Singapore Monitor, 4 March 1985, Afternoon Edition

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  • 19 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR p FEVENiNu* I EDITION; M C (Pi No. 21 584 i Monday, March 4. 1985 30cents
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  • 648 1  - 1984 THE GOOD YEAR THAT WAS... 1984 ECONOMIC SURVEY ■y CATHERINE ONG SURGING exports and rising productivity helped carry Singapore through a difficult 1984 but things won't be so good this year. This message spelled out several times in recent weeks is underlined in the latest report on the nation's
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  • 130 1 BAN SMOKING in all the government departments. It is time for the non-smokers to stand up for their right to clean air. Dr Ho Tat Kin (PAP-Boon Teck) got Mr S Dhanabalan, MP for Kallang and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Community
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    • 629 2 ECONOMIC SURVEY OF SINGAPORE 1984 THE 8 PER CENT expansion in global trade, the fastest since 1976, enabled the Singapore economy to grow at a creditable 8.2 per cent. Growth in output in the first half lost its momentum in the last
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    • 146 2 GROSS National Product (GNP) measures the income earned by the residents of a country includingforeisners working and living there. As highly dependent on foreign expertise and investment, a large proportion of the uNP is contributed by foreign individuals and companies. To ascertain the
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    • 114 2 1—2 19*3 1984p 1982 1913 1 1964p IfldUStry Percentage >n Harnantana |J uontnoution 10 rtrcfVui96 Of Growth OOP Qrowth TOTAL 100.0 100.0 100.0 6.3 7.9 8.2 Goods Sector 8.1 28.3 32.3 0.3 2.2 2.6 Agriculture Fishing -1.1 0.2 0.4 -0.1 Manufacturing -17.6 4.8 18.6
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    • 168 2 1.8 billion invested in high-growth industries INVESTMENT commitments remained high at $1.8 billion. Foreign and local investors continued to pump money into high growth and profitable industries such as computer peripherals, electronic components, oilfield equipment, chemicals, and aircraft servicing. The higher quality investments was reflected in the SO per cent
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    • 45 3 SINGAPORE'S official reserves stood at $22.7 billion as at the end of last year. This would enable Singapore tb finance almost five months of total imports or six months of retained imports at current levels, according to the 1984 Economic Survey.
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    • 155 3 IfO I 1M1 I 1M2 I 1M3 I 1H» C Untr NreMtagt Chuf Owr ftfvtew Y—r Total OECD 1.2 2.0 -0.3 2.6 4.8 United States -0.2 3.0 -1.9* 5.7 6.8 Japan 4.9 4.0 3.0 3.0 5.8 West
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    • 54 3 SINGAPORE'S balance of payments rose by $1 billion to a $3.2 billion surplus last year due mainly to a recovery in direct foreign investment as well as large inflows of capital. This strengthened the local dollar against most currencies. Against the US dollar, it remained relatively steady, hovering
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    • 47 3 THE country's trade deficit narrowed substantially from $13 billion in 1983 to $10 billion last year. The United States continued to be Singapore's top trading partner taking up 17 per cent of the total trade. Malaysia and Japan took second and third positions respectively.
