Singapore Monitor, 3 May 1985, Afternoon Edition

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  • 18 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR i r EDITION 1 L. J M.C. (P) No. 51/5/85 Friday, May 3, 1985 30cents
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  • 103 1 SINGAPORE striker Tay Peng Kee (on the ground in picture at right) may well have been running this question through his mind last night in Kuala Trengganu when the Republic took on Trengganu in the first-leg quarterfinal of the Malaysia Cup. Singapore went down 2-0
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  • 425 1 It's our current wage structure, says top NTUC official Boon Heng THE present wage structure has been the main obstacle in attempts to raise the retirement age above 55, says the Assistant SecretaryGeneral of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC), Mr Lim
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    • 25 1 MORE PICTURES AND REPORTS! P 30-32 HOW S'PORE CAN REDUCE PROBLEM OF OLD-AGE DEPENDENCY: PAGE 3 «TV GUIDE: PAGE 18 HIGHLIGHTS &TV SCENE: PAGE 19
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    • 288 2  -  By JOSEPH LEE THE FIRST public activity organised by the Feedback Unit of the Ministry of Defence will be the briefing of 1,100 grassroots leaders on the latest developments of defence matters. They will also be briefed on how to help and
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    • 343 2  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG FORTY people with incomes of more than |3,500 have applied for Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats after the board raised the income ceiling by $500 last week. The original income ceiling was $3,500 for the
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    • 158 2 THIEVES got away with nearly $50,000 worth of goods in two separate Break-ins last Wednesday. The first break-in was at a shop in Selegie Road. The shopowner, Mr W H Woon, 49, told police he locked up the shop at 8.30 pm
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    • 107 2 THREE Thais tried to cheat a man of $280,000 by passing off 22 goldcoloured bars as gold bars, a Subordinate Court was told today. The three, Rimbud Sae Joo, 55, Damrong Srisa Ard, 50, and Somsak Chaiyawat, 39, were charged this morning with
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    • 262 2 DE WONG Kwei Cheong, Minister of State (Trade and Industry) and Chairman, Tourism Task Force, had a ball of a time this morning, riding in a mammoth hot-air balloon in the shape of an elephant. Dr Wong was the guest of honour of
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    • 250 3  -  By PHILIP LIM SELF-MOTIVATION, fuelled by lots of dedication and diligence, has won young Chi Seow Yee, 17, the Guinness Stout Effort Award for March. A student at the Anderson Junior College, Seow Yee received the award from Mr Teo Chong Tee, the Parliamentary Secretary (Community
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    • 554 3 TO ALLEVIATE the problem of oldage dependency, the Japanese Government had offered financial incentives to firms which allowed any of their workers to work beyond the retirement age of 55. Ait another level, the workers' unions were prepared to accept a levelling
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    • 121 3 Lianhe Zaobao TICKETS for the Chinese movie stars stage show scheduled between May 19 and May 28 will be available at the National Theatre from tomorrow. Tickets for the Palace Theatre performances are priced at $50, $30, $20, $10 and $5.
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    • 200 4  -  Lorry and pick-up believed to have ferried tourists By SEAH MEI KIANG TWO VEHICLES have been impounded and their drivers arrested on suspicion of operating pirate taxis. The vehicles a lorry and a pick-up are believed to have been used to ferry tourists on
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    • 329 4  -  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 tneir business has dropped by 20 to 25 per cent, compared with a year ago. They want
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    • 98 4 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 specialist on
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    • NEWS SCAN
      • 83 4 A QUICK GLANCE AT HOME NEWS "SPORADIC" raids will be made on Singapore construction sites in a new crackdown on inhalant abuse and other forms of drug-tak-ing. The operation, codenamed Operation Net, began on May Day, two days ago. According to a police source, it will be
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      • 76 4 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, tnings have seldom been better for the Republic's professional watchdogs. The reason: An idle warehouse or factory needs protection
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      • 69 4 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 period. From May 8 onwards, all
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      • 107 4 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 support of the management, which says it
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    • 159 3 The Goodwood Park Hotel proudly presents The dynamic, sizzling EARTHA KITT and her Orchestra Eartha Kitt, one of the world's greatest singers will be in Singapore to perform for you on May 9 10 at the Tudor Ballroom. She'll move you, groove you and rock you with her knockout sultry
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    • 482 5 NEW RECIPE FOR A COOL FLAT one standard Add Daikin X aircon hole in Econair Spacesaver your bedroom wall. System. That's all. Makes 4 deliciously cool rooms (instead of only one). What a fresh new idea. 0311 iear y think. At last. To think that flat-dwellers, ~Ji' j\ But true
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  • world
    • 50 6 CHINESE workers put the finishing touches on a display of Sixties Yves St Laurent fashions as part of a retrospective show opening next week in Beijing. In line with the country's liberalisation policy, more of such fashion shows and beauty contests had been held recently.
