Singapore Monitor, 12 March 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Tuesday, March 12, 1985 30centt
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  • 490 1  -  Loss rate cut by a quarter since salaries were increased By GANDHI AMBALAM THE LOSS of graduates from the Civil Service to private industry has dropped by a quarter since the salaries of civil servants were raised almost three years ago. This year, even fewer
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  • 153 1 A COMPARATIVE study last year by the Public Service Division and the Public Service Commission on the pay structure in the Civil Service and the private sector showed that the salaries of civil servants matched those of workers in private firms. Because of this, salaries of civil servants were
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  • 73 1 IN THE caption which accompanied the photograph on Page 1 in yesterday's afternoon edition, it was stated that "business has been so bad these past months that this Myshop outlet in Tampines will close down soon." It is now evident to us that this was
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  • home
    • 149 2  -  By JOSEPH LEE MAKESHIFT shacks along the coast in West Coast Park will soon be removed. An occupier of a shack said: "The temporary shelters are used to house our boating equipment and protect us from the rain as we have to be here
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    • 686 2  -  By CHARLES CHEW from Sydney A PROPOSED private university in Australia, to be financed by South-east Asian tycoons including Singaporeans might be the first of several such institutions. Privately funded educational institutions such as this will also enable Canberra to look at tertiary education
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    • 129 2  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO A VEGETARIAN food and fun fair will be held next month to raise funds for a kidney dialysis machine. The fair will be held at the P Govindasamy Pillay Wedding Hall, off Serangoon Road, on April 21. A Hindu
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    • 185 3  -  Sanitary system with fewer pipes proves successful in trial By OEI SIN GIOK NEATER bathrooms are in store for owners of Housing and Development Board flats. A pilot project to try out a new sanitary system with fewer pipes cluttering the bathroom has proved successful. The system
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    • 112 3 PARKWAY Properties will hold a discussion with some of its shop tenants in Parkway Parade this afternoon on a request for rent reduction. Late last year, tenants at the shopping centre wrote to its owners to ask for a rent cut in
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    • 233 3 Lianhe Wanbao THE PROPRIETOR of a well known Singapore cake shop died after a nine-floor fall yesterday. Police said Lim Kim Seng, owner of the Mont d'Or Cake Shop, suffered no unusual injuries and there was no reason to suspect murder. Lim, 69,
      Lianhe Wanbao  -  233 words
    • 854 4  -  What commuters say of Singapore's newest express minibus service Report: JULIE ANN SIT SINGAPORE'S newest air-condi-tioned express bus service, which began operating yesterday, has been given a qualified "thumbs-up" by commuters who tried it out. While all of them said that the service, called "DownTown,"
      Pictures: CLIFTON AW and ASMAH HAMID  -  854 words
    • Article, Illustration
      255 6  -  Residents go to great lengths to avoid MRT work By ROBERT CONCEICAO THE SHORTEST way home from the town centre is no longer the safest for residents of at least four blocks in Ang Mo Kio. Construction work at the Ang Mo Kio Mass Rapid Transit station
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    • 237 6 A NATIONAL campaign to minimise cash transactions will be launched on Thursday. A four-day exhibition will be held at the Singapore Conference Hall in conjunction with the campaign. The exhibition is aimed at persuading people to use electronic fund transfers to pay salaries, bills and
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    • 144 6 THE TRADE Development Board will open its 13th overseas office in London on April 1. The board's newsletter, Tradespur, said: "The London office will monitor developments, identify niches and opportunities and develop the export of Singapore goods and services." Mr J A
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    • 131 7 FOR SOME drivers, having a vehicle that looks pretty on the outside just isn't enough The interior has to look just as good, if not better. Van driver Alvin Sim, 22. is no exception But Alvin evidently doesn't believe in ordinary stickers and trinkets. Not
      PICTURE SHAFIE GOH  -  131 words
    • 296 7  -  By IRENE TOH THE Ministry of National Development is reviewing the $118-million development chargc levied on a project by the Singapore American Club to redevelop its $23-million clubhouse. But a ministry spokesman said that it is not known when the result of
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    • 324 7 MOTORISTS who visit Johor's beach resort, Desaru, will soon have the choice of travel via the Causeway or by car-ferry from Changi Point. A plan has already been drawn up by the Johor state government for a car-ferry service to ply between Changi and
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  • world
    • 449 8 MOSCOW, Tuesday MIKHAIL GORBACHEV accepted the post of Soviet leader yesterday with a speech praising the late Konstantin Chernenko and pledging to strive for arms control so "the peoples of the world would sigh with relief." His address to an extraordinary meeting of the 300-plus members of
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    • 165 8 WASHINGTON, Tuesday IN WASHINGTON. United States officials and analysts said Mr Gorbachev was likely to prove a more formidable challenge to the United States than his predecessor. While few US experts saw Mr Gorbachev's ascent to power causing a fundamental, short-term shift in relations with Washington,
