Singapore Monitor, 3 May 1985

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    • 194 2  -  By BENNY ORTEGA THE GOVERNMENT has hired a British consultant to help improve its public relations. Mr Peter Brazier, 51, arrived last week for a onemonth stint with the Ministry of Communications and Information. He will review the ministry's internal and external information services. A
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    • 86 2 HOME renovators may soon be able to consult an advisory committee on how to assess building materials and how to supervise renovation projects. In a proposal made by the renovation contractors association, the advisory committee within the association will be able to protect homemakers against
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    • 282 2  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG MOST of last year's Singapore Polytechnic graduates had no problem finding jobs, according to the latest issue of Polynews, the institution's newsletter. A survey conducted last July showed that of the 2,678 respondents to the survey, 98.2 per cent
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    • 635 2  -  By SIT YIN FONG and CHEW YEN FOOK MALAYSIAN Police last night said they had freed on bail a Singapore motorcyclist arrested for "obstructing" police in an incident involving Kota Tinggi Police and a group of 30 Singapore motor cvclists accused of nell-rid-ing.
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    • 171 2  -  By JOSEPH LEE A CONTAINER leasing company has taken winding up action against a shipping company for debts it claims have been unpaid for more than two years. Shipping sources say Sin Chiao Snipping (Pte) Ltd owes Flexivan Leasing Inc of
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    • 200 3 Lianhe Zaobao THE TRAFFIC Police issued more than 2,000 warning letters to heavy vehicle drivers and owners on May Day the first day of its campaign against illegal parking by heavy vehicle. These drivers and owners will be given a seven-day "educational" reprieve
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    • 346 3  -  By CHEE LI CHOO BAD TIMES for some can mean good times for others that's what Singapore security firms are finding out. As dwindling business puts companies into receivership and closes factories, things have seldom been better for the Republic's professional watchdoes. The
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    • 244 3  -  By CHEE LI CHOO TWO CHURCHES faced a common problem lack of a permanent home. So they found a common solution. They pooled their resources and have just moved into a $2 million new building in West Coast Road. The two Protestant
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    • 246 4  -  By SURESH NAIR "SPORADIC" raids will be made on Singapore construction sites in a new crackdown on inhalant abuse and other forms of drug-taking. The operation, codenamed Operation Net, began on May Day, two days ago. It will be intensified in the next
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    • 197 6  -  By ROBERT CONCEICAO A MAN who makes money by appealing to the 'monkey' in us has been showing his wares to three official bodies in Singapore. Mr Conrad Roland says a belief that man likes to climb because he descends from the apes led him
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    • 414 6  -  By GANDHI AMBALAM SINGAPORE'S dentists are feeling the pain of falling numbers of patients and they have asked the Government for help. The dentists say their business has dropped by 20 to 25 per cent, compared with a year ago. They want
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    • 140 6 Lianhe Wanbao ONE HUNDRED and eight circuit breakers were stolen from a new block of housing board flats in the Yishun New Town. The equipment, installed between the sth and 10th levels of the still unoccupied Block 722, is worth $19,000. According to
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    • 131 6 YOUNG people have been ignored too long, says the Family Planning Association of Singapore. So it plans a "brainstorming" session on social and sexual matters for about 200 people aged between 15 and 24. The programme will be part of the association s activities for International
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    • 249 7  -  By MICHAEL LIEW A WOMAN set out to trap a persistent obscene phone caller but endea up being molested by him. Sick of his lewd suggestions, she invited him to her house, pretending her husband was out, when in fact he was hiding in another
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    • 374 7  -  By CATHARINE FERNANDO FORMER STAFF of Singapore Airlines are forming a retirees' club with a difference. The aim is not to help people live a life of leisure in their twilight years but to help them keep working. The plan has the
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    • 143 7 Lianhe Zaobao ZHANG SHUXIAN, the seven-year-old girl who was hit and injured by a piece of pipe thrown off a block of flats in Ang Mo Klo, is still recuperating at home. She was taken to Toa Payoh General Hospital last Wednesday,
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    • 452 5 NEW REQPE FOR A COOL FLAT y jxJhke one standard Add Dai kin aircon hole in Econair Spacesaver your bedroom wall. System. Thafe all. /'j e w Makes 4 deliciously cool rooms (instead of only one). What a fresh new idea. V 0311 hear yourself think. At last, lb think
