The New Paper, 26 July 1988

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1 64 The New Paper
  • 13 1 the new paper TUESDAY JULY 26, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 .-^1 nevv¥. paper
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    • 102 1 HERE'S YOUR PAPER Monday to Saturday Free today Only 50 cents from tomorrow FROM TOMORROW: Your chance to win one of 40 unique tours to Japan Sick, sick, sick Doctors are giving too much medicine to the ill. That's one reason why some Singaporeans are not getting well./ Page 12
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    • 53 1 I Sultan Iskandar of Johor makes history today. He comes to Singapore. It's the first official visit here by a Malaysian King since independence in 1965. ■r^ w It could cost up to $120,000 to bring Fandi Ahmad j*'$ back to SinM y-;'*£&£,' gapore. But A H boss is deterto
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  • 44 1 Four lucky Singaporeans win free tickets to the Michael Jackson show. But after going all the way to London to see him, jet lag strikes. While 100,000 go wild all around them, three of them sleep./ Page 22 FILE picture
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 261 2  -  By Trudy Lim A GLEAMING white Mercedes drives up the Causeway to Johor Baru this morning to bring a very important person to Singa- pore. In the car is Second Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong. He will return with the King of
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    • 163 2 Hotline Plus for better service TIME. No one has quite enough of it these days. Time to make friends, time to keep in touch. We'd like to know you and keep in touch but we realise you may not have time to write. So call us on Hotline Plus,
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    • 176 2 Wire Services. RAGGED beggar boys roam littered streets. Young whores in heavy make-up lounge outside cinemas. A mother in dirty, patched pyjamas squats on a sidewalk, feeding the naked baby at her breast. This is Canton, China, today and it is not
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    • 187 2 Wire services. TWENTY-TWO people have been charged with running a massive drug ring out of Singapore, Hongkong and a half-dozen other countries. US drug agents said it was the biggest Asian-based marijuana ring ever uncovered. The leader was identified as Dennis Howard Marks,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 34 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Showers over a few areas in the early afternoon. Temperature from 25 degrees to 31 degrees. Sunset: 7.16 pm today. Sunrise 7.06 am tomorrow.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 151 3 SINGAPORETCOY Lat welcomes you to Page 3 EVEN the most ordinary things can look quite ievT different to someone from if %t*\HT>rV VlKjfh north of the border. /Sys?// IRW n ==rf%n Especially when that someone J la A f is Lat, the Malaysian cartoonist w 111 \ijW\ He's set down
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 117 4 THE Communications and Information Minister talked about readers' trust in their newspapers this morning. Dr Yeo Ning Hong quoted research figures from Singapore, the United States and Britain. They showed, he said, that The Straits Times is at least as much trusted by its readers
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    • 406 4 The two vendors' associations are distributing for free this first edition of The New Paper. We say: Thank you. THE VIP pressed a button to start the presses at News Centre this morning. And the first edition of The New Paper started its journey to
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    • 110 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. ■Thoroughbred: A horse that comes from parents that have the best qualities. Sometimes, the word 'thoroughbred' is used to praise people or things that have shown very good performance
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    • 311 5 THIS is not just writing on the wall. It's a master's piece of art. The master: Mr Chua Mia Tee, 57, one of the best realist painters in Singapore. The piece of art: A painting of The New Paper masthead. You can get a life-size copy
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    • 187 5  -  By Peter H.L. Lim CHIEF EDITOR I GUESS I don't have to explain why The New Paper is free today all 250,000 copies we are distributing this afternoon. But I should explain why The New Paper is here at all. For some of you, this is
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    • 261 6  -  By Chitra Rajaram SINGAPORE scientists have found a new, safer way of testing for Aids they use hi-tech robots. That takes much of the risk out of handling blood infected with the feared Aids virus. Microbiologist Mr Kenneth Chong, 31, and industrial engineer Mr
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    • 192 6  - Love story with some criticism By Chitra Rajaram HE WRITES. She criticises, They argue. They decide to get married in October. That, in short, is the love story of First Loves author Philip Jeyaretnam. He is back in Singapore from England to marry Cindy Sim, a teacher at AngloChinese Junior
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    • 293 8  -  By Augustine Low THE tough new copyright law has not sunk the computer pirates. A New Paper team found that many computer shops still copy and sell programs for $3 to $5 each. That's at least 20 times cheaper than the original. At Funan Centre
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    • 146 8 WANTED: a pre-war bungalow something like the one above. But with three storeys, a garden and an Asian facade the "Nanyang" look without too much Western influence. SBC is hunting for such a house for location shooting of its new drama serial about a four-generation family.