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    • 87 3 GROSS national savings were up 14 per cent last year from $14 billion to $16 billion. Capital from foreign sources including retained profits of foreign firms rose 2 per cent from $2.09 billion to $2.14 billion. Together, they led to a 13 per cent gain in gross capital
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    • 363 3 DESPITE the strong Singapore dollar, exports in 1984 remained competitive as the workforce was more productive. Besides, domestic prices also remained stable, according to the 1984 Economic Survey. Total exports expanded by 11 per cent to reach $51.3 billion, largely due to
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    • 131 3 H Total Imports Exports Domtstic Trad* Total Imports Exports Domastic Trad* Exports Batanco Trad* Exports Owtr Erawlaiia Ymt United States 19,215 8,923 10,292 7,920 1,369 11 -1 23 32 Malaysia 17.504 9,100 8,324 3,533 -856 4 6 3 -2 Japan 16,025 11,218 4,807
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    • 488 3  -  ECONOMIC SURVEY OF SINGAPORE 1984 By EE BOON LEE BANKS have been specifically told by the Trade and Industry Minister, Dr Richard Hu (right), not to panic in the face of the difficult economic situation. In particular, they were urged not to impose
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    • 678 4  -  Need to help them during economic downturn, say MPs Reports by EE BOON LEE YONG POW and LOONG SWEE YIN CALLS WERE made in Parliament today for the Government to review the overheads of companies, such as their contributions to the Skills Development
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    • 140 4 THE ABSENCE of Mr M P D Nair of the Workers' Party from the first two sessions of the Sixth Parliament on Feb 25 and March 1 respectively was i.-oted by the Speaker this morning. Dr Yeoh Ghim Seng SAP Joo Chiat) said r
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    • 92 4 THE HOUSE today also approved Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew's request that questions for oral answers be allowed to be dealt with in' the afternoon session. Mr S Qhanabalan, leader of the House, who spoke on behalf of the Prime Minister, said Mr Lee found
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    • 359 4 THE Government should open up school fields in housing estates to cater to the recreational needs of the low-income residents and old folk. Mr Philip Tan, (PAP-Paya Lebar) said the present recreational facilities were not enough for the low-income group because they were
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    • 195 4 MR YEO Toon Chia (People's Action Party Ang Mo Kio) suggested in the House this morning that Central Provident Fund savings be used to help finance the building of homes for the aged. Mr Yeo gave this proposal when he resumed
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    • 447 5 Illegal copiers get Hong Kong shows here in 14 hours Lianhe Wanbao PIRATE video tapes of Hong Kong television soap operas are now available in Singapore ana Malaysia within 14 hours of being shown in Hong Kong. The pirates facing tougher competition from legal operators have streamlined
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    • 130 5  -  By SURESH NAIR A 24-YEAR-OLD Japanese man was killed on the spot after his car crashed into a bus-stop near Westlake Secondary School in Braddell Roaa last night. Police identified the driver as Mr Numata Michio of Apartment Block 217,
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    • 260 5 THE REDEVELOPMENT project for the clubhouse of the Singapore American Club at Scotts Road is facing a crisis. A development charge of fll.B million has been levied on the protect, while the club was expecting only anout $1.5 million. This is
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    • 97 5 BUGIS Street is likely to conjure horrific memories for a 31-year-old Gambian seaman after he was mugged by three men early yesterday morning. Police said Mr Jammeh Abdou, who was in SingaKre on transit from Bomy to Jakarta, lost about $14,000 to his assailants after
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 112 5 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS APPLES and pears that's the latest on the jogging scene. Tne Apple and Pear Run, to be held on March 17, aims to encourage people to get plenty of exercises and a diet high in fruit and greens.
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      • 89 5 FENG BAOBAO.weII known to Chinese audiences years ago as a child actress, has agreed to do a new TV serial on another famous woman in Chinese history. Miss Feng, who shot back to fame recently after a long absence from show business with her highly-acclaimed
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    • 124 3 Lunar NewTfear Celebrations with the Meisan Difference v»* !BB!9 .<* k"' Usher in the Year of the Ox with a Good Fortune feast of fresh, delicate Raw Rsh or "\li-Sheng"; tossed with special ingredients, in true Chinese tradition. Complement it with other prosperity dishes Superior Sharks fin with Brown Sauce,
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  • world
    • 3590 6 LAT-WP THE FIRST clear and specific signal that radical change in the Ameri-cau-Philippine relationship was ahead actually came in December 1980, during the interregnum between President Ronald Reagan's election and his firstterm inauguration. Mrs Imelda Marcos, the high-living wife of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos,
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    • 248 8 UPI NEW YORK, Mon A MEMBER of the Gambino crime family has become the new godfather of the New York underworld because of recent indictments against the leaders of the Mafia, the Daily News reported yesterday. The newspaper quoted unnamed law enforcement sources saying John