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    • 132 8 Death of CHERNENKO AP MOSCOW, Tues MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S selection as Communist Party General Secretary still leaves two major positions vacant as a result of Konstantin Chernenko's death. The 73-year-old Chernenfco, who died on Sunday of emphysema and other ailments, also held the posts of Chairman of
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    • 199 8 MOSCOW, Tuesday SOVIET people reacted with some surprise and curiosity but little visible emotion yesterday to the news that President Konstantin Chernenko had died. A stout elderly woman emerging from a department store on Red Square shrieked "Lord above," dropped her Kackages ana crossed
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    • 39 8 A CONDOLENCE book, to mark the death of Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko, will be open at the Soviet Embassy in Nassim Road from 3 pm to 8 pm today and from 9 am to 5 pm tomorrow.
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    • 451 8 GENEVA, Tuesday U.S. Vice President George Bush will head the United States delegation to tomorrow's funeral of Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko, a US official said. Besides Mr Bush, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, French President Francoise Mitterand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Italian
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    • 497 9 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday AUTHORITIES in Malaysia are facing a jumbo problem moving wild elephants, which have been destroying crops, to national forest reserves. About a month ago, 15 men from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks arrived in the jungles of Jerangau in
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    • 347 9 AP PARIS, Tuesday SIMONE SIGNORET may be losing her eyesight, but the huskyvoiced actress whose myriad roles include the sensuous older woman in Room at the Top and an ageing {>rostitute in Madame Rosa has not ost her touch. Miss Signoret, 63, has
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    • 185 9 AP BEIJING, Tuesday CHINA has eased restrictions on possession of foreign currency by ordinary residents who receive remittances from family overseas, allowing them for the first time to withdraw the money from the bank, a newspaper reports. Previously, those who received foreign
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    • 400 10 AP ARANYAPRATHET (Thailand), Tuesday THE FALL of Prince Norodon Sihanouks's headquarters at Tatum yesterday would force the guerillas to stage more destructive attacks in the Cambodian interior, informed sources said yesterday. They said capture of the camp Sihanouk's headquarters since April 1983 would hurt
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    • 139 10 AP TATUM was established two years ago, after Hanoi's forces seized the former Sihanouk border base of O'Smach several kilometres away. Tatum, a sprawling, densely forested encampment of bamboo-and-thatched-roof huts, served as the guerillas' springboard for attacks in the Cambodian interior and also housed
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    • 187 10 BEIJING, Tuesday CHINA is introducing unemployment insurance to protect those thrown out of work when inefficient businesses clo§e. the official weekly Beijing Review reported yesterday. Successful enterprises pay 5 to 8 per cent of their employees' wages into the insurance fund to subsidise people
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    • 210 10 AP TOKYO, Tuesday THE ELUSIVE extortion group that has placed poisoned candy on store shelves to Dlackmail confectionery firms has struck five food companies based in western Japan, Japanese daily Asahi Simbun reported yesterday. This latest development comes on the heels of news reports on
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    • 167 10 UPI WASHINGTON, Tuesday THE PANDA watch began on Monday at the National Zoo, with officials keeping a close eye on LingLing and Hsing-Hsing to see if the famous pair succeeds during their brief mating season. Zoo spokesman Dr Robert Hoage said the
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 97 11 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS LEE lACOCCA'S (picture above) barber wants a little off the top of a publishers profits from the Chrysler chief's autobiography. Gio Hernandez says he helped Bantam Books executive Stuart Applebaum get Mr lacocca to sign with Bantam for what
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      • 109 11 F SCOTT FITZGERALD said the rich are different and P J O'Rourke, once one of the leading wits behind the National Lampoon, says the folks in Hollywood are really different. O'Rourke, who worked in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, writes in House and Garden that the
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      • 80 11 ONE OF the latest trends in Paris, that international centre of culture, is adult comic books Major bookstores all have comic counters and the comic books, featuring short original novels, are given serious reviews in major publications. The comics, called albums, are more popular among the
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      • 88 11 HUMANS are a dog's best friends. Winston, the wounded bulldog who became a popular cause after being found shot on a New Rochelle, New York, road, will be the guest of honour at a party this month where he will mingle with the people who
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      • 39 11 BARBADOS Prime Minister Tom Adams, one of the English-speaking Caribbean's most prominent leaders and a key figure in the 1983 US invasion of Grenada, died yesterday of a heart attack, the government said. He was 53.