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    • 250 8  -  By Joe Nathan Singapore's cockroaches are expats. We have German, American and even Australian ones. And like cosmopolitan tourists from around the world, they like Singapore's roach-friendly warm and humid climate. They arrive here like tourists too with luggage and cardboard boxes, freight, and
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    • 213 10 BEWARE those bamboo poles you use to hang out your washing. An insect expert says they may be just what's attracting killer bees to high-rise flats. In strong winds, these giant honey bees may be drawn to the poles because they are the closest thing to
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    • 192 10  -  By Chua Chin Chye MOTORBIKES spelt trouble for salesman Lee Chwee Hock, 21. In 1984, he was banned from riding motorcycles for three years for not using a crash helmet. Then, two weeks ago, his wife, riding pillion, broke an ankle when his
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    • 188 10  -  By Trudy Lim THE one-dollar note is slipping out of Singapore. And the economical, long-lasting dollar coin is rolling in. But not everyone is thrilled. Some banks do not look forward to the change. Bankers say that they prefer the notes
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    • 89 12 TWO men caught inside a parked van owned by someone else were held by police when they could not answer three simple questions. Asked what they were up to, one man said they got in the van by mistake. So which was their van and
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    • 339 12  -  By Chitra Rajaram DO YOU have a cold that won't go away? If you do, it may be because you have taken too many pills. Worried doctors and pharmacists say people in Singapore seem to think antibiotics will cure almost anything and that is dead wrong
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    • 137 12  -  By Wong Sing Yeong THEY dug with their hands, cleared bushes with umbrellas and pulled down tree branches. The Golden Quest was on at the zoo. They were looking for little gilded wooden seals which would win them prizes. The
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    • 290 12 Chmßmtgmg thm Futun [^KUDCERa The 1988 Camera Grand Prix Winner. It's Going To Win You Over. j| H GRAND PRIXBB I SAMURAI J m n*ini«i w n/- < y > A 1 (/)>tir *"><* :**>•■ B «n999>7uanaM In Japan, where excellence in photography W has become a tradition, and where
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    • 590 13 l I Tower Hitachi proves that a fan need not always be in round or square boxes. Its Hh revolutionary tower fan is so contemporary in design, it doesnt look like a fan. |H BrpZlS|^^^^Pr\V Hitachi's innovative tangential fan blade gives you a fan that's so slim and M compact,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 246 14 Wire Services. Cambodia's Hanoi-backed regime is pushing a sevenpoint peace plan that would keep it in power until elections are held. The plan was offered yesterday as the talks opened, bringing together for the first time all rival groups in the Cambodian fighting. Present
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    • 69 14 Bernama. ASEAN nations hope to get private investors to run restaurants in big cities of the world to promote South-east Asian cooking. The unusual venture was announced in Langkawi, Malaysia, by Agriculture Minister Datuk Seri Sanusi Junid. He said Asean ministers had agreed it was a good
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    • 70 14 Wire Services. RAW sex ran for 12 sizzling minutes on state-run television in north-eastern China. It turned out that the airing of the film was an accident. Studio technician Guan Wenhai was watching a video tape when he flipped a relay switch. That fed
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    • 55 14 Yummy Lcnung; Workers in Kuala Lumpur remove the foil from a 30-foot-long lemang (glutinous rice baked in bamboo) on Sunday. Thirty kilos of rice and 25 coconuts were used in the seven hour cooking of the Malaysian delicacy. It is planned to enter the feat in
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    • 200 16 Wire services. THE good guys don't always win in Thai politics. That was the lesson Bangkok's "Mr Clean," Chamlong Srimuang learned from Sunday's general elections. The ever-smiling Bangkok governor promised candidates who had clean records, would not buy votes or lie or engage in mudslinging.
