist resigns from Mobil," it was stated that Mr Sodirman Ghani would stand trial on a charge of abetting for- sei7 of a receipt which showed that he had received $425 from a tailor. In
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    • 264 3 Lianhe Wanbao HU YAXING, 32, is probably the only seafood operator in Singapore who rents an entire HDB food centre. While others lament at the depressed state of the economy, Mr Hu is doing fabulous business with his 90
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    • 262 3  -  By K K FONG POLICE have questioned a waitress, who they say, might be the central figure in a counterfeit currency operation. They also say the woman in her early twenties has secondary school education and speaks fluent English. She works in a coffee house.
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    • 102 3 Lianhe Zaobao THE SINGAPORE Broadcasting Corporation is producing two 30-minute special TV programmes on original Singapore songs. The songs are "local" in every sense of the word from the lyrics, composition, arrangement, accompaniment to singing. According to Mr Fu Helin, a TV
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    • 936 4 MONITOR FEEDBACK k NATIONAL Trades Union Congress (NTUC) officials are perturbed by the fall in membership from a peak of 236,628 members in 1979 to 192,500 last June. Early this month, Mr Qoh Chee Wee, Member of Parliament for Boon Lay
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    • 537 6  -  By EE BOON LEE and LOONG SWEE YIN DR TAN CHENG BOCK (PAP Ayer Rajah) will kick off the debate on the Government's policy for the next five years when Parliament meets again on Friday. Dr Tan, a medical practitioner elected in
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    • 266 6  -  By JOSEPH LEE COLOURENT (S) Pte Ltd, which rents out televisions and videos, will be closing down its three branches and workshop at the end of this month. It will also retrench 14 of its 22 employees. The rest of the staff will be retained
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    • 425 6  -  By JULIE ANNE SIT THE INCIDENT in which 18 cars in a multi-storey car park were damaged and pilfered from was the climax to a series of crimes, say residents of Farrer Court. They say they have been plagued by such events for
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    • 137 6 IT WAS about the biggest gathering of Methodists in Singapore. Some 5,000 members and guests of the 11 Methodist schools turned up for the combined schools' parade and thanksgiving service to celebrate the Methodist Church's 100 th anniversary at the AngloChinese Junior College yesterday. Among
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    • 641 7  -  By YONG POW ANG TWO BIG questions hang over the impending increase in taxi fares which sained strong support yesterday from Singapore's biggest cab operator, NTUC Comfort. QUESTION No. i is whether indirect subsidies now granted to taxis will continue when fares are
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    • 205 7  -  By JOSEPH LEE Another pie tried to make a getaway while on its way to the abattoir yesterday. It was recaputured- but not before it had caused an accident. The short-lived escape began when the pig jumped out of a lorry on the way to an
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    • 389 7  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM DESPITE the business downturn, there have been some takers for Jurong Town Corporation's ready-made factory buildings in its Tuas, Woodlands East and Loyang industrial estates. The corporation offered fresh incentives in September last year, in addition to those announced in
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    • 44 6 CSgojvg Business I lours: 10.30 am to 12.00 mid-nighty /excelsior health centre\ 5, COLEMAN STREET, #03-09, EXCELSIOR HOTEL, SINGAPORE <H>l7. (TEL: *****06, *****33. EXT 1873^ Z" fto Planning your holiday? Get ideas on places and prices in The Singapore Monitor's "Go Places" page tomorrow.
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    • 287 7 f JACK'S PLACE STEAK HOUSE^\^O IS NOW AT HOTEL MIRAMAR \\l I (NEXT TO ISETAN, HAVELOCK ROAD) Hotel Miramar, an old name to many, I has undergone extensive renovation and become one of the great hotels with 350 rooms, I swimming pool, 4 levels of covered car park J with
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  • world
    • 373 8 300 fishermen held while fishing in their own waters, say Thais AP BANGKOK, Wednesday VIETNAMESE naval vessels have captured 11 Thai fishing trawlers and about 300 fishermen, who the Thai government claimed yesterday were fishing in Thai territorial waters. Mr Plodprasop Suraswadi, Deputy Director General of
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    • 210 8 Agencies LONDON, Wednesday ANOTHER 1,464 miners gave up Britain's crumbling coal strike and returned to work yesterday, but teachers held work stoppages that disrupted public schools across the country. The National Coal Board said the number of returning miners was the biggest yet for
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    • 287 8 Reuter LOS ANGELES, Wednesday NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister David Lange, replying sharply to criticism of his country s ban on visits by nucleararmed US warships, said yesterday New Zealand did not expect the United States to come to its aid with nuclear weapons.
