The Straits Times, 3 September 1989

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  • 499 1 When asked what he, as the "People's President", had to say to the people of Singapore, President Wee Kim Wee replied: "Thank you. The reason why I could go on like this is the encouragement and the support that the Government, as well
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  • 658 1  -  ROHANIAH SAINI By THE Government will introduce legislation by the end of the year to pave the way for government schools to go independent. Education Minister Dr Tony Tan said last night that this was
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  • 425 1 HONGKONG Vietnamese boat people armed with sharpened tent pegs and rocks rioted in a Hongkong refugee camp yesterday, killing one man and prompting the authorities to send in British Army Gurkhas to search for hidden weapons. It was the first direct involvement by British
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  • 598 1  - Bush's declaration of broad agreement on trade and security gives Kaifu a boost ONG MING SEING By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON President George Bush has given a political boost to Japan's new Prime Minister, Mr Toshiki Kaifu, by declaring that they have reached "broad agreement" on trade and security issues after
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • 661 2 TEENS HEED PARENTS' ADVICE: Teenagers are heeding their parents' advice to stay away from Marina Square at night they were conspicuously absent when a Sunday Times team visited the shopping centre on Friday and last night. Teenagers there told the team the latest time they would stay
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    • 66 2 STATISTICS THAT SHAPE THE COUNTRY Coins in circulation In spite ot the emphasis on moving towards a cashless society, the demand for coins continues to grow. Over the last five years, the number of coins in circulation has gone up by 30 per cent. At the beginning of
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    • 1000 2  -  TARA GEORGE By _f-f Like myself, the teenagers who get into these discos are just there to dance. I've watched them, and they rarely drink more alcohol than just the first drink. Apart from anything else, it's too expensive. Self-confessed disco addict lAm
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    • 287 2 Donations to Chest will not come from CPF savings THE request made by the Community Chest to the Central Provident Fund Board to help it collect voluntary donations from Singaporeans does not involve CPF savings. The board said in a press release yesterday that it had been asked by the
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    • 76 2 WASHINGTON Giant panda Ling-Ling gave birth to a tiny female cub in the National Zoo on Friday and zoo officials were hopeful that she would be the first newborn panda to survive 1 infancy in the United States. Ling-Ling and her mate Hsing-Hsing have been among the
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    • 45 2 MOSCOW The Soviet Union detonated a nuclear explosion with a force of 20 kilotons yesterday at a test site in Semipalitinsk in Kazakstan, the official Tass news agency said. A kiloton has the exuki^i^^ force of 453 kg of TNT AP
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    • 417 2 At Brannigan's, a popular watering hole for young professionals, at the Hyatt Regency hotel, the two had no difficulty in gaining entry and ordering a beer despite the pub's policy of refusing entry to those under 18. Getting inside and getting a drink is a breeze for
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    • 643 3 US sends eight jets to help Colombia battle drug barons Fighters are part of $127 m aid package VASHTNGTON The United States vas sending eight fighter jets to Coombia yesterday, the first shipment »f a US$65 million (Ssl27 million) package to help the Bogota governnent battle the country's drug barms
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    • 304 3 PROBLEM 1: DIRTY MONEY WASHINGTON The United States has taken the offensive against dirty money which is causing logistical nightmares for banks, as well as the multibillion dollar international drug trade that generates it. For the drug lords, the main problem is the sheer
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    • 330 3 PROBLEM 2: LOAN PAYMENTS LONDON Western bankers watching the Colombian government battle its powerful drug barons are increasingly worried about a country they had hitherto seen as a model Latin American debtor. "Up to a few weeks ago I was quite happy to lend money
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    • 312 3 Hanoi says 'no' to democracy for now HANOI Communist Party chief Nguyen Van Linn on Friday ruled out the implementation of democracy in Vietnam until economic reforms further develop, saying political reform now would unleash "harmful" forces. He told a meeting of top party leaders that Hanoi would continue the
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    • 53 3 NEW DELHI Police pulled Indian President Ramaswamy Venkataraman from a burning tent in the southern city of Madras after it caught fire as he delivered a speech, press reports said yesterday. Leaking propane gas from a lamp set the ornate tent ablaze, the United News of India news
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 196 2 Showers over several areas in the late morning and early afternoon. TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow: 31 max., 25 min. SUNSET today: 7.07 pm; SUNRISE tomorrow: 6.59 am. GLOBAL WEATHER Amsterdam 14 19 C Cloudy Madrid 17 30 C Clear Athens 17 27 C Clear Manila 25 30
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  • FOREIGN NEWS
    • 424 4 CAPE TOWN South African police yesterday detained more than 400 demonstrators protesting against Wednesday's parliamentary elections which will exclude the black majority. The demonstrators, including anti-apartheid cleric, Allan Boesak, were detained after the release of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Friday. "I am
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    • 118 4 CAIRO An Egyptian court jailed 26 Muslim hardliners yesterday for belonging to a clandestine Islamic group alleged to have tried to overthrow the state. The Supreme State Security Court sentenced five of the accused to life and hard labour for attempting
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    • 360 4  -  ALAN HUBBARD By Europe Editor LONDON Scotland Yard says it is taking seriously a blackmail threat to spread rabies throughout Britain by releasing animals infected with the deadly disease. Despite appeals for calm there is now considerable concern here over the threats, made
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    • 354 4 Western media 'stirring up emotions in Baltic states' MOSCOW The Soviet Communist Party paper Pravda yesterday accused Western media of stirring up nationalist sentiment in the Baltic states. The paper said influential elements in the United States and within the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation continued to stir up passions and
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    • 128 4 Rafsanjani resigns as armed forces chief TEHERAN President AH Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has resigned from his post of acting com-mander-in-chief of Iran's armed forces, Teheran Radio announced yesterday. The country's spiritual guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accepted his resignation in keeping with the Iranian constitution, which does not provide for the
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    • 261 4 Mitterrand and Thatcher hold talks on EC issues LONDON Britain and France, at odds for months over European monetary union and other issues, put aside their differences in lengthy talks on Friday and agreed to keep in close touch to promote progress in the European Community. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
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    • 291 5  -  JOHN KENNEDY By Writing for The Straits Times HAMBURG The world's leading conservation group, Greenpeace, is gearing up for major environmental campaigns in the Pacific. Its plans will delight some governments and infuriate others. At the heart of Greenpeace's Pacific drive will be a
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    • 283 5 Sri Lankan religious leaders call for end to violence COLOMBO Sri Lanka's religious leaders have appealed for an end to the bloody violence in the country, and the Catholic Bishops' conference has called on all parties "in the name of God and our motherland" to seek dialogue and reconciliation. Meanwhile,
