The Straits Times, 23 January 1993

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1593 50 CENTS MITA (P) 527/12/92
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  • 504 1 PM: Govt will set up programmes to expose young to outside world THE Government will set up programmes to get younger Singaporeans to be more adventurous and expose them to the outside world so they will develop a spirit of enterprise, Mr Goh Chok
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  • 162 1 Leonhard Wee, 11, who was born in the Year of the Rooster, comes face to face with a real heavyweight fowl. This unusual rooster, a Blue Chuckoo Brahma, weighs in at a hefty 6 kg and stands at half a metre tall almost twice the
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  • 600 1  -  Ismail Kassim By KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government is believed to have ordered the withdrawal of the diplomatic passports of the nine hereditary rulers' children. Sources, revealing this yesterday, said that without these passports, the children will lose their immunity from prosecution
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  • 650 1 Iraq pledges to continue ceasefire despite US attack on radar site WASHINGTON The Iraq crisis flared anew on Thursday, President Bill Clinton's first full day in office, as US warplanes attacked an Iraqi radar site, but Baghdad pledged to stick by its unilateral ceasefire. The Iraqi announcement and its "no-fuss"
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  • 63 1 All in, the events of the day marked a tough start for Mr Clinton. As the news of the attack came in, his choice for Attorney-General, Ms Zoe Baird, who came under fire at a Senate confirmation hearing for hiring two illegal aliens as household
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    • 361 1 IgOlfc Uw 1 Spow 1953 Tit. 74»44i1 far (65) H6MTJ TtUx to 393O9 KINSHt' THE New Paper will be the only local English newspaper to be published tomorrow. It will not be published today. PM Goh's answers HOW does Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong intend to reach out to the
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    • 26 1 Lunar New Year celebrations: Page 15 Want S'poreans to take risks? It's easy: Page 20 Have clear 'international vision' to succeed abroad, says don: Page 31
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  • NEWS FOCUS
    • IN SUMMARY
      • 51 2 An unemployed man pretended to be the son of Hongkong tycoon Li Kashing and cheated several victims into paying his hotel bills, which amounted to about $34,000, -a. court heard -yesterday. Ong Siong Tee alias Derreck, 23, was sentenced to 12 months' jail. Horn*, Page
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      • 57 2 The traditional Lunar New Year mandarin oranges are looking a lot "greener" this year. Following encouragement from the ENV, importers have arranged with suppliers in the main mandarin orange exporting countries of China, Taiwan and Pakistan to pack their produce in carton boxes made of cardboard
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      • 37 2 General Try Sutrisno has confirmed his impending retirement as armed forces chief in a move that could pave the way for his emergence as the country's new Vice-President in March. Asean, Page 10
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      • 53 2 President Bill Clinton, in his first official act on the economy, has relaxed defi-cit-reduction targets that would have triggered automatic spending cuts. The White House said that failure to ease the deficit ceilings could have meant 11-per-cent across-the-board cuts in both defence and domestic programmes.
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      • 27 2 Russia has clashed with its Commonwealth partners over who should control the former Soviet Union's huge strategic nuclear arsenal. World, Page 7
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      • 36 2 China has agreed to punish firms that label garments with fake tags of origin in an attempt to skirt US textile quotas, according to an official report yesterday. World, Page 6
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    • 893 2  -  Kwan Weng Kin Reform critical to nation's survival, PM says in policy speech By TOKYO Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa yesterday appealed to the people to support his efforts to promote change in Japan, saying they were vital to the country's very survival. "Sea changes
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    • 399 2  -  Rav Dhaliwal By STRIKE-HIT Cathay Pacific has chartered aircraft from Singapore Airlines complete with SIA crew. It has also flown 10 of its own staff to Singapore to man flights operating from here. It has been chartering Airbuses and
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    • Article, Illustration
      131 2 These are the two Singaporean and one Malaysian air stewardesses whose sacking sparked off the Cathay Pacific strike. Ms Susan Tong, 28, (left) and Ms Janet Foo, 25, who are Singaporeans, and Ms Kimberley Tan, 24, a Malaysian, were first-class hostesses with the airline before they were dismissed
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    • 559 2 PLO chief commends repeal of law banning contact with his group JERUSALEM PLO chief Yasser Arafat has appealed to the Israeli people to "forge a brave peace", in an extraordinary statement broadcast on Israel television. "I repeat my call
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    • 250 2 LONDON Researchers say they have found a form of powerful substance that kills tumour cells and they believe it may be used without severe side effects. A form of a natural substance called tumour necrosis factor (TNF) has been found to selectively kill
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    • 723 3 Rivals say move will give BA 'backdoor' access to US market ARLINGTON (Virginia) British Airways has invested US$3OO million (***** million) to buy a 20 per cent stake in USAir, a move that was heavily criticised by competitors as giving the British airline
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    • 118 3 TOKYO Kobo Abe, one of Japan's most prominent authors and a major influence on postwar Japanese literature, died yesterday at a Tokyo hospital, the hospital said. He was 68. The hospital did not disclose his cause of death. But Kyodo News Service said he had been
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    • 80 3 Picture by The staff room of Rangoon Road Secondary School was gutted by fire on Thursday the second time a school has been struck by arsonists in less than a week. The fire destroyed a large number of report cards, exercise books and school
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    • 502 3  -  Joan Bungar By TWO brothers, kept out by a padlocked grille gate of a Farrer Court flat, looked on helplessly while a Filipino maid stabbed an 18-year old girl in the back as she despeiv ately tried to crawl away. The
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    • 622 3  -  David Miller By 'Lifeboat crossed a burning slick' "We saw the two ships collide about eight miles away. There was a big oil slick which was burning. The ship was hi flames and the crew had to evacuate. "They set elf
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    • 288 3 LONDON A former Soviet scientist was developing m-per-plague bacteria that could wipe out half the population of a small city before he defected to the West in 1989, a British television programme reported on Thursday. Dr Vladimir Pasechnik told the British Broadcasting
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 189 3 WEATHER Showers over several areas in the afternoon and early evening. TEMP. (C) up to 6 a.m. tomorrow. 30 max., 24 min. SUNSET today: 7.18 pm; SUNRISE tomorrow: 7.15 am. GLOBAL HEATHER Amsterdam 7/9 C Clear Madrid 1/15 C Clear Athens 6/15 C Clear Manila 22/30 C Clear Auck'. id
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  • WORLD
    • 506 4 First days of the Clinton presidency WASHINCTON"- President Bill Qinton, in his first official act on the economy, has relaxed deficit-reduction targets that would have triggered automatic spending cuts. The White House said that failure to ease the deficit ceilings could
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    • 285 4 WASHINGTON Ms Zoe Baird, President Bill Clinton's choice for Attorney-General, had asked that her nomination be withdrawn after coming under fire for hiring two illegal aliens as domestic help, the White House said yesterday. "With sadness, I have accepted her request that the
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    • 497 4 WASHINGTON The Senate has confirmed 14 more top officers in President Bill Clinton's administration, hurrying action to give the new President a fast start with scant resistance. Nine Cabinet officers including Mr Ron Brown as Commerce Secretary, Ms Donna Shalala as Health
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    • 240 4 WASHINGTON New Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in a sign of possible increased United States interest in black Africa, on Thursday met South African leader Nelson Mandela in his first meeting with a visitor from abroad. Mr Christopher, at a pic-ture-taking session with Mr
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    • 644 4 Hillary gets office near President's top aides WASHINGTON Breaking decades of tradition, Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton will set up shop in the West Wing of the White House, alongside the President's senior staff members, where she will help formulate policy on health care and other domestic issues, according to White
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    • 438 4 PARIS Western diplomats and many staff members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) have reacted with dismay over the re-elec-tion of Dr Hiroshi Nakajima as WHO director-general. But some Third World diplomats explained their support for Dr Nakajima by saying that
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    • 309 4 LOS ANGELES A friend in need is a friend indeed, so when Wilfred Genus was sentenced to 15 days in jail he asked his old buddy, Albert Flowers, to serve the sentence for him, and Flowers agreed. But Genus,