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    • 136 8 UPI WASHINGTON,. Wed JOHN FEDDERS, chief enforcement officer of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, resigned his post yesterday after divorce proceedings revealed he beat his wife, SEC officials said. A spokeswoman for the commission said Mr Fedders submitted his resignation but gave no further
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    • 37 8 AP TOKYO, Wed A TOKYO company said yesterday it has invented a headband for car drivers that will emit an alarm like the screech of a subway train if the driver starts to dose. AP
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 70 8 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS Queen Elizabeth II (above) appeared with her right wrist bandaged at an investiture at Buckingham Palace yesterday but she still managed to extend her hand to more than 125 honours recipients -.and wield a sword to confer knighthoods on four
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      • 81 8 Roman Catholic Bishop Federico Escaler thanked the Philippine military yesterday for his dramatic rescue from Muslim rebels but said it has not changed his critical view of the government. Relatives and friends embraced Bishop Escaler, 63, as he arrived at Manila's domestic airport a day after
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      • 91 8 Rosemary Daniell, who has written a book about her bed-hopping adventures in search of macho men, says blue-collar men make better lovers. She's not the least enamoured of men who take a "cerebral, intellectual approach," saying they all have sexual problems. Ms Daniell, author of
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      • 99 8 John Huston's (above) latest work isn't a movie but a wine bottle label for Chateau Mouton Rothschild. Huston's painting for the label was commissioned by Baron Philippe de Rothschild and graces the winery's most recent release, the 1982 vintage It pictures a leaping ram the
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      • 77 8 While her husband held talks on affairs of state yesterday, a smiling Lidiya Gromyko visited St Peter's Basilica ana saw a fashion show in a medieval castle. The wife of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko did her sightseeing with Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Lunkov's wife Valentina, a Russianspeaking
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    • 301 10 UPI NEW YORK, Wednesday THE REPUTED godfathers of New York City's five Mafia families were indicted yesterday as leaders of an underworld ruling "Commission" that ordered executions of rivals and supervised mob crimes. Those charged included the bosses of the Gambino, Bonanno, Genovese, Colombo and
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    • 428 10 UPI ISLAMABAD, Wednesday VOTERS ignored a boycott call and turned seven members of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq's Cabinet out of office in Pakistan's first election in nearly eight years, final results showed yesterday The surprisingly high voter turnout 52 9 per cent of the
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    • 42 10 Reuter OMAN has asked Singapore to help launch its first ■ousing development proK amine, Omani Housing inister Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ghazali said yesterday. Mr Ahmed said housing and town planning advisers would be invited to Oman soon. Heater
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    • 188 10 UPI DETROIT, W«d THE OWNER of an insurance company, accused of firing an employee because the man had AIDS, stands to earn US$lOO,OOO (*****,000) from an insurance policy now that the man has died. David Piontkowsky, a lawyer for Tim Trueman,
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    • 369 10 Reuter BEIJING, Wed CHINA'S one billion people one in four of the world's population are producing, eating and buying more. A country whose economic inefficiency only a few years ago made it dependent on foreign grain to feed its people has, through radical liberalising reforms,
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    • 233 10 UPI BOSTON, Wednesday HUNGER in America is a sweeping epidemic affecting as many as 20 million people and can be stopped if only the Federal Government finds the "political will" to allocate enough money to food programmes, a new study says. T 'Hunger
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  • money
    • 435 11  -  Credi* management sources say delayed payments have risen 20 per cent By JANICE LIM ABOUT 70 per cent of the 3,000 retailers in Singapore are stretching their suppliers' credit terms by more than a month, according to members of the Singapore Association
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    • 51 11 NEW YORK, Wednesday THE NATIONAL Bank of Saudi Arabia is balking at providing more funds for the Philippines, holding up an agreement on the country's external debt problem, according to a Wall Street Journal report, but bank talks are continuing, a bank spokesman said
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    • 543 11  -  By JILL HUM SINGAPORE International Monetary Exchange (Simex) efforts to lure Japanese banks into the yen futures jit is bearing fruit. The Bank of Tokyo became the first Japanese bank "here to deal in yen futures when it traded about 100