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    • 606 8 SANTIAGO, Monday A POWERFUL earthquake struck central Chile yesterday, killing at least 82 people, injuring more than 1,000 ana causing the collapse of bridges, houses and churches filled with worshippers. The earthquake, which registered 7.4 on the Richter scale, struck at 7.48pm and lasted
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    • 115 8 Reuter LOUISVILLE, Monday A 90-MINUTE operation to stop internal bleeding in Murray Haydon, the world's third artificial heart patient, was termed a success today by doctors. Hospital spokesman Mr Robert Irvine said Mr Haydon, 58, who received a mechanical heart on Feb 17, spent a
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    • 136 8 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Monday THE EMPLOYMENT (amendment) Act 1984 which among other things provides maternity protection for women workers came into effect on Friday. Labour Minister Datuk Mak Hon Kam said in a statement here on Saturday that with the enforcement of the amendment which was gazetted
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    • 281 8 UPI NEW YORK, Monday A MAJORITY of Americans support subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz and one out of four said they also would use deadly force to defend themselves, a poll showed vesterday. The Gallup Organisation, in a copyright poll for Newsweek magazine, interviewed 1,009
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 123 8 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS GILLIAN LYNNE, choreographer of all five "Cats" companies, says her mother was determined that the staid family attitude that kept her from a stage career would not hinder tier daughter. Lynne, a native of just south of London, says
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      • 142 8 ANNE MURRAY (left) has had hits on'the music industry's pop, middle-of-the-road and, most recently, country charts and she hates the idea of categorising her songs. "Every time I open Billboard magazine there's a new category black mothers from Memphis," she said. "I alwavs objected to being categorised
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      • 144 8 ROCK SINGER Bob Geldof, who organised the British rockers who made the "Do They Know It's Christmas" record to help the starving in Africa, slammed the hangerson who feasted on "vast bowls of food and caviar" while America's best pop talent recorded a song for
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      • 63 8 MR JOHN De Lorean (left), the one-time car industry wizard who was cleared of cocaine trafficking charges, signed a contract with Zondervan Publishing House to publish his autobiography. Neither the publisher nor Mr De Lorean, who had taken out advertisements asking for donations to h
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      • 62 8 FIRST LADY Nancy Reagan will spend much of this month on the road and has a dinner date in New York Tuesday with Britain's Princess Margaret. She also will go to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to tour a juvenile centre and talk about drug abuse, visit her mother
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    • 110 7 TOMORROW: THE CRISIS TO COME Leßescadau Restaurant Provencal Buffet —A La Carte *1985' Lunch at $19.85++ From 14 Jan '85 Onwards Consider a table laden with superb hot and cold appetizers, generous cold meat cuts, crispy, garden-fresh vegetables. A selection of pipinghot main courses plus a perfectly done roast, (different
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  • money
    • 981 9 Western bias and ignorance of the cultures hinder trading opportunities LAT-WP LOS ANQELES, Mod WHILE on a business trip to China in the early Thirties, businessman Albert Quon's wife and the couple's four-year-old granddaughter paid a visit to a busy Shanghai marketplace. The
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    • 124 9 PK CHRISTIANIA Bank (SEA) will lead in managing a U5514.13 million (5531.1 million) term loan and performance bond for Burdet International Inc, a Liberian company. The issues will enable Burdet International to buy a 230,000 dwt turbine tanker and convert it for use
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    • 281 9 LAT-WP NEW YORK, Monday THE NEW YORK Stock Exchange (NYSE) will pump at least US$lO million (Ss22 million) in capital into the Pacific Stock Exchange over four vears but would dominate the smaller exchange's board of directors, according to a
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    • 166 10 EUROPEAN Asian Bank (Eurasbank) has named MR FREDERICK J A BROWN General Manager of the Singapore branch. He succeeds DR HANS-MARTIN KQNRAD who has been appointed General Manager of the Hong Kong branch after a five-year assignment here. Mr 3rown, who headed Eurasbank Singapore from 1976 to 1980,
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      543 10 BANK OF AMERICA, Singapore, has promoted MR DONALD W BUSH to Vice-President and Manager of its Jurong Branch. Concurrently, MR ANDREW K T GOH has been promoted to Vice-President and Senior Credit Officer of the Jurong Branch. Mr Bush succeeds Mr Eddie S K Lee who has
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    • 248 10 Selected stocks at midday Market tone: higher Boustead 180/182 Cold Storage 2.70/2.72 F N 5.60/5.65 Genting 5.75/5.80 GIH 2.50 S Haw Par 2.57 S Isetan 2.50/2.56 Jurong Cement 2.08 S Keck Seng 2.24 B Esso 2.68/2.71 Hume 3.34 S Inchcape 2.68/2.70 Intraco 2.28 S M Cement 1.48/1.50 Metro 4.70/4.74
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    • 229 10 THE LOCAL bourse opened firm this morning with quality buying by institutions. It closed steady at the lunch time break. Pan-El did the top volume of 1.36 million to close at $3.24, followed by Pah Inv's 550,000 at 90 cents and fromet's 493.0(H) at $1.53.