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    • 462 6 False labels put on garment exports to show a different country of origin BEIJING China had agreed to punish firms that label garments MtH fake tags at urigin in an attempt to skVrt US textile quotas, an official report
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    • 353 6 CHINA'S envoy to the United States, Mr Zhu Qizhen, has said that some democracy activists who were involved in the 1989 student democracy movement will be released, according to a report in Hongkong's Shin Tao Daily on Thursday. Mr Zhu said he
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    • 226 6 CHINA'S top education official has reconfirmed the policy of encouraging more students to study abroad as long as they return to serve the country's modernisation drive after graduating, according to a report in the China Daily. Sending students abroad was
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    • 377 6 LONDON British Airways chairman Lord King has publicly apologised to Mr Richard Branson over a "dirty tricks" campaign against his Virgin Atlantic Airways. "I would like again to apologise and to reiterate goodwill towards Richard Branson," he said. Lord King said he
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    • 235 6 PARIS Guillotined King Louis XVI continued to divide the French 200 years to the day after his execution during the French Revolution, with rival groups of monarchists on Thursday holding commemorative demonstrations. Thousands gathered at the Place de la Concorde in
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    • 424 6 OTTAWA Support for Canada's ruling Conservative Party remained stuck at a dismal 19 per cent in an opinion poll released on Thursday, fuelling speculation that Prime Minister Brian Mulroney would resign before the next election. The Gallup polling organisation said the
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    • 431 6 ATLANTA The first 800 people in a massive federal study of exposure to tobacco smoke had signs of nicotine in their bodies whether they smoked or not, researchers said on Thursday. "We really weren't expecting that," said Dr James Pirkle of
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    • 324 6 PARIS President Francois Mitterrand has admitted that his ruling Socialist Party faced probable defeat in parliamentary elections in March. Mr Mitterrand told the Socialist magazine, Vendredi, on Thursday it was a contradiction that a party which had carried out a string of reforms
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    • 181 6 LONDON The disappearance of Britain's best-known prostitute seemed to have been elaborately planned, police said on Thursday, suggesting publicity rather than crime was the main ingredient. Fears grew for Miss Lindi St Clair when she failed to turn up at a meeting with journalists
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    • BRIEFS
      • 155 7 NEW YORK Call it the fight for the rights to spring. Walt Disney Co is being sued by the London-based music company that holds the copyright to The Rite Of Spring, Igor Stravinsky's beloved ballet score. Boosey Hawkes Music Publishers
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      • 99 7 JERUSALEM Israel's phone company is offering to deliver messages to God via facsimile. Just call Jerusalem, 972-2-612-222, and a phone company employee will place your fax in the crevices of the Wailing Wall, Judaism's holiest site. Visitors to the wall traditionally place small folded
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      • 97 7 WARSAW Polish President Lech Walesa has presented Parliament with a human-rights charter intended to offer citizens better legal protection until the communist Constitution is replaced fully. Mr Walesa told the Sejm, the Lower House, that the charter would guarantee fundamental freedoms, strengthen legal rights, subordinate all
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      • 38 7 picture. A Taiwanese man selling traditional Chinese couplets In Taipei on Thursday. Couplets are pasted on doors to bring good lnck as part of Lunar New Year celebrations. The new year starts today. Reuter
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      • 150 7 LA ROCHELLE (France) The high court in this town, in an unprecedented decision, allowed parents to name a child in triplicate if they choose, clearing the way for a local girl to keep her name: Marie Marie Marie. The parents, who chose to remain anonymous,
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      • 148 7 OXFORD (England) Oxford University, shaken by two recent highly publicised student suicides, is expanding its counselling services to meet a sharp rise in demam from students suffering from depression and academic worries. An investigation carried out for the university widely seen as an academic and social
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    • 450 7 We should be in control, says Russia 'All the others have declared that they will be nuclear-free. Therefore it is necessary that the nuclear weaponry on the territory of the three other countries be Russian.' Lt-Gen Vladimir Zhurbenko, deputy head of the
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    • 157 7 BRUSSELS Nato's top commander in Europe and the German and French military commanders on Thursday signed an agreement which established firm links between a new Franco-Ger-man army corps and Nato in an attempt to allay objections that the corps would impair
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    • 400 7 LONDON Britons have a right to know if their future King is sleeping with another man's wife, the editor of the nation's biggest-selling tabloid newspaper has told a parliamentary inquiry into press intrusion. Mr Kelvin MacKenzie of The Sun told
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    • 634 8 HONGKONG Talks between Cathay Pacific Airways and its cabin crews' union to end a 10-day strike resumed here yesterday after about 1,400 flight attendants staged a sit-tn protest otrtside Governor Chris Patten's residence fan a vain bid
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    • 116 8 STUTTGART (Germany) More than 15,000 demonstrators packed the affluent city of Stuttgart in a state-wide protest against racism and neo-Nazi violence in Germany. Citizens from almost 70 towns across the south-west-ern state of Baden-Wuerttem-berg held candlelight rallies, vigils and church services on
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    • 337 8 HONGKONG Governor Chris Patten said yesterday that he was confident agreement could be reached with China over electoral reforms in Hongkong. In his Lunar New Year message to the territory's six million people, Mr Patten said: "I hope and am confident
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    • 339 8 AMRITSAR (India) A decade after the first shots were fired and tens of thousands of deaths later, the Indian authorities are prepared to declare victory in the battle against Sikh separatists. Much of the credit for breaking the back of the Sikh militant movement
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    • 400 8 PHNOM PENH Two of the key players in the Cambodian peace process said yesterday that UN-organised parliamentary elections would proceed even without the radical Khmer Rouge faction. Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said this could mean a new
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    • 142 8 Up to 20% of land may remain in Khmer Rouge hands Evans He said it would be an overstatement to say that the Khmer Rouge's refusal to participate in the polls would result in the de facto partitioning of the country. "The situation we do have to contemplate is the
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    • 603 8 ARMOURED CARRIER PLUNGES INTO RIVER WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton's choice for US ambassador to the United Nations has hinted at a more active American role to end the Balkan war, calling for enforcement of a ban on Serbian warplanes flying
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  • ASEAN
    • 593 10  -  Paul Jacob Move could pave way for his emergence as new V-P By Jakarta Correspondent JAKARTA General Try Sutrisno has confirmed his impending retirement as armed forces chief in a move that could pave the way for his emergence as the country's new
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    • 58 10 Australian Armed Forces Commander P.C. Gration (left), greeting President Suharto (centre) and Indonesian Armed Forces Commander General Try Sntrlsno at the Merdeka Palace In Jakarta on Thursday. Gen Try had conferred the Bintang Yudha Dharma Utama, the highest medal of merit from the Indonesian Armed
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    • 92 10 BANGKOK Customs offi- cials have seized 119 tonnes of palm oil, 700 crates of beer, 60 crates of whisky and 300 boxes of biscuits being smuggled into Thailand from Malaysia. Officials said the cargo, worth four million baht (*****,000), was seized aboard a vessel off
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    • 342 10 MANILA President Fidel Ramos had called for a meeting of the heirs of the Philippine sultanate of Sulu to settle their claims to the Malaysian state of Sabah, his spokesman said here yesterday. The move was aimed at normalising relations
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    • 502 10 MANILA Vice-President Joseph Estrada, head of a special anti-crime commission, has said that lack of cooperation from victims and their relatives was a major cause of a rash of kidnappings which have particularly targetted Chinese-Filipinos. "A major reason for the proliferation of kidnap-for-ransom gangs
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    • 258 10 MANILA President Fidel Ramos' government began formal negotiations yesterday for a peace settlement with right-wing military rebels. The government's fourmember negotiating panel sat down with an equal number of rebel representatives for a brief closed-door session at a government hospital in suburban Manila. The
