Singapore Monitor, 30 April 1985, Afternoon Edition

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  • 16 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR feve^^S V EDITION 3 M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Tuesday, April 30, 1985 30cents
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  • 173 1  -  Report by SURESH NAIR TWO drivers miraculously escaped serious injuries after the vehicles they were driving a lorry and a van collided at Bukit Batok this morning. Traffic Police said the lorry collided into the van at the junction of Bukit Batok Central and Bukit
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  • 25 1 THERE will be no publication of both editions of The Singapore Monitor tomorrow Publication will resume on Thursday.
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  • 178 1 Beijing's bid to break ice dams in border area Reuter BEIJING, Tuesday CHINESE planes bombed ice dams which caused flooding along theHeilongjiang River bordering the Soviet Union this month and affected the lives of 10,000 people, a Chinese spokesman said today. He said flooding
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    • 16 1 M TV GUIDE: P 20 M HOLIDA Y SHOWS: P 21 M FILM GUIDE: P 22
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  • home
    • 439 2 A BUSINESSMAN was fined a total of (14,000 for having 131 video tapes, 130 of which were uncensored and one obscene. Lim Thye Seng, 35, was fined $100 for each of the 130 uncensored tapes he had and $1,000 for the obscene tape.
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    • 103 2 A MAN and a youth were charged with the rape of a 22-year-old woman at a toilet at Tiong Bahru Park on April 28 Ng Keng Cheong, 23, and Quek Keng Ho, 16, faced two separate charges of allegedly raping the woman. They
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    • 263 2  -  By JOSEPH LEE A MEMORANDUM has been signed between the four-member visiting delegation of China State Shipbuilding Corporation and Intraco Ltd, according to Mr Feng Zhi (right), president of the corporation. The memorandum will provide for future co-op-eration and trade between the
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    • 179 2  -  By CHEE LI CHOO DIAMOND studs for your nails? Or a 9-K gold nail fitted over the natural one? These are two items that a salon in town is offering for the "million-dollar look." According to Mrs Lynette Lee, who describes herself as a nail
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    • 237 3 THE PUBLIC Utilities Board this morning awarded contracts amounting to $170 million for the construction of a 2.6-kilometre undersea cable tunnel between Pulau Seraya and mainland Singapore. The contract also covers the installation of a 230 k/v cable through the tunnel for the transmission
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    • 213 3  -  By SURESH NAIR A PETROL kiosk clerk was waylaid by an armed robber in Ang Mo Kio and relieved of $60,000 in cash and cheques. Police said Miss Goh Siek, 21, was driving to a bank to deposit the
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    • 183 3 THE NEXT Singapore Festival of Arts will be held from June 6 to June 22, next year. The festival will feature performances by international and local talents in the performing and visual arts. The organising committee has decided to expand the
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    • 589 4  -  I was taken in by a 'glib-talking' professional canvasser, says manager By SIT YIN FONG A $2,000 REFUND has been made to a Singapore company which says it was misled by a "glib-talking canvasser." The company paid $200 each for 10 invitations to a professional
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    • 304 4  -  By K K FONG TWO MEN caught trying to bring petrol illegally across the Causeway at the weekend were fined much more than the duty they wanted to dodge and lost the petrol. The men had joined the droves of Singaporeans taking
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    • 164 4  -  By ROBERT CONCEICAO NGEE ANN Polytechnic is seeking help from banks and bank unions to find out why so few of its business studies graduates are getting bank jobs. Of the 2,322 business studies graduates since 1970, only about 30 have been
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 129 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS MR PETER CHEW says $1 million may save his department store from closure. The owner of Peter Chew's Private Ltd closed last week after two companies issued writs to recover debts totalling $48,000 said yesterday: "I don't blame the
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      • 91 4 A HELL-RIDING suspect being treated at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday discharged himself without the doctor's permission When a friend turned up to see him early yesterday afternoon, he had already gone. "He is a bit naughty and there's no way we can drag him back into
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      • 167 4 TAXI-DRIVERS have been shying away from having their fare meters converted into the new ones ever since NTUC-Comfort had been reported to have proposed a revised fare structure to reflect market conditions. The move began last Friday where even the taxi drivers who had had