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    • 43 10 THE OUB Composite Share Price Index closed ai 427.99, up 5.51 points from the previous day's close of 422.48. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade Weighted Index was down 0.2469 points to 133.7309 in morning trading from the previous day's close of 133.9778.
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    • 192 10 Reuter THE US dollar rose slightly compared with last Friday's New York levels in quiet and nervous early trading. Dealers said sentiment for the dollar remained bullish but fears of concerted central bank intervention kept most operators on the sidelines. The US dollar rose to 260.55/65 yen
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    • 94 10 Your 8$ to ono unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/DO TT DO USf 2.2785 2.2685 2 2595 sterling 2.4824 2.4604 2.4504 Australian 1.6262 1.6021 1.5871 CURRENCY NOTES S$to 1 unit US| 2.28 2.25 NZ| 1.05 0.95 sterling 2.50 2.40 Australian 1.65 1.55 Canadian 1.67 1.60 S$ to 100
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    • 96 10 ADVERTISMENT STATE DISTRIBUTORS Golden opportunity for Electrical Dealers and those who want to start their own business. Our company seeks, new breed of dealers who possess the following qualities:- Thorough knowledge in direct selling especially small electrical appliances. Ability to recruit and train sales personnel. Possess some capital to start
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  • open line
    • ANSWER BOX
      • 133 11 THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUERIES MY MOTHER has cancer. Recently two lamps appeared on her thigh but the doctor said there was nothing he conld do about them as they did not hart her. I would like to know if farther tests are required to ascertain whether
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      • 56 11 I AM a Filipino maid. I wish to communicate with the director of the Geylang Catholic Centre. Could you please give me his full name and address? THE director of the Geylang Catholic Centre is Mr Guilaume Arotcanera. His address is 62, Lorong 24A, Geylang, Singapore
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      • 103 11 I WAS granted Permanent Resident (PR) status in 1981 on the condition that I continue working in Singapore for a period of four years from the date the status was granted. Once the four-vear period expires, can I leave Singapore tor an indefinite period and still
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      • 103 11 I HAVE just moved to a three-room Oat on the third level and I have found two disadvantages. Besides the Inevitable load vehicle noise, especially motorcycles, there is something even more unbearable mosquitoes! In the middle of the night, without fail, the mosquitoes will swarm my house.