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      • 109 11 FORMER US President Richard Nixon (picture above) says the United States should give terrorists only a single warning and then strike back, "even if there is some risk to innocent people." And, he writes in a newly released book, civilised nations should act in union
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    • 260 11 UPI TAIPEH, Tuesday PREMIER Yu Kuo-Hwa yesterday accepted Minister of Economics Hsu Li-Teh's resignation over Taiwan's financial scandal and appointed Vice-Economics Minister Li Mo to "temporarily" fill Mr Hsu's post. Mr Hsu said he was stepping down because he had "moral responsibility" for a
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    • 190 11 UPI BEIRUT, Tuesday IRAN said its warplanes bombed military and economic targets in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad yesterday, but later promised to halt attacKs on civilian targets after an appeal from United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar. "This is
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    • 78 11 UPI LONG BEACH (California), Tues A MOROCCAN, who claimed his ex-wife had broken Islamic law by divorcing him, repeatedly stabbed the woman and slit her throat with a ceremonial dagger as more than 100 horrified onlookers stood by in a shopping mall, police said on Sunday.
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    • 90 11 Reuter LONDON, Tuesday THREE wealthy Egyptian brothers yesterday won control of the group which owns Harroas, the London department store. The Al-Fayed broth ere, who already own the Ritz Hotel in Paris, spent £130 million (Ss3oB million) taking their stake in the House of Fraser
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  • money
    • 1341 12  -  By STEPHEN GUO Special to The Monitor THERE is growing optimism in the private sector after recent ministerial pronouncements about the role of the Government in the economy. The word that is being put forth is that the Government should take
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    • 242 12 Bank report says they will go up 1 or 2 per cent by mid-year US PRIME rates will rise by about 1 to 2 per cent in the middle of the year before easing back to 11 per cent by the end of the
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    • 174 13 WALL STREET Reuter WALL STREET stock {>rices moved slightly ower yesterday on reduced volume as investors, feeling no urgency to enter a largely directionless market, kept to the sidelines, analysts said. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.11 to 1268.55. Declining issues led gainers
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    • 36 13 The Straits Times Industrial Index closed yesterday at 841.98 The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed yesterday at 426.01, down 5.40 points The OUB Trade-weight-ed Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index fell 0.1439 point to 134.2105.