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      • 92 4 MORE PEOPLE were down with the flu some time in the middle of this month. But the hotter-than-usual weather isn't the culprit, say doctors. The number of people down with the flu in the week of April 15 to April 21 was almost double that of
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  • world
    • 166 5 UPI LOS ANGELES, Tu*o ATLANTIC Richfield Co (Arco) considered vulnerable to a hostile takeover bid, announced yesterday a vast restructuring that includes a US$4 billion (558.84 billion) buyback of its own stock and thousands of layoffs. Arco's board of directors met during
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    • 472 5 Lianhe Wanbao, Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday IN A two-day counter offensive against the ruling Neo Yee Pan faction of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), the Tan Koon Swan faction has mobilised 69 per cent of the party's branches to distance themselves from
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    • 260 5 UPI GENEVA, Tuesday THE 40-HOUR work week "remains out of reach" for millions of workers around the world, and the length of the average work week has actually increased in some countries recently, a report said yesterday. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) said South
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    • 49 6 HU NA, the tennis star who defected from China, appearing as a guest star on a Taiwanese television show yesterday. Dressed in a Western dress, and her head crowned with flowers, the tall Chinese girl was an instant hit with the audience. PICTURE REUTER
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    • 494 6 AP BEIJING, Tuesday A WOMAN who acquires 10 lovers is considered a heroine among the Naxi people of Yunnan province. Their neighbours, the Wa, carried out human sacrifices until 1958. They are among 24 minorities near southwest China's sub-tropi-cal frontier where the communist
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    • 243 6 UPI CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida), Tuesday THE SHUTTLE Challenger streaked into orbit yesterday with seven men and a space zoo but the crew had a rocky start in space, capped by the failure of one of two tiny satellite* to spring free
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    • 132 6 Reuter NOUMEA, Tims KANAK militants seized at least 30 people today in a raid on an island airport in France's troubled Pacific territory of New Caledonia, aviation sources said. About 200 Melanesians surrounded the airport terminal building after a plane carrying security guards of the
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    • 93 6 Reuter CHICAGO, Tuesday CHILDREN from infancy should be tested for high blood pressure once a year to detect possible hypertension problems before adulthood, a group of US doctors recommended. The advice, in a report from a task force studying the ailment, was re- leased at
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    • 1391 8 VETNAM 10 YEARS AFTER SPECIAL REPORT BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON THE AGE NEWSPAPER, MELBOURNE CORRESPONDENT Michael Richardson visited South Vietnam last month. In this special report for The Singapore Monitor, he gives bis impressions of a city where communism and capitalism, state
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    • 77 10 Reuter STOCKHOLM, Tims THE prize money awarded to Nobel laureates will this {ear be increased by 50,000 crowns (5|35,200 dollars) to compensate for the declining value of the Swedish currency, the Nobel Foundation said yesterday. In dollar terms the value of the award will
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    • 196 10 UN officials declare 'war' on bad food in cafeteria Reuter UNITED NATIONS, Tuesday UNITED Nations officials yesterday left aside the grinding issues of world poverty, hunger and war to join a protest against bad food and smaller drinks served in their glass-towered headquarters. Hundreds of UN workers, among the world's
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 81 10 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS ■TO BE a white American Sikh from the midwest is rare. To be that and Michael Jackson's personal chef is unique. Mr Mani Khalsa (above) prepares every meal that the world's richest singing star eats. Andwhen Jackson left for Britain recently,
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      • 73 10 A NEW biography says Franklin Roosevelt had a serious teenage romance with a Boston socialite who turned down his marriage proposal, as well as a few of his overly amorous passes. Mr Geoffrey C Ward, author of "Before The Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt," says Alice Sohier turned
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      • 51 10 FRENCH President Francois Mitterrand (above) walking past a barb-wire fence during a visit to the snow-covered Struthof death camp in eastern France on Sunday. Struthof was the only concentration camp built in France during the Second World War. Some 12,000 prisoners died there between 1941 and