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    • 412 5 US senator's 6-point plan to help Poland WARSAW United States Senator Paul Simon has proposed a six-point plan to help the Solidarity-led government revive Poland's economy. The plan includes postponing interest payments on Polish debts for the next three years. "What I am asking is a programme that will cost
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    • 223 5 TRIPOLI Libyan leader Muattimar Gaddafi, despite the past year's attempts to appear more moderate, has promised revolutionary movements throughout the world that Libya "will not abandon you". In a speech marking the 20th anniversary of his revolution on Friday, he
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    • 281 6 Call for laws to protect Taiwanese trade in China A TAIWANESE legislator has suggested that Beijing should draft laws to protect the investments of Taiwanese businessmen in China if it wanted to retain their confidence. A report in the Ming Pao Daily News on Thursday quoted the legislator, Mr Chang
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    • 56 6 HONGKONG Chinese patriotic songs linked to the quelled pro-democracy movement in China have performed well on Hongkong's pop chart. More Chinese songs with patriotic themes had entered the Radio Television Hongkong Chinese Pop Poll since the June 4 massacre in Beijing, said Mr Cheung
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    • 224 6 BEIJING The killing of innocent civilians when martial law troops entered Beijing to crush student democracy protests on June 4 was inevitable, the general who commanded the operation said yesterday. "It is hard to avoid some losses in such a military action," General Huang Dongjia
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    • 430 6 Zhao cast as villain behind country's woes BEIJING As China filled out its official version of the crushed democracy movement, a single villain has emerged who is held responsible for the student turmoil and virtually all of the country's economic woes: Mr Zhao Ziyang, the ousted chief of the Communist
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    • 238 6 BANGKOK Vietnam has called for an early normalisation of relations with China following the collapse of an international peace conference on Cambodia over the future role of Beijing-backed Khmer Rouge guerillas. Speaking at a meeting to mark Vietnam's National Day, Communist Party
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    • 180 6 BEIJING China yesterday announced a steep rise in domestic air, rail and boat fares, prompting fears that inflation may again rampage through the economy. The Beijing Evening News quoted government spokesman Yuan Mu as saying passenger fares for rail, boat and air transport would
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    • 328 6 Emigration 'consultants' cashing in on exodus of Hongkongers HONGKONG Emigration "consultants" have been sprouting here in the past three months, cashing in on Hongkongers' fears for their future in the wake of China's military crackdown in June. A large number of these consultants operate in so-called "emigration sections" of law
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    • PEOPLE
      • 136 7 INDIA'S young cameraman-turned-director Shaji Karun has won the first Charlie Chaplin award, donated by Chaplin's widow, at the Edinburgh film festival with his first film Piravi (The Birth). It was yet another success for the Kerala-based filmmaker, who took the Silver Leopard at Locarno and
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      • 114 7 OSCAR-WINNING actor Marlon Brando (right) says he has made his last film, and adds that it is "a stinker". Mr Brando, 65, who has been shooting the film in Canada for the past 12 weeks, also told The Toronto Globe and Mail on Wednesday
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      • 84 7  -  ALAN HUBBARD AT THE age of 17, Corey Roberts is to become Britain's first black jockey, having started 18 months ago as a stable lad under the government's Youth Training Scheme, knowing virtually nothing about horses. This scheme, designed to keep youngsters off the dole, has
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      • 109 7  -  GRANT PECK DANCE LOVERS are the beneficiaries of a Thai-Japanese joint venture launched recently a bi-national production of a traditional Thai play, Phra Suthon Chadok. Audiences in Bangkok, and next year in Japan, will see 36 dancers from both countries perform the graceful movements of
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      • 118 7  -  STAN DEAN RENEGADE priest Conrado Balweg has been declared an outlaw by the Philippine Supreme Court for failing to comply with a series of summons issued by the court. Balweg is accused of having ordered the kidnap and murder in 1987 of a rival tribal
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    • 165 7 WASHINGTON For the unbearable feeling of climbing into a sunbaked car, Dr Domingo Tan has a remedy: a few squirts from his airconditioner in a can. Dr Tan, a Chinese-born physicist who lives near Washington, invented Instant Car Kooler, an aerosol spray containing
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    • 297 7 Plot to blow up Rangoon foiled, say rulers RANGOON Burma's military rulers said that they had foiled a plot by ethnic Karen insurgents and a civil engineer trained by French experts to blow up Rangoon. Deputy intelligence chief Lt-Colonel Than Tun told a news conference on Friday that security forces
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    • 242 7 WASHINGTON A United States naval commander, in the same flotilla as the USS Vincennes when it shot down an Iranian civilian Airbus in the Gulf, said he saw "no good reason" for the warship to down the airliner. In a
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    • 347 9 Offer comes just after Bush decision to cut ties PANAMA CITY Panama's new provisional president, Mr Francisco Rodriguez, offered friendship to the United States only hours after Washington had severed diplomatic relations with his country. Mr Rodriguez, a government technocrat, was chosen by the
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    • 116 9 Sales of beer rising in Asia but not in West MUNICH Beer is losing its appeal in the the healthconscious West but consumption is booming in Asian countries, according to figures issued here. Officials at a congress in West Germany's brewing capital, attended by nearly 700 brewers from two dozen
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    • 219 9  -  ONG MING SEING By Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON US Secretary of State James Baker will meet Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze later this month to lay the groundwork for the Bush administration's first superpower summit. State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler told a press
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    • 202 9 SYDNEY A new city of similar size to Australia's capital Canberra is to be built just outside Sydney, New South Wales Premier Nick Greiner announced on Friday. The new South Creek city, adjacent to Sydney's planned second international airport at Badgery's Creek, would
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    • 60 9 Dow Jones NEW YORK The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose 14.82 to close on Friday at a record 2,752.09, passing the previous peak of 2,743.36 reached on Monday. US financial and commodity markets and stock exchanges will be closed tomorrow, a Labour Day
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  • ASEAN NEWS
    • 600 10  -  YANG RAZALI KASSIM By iakarta Correspondent JAKARTA President Suharto was scheduled to leave Jakarta last night for a major diplomatic swing that will take him on a fence-mending trip to the Soviet Union on Saturday. The President will make his unprecedented
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    • 191 10 Trade body expresses support for visit THE Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has expressed strong support for President Suharto's first visit to the Soviet Union, the Indonesian Observer reported yesterday. It quoted the chamber's chairman, Dr Sukamdani Sahid Gitosardjono, who referred to the possibility of slower growth in the
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    • 437 10 Her public approval rating dips to all-time low MANILA President Corazon Aquino is under growing pressure to revamp her Cabinet and rule with a firmer hand as she enters her last 1,000 days in office with her public approval rating at its lowest level
