The New Paper, 24 September 1988

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  • 21 1 the new paper WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24/ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 so CENTS the J new* paper
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  • 44 1 It's the maid's day off but what is she up to? Some employers, worried about losing that $5,000 bond, are setting private eyes on their maids. They find them very busy working as hawkers' help, social escorts, Page 2
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    55 1 Dark, eerie, spooky at Bukit Brown Chinese cemetery off Sime Road. But 15 people are braving it. For the stars beckon. On offer: A glimpse of fiery Mars. Page 7 From left: Mr David Wong, Dr Michael Toh and Mr Jim Tan with daughters, Jean (lying on mat)
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  • 63 1 12-PAGE OLYMPICS SPECIAL Will it be Carl Lewis? Or Ben Johnson? Or, better still, Calvin Smith? The fastest man on Earth will be decided today. See how they could run. /Page 16 Record-breaking jump: Jackie Joyner-Kersee breaks the Olympic long-jump record in the hepihathlon
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  • 26 1 Where to watch Eric Moo, Jazreel Low, Li Nanxing, -Jacintha, Dawn Gan and a host of singing stars perform for FREE. Tomorrow. /Page 39
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  • 29 1 New York police nab taxi drivers for fleecing Asian tourists. Crooked cabbies use electronic "zappers" to raise meter rates by 450 per cent. Page 9
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 356 2  -  By Leong Chan Teik IT'S your maid's day off. What could she be up to? Some employers are not taking a chance. They turn to private detectives to find out. At least five detective agencies have been approached, and this is what they
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    • 218 2 AN EMPLOYER was suspicious of what his maid did on her days off. He hired private detectives to trail her and provided the agency a photograph of her. One Sunday, the detectives began trailing the maid from the Ang Mo Kio home of her employer.
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    • 177 2 MALAYSIAN investigators looking for income tax dodgers found 4,000 of them including one man who owed a whopping $57 million. Deputy Director General of the Inland Revenue Department. Mr Hassan Ibrahim, said the prominent Malaysian, who was not named, is paying off his huge tax
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    • 167 2 THE snatch-theft happened so quickly. Mr S L Yap was on his way to deposit more than $4,000 into a bank when a pillion rider alighted from a motorcycle and snatched the envelope containing the money from him. Mr Yap, 36,
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    • 77 2 IN A report on Tuesday, we said people born on or between Dec 15, 1970, and March 15, 1971, may register for national service. In fact, they must register because it is compulsory. Registration is open for both Singapore citizens and permanent residents. In another report that day, we
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    • 46 2 Laughing matter: British Prime Minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher has a good laugh as her beret falls off. She was at the opening ceremony of a branch of her favourite British store Marks and Spencer in Madrid yesterday. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 87 2 A BODY hanging from the telephone wires. That was what a technician from the North Telephone Exchange in Thomson Road saw when he opened the door to an equipment room yesterday afternoon. Police said the body of Mr Sim Ah Lah, 50, a worker at the
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    • 20 2 PRIME Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew returned to Singapore yesterday evening after a nine-day official visit to China.
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    • 384 3  -  By Lim Swee Hong FAST food is fine, but not when machines dish it out. At least that's what Fraser and Neave found out. The company started what it claimed was Singapore's first snack bar filled entirely by vending machines. A spokesman for the company called
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    • 230 3  -  By Chua Chin Chye ASKING children to take care of children is risky. That's what Mr Musroh bin Sandi learnt at the Jurong East Library on Thursday. A woman lured his one-year-old daughter, Syahidah, into the library toilet and stripped the helpless girl
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    • 134 3 IT took a youth just three days to get caught riding a motorcycle while under a magistrate's ban. On June 7, Tan Boon Tat was sentenced to a one-year ban. Three days later he was caught riding a motorcycle during a
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 24 2 the Weather WEATHER outlook for Singapore from noon to midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 32 degrees. Sunset today: 6.59 pm. Sunrise to-i morrow: 6.53 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 203 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. Acquittal: An acquittal is a declaration in a court of law that someone who has been accused of a crime is not guilty of it. Boorish: A person who
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    • 351 4  -  By Chua Chin Chye IT TAKES four experts to make even one fake $50 bill and turn it into something that looks like real money. "It's a syndicate; not just one person," said a senior police officer yesterday. Police said people with four different skills
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    • 93 4 FIRST, there has to be someone who can take good pictures of the real thing. Then, somebody who knows how to take the "transparency" like the slides families show of their vacations and make a printing plate. This takes someone who knows how