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      • 62 10 THE former Archbishop of Lusaka, recalled to Rome because of his faith healings that some called voodoo, is holding what he calls "healing masses" in the Pope's own diocese. Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo was recalled to Rome in 1982 amid reports that many of the thousands who attended
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      • 57 10 EDDY ARNOLD, the Tennessee sharecrop?er's son who by some estimates has sold about 0 million records since 1945, admits there's a lot of speculation about how much money he has made. "I only wish I was as rich as they say," says Arnord, the wealthiest
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    • 337 11 Reuter BEIJING, Tuesday SEVERAL hundred exiled Beijing residents yesterday appeared to have abandoned an eight-day public protest in the face of stern warnings from the city authorities to return to their remote Shanxi province. In mid-morning, there was no sign of the demonstrators outside the offices
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    • 217 11 UPI BEIRUT, Tuet CREW MEMBERS aboard an Israeli Ml 13 armoured personnel carrier wave the V" for Victory sign as they pull into the Israeli Army s new position along the security zone just north of the Israeli/Lebanese border. Almost as soon
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    • 96 11 UPI TORONTO, Tu«s CANADIAN Immigration officials yesterday ordered the deportation of a 46-year-old publisher who was sentenced to 15 montns in prison for distributing a booklet that contended the Nazi Holocaust was a hoax. Ernst Zundel, who has lived in Canada since 1958 without becoming
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    • 68 11 UPI MEMPHIS, Tims PIANO-POUNDING rock V roll star Jerry Lee Lewis was in a critical bat stable condition yesterday at the Methodist Hospital's intensive care anit and relatives said his internal bleeding had been stopped. Mrs Lewis said doctors have not determined whether the bleeding,
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    • 185 8 MING COURT HOTEL SINGAPORE Catfish on the menu?, I But not just any ICo I ordinary catfish. These are catfish imported fresh from where they re wheat. The meat of these catfish is white, nonoily, low in calories and fat, high in protein, vitamins and minerals! Explore all the tempting
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    • 8 8 ON THURSDAY: THE DISMAL STATE OF VIETNAM'S ECONOMY
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    • 880 12 RRI BANQUE BRUXELLES LAMBERT SA (Quoted in MMons of Belgian Francs) Consolidated Profit and Loss Account Consolidated Balance Sheet BOARD OF DIRECTORS as at 30th September 1984 as at 30th September 1984 30/9/83 30/9/84 30/9/83 30/9/84 Chairman BF BF BF BF Andre Dequae Debit Assets Interest and commission paid 85,673
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  • money
    • 457 13 Dr Goh says conditions here do not allow us to internationalise our currency FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Dr Goh Keng Swee yesterday gave three reasons why Singapore cannot allow large scale lending of Singapore dollars to foreign banks the way Swiss banks lend
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    • 137 13 ANZ SINGAPORE, the Singapore branch of the Australia and New Zealand Banking group, has launched what is believed to be the first bond booked here that is denominated in the European Currency Unit (ECU). A European Currency Unit is
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    • 67 13 TAN CHONG Motor Holdings Berhad has announced a 10 per cent fall in group pre-tax profits for 1984 from $74 million to $66 million. The audited results also showed post-tax profits dropping 5 per cent from $40 million to $38 million. The directors are
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    • 206 13 ISETAN faces gloomy prospects this year. The department store expects its Erofits for the current year to oe simiir to that for 1984, which saw a 78 per cent drop in pre-tax profits from $13.3 million to $2.9 million. After-tax profits declined as drastically by
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    • 250 14 THE LOCAL bourse opened quiet with the plantation sector firm. The rest of the market laciced lustre with slightly easier volume. Top gainer ICS gained 15 cents to close at $6.80, followed by Guthrie Ropel and Kulim, up six cents each to $3.16 and $2.26 respectively
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    • 517 14  -  By ANG PENG HWA REGARDLESS of bad times, a handful of public companies in the red are paying dividends. And they are doing it to maintain investor confidence. One company is even borrowing to meet the regular payouts to shareholders. According to
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    • 137 14 WHLLSTREET Reuter STOCKS skidded to their biggest one-day loss of the year yesterday as a combination of indicators suggested to investors that there is little prospect of an immediate improvement in the US economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by 15.46 points to
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    • 25 14 THE OUB Composite Share Price index closed at 401.92 down 1.70 points. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighted index was down 0.0748 point to 133.4030.
