Singapore Monitor, 1 March 1985, Afternoon Edition

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    • 369 2  -  Reports by EE BOON LEE LOONG SWEE YIN and YONG POW ANG DR TAN CHENG BOCK (PAP Aver Rajah) told Parliament today that the People's Action Party leaders have to be honest to say to the people that "we had misread them" but they should
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    • 480 2 THE RECENT election results showed that the people wanted their rights as dtisens to be restored, said Mr J B Jeyaretnam (Workers' Party They were not so much complaining about the austerity of the Government It was a question of whether
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    • 97 2 TELEVISION history was made today when cameras were trained on MPs at work in Parliament for telecast tonight. The first to be captured on camera was the Leader of the House, Mr S Dhanabalan, as he strode into the debating chamber, followed by Dr Tan Cheng
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    • 201 3  -  New POSB accounts treble in a year By K K FONG OUR schoolchildren put more than $68 million in new Post Office Savings Bank accounts last year six times more than the previous year. And the number of new accounts was up by three-fold
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    • 63 3 THE Post Office Savings Bank has reduced its interest rates by 0.5 per cent on savings deposits up to $100,000 to 6.25 per cent per annum. Rates on deposits above $100,000 have also been cut by 0.75 per cent to 5 per cent per annum. The change
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    • 265 3  -  By IRENE TOH A SCHOOL principal was jailed for 20 months by a district judge today for misappropriating school funds. Yak Huang Tee, 44, principal of Kay Wah (Main) School in Sungei Gedong Road, admitted taking $37,029.66 between January 1981
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    • 155 3  -  By ROBERT COWCEICAO THE COMMANDER of the Republic of Singapore Navy, Colonel Khoo Ens An, will retire tomorrow, ending a 10 year career in the navy. The navy will hold a farewell Kade for him at the Brani Naval te this evening. The
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    • 153 4 POLICE have so far arrested a record 37 people for firecracker or firework offences, a police spokesman Assistant Superintendent Chan Choo uiap confirmed yesterday. The crackdown on offenders continues, with police receiving over 100 telephone calls daily about the illegal discharge of
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    • 525 4  -  *1 CATHARINE FERNANDO SINGAPORE entrepreneurs are planning to set up a private university in Australia which would «ve priority to our stuints and to those from Hong Kong. The project is awaiting approval from the Australian Government. The Australian, a newspaper, reported on Feb 14
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 91 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS BABY-SITTER Manonmani Subramaniam (above) is seen leaving the Subordinate Court yesterday where she is on trial for causing hurt to a child Georgina Melissa Yeo, then 19 months. The child died in May last year. The court was told that
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      • 51 4 FIFTY-FIVE ship repairers 49 of them supervisory and management staff were retrenched yesterday. Another 14S workers at Hitachi Zosen Robin Shipyard will be laid off at the end of this month. Twenty of the retrenched staff are instructors of the training department, which has been closed
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      • 57 4 FLAT OWNERS in Beverlv Hill condominium have threatened to withhold their maintenance payments if the developer does not improve security and ensure that the place is kept clean. The ultimatum, in the form of a petition signed by 51 flat-owners, was sent to Mrs Dorothy Chan
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      • 64 4 THE FIRST article on advanced conventional weapons systems published in the Singapore Armed Forces' monthly, Pioneer, goes By the formidable title, Automatic Radar Plotting Aids. According to the article, published in the latest issue of the magazine, a new generation of radar using advanced micro-processing
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    • 49 6 A TOUCH of the East adds a dash of cokwr to this British model posing la the China to wa area of Kreta Ayer. The gay rickety shophoases provide a sharp contrast to the toweriag skyscrapers ia the background. PICTURE: LIANHE WANBAO
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    • 347 6  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO SINGAPORE will eventually have to consider setting up its own specialist children's hospital, Dr Kwa Soon Bee, permanent secretary (Health) and director of Medical Services, said today. He said that once the standard of paediatric medicine and surgery in Singapore attained recognised
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    • 143 6  -  By IRENE TOH A FORMER waiter was jailed for four years by a district court today for stealing cigarettes and liquor from the Marine Parade Beer Garden and Coffee House at Big Splash, East Coast Parkway. Chia Keng Meng, 26, pleaded guilty to two
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    • 77 6 IN A bid to obtain business, the manager of an advertising firm allegedly gave $600 to the organising chairman of the People's Association Retirees' Club first anniversay dinner and dance, a court heard today. Wong Chin Kiat, 38, of Golden Eagle Advertising Consultants, was charged with corruptly giving