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    • 195 4  -  By Abdul Hadhi IT was rather unusual, but Tan Ah Lee sold cars without buying them. His business method bought him a prison sentence. In court yesterday, Tan, 36, admitted cheating four people. On July 16 last year, he telephoned someone
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    • 253 4 IT WAS his first time arguing out the finer points of law before a judge from the British House of Lords. But third-year law student Andre Maniam, 23, overcame his nervousness. And he even liked the judge in the end Lord
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    • 214 4  -  By Harjinder Kaur SEVERAL taxi drivers spent two hours at the Singapore Zoological Gardens yesterday as non-paying guests. Zoo officials invited the NTUC Comfort drivers to learn more of the zoo. A zoo spokesman explained: "Taxi-drivers are frontline people. They deal with the public
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 258 6  -  By Trudy Lim THE sky's the limit for Singapore's most profitable company. Singapore Airlines soars above the rest, winning two of six Outstanding Companies of the Year awards presented by the publishers of Singapore 500. The airline is a money-spinner, according to Datapool and Print N
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    • 330 6 THREE contractors are getting a total of nearly $250,000 from the government for research and development. This amount, given as awards for the first time, matches the money each contractor is putting up. It is to help them develop new products and systems. The Product
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    • 243 6 STRONGER concrete for safer buildings. That's the target of a research project that will start soon here. The research is to help prevent a repeat of the problems that led to the 1986 New World Hotel collapse and recent closures of Hwa Chong
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    • 446 6  -  By Karen Goh THE swinging 60s. We're not talking about the Beatles but about Mrs Quek Kiok Chiang and Mr Joseph Ong who are both in their 60s. And swinging. She helps run the Ling Kwang Home for Senior Citizens in Serangoon Gardens and does
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    • 191 6  -  By Chow Wai Fong WHY do parrots have curved beaks? Or ducks webbed feet? Well, the best way is to find out for yourself. That's why 110 teachers will turn birdwatchers at Jurong Bird Park today They are attending a seminar lo learn about
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    • Article, Illustration
      275 7  -  By Lois Ng THE stars guide them to their weekly rendezvous. It is eerie and spooky. It is also quiet and pitch dark. And THAT suits their purpose, because Mars can only be sighted at night. Fifteen star-gazers were at the Bukit Brown Chinese cemetery off Sime Road
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 264 8 Wire services. PRESIDENT Ronald Reagan today ruled out an interim strategic arms pact with Moscow. That word was passed by a State Department spokesman as Mr Reagan prepared to meet the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr Eduard Shevardnadze. Washington and Moscow have long sought to find
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    • 135 8 Wire services. THE Dalai Lama, the religious leader who resists Chinese rule in Tibet, is now willing to hold talks with Beijing, his office in New Delhi has announced. The announcement came yesterday after the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital offered to
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    • 50 8 Campaign: There is a certain repetitious element in American politics. Top, Republican George Bush claims the vote of Boston policemen. Below, Democrat Michael Dukakis claims the vote of Texas police officers. No presidential election passes without both candidates making a play for the law-and-order vote. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 735 8  -  By William L. Chaze FOREIGN EDITOR THE United Nations has found that success does not always guarantee a fat wallet. At a time of impressive worldwide gains toward peace, the UN must still struggle to make ends meet. America's decision in mid-September to pay
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    • 327 9 Wire services. ISRAELI Foreign Minister Shimon Peres says he is "ready to leave Gaza completely". He would also be willing to leave "some parts of the West Bank where a clear Arab majority exists". Mr Peres, a Labour Party candidate in the November elections, made
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    • 163 9 Wire services. NEW YORK city police have declared war on cab drivers who cheat Asian visitors. The drivers use electronic devices called "zappers" to raise meter rates as high as 450 per cent over what they should be. Many of the crooked
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    • 155 9 Wire services. INDIA is meddling in the internal affairs of Fiji, says the Fijian government. A spokesman said the Indian criticism of the country's proposed constitution was disrespectful of the wishes and aspirations of Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs. The panel recommended
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    • 57 9 Dressed up: A Chinese girl dances the night away in Beijing hut with a difference. Her more formal dress and heels are in response to a government crackdown on sloppy dressing by Chinese teenagers. The government says casual clothes make for a casual attitude. And
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    • 153 9 Reuter. A POLL of musicians finds that American Vice-President George Bush wins the country and western vote for President, with Governer Michael Dukakis taking the jazz and rhythm and blues vote. What about rock V rollers? The poll says they can't make up