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    • 168 14 Reuter THE US dollar rose slightly against most major currencies in quiet early trading on end month book squaring. Dealers said activity was limited ahead of toLabour Day holiday with operators also sidelined awaiting the release later today of US March trade figures and leading indicators. The
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    • 244 14 Selected stocks at midday. market tone: slightly lower. Boustead 1.66/1.67 Cold Storage 2.50/2.56 F&N 5.00/5.10 Genting 5.75/5.80 G.I.H. 1.77/1.78 Haw Par 2.16/2.18 Isetan 2.00 B Keck Seng 2.17/2.21 ESSO 2.58/2.65 Inchcape 2.47 S M Cement 1.26/1.29 Metro 2.84/2.85 MPHB 0.90 B MUIB 2 34/2 35 Nat Iron 2.88/2.90 NOL
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    • 104 14 Your S$ to one unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/DD TT DD US* 2 2235 2.2135 2.2045 sterling 2.7743 2.7522 2.7422 Australian 1.4529 1.4289 1.4139 Canadian 1.6353 1.6152 1.6052 New Zealand 1.0183 0.9983 0.9733 CURRENCY NOTES S$ to 1 unit US* 2.22 2.20 NZ$ 1.05 0.98 sterling 2.80
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    • 396 15 PILECON Engineering, a piling company based in Malaysia, will begin trading under the second trading section of the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The 35 million 50-cent shares will be listed under the Industrial and Commercial section and trading will be on a
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous

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    • 1180 15 CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE 1984 CONSOUDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (in thousands of Canadian dollars) CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME for the year ended as at October 31 October 31 1964 1983 1984 1983 ASSETS Interest Income Income from loans, excluding leases 5,988,124 6,108,356 Cash Resources
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  • opinion / letters
    • 828 16  -  REPLIES DR GOH KENG SWEE Former First Deputy Prime Minister and former Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore DR RICHARD HU has told me that he was misquoted in the upbeat article in the Economist. He did not favour "internationalising" the Singapore
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    • 275 16  -  CHEW KING HWAN for Permanent Secretary (Education) I REFER to the letter "Harsh attitude impairs students' development" by "No Threats Please" (SM, April 9). We thank the writer for his views and suggestions. We would like to assure the writer that our principals and
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    • 178 16  -  LILY NAIR Singapore 1231 I REFER to the letter "Serangoon Rd shops have illegal foreign workers" by Bina Mehta (SM, April 23). Not only are the tosai shops and restaurants in Serangoon Road and its side-roads employing illegal foreign labour, they are also
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    • 186 16  -  MYLENE MINONG Singapore 2059 THIS IS in response to your article on the problem foreign maid (SM, April 22). Honestly I have nothing against the article for I agree that some foreign maids are a problem. I often read about the nasty
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    • 69 16 THE authorities should seriously consider closing such places as Bugis Street, as one reader suggested. We should not keep such places open to encourage homosexual activities. Singapore should provide clean fun instead of this kind of fun. Because AIDS (Acquired Immune
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    • 444 17 MONITOR BB^ffi ABOUT 29,000 cars crossed the Causeway in March, nearly 10,000 more than in the same month last year. Much of the increase in traffic was believed to be due to cheaper petrol available in Johor. A litre of petrol, albeit more polluting
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    • 304 17  -  BEE WAN DITZIG (MRS) Deputy Director Community Chest of Singapore WE REFER to the letter "Not all $3 m raised during SBC Show" (SM, April 18). We would like to make some clarifications. The Community Chest Show was produced by the Singapore
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    • 176 17  -  i Replies!; Jt* JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Relations Officer SBS I REFER to the letters, "SBS driver ignored commuter'' (SM, April 18) and "Reckless driving must be dealt with" (SM, April 14), complaining against a Service 10 and a Service 97
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    • 196 17  -  NG KEAT SENG for Commissioner of Inland Revenue PLEASE refer to Mr Nicky Lau's letter, "Four questions for taxmen on extra annual property tax" (SM, April 17). A property is reassessed when there is evidence that its annual value is incorrect. A correct
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    • 76 16 Y S>' A LETTERS on sny sublet of public interest wM be accepted lor publication. They should be typed and mutt be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful.