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    • 560 7  -  By VINCENT FONG and NG MING MING MARINA SQUARE'S three hotels, the Oriental Singapore, Marina Mandarin Singapore and Pan Pacific Singapore, have set room rates which they say are "very competitive" against top hotels in Orchard Road. Of the three hotels,
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    • 489 7  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM TELEX pirates in Singapore who have been offering cheaper services to clients in Malaysia and Singapore than Telecoms by Caking advantage of improvements in computer technology will be hard hit by an across-the-board reduction of telex rates
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    • 151 7 THE NEW reduced rates announced by the Malaysian Minister for Energy, Telecommunications and Posts, Datuk Leo Moggie, at the end of a visit to a Telecoms project in Tampoi, Johor, yesterday were: Asean (Philippines, Thailand Indonesia) Ms 4 per min (old rate varied from M 59.20 to M$ 12.30
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    • 274 7  - A W embarks on expansion plan despite the economic slowdown By JULIE ANNE SIT TWO NEW A W restaurants have opened within two days despite the raging competition in the fast-food business and the general economic slowdown. Bowater Food Systems Pte Ltd, franchise-holder of A W, has also projected the
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    • 202 8 Lianhe Zaobao ABOUT 95,000 self-employed people have been notified by the Inland Revenue Department to keep full accounts and retain records or their earnings. An official confirmed yesterday that this was the first time the department had issued such a notification. The note, sent
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    • 72 8 THIS CAE overtimed at Ganges A venae, near the junction of Indos Road, early today. Bnt the driver was lucky to escape unscathed, according to Traffic Police. There has been a number of similar mishaps near the spot and many of them were die to
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    • 171 8 Lianhe Wanbao A HOTLINE may connect the Registry of Vehicles to associations representing hire purchase companies and used car dealers. This is to prevent unnecessary losses to members of the associations when the negistry tows away vehicles which are more than two months overdue in
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    • 153 8 Lianhe Wanbao IN A CONFIDENTIAL letter addressed to its members, the Singapore Hotel Association has called for vigilance against fire. According to the executives of several hotels, the association's reminder could have been initiated by the recent Manila hotel blazes. But the
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    • 150 8 Lianhe Wanbao THE SINGAPORE Broadcasting Corporation is going out of doors again. It's going to Hong Lim Park, this time to celebrate the Yuan Xiao Festival (the Fifteenth Day of the First Month according to the lunar calender). The Live From Studio One programme will be
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    • 171 3 CBDtotheCity by the next day or your money back. SINGAPORE LONDON Speedbird Express is the only parcel service in Singapore which guarantees delivery of your consignment to London by the next working day. Which means that if we cannot deliver your consignment to an address in the London Postal District
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 275 5 Jhe family's choice. I w I I J*l7 New 1985 Lancer 1.5 GLX. r"v Y y From the only Japanese car maker to win wide side mouldings, halogen headlamps and Germany's Golden Wheel Award (1.5-2 litre more. With EC 15.03 anti-pollution specification. category). The new 1985 Lancer. The most New
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    • 104 7 H Wnrmm B, L jS© (ike.. .1 I Ladyhlll Hotel presents I I E-Zee at the Cocktail Lounge Now appearing at the Cocktail Lounge is E-Zee with Sherry; alternating nightly (except Mondays) with Candy. They're vibrant. They're energetic. They'll thrill you with hot hits from the world of rock, disco
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    • 212 8 Ruin and Regulatione: Prizx: This contort to open to al male and tomato Attractive prizes for all finalists. and Remanent rtosietonts of Singapore p.. iuu.t. ombt the age of 17 yrs and aboua rTh 35 Fab 18 B5 The Management of Parawavs Dtooo wi not be Feb 25 *85 Mar
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  • world
    • 365 9 Japanese soon to do human tests of substance that stops the disease in mice LOS ANQELES, Friday HUMAN teats will begin in Japan in about three weeks on a cancer-fighting substance that has halted carfcers in laboratory mice and could offer new hope to cancer
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    • 83 9 NEW YORK, Friday SUBWAY vigilante Bernhard Goetz may yet face attempted murder charges even though a grand jury only indicted him for illegal possession of the gun he used to shoot four ghetto youths. State Judge Stephen Crane said yesterday he would review secret
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    • 276 9 AP MOSCOW, Friday SOVIET President KonsUntin Chernenko delivered a short menage of thanks to Moscow voter* yesterday in a brief televised appearance that ahowed him grasping the back of a chair for support and fighting for breath between words. The five-minute
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    • 132 9 LAT-WP JOHANNESBURG, Friday A TOP South African communist who was once a leader of the military wing of the African National Congress was released from prison yesterday after serving more than 20 years of a fife sentence for sabotage. Dennis goldberg, now 51,