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    • 247 10 BANGKOK Thailand has signed an agreement with Myanmar's military junta to form a joint commission to promote economic and trade co-operation, according to a report in the Bangkok Post yesterday. The accord was signed by the Thai Foreign Minister, Squadron Leader Prasong Soonsiri, and
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    • 238 10 Human-rights workshop to be held in Jakarta 2 years after being dropped JAKARTA A United Na-tions-sponsored regional hu-man-rights conference is coming back to Indonesia two years after it was cancelled when Indonesian troops killed at least 50 protesters in East Timor. The Asia-Pacific workshop on human rights, originally scheduled for
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 537 12 Row over rulers' legal immunity Kelantan Sultan's backing for Opposition cited as example SELANGOR Mentri Besar Tan Sri Muhammad Taib has said that the Conference of Rulers had failed to play its role in preventing the Malay rulers from meddling
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    • 283 12 KUALA LUMPUR The public will soon be able to use wards in general hospitals reserved for members of the royalty whenever they are vacant. A Health Ministry spokesman said on Thursday that the wards were previously reserved for the
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    • 366 12 THE Sultan of Johor's monthly allowance of M544,000 (about S$28.000), or M5528,000 a year, since last year makes him one of the highest-paid among the Malay rulers in the country, according to a Bernama report. The agency said that the allowance comes from
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    • 168 12 THE Selangor state government spends between M5700,000 and MsBoo,ooo (between *****,000 and *****,000) annually on the Sultan of Selangor's private luxury yacht, Puteri Kayangan or the Heavenly Princess, according to the Berita Harian Malaysia. The newspaper quoted a state gov- ernment source as saying that
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    • 188 12 JOHOR BARU Police are investigating how Spirit of '46 newsletters supporting the royalty were inserted in copies of the New Straits Times and Berita Harian and distributed to readers at the State Government Building here earlier this week. Johor Baru police chief
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    • 196 12 KUALA LUMPUR The government is monitoring foreign media reports on the Constitution (Amendment) Bill, according to Foreign Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Ahmad Kamil Jaafar. The ministry has informed all Malaysian missions overseas on the latest developments on the amendments and directed them to convey the
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    • 274 12 ALOR STAR The Sultan of Kedah, seen as a model ruler, received a 160 ha timber concession from the state government annually, sources said on Thursday. They said the concession was worth more than MJI million (*****.000) if it was tendered to private
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    • 386 12 JOHOR State Secretary Datuk Abdul Rahim Ramli has denied that the Sultan of Johor asked civil servants to boycott all official functions organised by the federal and state governments, according to The Star newspaper yesterday. He said that it
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  • HOME
    • 460 13  -  David Miller Rangoon Road Secondary blaze guts staff room, offices; some rooms also ransacked By ARSONISTS have struck at another school the second such incident in less than a week. The latest blaze occurred at the Rangoon Road Secondary School
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    • 306 13  -  Evelyn Goh By CULTURE shock, racial discrimination and accommodation. You would probably worry about these, too, if you were leaving for further studies abroad in the next few weeks. Thirty-five current and potential students of overseas universities revealed their deepest concerns
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    • 255 13  -  Sharon Chin By REMEMBER the last time the MRT train driver mispronounced Bukit Batok as Bukit Buttock? Such verbal boo-boos will no longer be made once automatic voice synthesisers are installed in MRT trains. The Mass Rapid Transit
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    • 575 14  -  Elena Chong 12 months' jail for using name of Li Ka-shing to get victims to pay his $34,000 hotel bills By THE REAL SONS i THE IMPOSTOR \N UNEMPLOYED man pretended to be the son of Hongkong tycoon Li Kashing and cheated several
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    • 157 14 NOT THE FIRST TIME ONG Slong Tee posed as the son of another Hongkong tycoon when he wm It. la 1981, he pretended to be AIM Wa«g Yam Leoag, a senior vice-prealdeat of a Mlllon-dollar Hongkong conglomerate railed Wang International
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    • 369 14 Trial of Amcol Holdings director THE $1.5 million given by a Japanese businessman to businessman Kang Hwi Wan was a loan, his counsel said yesterday after Kang was called to give his defence. Kang, 55. a director of Am col Holdings,
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    • 208 14 DID a flight stewardess slip, or did she jump intentionally from an apartment block? The coroner could not determine this and recorded an open verdict on the death of Miss Tan Geok Bee. Miss Tan, 24, was found dead shortly after a misunderstanding
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    • CASEFILE
      • 90 14 A MANDARIN Hotel employee was yesterday accused of stealing over $11,000 from an American tourist's room. Abdul Halim Aziz, 22, was charged with having stolen $3,000 and $5,000 in American currency (558,265) from Dr Linda Anne Jusman Wirth, a dentist. Dr Wirth left the money
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      • 91 14 AN UNEMPLOYED man was charged yesterday with possessing 44 packets of firecrackers, the largest such seizure this year. Loh Puay Tee, 22. allegedly bought the firecrackers in 1989 from a shop in Yew Tee Village, near his previous residence. The firecrackers were found in a bedroom
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      • 94 14 A MAN carried out his vice activities at two different places between May and September last year, a district court heard yesterday. Lee Kwok Meng, 38, was jailed for 6 months yesterday after he pleaded guilty to two counts of managing a contact point for
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    • 147 15 Lunar New Year celebrations Years of the Rooster and their associated elements Jan 22 1909 Feb 9 1910 Earth Feb 8 1921 Jan 27 1922 Metal Jan 26 1933 Feb 13 1934 Water Feb 13 1945 Feb 1 1946 Wood Jan 31 1957 Feb 17
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    • 63 15 What about the Rooster personality? The Rooster is said to have five virtues: Civility associated with its comb; military prowess seen in its r clawed feet; valour from the way it fights front-on; Z generosity because it shares food with its mate; and reliability for its precise crowing.
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    • 104 15 THE success of the MRT's first "festival" ticket commemorating Lunar New Year has prompted SMRT to consider introducing one for Hari Raya Puasa in March. All 50,000 of the Lunar New Year tourist souvenir tickets, which feature a graphic of a rooster,
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    • 540 15  -  Dominic Nathan Some now come packed in cardboard boxes, not wooden crates By It is easier to get rid of the boxes. Previously, we used to be stuck with wooden crates in the house.' A housewife, Mrs Tan Ee Cheng. THE traditional Lunar New Year mandarin
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    • 530 15 UNLIKE the Christmas Sharity gift box collection, which surpassed its target of 40,000 gifts, the Lunar New Year version has fallen short. Over the past 13 days, the organisers collected about 13,000 gifts, less than half the target
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    • 275 16 THE Singapore Broadcasting Corporation will be using Bahasa Baku or standardised Malay pronunciation in all its Malay programmes, including news, by 1995. Its introduction will be done in several phases, said Minister of State for Education Sidek Saniff. In an
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    • 654 16 FROM a company which wanted its employees to share the costs of a massive blackout which hit Singapore to restrictions by another on the use of lifts by its workers. These were two of three cases highlighted in articles about industrial relations
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    • 418 16  -  Kwan Chooi Tow By A $500,000 computer programme which matches a student's abilities, interests and values with suitable occupations, and also describes these, has been developed. Jobs Orientation Backup System (JOBS) covers 200 occupations and took three years of research involving 12,000 people
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    • 213 16 FIELD TRIAL OF JOBS GOOD colleagues, bosses and the need to achieve in their jobs were the top three work values among junior college students in a preliminary field trial of JOBS. It also found that Secondary 2 students tended to have
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    • 480 16  -  Julia Goh By VETERAN show promoter Johnnie Young is getting out of the lounge business, after four Filipino singers dropped molest charges against him. In an interview with The Straits Times yesterday, he said that he would now concentrate on promoting shows in China.
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    • NEWSFRONT
      • 145 16 "PRETTY boy" pop singer Aaron Kwok was mobbed by more than 200 screaming fans when he arrived at Changi Airport on Thursday night. However, not many of them managed to catch a good look at the Hongkong singer, who had to squeeze through the
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      • 248 16 FROM next year, all factories which have crane or lifting operations will have to send their crane drivers and operators for training. They will also be required to ensure that safe practices laid down under the new rules are followed when such operations are carried out.