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    • 163 6 again One freedrink, for every drink you order Get ready for the happiest happy hours in town. Drink as much as you like and we'll match each drink, glass for glass (offer not valid for drinks ordered by the bottle), lottomsup! ippy hours are from 5-7 pm. dnesday and Friday
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  • world
    • 154 8 AP WASHINGTON, Friday THE REPUBLICAN-controlled US Senate, spurning a trans-Atlantic lobbying campaign by President Ronald Reagan, yesterday voted to pare the Reagan Administration's defence request by US$l7.7 billion (S$S9.B billion) over the next three years. The Pentagon build-up has "created a new set
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    • 322 8 UPI CENTER MORICHES (New York), Friday TWO TODDLERS were hospitalised yesterday after eating 89 LSD pills left on a living room coffee table. They were reported to be in critical condition. Three-year-old Robert Walsh Jr and his little brother Michael, 2,
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    • 77 8 NO, it wasn't the familiar flag of Poland's most famous trade onion, Solidarity, the yonth (above) was waving on Mny Day, two days ago, in Gdansk, whose shipynrds saw were the scene of the birth of the ootlnwed trade anion. Rather, it was a
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    • 414 9 Communist bloc countries turning to the West for hard currency and technology UPI LONDON, Friday THE SOVIET UNION is losing control of East European affairs as Communist bloc countries turn to the West for hard currency and technology, the International Institute for Strategic Studies said.
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    • 73 9 REFLECTED in a dentist's mirror, 8-year-old Chris Noel's microdot appears on a molar. Dentists in Miami interested in protecting schoolchildren are experimenting with a microfilm dot that would contain snch vital information as name and phone number and could be painted onto a child's tooth. The
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    • 152 9 UPI BANGOR (Main*), Fri THELMA BERUBE a 69-year-old woman known to neighbours as "Grandma" says she began peddling marijuana to supplement her social security benefits. The woman, who celebrated her birthday on Tuesday, appeared in Bangor district court on Wednesday and pleaded innocent to
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    • 436 9 Agencies UNITED NATIONS, Friday A SERIOUS outbreak of malaria and fears of a food shortage in the second half of 1985 contributed to a deteriorating situation in Cambodia, the head of the UN relief operation there said yesterday. Tatsuro Kunugi,
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    • 372 10 Reuter LAQOS, Friday NIGERIA has concluded a US$l billion (5|2.2 billion) accord linking crude oil sales to purchases of goods from France, a senior official involved in the deal said yesterday. Mr Philippe Kuhn, financial controller of the Scoa Nigeria group involved in
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    • 92 10 Reuter LONDON, Fri THE WORLD-FAMOUS Sadler's Wells Opera and Dance Theatre may have to close if it fails to raise £7 million (5518.7 million). Theatre director Stephen Remington told a news conference yesterday that facilities for performers and audience
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    • 397 10 UPI STOCKHOLM, Friday SWEDEN'S foreign trade was virtually shut down and commercial flights were grounded yesterday in a walkout by 20,000 vital civil servants, including customs officials and air traffic controllers, tax bureaucrats and policemen. "A long strike that cripples the foreign
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    • 170 10 Agencies BONN, Fri UNITED States Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt yesterday stalked out of a White House Press briefing and a senior Bonn Government official later complained that he had "turned West German policy on its head." Mr Burt, widely expected to be
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 41 10 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's daughter, Irina, (above), in a rare public appearance. She was attending the May Day parade at Moscow's Red Square. Together with her was her daughter Oksana. PICTURE: REUTER
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      • 79 10 YEHUDI Menuhin, one of the world's most famous violinists, has become a British citizen, his agent said yesterday. Mr Menuhin, 69, received his naturalisation papers in February but waited for a reception in his honour last night given by British Arts Minister Lord Gowcie Before making
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      • 116 10 NEARLY everybody in the Chinese city of Chongaing has the telephone number of the mayor, and they have filed complaints ranging from dimly lit schools to a toilet shortage since starting a hotline last year. "Mayor Yu Hanqing*is just a telephone call away, the official news
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      • 94 10 RICHARD Bass (right), the flamboyant Texan who has just become the oldest man to climb Mount Everest, returned safely to base camp yesterday. Mr Bass reached the top of the world's highest mountain on Tuesday afternoon aged 55 years, four months and nine days. His
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      • 125 10 AMERICAN writer James Baldwin, author of Go Tell it on the Mountain and other tough works about racial discrimination in the United States, says the "angry young man" tag given him by the press no longer sticks. Baldwin, who shot to fame during the Black Civil
