Singapore Monitor, 9 March 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Saturday, March 9, 1985 30cents
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  • 83 1 The price race did he make it? LADIES and gentleman, it's Budget night, and the great petrol price race is on. ON ONE SIDE, the motorist Mr G Lim, 28, rushes to fill his tank before prices go up. ON THE OTHER SIDE, the petrol company man a Mobil employee
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  • 638 1  -  By OEI SIN GIOK YONG ROW ANG and ROBERT CONCEICAO THE OWNER of a 1,600 cc car who spends $200 a month on fuel will pay an extra $760 a year as a result of
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    • 73 1 BiHget Cabbies pessimistic over tax, fare hikes: Page 2 Your income will go up, Dr Yeo assures cabbies: Page 3 Promoters applaud lower show tax: Page 4 Boost for labour-intensive firms: Page 10 What the employers said: Page 11 Monitor living Rocco Barocco unveils his collection Afade in Singapore videos
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    • THE Budget
      • Article, Illustration
        946 2  -  Cabbies pessimistic oven tax, fare hikes By ROBERT CONCEICAO TAXI-DRIVERS contacted by The Monitor last night generally reacted unfavourably to the diesel tax hike and taxi fare increases They believed they would adversely affect their earnings despite the Government's assurance that their incomes will go up by 15
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      • 469 2  -  We will still keep driving, say most car owners By OEI SIN GIOK CAR OWNERS interviewed yesterday grumbled about the increases in road tax and petrol tax. But most said they would still not sell their cars. Said businessman Mogan Wah who drives a car which is more
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      • 69 2 IN our story on Page 3 headlined "Police disaster plan eased blackout chaos" on March 7, it was reported that the special police plan designed for major emergencies was called the Command Police Security Operations (CPSO). In fact, CPSO stands for Chief Police Staff Officers who man
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      • 137 2 ONE CABBIE, identifying himself only as Mr Chan, interviewed by The Monitor disagreed with the views of most of his colleagues about the diesel tax increase. He said: "I'm not shy to say that the Government is doing the right thing here "Only idle
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      • 263 3 THREE MEMBERS of Parliament had this to say of the tax changes introduced yesterday. Mr Lim Boon Heng (PAP-Kebun Baru): "It has been a pleasant Budget on the whole. The only area where there will be unhappiness would be the increase in road tax and duty
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      • 533 3  -  By YONG POW ANG THE MINISTRY of Communications and Information assures taxi drivers that their net income will go up by 15 to 20 per cent after the taxi fare increase, which will take effect from April 1. Dr Yeo Ning Hong,
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      • 558 3  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG MANY MOTORISTS made a last-minute rush for petrol after the increase in petrol tax was announced yesterday. The fortunate ones sighed with satisfaction and relief that they had beaten the price increase. Others who had to pay the higher price grumbled but
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      • 661 4  -  By PAT D'ROSE SHOW promoters were enthusiastic about the large entertainment duty reduction, but most say it may not be enough to boost the entertainment business in Singapore. Entertainment tax is now 10 per cent compared to 25 per cent before. They say the reduction
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      • 240 4 MAJOR CINEMA operators are likely to meet soon to discuss the ouestion of admission prices now that they are no longer controlled by legislation. None of them would comment on the sort of admission prices they would be charging following yesterday's
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      • 88 4 THE MONITOR "stayed up" late yesterday evening just to bring Singaporeans the first news in print of Finance Minister Dr Tony Tan's Budget speech. We promised readers in our first two editions yesterday that we would, time permitting, to publish a special, late
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    • 402 5  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM THERE was a stir in Parliament as the Finance Minister, Dr Tony Tan, was delivering his Budget statement but it had nothing to do with vested interests protesting against increases in taxes. It arose because a -group of people were
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    • 160 5 THESE four men had to climb onto the bench at this bus-stop in Tiong Bahru Road to find shelter from the heavy pelting rain last evening. But the three women, apparently unconcerned about the rain, remained standing on the ground. The widespread hour-long rain delayed