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      • 140 11 I HAVE a small personal account with the Post Office Savings Bank (POSB). What happens if I die? THE savings bank does not issue beneficiary forms to depositors. If a depositor dies, the money in his account will be paid to the personal representatives who have
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      • 55 11 Something troubling you. Need clarification on certain issues? Let us help. Send your queries to us and we will try to get the relevant authorities or organisations to provide the answers. Send your questions to: Open Line, The Singapore Monitor, 2 Alexandra Road, #03-01 Delta
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    • 233 11 DO YOU KNOW what young Singaporeans really think ot themselves? For those who don't, a forthcoming book supported by Mobil will open a window into the world of young people. The Singapore Council of Social Service is planning to commemorate 1985 as the
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    • 630 11 OBEY the law and lessen your chances of being involved in a traffic accident. Practise the habits of a good road user. Defensive driving requires a driver to: CONSTANCY bear in mind the existence of road hazards, that is, any circumstance which would cause
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  • features
    • 563 12 CAMBODIA AP ARANYAPRATHET: Three options, all of them grim, face the more than a quarter million Cambodians living in sprawling, tented camps inside Thailand. They may continue their present, primitive existence under plastic sheets and bamboo without hope of permanent homes. They
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    • 562 12 AP BHOPAL: It is springtime in Bhopal and new green leaves have sprouted again on the trees. A visitor who didn't know what happened on Dec S, when tne leaves shrivelled overnight, might take it for any other Indian city where life
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    • 224 12 UPI NEW YORK :THE BIRTH control pill, the disposable diaper, video recorders and the credit card were among the best 25 products of the last quarter-century, a department store tycoon said last Thursday. Writing in the 25th anniversary issue of Consumer's Digest magazine, Mr
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    • Article, Illustration
      204 12 A highly reactive chemical composed of cutnn, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygon, forming colorloss liquid II combines with other chemicals to produce products, mostly insecticides and herbicides. It is less toxic than cyanide. Toxicity is greatly reduced when mixed with water or ammonia It has been produced by
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  • opinion/letters
    • 507 13 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT IN MANY areas of Singapore, a quiet phenomenon is taking place. It has Become so much a part of the landscape that people hardly take notice of it. This is the return of the illegal hawkers. Walk across town centres, and
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    • 1090 13  -  Singapore Medical Association replies to President Devan Nair's 'sue bad doctors' speech Dr N K YONG President Singapore Medical Association IN THE President's speech at the opening ceremony of the Fifth Biennial General Scientific Meeting of the Association of Surgeons of South-east Asia on Feb
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    • 77 13 LETTERS on any subject oI pubic interest w» bo accepted for publication. They should be typed and muet be signed. They must aieo Include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to uea a paeudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be ueeluL We reserve the
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  • leisure
    • 892 14  -  g0§jifam&& Reviews by LIM SEK ALBUM: FOR YOU, I SING ARTISTE: Jenny Tseng LABEL: CBA 151 (CBS) THE past is buried. Jenny has probably said all she needed to say on her last album, Lonely Again. On this one, there is no place for tears or soppy
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    • 197 14 THE top 10 pop singles in the US, as rated by Cashbox, with last week's positions in brackets: 1. (1) Careless Whisper Wham (Colombia). 2. (2) Easy Lover Philip Bailey and Phil Collins (Colombia). 3. (5) California Girls David Lee Roth (Warner Brothers). 4. (4) Loverboy
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    • 1287 14  -  FIFTH NATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION ATTRACTS 265 ENTRIES By VIOLET OON SINGAPORE'S top music students are in a frenzy of music making for the National Music Competition, which begins on Friday. The competition, which is in its fifth year, is organised by the Ministry of Community Development and the