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    • 305 10 Thais braced for border fighting among rival Cambodian factions BANGKOK Thai army chief General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has ordered the military to tighten security along the Thai-Cambodian border, in anticipation of an escalation in fighting between rival Cambodian forces, a senior Thai military official said yesterday. Supreme Command spokesman Lieutenant-General Naruedol
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    • 232 10 Fugitive American drug dealer nabbed in Philippines MANILA The Chairman of the Commission on Immigration and Deportation yesterday announced the capture of a fugitive American drug dealer, and warned that the Philippines was no longer a haven for foreign criminals. Mr Bienvenido Alano Jr said "This nation must be known
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    • 125 10 Australia to give Laos $2. 6m for satellite link-up BANGKOK Australia has agreed to give Laos US$l.36 million (552.6 million) to build a satellite station which will open up international telephone and facsimile links. The station is being built in Vientiane, the Laotian capital, by the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC),
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  • AVROSS THE CAUSEWAY
    • 424 13 Discussions on new economic blueprint at critical stage, MCA tells two Chinese bodies KUALA LUMPUR The president and deputy president of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) said yesterday that the Chinese educational bodies UCSTAM and UCSCAM should not have pulled out of
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    • 427 13 KUALA LUMPUR The government plans to amend the law to ensure more effective enforcement of judgments handed down by small claims courts, The Star newspaper reported yesterday. It quoted Justice Minister Datuk Dr Sulaiman Daud as saying this would help reduce the burden
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    • 321 13 TEACHERS in Kuala Lumpur have been told that they are not to punish their pupils in any way, The Star newspaper reported yesterday. A directive from the Federal Territory Education Department said it would not support teachers who took
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    • 154 13 MAS plane forced to return to airport KUALA LUMPUR A Madras-bound Malaysia Airlines flight with 180 passengers on board was forced to return to Kuala Lumpur on Friday due to a defect in the instrument navigational system. Flight MH36, a DC-10 aircraft, took off after a three-hour delay but the
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    • 151 13 KUALA TRENGGANU About 3,000 licensed gold panners converged on the gold prospecting areas in Rukit Lubuk Mandi in Marang near here, which were reopened yesterday after being closed for four months. They arrived as early as 7 am in vans, cars, motorcycles, bicycles and
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    • 194 13 Prisons told to report problems to ministry body KUALA LUMPUR All Malaysian prisons have been directed to report problems to the committee of inquiry which has been set up by the Home Ministry to look into prison irregularities, the Deputy Home Minister, Datuk Megat Junid Megat Ayob, said yesterday. The
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 378 14 FORMER British prime minister Edward Heath yesterday reiterated his opposition to suggestions that Britain should grant Hongkongers the right of abode on its soil. Speaking to members of the British Alumni and other guests on the last day of his visit here,
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    • 159 14 WORK to demolish Clemenceau Bridge to make way for the Central Expressway is to begin on Friday. The bridge will be replaced by a bigger one with eight lanes instead of the present four. The Public Works Department will close
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    • 575 14 Fewer teenagers at Mar ina Square Many stop late-night loitering at shopping centre TEENAGERS are heeding their parents' advice and keeping away from Marina Square at night following the killing last Sunday of a 14--year-old student. The shopping centre is also stepping up its security. The large groups of teenagers,
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    • 317 14 MORE people called NewsLine yesterday to comment on the Englishdubbed Mandarin drama serial, On the Fringe, following concern over the show's portrayal of gangsterism. Many callers felt that parents should exercise greater control over their children's action, rather than blame a TV
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    • 323 14 SINGAPORE hopes to finish among the top four countries in the inaugural World Chinese Chess Championships to be held here at the end of this year. The president of the Singapore Chinese Chess General Association, Mr Robert Looi, expressed this
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    • 190 14 Written answers to parliamentary questions FOREIGN investors got nearly $17 billion in profits out of their investments in Singapore over the nine years from 1979 to 1987. Finance Minister Richard Hu said this in a written reply to a parliamentary question from
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    • 84 14 1 ,228 held under Criminal Law Act NEARLY 1,300 people are currently being detained in Singapore under the Criminal I_aw (Temporary Provisions) Act. This was disclosed by Home Affairs Minister S. Jayakumar in a written reply to a question from Non-Constituency MP I_ee Siew Choh. Of the total of 1,228
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    • 73 14 WILL the Government consider allocating funds to upgrade common facilities in private' housing estates in view of its plans to upgrade Housing Board es- tates? This is the question Thomson MP Leong Horn Kee wants National Development Minister S. Dhanabalan to answer at the next
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    • 429 15 'Surprise air raid' part of civil defence exercise AMID the wailing of sirens, people ran helter-skelter along a smoke-filled corridor of a block of flats, while on the ground lay the bloody bodies of the dead and wounded. Screams of pain filled the air. This scenario in Singapore after a
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    • 440 15 THERE has been a significant drop in the number of pedestrians killed and injured in traffic accidents so far this year thanks to the educational programmes of the Traffic Police. A statement by the Traffic Police yesterday said that from January to
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    • 396 15  -  YAW YAN CHONG By TOO much risk-taking by reigning VisQuiz champions Victoria Junior College proved costly when they lost the championship to the Tanglin Community Centre team in the national finals of the general knowledge quiz last night. The two teams were
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    • 474 15 IT WAS a narrow and surprise win for the Anglican High School in the grand final of the first national Chinese debate for secondary schools yesterday. They clinched the challenge trophy by beating the all-girl Dunman High School team in a closely-fought battle
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    • 603 16 FOUR men and one woman, all but one in the Chinese medical hall business, were fined a total of $34,500 for selling poisons which they were unlicensed to deal in. One of the poisons, Berberine which can cause jaundice and brain damage in certain
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    • 444 16 HEALTH care in Singapore is a billion dollar business which now needs to focus more sharply on well-being programmes, disease prevention and therapy. Mr Lock Sai Hung, president of the Consumers Association of Singapore, said this at the opening of
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    • 296 16 INTERNAL Security Act detainee Vincent Cheng has failed in his request to have the Home Affairs Minister, its Permanent Secretary, the Internal Security Department Director and four other ISD officers questioned in court during the hearing into his application for a release order
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    • 173 16 A SHIPPING executive who allegedly collected bribes for helping 21 reservists to apply for exit permits on the pretext that they had been recruited as seamen, was charged in court yesterday with 47 counts of corruption. Tan Soon Huat, 45, is accused
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    • 607 16  -  OLIVIA BRANSON By NOT many people can boast of this skill the ability to shin up a coconut tree. But it was just that which won an instant Held promotion to full corporal for a signals private, way back in