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    • 212 9 Wire services. THE French Socialist government of Prime Minister Mr Michel Rocard faces its first popularity test tomorrow in regional council elections. The test comes barely four months after the Socialists returned to power in close presidential and legislative polls. Sunday's elections will see a
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  • WORLDTODAY/STOCKS
    • 163 10 Wire services. BAD NEWS for developing nations crushed by debt: The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are both insisting that all money owed them be paid up. Mr Onno Ruding says lenders cannot forgive loans because that would be unfair to nations that meet
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    • 103 10 Wire services. WITH George Bush as President, there will be no US support for Moscow's bid to become part of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT. That word comes from US trade envoy Clayton Yeutter, who spoke at a news conference
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    • 38 10 Flames: A fire-fighting ship sprays the burning oil platform Ocean Odyssey off the coast of Scotland. One man is still missing from the platform, which burst into flames during exploratory drilling. Picture/ Afp
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    • 237 10 Wire services. THE French Health Ministry has approved the sale of an abortion pill for use by special medical centres. The decision was made public yesterday by Health Minister Mr Claude Evin. It came just hours after a government panel recommended sale of the
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      253 10 AFP. SHARE prices closed higher after moving irregularly on the Stock Exchange here yesterday and the Financial Times 30-share index rose 6.1 points to close at 1,446.8. Investors remained cautious ahead of the publication on Tuesday of the British trade figures, and interest centred on certain special situations. Consolidated
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    • 85 10 Reuter. SHARE prices fell in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, on small-lot selling in a market with few buying orders, brokers said. The Nikkei index fell 45.25 points, or 0.16 per cent, to 27,383.06 in the first 15 minutes of trade. Trading was light with most
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    • 51 10 FT Industrials Fri 1,446.80 (1,440.70) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,098.68 (2,080.01) ST Industrial Fri 1,033.71 (1,045.86) NST Industrial Fri 1,718.86 (1,734.34) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 2,454.38 (2,455.84) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,551.20 (1,541.50) Nikkei Stock Average Fri Closed (27,428.31) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      276 10 Reuter. WALL STREET share prices rose yesterday, but not enough to keep its four-week string of weekly advances alive. For the day, the Dow Jones industrial average climbed 10.67 points to close at 2,090.68. For the week, the 30-stock average was down 7.47 points. Big Board advances led
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  • THE NEW PAPER SPECIAL PULLOUT SEOUL BEAT
    • 278 11 JACKIE Joyner-Kersee, of the United States, broke the Olympic long jump record on the second and final day of the seven-event heptathlon this morning. Joyner-Kersee, jumped 7.27 metres to break the old mark of 7.06m set by the Soviet Union's Tatyana Kolpakova in the 1980 Moscow Games. Joyner-Kersee,
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    • 83 11 AFP. THE chairman of the South Korean National Olympic Committee announced his resignation today in response to universal condemnation of Thursday's boxing riot. Kim Chong-Ha, the 54 year-old businessman who has headed the KOC since April 1985, said he hoped his resignation would bring the incident
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  • SEOULBEAT
    • 434 12  -  Ken Jalleh Jr NEVER mind the money, pray for a miracle. Today, Ang Peng Siong will attempt to reach the unreachable star, with his feet glued to the ground. And neither the last minute offer of money, nor the medals, nor the most conniving magician can
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    • 223 12  -  By Judy Khaw A MEDAL should be in the making for Ang Peng Siong in the Olympics. That's what 75 per cent of the callers said in response to our Question of the Week last Saturday. The remaining 25 per cent said Peng Siong had no
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    • 169 12  -  By Shirley Tan NEW Zealand boxing referee Keith Walker, assaulted in the ring on Thursday, has asked for Korean fair play to settle any off-ring disputes that might arise from his performance that night of mayhem. Just before departing at Kimpo Airport yesterday, he said: "Let's be
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    • 145 12 SINGAPORE'S fortunes in yachting continued to dip off Pusan twice they capsized, and crew Joe Chan was hit in the head in the fourth race of the 470 class race yesterday. Chan suffered injuries on the nose and forehead, along with a bruised ego.
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    • 308 13  -  By Ken Jalleh Jr ON what promises to be a pleasant autumn afternoon here in Seoul today, thousands of people will chew their nails silly to ascertain if Frederick Carlton Lewis, I.BBm tall and 79kg, is human. All because he wants to play catch with Ben
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    • 163 13 Reuter. CARL LEWIS and Ben Johnson have to watch their bio-rhythms on the way to the 100-metre final at the Olympic Stadium today. In the data-base provided by the organisers, the dial-a-bio-rhythm service is proving a big hit. All you need to
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    • 41 14 Jackpot: Yesterday's selections were spot-on Lewis (extreme right): Bet on him but not in a world record Johnson (contre): May not even figure in top three Vote for Lewis: Johnson has hamstring injury and can't handle Lewis.