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    • 717 14  -  By WONG AH YOKE SKETCHES should be kept short, for brevity is what often makes their punchlines work. The current sketch act put up by a group of undergraduates at the Bistro Toulouse-Lautrec is kept at just half an hour. "Half an hour is just
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    • 458 16 Real Live# Poisoned City: Bhopal (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 12, 8 pm) THIS programme looks back on the Bhopal industrial disaster which occurred on Dec 3, 1984, and measures the human cost of the tragedy. The extent of the disaster is examined through still photographs, interviews with
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    • 684 16  -  TE N E By FRANK SPOTNITZ in N«w York UPI MUSIC videos, featuring rock stars mouthing the words to their songs, have dramatically changed the face of American pop culture. Since the music video wave began on television three years ago, the clips have
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    • 418 17  -  #y WONG AH YOKE THE works of the late Francois Truffaut will be screened at the Cultural Theatre on every Tuesday this month. The tribute to the French director and critic is presented by the Alliance Francaise de Singapour together with the French Embassy. Four
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1195 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR leisure monoav, march 4,1995 IV- j 2.30 SBCTEXT Liv« 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Princess Chang Ping (r) HRPr 3.55 Cousin Phillis (Part two).' PRPP P 4 50 Benjamin Citizen of Two 4 1 I This programme provides an insight into Benjamin Franklin's eight years
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 529 17 fiiM ouioe HOLLYWOOD (*****64) (1, 3.30, 7, 9.30): MR 800 MEETS POM POM (C) DALIT (*****16) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30. 9.30): THE MAS- SkoW: LU(^ Y r A? S -IQ.. TER STRIKES BACK (C) B LIWAQU (*****30) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): MR 800 MEETS POM POM (C) METROPOLE (*****27) (1.30, 3.30,
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 311 18 Si tIREZ SUR LE PIANIBTE ALLIANCE FEANCAISE DE SINGAPOUR will screen Tirez Sur Le Pianiste at the Cultural Theatre, Cuscaden Road, tomorrow at 9 pm Directed by Francois Truffaut, the film stars Charles Aznavour as a talented but timid pianist who is contented to play in a second-rate bistro until
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    • 720 18 ft v. J The British nrrarfer..4M of the photographs on display at the exhibition on Japanese Occupation: Singapore 1942 to 1945 JAPANESE OCCUPATION; public on their opinions of the three SINGAPORE 1942 TO 1945 yea" and eight months of the JapanA PICTORIAL exhibition on Japan- ese Occupation: Singapore 1942 to
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    • 38 18 EBEHHKB TODAY: TOMORROW: High tida: 8.57 am High tida: 9.53 am (2.3 m) (2.5 m) Low tida: 4,23 pm Low tida: 4.57 pm (0.5 m) (0.3 m) High tida: 11.11pm High tida: 11.30 pm (2.2 m) (2.4 m)
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 693 19 lel»ur» comics _^uj FASTRACK By BUI Holbrook F/utevWHlP? ARC JosriweTHic A- WHCfe |7\wd pe sw»set> WP*JRy tffkP* WOUmtItPDOVbO K 9MPUHST: met HoOMM/WFU Kap ABW«r op -THE I UWICH JfIMMfIRR IS 6PftH6€TON 1, V AUSumRC... y V^af B^ ou*have been waiting September 23 to October 22 j Ssdnr-Ss nSgrr^^EßMl endeavours, change,
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  • The Chef Recommends
    • 532 20  -  By THERESA CHAN THE TAI-PAN Ramada Hotel in Victoria Street now serves Thai Teochew Porridge at its coffee-house from 6 pm to 2.30 am daily. To go with the porridge, diners can select dishes from four sections comprising assorted vegetables, cold dishes, hot sea-food
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    • 82 20 To encourage people to patronise the hotel more often, the TaiPan Ramada Hotel now issues a discount card called "Big Boss". Card-holders will get a 10 per cent discount when they dine at the hotel's restaurants. They will also be entitled to a 20
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 172 20 BAY KITCHEN INTRODUCING OUR SPECIALTY:HONG KONG STYLE FOUR SEASON'S STEAMBOAT SIDE ORDERS:A 'LA CARTE CHIENES DISHES. PORRIDGE. RICE VERMICELLI. RICE AND NOODLES. WE OFFER BUFFET AND ALSO TAKE AWAY ARE WELCOME. 37 DROP IN rfyiZ AND EXPERIENCE Vv OUR EXCELLENT FOOD AND SERVICES. iA /i/ a\%\/ BUSINESS HOUR: MON-SUN FROM