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    • 67 17 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wiH be accepted for publication 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 the right to edit letters Address
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous

  • leisure
    • 299 18  -  Clothes by THOMAS WEE BOUTIQUE; Hair by KELVIN ONG of HAIR*EM; Location PLUS DESIGNS Variations on a classic theme A\ xolX i Coordination by INEZ WEI: THE shirt, in many variations, has emerged tops in nearly every collection shown in recent months. And it has also earned
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    • 768 18 Three major sales throw auction halls Into a frenzy LAT-WP NORMALLY somewhat subdued, the auction halls at Sotheby's last week were marked instead by a distinct, if dignified, frenzy. "Madness," said a Sotheby's spokesman, deftly dodging the rig of a Japanese television crew. Just as
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    • 1139 20 Pro-Holiday Movie Tho Secret War of Harry Frigg (Chinese subtitles) {Ch 5,11.10 pm) DURING World War 11, five Allied brigadier-gen-erals were captured by the Italian army and detained in a luxurious villa. The situation becomes embarrassing for the Allied Command when the generals, all refusing
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1786 19 K THE SINGAPORE MONITOR /U leisure/tv TUESDAY, april 30. i»s w I 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pagtl. I 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights 9.29 Selera Rasa (M) (r) (English subti- I# I followed by Tha Struggle Mas). B I (English subtitles). Sharif ah Alowiyah Alkaf shows how y A I
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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    • 596 20 Holiday programmes 8.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Pages. and ethnicity. 9.00 Opening and Programme High- 6.10 Programme Highlights. lights followed by The Bugs Bun- 6.15 News (E). Ny/Road Runner Movie. 6.25 Doctor Snuggles The UnbelievThis compilation of some of the ebie Wormmobile. best of Warner Brothers' animated A friend visits Or
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 308 22 PAINTING OF THE YEAR THE United Overseas Bank Group's 4th Painting of the Year Competition will be divided into three categories abstract painting, representational painting and Chinese painting. It is open to all Singapore citizens, permanent residents and foreign artists residing in Singapore. An entrant may participate in more than
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    • 439 22 OUR HISTORICAL SITES Alain Resnais directed the film THE third and fourth shows in the which focuses on three days in the life series of Our Historical Sites will fea- a Spaniard. ture Serangoon Road and Malay Kam- Admission is free. pongs in Singapore. OLIVER S STORY These audio visual
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    • 75 22 ART BY WEE SHOO LEONG TODAY is the last day of the exhibition by young Singaporean artist, Wee Shoo Leong, at the Alliance Francaise, 4 Draycott Park. It will be held from 4 pm to 8.30 pm. Wee Shoo Leong represented Singapore in the First Asean Youth Painting Workshop held
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 792 23 leisure comics "241 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook mm lo'i i y AUT. imis -we trs ny WoMT AMLYSIS Y®tfVf CH*U»ItT*D AMD FiU4D S TTCOOIDWA EVIRTuttItDIH/ WltM FACTUAL fR*»RS/ 1 TV DoCU-DRAMA-. 1 k. Ji WHAT USt COOtD rr I tV \Mr\\iV POSSISIV HAV<? I m p*p«** n&sfos*® jgg tfS vrv'
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  • Netherlands National Day
    • 225 24  -  P. A. VAN BUUREN Ambassador of the Motherlands in Singapore ON the occasion of the official birthday of H M The Queen, it is fitting to look back to the year that has passed. Both Singapore and the Netherlands have experienced on the one hand, a growth in
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    • 595 24  -  By K C LOH (Assistant Landbouw Attache Royal Netherlands Embassy) THE Netherlands, acclaimed to be the world's second largest exporter of agricultural products, ranks first in the export of quality dairy products, eggs, potatoes, onions, cocoa powder, beer, vegetables and beautiful flowers. Like Singapore, the Netherlands
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    • 674 25 Renewed impetus to transport sector IN 1984 the economy of the Netherlands was characterised by very high exports and a recovery in industry. Flourishing foreign trade in turn gave a renewed impetus to the Dutch transport sector. As a result the volume of
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    • 387 25 AS a result of the economic recession in recent years a painful process of rationalisation has been carried through in Dutch industry. However, the fittest concerns which survived this process recorded a marked growth in their operating results for the first time in several years, thanks largely
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    • 386 25 THANKS to the kindly mood of the weather gods the Dutch farmers were able to enjoy a fruitful year. The yields of major products such as potatoes and cereals reached very satisfactory levels. The potato crop totalled 4.3 million tonnes (-*-26.4 per cent), while the cereals harvest
