The New Paper, 30 July 1988

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1 40 The New Paper
  • 15 1 the new paper SATURDAY JULY 30, 1988 Met (P) 179/4/88 SO CENTS the new paper
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 117 1 t \Ltif i raj& 1)***** io^BT^ —w—ie time. mis and fries Singapore. HH^^H^HHHflHHflHH^Hj $1.5m TOGO The Community Chest wants to make you a millionaire. All you ave to do is take a chance on a $3 v9flpvf5$Pv) ticket and get lucky. You may win i 150 cash prizes. And help
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 229 2 MR SAW Puay Khoon's friends and family got a great surprise when they saw this ad in The Straits Times Classifieds on Thursday Mr Saw did too. But the ad was not placed by a birthday boy with a lonely heart and
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    • 142 2 AP A 363 KILOGRAM American man too fat to get out of his own bed is about to be evicted from his home raised up by a forklift and hauled off on a flatbed trailer. Michael Edelman, who fell out of bed in
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    • 391 2  -  THE Community Chest wants to make someone an instant millionaire. All it asks in return is for you to buy a $3 ticket. Actually, if you are lucky, you will be more than a millionaire. The top prize is worth $1.5 million. By Agatha Koh IT
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    • 288 2  -  By Brenton Wong A BILINGUAL part-time model won the first Miss Singapore Chinatown contest last night. Ms Ng Hai Noi, 23, gets to represent the republic in Hongkong on October 2 this year. She said: "I'm just very happy. This is my third try in
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    • 315 3  -  By Cherian George SI i IX years ago Sally Cheah 'joined McDonald's. Guess .who followed in her footIsteps? Mum! Ever since McDonald's arrived in Singapore, cash registers and sweet-young-things have gone together like burgers and fries. But now the person behind the counter often looks old
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    • 295 3  -  Recognise the readers?: Clockwise, from below: Aesop's tortoise takes a break in his race with the hare; the fox ignores the sour grapes; a mouse is distracted from his cheese snack; the thirsty crow puts off dropping more stones into the jar to make the water
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 23 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature 31 degrees. Sunset: 7.16 pm today. Sunrise: 7.06 am tomorrow.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 503 4 THE PRESIDENT PROPOSALS to increase the powers of the President are now before Singaporeans. First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told Parliament yesterday that the proposed constitutional changes do not mean that the Prime Minister and his Government will be powerless. He also said that Singaporeans
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    • 227 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help, in case you need to check their meanings. Allay: To make someone feel something less strongly. When you allay someone's fear of something, you lessen his fear of it. Animation: The making of cartoons. Animation is a
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    • 183 4 734-7711 YOU'D like to. buy a copy of The New Paper. But you can't seem to find it. It's not available where you usually have lunch, or at the corner shop, or even on the street where you live. Then you find a place where it is
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    • 67 4 AUGUST 8 this year is a lucky day for births, weddings and banks. The Overseas Union Bank group thinks so and has invited the Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, to officially open the Overseas Union Bank Centre in Raffles Place. "That day
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    • 103 5 HIS task as commander of the National Day Parade is completed in less than 90 minutes. Lieutenant-Colonel Hoon Sian Hock smilingly confides: "Mine* is the easiest job in the parade." But when he steps on to that stadium track, there'll be at least 60,000
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    • 227 5  -  By Danny Tan DAVID Copperfield would have been impressed. Out of the darkness in the National Stadium tonight, a spaceship with lights flashing wildly will suddenly appear during the full dress rehearsal of the National Day parade. Within seconds, "space maidens," all 146 of them, will rush out
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    • 115 5 ON AUG 9, Major Ervin Edmund Dragon will more than call the tune when he conducts the military band in its march past the President. For the major, this will be his 18th year as official music man. When the contingents march into the