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    • 45 16 Topsy-turvy: French bullfighter Richard Millian gets an upside down look at this charging bull. Millian was not injured in this encounter and went on to kill the bull. At the end, he was awarded the ear of the bull. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 149 16 Wire services. GENERAL Ne Win's departure after 26 years of ruling Burma is not likely to relax the government's iron grip on the country. He leaves in place four other old soldiers who have helped him run Burma since seizing power. Rangoon Radio
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    • 156 16 The Nation. ROMANCE is his business. German is his language. For $3.20 a page, a Thai wordsmith, Vudhinat Indracusin, helps lovelorn bargirls and waitresses keep in touch with German tourists. He works in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, popular with West German tourists. Vudhinat
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    • 39 16 Wire services AT LEAST 42 people have died end 773 have been hospitalised in a heat wave that hit Shanghai. power shortages. The WenHui Bao newspaper said thousands of residents went without <mp HOP®,, iyni:
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    • 271 18  -  By Irene Ng I F YOU'RE out to dwarf sleazy joints that offer women as the main dish, think small very small. At Manila's booming HobI *1 TV A A At bit House restaurant, the appeal is an all-dwarf staff. "I may not be sexy, but
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    • 264 19 Scripps Howard News Service. WORRY over America's illegal drug habit may help decide who sits next at the big desk in the White House. Both presidential candidates vow to attack the problem as never before. Such talk makes good politics. Surveys show Americans see the war
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    • 50 19 The Star. MALAYSIA may soon spend big money to give students first-hand business experience before they graduate. Ministers in Kuala Lumpur say the government may set up a programme which would give students on vacation between $3,000 and $10,000 to try out business ideas.
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    • 128 19 Shin Min Daily News. AN AMERICAN-CHI-NESE taiji expert has challenged a Taiwanese master from the same school to a duel. Chen Chi-chen, 55, issued the dare while he was visiting a taiji school in Seremban. He said he is doing this because
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    • 124 19 Toronto Globe and Mail. BHAGWAN Shree Rajneesh is a guru who seems to find more trouble than peace. He made millions in the US preaching. He had a fleet of 10 RollsRoyces and a palace. But the US threw him in jail for
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    • 346 14 EVEN AT THIS AGE YOU CAN PLAN YOUR CHILD'S CHOICE OF UNIVERSITY. You may a pre- can a to mature to worry your child's features before she can to even walk alone read and write. support should But it's not. I thing happen to you. for a moment the Eastern
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  • STOCKMARKETS
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      263 20 Reuter. A 16-POINT mid-morning loss was more than halved by late afternoon trading at the London Stock Exchange yesterday. This reflected modest bar-gain-hunting, said dealers. The early mark-down on sterling's renewed strength also hit the major exporting companies hardest, they said. However, the declines proved tempting for some investors
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    • 37 20 Starting tomorrow, watch this space daily for a report on the opening of the Tokyo stock market. The report could not be included today because of early press times due to the size of the paper.