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    • 487 5 THE TWO opposition members took different stands yesterday when Parliament voted on the Presidential Address, which outlined Government's policy for the next five years. While Mr J B Jeyaretnam (WPAnson) abstained, Mr Chiam See Tone (SDP-Potong Pasir) threw in his Tot
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    • 384 6  -  By SIT YIN FONG A 12-YEAR-OLD girl fell to her death on Thursday after complaining that she missed her classmates because she had been transferred from an afternoon to a morning session school. Lim Chiah Pei, a Primary 6 pupil
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    • 568 6  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG ZIS only 11 years old. But he has already spent more than two years of his life sniffing glue. Z is the youngest son in a family of four children. His parents are separated. His mother and two
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    • 194 6 A HEAT machine which can help kill cancer cells and prevent the recovery of cancer cells that have been damaged by radiation will be installed at the Singapore General Hospital soon. The $800,000 hyperthermia machine has arrived in Singapore, and a Japanese
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    • 131 6 Lianhe Zaobao A LOADING operator at the Changi International Airport fell three storeys when he backed his forklift into a lift that was not there. The worker, Mr Dai Zhonglu, broke his right leg in the accident yesterday afternoon. According to Mr Dai, it happened when
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    • 344 6  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO THERE is more to Ireland than bombings and the Irish Republican Army (IRA), says the Irish Tourist Boara. During a visit to promote Ireland as a tourist destination, Mr Graeme Allen, manager of the board, said: "We don't deny that there
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  • world
    • 484 7 Hanoi's intruders ambush Thai patrol as they make fourth border incursion this week AP PUNG TUK (Thailand), Saturday VIETNAMESE gunners in Cambodia fought an hour-long artillery duel with Thai troops yesterday while Hanoi's forces made their fourth reported border incursion into Thailand this week, Thai
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    • 100 7 AP JAKARTA, Saturday INDONESIA is willing to talk to Vietnam about settling the problem of American soldiers missing in action in the Indochinese war in order to pave the way for normalisation of US-Vietnam relations, Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusumaatmddja said yesterday. He said he offered
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    • 258 7 Reuter WASHINGTON, Saturday PRESIDENT Reagan yesterday gave final instructions to his arms control team and a key official said they had the greatest possible latitude in seeking; a strategic arms pact in US-Soviet talks in Geneva next week Flanked by the three US
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    • 180 7 AP TUCSON (Arizona), Saturday A CAR mechanic who was kept alive 11 hours with an unapproved manmade heart before undergoing a second human heart transplant died yesterday at University of Arizona Medical Centre. University vice president Allan Beigel said: "I regret to inform you that
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    • 112 7 AP TAIPEH, Saturday AN AMERICAN doctor who was admitted to a hospital during a stopover in Taipeh last December was found to be suffering from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the first such case reported in Taiwan, the national health administration reported yesterday.
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    • 543 8 Reuter WASHINGTON, Saturday DEEP divisions are appearing between the major industrial nations over efforts to start a new round of global trade talks, US officials and Western diplomats said on Thursday. The officials said France, disturbed by the distortions to world trade from
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    • 136 8 UPI Bonham (Texas), Sat BECAUSE of record-keep-ing errors, the Texas Department of Corrections mistakenly released a convicted murderer who beat his grandfather to death with a tyre iron, the department's officials said. Allen Keith Anderson. 30. of Bonham. Texas, was released from the Huntsville Unit
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    • 52 8 TWO ISRAELI soldiers check papers and belongings of Lebanese villagers on a road east of Tyre, in Abbassiyeh, South Lebanon. Israeli troops, who have occupied South Lebanon since June 1982, have increased their raids on' Shi'ite Muslim villages in their hunt for Lebanese resistance fighters