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    • 143 11 SINGAPORE'S trade with Hong Kong in the first 11 months of 1984 amounted to US$2.2B billion (555.18 billion), making the Republic the sixth largest trading partner of the British colony. Singapore is also Hong Kong's eighth largest export market and her fifth largest
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    • 707 12 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday FOREIGN investors will be allowed a controlling stake in new industrial projects in Malaysia in a policy shift to make the country's investment climate more attractive. Announcing this yesterday, Deputv Trade and Industry Minister Haji Munyiadin Yassin said
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    • 264 12 PERTH, Wednesday HOOKER Corp Ltd has formally rejected Malaysian businessman Lee Ming Tee's A$l.7S (5|3.15)-a-share offer to acquire 38 per cent of the property group. Hooker's directors said in a Part B statement released to the Sydney Stock Exchange that the offer was "totally
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    • 463 12  -  By CATHERINE ONG DBS BANK is tapping the Asian market for up to 3 billion yen (about Ss2s million) through the issue of a negotiable certificate of deposit (NCD) denominated in yen. The Asian-Yen NCD, as the bank calls it,
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    • 333 12 SIM LIM Finance (M) Bhd has appointed several prominent Malaysians to its board of directors. The sixth largest non-bank-owned finance company in Malaysia, it was recently restructured to comply with the New Economic Policy. Tan Sri Datuk Wee Boon Ping, Datuk Mohamad Salleh Yusof,
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    • 125 12 HMLLSTgEET Reuter WALL STREET stock prices yesterday posted their best gains for nearly two weeks, largely because of new government statistics showing that the US economy is still healthy, analysts said. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 8.61 points to 1,286.11. Overall, gaining issues
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    • 55 12 THE STRAITS Times Industrial Index closed yesterday at 825.94, up 11.21 points from Monday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed yesterday at 415.31, up 5.05 points from Monday's close of 410.26. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index tell 0.0314 point to 134.0542 at the close, compared
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    • 105 12 AP NEW YORK, Wednesday THE US dollar surged upward again yesterday but then dropped dramatically after Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker panicked investors with comments about currency intervention. Mr Volcker told a Congressional panel that intervention by central banks was a useful tool in setting exchange
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  • PROPERTY SECTION
    • 423 13  -  By VINCENT FONG LEO PROPERTIES, the property arm of the Kuok Group, has plans not to push for the early completion of Tanglin Mall, a mixed commercial-cum-residential project with four apartments that has already been delayed by at least four years. According
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  • features / letters
    • 574 14 THE ROLE of the Peoples' Action Party (PAP) can be compared to that of a goalkeeper. If the team wins and he performs well, he seldom gets the credit. But when it loses, he is often blamed and criticised. What the
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    • 1059 14  -  By RANDOLPH HARRISON Orlando Sentinel QERMICA, Ethiopia: Ethiopian government and military officials are diverting food donated to drought and famine victims and selling it on the black market for profit. At this rendezvous point for camel caravans, merchants were recently seen openly trading food
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    • 538 14 RECENTLY I was surprised when my a Singapore Bus Service (SBS) officer called me to his office. He showed me a letter of complaint published in The Monitor (SM, Feb 1), which said that I had embarrassed a girl. Good heavens, I thought, it was
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 72 14 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wHI 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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  • opinion/letters
    • 470 15 MONTIOR ISSMHSn PRESIDENT Devan Nair has raised a few eyebrows with his suggestion that Singaporeans should be ready to sue doctors for serious breaches of medical standards. The spectre is immediately raised of doctors being too scared to give treatment in case anything
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    • 278 15  -  MONICA BEH Public Relations Manager Port of Singapore Authority WE REFER to your reply which accompanied our letter under the headline "Drop in ships calling here not due to delays in port procedures" (SM, Feb 13) and the comments of the Singapore
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    • 97 15 CITY Shuttle Services is to be commended for providing a new and bigger fleet of buses. However, deployment of these buses needs to be improved as most of them are used for Service No 8, which serves the Bedok residents and the
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    • 47 15  -  REPLY LOOI MEI FONG (MISS) for Permanent Secretary National Development WE thank "Commuter" for the letter "Bus stop seats need repair" (SM, Jan 26). We are pleased to inform him that the Public Works Department has taken action to replace the damaged seats.