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    • 49 20 ST Industrial Mon Closed (1142.80) NST Industrial Mon Closed (1846.56) Hongkong Hang Sang Mon 2647.41 (2661.77) Australian All-Ordinaries Mon 1629.30 (1635.90) Nikkei Stock Average Mon *****.53(*****.34) FT Industrials Mon 1474.10 (1479.40) Dow Jones Average Mon 2071.83 (2060.99) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading day
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      269 20 Reuter. WALL Street blue chips closed higher, boosted by firmer bond prices, a buoyant dollar and slumping gold prices, traders and market analysts said. But the broader market remained weaker, depressed by market wariness over the direction of interest rates. "At best there is a malaise among individual
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  • 318 21  -  WORLDTODAY By Trudy Lim W lap against the shore. The sun shines brightly as a soft breeze sprays salt water across the beach. But the people on this beach on the southwest coast of Java are interested in the shine of gold not the
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  • Showtime
    • 356 22  -  Three of the four Singaporeans invited to a Michael Jackson concert in London last weekend fell asleep because of jet lag BY Low Mei Mei M ORE than 100,000 people in London's Wembley Stadium last weekend were on their feet in praise of Michael Jackson clapping,
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    • 298 24  -  By Brian Miller SINGAPORE disco operator Solosa Sound Services has beaten international competitors like Juliana's to run a discotheque in Beijing. Under the contract, its second in China, the company will manage the Lost Horizon discotheque in the fashionable China World Hotel. Solosa Sound Services,
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    • SEEINGSTARS
      • 88 24 THE Boss and I are legally separated, says Bruce Springsteen's wife, Julianne Phillips. And now everyone's guessing if the new girl in the Boss' life is back-up singer Patti Scialfa. Newspapers have been buzzing with different versions of the love affair. One says he's in
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      • 58 24 NOW that Lisa Bonet is pregnant, she's coming back to The Cosby Show it is difficult to hide a bulging belly on the sitcom, A Different World. But then again, could it be because The Cosby Show hides pregnancies well like they did when Phylicia
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      • 51 24 The Affairs Weekly. IT'S my longest kiss on screen, says Andy Lau. The 26-year-old actor had a 30-second kiss with Maggie Cheung in the movie, As Tears Go By. Recently he also kissed actress Cherie Chung "for only about 10 seconds." Liu: A well-timed
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    • 383 27  -  INTERVIEW By Vivien Chiong ALAN Tam has lost track of the trophies he has won. He's already taken home so many in Hongkong that he said he will not compete for any more there. But that does not mean the singing superstar no longer hungers
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    • 112 28  -  By Lo Tien Yin Tiao Dong Lu, or The Jumping Group, jumped their way to the hearts of the judges at the finals of the Xinyao (local songs) contest last night at the World Trade Centre's auditorium. The contest was organised by the People's Association,
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    • 230 28  -  BY Adeline Woon FIRST NIGHT REVIEW There's a sensationat display of bodies at The Warehouse. A fiery 40-miuute performance by Australian dance troupe Body To Body mafcss certain of that They are three girls and guy from Perth who are ali set to wow you with
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    • 1002 30 NO KIDDING, We mean it. This is your paper. We asked you what you like. What you want in your kind of newspaper. We surveyed you and quizzed you. We took some of your ideas and tried them out with some of ours. We put them
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    • 101 25 THE PRIMA DONNAS 3 star performers, each outstanding in its own right prima zoom lens you enlarge reduce from you're standing. a host of fully PRIMA TELE possible. In standard film format offers 35mm (Wide) 60mm (Tele). In half-frame format (which lets you take 2 pictures on each frame) these
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    • 58 26 S ntK 1 ONCiINK^ STVI V Conquest VI IP in titanium v: v Jr. J 1 m Ya l "WW pw* LONGINES r i I*r Mil ';V,' f fl f I tf: I i V, ■•.>« < >!;.'»/ I'» > i i <i. h I I• 1/ I'HI t i