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    • 184 8 LAT-WP WARSAW, Saturday EVIDENCE of a factional split in Poland's new, official trade union movement has emerged in a bitter attack by one of the new unions on the Government s economic policies. In a formal statement reportedly barred from publication by
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    • 321 8 LAT-WP SEOUL, Saturday MR ROH TAE WOO, new chairman of President Chun Doo Hwan's rutins party, has said that he hoped to help Mr Chun efficiently carry out nis goals of government. He said the goals are "expanding autonomy (in local
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    • 411 8 LAT-WP LOS ANGELES, Saturday ANOTHER chapter appears today in the unfinished Dook-length work recounting the plethora of attempts to answer the question: "Is coffee bad for you, and if so, how much is too much?" Today's instalment is from the Stanford Centre for Research in
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    • 759 9  -  SATURDAY PEOPLE By PHILIP ZIEGLER OPA HE WAS not the man I expected to find. Behind the glitter and gold braid, behind the public persona, he was totally different. In my five years researching and writing his official biography, the Lord Mountbatten I came
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    • 26 9 'Behind the glitter and gold braid...behind the handsome, brave, arrogant and snobbish figure was a vulnerable, miserable and lonely man'
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    • 185 9 UiigQl English feed hearty and wholesome. &lt; Try the typical English Fish *n Chips, minus the newspaper wrapping of course. (We've used them g &lt; eCorate wa B Our Chicken in the Basket beats all the .fimfrxA "finger-licking good" alternatives in town. Tgyhffi Gettlai to tke real McCoy, read savoury
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  • money
    • THE Budget
      • 1124 10  -  By CATHERINE ONG JANICE LIM JILL HUM and ANG PENG HWA THE 4 per cent reduction in wage costs is a big boost for labour-in-tensive industries such as construction, manufacturing. hotel and retailing. shipbuilding and shiprepairing. businessmen said yesterday. The 4 per cent 2
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      • 374 10 THE LOWER rate of contribution to the Skills Development Fund and suspension of the Payroll Tax will give businessmen some savings, but these could be nullified by wage increases this year and higher transportation costs brought about by higher road and petrol taxes. This was
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      • 1017 11 HERE are some employer reactions on the announcement of the Budget yesterday. MR JACK CHIA, President of the Singapore National Employers' Federation: "Overall, it's a good budget, very encouraging and bullish although most of the concessions are long overdue. "The Skills Development Fund can well
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      • 163 11 THE SHARES of Ssangyong Cement (Singapore) ana Lee Kim Tah Holdings came under heavy demand at the stock market yesterday just before the Government announced measures that would be bullish for the companies' earnings. Ssangyong shares gained a hefty 50 cents to close $2.50 on
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      • 414 11 STOCK BROKERS and bankers were not too excited about the Budget One broker said: "It's nothing fantastic. Nothing to be excited over." He said the payroll tax at 2 per cent was too small for its suspension to have any significant effect. He also
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      • 223 11 THE lack of any major initiatives in the Budget to help developers or stimulate the property market was not surprising, a developer said yesterday. "I wasn't expecting much. What can the Government do (to stimulate the property market)?" he asked. The developer, who is involved
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  • opinion / letters
    • 619 12 I AM an average Singaporean and I have followed without fail the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's coverage of the current parliamentary proceedings Since the first edition of "Today in Parliament" was shown last Friday, one word that was very frequently used by members of
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    • 295 12 AFTER watching one report on Parliament, where the MP for Queenstown gave a rather interesting and apparently convincing speech, and another where Mr Rajaratnam attacked and debunked the same MP, one very important question arises: Should we vote for a candidate
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    • 192 12 WHAT a breath of fresh air it was to read Mr Jek Yeun Thong's speech which I think voiced the feelings of many of his fellow citizens on the various matters he raised in Parliament. I hope that our leaders will not
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    • 473 12  -  ISSUE By GIAM MENG TUCK THE remark made by Dr Dixie Tan, MP for Ulu Pandan, in Parliament on learning the mother tongue may have a great impact on Singapore's bilingual policy, although she was speaking on behalf of only a small