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    • 90 10 'O I 4 May 1985 ange of working clothes at rday, 4 May 1985. nest international buffet in I of soups, salads, appetizers, f meats and desserts. Buffet Hours: 11 30am —2.30pm Show Time. Fashion Show starts at 1.30pm by Elsa Yeo Model Agency Price: $12.50++ (Adults) B.oo++ (Children under
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  • money
    • 901 11  -  BY CATHERINE ONG and ANG PENG HWA "EVERY morning for two hours I dictate my editorials and I tell you, within a month I solve every problem in the United States and in the world. And you know fortunately nobody remembers
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    • 111 11 Reuter WASHINGTON, Friday ONE OF America's biggest brokerage firms, E F Hutton and Company, pleaded guilty yesterday to 2,000 counts of fraud for writing cheques in excess of funds deposited at more than 400 US commercial banks. The Justice Department said the essence
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    • 130 12 g MMLLSTREET J UPI STOCKS FINISHED with mixed results yesterday, as disenchanted investors continued to be confused about the economic outlook. Speculative energy issues stole the show, and blue-chips recouped some losses. The Dow Jones industrial average gained a feeble 0 22 to 1,242 27.
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    • 55 12 THE Straits Times Industrial Index closed yesterday at 795.53, up 3.72 points from Tuesday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed yesterday at 404.45 up 1.59 points from Tuesday's close of 402.86. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index fell 0.1187 points to 133.1952 at the close, compared
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    • 163 12 AP THE AMERICAN dollar staged a broad advance yesterday, reaching its highest level in a month with the help of growing expectations of renewed economic strength and rising interest rates in the United States. Gold prices were mixed on world bullion exchanges. Republic National Bank in New
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    • 398 12  -  By FRANCINE C BREVETTI in Hong Kong Special to The Monitor THE USE OF automated teller machines (ATMS) internationally will more than double by 1990, according to a United States (US) manufacturer of the cash dispensers and Asia will figure largely
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    • 256 12 OPPORTUNITIES IN Singapore were what lured Dr Vincent Yip now an Economic and Development Board director back home. Dr Yip, head of research and development at the Board, is an example of the many bright Asians who are returning home from studies
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    • 91 12 Bernama BANGKOK, Fri GOVERNORS of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) board ended their annual meeting here yesterday generally satisfied with the economic performance in developing Asia. They however, voiced concern over protectionist tendencies which impeded developing countries access to external markets. Most governors pointed
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    • 174 12 THE HAMMER will soon come down on what remains at Mohan's department store. While more than 30 creditors scramble to get their money back, bargain-hungry Singaporeans will get a chance to pick up more than 2,000 consumer items at a three-day public auction
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    • ANSWER BOX
      • 338 13 THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUERIES Q: WHAT doe* the phrase, "Children pass ratio 3:2 adults" mean to a bus commuter? Can a company donating $50,000 to the Community Chest Show claim income tax relief for that amount In its tax returns? What are the
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      • 58 13 Is something troubling you? Do you need clarification on certain issues? Let us belp. Send your queries to us and we will try to get the relevant authorities or organisations to provide the answers. Send your questions to: Open Line, The Singapore Monitor, 2 Alexandra
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      • 208 13 Q: I AM a senior citizen and holder of a Singapore Bob Service concession bus pats. Please enlighten me if It is possible for the bos company to waive the ruling that I have to show the pass to the driver when both my hands are
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      • 209 13 Q: I WOULD like to enquire if there is a minimom age before one can apply for a POSB cash-on-line card. I am 17 going on to 18 this July. Can I apply? Some of my friends applied for the card when they
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      • 221 13 Q: MY HUSBAND had a "s lipped-disc" two years ago and though his condition does not call for surgery, he still feels the pain occasionally. Please advise what form of exercise is good to strengthen his bach muscle. Does swimming help? His shoulder and neck
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      • 193 13 Q: I HAVE this problem which has been bagging me for quite some time and hope you can help me. For the past six months or so I have been experiencing excessive hair loss. I realise that my hair drops at any time dnrlng the day
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    • 243 13 THE new Kebun Bam Community Centre at 216, Ang Mo Kk> Avenue 4 will be opened to the public on May 11, replacing the old centre at Blk 114, Ang Mo Kk> Avenue 4, #01-559 which will be closed. BRICKWORKS Community Centre Youth
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  • opinion / letters