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      • 110 16 A SURVEY is being conducted to improve future planning of libraries and services at the National Library. The survey, conducted by Survey Research Singapore Pte Ltd, began on Tuesday. It is expected to be completed in March. About 1,000 Singaporean households picked at random will be
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      • 119 16 NUMEROUS companies have responded to the Ngee Ann Polytechnic's student vacation training programme. To date, 832 companies have offered 3,991 places for this year's programme. The attachment, meant especially for second-year students of the polytechnic, is for an eight- to 12- week period. The vacation
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    • 164 16 THE Singapore Armed Forces will conduct military exercises in the Lim Chu Kang, Hong Kah, Marsiling, Mandai, Sembawang, Tampines, Tuas, Upper Jurong, Jalan Bahar, Kranji and Seletar areas from 8 am on Tuesday to noon on Saturday. Blanks and thunderflashes will be used, and members of the public
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    • 321 13 The ten concerns of some students going to universities in Australia and New Zealand: fi^^t I n The concern: Culture shock lt[ Comments: It depends on the individual. One student packed up and left after three weeks in Perth while others fit in perfectly well. 9 Comments: Most of the
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    • 277 13 Public Forum 'Healthy Mind For A Healthy Life' SUNDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 1 993. 2 5 PM. SLF AUDITORIUM. 5 1 2A THOMSON ROAD, SINGAPORE 1129 A special programme to help you and your family keep your minds healthy. Highlights of the forum include experts talking to you on whai: mental
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    • 485 14 J^rS^^^M nPi^^V^ <* 1 All the right moves in buying a car. fi H In this island state, buying a car is a calculated move. Just look at the car m Eg? prices. They are one of the highest, if not the highest in the world. gS 111 Little wonder,
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  • INSIGHT
    • 2125 18 A LOOK AT THE ISSUES OF THE DAY BY THE STRAITS TIMES POLITICAL DESK For the first time in its history, the civil service has a powerful management tool to woiflfc out the real cost of providing public services. Zuraidah Ibrahim reports on what
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    • OFF-THERECORD
      • 122 18 THE lion dance may be a traditional favourite with many Chinese Singaporeans, but not, it would appear, with some children. A tot with cherubic cheeks was visibly terrified when a pair of lions pranced noisily and energetically before him at the Singapore River
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      • 87 18 IT WOULD seem that it is not only the speculators who are raking in a profit on certificates of entitlement. A local greeting card manufacturer came up with Christmas and Lunar New Year cards which used the vehicle quota system as a motif. One,
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      • 121 18 WE KNOW that the civil service wants to keep a tight lid on costs. But at the expense of discouraging staff to use the telephone? Hear this. A reporter visiting the Treasury Building asked a young woman if there was a public telephone around.
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      • 156 18 IN AN article on nationhood in the latest issue of Commentary, a National University of Singapore Society journal, MP K Shanmugam offers an intriguing new thesis on racial politics here. He argues that if the People's Action Party's courting of the "HDB heartland's" Chinese vote amounts
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      • 141 18 LAST week, we wrote about a caller who wanted to know why he had been given a parking ticket at midnight on Saturday when parking was supposed to be free in HDB carparks on Sundays. He called The New Paper to ask it
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    • 1068 19  -  Leslie Fong THINKING ALOUD WHAT does joining a political party mean today? Should any young person hoping to change society take the initiative to sign up? Is that the only channel open to him? Come to think of it,
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    • 524 19  -  Cherian George MEDIA WATCH THIS week saw the launch of the new and improved SBCText. Renamed INtv, the faster and expanded teletext service arrived on Monday, in the midst of a massive advertising blitz over television. The same day, a full-page
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    • 71 18 Singapore's only national Chinese morning daily We deliver local and international newsandviews to your doorstep. SUBSCRIPTION FORM /#V^«fl^H 1 Name: fjf A Postal Code: 'yV A i Tel: (Res) QL+ i (Offioe) t-jtn\ Mall to: *S vJiriTC^r. >a| Customer Relations Section V« V/v\X» $H Circulation Department 1 V 'TfJ&f TV)
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    • 84 19 Art Imitates Life WOODY ALLEN'S NEW MOVIE, HUSBANDS AND WIVES, HAS THE DIRECTOR FALLING IN LOVE WITH A 20-YEAR-OLD STUDENT. IS THIS TOO MUCH LIKE THE SCANDAL IN HIS REAL LIFE? ONG SOH CHIN REVIEWS. Coming Next... ON MONDAY: DRINKING URINE AS ART IS IT OFFENSIVE? CHUA MUI HOONG AND
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  • COMMENT/ANALYSIS
    • The Straits Times
      • 654 20 AS IF separatist extremism in Punjab, Kashmir and Assam, as, well as ethnic problems in other ifipgjjpqft.tf India, were not enough, the country must now tackle a bigger and more dangerous problem: the threat to its secularism posed by radical Hindu fundamentalists, who seek to establish
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      • 93 20 QUOTIS "I remember... when it started, people used to make Jokes about SDU being for the single, desperate and ugly. But now people say it Is for the single, desirable and unattached." Mr Dennis Teo, 30, on the Social Development Unit. "Please, please... Will yon leave me alone? Stop pertering
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    • 1523 20  - Want S'poreans to take risks? It's easy just remove the social safety nets Chan Yan Chong By SENIOR Minister Lee Kuan Yew has visited Hongkong at least once a year over the past three decades. He is greatly interested in the entrepreneurial spirit of Hongkongers and their readiness to meet
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    • 803 21  -  Peter Millar By The Times SHED a tear for old George Bush as he fades into history with a whimper, despite having unleased more whizzbangs than any other postVietnam American president. Probably the only thing more galling than having even
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    • 1125 21  -  Tan Sai Siong Look back in wonder PERSONAL VIEW OF THE WEEK'S NEWS By THIS morning, as Chinese Singaporeans wake to another Lunar New Year and rounds of eating and exchanging hongbao with friends and relatives, I wonder how many will
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  • SPORTS
    • 617 23 Time for IAAF to pay prize money I 'The lAAF should discard amateurism for professionalism and not before time, too.. For too long the lAAF has clung on to the rotting cloak of a worn-out philosophy as if it was a comfortable blanket.' NO MONEY, no talk. That is the
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    • 467 23  -  Joe Dorai Club feels it should not be penalised for withdrawing from tourney SOCCER by 'Anyway until now we have not been informed by the FAS to pay the fine. We will consider the matter when it is officially
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    • ACROSS THE CAUSEWAY
      • 81 23 Troubled former champion Johor looks set to lose even more key soccer players, reported The Star on Thursday. Johor, which had lost defender Sazali Nasir to Negri Semiblan and Annuar Abu Bakar to migration, may lose two more players first-choice rightback Sani Othman and reserve goalkeeper
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      • 121 23 The FA of Malaysia needs to hold seminars for both players and team officials, said FAM secretary Datuk Paul Mony. The Star reported that he said many players were finding themselves in a bind because they did not know of their rights. Several teams have been
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    • 182 23 ATHLETICS NEUBRANDEBURG (Germany) German sprinter Katrin Krabbe, who was banned for four years last September after failing a dope test, believes she will be at the World Championships in Stuttgart in August. Krabbe, the reigning 100 and 200 metres world champion, claims that she will
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    • 531 23 It can ignore Reynolds court payment or combat it JAKARTA The huge damages awarded to Butch Reynolds against the International Amateur Athletic Federation has left athletics' ruling body facing a difficult choice, a senior federation official said on Thursday. While the lAAF has no intention of
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    • 328 23 PETALING JAYA The national back-up squad will earn a place in June's Singapore Sea Games if the national senior team fails to achieve the desired results in next month's Merdeka soccer tournament and the pre-World Cup round in May. "The senior
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    • 557 23  -  COMMENT By Godfrey Robert SINGAPORE sports administration's No. 1 newsmaker turned newsman on Thursday night. And his message to the representatives of 29 national sports associations among the 120 guests at the Singapore National Olympic Council/Co-ca-Cola Incentive Awards ceremany