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    • 514 13 THE SINGAPORE^^^^^H lymrroß [fllilß MOST of us expected car ownership to be more expensive when Budget time came round this year. So we can't really be surprised by the 15 per cent rise in road tax and the 30 3 cents per litre
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    • 168 13 AS A householder, I have been paying my monthly Public Utilities Board bills, the quarterly telephone bills and other miscellaneous bills by the so-called GIRO system. This is very convenient and saves us the trouble of queueing up unnecessarily As a
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    • 125 13  -  REV DR GEORGE WAN Chairman PARP Committee THANK you for your write-up on the Philippines Agape Relief Project (PARP), (SM, Jan 18). Please allow me to make one important correction: The sum of $60,000 was not collected by the Christ Methodist Church as stated
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    • 279 13 IN A dynamic economy like ours, the thousands of men and women sales representatives play an important part. they may be called salesman, saleslady, sales executives, account executives or marketing executives and may represent a manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, service company or agency,
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    • 72 12 LETTERS on any subject of puttie interest wtt be accepted tor publication. They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer deddee to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful. We reserve the
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    • 73 13 w 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 m print. A contact telephone number would be useful We reserve
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 378 14  -  rfkualtzmi Reviews by LIM SEK ALTHOUGH many of Taiwanese composer Li Tai Siang's works have been released commercially and performed by singers such as Sally Yeh, there is still an uncompromising classical edge to his music that defies casual listening (Li was recently
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    • 286 14 ALBUM: DIAMOND LIFE ARTISTE: Sade LABEL: BFR ***** Portrait (CBS) THIS is Sade'S (pronounced Shar-day's) debut album and it sounds like she is heading for critical, if not commercial, success Her music is different from most of today's pop offerings, and
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    • 204 14 THE US top 10 pop singles, as rated by Cashbox. with last week's platings in brackets 1. (I) Careless Whisper Wham (Columbia). 2. (5) Can't Fight This Keeling RFX) Speed wagon (Epic). •i. (3) California Girls David Lee Koth (Warner Brothers). 4. (2) Easy Lover Philip
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    • 1180 14  -  Children kick off 10-day contest with classical and modern piano pieces National Mupic Competition By VIOLET OON IT IS 9 am at the Drama Centre at Fort Canning. Ten children sit in a single row in the freezingly cold backstage. They are nervously twiddling their
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    • 493 16 Centrestage Cold Storage (Ch 12, 8.30 pm) TAPED at the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto, this is a two-character play by Ronald Ribman which tells the poignant story of the relationship between two Eatients who meet on the roof-top of a New York ospital. Directed by Frank Corzaro, it
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    • 441 16 Sunday Matinee The Yopng Ones (Ch 5, 2.55 pm) CLIFF RICHARD stars as Nicky Black, the leader of a youth club. Not knowing that his son is a member of the club, Nicky's father, Hamilton, acquires the land on which it stands. When the club members learn that
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    • 496 17  -  PROVIDING SUSPENSE WHICH DOESN'T SEEM TO END TITLE: THE TERMINATOR STARRING: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn DIRECTOR: James Cameron Showing at Capitol, Changi, Jurong, Oriental Reviewed by WONG AH YOKE THIS movie holds so many surprises that you are advised not to watch it with someone
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    • 291 18 TWO of Britain's leading ballet dancers will give two public lectures and conduct a 10-day workshop session here from March 18. Belinda Wright and Jelko Yuresha, who danced into the hearts of Singaporeans and Malaysians in 1967, first appeared as partners in a Royal Command
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 473 15 SBC I 12.25 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. 12.55 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by Sesame Street* 2.00 Saturday Matinee: The Man Who Skied Down Everest. See Highlights 3.20 The Glen Campbell Show. 4.05 Italian Football Verona versus Sampdoria (Last episode). 5.00 Indonesian Movie Pandji Tengkorak (English subtitles). 6.10 Programme Highlights.