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    • 566 14  -  Ken Jalleh Jr IFTY THREE soft-shoe shufflers kicked their heels and swayed their hips in their underpants here yesterday. Dab some blusher and they could pass for catwalk celebrities from the gay days of Bugis Street. But try lining up beside them and they will walk
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    • 542 13 Faster than a speeding bullet: Olympic sprinters Today's Olympic sprinters are very closely matched, with most races jm, decided by a few inches and less than a fraction of a second. At top Btew ArrfMiTiuA <• rue speed, these athletes move at 27-plus mph. In the *****, many LdTrnl f
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  • SEOULPIC
    • 40 15 Fist at the finish: With flailing fists, Czech soldier Jozef Pribilinec (left) breaks into an ecstatic mood as he crosses past the finish line of the men's 20km walk. Pribilinec clocked lhr 19min 57.0 sec.
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    • 52 15 Back to basics: Valerie Briscow-Hooks seems bent on rivalling fellow-American "show-girl" athlete Florence Griffith-Joyner in the "flesh" game here as she is seen in action yesterday during her 400 metres heat. Valerie won the heat and went on to qualify for the next round. Pictures
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  • 262 16 IJf.OIIOQQ/'l IT ,V i w f i Un ■n Ben Johnson Birthplace: Falmouth, Jamaica. Now ives in Toronto Emigrated to Canada in 1976. Birthdate: Doc 30.1961 Height: 1.80m; Weight: 78kg; Marital status: Single Alma Mater: Yorkdale Hgh School Honours: Commonwealth Games 1982: Gold medal in 100m,
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 2030 17 RADJOGUIDE i^TTT— ■rU.ItJiIMMJI liE—■ N/V/V/V^ 6 am N#w ,n Br,ef (Programmes in English) 6am Breakfast Club: Wake up to the 6 am World Newi *05 0n ,r: A selection of good mu- 6am News In Brief K reat B< >" n d B offered in this 6.09 From Our Own
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  • UPDATE
    • 2077 18 SATURDAY i I SUNDAY ►Cestresme MALAY DRAMA. Menyerah Seorang Perempuan is about a daughter who always gives in to her family's wishes. By the Malay theatre group, Nadi Dan Indrakirana. Free. Ang Mo Kio branch library. 2 pm. TURKISH DELIGHT. Istanbul-born pianist Banu Sozuar
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    • 108 18 THE Mid-autumn Festival is here. The Chinese Theatre Circle kicks things off with opera excerpts at the new ferry terminal. 6 pm 7 pm. This troupe received rave reviews at the recent Edinburgh International Arts FestivaL Later, the opera performers and prancing lions will parade from
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    • Article, Illustration
      156 18 TODAY YT~X OUT AND ABOUT: Celebrate with SBC stars like Zoe 1*1 Tay and Jazreel Low in a fun-filled variety show tonight. Bukit Merah carpark, Henderson Road. \—y NIGHTLIGHTS: Catch an electrifying performance by \VI Christina Ong and her three dancers, Pleasure Principal. Tonight at Caesar's, Orchard Towers.
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    • 90 18 SHINNO Mika, 23, a I familiar face in the I Japanese music scene I brings the sound of I enka to I Singaporeans. Enka is a type of traditional Japanese music. In her childhood, she y mingled with the local fishermen who sang these tunes with gusto.