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    • 479 18 Malay task force proposes go vt-f unded permanent body THE Malay anti-drug task force has proposed the setting up of a government-funded, permanent secretariat to tackle the problem of drug addiction among Malays. The call came yesterday from Mr Yatiman Yusof, Parliamentary Secretary
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    • 230 18 A 49-YEAR-OLD woman who withdrew $82,000 to participate in a scam with four people to cheat a man found out too late that she was their intended victim. Madam Lim Chwee Poh, the proprietress of a store in New Market Street,
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    • 398 18 Govt not obliged to help Malays who are able: MP AN MP has urged the Malay community to take a more positive attitude towards the Government's proposal to cha .ge the system of financing tertiary education for Malays. He noted that while the Government is obliged to help those truly
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    • 338 20 Training and 'reskilling' of workers must be extended: Dr Tay SINGAPORE has to extend the scope and opportunities for training and "reskilling" its many hundreds of thousands of workers with little or no skills, if it wants to continue to have one of the best workforces in the world. This
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    • 787 20  -  MATHEW PEREIRA By in GELANG PATAH FROM sleepy hollow to a lively town with night life and shopping that is what the people of Gelang Patah hope will happen to their town when the second link to Singapore materialises. The Johor end of
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    • 430 20 A COMPLETE tour package to Sri Lanka has become cheaper than an air ticket to Colombo. This is one of the drastic moves the Sri Lankan government is making to lure tourists back to the country. The $599 price-tag for a four-day free-and-easy
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    • 150 20 The Allan Ng trial THE Allan Ng insider trading trial, which was scheduled to resume tomorrow, will start on Wednesday instead, following an application by the defence yesterday. Both the prosecution and the defence met Senior District Judge E. C. Foenander in
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    • 84 20 Hong Leong man's trial date DATES for the trial of Hong Leong Corporation executive director Kwek Leng Keow on a corruption charge will be fixed next week. The prosecution yesterday asked a district court to order Kwek's passport impounded. Mr S. Rajendran, defending, did not oppose the application. Kwek, 37,
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      • 322 21 AFTER the long list of rather sleazy revelations of lust in high places coming out of Japan, the United States and Britain, it was heartwarming last week to get one from New Zealand involving a politician that was not about lust but about abiding love.
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    • 139 21 What The Straits Times reported on Sept 4, 1964 KUALA LUMPUR The Yang di-Pertuan Agong last night proclaimed a state of Emergency throughout Malaysia after the Cabinet had met twice to review developments in the Labis area of Johor, where about 30 Indonesian commandos were airdropped two
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    • 1265 21 Ghetto boy GENERAL COLIN POWELL never let his colour stand in the way of his meteoric rise to become the US military chief *_E_X____»* He is just as comfortable in green army fatigues talking to mud soldiers as he is in a pin-striped suit in
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    • 925 22  -  Tan Sai Siong Mr Bernard Levin could, if he likes, continue to spit in the wind as he once likened his writing to doing and get for his pains "nothing but an eyeful of spit" FRANKLY, can you take seriously anything said by
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    • 1126 22  - Govt should say it cares for all, and say it loudly Bertha Henson The solution lies in communication. People need to feel wanted, if not loved, especially by a Government which seems always to talk from the head and not from the heart. "LOOK, why are you talking to people
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    • 807 22  -  Kenneth James Modern technology is proving to be the great leveller. Not many years ago, high tech was a potent means of keeping the advanced nations advanced. But not any more. YES, IT is here. No, it is not another plug for Batman.
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    • 2209 23 Even as emigration troubles the Prime Minister, a few are quietly reversing the brain drain. Singaporeans who have come home alter putting down roots abroad tell LEE SIEW HUA what made them change their minds. IN LONDON, robotics expert Dr Chuang Ping Derg worked dizzyingly close
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      4 23  -  Theodore Nonis
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    • 224 23 IETTERS Car wheels Indonesian rim is not inferior The report headlined "Rims and fancies" (The Sunday Times Aug 27) mentioned counterfeit car rims from Malaysia and Indonesia. First, I would like to point out that most wheel designs are copied by makers globally because not one single wheel in the
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  • RACING
    • 325 24  -  Tan Thean Loon IPOH PREVIEW By SHINING STAR, a promising galloper from the yards of Pesta Sukan Cup-winning trainer Malcolm Thwaites, is set to glow in Race 3 this afternoon. A sparingly-raced but consistent galloper, Shining Star is in sparkling form and it is hard
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    • 5685 24 Best bet: SHINING STAR (Race 3) Best outsider: CAI JIN (Race 10) Going forecast: SOFT DAAP -i I.oopm RESTRICTED TERMS DIV C: 1,200m long course nMV/L I STAKES $11,000 1 HIGH DISDAIN 55 Paramount Allan 4 nzg (1200m) Newcomer by Billenium out of Gentle Breeze; one
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    • 456 24 Race Frederick Quek Tan Thean Loon Danny Khoo Ron Teo M Bastians 3 CAESARS PALACE 9 BLUE SAPPHIRE 9 BLUE SAPPMRE 9 BLUE SAPPHKE 3 CAESAR'S PALACE 1 9 BLUE SAPPHIRE 1 HIGH DISDAIN 7 PRECIOUS GIET 3 CAESARS PALACE 7 PRECIOUS GIFT 7 PRECIOUS GIFT
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    • 463 25 By TAN THEAN LOON FOUR- YEAR-OLD Turf Dragon displayed lots olf fight to win the meeting's only straight event (l.lOftm) yesterday and gave jockey Leong Swee Ying the first leg of a double. The Malcolm Thwaitestrained American gelding snatched a comfortable lead shortly after settling
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    • 106 25 LONDON Unbeaten three-year-old Nashwan will not run In the St Leger so he can focus his efforts on next month's Prix de I/Are de Triomphe, trainer Dick Hern said yesterday. "His next race will be the Prix Niel at Longchamp on Sept 17. This will give him
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    • 3024 25 RACE 1 CLASS 5 DIV B 1,200m 5 LULLABY 51 c 49.5 (6 5) R Rangasamy (4) 1 1 1 7 ANOTHER DEMON 48 5c 50 (35-16) L Francis (2) 4 3 2 FIFTH SEPTEMBER 56 (21-11) Azhar (1) 3 4 3 1 SOPHISTICATION 5/ (34-13)
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    • 1024 25 ATHLETICS Grand Prix in Monaco Men: 200m: I Daniel Sangouma (Fra) 20.23 2 Robson da Silva (Bra) 20.24 3 Stefano Tilli (Ita) 20.48. Overall pts: 1 Da Silva 59 2 Thomas 47 3 Tilli 41. 1 10m hurdles: 1 (equal) Colin Jackson (Brit), Tonie Campbell (US) 13.22
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  • SPORT
    • SPORT IN SHORT
      • 105 27 Giamatti dies after stroke American Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, 51, died on Friday after suffering a massive heart attack at his summer home on Martha's Vineyard, radio and television stations reported. The former president of Yale University took over as baseball commissioner earlier this year and had been embroiled
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      • 70 27 Tough new state laws on cigarette advertising could cost Australia its round of the world 500cc motorcycling championship, the race promoter said on Friday. However, Bob Barnard, who rebuilt a race track on Phillip Island in Victoria where the Australian Grand Prix was held last April, said
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      • 41 27 West German speedster Remig Stumpf gained revenge by edging Australia's Phil Anderson in a sprint at the end of Friday's third stage, from Chester to Birmingham, in the Tour of Britain cycling race. Martin Earley retained the overall lead.