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    • 173 6  -  By Lois Ng CHANGI Airport is on top of the world today. British Traveller magazine has rated it the world's best airport for the first time. It had been number two for the past four years behind Amsterdam's Schipol Airport. Zurich is third. The poll is one
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    • 114 6  -  SHE’S COMING TO TOWN By Trudy Lim BRITISH Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher flies into Singapore tomorrow for a two-day visit. She will meet Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew to discuss Asian and world issues, a British government official told The New Paper in
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    • 237 6  -  By Irene Ng THE INSIDE man in a robbery is now an inside man in jail. He must stay there for three years and get 12 strokes of the cane. This is what a judge decided after he heard the following story. John Fernandez, 30,
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    • 292 6  -  By Lawrence Low THE NOOKS and crannies could not be moved to the new school. So they built new ones. "The girls still like their little corners," Katong Convent principal Karen Oei said yesterday. "We know they need the space to be with their
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 113 5 r HAS QUESTRON OUTDATED YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING METHODS? 9 for a firstW hand experience and ypfl m find out why Questron m flHHf if is voted the 'Best fl M Educational Toy 1987'* jf and 'Educational Toy m of the Year 1987'** in UK. f Questron is a revolutionary approach
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 164 8 THE anti-apartheid movie Cry Freedom was seized by police in South Africa just hours after theatres began showing it. Police Commissioner General Hennie de Witt said the film had "a propagandistic theme" that violated terms of a two-year-old state of emergency. De Witt's announcement came
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    • 114 8 AP. THE Security Council at the United Nations has appealed for the immediate release of a US military officer abducted while on UN duty in Lebanon. It made the appeal in a brief resolution. It made no mention of the pro-Iranian extremists who abducted
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    • 207 8 Reuter. PHILIPPINES' Defence Secretary says that the politics of murder kills at least 10 people a day in his country. The Communist effort to take power in the islands is in its ninth year.. One of the latest victims was a soldier shot
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    • 96 8 AFP. AT 67: He didn't want it, so he didn't plan it. But French actor Yves Montand's having it after all. His first-born is due in four months. "To be frank, raising a child now wasn't part of my plans," he said in Nice, France. Montand
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    • 41 8 Tourists nosed out: Venice city of romance is no more! The stench of rotting weed from its canals has driven away tourists,killed fish and forced this once singing gondolier and his passengers to don face masks. Picture/ Reuter.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • WORLDTODAY/STOCKMARKETS
    • 217 10 AP. HUNDREDS of unashamed men and women are meeting at a remote campground in Pennsylvania this weekend to elect officers, form committees and get naked. Along with serious business, the nudists of the Eastern Sunbathing Association and their unashamed children plan to lie in the
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    • 97 10 UPI. WARNING: Smoking can cause crime. The US Surgeon-General, C.Everett Koop, said yesterday that tobacco could lead to crime just like hard drugs. "People say there's no crime in the streets because of tobacco. That is true. But if tobacco were suddenly as unavailable and as
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    • 102 10 Reuter. FRENCH officials now say the crash of a new Airbus A 320 at an air show was the fault of the pilot not the new computer guidance system on the plane. Transport Minister Michel Delabarre said the pilot and co-pilot have been suspended, pending
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    • 100 10 UPI. MORE than 100,000 people are presently known to be suffering from Aids. The World Health Organisation reported that Aids increased by 4.1 percent last month to reach 100,410. Aids has now been reported in 138 countries with the United States having the most patients
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    • 43 10 Clock-buster: Travers McCullough, 16, of London, is said to be the first to solve the Rubik's clock. The clock is the latest puzzle of Hungarian Erno Rubik, best known for his 'cube'. Rubik, himself, can't solve the clock. Picture/ Reuter.