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1973 19 TTI SCREEN M Saturday Night Movie HHT 1 a s Brother Seoul Olympics'BB Ml GEMS Firestarter (r) With Pcrfcct Timing Hockcy (Men/Live)! I Jr (10.30pm, SBCS) (*ll.4opm, SBC 12) Australia vs Pakistan mHK^m CHARLIE McCee is a (3 00 Dm SBC 12) happy, healthy eight-year-old DESCRIBED by The Guardian as
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1798 20 TMINCW PAPER/ September 24/25, 1988 P«f> 2d rp I 0 Isiotl SCREEN M Movie Parade Arts Circle The Modern World: Screen 5 1988 MTV GEMS M StarflightOne fj Ten Great Writers —T S Eliot's Video Music Awards M Ktak The Waste Land (3.00pm, SBCS) H> wl (*lo.oopm, SBC 12) (9.30pm,
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  • UPDATE
    • 2076 23 i SATURDAY SUNDAY ►Ceniresdce MALAY DRAMA. Menyerah Seorang Perempuan is about a daughter who always gives in to her family's wishes. By the Malay theatre group, Nadi Dan Indrakirana. Free. Ang Mo Kio branch library. 2 pm. TURKISH DELIGHT. Istanbul-born pianist Banu Sozuar performs
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    • 108 23 THE Mid-autumn Festival is here. The Chinese Theatre Circle kicks things off with opera excerpts at the new ferry terminal. 6 pm 7 pm. This troupe received rave reviews at the recent Edinburgh International Arts Festival Later, the opera performers and prancing lions will parade from
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    • Article, Illustration
      153 23 TODAY rTX OUT AND ABOUT: Celebrate with SBC stars like Zoe Tay and Jazreel Low in a fun-filled variety show tonight. Bukit Merah carpark, Henderson Road. r~y NIGHTLIGHTS: Catch an electrifying performance by 1*1 Christina Ong and her three dancers, Pleasure Principal. Tonight at Caesar's, Orchard Towers. GALLERY:
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    • 88 23 SHINNO Mika, 23, a familiar face in the Japanese music scene i brings the sound of 1 enka to I Singaporeans. Enka is a type of traditional Japanese music. In her childhood* she mingled with the local fishermen who sang these tunes with gusto. Now she popularises
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1612 24 RADIOGUIDE [2§|jrf i 11 am tmsamtmnmn 1 N (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON On Track: Ross Tucker plays NOON Newsdesh fv/JN/Nrf 12.05 Real Fun: Join Roger Kool for u u you a selection of great musical 12.30 Spartswerld: Paddy Feeny pf an afternoon of good music and NOON Easy Listening: Featuring
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  • 261 25 s e m °Q& Tfirr Ben Johnson Birthplace: Falmouth, Jamaica. Now ives in Toronto Emigrated to Canada in 1976. Birthdate: Dec 30,1961 Height: 1.80m; Weight: 78kg; Marital status: Single Alma Mater: Yorkdaie Hgh School Honours: Commonwealth Games 1982: Gold medal in 100m, slver in *****m relay
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 620 27 By THE THREE MUSKETEERS THE CHANCES are good for a big payout in today's quartet race. Punters have little in the way of form to guide them in Race Five and few are likely to get the first four in correct order. Sophistication has
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    • 529 27 THE PICK of the weekend's racing is Race 5 tomorrow where 14 horses run over the metric mile. It will be keenly contested with last start winners First Son and Progressing, Vain Meram and Suntelle all likely to throw out a challenge. Our idea
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  • MALAYSIACUP
    • 273 28  -  Stories/ Abdul Shukor TRENGGANU'S fortunes, it seems, rest on its away matches. Last night, Trengganu showed its 12,000 fans that it is capable of producing good football although it failed score. "I just can't explain it," said the disappointed Trengganu coach Abdul Rahman. "Tonight was probably our
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    • 169 28 TRENGGANU S m i d f i e 1 d maestro, pint-sized Singaporean Ahmad Paijan, played gallantly in the first half despite being given a pain- killing injection minutes before the start of the game. Ahmad's injured left ankle almost ruled him out of the match but
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      11 29 Date: 23 Sept Venue: Sultan l.N. Shah Stadium Klckoff: 8.45pm
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    • 170 29  -  By S. Gulam IF Yahya Madon's goals gave Singapore the win, it was David Lee's marvellous display between the posts that doused the fire of Trengganu. As promised, the Singapore stand-in skipper kept a clean slate with four brilliant saves that looked certain goals. His save from
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  • Article, Illustration
    496 30  -  By S. gulam FEAR no more. Singapore has the skill, teamwork and guts to progress further than the quarter-finals this year. The Young Lions are gaining in stature and maturity with each game. In an elegant display of open, flowing soccer, the Singaporeans broke the hearts of Kuala Trengganu
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 367 32  -  By Loh Tuan Lee YOUNG volunteers who make cheap, healthy meals for the old were rewarded for their good works last night. They were the first Singaporeans to get a Commonwealth Youth Service Award. They received the honour for their Cheap Meal Scheme. It
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    • 292 32  -  By Sonja Tan PHILIP Jeyaretnam, fresh from his success with top-seller First Loves, has a novel on the way. It is called Raffles Place Ragtime and will be out "in a couple of months", he said. He revealed this during a talk he gave
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    • 283 32  -  A MATTER OF OPINION By Loh Tuan Lee LAWRENCE CHAI, 16 Raffles Institution "Money you can do anything with it. Would you rather wear hand-me-downs? I'm not crazy about money but you must admit it is useful." CATHERINE WONG, 19 Pre-university student "Honesty.
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
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