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    • 90 9 UPI WASHINGTON, Friday THE US Government has moved to ban all non-prescrip-tion aphrodisiacs because they don't work. There is "no conclusive evidence demonstrating the effectiveness or safety of any plant materials that nave been used historically for aphrodisiac purposes," a Federal Drug Administration spokesman told American Medical
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    • 370 10 MANILA, Friday THE GOVERNMENT Ombudsman ordered a search yesterday fpr five vital witnesses in the assassination of Benigno Aquino, as his widow accused President Ferdinand Marcos' government of using "political murder" to respond to dissent "Why is ours a country where private plunder
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    • 297 10 Reuter SHANGHAI, Friday CHINA seems to be relaxing its rigid one-child family policy after four years of sometimes draconian enforcement that sparked resentment, particularly in the countryside. A senior municipal family planning officer in Shanghai, China's largest city, said that in outlying rural areas up to
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    • 233 10 AP NEW YORK, Friday JAPAN and Australia will lead the parade in economic growth in coming months, a New Yorkbased research organisation said, with the United States lagging at the tail-end among the world's industrial nations. In the meantime, a
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    • 294 11 Eight police and a civilian killed as mortar hits canteen NEWRY (Northern Ireland), Friday EIGHT police officers and a civilian were killed an<l at least 12 people were injured last night when irish nationalist guerillas pounded a police station with mortar bombs, police said. A
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 104 11 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS SAMANTHA SMITH (above), 12, who toured the Soviet Union in 1983 at the invitation of Soviet officials after writing about her fears of a nuclear war, is going Hollywood. Her father, Arthur, said Samantha will co-star with Robert Wagner in
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      • 74 11 AN ATTORNEY for the wife of Peter Sellers says producer Blake Edwards waited until Sellers died in 1980 to make "The Trail of the Pink Panther" because he knew the actor would never have agreed to such a bad movie. Lynn Frederick, Sellers' wife, has
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      • 78 11 ELIZABETH TAYLOR 'nbove), who recently broke off her engagem .at to Dennis Stein, is in Britain "to throw a party for my Welsh family" the relatives of her late former husband, Richard Burton. Taylor had to stop and think a minute when asked how
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      • 75 11 THE REVIVAL of the legendary jazz recording label Blue Note brought out an eclectic crowd at Town Hall in New York, where 28 jazz artistes played for nearly six hours last Friday night. in the audience were Sting, lead singer for the rock group Police,
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    • 128 11 Reuter SYDNEY, Friday BRITAIN will continue arms sales to New Zealand although the United States had curtailed defence cooperation with Wellington because of its antinuclear policies, Britain's Minister for Defence Procurement, Adam Butler said today. He said he had told Wellington the dispute
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    • 195 10 Ah Aerobics Encounter at the KasMthe first of its KM! Saturday, 2 March 7.30 pm /M Jm Saturday,9 March 730pm Be where at! The action happening at the Kasbah, Mandarin Hotel, this Saturday night from 7 pm. Come and watch A the Semifinalists of the Castle's National Aerobics jjr Championship
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    • 177 11 Cjfmuii CJfxxl 'Promotion QiefThmmd returns jwK)gforious at < The c ßetcedere Marh 71d16,1985 «5P <■ 'ii i Mfr |L/ 1 Chef Roland Durand, hailed "Chef Extraordinaire' by Paris food critics, is back at The Belvedere. He is a winner of the 'Best Chef of France' award, and an esteemed member
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    • 965 12  -  By CATHERINE ONG THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has introduced an interest write-back policy for several finance companies that will have an impact on their 1984 and future profits. The Monitor understands this policy will not be applicable for the whole
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    • 276 12  -  By JILL HUM THE MONETARY Authority of Singapore (MAS) has given approval for an across-the-board cut in brokerage for all foreign exchange deals. It is also allowing banks and money brokers to freely negotiate discounts on foreign-ex-change transactions and Asian Currency Unit (ACU)
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    • 429 12 SMALL firms will be given special attention- in the Skills Development Fund's training grant scheme, according to the Fund's annual report for the financial year 1983/84. From 1980 to March 1984, only 1.5 per cent of the 50,000 small companies (those with less than 10
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    • 267 13 THE LOCAL bourse opened all round firmer this morning with strong buying support. The strong rally in the first nour fizzled towards luncn break, with only selective stocks maintaining the early morning gain. Second liner stocks were the main features this morning while
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    • 42 13 THE OUB Composite Share Price Index closed at 423.11, up 1.58 points from the previous day's close of 421.53. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighted Index was down 0.0090 point to 134.0760 in morning trading from the previous day's close or 134.0850.