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    • 244 15 RECENTLY there has been some publicity on the ambitious drama serial of the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), with shots of our TV personalities gamboling in the snow on location in South Korea. SBC's laudable object is, of course, to put Singapore in the
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    • 72 15 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 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 606 16 fsraRSTRUCKj GONG XI FA CAI! That was the greeting Chinese radio listeners heard in Britain and the United States during the Lunar New Year. A Hong Kong radio station teamed up with the BBC, Manchester Chinese Station and the American Chinese Network Service to present two special
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    • 1313 16  -  How SBC gets hold of your favourite song for you By VALERIE TREVOR THE one place in the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation where you are sure to find your favourite deejay or announcer before they step into the radio suites to play your requests is the record
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    • 487 18 Applause: Hollywood Musicals of Yesteryear My Qal Sal (Ch 12, 8.50 pm) THIS is the story of songwriter Paul Dresser's rise to fame. Set in the Midwest and New York of the late 19th Century, this musical consists of fine production numbers and splendid lyrics. Victor Mature takes
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    • 789 18  -  TV SCENE By MARGARET HALL in Hollywood IPS THOSE New York women cops Cagney and Lacey (on Channel 10 on Tuesday evenings) are revelling in the spotlight of success on both sides of the Atlantic. But if the American TV bosses had had their way, TV's
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    • 608 19  -  By PAT D'ROSE TAKE a lesson in laughing at the unfunny things that happen to us all in everyday life. Like the frustrating moment when someone jumps queue and grabs that taxi you've been waiting an eternity for; or when a friend behaves less than humanly. That may
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    • 1350 21  -  By ANNE CABORN in London OPA WHEN an actor arrives nearly 24 hours late for an interview, a journalist is usually prepared not to like him. When the actor is 23, successful and very rich, feelings can run higher. And then there he is, sitting in
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1554 17 io«gure mm :ml 27, IMS SBCTEXT Liv* Sample 1 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followad by This 1 Land is Mine (C) (r) (English subtitle*). Ifl^l 4.25 The Richard Simmons Show. rQi 4.50 The Animal flji This episode shows how animals take their medication. H[ There is also a demonstration
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    • 142 18 09/SSO Break the wind-trap that causes the pain •i 1 Acidity it only partly the cause of indigestion pain. Wind is the main culprit. When your delicate l stomach balance is disturbed, small foamy |i M gas bubbles distend the stomach—and as the IvV. pressure increases so does that 'full'
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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    • 814 20 CHINESE BRUSH PAINTING EXHIBI- Pf '.'IF 11 HON L J*. ON TODAY is a Chinese brush painting exhibition by Nanjiang artists J >> V, Li Yai and Shi Yong-Cheng at the Yu V- \ti/' Yi Exhibition Centre, Block 231, #03- T- w* 03, Bras Basah Complex. V, v Admission is
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    • 89 20 A GENERATION FACES CHALLENGE BUKIT MERAH Branch Library will screen A Generation Faces Challenge tomorrow at 1.15 pm at its lecture hall. The documentary examines the relationship between man and his environment and exposes the extent to which man has tampered with nature, all in the name of progress. Admission
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 621 22 leisure comics it«c FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook i§o*wFtPT 15 VW&rr, I'V awA&ioNAuV, /S x -~x MS TkfcUJS 1 CAMTDofT/ THtRt'S So MocH I How OfTthl /SO (OHMfcVERI im£«dvW ux*kjs rzt&o* andstkm* 1 Does THIS mutate I V To DO A Joe I P!Ltt> UP THAT I frfct HAPPEN, I ART
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  • 322 23 HOME SERVICE HOME FURNISHING Recent press reports on shoddy workmanship by some renovation contractors, might have made new home-owners cautious when looking for a reliable contractor. Shop around first before deciding on a contractor. And ask the advice of other people who have
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    • 208 24 I^M,———— PERSONAL CARE AND FITNESS g IVVQ Of course you are, nearly everyone is. food, not enough l/l I exercise is a sure f W way to make a big N. 1 fat problem. And V to be called "fatty" >J 1 wouldn't be nice for a I 1 person
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    • 311 25 Packers ft Movers^ RELIABLE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES available with labour supplied at cheepest rates in town. Please cafl 455 0215. HOUSE REMOVAL/ OFFICE removal transportation provided Please caN: Jagrai transport. 471 0959/ 471 0963 office hours/ After office hours: 777 0392/3. SCANFREIQHT 221 8970/ 220 2659. WINLAND FORWARDER *****17/8. Security Guard
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    • 472 27  -  By KEN JALLEH JR SINGAPORE Olympian David Lim is living life in tne fast lane these days with three personal best times in as many weeks, to create a stir among college swimming circles in the US. His rate of improvement has been so
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    • 284 27 KEEP A date with Singapore Olympians Ang Peng Siong, David Lim, brothers Oon Jin Teik and Jin Gee, and Chan Mui Pin and Junie Sng from June 27-29 they will be back to celebrate a happy homecoming with a splash in