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    • 52 27 W are serving the famous taste All across the nation in over thirty locations, we're proud to serve the famous taste of the Colonel's Original Recipe chicken A secret blend of eleven herbs and spices pressure-cooked a special way to seal the int ina ec^e KentuekvlYicdtniiekeii. itiillliliililtil 1.1 U liliiiikklktlllMJdliitikkiaik.i.'ifiiiii
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    • 154 30 WILSON Matchpoint Shuttlecock (1 doz.) $28.00 17.90 /> O To commemorate the New Paper launch. |#llAw I Iv IvBUUv I lUNO Only Z days (July26&27) Hurry over—or you'll regret it. WILSON B-1360 Limited 0 WILSON Advantage CAMBRIDGE Polo Shirt Tennis Balls (Box of 4) (solid 6 colours in S,M,L,XL) WEEKEND
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 2003 31 rn i A lelevision wise Guy Date With You Don't Have To Be Irish Tuesday Premiere The (SBC 5 y 9.30 pm) you don't have to be Irish to enjoy the (SBC 5, 10.30 pm) *y^B[ SECRET agent Vinnie (Ken Wahl) magical melodies from Ireland. Sing THE marriage of George
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    • 185 32 *£'e~i R«al name: Bm Mm Date of birth: Dm 30, imi H^H Birthplace: Filmatk, Jmulci. Eatf grated to v C—Oa ia -•*&T *-Z\ Home town: Taraate ,dJ Height: 1.00 Bl *-r* H^J JREBjj£ Principal honours: Httfc. v 20.41 sac l.Wartd Cup 1907— 1900-OaMiatka 100 a |H 3.WartdCap 1905 ■fe.VJI BLI.
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    • 1128 35 This isEMi newspaper! NO KIDDING. We mean it. This is your paper. We >^0 their leisure and in retirement. What do you rate as interesting? asked you what you like. What you want in your kind of People in power. Out of power. In I Exciting? Fantastic? Only so-so? Tell
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  • FOOTNOTES
    • 174 36  -  By Lim Swee Hong Ti WICE he was tailed by thugs. 3o hawker Mr Tan Kue Kim now changes cars three times a year to avoid being recognised. "It's also a hobby," said Tan, 40. So far, the owner of Kim's Eating House has owned a Jaguar and
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    • Article, Illustration
      97 36 KIM'S Eating House. 447 Changi Road, near Lorong Mydin. Tel: 447-1119. Mon-Fri 6pm to 2.30 am, Sat, Sun and public holidays till 3.30 am. Tan uses dried shrimp as the gravy base for his noodles and adds dried scallop. He also throws in sliced abalone, pork balls and
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  • 208 36  -  FOODWISE Br Lawrence Low NINE thousand years So, natives in the Valley of exico got their tongues burnt and discovered chiHi. They were the first to eat the fiery red or green vegetable; Chillies soon spread to the area now known as Texas, South
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    • 148 37 IMtg «2jpr SSVv N^^^ly||||||||||||^ I Tonight, treat yourself to one of the surprising new desserts from Nestle. Like 1 jT NTtt JtlAt 4 I Caramel Symphony. Four individual servings M M of creamy smooth ice cream with surprising I flowing caramel centres, covered in rich I chocolate coating with hazelnut
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 171 38  -  By Pauline Loh NOBODY'S got this cat's tongue. It speaks Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, Tamil, Malay, Singlish and also body language. Mama Looking For Her Cat is Singapore's first multilingual stage experiment with actors speaking different languages. Dramatist Kuo Pao-kun has long cherished the idea
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    • 286 40  -  By: Sonja Tan THE second half of 1988 holds out Robin Williams, Michael J. Fox, Eddie Murphy and a rabbit called Roger as movie treats. And if you think that 1988 is passing without a Rambo movie, Rambo 111 is on the way. So are the fast
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    • 329 42 B| aP 1 *i 'tm r B Ntfra33f' 1 Be In .vjfe BaißiVTifl I?" K.B 11 M f^xMnW v 3;4i;<%' "W. 1 l hk^RE ug K* liL, -f" B fc At The Dairy Farm Estate, you dorit have to pay a fortune to own a freehold apartment. Unlike others, The
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  • 369 43  -  By Paul Zach MALAYSIA has Lat. America has Gary Trudeau. Get ready to laugh, Singapore. The New Paper gives you Colin Goh. It's our hope that one day he will be as popular as the famous cartoonists who inspire his own drawings. Lat's wacky cartoons mirror