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    • 122 13 HMLLSTREET WALL STREET stock prices closed higher yesterday, with most of the gains coming in a finalhour rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2.98 to 1284.01 and the New York Stock Exchange Index gained 0.27 to 104.93. Overall, gainers led losers 807 to 892. Volume
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    • 176 13 Reuter THE US dollar rose against most major currencies in quiet early trading following its recovery in New York. Dealers said although the Bundesbank was in the market briefly, the absence of Wednesday's concerted intervention by European central banks helped to push up the dollar. But the
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    • 312 13  -  By RODNEY HOBSON THE New Zealand dollar faces parity with the Singapore dollar after halving its value in four years. It closed here last night at SBl-01. Allowing for a spread between what the bank buys and sells at, those trading in New
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    • 290 13 Selected locks at midday. Market hue: higher Boustead 177/171 Cold Storage 2.71/2.72 FAN 5.45/5.50 Genting 5 70/5 75 Gib 2.42 S Haw Par 2.57 B Isetan 2.46/2.52 Jurong Cement 2.06/2.07 Keck Seng 2 II B Eaao 2.70 S Hume 3 10 B Inchcape 2 65/2.66 Intraco 2.30 S M
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    • 95 13 Your 8$ to ono unit of foreign currency Soiling Buying TT/DD TT DD USI 2.2755 2.2655 2.2565 sterling 2 4338 2.4117 2.4017 Australian 1.6179 1.5939 1.5789 CURRENCY NOTES 8$ to 1 unit US$ 2.27 2.25 NZ$ 1.05 0.98 sterling 2.48 2.38 Australian 1.65 1.55 Canadian 1.67 1.60 S$ to
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  • opinion / letters
    • 291 14  -  PATRICK TAY Singapore 0208 IN THE letter "Censorship doesn't square up with morals" (SM, Feb 26) a reader, Jimmy Lim, was telling the Censorship Board not to be too strict on books, magazines, films,' videotapes and records. The argument is not new:
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    • 388 14  -  REPLIES CHAN CHOO GIAP Public Relations Officer Singapore Police Force PLEASE refer to the article "Police check if urine sample tampered with in drugs case" (SM, Feb 15). The facts of the case are: On Oct 5, '84, about 11.40 am, a
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    • 439 14  -  JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Relations Officer SBS I REFER to the letter "Old buses that are out of place" by "Tourist's Friend" (SM, Jan 15). Fleet modernisation has all along been pursued with undiminished vigour by Singapore Bus Service (SBS). We are constantly improving
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    • 186 14  -  JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Relations Officer SBS I REFER to the letter "Bus driver embarrassed girl to amuse himself" (SM, Feb 1). We regret to learn of the unhappy incident and wish to apologise for the embarrassment caused. The driver concerned, has been
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    • 523 15 MQKIriaR IT LOOKS as if plans are being finalised for a taxi fare increase although the ministry involved has maintained silence on the issue. The question now is not whether fares will rise, but when and by how much. Price increases are never palatable
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    • 746 15  -  YEO TONG HAI Singapore 1955 MR GOH Chok Tong's recent dialogue with members of the community centres and Residents' Committees revealed a glaring fact which has not been properly appreciated before the superiority of consultation or dialogue to feedback. One who originates feedback, however sincere
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    • 78 15 I WAS shocked to realise that this year's issue of $10 silver coins, which bear the Chinese zodiac sign of the Ox, could be lifted up with a magnet. In order to confirm my discovery, I checked with several of my friends who had purchased the
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    • 163 14 LETTERS on any subject of public interest will 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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    • 66 15 A cV y v •ooapttd for pubBcaion. Thay ahouk) ba typad and mutt ba 6iyn«d. Th»y mutt alao tncJud* ttw wotar*» noma and addraai avan IT tha wdiar daddaa to uaa a paaudonym In prtrrt.'A oontact talaphona numbar would ba uaaM. Wa reaarva ma right to adtt tattara. Address your
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 181 16 Minutes POTENTIAL playwrights cm try their haad at the Playwriting Competition organised by the Ministry of Community Development. They mny also get to see their plays produced on stage in the following year's brume Festivnl or nnder the Piny Prodnction Assistance Scheme if their scripts are deemed