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    • 620 23  -  Thomas Koh BOWLING by VETERAN southpaw Ronnie Ng, the toast of Singapore bowling when he won four gold medals at the 1963 South-east Asia Games on home ground, has been named captain of the national men's bowling team for the Sea Games
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    • 238 23 CRICKET: World Cup CHANDIGARH India has warned England and Australia against using their veto powers when the venue of the 1995 World Cup cricket is decided in London on Feb 2. India, whose joint bid with Pakistan and Sri Lanka is rivalled by a sole
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    • THE LATE NEWS
      • 103 23 Denmark's Thomas StuerLauridsen beat Indonesia's Olympic champion Alan Budi Kusuma 15-10, 15-12 in the men's singles semi-finals of the Korea Open badminton championships yesterday. He faces Indonesian Joko Suprianto in today's final. Suprianto beat South Korean Park Sung Woo 15-9, 15-7. r>«oblr» q-flnal*: Shon Jin Hwan/Kang Kyung Jin
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    • 693 24 Moody Stich survives a nasty scare Fifth day of the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne MEN'S ACTION A TROUBLED week for 1991 Wimbledon champion Michael S.tich almost reached rock bQttom yesterday before he savy off the bold five-set challenge of local favourite Jason Stoltenberg to reach the last IB
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    • 255 24 (Prefix number denotes seeding) MEN'S SINGLES 11-Guy Forget (Fra) bt Jamie Morgan (Aust) 6-3 6-2 6-2, 7-Petr Korda (Cze) bt Andrei Medvedev (Ukr) 6-4 4-6 6-3 7-6 (7/5), 15-Sergi Bruguera (Spn) bt Jan Siemerink (Hoi) 7-6 (7-5) 4-6 6-3 3-6 »-7, 1-Jim Courier (US) bt
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    • 608 24 Journalists in despair as Medvedev loses to Korda 'They're human people, they can make mistakes. If I don't make mistakes on the court then I would be asking for the linesmen not to make mistakes also, but I'm doing that so much that compared to
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    • 383 24 il BQNN German tennis chief Claus Stauder denied reports that Boris Becker had asked for a huge cash bonus to play In this year's Davis Cup and tried on Thursday to cool down a heated row between Becker
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    • 559 24 WOMEN'S ACTION MONICA SELES, the world No. 1, had American Patty Fendick pleading for mercy at the Australian Open yesterday during a 6-1, 6-0 centrecourt annihilation. Even 19-year-old Seles, usually her own worst critic, was happy with her 47-minute
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    • 591 24 'I try and keep everything under control but occasionally it gets to the point where I need to have a release, usually not more than one, before I try to retreat back inside/ JimCcjoef JIM COURIER remained cool and unrepentant yesterday after returning
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    • SOCCER SHORTS
      • 73 25 Tottenham's bid to sign Ukrainian striker Oleg Salenko was blocked on Thursday because he failed to meet work permit criteria. The English Premier League side had agreed to a £750,000 ($1.92 million) fee with his club Dinamo Kiev. But a Tottenham spokesman said
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      • 45 25 Denis Smith was sacked on Thursday as manager of English First Division side Bristol City. Smith, who had been in the job for 10 months, was called before club directors and told he was being replaced by his assistant, Russell Osman.
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      • 54 25 A deputy has tabled a parliamentary question over some US$l7.5 million ($29.05 million) Diego Maradona is alleged to owe Italian authorities in unpaid taxes. Antonio Parlato, who represents the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano, wants clarification on the tax status of the volatile Argentine who played
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      • 77 25 Coventry manager Bobby Gould escaped censure on Thursday after the Football Association decided to take no action against him over two outbursts against Norwich. Gould was ordered from the touchline following a row with a linesman during Coventry's 1-0 defeat at Norwich in their FA Cup
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      • 66 25 Berlin will stage CSKA Moscow's next two "home" ties in the European Cup semi-final series, the European Football Union said on Thursday. CSKA, contesting its group A "home" matches at neutral venues because of the severity of the Russian winter, had been due to play in
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    • 250 25 SKI ORIENTEERING STOCKHOLM Sweden hM withdrawn Its ski orienteering team tram International meetings la Austria and Italy, citing the alarming resoits of tests carried out since seven young athletes died of sadden heart failure. The Swedish Orienteering Federation on Thursday also extended a
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    • 595 25 Brighton centre-back out to avenge 1983 loss to Man U SOCCER English FA Cup LONDON Former England soccer defender Steve Foster has a major score to settle when he plays for Brighton at Manchester United in the Football Association Cup fourth round today. Ten
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    • 62 25 Premier League Today: Coventry v Oldham. ■FA Cap, 4th rd: Aston Villa v Wimbledon. Crewe v Blackburn, Huddersfield v Southern], Luton v Derby, Manchester United v Brighton, Nottingham Forest v Middlesbrough, QPR v Manchester City, Rotherham v Newcastle, Sheffield United v Hartlepool, Swansea v Grimsby, Tranmere v Ipswich,
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    • 576 25 EUROPEAN PREVIEW ROME Lazio and Juventus battle it out for third place in the Italian League tomorrow, hoping that Genoa will halt AC Milan's 20--month unbeaten run and offer them the ghost of a chance to catch up on the First Division soccer
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    • 475 25 GOLF TUCSON (Arizona) John Daly is slated to return to the US PGA Tour next week in Phoenix, Arizona, after treatment for alcohol-related problems kept him out of the opening events of the season. Phoenix Open golf officials said on Thursday that Daly's agent
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    • 294 25 LONDON European golf supremo Ken Sehofield criticised US Masters officials on Thursday for failing to invite Briton Barry Lane, leader of the European Ryder Cup points table, to Augusta in April. Sehofield, executive director of the European Golf Tour, said: "It's nothing less than extremely
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    • 378 25 BADMINTON South Korea Open Men's singles, s-flnals: Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen (Den) beat Allan Budi Kusuma (Indon) 15-10 15-13, Joko Suprianto (Indon) bt Park Sung Woo (SK) 15-9 15-7. Women's singles, q-flnals: Susi Susanti (Indon) bt Ye Zhaoying (Chn) 11-6 11-6, Minarti Timur (Indon) bt Lim Xiao Qing (Swe)
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    • SPORT IN SHORT
      • 58 25 Former world golf No L faji Woosnam has pulled out of next month's Australian Masters because of a schedule clash. -w The little Welshman, finished \njfrp top 10 afTfe Masters liiTWf »n# 1988, -1M take part in the Johnnie Walker Classic in Singapore in two
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      • 54 25 Former world champion Walter Brugna has been banned for two years after testing positive for amphetamine; last year, Italian Cycling Federation spokesman Franco Rota said on Thursday. Brugna, who failed a dope test after a Torino amateur race, won the professional motor-paced event at the 1990
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      • 59 25 Duke McKen/ie. the first Brit ush boxer in modern tiraai to win world titles at three dtf ferent weight categories, will make the first defence of fate World Boxing Organisation super-bantamweight crown against unbeaten Puerto. Rican Daniel Jiminez in London on Feb 10. McKenzie had previously held
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      • 65 25 Defending champion Wigan is lodging an appeal after th> organisers of next month's World Sevens rugby league tournament in Sydney saufnn Thursday the British club would be kicked out for naming a sub-standard side. In Sydney, Sevens promt (er Geoff Prenter said action was being taken
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      • 50 25 Bill Parcella. 51. who ha* a pair of American football 9b per Bowl titles to his crtA, has become the new Md coach of the hapless {£•*>• England Patriots. Parcells agreed wfga long-term contract after MBk assured that he would kmtrc control of the football opttV
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      • 58 25 Former world light-heavy-weight boxing champion Den nis Andries is to malra comeback at the age of Jfjn London next month. Ho looked to havp rttfcfetl after losing a European efi*s erweight title fight on palps to Frenchman Akim Tater 11 months ago but is to chal
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      • 73 25 Former England rugby aafcm flanker Gary Rees retuftCto his Nottingham team tod»> for his first < ompetlttV** match for nearly a year. Ho won his 23rd cap in the W«tfld Cup against the United States in October 1991 but sufftafed shoulder and knee injuffc's last February.