    • 85 14  -  ANAK SINGAPURA Singapore 0410 EDUCATED women are offered incentives to have more children, such as higher tax relief for women with at least five "0" levels. A better incentive would be for employers to grant them paid maternity leave for the birth
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    • 349 14  -  TWO SIDES OF A STORY Singapore 1543 WHILE the alleged child abuse of Meijing (SM, April 25) seems totally appalling, did anyone pause to ponder the circumstances that caused the mother to react the way she did? Although the
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    • 101 14  -  C C L Singapore 0105 IT COSTS thousands of dollars to construct a building. Yet a building that used to house the Housing and Development Board's (HDB) staff clinic at Viking Road has been vacant and left to dilapidate for more than three
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    • 1454 14  -  at--rocus v, By TOH NAM SENG WHEN we talk of Japan's taxis, two oncepopular terms come naturally to mind: Kamikaze taxis" and "pick-and-choose taxis." The so-called "kamikaze taxis" are those whose drivers swerve in and out of traffic lanes
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    • 481 15 THE gNGAPOftTi^MBMBI tiomm KBBffiiWl REMEMBER Nawal El Moutawakel? Don't feel bad if you don't. But thousands of Moroccans do. They greeted her victory in the women's 400 metres hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics with a chorus of car horns in Rabat, the Moroccan
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    • 208 15  -  REPLIES SEEK HANG PENG for Registrar of Vehicles PLEASE refer to the letter "But heavy vehicles are polluting the air" by "Pro Clean-Air Campaign" (SM, Apr 24). We share "Pro Clean-Air Campaign's" concern on vehicles emitting excessive smoke. The Registry of
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    • 65 15  -  JEANNE TAY (MISS) Public Relations Officer Singapore Broadcasting Corporation PLEASE refer to the letter, "Subtitles for Japanese shows help," from Miss Florence Tan on the dubbing of Japanese variety shows (SM, Apr 19). We are pleased to inform the writer that the names in romanised letters of
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    • 259 15  -  R W WOODWORTH Director Public Relations Department Republic of Singapore Police I REFER to the letter by Y S Wong, who wrote in the Singapore Monitor of April 11 about officers with "A" level qualifications who joined the Force over 10
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 74 15 LETTERS on any subject of public interest will be accepted tor publication. They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the water'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
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

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    • 549 16  -  By PAT D'ROSE SHE was the sensuous Cat Woman in the television adventure, Batman, and got an Emmy nomination for her part in I Spy. And she was declared the "most exciting woman in the world" by Orson Welles, her co-star in a stage production
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    • 414 16 Andy's a flue singer FEW actors who come to perform in live theatres in Singapore can actually sing. So it was a pleasant surprise to find that Andy Lau Tak Wah, currently one of the most popular television actors in Hong Kong, is also a fine singer. Andy,
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    • 74 16 LISA WANG, the Hong Kong actress of many talents, will perform at the Golden World Live Theatre from tonight till May 9. She has just finished an engagement at the Apollo Nightclub. Lisa, who prefers doing concerts to performing in nightclubs, will dish out a string
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    • 423 16 Pat D'Rose A ST'ARS (Singapore Theatre's American Repertory Showcase) dancer tore a ligament during this year's Chingay Festival, but the subsequent surgery and her crutches did not stop her from auditioning for and getting a part in The Music Man But Allison Krone's hopes that her
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    • 1064 16  -  With PAT D'ROSE MNM IK NTHI Apollo: Gina Ler and the Scorpions and Cambodia alternate on the stage of the lon Bar. It is pop and rock music all the way. At the end of May, the lon Bar will be closed for renovations for about three
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    • 559 18 Friday Background (Ch 5, 7.5S pm) TEN years have passed since the Americans pulled out of Vietnam. During the war years, the world saw vivid, haunting images of one of the most documented wars on television. Friday Background examines the objectivity of media coverage, and
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    • 560 18  -  TV SCENE By WONG AH YOKE AFTER the success of the Tang poetry series two years ago, the Sport and Culture Section of the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation is planning a series in Chinese on poetry from the Sung Dynasty. A series on Chinese poetry cannot be
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    • 381 19 Wong Sing Yoong A romantic comedy ROMANCE is at the heart of the comedy, Affectionately Yours. The lead characters are Alan (Alan Tam), a florist from Hong Kong, and Sachiko (Atsuko Yamazaki), a Japanese girl from a wealthy family. Their relationship is rife with problems chiefly Alan's