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      • 29 27 American world champion Greg LeMond, winner of this year's Tour de France, is "99 per cent sure" of joining ZPeugeot next season, team officials said on Friday.
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      • 54 27 The extra-long golf putter used by Australian Peter Senior and Scotland's Sam Torrance has been given the green light. The United States Golf Association's equipment standards committee have followed the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in approving the 48V2 inch club, ruling that the long variety was not
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      • 48 27 Britain held off a strong West German challenge on Friday to win their fifth Nations' Cup at St Gallen, Switzerland, where it was announced that a new triple crown show jumping competition worth 1.25 million Liwiss francs ($1.57m) had been approved by the International Equestrian Federation.
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      • 33 27 Australian opener Mark Taylor and England batsman Robin Smith have won the Rising Star awards for their performances in the recent Ashes series. Each will receive a cheque for £2,500 ($7,600).
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      • 37 27 Arsenal striker Alan Smith has declared himself fit for England's critical World Cup clash in Sweden next Wednesday. But if he fails to pass a fitness test, Wolves marksman Steve Bull is the likely replacement.
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      • 51 27 Scotland have been hit by an injury crisis in the build-up to next Wednesday's World Cup soccer qualifier against Yugoslavia in Zagreb. Rangers striker Mo Johnston, who has a groin strain, has been joined on the casualty list by Hearts central defender David McPherson and Chelsea forward Gordon
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      • 45 27 Surgeons in Brussels have remodelled part of Dutch striker Marco van Basten's left knee, his Italian club AC Milan said on Friday. The European champions said he would be running again "within 20 days. ..and within a month he'll play for the team".
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      • 46 27 Southampton forward Rodney Wallace and Sheffield Wednesday striker Dalian Atkisor have been called into the England Under-21 squad to play their Swedish counterparts on Tuesday. They replace Manchester City defender Paul Lake and Arsenal striker Paul Merson, who have dropped out through illness and injury.
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    • 315 27 KUALA LUMPUR A 4Vk -year observation of Nurul Huda Abdullah's progress reveals why she is the queen of swimming in South-east Asia. All of Nurul's finer points have been analysed and catalogued by Indonesia's chief swimming coach Othman Siregar since early 1985. "Nurul has got exceptional
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    • 304 27 CSC make big splash for 80th birthday SWIMMING by Shirlynn Ho EIGHTY years old and Chinese Swimming Club are determined to celebrate their "auspicious date" in style. With the help of 303 foreign athletes from 19 clubs, CSC have organised a threenday sports bonanza as part of their celebrations, which
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    • 342 27 Maradona can't face tourist class SOCCER ROME Diego Maradona, who is facing a USssmillion ($9. 75m) law-suit when he finally returns to Italy, again cancelled his flight reservations from Argentina yesterday. The soccer star, who was booked on to a direct flight from Buenos Aires to Rome, cancelled reservations for
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    • 48 27 Malaysian stars get more cash KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian stars, swimmer Nurul Huda Abdullah, gymnast Falznur Mlskin and cyclist M. Kumaresan, were In the money again on Friday at a dinner. Sports Toto presented Nurul with MsB,Nt, Faiznur with $5,1M and Knmaresan with $2,tM. M NST
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    • 149 28 Ben's record will stand' PUERTO RICO Disgraced Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson will not be stripped of the 1M metres world recft'd he set In the 1987 World Cup in Rome despite being on drugs at the time, announced a senior International Amateur Athletics Federation official here on Friday. Yugoslavia's lAAF
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    • 343 28 PUERTO RICO Stiffer penalties for Olympians who use drugs will be studied by the International Olympic Committee, with the focus on trainers, coaches and administrators as well as athletes. The lOC voted to review their drug-punishment rules at their next annual meeting
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    • 734 28  -  Alan Hubbard ■^^S^T#»^^^^^^i New deputy sign of Olympic power change EVIDENTLY the events of Tianamen Square have not diminished the capacity of the International Olympic Committee for making decisions which at best can be described as highly controversial and at worst as monumentally crass. It may
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      401 28 In defence of Coe, Ovett I WISH to take issue with an article written by Alan Hubbard in The Sunday Times, on Aug 13, titled "Chariots of Misfire". The article described Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, shortly before they raced at the UK Amateur Athletics Association Championships in
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    • 303 29 ATHLETICS MONACO Neither money nor breaking world records interest me, said Said Aouita before Friday's lAAF-Mobil Grand Prix track and field finals. Keen or not, the Moroccan running sensation finished the meet U5537,000 richer and almost cracked a world mark. Aouita capped a great season
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    • 300 29 PHOTO-FINISH 1 MONACO Olympic champion Roger Kingdom, of the United States, suffered a rare high-hurdles defeat to arch-rivals Colin Jackson and Tonie Campbell at the Grand Prix athletics final here on Friday. Briton Jackson and American Campbell, second and third to Kingdom in last year's
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    • 165 29 PHOTO-FINISH 2 MADRAS Indian track queen P. T. Usha, her fame fading after a disastrous Seoul Olympics, grabbed the limelight at the National athletics championships here by winning the 400 metres in a photo-finish. The 25-year-old railway officer dipped her head in a late
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    • 223 29 Chan's ace CHAN CHKK CHKE (handicap 12) had a hole-in-one on his way to winning the Freight Links Express golf tournament with 42 points (stableford) at Tanah Merah Country Club on Friday. Chan, managing director of Asiatic Agricultural Industries, aced the I Sft- met re
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    • 306 29 Star athletes' agents form new body for pro move MONTE CARLO Agents and managers representing many of the world's top stars in track and field formed their own international body on Friday aimed at abolishing the last vestiges of amateurism in the sport. Representatives of six-time Olympic champion Carl Lewis,
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    • 354 30  - Night golf plan at Jurong CC PATRICK KHAW By TEE OFF at twilight and golf under the stars and floodlights. That is what Singaporeans can look forward to if Jurong Country Club decide to introduce night golfing. A club official has confirmed that they are considering the move and a