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      • 86 25 The Russian Parliament has agreed to increase invaMOity and old-age pensions (or former sports stars. The top m^n and women whose cafroers were ended through injury will get a 2,250 rubles (57.50) increment to 4.275 ruble* a month from Feb 1. Olympic athletes from 'the
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      • 69 25 More that! \iSi *kt* off from fivo ftiropean countries on Thursday at the of the Montf <?afl«rf&liy\"*h#» first race <rf th^ Wnrtfl ftym pionship sr.l<rtm Competitors left Reims. Bad Homburg, I-iusanne, Turin and Barcelona for an untimed liaison drive of between I.oookm and 1.200km to' the
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 28 23 EVENTS TODAY: CRICKKT Kriendly: S'pom President's XI v Forest Nomads of Glamorgan (Ralestier Road. 1 30pm). TOMORROW: CRICKKT Kriendly: S'pore v Forest Nomads of Glamorgan (iialestier Road. llamV
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  • OBITUARIES
    • 190 26 850 Deaths 850 Deaths 850 Deaths HO CHING YU Age: 63 yrs was called home to be with our Lord on 22 January 1993. He It deeply missed by: Wife: Urn Mei Foon Sons: Daughter-in-law: Ho Chu Eu Chen Pee She, Patsy Ho Chu Horng Daughters: Son-in-law: Ho Chu Huei
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    • 213 26 850 Deaths 850 Deaths LUI JOHN KHIN Age: 70 passed away peacefully on the 21.1.93 Sadly missed by loved one* who mourn tor Mm: Mother: Wee Ah Moy Wife Wee Boh Kim Sons: Daughters-in-law: Lui Dal Suan "ay Ylan Choo Lui Dal Cheng Lul Dal Jim Ang Puay Hong Lui
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    • 46 26 I Th« Family of th* Lato I I AMY WEE PECK LIAN I I wishes to express their I heartfelt appreciation to I all relatives, friends staff of Ward 1 AH for their I assistance, donations condolences during their I J recent bereavement I
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    • 419 26 850 Deaths 850 Deaths 852 Condolence 852 Condolence TAN YOK YO AGE: 88 Beloved Mother of Directors of: TEH BOON CHEE TRANSPORT TBC TRANSPORTATION A TRADING PTE LTD STEVECO PTE LTD OPTTICA TRADING FRANKFURT AUTO TRADING PTE LTD SENG KEE TYRE BATTERY SERVICES JOST FAR EAST PTE LTD called Home
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    • 19 26 MR. TOCK SEOW JENG Departed 23 Jan. 92 Oeerly wiiMd by Sons, Daughters. Sons-in-law. Daughters-in-law, Orandchlldren and Loved Ones
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    • 361 26 553 In Memoriam 853 In Memonam 853 In Memoriim I 3RD ANNIVERSARY I 1 David Chia Kwan Kow I M Departed: 27 January 1990 B if Ang Mui Hiang B §1 Sons: Daughter-in-law: m m Francis Chia Wing Kwong Tan Juan Hing B m Timothy Chia Wing Heng m m
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 582 27 MOTOR RACING PARIS Formula One world champion Williams-Renault could miss the 1993 season because of a mix-up over paperwork. The outfit, along with drivers Alain Prost and Damon Hill, was missing from the list of teams entitled to compete next season, announced by Fisa here. "Certain
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    • 416 27  -  Malcolm Bastians RACING By STORM, the only filly in the $250,000 Lion City Cup on Monday, wound up her preparation for the sprint classic with a stylish gallop at Bukit Timah yesterday. Ridden by Kim Clapperton, the gutsy galloper, with four
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    • 190 27 SILVERSTONE (England) Former world and Olympic decathlon champion Daley Thompson is to compete in motor racing. The two-time Olympic gold medallist has no plans to take the place of world champion Nigel Mansell, wtK) *Hi_ y"*' Formula One for IndyCar racing in the United States.
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    • 584 27 Jordan leads Bulls to thumping win 1 NBA BASKETBALL EAST RUTHERFORD (New Jersey) The New Jersey Nets knew Thursday's game with the Chicago Bulls would be a test of whether it was ready to join the National Basketball Association's elite. It had its answer. Michael Jordan scored 30 points to
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  • MONEY
    • 299 28 US economy strengthens but few new Jobs, says Fed report WASHINGTON The Clinton administration tabes over the White with -an econoijiwy respyeririg slowly in most T,.places but lagging in the most heavily populated state of California, a Federal Reserve survey said. The periodic report based an anecdotal evidence supplied by
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    • 434 28 But Bundesbank wants to see modest wage agreements before it cuts rates BERLIN Chancellor Helmut Kohl said lower interest rates would help Germany out of its recession but the country's central bank passed another opportunity to ease monetary policy. Mr Kohl,
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    • 201 28 Smirnoff sues Smirnovin vodka war MOSCOW The Britishbased Pierre Smirnoff Company fired a new salvo in Russia's vodka war, saying it was suing its Russian rival Smirnov to protect its trademark. "We will take every action to protect our interests," Mr Dennis Malamatinas, president of the Pierre Smirnoff Company, told
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    • 328 28 Australian Reserve Bank wins dollar skirmish SYDNEY Australia's Reserve Bank won a skirmish in its battle against speculators yesterday protecting the Australian dollar from another hammering, but analysts said the bank is just delaying the inevitable and wasting money. Heavy Reserve Bank buying in early trade, which accelerated technical buying,
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    • MONEY WORLD
      • 63 28 BRUSSELS European Community steel companies estimated on Thursday they might have to shed up to 36,000 jobs by 1995 under restructuring plans forced on them by recession and collapsing prices. European Commission sources said a senior official charged with investigating steel industry plant closure
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      • 50 28 TOKYO Japan and other major nations will seek continued policy co-ordination and a stable currency market Finance Minister Yoshiro Hayashi said. In a prepared speech to Parliament, Mr Hayashi also said Japan's fiscal principle is to refrain from issuing deficit-fi-nancing bonds to balance the budget. Reuter
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      • 84 28 TOKYO A cut in the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) discount rate is needed if Tokyo stock prices drop sharply, Mr Gaishi Hiraiwa, chairman of the Federation of Economic Organis at ions (Keidanren) said. "If stock prices drop further sharply, Japan needs an economic stimulus
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      • 57 28 SEOUL South Korea's Daewoo Group said it would complete the merger of its shipbuilding and heavy industry subsidiaries by September 1994, news reports said yesterday. The Korea Herald said Daewoo notified the government on Thursday of its intention to merge unlisted Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery
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    • 194 28 SYDNEY The Australian arm of Hongkong's Jardine Matheson is negotiating for seven multi-million-dollar projects in Vietnam, joining a growing band of Australian companies making a major push into the communist country. Colliers Jardine Holdings is talking to investors from Singapore, Japan, Hongkong and South
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    • 417 28 BRUSSELS The European Community's single market chief hailed the EC's lifting of trade barriers as a success, but a leading citizen's rights group remained unconvinced that borderless Europe was a reality. "Jan 1 was the first day of the real
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    • 512 28 TOKYO The crumbling credibility of Japanese banks is spreading to non-financial companies, forcing them to pay extra to raise funds and dampening capital spending, analysts say. "Japanese corporations are losing their financial standing because of problems in the Japanese financial sector,"
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    • 213 29 STOCKS in New York rebounded in heavy trading on Thursday with the help of computer-guided buy programs, strong bond prices and generally better-than-ex-pected quarterly earnings. The over-the-counter market resumed its climb to record heights, closing for the first time above 700. The Dow Jones
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    • 295 29 TOKYO stocks closed lower yesterday, mainly on arbitrage unwinding in choppy pre-weekend trade. The Nikkei average closed below a key resistance level of 16,500 for the first time this year and is seen further testing the downside next week, brokers said. "It's significant that we've traded comfortably below 16,500,
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    • 92 29 SHARP gains in major banks and smaller rises in property shares pushed the stock index up 1.49 per cent yesterday to break through the 970 resistance level, brokers said. The SET Index rose 14.36 points to close at 979.70 on turnover of 9.93 billion baht. Brokers said the stock
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    • 158 29 THE Sydney share market ended the week on a firm note in quiet trading yesterday. At the close of trading, the All-Ordinaries Index rose 3.9 points to 1,523. The All-Indus-trials Index improved 7.8 to 2,407.1 and the All Resources barely moved, up just 0.8 of a point to 846.4.