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    • Article, Illustration
      264 10 Wire services. THE London Stock Exchange ended a new trading account on a firm note on Friday. The Financial Times 30-share index rose 8 points to close at 1,488.7. Volume was a moderate 479.2 million shares compared with 496.9 million shares on Thursday. The FTSE 100 ended the week
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    • 74 10 Reuter. SHARE prices in Tokyo were higher in initial trading on buying spread over a wide front following the higher Wall Street overnight, brokers said. The Nikkei index rose 163.11 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 28,074.74 in the first 15 minutes of trading after a 115.54-point gain on
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    • 52 10 c FT Industrials Fri 1,488.70 (1,480.70) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,128.73 (2,082.33) ST Industrial Fri 1,143.41 (1,136.64) NST Industrial Fri 1,844.57 (1,840.26) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 2,678.92 (2,663.45) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,611.00 (1,599.20) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 27,911.63 (27,796.09) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous
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    • Article, Illustration
      275 10 Reuter. A FLURRY of short-covering set off programme-buying yesterday afternoon and ignited the biggest blue-chip rally in more than a month. Traders said other factors, including firm bond prices and a steady dollar, also buoyed stocks. The gain was the fourth this week. "We're having a sigh of
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 132 11 Reuter. A SOVIET soldier went berserk and shot and killed seven troopers who had beaten him up. Now he is in a mental hospital. The Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda said yesterday that the soldier, called Arthur, grabbed two pistols from a sleeping warrant
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    • 170 11 Reuter. A NEW bribery scandal involving Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has caused an uproar in the Indian Parliament. The Statesman newspaper printed on its front page on Friday two letters from Japan's Sumitomo Corporation apparently showing it had paid $9 million to a company owned by
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    • 185 11 SOVIET leader Mikhail Gorbachev has proposed holding elections next year for a new Soviet Congress of People's Deputies. He hopes it will then elect a president with increased powers. He ended a meeting of the central committee of the party with a plea
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    • 42 11 Not plain sailing; French windsurfer Loic Peyron slaloms dangerously past huge icebergs in the Resolute Bay north of Canada, tie's preparing for today's attempt to reach the North Pole on hoard his wind surf. Picture/ Afp
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    • 95 11 AP. THREE-year-old Rasha Hoshiyeh stabs out the eyes of her dolls and stuffed animals. She is trying to understand, her mother says, what happened when a rubber bullet fired by an Israeli soldier put out her left eye. Eye loss is among the injuries suffered by 36,000 Palestinians
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    • 110 11 Reuter ITALIAN secret agents are accused of hiring Naples' most powerful crime boss to win the release of a politician kidnapped by left wing extremists. Investigating Judge Carlo Alemi said that mob leader Raffaele Cutolo, who is serving several life sentences for murder, arranged
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
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  • Showtime
    • Article, Illustration
      326 14 WHITNEY Houston and Diana Ross are not singing in harmony. Both are after the lead role in a movie about the late singer and dancer Josephine Baker. Ross has always dreamed of playing this sexy woman. She has "incredible feelings" towards Baker, she told Star magazine. Baker rose
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    • 317 15  -  By^ Wong Sing Yeong s INGAPORE Broadcasting Corporation's actor Chen Shucheng is one of the few who has lain in a coffin and lived to talk about the experience. He has done it twice. In The Awakening and In The Wilderness, he stretched out in a
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    • Article, Illustration
      311 15  -  By Sonja Tan FRANTIC (Capitol) DR RICHARD Walker fell in love with his wife in Paris. It is in Paris that they renew their romance and it is in Paris that his wife mysteriously disappears. A mystery thriller starring Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley and newcomer Emmanuelle Seigner. Time: Midnight.
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    • 523 16  -  Who says men are not romantic? Take a look at adman Teh Siew Joo's passionate purple flowers and PSA supervisor LeeTeck Suan's misty waterfront scenes. Both men are exhibiting their passions in paint at the National Art Gallery and the Hyatt Hotel. m ill Brenton Wong ARTIST