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    • 919 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR "1 SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1985 I %.n y &gt; jT 7 Left: Amy Grant...guest on Salute (Ch 5, 7.50 pm). Right: James Mason...the tyrannical father in Saturday Night Movie- Spring and Port Wine (Ch 5, 11 pm) 3.02 Quran Reading. 3.10 Programme Summary. 3.16 Tekaria (repeat). 4.36
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 624 16 TOMORROW'S PROGRAMMES 8.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. water world 9.00 Opening and Programme High- 2.55 Sunday Matinee The Young lights followed by Today's Ones. Special Homes.* See Tomorrow's Highlights. 9.35 Fraggle Rock. 4 45 Sandiwara Musim itu Telah Ber--10.00 Tepuk-Tepuk Tangan (M). l alu (English subtitles) (M) (r). 10.25 Sports
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    • 694 17 FIUM GUIO€ Midnight Show (11.45 pm): SILENT f i ROMANCE (C) mrJv 3 30 7 30 9 30): MY CAPITOL (*****59) (11. 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.15): LUCKY STAKS (C) THE TERMINATOR (E) Midnight Show (11.45 pmy. FUNNY TRIPLE CLEMENT (*****51) (1.30, 3.30, 7.15, 9.30): Midnight Show: THE THREE STOOGES GO
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 132 18 BAND PERFORMANCES AT THE BOTANIC GARDENS THE following bands will perform at the Botanic Gardens between 5.30 pm and 6.30 pm every Sunday for this month and in April. Tomorrow Bartley Secondary School Band March 10 Bartley Secondary School Band March 17 Anglo-Chinese Secondary School Band March 24 Frank and
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    • 369 18 A Japanese Occupation street scene...on display at the Exhibition Hall, Archives and Oral History Department CHINESE BRUSH PAINTING EXHIBI- on their opinions of the three years TION and eight months of the Japanese ocTHERE will be a Chinese brush paint- cupation. ing exhibition by Wang Ziwu and Li Admission is
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 520 19 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA Emphasis is on legal partner- September 23 lo October 22 ships, practical issues and co- This can be a big money day. operation with one who had Focus is on authority, producpreviously expressed disdain tion, supervision, promotion for your views. This
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    • 192 19 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook V RO»,VW SERVE A VITAL- Yotf RECORD tf&gt;oß ACTION HERE/TMRoUfrH &gt; IMPRESSIONS AMD RELAY X THERE Mod, *&gt;5/ LUCE A Yot), I'M ABLE To I6IOCJ TrfEM TO ME/Yoo'RE MY rfOW DOES THAT MAKE 1 V.C.R. f U)HAT THE EMPLOYEES EYES AMD EARS/ YoO LET V Fe£L?
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  • THE SINGAPORE MONITOR RACING GUIDE
    • 455 20 2 PAGE TEAR-OUT JORGE CRUZ and Singapore's Leslie Khoo are the two jockeys to follow in Ipoh today. The American, who will be astride Hatteras in Race 1, Alpha Centauri in Race 2, Shogun II in Race 3, Han Solo in Race 6,
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    • 278 20 TET MAZHEN TAN MA TAN (Monitor) (Zao Bao) (Wan Bao) Race 1 S Hatteras 5 Hatteras 5 Hatteras 10 Air Bus 11 Clover Princess 3 Spring Water 3 Spring Water 10 Air Bus 8 Superman Race a 10 Jade Mountain 10 Jade Mountain 1 V.ctonoui Colt 5 Beacon
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    • 210 20 1 st 2nd 3rd Connorton 13 5 5 Malcolm Johnston 12 12 12 Setches 9 9-8 Terry Lucas 8 1 Subian Dalwee 7 5 6 G Cook 6 8 8 Nigel Tiley 6 8 5 Hamid 5 2 4 Peter Lee 5 2 2 Gary Grylls 4 4
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    • 748 20 LEE SENG HAP, who finished last year with 29 winners, may not end the year as champion against the powerful stables of Ivan Allan and Teh Choon Beng but he could provide some interesting winners. The Singapore trainer has
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    • 2044 21 RACE 1 1.30 CI 6 Div 2 1200 m Short Course Stakes: $10,000 1 ***** Sentosa 111 (10)57 0S H Chew 1/6 4nzg Allan GOOO/06-0 139 a on the bit Jan 2 Apni Bright (11)56 5 Chua 1/6 3mm Rodgers GYSH/00-0 not seen on track 3 ***** SPRING
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    • 224 21 BEST PICKS RACE 1 3 Spring Water II 11 Clover Princess 7 Lynmouth Lad 2 10 Jade Mountain 7 Hema-Malini 1 Alpha Centauri 3 1 Shogun II 8 Wang Banyak 10 Sugar Daddy II 4 7 Capability 1 Partake 10 Satu Hati II 5 14 Lion City II
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    • 236 22 Classified ADS Classified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Sunday Monitor: Word* 0.35 cant* par word 0.55 cent* par word Display 17.70 par col. cm $10.00 par col. cm Bmlmm Hrs Mon-Frl. 9»m-spm Sal. 9am-lpm ACCOUNTING LOOSE-LEAF BOOKS, Accounts, Records. We're simply better 274 7474/ 221 7177. A 1 ACCOUNTING 280 7777/