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    • 127 44 T(iir T sihhpp wK A 0 W&irff T A* You're in for a J S jolly good time. J| at The Lounge. S Because we're having Happy Hours everyday, when drinks less. j^' local accomplished guitarist William Lim with by Elvis, Cliff Richard, The Beatles, The and more. From spm
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 231 45  -  By Harinder Gill and Chow Wai Fong SOMETIMES it's hard to get straight answers from grown-ups when teenagers want to know the do's and don'ts of love. Young adults at a Youth Forum On Teenage Sexuality at the Regional Language Centre on Sunday got a lot of giggles when
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    • 270 45 MOST of the teenagers were full of questions about dating. They had come expecting their problems to be solved. Here are some of the answers they got. Question: Does true love affect your studies? Panel answer: "It shouldn't interfere at all with studies. True love
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    • 99 46 get VIOLET OON'S j-.. ¥"7 f T\ v x%so sL /s:\yfe p |JjyIII (Q%aer ,/-as curry powder cessful owners tell X V vou ow banquet Sm r .ljO> in bad taste the cost, the Addre». CONGRATULATES food, the style. Restaurant T«i view/ D A DUD VV association celebrates 112 nd
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    • 1494 46 RADIOGUIDE j imimmmm emdsh e=hiii'iii i wm W** NOON News In Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Coed Music, Company And Ma: NOON Newsdesk Am- 12.05 Lunckdate: Thomas Jacob plays NOON Easy Listening: Stay tuned for T he fun ith lun ch- 12.30 A Schubert Anthelegy: Roger a election of music
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    • 333 47  -  By LIM Phay-ling SHE is nice-looking, she has charm, she wants to work. But she will not stand in a busy store to push your product. This is true even though a good promoter may earn over $1,000 a month. Average pay starts at $20 a
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    • 85 47 SHOPPERS, write to us about your finds. It can be a new way of cleaning dishes or a shop where you can just honk for service. If you are a retailer, we are looking for good buys in a weekly update on the shopping page. Write to The
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  • FASHIONTODAY
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    • 155 48 FEEL like tearing your hair out because it looks flat as a pancake? Here are some tips on getting back and maintaining your hair's natural body with just a hair dryer. Towel-dry hair after washing and apply mousse or gel. Wrap hair in towel
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    • 117 49 V V WHEN THE 1988 SEOUL OLYMPICS START, WE LL BE RUNNING, JUMPING, THROWING, SWIMMING, DIVING, YACHTING, BOXING, FENCING, ROWING, CANOEING, SOMERSAULTING, SHOW JUMPING, SHOOITNG, WRESTLING AND WEIGHTLIFTING. National will be on the spot to capture all to eagerly awaiting audiences around the world. the trials and tribulations. National will
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  • SPORTS/racing
    • 565 53 Take a pint of your favourite brew and place your bets on your favourite horse at the same time. This will be possible in Malaysia next year if a plan by a newly set-up company takes off. Racing reporter DENNIS CHLA has the exclusive. PUNTERS may be
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    • 88 53 By THE THREE MUSKETEERS FOLLOW The Three Musketeers, and make sure you go home smiling from the Bukit Turf Club. We will be the only publication that carries racing tips selected by The Three Musketeers. Their identities must remain secret. But between them, they have
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    • 99 53 HIGH costs has forced trainer Robert Ng to move his stables to Penang. He has been allotted 16 stables in Penang where his younger brother Bonny also trains. Ng started his training career in Ipoh in 1977 and transferred his stables to Singapore in
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    • 55 53 TRAINER George West has lodged a report to Tanglin Police Station on the alleged punch-up with trainer Teh Choon Beng in which he claimed he lost a tooth. West, 65, claimed he was involved in a heated argument with Teh on the tracks on Friday morning and Teh