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    • 158 30 Double for Waters brothers BOXING SURFERS PARADISE (Australia) Two of Australia's fighting Waters brothers succeeded in a joint defence of their Commonwealth boxing titles yesterday. Light-heavyweight champion Guy Waters won a commanding points decision over gutsy English challenger Roy Skeldon at Jupiter's Casino. And brother Troy retained his junior middleweight
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    • 133 30 Quit call to sports bosses MANILA Senator Jose Lina Jr, chairman of the Philippines' Senate Committee on Youth and Sports Development, has deplored the poor showing by Filipino athletes at the 15th South-east Asia Games in Kuala Lumpur, which ended last Thursday. He urged a review of the delegations which
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    • 617 31 Chris chalks up 100th US Open singles win US OPEN TENNIS NEW YORK Wimbledon champion Boris Becker survived swirling winds and inconsistent play on Friday to reach the last 16 at the US Open Tennis Championships. On the women's side, secondseeded Martina Navratilova and fourth seed Chris
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    • 432 31 NEW YORK Chris Evert has seen the handwriting of youth on the wall telling her to call it a career and today she will see it in person across the net in 15-year-old Monica Seles. Chris, 34, eliminated Patricia Tarabini 6-2, 6-4
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    • 161 31 Hana takes early exit in her stride NEW YORK Hana Mandlikova, winner of the US, French and Australian Open tennis titles during an impressive career, on Friday suffered her earliest elimination from the US Open in 11 years. But the 16th-seeded Hana, who was edging back up the rankings after
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    • 172 31 Men's singles: Boris Becker (WG) bt Miloslav Mecir (Cze) 6-4 3-6 6-4 6-3, Paul Haarhuis (Hoi) bt Miguel Nido (PR) 7-5 7-6 (7-5) 6-0, Jay Berger (US) bt Ken Flach (US) 6-7 (10-12) 4-6 6-2 6-3 6-4, Alberto Mancini (Arg) bt Martin Jaite (Arg) 7-5 3-6 6-1 6-4,
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 538 30 ANTHONY M. LOH KHEE THO Bom: 26th January 1941 Departed: 29th August 1989 at Rata Noi Beach, Phuket, Thailand. To My beloved husband and our beloved father, "Your Loving And Selfless Nature Will Forever Be In Our Memories" WIFE: MOLLY
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      267 30 CHOO WENG FOO Age: 80 years Passad away peacefully on 1 Sapt 1989, leaving behind beloved Wives: Teo Puay Nai Teo Sai Kim Chan Yoke Heng Son*: Choo Chin Chau (Christopher) Choo Chin Yau (Allan) Choo Chin Lok (Colin) Choo Chin Tak (Ronnie) Choo Chin Foon (Francis) Choo
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      174 30 MR. A.C. NICHOLSON paaaad away peacefully on 1-9-89 leaving behind beloved wife Ruth, daughter Treceyann, god children Gregory and Karen Many thanka to Doctor, a Nureee. Cortege leave* at 9.00em on 4-9-89 (Monday) for Mt. Varnon Crematorium Parlour No. 3 from 53, Wsst Coaat Rd, Regent Garden, #01-04.
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      76 30 MR A.C. NICHOLSON Director of CakJbeck, Mecgregor (8) Pte Ltd Paaaad away peacefully on 1-9-89. Dsspssl sympathy to the family ol the late Mr A.C. Nicholson. From: Management 8 Staff of Catdbacka K. QOPAL Ex-PSA Foreman Age: 69 Paaaad away peacefully on let Sapt. 1989 In Tamllnedu (Mayavaram)
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      132 30 In Loving Mwnory of MADAM LIM QEK HEAH (MRS CHEW BECK WHYE) Departed: 3rd Sept. 1977 A token of love, gratitude and remembrance In the memory of a beloved wife, mother, grandma and In-law called home this day 12 years past. Your sudden departure without the chance
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    • 90 30 322 Acknowledgements 322 Acknowledgements The family of the late MR. KUNJAPPAN THOMAS Departed: 28.8.89 Beloved Wife: Mrs. Ponamma K. Thomas Sen: Daughtsr-ln-law: Tom Sheela Daughters: Sons-in-law: Mary Sam Annie David Susan Chris Elizabeth Alice Grandchildren: James, Joshua, Joanna, Jonathan, Philip, Jeremiah and sister, nephews, nieces and their respective families. wishas
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      40 30 In Loving Memory of MR GOH SWEE Departed: 3rd September 1966 Alwaya remembered by Brother, Slatera, Brothere-ln-law, Sietera-in-iaw. Nephewa and Niece* In Loving Memory ot MR. YAP KHENG HOE Departed 3.9.80 Sadly miaaed by Famtty, Relativee Friend*
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      103 30 THALAI THAVASAM (let Anniveraary Prayer'*) MOM. SELL AM Departed: 15-9-1988 Prayer* will ba bald on Monday 4th Sept. 1989 between 10am 12 noon at Blk. 55 Lorong 5 #09-154 Toa Payoh followed by Athma Shanthl Pooja at 397 Serangoon Road SRI 81V AN TEMPLE 7.00pm sharp. Ra*pectfully remembered
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    • 29 30 IN LOVING MEMORY OF LOUIS SNG THERESA TAY SOON HEE KOH MENG Dapertad 3.9.77 Dapartsd 28 3.78 Always ramambarad by chlldran und grandchildren
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    • 23 30 N.N. (NORBERT) LEICESTER, former long time member of the Singapore Bar, died In Perth, Western Australia on 1/9/89 aged 88 years. C.A.T.S. 737-H66
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  • The Sunday Times
    • 489 32 WILFRED YEO previews tonight's Selangor-Singapore Malaysia Cup clash KUALA LUMPUR The timing could not have been better than tonight (8.45 pm) for Singapore to face the olde enemy Selangor in a Malaysia Cup Semi-Pro League soccer match at the equally-olde battleground of the
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    • FOCUS ON TONIGHTS OTHER DIVISION ONE FIXTURES
      • 183 32 JOHOR Mate Boravac is fighting fit and that could spell bad news for visitors Sarawak against Johor at Larkin Stadium tonight. For the first time Johor will be able to field all three Yugoslav imports, with Boravac benefiting from the month's break for the Sea Games. He
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      • 160 32 KEDAH Goalkeeper Azml Mahmud's onemonth spell with the Malaysian team for the Sea Games has cost him the No. 1 Jersey. Kedah's Ahmad Sobri Ismail will take over between the posts against Kelantan at Daralaman Stadium tonight. Kedah coach Milous Kvacek says Sobri is in better form
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    • 65 32 TODAY DIVISION ONE Selangor v Singapore (Merdeka Stadium, 8.45pm) Johor v Sarawak (Lark in Stadium, 8.45pm) Kedah v Kelantan (Darulaman Stadium, 8.45pm) DIVISION TWO Malacca v Trengganu (Kubu Stadium, 4.45pm) Armed Forces v Perak (Tun Razak Stadium, 8.45pm). TUESDAY DIV ONE Pahang v Sarawak (Darulmakmur Std, 8.45pm)
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    • 73 32 P W D L F A Pta. Kuala Lumpur 6 4 1 1 12 6 13 Pahang 5 4 1 010 5 13 Kedah 6 2 3 16 5 9 Penan* 6 2 2 2 9 11 8 Sarawak 6 2 2 2 5 7 8 Hag»p*re S 2
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    • THE LATE NEWS
      • 123 32 Robson set to miss Sweden tie England soccer midfielder Bryan Robson will almost certainly miss the World Cup match against Sweden in Stockholm next Wednesday. The England captain has until today to recover from severely bruised ribs but his hopes all but ended when a lap of the Manchester United
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      • 48 32 John Aldridge, the Liverpool striker who is the subject of a $1 million ($3 million) offer by Spanish soccer club Real Sociedad, wants to stay at Anfield. "It would gut me a hell of a lot to leave," said the 30-year-old Republic of Ireland international.