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    • 394 6 LAT-WP WASHINGTON, Friday IT'S A SNEAKY little bug, waiting for weeks to show up after a person has Deen infected. So it was quite a while between the time that doctors recognised its existence and the time they began to connect it
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    • 203 6 AP BRUEHL (West Germany), Friday US PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan says television news makes nim so angry he doesn't want to watch other shows. Years of riding in back seats of White House limousines makes "you lose all sense of familiarity with your surroundings,''
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    • 120 6 Bernama JAKARTA, Friday A BAN ON "Mickey Mouse" machines (pinball tables) took effect on May 1 with the withdrawal of 1,026 machines from 120 locations throughout the city. Police who visited the various amusement centres on Wednesday night found that the machines had been removed
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    • 368 7 AP LONDON, Friday THE CENTRIST Social Democratic Party (SDP) alliance scored early gains as results began arriving early today from elections for new county councils in England and Wales In the biggest electoral test for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservative administration since she
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    • 340 7 Reuter WASHINGTON, Friday TWO POLES and an American citizen working for the Soviet secret service, the KGB, were arrested in Los Angeles while attempting to smuggle out classified missile testing equipment, Defence Department officials said yesterday. They said the plot
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    • 98 7 AP BEIJING, Friday HELICOPTERS will soon fly tourists to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, where life has changed little from the 13th Century days of Genghis Khan, according to the region's tourism bureau. The bureau's plans, reported today by the official Xinhua Chinese
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    • 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 (5f39.8 billion) over the next three years The Pentagon build-up has "created a new set
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    • 321 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 union, Solidarity, the youth (above) was waving on May Day, two days ago, in Gdansk, whose shipyards saw were the scene of the birth of the outlawed trade union. 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 fUrn 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 such 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 (Maine), 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 Dleaded 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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    • 374 10 Reuter LAGOS, Friday NIGERIA has concluded a US$l billion (5|2.2 billion) accord linking crude oil sales to purchases of goods from France, a senior official involved in the deal said yesterday. Mr Philippe Kuhn, financial controller of the Scoa Nigeria group involved in
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    • 94 10 Reuter LONDON, Fri THE WORLD-FAMOUS •Sadler's Wells Opera and Dance Theatre may have to close if it fails to raise £7 million (S$ 18 7 million). Theatre director Stephen Remington told a news conference yesterday that facilities for performers
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    • 398 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 paraae 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 Gowrie before making
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      • 117 10 NEARLY everybody in the Chinese city of Chongaing has the telephone number of the mayor, ana they have filed complaints ranging from dimly lit schools to a toilet shortage since starting a notline last year "Mayor Yu Hanqing is just a telephone call away,' the official
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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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      • 126 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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    • 149 8 When even a single hair is precious. Hair-Reactive Shampoo the reactive formula for people W to keep 7 healthy to ends jifll Vitamin complex fl Additive complex to keep hair B scalp by H Dralle the specialist with more than 130 years' research experience. For more advice on how Neril
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    • 94 10 'OI 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: $12.50*+ (Adults) 8 00+
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  • money
    • 901 11  -  BY CATHERINE ONG and ANG PENG HWA "EVERY morning for two hours I dictate my editorials and I tell you, within a month I solve every problem in the United States and in the world. And you know fortunately nobody remembers
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    • 111 11 Reuter WASHINGTON, Friday ONE OF America's biggest brokerage firms, E F Hutton and Company, pleaded guilty yesterday to 2,000 counts of Fraud for writing cheques in excess of funds deposited at more than 400 US commercial banks. The Justice Department said the essence
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    • 128 12 WHLLSTREET STOCKS FINISHED with mixed results yesterday, as disenchanted investors continued to be confused about the economic outlook. Speculative energy issues stole the show, and blue-chips recouped some losses. The Dow Jones industrial average gained a feeble 0 22 to 1,242 27. The New York
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    • 43 12 UPI The OUB Composite Share Price index closed at 404.63 up 0.18 point from the previous day's close of 404.45. The OUB Singapore Dollar Trade-weighted index was down 0.1309 point to 133.0643 in morning trading from the previous day's close of 133.1952.