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    • 343 53 Wire Services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASEBALL American League: Boston Red Sox 3 Chicago White Sox 2, Minnesota Twins 6 Baltimore Orioles 1, New York Yankees 10 Kansas City Royals 8, Texas Rangers 6 Milwaukee Brewers 4, Cleveland Indiana 9 California Angels 2, Oakland Athletics 1 Detroit Tigers
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  • 197 54  -  HEALTH&Fitness By Alfonso Chan ANGELINE Tion is the sculptor of her own body, an artist of health and fitness. Officially, she is Singapore's aerobics queen. Angie, 24, won the Singapore Open section of the first FIT Aerobics Asia meet last year. And now she's reaping the
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  • 53 54 Health Fitness is a weekly page dedicated to getting you fit for work and play. It will feature success stories, easy-to-follow exercises, tips on how to recover from injuries, qigong instructional strips, book and video reviews, even snooker. Keep in touch every Tuesday. It could brighten up
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  • 399 54 QIGONG is an ancient Chinese form of breathing exercises. Its popularity started to rise only in the last 10 years. In Chinese medicine, qigong means improving internal strength. In modern medicine, it means resistance to disease. The centre of internal strength is five centimetres below
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  • SCHOOLSPORTS
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      395 55  -  The family that plays together stays together, they say. And gi! What better illustration of this maxim than spores Wu family. The eight Wu judokas, whose average age is only seven, proved to be quite a hit at last week's National Age Group Championships. Stories/ Abdul Shukor
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    • 243 55 SHE was thrilled. Her daughter, nephew and nieces had all won medals at the National Judo Age Group Championship at Bedok Sports Hall last week. Hard work had paid off for housewife Peggy Wu. All the time spent driving the kids to and from
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    • 455 56  -  Time: 2pm. Place: The National Stadium. Event: The finals of the Schools National track and field championships. Be there to catch the action. Stories/ Alfonso Chan TIME means records, fame and magical memories for school athletes. Drama and excitement, complete with great cheering, will climax
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    • 140 56 LACK of competition at the Schools National meet has meant poor times for sprint sensation Mona Kunalan. She clocked 12.675 ec in the semi-finals of the 100 metres, far from her 11.9 sec (wind assisted) effort in the All-com-ers meet in May. Her 11.9
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      96 57 SHAHERON SAHARI previews today's Schools National B and C Division final soccer showdown 38 goals YAZID S. (Bedok N) Born: 13-4-74 Ht: 1.64 m Wt: 55kg F a vourite player: Diego Maradona YAZID SHAWAL doesn't want to be well-known but that's tough for a guy who's already got
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    • 155 57 GOALS! Watch out for it at the Jalan Besar Stadium this evening in the National Schools B and C Division soccer finals. The hotshots are the C Division finalists 77-goal Saint Patrick's and 68-goal Bedok North, who meet at 3.30 pm. And at 5.30,
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      81 57 31 goals GARY LI (St Pat's) Born: 14-2-74 Ht: 1.74 m Wt: 46kg Favourite player: Michel Platini. GARY LI'S name could not have been more apt he models his style of goalpoaching on England striker Gary Lineker, top-scorer in the 1986 Mexico World Cup. And for today's final
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  • SPORTS
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      • 49 59 TOP Irish showjumping rider Con Power was seriously injured in a freak accident in Dundalk, Ireland, on Sunday. He was knocked down by a runaway horse that had been stung by an insect. He was talking to friends at a dressage event when the accident happened. Reuter.
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        50 59 AFP. STRIKER Paul Goddard joined Derby yesterday for $1.49 million. Derby beat off a late effort by First Division rivals Liverpool to land the Newcastle forward. The League champions raised their original offer for Goddard, 28, but his family's wish to be nearer their roots was decisive. AFP.