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    • 1300 16 KUO PAO KUN provides an anatomy of the recent Hong Kong Arts Festival AT least 18 people from Singapore made a special trip to Hong Kong to see its recent Arts Festival as I did Including a cultural officer from the Ministry of Community Development, two journalists and
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    • 499 16  -  TITLE: SHEENA QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE STARRING: Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Princess Elizabeth of Toro DIRECTOR: John Guillermin SHOWING: Golden Saltan Reviewed by WONG AH YOKE FEW movies provide as much unintentional comedy as Sheena Queen of the Jungle. That is about the best reason to
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    • 431 18  -  TV SCENE By WONG AH YOKE THE opening and closing ceremonies of the Pesta Sukan Merdeka Games in Brunei will be telecast live over Channel 5. The Games, which is open to all Asean member countries, will be held from March 24 to
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    • 483 18 Friday Night Movie Glitter (Pilot) (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 5, 10.40 pm) GUTTER is a dazzling weekly magazine which specialises in human interest stories. Headed by editor Mark Hughes (Van -Johnson), it is supported by a team which includes Shelley Sealy (Barbara Sharma) who is in charge of
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    • Article, Illustration
      556 19  -  AN AFFAIR GUARANTEED TO RENEW OLD FRIENDSHIPS AND WOO NEW ONES PAT D'ROSE OLD friends Tony Goh, Spencer Goh and Ricky Ho reunited last month and with a drummer, bassist and two back-up singers, have formed Heart to Heart, a band that revels in rock 'n' roll.
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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    • 61 16 FREE! A ROLL OF FILM FOR EVERVROLL PROCESSED. A free roll of 24-exposure Sakura colour film is yours with every roll you send in for processing at Singapore Colour Centre. Enjoy the benefits of quality film processing and the added bonus of 24 high-quality exposures, at no extra charge. So
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 445 17 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The Passenger (C) (English aubtitles). 4.30 Kids world.* Featuring s rsport on how horses sre trained, kids who piay big band jazz music, a fHmiet on man's early attempts at flying and an interview with actress Sarah The
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    • 831 17 THE 8MQAP0RE MONITOR FfUDAY, MARCH 1,1996 18 t W1 t hahi v> -mm A 0K K >1 > v V, < J* Slephuk Zinflnlht and Pierce fa Remtaftoa Steele (Ck 5, 9.45 pm) I 1 10.91 Quran Reading. 10.99 Programme Summary. 10.13 Setamat Pagi Malayeta (New* and Currant Affaire). 10.33
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    • 106 18 Ikxrk Cod itsßidou mm MARCHing right along, into VERY HAPPY HOURS TGIF is all set to become the beer drinker's paradise. Our bar-flies will be the merriest around town throughout March. Why? Just look at our happy hour beer prices for March! 1 Glass of Beer $3 Nett. 1 Jug
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 213 20 4s|9|£ ■r T J CHINESE FOLK DANCE WORKSHOP THE National Theatre Dance Circle will hold a sixday Chinese Folk Dance Workshop from March 15 to 20, to be conducted by Qiu Pei-Qiang, a dancer and choreographer from the Central Drama and Dance School in Beijing. The workshop will discuss various
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    • 318 20 *JJu! -jL The Japanese sarrender...oae of the photographs on display at the Exhibition Hall of the Archives and Oral History Department PHOTO EXHIBITION will be held at the Exhibition Hall, A PHOTO exhibition by Gerhard Behr Arch iv JPft**' entitled Children of this World, will be Street. until March 16,
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    • 76 20 EESH^BKI WELCOME NITE RADIN MAS Community Centre Youth Group will hold a Welcome Nite at its premises tomorrow at 7.30 pm. For further details, call *****21. HAINANESE OPERA TWO Hainanesl operas, entitled The Dog and the Golden Hairpin and The Missing Kite will be presented at the Chong Boon Community
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 504 21 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA The accent is on security, resi- September 23 to October 22 dence, family and ways of in- You make an advance in your creasing your income. A Can- business or career. The key is cer person plays a dominant organisation and