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    • 363 26 AFTER declining for four years, the net national Income climbed back up to the 1980 level. Income per head of the population rose to just slightly below the 1980 level. In other words, per capita income in 1984 went up by two per
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    • 427 27 TODAY, the Netherlands is leaping forward culturally, shedding but not forgetting its traditional tourist image. Gradually, the windmill and tulip concept around Holland is no more than a background. In the meantime, this fast developing nation is busy painting a new cultural picture, which every visitor
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    • 80 27 TO the Dutch the preservation of monuments and historic buildings is of vital importance. Alreday, more than 40,000 are protected. In some cases this includes entire cities which have been designated National Monument Towns. Nearly every city, town and village in the Netherlands is steeped in
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    • 963 28 AS WITH the performing and visual arts, museums form a large and important part of the country's culture. What visitors see collected, preserved and presented in these museums often represent those very things which have helped to shape Dutch culture into what it is today. When
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 42 25 Q,yQ. ;Ban& congratulates tfie Queen and tfk people of tfk IktMands on tf»e occasion of Queens Da^ NMB BANK Let us point you in the right direction NMB Bank (Singapore) Ltd. 5 Shenton Way, #21-01 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****44 Telex: RS *****
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 48 26 Congratulations Best Wishes to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on the occasion of the Queen's Day from HOOGE WERFF-CWT SERVICES (PTE) LTD 47,Jalan Buroh, Singapore226l Telex: HOOCWT R*****7 Tel: *****02, *****22 FORWARDING WAREHOUSING TRUCKING CHARTERING SPECIALISTS IN HANDLING ORES, NON-FERROUS PRIMARY METALS, FERRO-ALLOYS AND OTHER PRODUCE.
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    • 51 26 Hartelijk gefelkiteerd! Jgratulations!" 2 Netherlands celehe Queen's birthday April. And we at er toast our Dutch e reflect with pride iwth over the years. I for excellence has vay for our success And it remains our lie years to come. EMEYER OF COMPANIES id Office, Asia, i Road, Singapore 2158.
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 43 27 Congratulations Best Wishes to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on the occasion of the Queen's Day from m Heath Langeveldt Rollins Private Ltd. #07-01, Nedlloyd House, 1 Finlayson Green, Singapore 0104 Tel: *****44 Telegrams: HEATHLANG" Telex: RS ***** Insurance Brokers Consultants.
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    • 40 27 Congratulations Best Wishes to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on the occasion of the Queen's Day from A Akzo Chemie Singapore Pte Ltd 19 Tannery Road Singapore 1334 Telephone: 748 9569 The Specialty Chemcials Division of Akzo N.V.
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    • 197 28 Congratulations and Best Wishes to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on the occasion of the Queen's Birthday CARPET WALLCOVERING SPECIALISTS Our fin* selection ol Other decor products carpet* include: represented: Bigelow} sM OzKtß home and luxury office jjMI §1 turf fully guaranteed for f vßpl m Singapore conditions
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  • 329 29 PHOTOGRAPHY KODAK and The Singapore Monitor will be launching a promotion for photographers in which $600 worth of Kodak prizes will be given away every month between now and the end of the year. This Kodak/Singapore Monitor Photographic Promotion is aimed at
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  • 224 29 THERE is no need for entry forms. Simply send in your 3R prints, (taken with any Kodak film and printed on Kodak paper) with details of yourself and your equipment written on the back. We require your name, age, address, occupation and phone number. As
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  • 192 29 BEGINNING next month, the Photographic Society of Singapore will be conducting a comprehensive course in black and white pictorial photography. The threemonth course is scheduled to start in mid-May. The secretary of the Photographic Society of Singapore, Mr David P C Tay, said that
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
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    • 349 30 WldSStflM Acts Tel: 273 9090 Classified Ad Rates Sii»4por« Monitor: Sunday Monitor: W*«4e 0.35 i<nti par word O.SS cents p»r word fHifUy 17.70 per col. cm SlO.OO ptr col cm Baelaeee Mrs Moa-Frl. 9am-Spm Sat. 9am-Ipm ACCOUNTING the first name in forms Add aN good deal some more 274 7474/
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    • 223 30 FOOD CORNER CATERERS DORIAN EATERBI (SPECIAL duriarts) air flown from Medan. Interested phone: 781 1392/ 762 0630. Free delivery direct to your homes. WE CATER BUFFET, barbeque, cocktail party for $8/- only. Tables, chairs provided. Annie 481 4782, *****15, 288 8097. INDONESIAN BUFFET 440 3255. MEMORY CATERER 481 9428. MRS.