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    • 150 13 AP NEW YORK, Tuesday THE DOLLAR tumbled on world foreign exchanges yesterday, undercut t>y falling interest rates and expectations of slower economic growth in the United States. Gold prices were mixed in a narrow range in quiet trading. Republic National Bank in New York said gold bullion
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    • 768 13  -  By ANG PENG HWA STIFF competition has driven down general insurance premium rates to as low as half their levels five years ago Except for motor vehicle insurance, the rates for all classes of general insurance have fallen so far that some insurers
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    • 277 13  -  By JILL HUM A POST-BUDGET sellout hit the stock market yesterday with some dealers attributing it to disappointment over the absence of widely expected corporate tax cuts. The Straits Times Industrial Index closed 7.64 points down from Friday's level to 841.98. Dealers said speculators
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    • 133 13 THE LATEST Budget concessions have come in time to keep the salaries of 97 employees of Motor and Leasing intact. Mr James Lim, corporate services manager, said the company had yesterday decided to cut the salaries of only 23 of
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    • 12 12 pi STOKER JHE BROKER IS HELD OVER DUE TO PRESSURE ON SPACE
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 77 13 Freehold Residential SHOWCASE No Restrictions On Foreigner* 36 Designs in Particularly Good Taste cally sculptured housing blocks set amidst the sprawling and lush landA fl scape of dementi Park Phase 3C P I V just off Sunset Way, a location far Bookinfi S Enquiries r WCITV DEVELOPMENTS LTD I U,..
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  • opinion/letters
    • 622 14  -  CHIA SHI TECK Singapore 1440 THE Honourable Minister for National Development. Mr Teh Cheang Wan. once again has strongly asserted his belief in the fairness of his brain-child scheme of imposing development charges based on density in residential projects and plot ratio
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    • 196 14 DURING his forum with community leaders, and in Parliament, the Member for Marine Parade, Mr Goh Chok Tone, has stressed that it is the Government's intention during the next few years to pay particular attention to the needs of the lower income group. Yet
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    • 735 14  -  REPLY JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Officer SBS I REFER to the letter from "Hopeless" (SM, Feb 18). The writer commented on the planning of bus services in new towns and in Tampines in particular. The Singapore Bus Service (SBS) works closely with
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    • 479 15 THE SINGAPORE Mcamm|pi!iiH THE IMPENDING hike in fares has produced a sombre effect on some taxi drivers They fear that it will result in fewer passengers. This concern is not without foundation. There is enough public reaction for us to believe that some taxi
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    • 1014 15  -  DR GOH LEE GAN Honorary General Secretary 4th Council of Management Singapore 0316 THE President, Mr Devan Nair, speaking at the opening ceremony of the sth Biennial General Scientific meeting of the Association of Surgeons of South-east Asia on Feb 24 proposed, albeit
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    • 74 15 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 in pnnt. A contact telephone number would be useful. We
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • Article, Illustration
      328 16  -  Clothes from Miyako at Goldhill Square and Far East Plaza FEMININE APPROACH TO MAN-STYLING Co-ordinated by INEZ WEI IF LOOSE and comfortable casual wear is your style, then you must have been tempted to steal the shirt off his back at times. Now, top designers are offering some
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    • 257 16  -  By PAT D'ROSE SPANDAU BALLET will not perform in Singa-. pore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Hong Kong next month as scheduled. Show-promoter Jimmy Loh of Jasper Productions was finalising details for the Asian tour when he received a telex from the group's tour manager in
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    • 483 18 Finder of Lost Loves Goodbye, Sara (Malay subtitles) (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) CARY MAXWELL is asked to help an old man (Lew Ayres) locate his granddaughter, a wealthy debutante named Sara Hawthorne Nevins (Connie Sellecca). The case is of particular interest to him because of
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    • 599 18  -  wmm By WONG AH YOKE WHILE the script of The Tycoon is hardly original, it can still attract a devoted following with its many twists and turns. The Tycoon, the local Chinese drama about a department storeowner and his family, is
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    • 640 19  -  Oshima's film is propelled by an intensity of feelings TITLE: MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR LAWRENCE STARRING: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi DIRECTOR: Nagisa Oshima SHOWING: Lido Reviewed by WONG AH YOKE THERE does not seem to be much of a storyline in this movie.
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1282 17 i mmm m i R-I leisure ~SbBBqImm\JUKmL Tuesday, march 12, isas I\J -6WPC j ft 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. 300 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The njrt' _k Ji Struggle r l *J|l* 4 30 Story Time (Selected stories) (T) fl 5 00 Troupers (Last episode) "V 9
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 269 20 LES DEUX ANGLAISES ET LE CONTINENT ALLIANCE FRANCAISE will screen Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent tonight at 9 at the Cultural Theatre, Cuscaden Road. Directed by Francois Truffaut, it tells the story of two young pretty English sisters who fall in love with a French man. Admission is free.