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    • 229 12 Reuter THE US dollar eased slightly against most major currencies from New York s close in very quiet early trading on some profit taking. Dealers said operators were reluctant to take large positions ahead of the weekend with the closure of the Japanese markets also limiting activity.
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    • 104 12 Your S$ to one unit of foreign currency Selling Buying TT/DD TT DD US$ 2.2415 2.2315 2.2225 sterling 2.7352 2.7131 2.7031 Australian 1.4747 1.4506 1.4356 Canadian 1.6371 1.6170 1.6070 New Zealand 1.0265 1.0064 0.9814 CURRENCY NOTES S$ to 1 unit US* 223 2.21 NZ$ 1.05 098 sterling 2.75 2.68
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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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    • 241 12 SHARE prices on the local bourse opened firm led by plantation stocks. Towards lunch break, plantation stocks became the subject of profittaking, with prices closing lower than overnight. Top gainer Maybank was up 10 cents to close at $5.90, followed by
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    • 283 12 Selected stocks at midday. Market tone: slightly higher Boustead 1.67/1.68 Cold Storage 2.52/2.54 F And N 4 96/5.00 Genting 5.85/5.90 G I H 1.75/1.77 Haw Par 2.13 S Isetan 2.02/2 26 Jurong Cement 1.67 S Keck Seng 2 23 S Esso 2.61/2 62 Hume 2.90/3.10 Inchcap3 2.42/2.45 Intraco 1
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    • 163 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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    • 93 12 Bernama BANGKOK, Friday 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
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    • 69 12 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Friday MALAYSIA'S per capita income is expected to rise to 5,000 ringgit (554,500) this year frojn last year's 4,600 ringgit, Primary Industries Minister Paul Leong Khee Seong said today. Mr Leong told a political party gathering that Malaysia had
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    • ANSWER BOX
      • 339 13 THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUERIES Q: WHAT does 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 help. Send your queries to us and we will try to get the relevant authorities or organisations to provide the answers. Send your questions to: Open Line, The SingaSire Monitor, 2 Alexandra
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      • 208 13 Q: I AM a senior citizen and holder of a Singapore Bus Service concession bus pass. Please enlighten me if it is possible for the bus 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 minimum 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 (bey
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      • 220 13 Q: MY HUSBAND had a "slipped-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 back muscle. Does swimming help? His shoulder and neck muscles
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      • 193 13 Q: I HAVE this problem which has been bugging 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 during the day
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    • 173 13 13 to 19 May 1985 Date Functions (Organised by) Venus Tims 13 May Drug Abuse Prevention Exhibition Jurong Town 8.00 pm (Mon) for 2 days (Management Committee) Community Centre Social Function With Indonesian Youth Kampong Ubi CC 8.00 pm (Regional Youth Council East/YG) 14 May Youth
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    • 43 13 THE new Kebun Baru Community Centre at 216, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4 will be opened to the public on May 11, replacing the old centre at Blk 114, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4, #01-359 which will be closed.