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    • 298 30 At Your Service AYS X X S For your service, we S win assist you to c V recruit aN kinds of S N manpower for all N S kinds of Jobs. V S Wo also do painting S and renovation. e House/office N removal N v e Area cleaning
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    • 367 30 T.V. A VIDEO SERVICES Tyy KASSIM ELECTRONICS 257 1704/ 758 0692. LAG ELECTRICAL Electronics Service 743 4862 MOON HONG CTV Services 782 6814. SHARP ELECTRICAL Service 443 1493. MOTORMART Car Rental a EASTERN UNITED (Car Truck Rental) 440 2204/5. THREE STAR 440 6772/ 235 0256. PARTY Decorators 1 EB QNOMES
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    • 320 30 PROPERTY Accommodation Vacant BUKIT TIMAH MANSION luxuriously furnished apartment for immediate rent. For immediate rental call 235-2411, Miss Ng. WALKING DISTANCE TO Orchard Road. 3/ 4 bedrooms, quiet, with/ without pool. Hoe-Tan; 734-7821. WATTEN ESTATE CONDOMINIUM. Luxurious town houses available for rent. Partially/ fuKy furnished. Tel: 734-9181, Miss Ng. PUBLICATIONS
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    • 140 30 SWIMWEAR SPEEDO SWIMWEAR, sole agent Shatome Associates 737 7562. THE MEETING PLACE HUMBLE CHINESE GENTLEMAN, aged 37 would like to meet mature career ladies of good nature. Write in with contact phone number to S.M. Box 531 #03-01 Delta House. 2 Alexandra Road. Singapore 0315 WIDELY TRAVELLED, CHRISTIAN career woman,
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  • 393 31  - Twenty-five coaches to join A W scheme By ERNEST FRIDA LIM HONG KANG and his wife, Pritam, who have not seen eye to eye with the Singapore Amateur Athletics Association for the past two years, especially with specialisation, nave sportingly agreed to join the A W training scheme. The scheme
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  • 92 31 COACHES who hive either submitted their forms or have given their assurance to Join the scheme are: Andrew Khoo, Lim Hong Kang, Pritam Lim, Tan Soo Hian, Wong Chong Sai, Bernard Jaw, Lim Boot Hiang, Glory Barnabas, Chow Weng Kai, Yeo Hock Ann, Ng Chor Tan, C Jayapandian,
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  • 552 31  -  By JEREMY YEO Special to The Monitor WHILE other seeded players breezed into the third round of the Ascot 10th Singapore Closed Squash ChamEionships at Kallang yesterday, fifth seed Kelvin Sng ad to fight tooth and nail for 70 minutes to subdue
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  • 139 31 SINGAPORE Armed Forces are back in winning form in the national InterClub league tennis championships. The army boys, who did not win any title last season, were in fine form in the C and B Grade championships this time. While their C graders beat YMCA
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  • 79 31 CEYLON Sports Club will go all out for revenge aainst Singapore Cricket ub in the annual hockey clash for the Muthu Trophy at Bales tier Road topm). CSC, who won the trophy at their ground in IMS, lost it to SCC last year at the Padang.