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    • 162 22 EMPLOYMENT Situations Vacant IX ACCOUNTS CLERK Modern office in Parkway Parade requires female accounts clerk 5 G.C.E. 0' Levei with book-keeping subject Typing speed 35 w p.m Experience not essential as training will be given Please apply in own handwriting together with contact telephone number The Advertiser S.M. Box 516
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    • 170 22 FOR SALE FURNITURE/ RESTORATION/ REUPHOLSTERY ANNE FOO Sofa Centre 255 7280 GROOMING Beauty Aids BA MADAME IKI'S Oriental facial for problem skin 748 5016. FACIAL FOR Gents 339 3311/2. Hairdressers ha THE SUPREME TRAINING Centre only approved Pivot Point School conducts full-time hairdressing courses. For school leavers Duration: 6 months
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    • 173 22 ARE YOU FEELING lonely, bored or having no time to get friends? Please call personally at Choo Huay Friendship Agency, Unit: 04-51, 4th floor. Sultan Plaza, Jalan Sultan Road, Singapore 0719. (8a m to 10pm). Tel 292-1137/ 292-7285 Miss Katherine Reg no *****7/00W WINSTON FRIENDSHIP CENTRE. No matter what s
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  • sports
    • 138 23 MONITOR ACTION CAMERA LET'S hear it for the boys. And girls. Whether they are playing their guts out on the sporting fields or yelling their lungs out from the sidelines, Singapore's teenagers are often a sight to warm the heart. They remind
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    • 831 24  -  Liverpool ask themselves as they go after The trophy that has eluded Anfield' SIMON BARNES ON BRITISH SOCCER WHO CAN stop LIVERPOOL? That is the question everyone in football is asking as the Football Association Cup championship moves into the sixth round this
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    • 23 24 FA Cup sixth round: Liverpool vs Barnsley, Manchester United vs West Ham, Everton vs Ipswich. Fifth round (second replay): Luton vs Watford
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    • 88 24 OVER and out...Arsenal's David O'Leary (left) taking a tumble over Manchester United's Mark Hughes (above) in their game on Feb 23. But O'Leary was not the only Arsenal player who was stopped. In fact, the whole Arsenal machinery was stopped. United's Norman Whiteside
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    • 719 25 EXCELLENCE IN SPORTS ONE Olympic medal and 29 years Inter, and Singapore sport is today talking about the need to strive for excellence. Is it too late? Can official rhetoric be realised or will we continue on our slide towards mediocrity. Today we focus on
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    • 'Career comes first'
      • 106 26 EtfCSLLKNCE IN SPORTS Sportsmen want security before they can concentrate on excellence LAU WING CHEOK, national badminton champion: "Before we talk of excellence, the basic needs of the sportsman must be looked after. "If I cannot find a good job to look after myself, how can you
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      • 126 26 SOO-THO KOK MUN, swimmer: "Encouragement, subsidies, scholarships and more media coverage to promote awareness are the key conditions if our sportsmen are to achieve excellence. "Parental encouragement is just as important as spectator support. "What's preventing a lot of us from achieving our goals is this conflict
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      • 138 26 K JAYAMANI, national track star: "Have the sportsmen's welfare at heart if you want them to excel. "This will go a long way to encouraging the sportsmen Provide guidance and assistance to those who lag behind in their studies. "Grant paid leave when they represent the country. One
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      • 69 26 M PARAM, secretary of the Singapore Hockey Association: 'we have the talent. So it is not difficult to build excellent sportsmen. "But can we afford it? First we must find the money. And we need a lot each year to run our local tournaments and to take part
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      • 60 26 K S MOORTHY, president of the Singapore Judo Federation: "The Government's attitude towards sports must change. Then only will the public follow suit. "Our society is materialistic. So how are we going to change things overnight? "The Government can help by finding suitable jobs for elite sportsmen
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      • 47 26 MALEK AWAB, vice-captain of the national soccer team: "We must find good jobs for our national sportsmen. Once an athlete's rice bowl is settled, he will be able to give his best. "It that can be done, we will stop losing top stars to Malaysia."