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    • 50 29 SHARE prices rose on Thursday. At the close, the Financial Times 100-share index was up 24.6 points, or 0.89 per cent, at 2,773.3. The Financial Times 30--share index closed at 2,143.7, up 9.8, or 0.46 per cent. Volume was 700.9 million shares compared with 599.3 million on Wednesday. AP
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    • 27 29 THE Hongkong stock market was closed yesterday and will be closed again on Monday for the Lunar New Year holidays. Trading will resume on Tuesday.
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    • 28 29 THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange was closed yesterday and will remain closed till next Monday for the Lunar New Year holidays. It will reopen on Tuesday.
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    • 3438 30 sadhgkhgdsfhsf sgjfdghsfhsr hsh Qr'a 1992/93 Curr Last Vol Day Div Nat M Cap H»gh Lew Company Traded Sato +or- 000 High Low P/E $mil 272 170 Acma 269 +4 1789 272 265 12.2 15 5 165 9 210 210 I s Alex Hldgs 50c 210 60 39
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    • 555 30  -  Gerry de Silva MARKET REPORT By SHARE prices surged in late trading yesterday, pushing the Straits Times Industrials Index to a new 1993 high in a rally on the eve of the Lunar New Year. Despite the shortened half-day trading
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    • 402 30 Manager's prices for OUB Investment Mft Prudential January 26 Union Global Fund 0 74 0 78tyi P'ulmk Mgd Fund 1 03 1 01 Union Spore Fund 0 97 I 01 Sintapore M Trust SBSMT IS&. JSJIS^^AJL The Commerce 125-131 5_Lft_! HS~fS The Savings Fund 1 08 1 13
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    • 285 31 Creative Tech's market capitalisation crosses $2b mark with 20 price rise NASDAQ counter Creative Technology's market capitalisation has crossed the $2-billion mark, putting it among the top 10 listed companies on the Stock Exchange of Singapore if listed here. This follows the 20-per cent rise in its share price to
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    • 455 31  -  Chan Hwa Loon Homegrown group buying land in Petaling Jaya for expansion into Malaysia By HOMEGROWN Wywy Group, a diversified marketing and distribution concern, will be spending $40 million to build two new buildings at Leng Kee Road and
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    • 1405 31 'Success is never ending and failure never final. Getting it wrong is part of getting it right.' it is not that local businessmen lack the spirit of adventure, but that they are dispirited. There is no more a sense that anything is possible. In
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    • 288 31 AIR traffic through Singapore soared by double-digit rates last year despite an uncertain world economy. Commercial aircraft movements grew fastest the number of such movements at Changi Airport increased by 15.4 per cent last year to 125,526. This is the highest annual growth
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      • 70 31 COLD Storage Retail has opened its 12th supermarket in Siglap, two months after opening its most modern supermarket to-date in Northpoint Shopping in Yishun. The IU.OuO-sq-ft Siglap store is its second in the East Coast. It will feature home or office delivery service for customers
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      • 84 31 SINGAPORE Press Holdings in a circular to members said an additional 47,000 ordinary shares of $1 each issued under the SPH executives' share option scheme will be granted listing and quotation with effect from Jan 28 at 9.30 am. Tat Lee Bank has also advised
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      • 57 31 THE Times Publishing Group has appointed Mr Hooi Kee Sum as chief executive of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Marshall Cavendish Ltd. His appointment took effect from Jan 1 this year. Mr Hooi, who was acting chief executive since April 15 last year, is a fellow of the Institute
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      • 81 31 THE Seiyu Group has appointed Richard Ellis as its retail and marketing consultant for the Seiyu Department Store at Bugis Junction. Richard Ellis will develop a retail concept for the store after conducting surveys on market trends, consumer buying trends, and merchandising mix. It will also draw
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      • 76 31 BARING Brothers Co has agreed to buy or obtain purchasers for 15 million Cerebos Pacific Ltd shares owned by Suntory Pacific Pte Ltd. The shares may be subsequently placed out with local and overseas investors by Baring Securities (Singapore). The placement will reduce Suntory's stake
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      • 80 31 KUALA LUMPUR Union Paper Holdings Bhd, principally engaged in the manufacture and trading of paper products, aims to increase exports as soon as its new plant in Bentong, Pa hang comes onstream sometimes in July this year. Its chairman, Datuk Haji Abdul Aziz Hussain said
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      • 109 31 KUALA LUMPUR Datuk Keramat Holdings Bhd has proposed a new mode to restructure its shareholdings, which would supersede the proposed reorganisation of its share capital announced on June 13, 1991. Bumiputra Merchant Bankers Bhd announced for DKH in a statement that the new proposal would involve
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    • 477 31  -  Tan Chee Wei By STRINGENT quality control, that is the secret behind the success of Japanese company Sato Kogyo, which became the first contractor to clinch two Construction Industry Development Board awards in the same year. The deputy general manager
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    • 462 31 COMPANIES planning to go overseas must have a clear "international" vision if they are to succeed in their ventures, said a professor of business policy at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland. Lack of growth opportunities in the domestic market
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  • 610 32  -  Caroline Chan Analysts optimistic that sound fundamentals will prevail in the year By THE Year of the Rooster is expected to herald goodies for aie stock market, going by analysts' projections for the year. But the crowing of the
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  • 134 32  -  Tan Chee Wei Cashing in on the Lunar New Year By THIS Lunar New Year, the Pinetree Town and Country Club is offering more than the usual club services to its members it has gone into the business of selling suckling pigs, Peking ducks
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  • 139 32 THE Lunar New Year is definitely the icing on the cake (or one particular confectioner cashing in on the demand for traditional snacks. Local confectionery Bengawan Solo Pte Ltd, which specialises in nonya kueh, expects to rake in more than |1
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  • 167 32 SO, WERE the geomancers correct about the stock market in the Monkey year? Or were they made monkeys of? It was generally a mixed showing, nothing completely right or wrong. Geomancers predicted a "lazy monkey" in February, March and April and were correct
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  • 523 32  - Banks print more hongbao packets for customers this year Goh Eng Yeow By HEARTENED by the more buoyant economic outlook, banks are printing more hongbao packets than ever to give away to their customers for this Lunar New Year. The 10 banks contacted by The Straits Times have together printed
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  • 84 32 THE Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) closed (or trading yesterday at 12.30 pm for the Lunar New Year holiday and will reopen next Tuesday. The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) was closed yesterday, and will also reopen next Tuesday. The KLSE has also announced
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    • 191 32 FREE Cruise this Lunar New Year! Wrkf^-- pay for \WM ggf^| magic show, I one and we'll send TWO of Wf I WSSjfMM diSCO. you on the Regent Spirit! #7^% A\ ni^ ntClub k)UlgeSl bafS> kara te We even pack into our hong bao room, gymnasum. dnema and a the
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  • Life
    • 5 1 Life SATURDAY JANUARY 23, 1993