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    • 472 22 SINCE 1981, it has been the practice of the National University of Singapore to compute points for admission on the basis of General Paper, second language and the best 3% 'A* level content subjects. The university has, after consultations with the Ministry of Education and
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    • 201 22 THE JAYCEES of Singapore have been invited by Japan Junior Chamber Inc. to select two outstanding youths to represent Singapore on the Jaycees Youth Voyage. The 15th Jaycees Youth Voyage, to be held from June 1 to June 12, also commemorates
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    • 239 22 SMALL children and good vacations do go together, but fidgeting in the back seat, requests for yet another drink, and even a storm of tears can result from the boredom of a long ride. Here are ways tq keep the peace and make the trip a
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      • 356 23 THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUERIES WHERE CAN I purchase or borrow video tapes and cassettes on French and Japanese languages. I would also like to have French and Japan-ese-ipeaking friends. Are there any dabs, societies or non-profit organisations which I can approach for assistance? FRENCH language cassettes
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      • 55 23 I HAVE lost track of the "Break-Through" magazine. The last known address is P.O. Box 357, Ang Mo Kio West, Singapore 9156. The box has been closed. Could you tell me the latest address? Break-Through is no longer in circulation. The most recent issue in the National
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      • 115 23 I HAVE a close friend who was born in Singapore but migrated to Sri Lanka when he was a child. As he Is now stateless, he would appreciate it if the authority concerned could enlighten him as to how he could go about getting his permanent resident
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    • 455 23 THE DIFFERENCE between what you think you're saying and what someone may think you're saying can often be surprising. It can also be the source of great trouble in a relationship. To help couples solve communication problems, a group of behavioural scientists in Minneapolis,
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    • 135 23 AVOID starting a question with "Why?" It puts people on the defensive. "Why did you get here so late?" is apt to get you into trouble, whereas "Did you get held up on the way here? may get you an objective explanation. Stay away from over-responsible statements which
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    • 275 23 THE National Library and Mendaki will be organising a workshop for Malay parents. The* theme is "Read with your child." The purpose of the workshop is to guide parents on the effective ways of inculcating good reading habits ana promote tne love of reading
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    • 118 23 YOU THROW a party for friends and acquaintances, and your place is crowded. You enter your bedroom for a moment to find one of your guests searchins through a drawer. Don't lump to conclusions, but don't ignore the problem. It's possible that he needed
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    • 148 23 ICE-COLD lemonade is the perfect thirstquencher on a hot day. Making it is easy, and its fresh taste is worth the effort. Try the different variations. They are delicious! LEMONADE ft cup sugar 1 cup water 4 cup cold water Va cup freshly-squeezed lemon juice
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    • 519 26 FIVE NATIONS RUGBY UNION Reuter LONDON, Friday THE EMERGENCE of Ireland as a team of genuine attacking brilliance has provided an unexpected and welcome twist to this season's Five Nations Rugby Union Championship. Ireland, whitewashed in last year's competition, were unanimously tipped to
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    • 236 26 Reuter HONG KONG, Friday UNKNOWN American Mark Aebli fired a blistering round of 66 to take a share of the lead after the first round of the Hong Kong Open golf tournament yesterday. The 27-year-old Texan, who shot six birdies, came
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    • 133 26 TWENTY-SIX Teams from IS Asian countries have entered for the 6th Invitation Cities Asian Chess Tournament 1985. The nine-round Swissstyle tournament, which is sponsored by the Hong Kong Bank Foundation, will be held from March 210. Some of the teams include Adelaide, Sydney,