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    • 30 13 BRICKWORKS Community Centre Youth Group will be organising a two-day youth camp at the Kampong Tengah Holiday Campsite on 25-26 May. For more details call tel: 272-8953.
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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 "O" levels A better incentive would be for employers to grant them paid maternity leave for the birth
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    • 349 14 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 abuse of another human being is most
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    • 100 14 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 years. Isn't this a waste
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    • 1455 14  -  FOCUS 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 scrambling
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    • 481 15 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR BBIWiIH 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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    • 73 15 w LETTERS on any sub|ect of public interest will be accepted for publication. They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the waiter's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print A contact telephone number would be useful We reserve
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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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    • 490 16 Andy's a fine 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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    • 1067 16 With PAT D ROSE AROUND THE HOTELS 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
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    • 423 16 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 leg cast
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    • 559 18 Friday Background (Ch 5, 7.55 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  -  iftv/SrC'ENE 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 expected
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    • 381 19 Wong Sing Yeong 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
    • 1555 17 m THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M IGISUPG/tV FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1985 I U Live Sample ways J 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights saving a marriage. J followed by The Passenger (C) (r). 6.50 Family Pact 4.30 Kidsworid.' Besides a to Bukit Merah Old Featuring a scenic canoe trip and in- Folks'
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    • 570 19 4ril MM 8 881%# riLm OUIOI ounding the fall of Cambodia in 1975 and 9.30): A NIGHTMARE ON -ELM STREET the takeover by the Khmer Rouge. It is (E) based on the experiences of New York Times 01 on 4, A 0 A AV J#): AF l°«rnalist Sydney Schanberg and
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 170 20 IBHH9 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 11am and 3 pm until Monday. Serangoon Road is a 12-minute show which traces the growth of the area into an Indian enclave while
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    • 669 20 3®sL"' mil Ite it '-ill J J Vjf 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 CONCERT at 815 at the Victoria Concert
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 695 21 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR J leisure comics friday, may 3 ises FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook <lC Vou BUD'S THE CLASSIC >> L^IWUIXT»D vi HWN&-) SUR£, 7 BXMPU OF SotflfOriC HECK, MC'5 RJStM TolX*toW>6RS V ART Bvn- fcUiVATft> &fY*Np HIS J UYm*t> WS L&BL OF FRPfA A JEWC XiN A WAY, LEVEL
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  • FOR THE HOME
    • 166 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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    • 304 23 Household Hints 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.
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    • 78 24 H 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
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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 II 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