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      • 25 32 The Springboks beat a World XV 22-16 at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg in the second and last rugby union Test yesterday.
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    • 387 32  - Junior athletes' chance to join the senior ranks Albert Johnson ATHLETICS By LOH LIN KOK, the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association president, said yesterday that his association's priority was to build an elite squad of young athletes who will represent the Republic in future overseas meets. Following the recent South-east Asia
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    • 213 32 Singapore Amateur Athletic Association president Loh Lin Kok will lead a four-member delegation to this week's athletics congress in Barcelona where they will bid for Singapore to host the 1993 World Cup. The other members of the team, who leave today, are Loh Chan Pew,
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    • 120 32 TOKYO Singapore's top woman squash player Mah Li Lian will meet the Republic's No. 2 Chia Chew Lan in the final of the Japan Open championships in Tokyo today. In the men's final, Australian-born Patrick Coll, who plays for Hongkong, will face Australia's
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    • 12 32 TttWRfOKW OFFICIAL WBIIOW fmtftr^A* \TItR OF THt CONN6 6rWsJ UK dOWCHJ \WlEj^oU^/
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    • 42 32 TODAY S EVENTS BADMINTON Pesta Sukan tournament (SBA, 7.15pm). CRICKET Friendly: S'pore Sindhis v SCRC (SCRC, 1.30pm). GOLF Spore Open Senior Amateur c'ship (SICC, 7.45am). RUGBY SRU 10-a-side tournament (Queenstown Stadium, 12noon). SOCCER Friendly: Hougang CSC v Tampines Rovers (Hougang Stadium, Bpm).
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  • TV PLUS
    • 8 1 TV PLUS The Sunday Times. September 3, 1989
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    • 238 1 Meet the Fashion Kids You can tell them by their clothes and their hip accessories. They are the teens who make shopping malls their playground. JUNIPER FOO hangs out at the latest hot spots to observe the rituals of these mallsters. Call them what you will, the trend-setters have their
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    • MUSIC
      • 679 2 Once the cocky champion of the underdog, rock's storyteller has turned to painting as a way to deal with a mid-life crisis at 37 BETWEEN cigarettes and slugs of Perrier, John Cougar Mellencamp expounds on good compositions and arrangements in paintings. He surveys more
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      • Social music with a dash of rock
        • 205 2  -  ONG SOH CHIN By BIG DADDY John Cougar Mellencamp (Mercury) MORE backwoods rock from JCM. This album continues where the earlier The Lonesome Jubilee left off but presents him in a more cynical frame of mind as demonstrated by songs like Big Daddy of Them All and Pop
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        • 204 2  -  LIM SEK By HEART SOUL Junichi Inagaki Fun House ATTITUDES towards Japanese singer Inagaki may have changed, but his songs have not. The latest release of this former favourite among Hongkong singers is another melody-soaked, ul-tra-urban pop affair with a flashy, colourful cover. The big backing sound, complete
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    • TV EYE
      • 756 4 While the emotional side of Singaporeans shone through on TV during the Sea Games, the SBC coverage itself was rather plastic, says JANICE SEAH YOU want passion for country? You want to see it flow, unabashed and spontaneous? Well you missed it if you did
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      • Look east
        • 68 4 ANITA Mui and the four-faced Buddha isn't the name of a new film. The two actually "met" when the Hongkong singer flew to Thailand last week for a break. Mui visited the famous Buddha to seek forgiveness for losing a pendant presented by a Thai monk. She
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        • 42 4 SINGER Andy Lau recently held a calligraphy contest for fans in Hongkong. More than 1 ,006 turned up, but only four were willing to "brush". The contest was cancelled and Lau gave an impromptu show Instead, reports the Lianhe Wanbao.
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        • 31 4 TAIWANESE veteran actor Sun Yue shocked friends and fans when he announced his retirement at a press conference on Aug 19. No reason was given, reports the Lianhe Zaobao.
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        • 47 4 TAIWANESE singer Col Tai Qlng's latest album will hit the China trail soon. Cui, known more for her glittering outfits than her singing talent, was approached by a Chinese record company because "no one dresses quite like her in China!" reports the Llanhe Zaobao.
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      • 155 4 VIDEO UPDATE OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE Starring Bette Midler and Shelley Long Directed by Ar.hur Hiller 1987, Vldeovan LAUREN (Shelley Long) is all ballet, Sandy (Bette Midler) is all brass. Together, they are a female odd couple who give 95 minutes of raucous fun
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      • 132 4  -  JANICE SEAH The Brotherhood: An excellent pre-Godfather Mafia movie starring Kirk Douglas as the tradition-bound big brother who clashes with his sibling. 1968. Kwang Sia. o The First Deadly Sin: Frank Sinatra, in his first starring feature after a 10--year absence, is in good form as a New
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    • 859 1 m BWWW f^-ir^B Belinda Carlisle and Steve Winwood in Monte Carlo World Music Awards WILD WORLD OF THE EAST: Snow Monkeys Of Hell Valley. In-depth study of the wildlife of Japan, China, Mongolia and Taiwan. A look at Japan's snow monkeys begins this new 11-part series. SBC 5, 6.30 pm.