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    • 379 20 Of Great Ideas and Proportions by Michael Schoenholtz...on display at the National Museum Art Gallery CHILDREN OF THE WORLD 3-DIMENSIONAL CONTEMPORARY A PHOTO exhibition by Gerhard Behr, GERMAN SCULPTURES AND REentitled Children of this World, will be LATED DRAWINGS oyhe-fy;'. ll Singapore THE Natjona Muse h Embassy the federal Republic
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    • 38 20 TODAY: TOMORROW: Low tide: 9.10 am Low lido: 9.57 am (0.2 m) (0.3 m) High tide: 3.25 pm High tide: 4.22 pm (2.5 m) (2.2 m) Low tide: 9.16 pm Low tide: 9.55 pm (0.8 m) (1 m)
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  • 533 21  -  l By LEE CHIU SAN ADVANCES in production methods have brought the prices of good equipment down to very affordable levels. And full electronic automation has taken care of the technical side of picture-taking. With most photographers having equally good hardware, software the mind behind the
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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    • 180 23 Caterers CAr FOOD/ BUNGALOW PROVIDED for buffet/ Barbecue etc at reasonable rates. Maximum 50 persons Tel: 284 4531. WE CATER BUFFET, barbeque. cocktail party for $8/- onwards Tables, chairs provided Annie 481 4782, 288 8097. Eating Spots KIPLING'S' CHOP HOUSE, 15th Floor, Asia Chambers, McCullum Street, where Executives lunch in
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    • 388 24 PEN PALS 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 10p.m.). Tel 292-1137/ 292-7285 Miss Katherine Reg no *****7/00W FOR COMPATIBLE CHRISTIAN friends, write:
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    • 193 24 Accommodation Vacant Av CLAYMORE PLAZA, MAISONNETTE and Apartments for immediate rental Interested please contact tel: 734-9181, Miss Ng SENNETT LANE/ SENNETT Road. 2 semidetached houses. Fully/ partially furnished for rent. Tel: 734-9181. Miss Nq FURNISHED/ UNFURNISHED ROOM to let at Bukit Purmei Interested please call 532 2789 during office hours
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    • 173 24 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 185 AND IN THE MATTER OF BARAT CORPORATION (PTE) LTD (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that the creditors of the abovenamed Company, which is being voluntarily wound up, are required, on or before the 15th day April
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      225 25 WEEK 3 IHE SINGAPORE MONITOR GET INTO the act and sign up today for the Puma/Monitor 10 km run If you don't already know, the run is for charity. It is the cancer victims of Singapore who will benefit from the money earned. The $800,000 the organisers hope
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    • 170 25 For charity Charity is reason enough. Your effort will help the thousands of cancer victims in Singapore. 10 km is an ideal distance This is not an impossible distance. It is a distance anyone can run, even if you haven't been in any
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    • 200 26 TODAY WE feature a story of a cancer victim, who not only managed to overcome the worst effects of the dreaded disease, but is now living a fuller life than ever before. "The word cancer is frightening, so when I heard that I had cancer I
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    • 704 26  -  ON THE ROAD with Louise McGrillen I USED to smoke sometimes up to 20 cigarettes a day. I don't claim that fact with pride but offer it by way of encouragement. I stopped smoking five years ago, about the same time I began
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      216 26  -  Train WEEK 3 with Herb Elliot Day 1: Jog 2V? to 3 km or 20 to 30 minutes walk. You start by jogging until you become short of breath, uncomfortable or unable to easily talk with a companion. Should that occur, stop and walk again at a comfortable
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    • 530 27 Zola's best victory this year will be getting off the front page and on to the back' MONITOR SPORTS COLOUR EXTRA IPS YESTERDAY: It was probably hot enough to fry an ostrich egg on the stones of Bloemfontein. Even the meagre, 45-kg body of Zola