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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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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 126 22 W NO MORE HACKING ON WALLS AND FLOORS WjTHHAm WALL FLOOR vinyl coverings A A TRIMURAL WALL t THAT FINISHED TILE LOOK Manufactured by coating ploymers on a non woven Easily installed on existing tile wall, concrete block or wood panels Jjr Moisture resistance it does not shrink or peel
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    • 135 22 vfH l; iBIDEA* 7 ~decor»t> n 9 our 1" Fl n rtu na *o"-« ornt 3 1 Li 11 r*r Scft0 fT1 shsd eS 1 m 1 drapes- etc g flafSi inw** ap»" mw s \\/A 1 r\ Cat"* "TS-i «ay to dx**"™' L{_\ w W 80C»k«» eH S T
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 405 23 ■I"" GUARANTEED V Worfcmanshp of Hong Kong SUM Workers A Comptetui Data Guarantaad By Contract |4jpW\ Wr specialise in renoiHjtion works for HOB flat* arH P nt u<r houses including I j flooring: wnie range of quality 1 Vt\ n\\l Wa v\J fat* tile* marble and etc wTj^J Finishing: wail
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    • 232 23 HOW TO HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY ON ONLY $5 A MONTH. Housewives, now you can relax. For only $5 a month, we can take care of all these chores for you! Clear choked ppes and tend to pkjmbng problems Repw faulty electrical appkances (TV. (an. ttfi, wasting mactae. etc) Mend
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 183 24 r- APPVAI ii.l JL Mm JM X X APPEALING PRICE The New BRAUN Coffee Makers *Ti Braun now offers a new range of coffee makers: W New in a combination of practical features and U new in an appealing compact design. And all these are offered to you at an
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 334 25 Classified Ads *******90 Classified Ad Rates Siqgiport Monitor: Sunday Monitor: Word* 0 35 «#nl» p«i word O SS ccnlt p»f word Display $7 70 p«r col cm $10 00 pn r»l cm Bmlmh Hn Mon-Frl. 9«m-Spm S*l, Vtm lpm ACCOUNTING A 1 ACCOUNTING 280 7777/ 280 1157 OOWELL MANAGEMENT 2%
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    • 322 25 Miscellaneous Courses MC MAKE HEADS TURN Gam confidence poise. Keep your personality alive through any of the self-development courses Choose the one that suits you best. Personal grooming for offtc* girl* (•voning) 16 lotaona, 2 months $Ito Beauty workshop for hoosawivat (morning) 8 lossona. 1 month $150 Mat* looking good
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    • 164 25 Music/Dancing Lessons MOl CORONATION MUSIC School 469 3252 ERIC'S GUITAR Tuition *****91. LEARN TO DANCE Disco Ballroom Latin, Social Dancing through Gaylin Dance Studio Tel 292 1639/ 533 6270 Private Tuition PT EXPERIENCED TUTOR SPECIALISES in Accounting, Management, Shorthand, English for O level, English for Commerce, GP, Commerce and LCCI
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    • 460 25 Caterers CAI WE CATER BUFFET, barbeque, cocktail party for $8/- only Tables, chairs provided. Annie 481 4782, 482 1115. 288 8097. WE CATER SEA-FOOD, Buffets. Weddings. Birthdays. Cocktail Parties. Functions, etc. From $8 onwards or $160 per table Call: 444 5200. Linda INDONESIAN BUFFET 440 3255 MEMORY CATERER 481 9428
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    • 344 25 At Your Service Ars K.B. INTERIOR/ EXTERIOR decoration and design Contractors. All plumbiing and sanitary works. Electrical installation/ repair/ services. Call: 261 9428/ 254 7335 day and night services. METHOO DEBT Collection 732 2259 ALFRED LEATHER'S Centre Leather handbags repairs 737 8604 TIANG HENG SEWING Machine Repair Service Singer model
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    • 356 25 T.V. VIDEO SERVICES Tvv SHARP ELECTRICAL Service 443 1493. KASSIM ELECTRONICS 257 1704/ 758 0692 LAO ELECTRICAL Electronics Service 743 4862 Wedding Services^ QNOMES FLOWER People 445 2258 MOTORMART Car Rental EASTERN UNITED (Car Truck Rental) 440 2204/5 THREE STAR 440 6772/ 235 0256 PARTY Decorators CB QNOMES PARTY People
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 356 26 classified 273-9090 Offices For Sale/Rent OFS DISTRICT 9, OFFICE showroom, aircond., carpeted, light. Immediate occupation. Reasonable rental. Hoe-Tan, 734-7821. Property For Sale KATONG, SINGLE STOREY bungalow over 8000 sq.ft. Well-taken care with mature garden and fruit trees. Near schools, markets. easy shopping and transport. Furnished, airconds, heaters etc. $888,000 ono.