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    • 166 2 His coos and smiles, his first goo and gaa, the pleasures of bathing, the fuss of feeding, colic pains and how to soothe, the joy of seeing his very first tooth, his everchanging personality, you as new parents and your responsibilities, vaccinations and fevers, breast and bottle feeding, crawling and
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  • SUNDAY PLUS
    • 2 2 SUNDAY PLUS
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    • COVER STORY
      • 2022 2 Steve Jobs' revenge NeXT is the first computer to be sold primarily on the strength of mystique It was classic Steve Jobs: he had just spent US$lOO,OOO on a logo for a product that didn't yet exist When IBM sent him a 125-page contract, he said, 'You didn't get it,'
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      • 502 2 NeXT, says an analyst, is for the executive who has to have the prettiest secretary and fastest car ■IN THE END, despite the succession of deals, Steve Jobs is relying on the sheer elegance and drama of the NeXT computer to make it a
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      • 203 2 CUSHION SfEPI Mr mmrM At \a^*t^^^^^^^ m\. Aw aB I Take just a few steps in a pair of 11bbTbb» na* Cushion-Step Walkers and notice \J| ■^■b^EW v^ how light on your feet you feel How —^—9^ TbmtjH W^ fresh. How comfortable. AmW J WL~ 1 1 That's because our
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    • STYLE
      • 553 3 It is enough to make your toes curl. Sheikh chic now goes down to your feet, reports JOHN de SOUZA. COLOURFUL, playful and decorative, Eastern slippers and shoes are stepping out of folklore and on to the streets. In the West, at any rate. While
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      • Style file
        • 83 3 MR BLACKWELL, the designer who keeps the world informed with his worst-dressed lists, says there are some serious fashion problems on US television. His count of worst-dressed women on the tube includes Roseanne Barr ("takes thrift-shop chic to the terrifying limit"), Vanna White ("mall fashion at its
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        • 69 3 GEORGE HAMILTON has entered the beauty business but he is not going to be just another celebrity with a fragrance. The terminally-tanned Hamilton is putting his name where his reputation is a new line of sun products. Pantron I is producing the line and its brochure says that it
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        • 96 3 THE obsession with Princess Diana's clothes continues. A fashion editor of the British Daily Mail asserts that the clothes-mad princess has developed a truly sophisticated, confident style. The evidence? She is not afraid now to wear dresses several years old and will show up in the same
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        • 171 3 fashion editor Diana who died recently in New I inspired many anecdotes, one concerns ex-Vogue model I Lauren Mutton. discovered Miss Hutton inl 1966 when other fashion arbiters considered the gap-toothed beauty too unusual-looking to be a Miss Hutton in I May issue she had
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      • 258 3 HURRY, ENTER THE KAOHAIRCARE FESTTVRL'B9 Two draws. Two chances to win ex- Cut out the Kao logo from the front citing prizes. label or peel off the Kao sticker from Just buy any Kao Shampoo or the back of Sifone and attach it to an Conditioner/Rinse (except the 10ml official
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    • MIND & BODY
      • 605 4  -  Vana The Compleat Woman By THERE must be some misunderstanding. Life does not begin at birth or at 40, contrary to all that movie stars say. Life begins when one has accumulated sufficient stacks of paper with your name preferably in bold
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      • 1113 4 When VIPs shed a tear or two Politicians cry in public at their peril, but how, why and who does it make all the difference, reports CHAI KIM WAH Women are seen as fragile in what is still a male-dominated society. Their crying in public could reinforce perceptions that they
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      • 320 4 GENUINE WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE At our 30,000 sq ft aircon showroom. Never-before prices. See to believe. First to come, first to choose. I mmaasammm mfSt bB w*\\ 1\ xiTP^^^ Vm Jf aaVjalnßlßßßßal L^l I More than 5000 items to clear at below costs! Rosewood dining sets, sofa sets, cabinets, screens, wall
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      • 341 4 AWLWk, I SINGAPORE'S BIGGEST COMPUTER SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN WITH A TOUCH OF CLASS As parents, we would only want the Consistent Updating best for our children, and a better way to Equipped with the most up-to-date prepare them for tomorrow is a computer training facilities and 350 educational education at
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    • TRAVEL
      • 1155 8 Near Tanjung Pinang is a beach hotel which sets its clocks to Singapore time. Still, there were, thankfully, few reminders of home for JUDITH HOLMBERG one recent lazy weekend. Everything in town is within walking distance of the hotels. But the biggest beach resort
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      • 283 8 On the well-beaten track TANJUNG Pinang's night life is limited. Two discos were built a year ago Ali Baba (about 3km out of town) and Pantai Impian (6 km out of town). They lie at the end of dirt tracks off the main road to Kijang. At the end of
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      • 728 8 Food reviewer MARGARET CHAN went nowhere near the spitting coals and still enjoyed the UDMC chalets in Pasir Ris I COULD almost imagine I was a seagull. The salt breeze in my hair, me gliding, wheeling along the coast, next to emerald waters and golden
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      • Travel news
        • 44 8 A NEW Islamic Gallery has opened at London's British Museum, uniting a large collection of artifacts from Islamic lands. They date from the 7th century to the present and highlights include Iznik ceramics, Moghul miniatures, enamelled glass, inlaid metalwork and pottery.
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        • 59 8 SKIMPILY-dressed customers hoping to walk through Harrods will be shown the door at the upmarket London department store, which has started a new dress policy banning short shorts, revealing tops and cut-off jeans. Tailored shorts or Bermudas are acceptable. Guards at the store's 11 entrances are under orders
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        • 51 8 I KATMANDU, the only i international gateway to Nepal by air, has opened a new international terminal at Tribhuvan Airport. The new terminal, stylishly designed in red marble with hand-carved woodwork, is also much more efficient and comfortable than the tiny building that servedthe airport for decades. ~B
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        • 55 8 THE Paris bookstore W.H. Smith Son has closed its popular upstairs English-style tea-room. The London-based owners of the bookshop, frequented by tourists for its large selection of English-language paperbacks and magazines, will use the space for scientific and scholarly books. The store is on the Rue de Rivoli
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    • 816 9  - New Zealand Holiday s Mr D. G. Harper MESSAGE New Zealand High Commissioner IT IS indeed an honour to be given this opportunity to write a message for this supplement. I am proud to be a Kiwi in the Lion City. Having lived here twice and visited this country many
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    • 383 9 SINGAPOREANS will be able to have a taste of New Zealand's 1990 celebrations right here in Singapore with a series of events planned for next year. The biggest and brightest of these is the New Zealand Waitangi Ball which commemorates the signing 150 years ago
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