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 534 31 classified s 273-9090 NOTICES Mortgagees' Sale I I Of Properties By I I Public Auction I I To Be Held At No. 6 Cecil Street #02-04. I People's Insurance Building. On Wednesday. Bth May 1985 at 3.00 p.m. I Particulars I I Landed Properties I I 1) No. 55 Lorong
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    • 404 31 In the Matter off THE COMPANIES ACT (CHAPTER 185) AND In the Matter of UNION AQUARIUM CO (PRIVATE) LTD (In Members Vokm tary Liquidation) NOTICE OF PINAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Chapter 185, the final meeting of the members of
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  • sports
    • 456 32  -  Diet by ANNE BARRY YOUR BODY'S need for fluid is not just something that comes into play during exercise. After all, how many cups of tea or coffee do you go through on your more restful days? Even totally inactive people
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    • 510 32 WATCH for the Bedok Runners. They started as a "social running club" but interest generated has been such that they are now seriously thinking of registering themselves as an association. "We started out over two years ago with a small group of people in the district sharing
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    • 112 32 OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER: SEIKO BY NOW, those of you who have already sent in your entry forms for the 10 km run would have re- ceived an acknowledgement and a note to Inform you to collect the sponsorship cards from the race office at the Singapore
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    • 353 32  -  ON THE ROAD by Louise McGrillen INJURY is the bane of every runner's life. It strikes indiscriminately and always without mercy. It sneaks up on you like a thief in the night and strips you of all the months ana miles of hard
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    • 388 33 SPORTS CHATTER COACH Hussein Aljunied and his players have come under lot of fire for "poor" performances in recent Malaysia Cup matches. But let's not look at the situation from just one angle. Spare the Young Lions a thought. They are not as bad
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    • 318 33  -  By K SILVAM LAST South East Asia Games' gold medallist Wong Shoon Keat will lead a seven-member junior badminton team to the 2nd Asian Youth Training Camp in Hong Kong as coach. This will be Shoon Keat's first coaching training overseas since he took
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    • 352 33  -  By B KULA LOSING weight may be a problem to you, but not to Singapore's threetime Mr Asia, Fatholomein Ali. Fatholomein, our gold medal hope for the Asean Championships this Saturday, has only four days to shed seven kilogrammes to be eligible for the
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    • 630 34 Reuter NEW YORK, Tuesday HIS NICKNAME is "The Truth" and if the truth be known, Carl Williams hardly seems qualified to step into the ring with Larry Holmes. Even the 25-year-old Williams conceded that many people were going to be saying
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    • 1119 34 OVER 350 GOLFERS from eight golf clubs in Singapore and two from Malaysia have entered for the Singapore Island Country Club Open Day tournament at the New course and Old course tomorrow. Proceeds of the tournament will go to the Community
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    • 161 34 Reuter AN 18-MEMBER Combined Schools' waterpolo contingent comprising three officials and 15 players, will be sent to Medan, Indonesia, for a one-week training-cum-education-al tour in late June. The schools' selection board intend to choose the players from a pool of 30. Although the players
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  • Page 32 Advertisements
    • 296 32 J ,OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM —II PUM A-SING APORE MONITOR 10 Km CHARITY RUN, DlllllO ivwriro I" aid Of the Singapore Cancer Society ruilin Sunday, Sth Juna, 1985 (Undar lAAF/SAAA Rulaa) r.ni.r.i <-»■,,■« r SURNAME MALE FEMALE WwCHon avva/ iiitittt r i n i i i i i i i i
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  • Page 33 Advertisements
    • 129 33 CROCODILE women TENNIS CLASSIC *85 Come and watch the World Famous n TENNIS WONDERGIRLS in action M Don't miss this FIRST ever event MTV in Singapore! Featunng GABRIELA SABATINI No 1 World Junior Champion; HU NA, China's Former Tennis Queen; SOPHIE AMIACH, leading French player; and MERCEDES PAZ, No 4
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    • 215 34 STEINERS I VieW Of Commander I the world I of sports Designed for sports fans, the M H new Steiner Winner 7 x 35 I EWWGA combines the finest in I optical engineering with the latest in "Til I digital timing. This unique wide- f All H angle binocular with
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 29 35 Possible England line-up: Peter Shilton, Kenny Sansom, Terry Butcher, Trevor Steven, Mark Wright, Trevor Francis, Bryan Robsou, Tony Woodcock, Paul Mariner, Luther Blisset, John Barnes.
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    • 430 35 LONDON, Tuesday BOBBY ROBSON believes England are iust one match away from qualifying for the 1986 World Cup finals and returning to their rightful place in soccer the top. The England manager told reporters that five successive wins prove he has found the right
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    • 190 35 WON: 15, LOST: 6. DRAWN: 7. GOALS FOR: 51. GOALS AGAINST: 16 EC European' Championship HI Home International F Friendy WC- World Cup Date Venue Opponent* Result Comp 22.09.82 A Denmark 02-2 EC 13.10.82 H W Gefmany L1-2 F 1711.82 A Greece W3-0 EC 15.12.82 H Luxembourg
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    • 418 35 IPS England skipper Bryan Robson speaks up for manager Bobby-Rob-son WHEN are Bobby Robson's critics going to back off? Criticism of the England boss has been unfair and upsetting. We intend to go for outright victory over Romania which will stamp our passports
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