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    • 137 27 TIME HAS blunted that tirade of abuse directed at Zola Budd by American beauty and superstar Mary DeckerSlaney following their dramatic collision in the 3,000 metres final at the LA Games. At last, American track experts and fans are coming round to the opinion that Zola was
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    • 476 28  -  By ERNEST FRIDA SINGAPOREANS will be able to see world class cricket when India and Sri Lanka play one-day matches tomorrow and on Thursday against Singaporean teams at the Padang Sri Lanka arrived last night after playing in the world one-day cricket championship in
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    • 261 28  -  By ERNEST FRIOA ONE AH KENG, the president of the Singapore Professional Golfers' Association, has called on members to train harder in view of the coming Singapore Open championship at the Bukit course. Unhappy with the performances of the professionals at the
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    • 328 29  -  >* v :a 'V tM By K SILVAM TWO SINGAPOREANS will get a chance to train alongside Italy's top cyclists and Los Angeles Olympic gold medallists, Bartalini Marcello, Giovannetti Marco, Poli Eros and Vadelli Caudio if they do well at next month's Asean
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    • 368 29 TRIP 2 NATIONAL judokas Chua Cheng Noi and Lee Poh Ngoh will be making their international debuts at the Asian Women's Judo Championships in Tokyo from April 23-24. Eighteen-year-old student Cheng Noi, who created an upset by winning last year's Pesta Sukan title in
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    • 246 30  -  By K SILVAM NATIONAL player Benson Wong will spearhead both the under-18 teams for the Asian Badminton Confederation (ABC) Championships and the 2nd Asian Youth training camp. The ABC tournament will be held in Kuala Lumpur from April 15-21 and the 2nd Asian Youtn training
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    • 298 30  -  FP DYNAMOS 1 CHANGI UNITED 1 By K SILVAM FAVOURITES Farrer Park Dynamos missed a golden opportunity to beat newly-promoted Changi United when they missed a penalty in the 14th minute. The Division One encounter at Jalan Besar last night proved frustrating for Dynamos' fans as
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    • 164 30 Reuter LONDON, Tuesday LIVERPOOL and Manchester United, the two most glamorous teams left in the English Football Association (FA) Cup, will clash in the semifinals on April 13. The match at Everton's Goodison Park ground was the only clear-cut tie in yesterday's draw
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    • 162 30 Reuter MONTEVIDEO, Tuesday URUGUAY, twice World Cup winners, made an inauspicious start to their 1986 campaign last night when an injury-time goal earned them a 2-1 win over Ecuador in their opening South American Group Two soccer tie. The 1930 ana 1950 world champions were flattered
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    • 144 30 Reuter BONN, Tuesday WEST GERMAN soccer chief Hermann Neuberger is to fly to Lisbon tomorrow to make a last-ditch attempt to have West Germany confirmed as hosts for the 1988 European Championship finals. Officially, Neuberger will try to persuade the European Football Union (Uefa) to include
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    • 36 26 PUMA-SINGAPORE MONITOR 10km CHARITY RUN Sunday 4th June 1985 STADIUM ROA0<^ Race Course START yV I FINISH NtCOLL S?i£S ST. ANOREW'S try iL x\// CONNAU0MT COU.YER QUAY ROBINSON JC/ |||||||S\ THE SINGAPORE V PUIIIH A MONITOR
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  • 579 31  -  MALAYSIA CUP '85 MONITOR sports A review by ALFONSO CHAN ALTHOUGH they won by a solitary goal, Singapore did not perform to expectations, coach Hussein Aljunied said after their Malaysia Cup match against Negri Sembilan at Seremban on Sunday. Well, if it's any consolation, Negri didn't
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    • 120 31 "fr&sSiS£ A (yrmyffttJXu Sales Department 30 E Jalan Pemimpin. Singapore 2067 Tal *****77 SPORTSCENE WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE PAGES Our colour special: HP^|j| Zola Budd: A jj world Wk \JM under her V H feet: Page 28 Italian stint for our cyclists: P 80 Two to make Tokyo judo debut:
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