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      • 539 2 LUNAR NEW YEAR is a season for dreaming up new hopes and the appreciation of family ties. But most obvious of all, it is a time to indulge one's tastebuds and treat oneself to small luxuries. In the last two weeks, goodies like dried mushrooms and other
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      • 464 3  -  NORMAN YAM ALL'S WELL ENDS WELL TOO At Cathay cinemas IX) NOT question the premise of this costume comedy or its historical accuracy, and you will enjoy it much better. Shot in Singapore's Tang Dynasty City two months back, All's Well Ends Well
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      • 502 3  -  Hannah Pandlan One movie you can sit through with your father, without your neck getting hot. Movies SISTER ACT At Cathay cinemas and Yishun 10 PUT The Supremes and a few mafiosi on the set of The Sound Of Music and you have Sister Act directed by
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      • 500 3  -  ONG SOH CHIN HUSBANDS AND WIVES, R(A) At Picturehouse THE biggest and possibly most scandalous break-up in showbusiness last year was between Woody Allen, New York's intellectual darling of the movies, and his longtime actress girlfriend Mia Farrow. The tabloids screamed of Allen's alleged sexual
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      • 400 3  -  JENNY LAM More than 10 readers called MORE than a dozen readers who learned yesterday about a stranded Malaysian student not being able to return home (or his Lunar New Year reunion dinner in Malacca offered him money or a lift home or a free reunion
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      • 89 4 AT LONG last, Chinese cinema buffs will get a muchdeserved break from the usual slapstick comedies. Andy Lau (right) and Michelle Reis will be doing a remake of Beauty And The Kingdom (Jiang Shan Mei Ren), the Shaw Brothers huang-mei-diao musical that was made in
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      • 187 4 IT IS never too late to lodge a rape complaint. Zsa Zsa Gabor caused a furore on a British TV chat show when she claimed that Frank Sinatra raped her. Titf 73-year-old actress, who has been married nine times, said it happened on
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      • 75 4 IS THAT Jack Nicholson dressed up wrongly as a Japanese geisha? Nope, it is Roman Tarn (below) strutting his stuff as usual. The flamboyant Cantopop star jumped at the opportunity when a Taiwanese TV station invited him for a brief appearance in a variety programme in
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      • 199 4  - Leon's latest love? Norman Yam Short Takes A NEW year, a new start and new gossip. After Kathy Chao and Michelle Reis. it is Cant opop newcomer Faye Wong's (left) turn to have her name linked with Leon Lai's. She was his guest star at his Beijing concerts recently, and
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      • 167 4 IF ANITA MUI (above) could shop for men with her Visa card, there is no doubt that Kevin Costner would be her first pick. His performance in The Bodyguard, the Hollywood movie that also stars Whitney Houston, has left Anita star -struck and a little
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      • 133 4 THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER (above), that swingy American doo-wop jazz quartet that will be performing here on Feb 7, is being brought in by promoters Sun vie and not Artswilliam, as was reported in Pop Parade yesterday. So it was Sunvic which had asked the quartet to add
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      • 1046 10 DAFFODIL TAN finds rural tranquillity and natural beauty in the wild west of Hunan province, China. WEDGED between the mountain ranges separating the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou and Hunan lies the relatively untouristed county of Xiangxi in western Hunan. Xiangxi has a reputation of being Hunan's
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      • 800 5 Popular books at libraries How many times were books by your favourite author borrowed from the National Library over the last three years? KOH BUCK SONG examines the statistics. What singaporeborosofad MOST authors would agree that knowing how many people have bought their books is never as satisfying as knowing
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    • 119 1 RKppS OUTDOORS BSH9bbbV kva/) h OFIUS.W BBBBBBBBBBr iH Money makes the year RflK I BHI ilfl I I igo round, as Lunar BS^^^ L I.^ IM New Year decorations jßl||^^^||^9H^^HH|flH|^^^ IHUHH and festive goodies that t||^^L{^^gilsH H^^Bn line the bustling streets y |IL| il m mm lßii^il^il^HHH fV^^^^Va^Bß K^BraV" a^kafl
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    • 78 2 s m m GOLDEN CROWN RESTAURANT Blk 40-B, Commonwealth Avenue *03-352/4, Singapore 0314 Tel: *****55, *****56 CELEBRATE THE YriZ^ o^^ ROOSTER YEAR M WITH OUR m LUCKY FEAST Avail, from tomorrow \Sgj_ till 7 Feb. 1993,5un. W Prosperity Set Menu 10 persons $248, $278, No extra charge for diners _^^Em/0
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    • 152 3 mijfi 9 f^sV INTEnrsi ATKDNAL. Sfl|| i, /Vtr MARKET RESTAURANT 1 ml TA CHOY YU SHEMG" Kj« Will be served from 2nd Day of the E9 Lunar New Year ■pi W| guy ■ftjgM Ea St coast Parkway, Singapore 1 544 Tel: 345 1211-3 Drink wisely, S stay healthy 3 and
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    • 18 5 ON SALE NOW! Available at Newsstands and from your Newsvendor. Also at Times the Bookshops and 7-Eleven stores.
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    • 189 5 Who's Reading What KAO SHIN PING. 40, managing director of San Teh Ltd, a pioneer Singapore manufacturer in China which won the 1892 Enterprise Award: I USUALLY road traditional Chinese novels that reflect tb the unique culture >a of the Chinese race, I as lam very ™v rfm J interested
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    • 378 6 Wishing All Customers, Retailers a? Business Associates A Very Happy St Prosperous Lunar New Year. Cc-^T VV Greetings from the Management Staff of Ttpjjp^ /^^w CHUEN CHEONG FOOD INDUSTRIES (PTE) LTD. %L- 151 fill I -^i f s t TIGER BRAND SOYA SAUCE «O/ El 9 Top quality With rich
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    • 1858 6 Weekend Guide fJLMS LUNAR NEW YEAR SPECIAL |H|OH(KJHWH^ I 10 T (Steven Seagal), is in reality, a highly-deco- da Y |j| HtW^W Lbl EYES ON ASEAN stals^dthoil "w^h fre'e-fly.ng 0 macaws, rated Navy SEAL and top-level combat oper- LIGHT-UP K^>«B n tV Notices: The Gallery cockatoos, pelicans and other b«rds
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    • 2347 7 Weekend Guide CLUBS RITF^ longan, assorted Lunar New Year pastries YU SHENG PROMOTIONS Y u sheng is offered with a choice ot salmon IMT TRACKS wwwuw ui ii_u and mango mousse with mixed fruits. Lunch: Mangrove Cafe or ikan parang. Crunchy jellyfish is included lIU nwilu $18++ per person and
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    • 1673 8 LUNAR NEW YEAR JlKSl^' -C^v^ W^ EXTRAVA GANZA^^I|^ fyM ALL THEATRES NO FREE LIST CIIANQI 3: NOW SHOWING CHANGI 2/EMPRF <i*i 2 A REPUBLIC 2 BBiunr «/«...^LV-H^ T B1 ll UUal •NUW tJ JSIfHI?SI,c 2 P,sro^HrrTOMOR S R^^N,GHT o^ A THriH4i°Ss 2 2 s^^asfflsi^w^ P The soeciai effect. ™a fc
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    • 2045 9 QMinMT <^I^sLW» make your Chinese new year JFVvY 1^ Srr^^^ 1 1//r«\lk ""Wti XSfc Hv A •^^J(fSS!SaIS» A spectacular and memorable experience *tt^M* yV/^^^faM^W^\W' *ZwS* *TTT ESS HH {••l^tew2Sif»X^ for the entire family with Wr'TSS \Jfs*Ej i JiVAW>F I^PVI 1 gar 1 \-+J*\ \rVMA MHI %fp\ A GREAT MOVIE AT
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    • 212 10 IT'S A 50-5O BIRTH M tfflu!! And A Pcnty Affair It Is Too! because the Peaty goes on: It's 50-50 right 'til morn'l And Morn' It Is! From 23RD 29TH JANUARY 1993: In Celebration Of The 50TH ANNIVERSARY (BIRTHDAY) of EUROPA, (Yes! We are the OLDEST in town the BIGGEST
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    • 3949 11 Television Radio BBjBjBSBjBBBjBBjBBBBBBBBB^BBjBBBBBBBBjBBBBjBjBjBjBjBaBBBBBBj S^ HI 400 Dan Seberang Kasmaran (Indonesian film) bhßßblb^b^bMb^blb^blßblb^b^Mb^bMbMb^b^bMb^b^ pHPVi PI 1 448 Azan Asar Prayer Call 9.00 AM Opening tollowed by The Birthday Dragon (Cartoon) Mr* 'Tf.^^HHP^J^^^HL 7 I ill r ng TnA u f q^lTm vhf Band ll 9.30 Buttons And Rutty In The Adventure
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    • 9 1 CLASSIFIED SECTION THE STRAITS TIMES, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1993
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