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    • 277 27  -  By B KULA THE SINGAPORE Rugby Union (SRU) has decided to expose its local youngsters rather than the expatriates in the coming (March 30-31) Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sevens. The Union felt that since none of the expatriates stood out in the
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    • 219 27 Reuter LONDON, W«dn«sday THE PROMOTER of most of the fights of Northern Ireland featherweight Barry McGuigan has disputed a claim by a rival that he would stage a world title bout against World Boxing Association (WBA) champion Eusebio Pedroza of Panama in London. Stephen
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    • 144 27  -  By B KULA MR OLYMPIA 1984, Lee Haney, will be in Singapore to free-pose for five minutes during the Gold Bodybuilding Championships on Sunday at the World Trade Centre. Lee, who will be paid $20,000 by Gold Gymnasium for this performance plus
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    • 538 28 AP BELFAST, Wednesday NORTHERN IRELAND will attempt to break a 58year hoodoo today when they meet England in a Group Three qualifying soccer match for the 1986 World Cup. The Irish, who suprisingly reached the second stage of the 1982 finals
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    • 382 28  -  By ERNEST FRIDA THE PLIGHT of four former caddies of Seletar Country Club M Murugiah, M Balraj, K Muruthiah and Hamzan Yusof has virtually been solved following their application for membership with the Sembawang Country Club. They approached senior officials of the Sembawang Club
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    • 347 28  -  By K SILVAM SINGAPORE sepak takraw has been left without a home. And plans to stage a medal coup in Bangkok during December's South-east Asia Games, which include a $12,000 budget for training, are in jeopardy since the Singapore team will have
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    • 247 28  -  By ALFONSO CHAN SINGAPORE'S biggest karate show will hit town soon with pugilists from 10 countries, including the US and Japan, down to compete in the Shitoryu KarateDo Invitational Championships from Mar 22-23 at the Gay World Stadium.' Besides American and Japanese Shitoryu practitioners,
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    • 313 28 Reuter LONDON, Wednesday DEFENDING champion and world number one Morten Frost, who has struggled to find his best form this year, was given a testing first round in yesterday's draw for next month's All-England Badminton Championships. The Dane will meet Nick Yates of England, who
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    • 500 29  -  PRE-WORLD CUP ANALYSIS By S GULAM A MALAYSIA CUP victory should be Singpore's first step towards grooming a fine national team capable of taking on the giants in Asia, says Seak Poh Leong. Analysing Singapore's 1-3 defeat by Japan in last
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    • 494 30  -  SINGAPORE MALAYS 3 TRENGGANU MALAYS 0 By ALFONSO CHAN TRENGGANU Malays' "Little General" Ahmad Paijan felt the barbs of defeat bite hard into his pride as his team was sunk without a trace by Singapore Malays in the Sultans' Gold Cup match at Jalan
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    • 209 30  -  By B KULA TRENGANNU'S midfield sensation Ahmad Paijan didn't pass the doctor's stiff fitness test for the match yesterday, but he was fielded by coach Ahmad Rahman in the second half despite his thigh injury. Paiian had desperately wanted to play the full
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    • 308 30  -  By ERNEST FRIDA TAMPINES ROVERS have recruited six players to make up for the loss of six others who helped them win the National Football League Division One title last year. The newcomers are national striker Tay Peng Kee, who has switched from Geylang
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    • 175 30 FOR Singapore Malays vice-captain Manap Hamat, there was no Setter wedding present than the victory against Trengganu last night. Manap, who mil be marrying his childhood sweetheart Zarinah Ibrahim on Sunday, hopes Singapore will eventually win the Gold Cup as well.
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    • 403 31  -  $82,000 grant is first step taken by new special assistance team HOW THE $82,000 WAS SPENT By ERNEST FRIDA A SPECIAL assistance and training committee headed by Dr Tan Eng Liang has been set up to oversee Singapore's thrust towards the South-east Asia
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    • 66 31 Reuter MACAO: China's hopes of reaching the World Cap finals in Mexico rose appreciably yesterday when they crashed Brunei 8-0 in neatrsJ Macao. China, who were deprived of a place in the 1982 finals In Spain when they lost a playoff to New Zealand, now look certain to
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    • 164 31 I TRAVEL THROUGH TIME AT THE ROBIN'S TAVERN At the Robin's Tavern, SMASH (from the Philippines) will zap you with their latest upbeat tunes of today. And to take you down memory lane, SUNNY BALA THE MOON GLOWS will bring you back in time with their nostalgic croonings of yesterday.
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    • 113 31 ■r>vf>' v3B K» K-tsftr 0 n x^B ■MC%«yv^K. Trad* *****26 »nqutn«»:*****21 *****24 SPHUSGHE WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE PAGES Ahmad Paijan fails to stop Singapore Malays STONY ON MOC 61 DavM sets IHKf] three W^K personal best J times M STONY ON H PAOE26 HH—Ka Sepak takraw gets resettlement blues STONY
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