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    • 40 20 Happy if ProsperouS jVV Rom 23/2/85 w© will be open and serving you our Fa Cal Yu Stung until 6/3/tt. foflfteservation Please call: *****4,*****7. JW RED LANTERN REVOLVING RESTAURANT (PTE.) LTD. 60A, Change Alley Aerial Plazas Collyer Quay. Singapore 0104
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    • 214 20 NORTH INDIAN CUISINE f FOOD-FIT FOR ROYALTY! Mm* Savour tempting delights such as: Tiinri Ktaf hwi #V f Mwtlta-U. W— t>yl I—■!■< Menu change* daily i #05-36 Far East Plaza, VjBW Scotts Road. S'pore 0922 (opposite I Next to Hyatt Regency) We also cater for weddin&t, parties special occasions. TEL:
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 168 21 Classified ADS Classified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Sunday Monitor. Ward* 0.3S crate par word 0.55 crate per word Dteptey $7.70 por col. cm $10.00 por col. cm Bwlmm Hra Mra-Fri. 9ooi-spoi Sot. 9oM-lpm ACCOUNTING LOOSE-LEAF BOOKS. Accounts. Records. War* Simply better 274 7474/ 221 7177. A 1 ACCOUNTING *****77/ 2801
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    • 124 21 DISCO SERVICES 732 <"-> ZIRCONNIUM SYSTEM Services 444 9198 A MEGATON 221 5310. A DISC *****00. CASA BLANC A 743 3477/ *****77. CRF-REX 453 7346/ 733 3519. CULTURE AFTER 12 noon *****55. O-AIRWAVES M.O. Hall available. Call Miguel, 442 7506. ELECTRA DISCO 272 4519 (Ronald). A FACES de Mode 253
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    • 206 21 FANCY DRESS COSTUME JOLLY JOKER 469 4439. FISHING DANNY CHEONQ Company 295 1575. FOOD CORNER CATERERS Crtwn BUFFET $7*50, minimum 30 persons. Also cater for wedding, party, picnic, lunch boxes etc. Tel: 444 9144. Hueein. rfILICIOUS ROASTED INDONESIAN chicken. $19.50 with delivery. Indonesian buffet $8 per person. Mm 20 persone.
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    • 247 21 Hairdressers SJfll THE SUPREME TRAINING Centre only approved Pivot Point School conducts Professional Hair Design Sculpture Courses. Enrol by 15th March and get a 15% anniversary dscount. Interested tel: 732 1828/ 732 3882 for brochures. #03-33, Orchard Plaza. Modelling CATZ 'The' model agency 732 5508. FASMON STAGE 732 3806/7. Modelling
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    • 261 21 Office Services P5 YEN LEE Typewriter Repairer 273 0111/ *****11. Packers A Movers^ TION SERVICES available with labour supplied at cheapest rates in town. Please cal 455 0215. MOUBM ntmOVAL/ omcm removal transportation provided. Please cal: Jagrai transport. *****59/ 471 0963 office hours/ After office hours: *****92/3. SCANFREIGHT 221 6970/
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    • 174 21 PEN PALS COMPAT COMPUTER DATING Re Ltd. Singapore's number one. Let us nnd your ideal partner the scientific way. CaR COMPAT on 339 9920 or write to: 111, North Bridge Road. #24-05. Peninsula Plaza, (0617). (Reg. N0.*****9/000). THROUGH RED LADY'B Introduce First, pay Later' scheme get your marriage partner. Thomson
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    • 383 22  -  By ALFONSO CHAN THE QUESTION of whether past reputation is ever good enough in sport was safely answered by the performance Stewart Ballard gave at the Ovaltine Salver annual match against Malaysia on Saturday. Malaysia's S L Chong, whom Stewart
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    • 143 22  -  By B KULA THE SINGAPORE Hockey Association's Under-20 competition, which has attracted eight teams, starts today with Combined Schools taking on Kampong Chantek at Tanglin. Armed Forces, the defending champions, who have been placed in the same group as Combined Schools, Kampong Chantek and Josephians, should
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    • 614 22 RACE 1 CI 2 Div 1 12Hm 4 Gallic ma rd 54.5 K W Taa (3) 3 3 1 5 Kelab Istimewa 52.5 Grylls (S) SIS 1 Mikamtllioa 54.5 Seiches (1) C 6 3 3 Fox Kiagdom 55 Danis (C) 1 2 4 Owner Brae mar Stable Trainer
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    • 574 23  -  GOLF ROUNDUP I wifh ERNEST FRIDA SEMBAWANG Country Club, boosted by the addition of four single-handicap players M Murugiah, M Balraj, K Muruthiah and Hamzah Yusof are confident they will stand a good chance of retaining the Singapore Golf Association's Premier League championship. Although
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    • 514 23 LT COL Clarance Tan, captain of the Sembawang Country Club, yesterday cleared the air about why the club had accepted four former caddies of Seletar Country Club as ordinary members. Col Tan said: "M Murugiah, M Balraj, Hamzah Yusof and K Muruthiah appealed