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    • 481 26 #PWD TENDER NOTICE Tenders are invited from CIDB Registered Contractors for the following:(A) M&E T 35/85 Supply and Installation of Three (3) Units Steam Sterilizers to Kandang Kerbau and Tan Tock Seng Hospitals (B) PWD (SS) T/9/85 Design, Supply and Installation of Bored Piles Foundation for One Primary School (Type
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    • 561 26 NOTICES a V/ GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC W A OF SINGAPORE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT INTEGRATION ACT (CHAPTER 210 EDITION 1970) I DECLARATION UNDER SECTION 27 B H Whereas: H (1) The streets known as:- 1 Jalan Selamat (Pt) MK 27 I H 2 Lorong Kembangan MK 27
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    • 468 26 TENDER NOTICE Separate tenders are invited for:1 ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION TO EXHIBITION HALL 6 AT WORLD TRADE CENTRE. (NOMINATED SUB-CONTRACT) Cost of Documents Drawings Ss9s/Closing Date 14 May 85 Site Snowround 7 May 85 at 10.00 am Meet at Contracts Department 2 TERM CONTRACT FOR GENERAL CLEANING AND SANITARY SERVICES TO
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 227 27 classified 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 Novitiate
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    • 262 27 NOTICES 2ND PRIZE $400,000 3rd PRIZE $200,000 4TH PRIZE $100,000 STH PRIZE 50,000 5 JACKPOT PRIZES $15,000 each 4 DIGIT MAJOR PRIZES $500 each 10 LUCKY PRIZES 5,000 each (Terminal digits) 25 GIFT PRIZES 3,000 each 4 &J Grr MINOR PRIZES 350 each 25 CONSOLATION PRIZES 2,000 each 1 r
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    • 150 27 THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 185 C.C. SPICE INTER NATIONAL (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED (In Members' Volun 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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    • 95 27 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 185 FOSECO SINGAPORE PTE LTD (MEMBERS' VOLUN TARY LIQUIDATION) At an Extraordinary 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 voluntanly and that
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    • 148 27 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CHAPTER 185 FOSECO SINGAPORE PTE LTD MEMBERS' VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION Notice is hereby given that the creditors of the abovenamed Company, which is being voluntarily wound-up, are required within thirty days thereof to the send in their names and addresses and the particulars of
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  • sports
    • 828 28 RACE 1 1.45 CI 3 Div 5 1400 m 1 Brilliant Hue 57 Grylls 2 Siong Ho 56V; w Liew 3 Air Wolf 54V2 Ismadi 4 Southfolk 54V* Leong 5 Copper Chief 53V2 Marzuki 6 Profitable Investment 53 Woon 7 Tip Our Hat 53 Dahlan Swing Top S2V?
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    • 469 28  -  FjRlDnV omnia Wftfl Ee Boon Lee NOW THAT the A W training scheme for athletics is coming out of the cold, we should see the emergence of sprinters, jumpers and tnrowers of infinitely higher quality. But no matter how good they become, our athletes
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    • 584 29 SPORTS CHATTER 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
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    • 227 29  -  Sports in Schools 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
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    • 324 29  -  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 29 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 I>ecause most of the bodybuilders in Singapore do not have
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    • 369 30 BULGARIA 2 FRANCE 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 finals next year. Two goals following corners
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    • 548 30  -  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 this
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    • 61 30 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: Rosli Sidek (Penang) OTHER RESULTS: Johor 4 Armed
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    • 147 30 OTHER QUARTER-FINAL MATCHES Bernama IN KUANTAN: Defending champions SELANGOR stunned PAHANG with an emphatic 4-1 win in the first leg of their Malaysia Cup soccer quarter-final match at Stadium Darulmakmur here last night. Selangor, as expected, rose to the occasion by taking
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    • 679 30 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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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 425 28 a I »i iKii Tenders are invited for the supply, deliv- I ery, installation and commissioning of the I I following:- I I 1. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT I (wattmeters, electrical power transmission systems, protective I I relays systems, primary current I I injection test systems, etc.) I I Tender No VITB/STI/13/85
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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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      177 31 Trengganu take the bite out of the Young Lions Pictures by SHAFIE GOH IT WAS a game some felt should not have been played at all. A heavy downfall that lasted throughout the match made the ground more suitable for swimming than football. And in the end, Trengganu showed
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    • 226 31  -  By ERNEST FRIDA A DISPUTE over golf rules was heared before Justice T S Sinnathuray in the High Court this morning Ng Poh Bin, a bank manager, is suing Jurong Country Club and other members of the golf committee for wrongfully disqualifying him from
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 5 31 MATCH REPORT ON PAGE 31
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