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      • 65 26 HALIM ABDUL KADER, secretary of the Singapore Amateur Sepak Takraw Association: "Many of our sports associations do not even nave a clubhouse or an office, let alone the task of producing champions. "Wnere are we going to find the money? "Many of our sportsmen are willing to
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      • 69 26 LIM SEOK HUI, Sportswoman for 1984 and national squash champion: "To achieve excellence, there must be a professional approach. As our top sportsmen are in their early teens, their welfare must be looked after. "Things like scholarships to do a course at the National University of Singapore
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      • 119 26 LEE SENG HUAT, president of the Singapore Amateur Gymnastics Association: "There is not even one gymnasium in Singapore for gymnastics. "To produce champions of international standing, more than 35 hours must be spent each week on training. Do you think parents are prepared to allow their children
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      • 127 26 LENN WEI LING, Coach of the Year for 1984 and the man behind a number of swimming champions: "Firstly, the individual must be interested. Secondly, he must be highly motivated to achieve success. "Don't talk about rewards. It isn't that important if you are really motivated. When
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    • 155 26 AT LEAST one man in the Singapore Sports Council realises that it would take more than rhetoric, idealism and research for us to take even the first step to produce international medal winners. As far back as September last year, the council's head of information and
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  • MOINTOR sports
    • 519 27  -  UUTMOP '85 By ALFONSO CHAN THE ORDER'S out: Go for goals and get that double' Coach Hussein Aljunied. not one to be publicly optimistic, is quietly confident tnat Singapore can achieve the double winning the League and Malaysia Cups It's not impossible, not
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    • 177 27 Reuter AALBORG (Denmark), Saturday UNHERALDED Chinese Xiang Guobao sensationally ousted number two seed Prakash Padukone of India in the Danish Open badminton tournament yesterday. Xiang won his third round match against the former All-England champion 11-15, 15-12, 15-7. Prakash blamed the umpire for unsettling him by
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  • Singapore Monitor
    • 15 1 Congratulations to the Republic of Indonesia on the official opening! of your new Chancery Building
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    • 432 1 Message by the Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Republic of Singapore, His Excellency Mr RAIS ABIN INDONESIA and Singapore have enjoyed a close and most cordial relationship as two neighbouring countries. Close proximity and easy accessibility have contributed to the steady
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    • 83 1 AIR Vicc Marshal Sudjatmiko, who served as Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia in Singapore from 1978 to 1984, conceived the plan of constructing a Chancery building for his country here. He felt that the former premises, located in leased, premises, did not
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    • 264 2 THE Republic of Indonesia's new Chancery Building in Singapore is located on 3.2 hectares of prime land in the prestigeous area of- Chatsworth Road. The Chancery itself comprises 6,000 sq metres of space spread over three floors. Within it is a major reception hall which, together with the
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      • 180 3 I Congratulations Best Wishes to the Republic of Indonesia I on the official opening I I of your new Chancery Building. I I With Compliments I I Tong Djoe Mr Tong Keng Meng I I \wTA TZunas (Pic.) ULim.ita?) I I 114, ANSON ROAD #27-00, TUNAS BUILDING, SINGAPORE CPO7 I
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      • 368 4 Congratulations to the Republic of Indonesia on the Official Opening of their new Chancery Building. WOW in TP T-TTV/fT'l't'l 232 Tanjong Rhu Road, #03-00 Aurum House, Singapore 1543. W1/H nur L; LlllVll 1LLI Te| *****22 Telex: RS***** Cable: WOHUPCOY We are proud to have successfully constructed this prestigious project. Crittall
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    • 476 5 SINCE the formation of this body, members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have always consolidated their efforts. This is particularly demonstrated in the diplomatic moves to resolve the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. Asean is an established regional association and widely recognised as a
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      • 111 5 L N v flp. ■&lt; i&gt; v V*# l*n M t -V; BZA'¥' 8 V Jttolll&M I accessories... tV- r.mt v. .&lt;* V; S a is* i, t, -v' v Congratulations f Best Wishes to the Republic of Indonesia on the occasion of the official opening of the new Indonesia
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    • 555 7 BATAM Island, 12 km Southeast of Singapore, is easily reached by boat from Finger Pier. There are a number of fast ferries which can make the trip in less than an hour. The latest vessel to be added to this route is the
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    • 223 7 IN THE face of rising prices elsewhere, the cost of taking a holiday tour in Indonesia has actually dropped, and by quite a considerable amount. This has come about because of increased competition among airlines and travel agents. The Indonesia Tourist Promotion Office said
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