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 364 16  -  By Lim Swee Hong A BOWL of blood was among the first "health foods" Ng Siong Mui ever tasted. An exotic meat seller slit the throat of an ant-eater while she collected the blood in a bowl. Then she had to drink it. Ng was only 10 years
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    • 168 16 THE first thing you notice about Madam Ng is her lustrous, black hair. She says her diet does it lots of beans, nuts and berries. Here's her recipe for great-looking hair. Red Beans Chicken Soup Ingredients: 200g red beans IOOg dried raw peanuts (soak overnight) 2 cloves
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 2256 17 rn t JSal| lelevision m screen MSaturday Night Movie Bodywatch Building PM Magazine gems Kids Don't Tell Bq». Better Babies <sbc 12,9.30 pmj V (SBC 5, 10.30 pm) B mm I (SBC 12, 7.30 pm) TONIGHT'S final episode sizzles with J, Br M GREAT advances in modern medicine the explosive
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 1981 18 Television J&Ufri (SBC W (SBC V Jd+" BREAST cancer is the focus of this rnMir a n WTiBrrttBMBi Based on a short story by the sensitive human drama. Amy Matthews Gleason team un for this diliahtfnl iqrt other Elizabeth Taylor, an equally (Leueen Willowby) is shocked out of her yy
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  • Update
    • 1578 21 SATURDAY CEMRESWjE VIOLIN RECITAL Singaporean Kam Nmg. 12, a student at the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School in Britain, plays Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn and others. Piano accompaniment by Chan Soo Ping, a music teacher. Victoria Concert Hall. 8 pm. Tickets: $5. 10 and 15 from Central
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    • Article, Illustration
      54 21 [£]0UT AND ABOUT: China and International Travel Fair. See China, Hongkong, Japan and Nepal up close. fvHNIGHTLIGHTS: Lively reggae group, Igta, performs at Bier Keller, Centrepoint. TOMORROW [0OUT AND ABOUT: Have breakfast with singing birds in Jurong. Sundresses plain, checked or floral at bright prices. [VlFOOD: Lobster done
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    • 75 21 Seven hundred reservist! will ihovfra their strength end ability to solve problems in this National Day organised by the Singapore Armed 4|i Forces Reservist's Association. Get ready for some side-splitting events too. The public can take part in two events: A hula hoop contest to
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 36 21 Jetaway to an al I expense paid Adventure in Japan. In T lie New Paper Jetstream Tour Contest Check out page 37. Back copies on sale at Reception Counter, f Times House, Kim Seng Road. UhImHI
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 1856 22 RADIOGUIDE J EMXH EKEH ■iWimm'i HB jPr M (Programmes in English) 6.00 Breakfast Club: Presenting your 6.00 am World News Sunday morning wake-up show 6.09 FrM Our Own Correspondent: mr 6.05 On Air: Wake up to a soft selec- 6.00 Newt In Brief with muBiCt information, BBC's correspondent com i!i*
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 270 25 Who says men are not romantic? Take a look at adman Teh Siew Joo's passionate purple flowers and PSA supervisor LeeTeck Suan's misty waterfront scenes. Both men are exhibiting their passions in paint at the National Art Gallery and the Hyatt Hotel. ARTIST Teh Siew Joo paints
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    • Article, Illustration
      252 25  - By Brenton Wong THE romance of the sea fills Lee Teck Suan's semi-abstract brush paintings. And no wonder, for he works for the Port of Singapore Authority. "Modernisation is affecting the lifestyle of people on the waterfront," says Lee, 36. Machines are replacing the old lighters and bumboats. Lee wants
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 367 25  -  BY Lim Swee Hong A BOWL of blood was among the first "health foods" Ng Siong Mui ever tasted. An exotic meat seller slit the throat of an ant-eater while she collected the blood in a bowl. Then she had to drink it. Ng was only 10 years
      Picture/ Simon Ker  -  367 words
    • 168 25 THE first thing you notice about Madam Ng is her lustrous, black hair. She says her diet does it lots of beans, nuts and berries. Here's her recipe for great-looking hair. Red Beans Chicken Soup Ingredients: 200g red beans IOOg dried raw peanuts (soak overnight) 2 cloves
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • A MATTER OF OPINION
      • 403 26  -  By Harinder Gill Questions about dating came thick and fast from teenagers at a youth forum last week. Many girls were unsure how to handle boys who wanted more than friendship. Do teenage boys and girls have sex? Do they sleep around? Johnson Plant, 18,
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      • 33 26 Do you agree with what they say? Do YOU think young people sleep around? Tell us on Hotline Plus: 734-7711. It's open from 7 am to 7 pm daily.