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1360 17 2.30 SBC TEXT Uv* Sample ways J 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights saving a marriage. I followed by The Passenger (C) (r). 6.50 Family Pact J f 4.30 Kidawortd.* Besides a to Bukit Merah Old /"f Featuring a scenic canoe trip and in- Folks' Club, the first its kind in
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    • 188 17 ........v. -J Noon Newsdesk 12.30 Country Music Profile 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.00 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 1.30 The Pleasures of Seeking 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Brain of Britain 1985 3.00 World News 3.09 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 3.30 Land of a Thousand
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 502 19 FILM GUIDE r-T"- -"11 •-—iimnf JUrjpMBH. ounding the fall of Cambodia in 1975 and 9.30): A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET the takeover by the Khmer Rouge. It is (E) AF AF FECTIONATELY YOURS (C) San interpreterand friendDith Pran. FECTIONATELY YOURS (C) (11^ 7 30 REQAL (*****59) (1.30, 4, 6.45, 9):
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 172 20 081 OUR HISTORICAL SITES THE third and fourth shows in the series of Our Historical Sites will be screened at the National Museum Art Gallery at 11 am and 3 pm until Monday. Serangoon Road is a 12-minute show which traces the growth of the area into an Indian enclave
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    • 664 20 Kenneth Olson will be featured as the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's soloist In its Familiar Favourites Concert tonight FAMILIAR FAVOURITES CONCERT Cold Storage Centrepoint and Tangs THE Singapore Symphony Orchestra's Superstore. Familiar Favourites Concert tonight HARMONICA pONCERT at 8.15 at the Victoria Concert Ifell THE All Japan Harmonica FederaUon will feature
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 519 21 leisure comics ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA A solid relationship could be September 23 to October 22 established stress on the Your social activities accelerhome, security, and finances, ate expenses mount in conHighlight diplomacy and rea- nection with entertainment lise that you can win rather and clothes. A
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    • 157 21 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook Ppo*,AEi*T fbO Jf &UD* TH* CtA*Slt LiRWIXTfD W HWUfr) &URt> 7 fcIWAPU OF S<*AfOMS H*cK, H<'s RJStM To TXK* oRDSRS V ART, fctf VAfcP MYoNP HIS I £efo*> Hi* LEVtL OF 1 FfcPMA JERIC A WAV. LEVEL OF CPMPETItICI/ I V EVbLUfiOrf. J DR SMOCK By
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  • FOR THE HOME Budget Wallpaper Stores
    • 172 22 A STANDARD four-room HDB flat can, with a few innovative alterations, be given the gracious, expansive look of a condominium. A good many owners of such flats are beginning to discover the exciting and pleasurable prospect of having their homes redesigned. This
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    • 96 23 LIVING/DINING AREAS: FOR more efficient use of space, the storeroom has been removed and a floor-to-ceiling utility cupboard is built in its place. A foyer can then be created here by installing a screen, which also separates the dining area. Three see-through screens are also recommended to
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    • 214 23 I HOW do you close a window after it has just been painted without spoiling the paintwork? Take a couple of matchsticks and insert them in the bottom and top of the frames, on the hinged side of casement windows, and above and below sash windows. This way
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    • 81 24 MASTER BEDROOM: The lengthy shape of the master bedroom is ideally suited for a split dressing and sleeping layout. The dressing area has been created with the presence of the back of the floor-to-ceiling wardrobe on one side, and the toilet
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    • 65 24 CHILDREN'S ROOM: Again, space is the main consideration in the design for the children's room. The centre of the room is left clear allowing the children ample play room. The room is furnished sparsely making it easier for maintenance. STUDY ROOM: The spare
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    • 91 24 KITCHEN: THE kitchen entrance is now relocated nearer to the dining area. A counter window has been set up here to allow for easier service from the dining area to the kitchen and vice versa. (The old kitchen entrance is now taken up by the
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    • 125 24 "FOR THE HOME" is our weekly section which deals with everything you require under your roof furnishing, services, appliances and information. It appears every Friday. Read it and act while the information is still fresh In your mind. After learning how to carry out a home improvement
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    • 158 24 The New BRAUN Coffee Makers Braun now offers a new range of coffee makers: New in a combination of practical features and U new in an appealing compact design. And all these are offered to you at an attractive price. Pivoting filter I The filter holder is pivot-hinged to swing
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    • 648 25 It Classified Ads :-m. 273 rock Classified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Sunday Monitor: W*i4i 035 c«nl« p«r word O.SS ccnli p«i word DUplay $7 70 p«r col. cm 110.00 p«r rol cm Iwlmm Hr» Mon-Frl. 9«m-Spm S«H 9am-lpm ■*1 ACCOUNTING A 1 ACCOUNTING 280 7777/ *****57. DOWELL MANAGEMENT 296 6861.