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    • 905 27 IPS While Britain's other double Olympic champion, Daley Thompson, is immensely and deservedly popular, and Steve Ovett has been continuing with his triumphs, too, Sebastian Coe has remained the golden boy of British athletics. Handsome, polite and polished, he has always seemed to exemplify
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    • 312 27 Reuter PHOENIX, Friday A COMPOSED and softspoken Zola Budd said yesterday she wanted to forget the controversies of her past and look to the future. Budd, in Phoenix to run in a 10-kilometre race tomorrow, was queried at length at a
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    • 127 27 AP LONDON, Fri BRITAIN'S Olympics sports programme will need a £6 million (5513.6 million) cash injection if the country's competitors are to provide an effective challenge for medals in 1988, double gold-medal-list Sebastian Coe said yesterday. As a member of the sports council,
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      • 95 28 THE PEOPLE AT THE SPORTSFRONT AMERICAN Bob Smith shot a three-under-par 69 yesterday and took a one stroke midway lead in the US$5O,OOO (S$105,000) Champions' Golf Tournament in Johannesburg. Smith's two-round total of 137, left him ahead of South Africans Simon Hobday, Wilbelm Winsnes and lan
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      • 100 28 SWEDEN'S Anders Jarryd (above) and Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia will be the top seeds in a US$2OO,OOO (5|420,000) international tennis tournament in Japan in May, the organisers said 'yesterday. Four men each from the United States and Sweden and eight women from six countries will
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      • 106 28 ASTRID Geisler, a 16-year-old Austrian, yesterday won the women's downhill event at the World Junior Ski championships. A total of 37 skiers took part in the championships' opening race on a 2,400-metre-long course from Mt Chopok in the low Tatra mountains. Geisler placed first in one
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    • 281 28 Hot-headed American fined for swearing at his opponent Reuter HOUSTON, Friday TOP-SEEDED John McEnroe was fined U5|2,500 (555,250) yesterday for swearing at Poland's Wojtek Fibak while rallying to gain the second round of the U*****,000 WCT Houston Shootout Tennis tournament. In an explosive match that was
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    • 185 28 AP NEW DELHI, Fri INDIAN Davis Cup captain Viiay Amritraj said yesterday he is setting up a tennis academy in his home city of Madras to train young players. "Our goal is to try to produce as many world class players as we can," Amritraj
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    • 421 29 FRIDAY FORUM WITH the quarrel between Singapore Amateur Athletics Association and the Singapore Sports Council seemingly behind them, the two bodies should now pool their resources to field a strong team for December's South-east Asia Games in Bangkok. Both parties called a
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    • 189 29 AP LONDON, Friday ENGLAND'S soccer team already may be half way to next year's Mexico World Cup finals, after its 1-0 victory over Northern Ireland in a qualifying match in Belfast. But the national sporting Press was unimpressed yesterday by the manner of the
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    • 730 30 Reuter LONDON, Friday DIDIER SIX followed his smart tracksuited team-mates out of the Aston Villa coach dressed in an ageing sweater and faded jeans. After five months as the first Frenchman in English soccer, the international winger has lost none of the
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    • 221 30 AP CALQARY (Canada), Friday PROFESSIONAL soccer, hockey and tennis olayers under the age of 23 could compete in the 1988 OlymSics under a proposal approved by the International Hympic Committee's executive board. Juan Antonio Samaranch, the lOC president, in announcing the decision by the
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    • 240 31 Two top Chinese players expelled after repeatedly flaunting the rules Lianhe Wanbao BEUINQ, Friday TWO BUDDING Chinese shuttlers have been exEelled from the national training camp and reeved of their status as representatives of their country. They are He Shangquan and Yang Kesen. He, a 24-year-old left-hander, is
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    • 363 31 MALAVERIS KUALA LUMPUR, Friday THE MALAYSIAN Armed Forces soccer team had lodged a police report that a bookie had attempted to bribe one of their players before their Malaysia Cup tie against Trengganu at the Lumut Stadium on Feb 3. According to a report
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