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      • 52 59 AFP. JIMMY CONNORS yesterday ended a spell of nearly four years without a win. The 35-year-old brushed aside Ecuador's Andres Gomez 6-1, 6-4 in the Washington Classic Grand Prix for the 106 th win of his career. Connors began the first set with an ace and never looked
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        54 59 Reuter. FORMER England soccer captain Kevin Keegan says he has no worries playing in South Africa. "I am not concerned about any repercussions of my visit. I am a sportsman and that is that. The only person I answer to is myself," Keegan told reporters after arriving in
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      231 59 Reuter. TONY COTTEE has become Britain's most expensive footballer. The West Ham and England striker yesterday agreed to join First Division rivals Everton for a British record transfer fee of $9 million. The 1.72-metre Cottee chose Everton instead of Arsenal, signing a five-year contract. His choice must
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    • 70 59 Reuter. UNDISPUTED world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is to return to the ring. Tyson's opponent is Briton Frank Bruno, whom he will meet in London on Sept 3. Tyson announced his retirement after knocking out Michael Spinks last month but said he could not pass up a
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    • 81 59 WSPORTS mfTFTI m [12TI 10 SHI] (Ol»jsafcj (OlbsdJ oClb=aD CC^d) TUE 10pm: Malaysia Cup 10.55pm: 10pm: Midweek Sports Pre-Olympics (Tour of Britain Cycling; Milk Cup) 11pm: World Wrestling Challenge THURS 10.3pm: 10pm: Sports Centre: Transword Sport. Wimbledon Open '88 Ladies Doubles frT I 7.30pm: 10pm: Sportscene: The US Open '88
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  • Malaysia cup
    • 324 60  -  Jeffrey Low NOW is the time to start worrying for Singapore, to fear for the Young Lions. Because there's Soccer Fever deep down inside, but it can't come out. I mean, six points from four matches one win, three draws. Is that champion-ship-winning form? At the rate
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      279 61 Soccer fans know the silky skills of Fandi Ahmad, K Kannan and Ronnachai only too well. But many are still unfamiliar with names like Adnan Mat Din and Hasnim Haron. S. GULAM tells you why they are the ones to watch this season. A HARMLESS schoolteacher by day,
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    • 294 61 HAVING recovered from a serious injury, Hasnim Haron is enjoying every moment of this year's Malaysia Cup. "I thought my career had ended after an Achilles tendon injury against Sarawak last year," says the 21-year-old midfielder. "It ruled me out for the whole season. But
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    • 395 63  - We want Fandi back —FAS Stories/ S. Gulam SINGAPORE wants Fandi Ahmad back where he belongs in Singapore. Never mind the cost. After two futile attempts, the Football Association of Singapore is making an all out bid to be third time lucky. "He is our prime target next year," declared
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    • 180 63 Fandi'* courtship 1985 FAS offers $5,000 plus of gate. Fandi says no. 1988 FAS offers $4,000. Fandi's counter: $7,000. FAS offers $6,000. Fandi accepts on condition he gets KL's OK. KL says no. THE FAS's first offer to Fandi Ahmad was three years ago,
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    • 144 63 THINK of a triathlon less one sport. Then think of canoes and running. And what have you? The legs and paddles biathlon. It's another multi-sport event that the National University of Singapore Students' Sports Club wishes to introduce. The perk? Servicing the community through
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    • 675 64 tomESME r~Y\ TWO CHOIRS IN 14/ CONCERT. They will sing 1 Japanese folk songs, local compositions such as Kapor Sireh. and religious songs. Singers are from the Risen Christ Church Choir and the Tokushlma Children's Choir from Japan. Singapore Labour Foundation Auditorium. 8 pm. Tickets: $5, S8 and $10 from
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      89 64 Body To Body, a four-member dance troupe from Australia, U sot to quicken your pull* rate with their sexy, sLuting routines. They are dressed up In costumes that reveal their best assets and they will move to the beat of the latest pop songs. Peter has performed in
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    • 24 64 OUT AND ABOUT: Getting to know Egypt CENTRESTAGE: Children's choir from Japan COMING UP: Soak in the beauty of the outer islands
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