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 357 26 classified s 273-9090 Offices For Sate/Rut M DISTRICT 9, OFFICE showroom, airoond., carpeted, light Immediate occupation. Reasonable rental. Hoe-Tan, 734-7821. Property For Sale^ KATONQ, SINGLE STOREY bungalow over 8000 sq.ft. Wet taken care with mature garden and fruit trees. Near schools, markets, easy shopping and transport. Furnished, airconds, heaters etc.
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    • 491 26 |®PWD| TENDER NOTICE Tenders are invited from CIDB Registered Contractors for the following:(A) MAE T 35/85 Supply and Installation of Thro* (3) Units Steam Sterilizers to Kandang Kertoau and Tan Tock Song Hospitale (B) PWD (SS) T/9/85 Design, Supply and inatallation of Bored Piles Foundation for Ono Primary School (Typo
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    • 1032 26 NOTICES i i TENDER NOTICE Separate tenders are invited for:1 ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION TO EXHIBITION HALL AT WORLD TRADE CENTRE. (NOMINATED SUB-CONTRACT) Cost of Documents Drawings Ss9s/Closing Date 14 May 85 Site Showround 7 May 85 at 10.00 am Meet at Contracts Department 2 TERM CONTRACT f$R GENERAL CLEANING AND SANITARY
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 265 27 classified s 273-9090 INVITATION You are cordially invited to attend Vesak Celebration held at Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Temple from May 3 to June 9, 1985. In conjunction with the celebration, a series of programs are organised, mainly as follows: (1) Weekly Dhamma Talk (six speakers) (2) Buddhist
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    • 153 27 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 189 C.C. SPICE NITER NATIONAL (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED (In Members' Vokm tary Winding Up) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the creditors of the abovenamed company which is being voluntarily wound up are required on or before 31 May, 1985 to send in their names and addresses
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    • 97 27 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 185 FOSECO SINGAPORE PTE LTD (MEMBERS' VOLUN TARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinaiy General Meeting of the Company deemed to be held on the 23 APRIL 1985 the following special resolution was duly passed: "That the company be wound up voluntarily and that
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  • sports
    • 135 28 A READER writes in, giving his view on an incident daring the National Football League Division Two match between Jarong Town and Ayer Raiah Wanderers at Juroag Stadium on April 20 The incident involved the referee and a player, and each has accused the other oi starting
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    • 119 28  -  L C SEOW SINGAPORE 2260 I REFER to the statement in The Singapore Monitor, dated April 24, by K Suppiah, the Jurong official, regarding the incident which took place at the Jurong Stadium on April 20. I am really shocked and disgusted that
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    • 100 28  -  T ARNOLD SINGAPORE 0106 I RECENTLY attended the preliminary soccer coaching course launched by the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) under the guidance of Seak Poh Leong, Mat Ariff and Abdul Manan. I found the course to be very well prepared and presented, and
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    • 325 28  -  Even the most awaited quarterfinal clash turns out a disappointment ®y JEREMY YEO for The Monitor THE BIGGEST disappointment at yesterday's quarterfinal matches of the Ascot 10th SingaKe Closed Squash Champoinships was the tie ween fourth seed David Taylor, 42, and unseeded Wong Yee Leong, 20.
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    • 465 28 FORUM wL mti rfi NOW THAT the A4W training scheme for athletics Is coming out of the cold, we should see the emergence of sprinters, jumpers and throwers of infinitely higher quality. But no matter how good they become, our athletes will continue to
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    • 368 29  -  CROCODILE TENNIS CLASSIC Reports by B KULA CHINA'S former tennis star, Hu Na, who defected to the United States in 1982, arrived in Singapore last night with a limp and a message for her parents she had left behind. The limp was
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    • 275 29 YOU'LL love her the minute you set eyes on her. She has conquered the hearts of many around the world and tomorrow, if you pay a visit to the Singapore Tennis Centre, this girl from Buenos Aires will captivate you as well.