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    • 391 23 SINGAPORE Island Country Club and Seletar Country Club are locked in a neck and neck race for the Singapore Golf Association's Handicap League championship with 58 Vi points each. Seletar, who were trailing Island by IV4 points until yesterday's League matches,
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    • 170 23 EVELYN LEE-TAN, a former Singapore international athlete, won her first monthly medal competition with 39 points at the Tanah Merah Country Club yesterday. Evelyn, a former lone jumper and hurdler, like her ex-athlete husband Tan Eng Yoon, has switched to golf. Playing on a
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    • 720 23 AP HONG KONG, Monday ICE-COOL American Mark Aebli, considered a rank outsider when he arrived here five days ago, kept his nerve and carried off the biggest win of his career in the Hong Kong Open Golf Tournament yesterday. The 27-year-old Texan carried a
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    • 633 24 SIMON BARNES ON BRITISH SOCCER SPURS MOVED to within two points of leaders Everton after sweating to neat bottom club Stoke. But no one at Spurs is worrying too much about the inelegant performance. The points are all that matter. "It
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    • 237 24 Reuter HOUSTON, Monday TOP-SEEDED American John McEnroe kept his perfect record against South African Kevin Curren intact by scoring a 7-5, 6-1, 76 victory yesterday in the finals of the US$3OO,OOO (*****,000) WCT Shootout Tennis Tournament. The victory, McEnroe's seventh without a loss
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    • 162 24 Reuter QUITO, Monday ECUADOR and Chile drew 1-1 (halftime 1-1) yesterday in a South American Group Two World Cup qualifying match marred by fouls and two red cards. The more experienced Chileans, pacing themselves to avoid tiring too quickly at the
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    • 338 25 Reuter INDIANAPOLIS, Monday MARY LOU RETTON and Tim Daggett captured individual honours yesterday as the United States swept the American Cup gymnastic competition for the sixth consecutive year. Retton, the overall gymnastics champion at the Los Angeles Olympics, became the first woman to win
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    • 429 26 Reuter ATHENS, Monday SOVIET pole vaulter Sergei Bubka and British sprinter Todd Bennett will leave here today with gold medals packed safely away in the bottom of their suit- But while Bennett goes home more than satisfied with his work at the European Indoor Athletics Championships,
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    • 335 26  -  SOUTH AVENUE 2 TOA PAYOH UNITED 2 By ALFONSO CHAN SOUTH AVENUE began their National Football League Division One campaign with a muted charge, being held to a 1-2 draw by Toa Payoh United at the Bedok Athletic centre yesterday. Division Two champions last
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    • 226 26 Reuter FLORIDA, Mon AMERICAN Cartls Strange's par-five on the first playoff bole gave him a PGA tournament victory yesterday over countryman Peter Jacobaen and the too prise of US$9O,OOO (Sfltfofo). Strange, the M-hole coleader. struggled in with a final round
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    • 143 26 AP PENNSYLVANIA, Monday ROBIN WHITE collected her first profenkmal tennis title yesterday by defeating Anne Minter of Australia 6-7 (5-71 6tVI to win the U5575,000 (S| 165,000) Virginia Slims of Pennsylvania tournament at the Hershey Racquet Club. White. 21, became the first American
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 265 27 Reuter MADRID, Monday BARCELONA thrashed fifth-placed Valencia 5-2 away yesterday to take a huge 11-point lead in the Spanish soccer league with just seven games to play. Atletico Madrid and Sporting Gijon, in second and third place, fought a scrappy goalless draw, with
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    • 413 27  -  By S GULAM THE FAS tournament committee's decision to postpone the NFL Division One fixtures on March 6, 7 and 8 have irked the officials of at least two clubs. President's Cup champs Armed Forces and former League champions Tiong Bahru have voiced their concern and unhappiness
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    • 47 27 AP MINNESOTA: Wrestler Dean Larson, whose leg was severed from the knee down in a {arm accident when he was 10, is the only one from his school to qnalify for his state's wrestling tournament. He has a season record of 22-6. AP
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