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    • 187 26  -  By Chow Wai Fong SOME 100 young men and women will get on the soapbox tomorrow. They will get to say their piece on their family, studies, work, leisure and political matters courtesy of the Committee of Young Adults. The young people, aged 25 to
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    • 250 26  -  Story/ Loh Tuan Lee STUDENT knapsacks look ever so fancy these days. Even if the glitter comes from no more than discarded metal rings pulled off the top of soft drink or beer cans. Clearly, knapsacks have become more than just something for hauling around
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 191 27 COMICREUEF Orchard Road/coim Goh Single Slices/peter Kowsaat l/fflO-M.KMMTI trtO, V V MIM.IIfeM IN T~| 1/ tol/is.wh. wihts Y1 W so«t KOfll I r TTTIi up, frfl'y I mud mfS 50.... 1 I IWtON *10 U*R L 1 Utt XiKT OF IOOK pUi-I&DKN -r> V f ULwtKil H Ui f C3thy/Cathy
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 106 28 COMICRELEF^ Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne Govtote neeps A III rteMATMelAllgUStd/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill f £AY GOOMHt Y~\ fOU MAH 4M 6000M TO THCH6U FFANKUY ft* Ali TMfc 10 TU£ BUK6UR THE Nl£E AMfcRkWM UAPY J VAUme* *HMW MkWT V AltfU^TA.' WH0 roett A. WZll WAVE £TAYfcP AT UOM^ George the
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 314 29  -  By Adeline Woon TANIA has changed its face. From the glittering made-up face of Prince to the casual Ts and jeans of Bruce Springsteen. Only vocalist Alban De Souza still keeps his extravagant stage persona. "Call it a natural evolution," says bandleader Zul who is on stage wearing
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    • 143 29  -  Byv Hope Barrett OUR HONGKONG REPORTER JULES Verne's novel Around The World In 80 Days will become a major television series starring Robert Wagner, Roddy McDowell and Peirce Brosnan. They will be in Hongkong next month, where producers are scouring
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    • 225 29  -  By Vivien Chiong JACQUIE O'Sullivan doesn't own a single Bananarama album. "I didn't even know the words to many of their songs," said the 27-year-old newcomer in the pop trio. There was never a threat of a banana split. The question was whether to continue as a
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    • 376 30  -  By Vivien Chiong A NDY Lau peeped at some 350 fans from the wings of the Rediffusion auditorium and smiled. Thirty minutes later, he left nearly in tears. The session with Andy Lau was to last for 90 minutes. He came to play some games and sing
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    • 222 30 A WOMAN'S great sacrifice, a family drama, and a love story are all elements close to any Filipino's heart. And these are the elements that make Tagalog melodrama so popular. The romantic melodrama will be shown tomorrow at the Orchard and Majestic cinemas. It is
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    • 100 30 Tomorrow Huwag Mong Itan ong Kung Bakit Aug 7 Working Girls 2 Aug 14 Working Girls 2 Aug 21 Walang Karugtong Ang Nakaraan Aug 28 Walang Karugtong Nakaraan Sept 4 Puto Sept 11 Puto Sept 18 Pasan Ko Ang Daigdig Sopt 26 Pasan Ko Ang Daigdig Oct 2
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    • 76 31 It could be you. Beauty advice. Health care. Fashion sense. WHO'S THAT GIRL? Wisdom to help you find out how you are, what you are, who you are. The working girl's best friend. From in-depth features and newsy trends to hot gossip and sensational styles Aread-and-do magazine. A know-and-live guide
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  • Page 32 Advertisements
    • 197 32 III large I group of I IF 437,000 potential I E who said they would I 1|\£ I |TgJ read' The New Paper. I f/#i (Prelaunch Survey, November 1987). I Recruit effectively withTast Ads Our Appointments Classified Section The New Paper, Singapore's newest PHflTFP'Ti^PT^fS English weekday noon tabloid, i4w[Vl pufl
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  • Page 33 Advertisements
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    • 298 33 APPOINTMENTS A newly established trading Company based in Singapore which Is owned by a large International Group seeks suitable candidates who are Singapore citizens to fill the following positions:MANAGER This is a senior position and the successful candidate will report to the Managing Director. He should be between 30 35
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    • 566 33 f We are a well established company with divefsified interests in both M Singapore and Malaysia. As part of the Corporate Strategy to further diversify into the Lubricants Field, we are inviting suitably qualified applicants to apply for the following positions. I Sales Marketing Manager I Applicants should ideally be
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  • 401 34  -  TELEVISION NEWS SHOWTIME Ten pairs of twins from 6 to 10 years old showed up for the audition yesterday and the Huang twins made it, mainly because they looked a little like their TV parents. By Lo Tien Yin IN REAL life, Huang Jue Jing and
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 437 36  -  By' The Three Musketeers FORM and the weather point to East Coast Road as the most likely winner of tomorrow's Pesta Sukan Cup. Dr Choo Pheng Soon's grey New Zealand gelding has won only once this year and that was over the metric mile on
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    • 299 36  -  BY The Three Musketeers STICK with the stylish Aussie rider Brent Thomson today and you will finish in the money. We reckon he could score a hattrick out of five rides at Bukit Timah. He could get off the mark in Race 1 aboard
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