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    • 84 29 SINGAPORE Armed Forces topped their Civil Service League hockey group with a 2-1 victory over Port Authority Recreation Club at Tanglin yesterday. It was Choy Kin Wah's two goals in the second half (36th min, 47th min) that gave Forces this victory. PARC's .lone
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    • 56 29 FAVOURITE Maybank found Mobil a stumbling block in the SBHFL Division Two semi-final clash at Jalan Besar last night. Mobil defence showed more co-ordination and determination which firevented Maybank's orwards from taking a clear shot at goal. The final score was 0-0 after extra-time. The date for the
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    • 18 29 Times 1; Hitachi 0 (Scorer: Adnan in 52nd minute) Maybank 0; Mobil 0 (after extra time)
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    • 657 29 SOVIET UNION 4 SWITZERLAND 0 Reuter MOSCOW, Friday THE SOVIET Union recovered their soccer confidence to beat Switzerland 4-0 with a flurry of first-half goals in a World Cup qualifying match yesterday. The Soviet side capitalised on a series of Swiss
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    • 580 30 SFMRCUTTH COMPILED BY THE SPORTS DESK THE 32 Singapore supporters who travelled all the way to Kuala Trengganu brought along a banner reading, "Singapore for the Cup." But they managed to display it only once at the hotel, just before the team's departure. They had the
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    • 225 30  -  ■KT3^^^^Efc^H3^3Ep By ERNEST FRIDA WITH ONE National Schools badminton title in the bag, Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) will be chasing their second today in the Under-17 final. But they will not have it all their way as far as their rivals, Beatty
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    • 324 30  -  ASEAN BODYBUILDING CHAMPIONSHIPS By B KULA THE HULKS of Asean have arrived, ready to match each other in the battle of the bulges. Muscle-bulge, that is. By the time the pre-judging of the Asean Championships is over today at 10 am at the Plaza Hotel,
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    • 265 30 DON'T you ever mention to Ismail Syed Ahmad that bodybuilders are all brawns but no brains. For Ismail is a bodybuilder with a degree in Commerce (accounting, finance and system). He said: "Just Because most of the bodybuilders in Singapore do not have
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    • 437 28 I Tenders are invited for the supply, deliv- I ery, installation and commissioning of the I I following:- I I 1. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT I I (wattmeters, electrical power I I transmission systems, protective I I relays ft systems, primary current I I infection test systems, etc.) I I Tender No
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    • 227 28 NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, I Seet Eng Aik of No. Blk 146, Jalan Bukit Merah, 05-1092, Singapore 0316, have applied for a Retail Liquor Shop licence in respect of premises at M/s: 7-Eleven, 24A Haig Road Singapore 1543, and that this application will be heard in Court No
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 498 31 RESULTS AT A GLANCE: Bulgaria 2 France 0 Soviet Union 4 Switzerland 0 Reuter SOFIA, Friday BULGARIA ENDED France's unbroken run of soccer glory with a shock 2-0 win yesterday which raised a question mark against the European champions chances of qualifying for the world Cup
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    • 644 31  -  lUXTMCV '85 By S GULAM In KUALA TRENGGANU A BATTERED and bloodied Singapore felt they were victimised. Foul, they cried, but their protests fell on deaf ears. But they needed no reminder. This was Malaysia Cup soccer. Trengganu literally battered the Young Lions to score
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    • 61 31 Shots on target Trengganu 6 Singapore 4 Shots off target Trengganu 4 Singapore 3 Comers Trengganu 6 Singapore 2 Freekicks Trengganu 30 Singapore 18 Offsides Trengganu 15 Singapore 6 Crowd: 14,000 Man of the match: Ahmad Paijan Referee: Rosti Sidek (Penang) OTHER RESULTS: Johor 4 Armed
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    • 139 31 Bernama IN KUANTAN: Defending champions SELANGOR stunned PAHANG with an emphatic 4-1 win in the first leg of their Malaysia Cup soccer quarterfinal match at Stadium Darulmakmur last night. Selangor, as expected, rose to the occasion by taking their chances well, scoring their goals through Zapril Hashim,
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