The New Paper, 11 October 1988

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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 532 2  -  By Trudy Lim ELECTRONICS manufacturer, Texas Instruments, will pump $300 million over the next five years into its Singapore plant. Industry sources said the money will used to buy new and better machines and improve the company's facilities to keep pace with the induscompany estimates it
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    • 159 2 Wire services. MOTHER Teresa wants the Pope to take a hand in unlocking the door of an American abbey where five nuns shut themselves up because of candy, television, video tapes and newspapers. She said in Calcutta that she would be going
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    • 75 2 Wire services. FRENCH President Francois Mitterrand and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev have agreed to visit each other's capital. The French leader's visit will be first. He will be in the Soviet Union on Nov 25-26, followed by a Gorbachev trip to France in the
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    • 31 2 On your gusrdl The bull sees red and terrified youths crowd together for safety in a Spanish bull-ring. Evidently, not everyone is el matador. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 147 2 NOBODY was around to give Mr Leong Foo Lun the life-saving hug called the Heimlich manoeuvre when he choked on a piece of stewed pork. After a desperate struggle, with his wife pounding him on the back, he became unconscious and later died. The bite
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    • 344 3  -  By Chitra Rajaram T i HE historical building housing Singapore's free clinic at the turn of the century, has been renovated as a Chinese art gallery. The Thong Chai Medical Institution Building, in Wayang Street, is one of eight official monuments in
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 23 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook today from noon to midnight: Cloudy. Maximum temperature: 30 degrees. Sunset today: 6.53 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.48 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 428 4  - What showgirls can show within the law By Abdul Hadhi WOMEN who perform at most Singapore nightclubs must not bare their essentials, police say. But the naked truth is that the rules on exactly how little a performer can wear before she exposes herself to legal trouble are not clear-cut.
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    • 143 4 TAIWANESE singer Marina Yang was steaming yesterday about a report that police accused her of showing too much skin during a night club show. She hotly denied a press report that police stopped the act, warned her,, then confiscated one of her dresses. "Nothing of
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    • 336 4  -  By Lim Phay-ling SO YOU want to export to North America, the world's largest buyer of consumer goods. But how? The United States and Canada are such big markets and Singapore is a tiny city-state. Yesterday the Singapore Manufacturers Association held a forum
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    • 288 4  - He accused police of stealing $100 now he is defendant By Irene Ng A MAN who accused two police officers of stealing $100 when they searched him landed ii> court yesterday as a defendant. Teo Boon Hui, 21, who sells coffee powder, was accused of giving false information against the
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    • 144 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. acquired: If a girl calls something an acquired love, it means that she did not like it at first but she learned to love it over time. Arch-nemesis: A
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    • 86 4 TWO PYTHONS measuring four metres each and as thick as a man's thigh were scooped up by a mechanical crane in Toa Payoh yesterday. Startled crane operator, Mr Phang Kong Lim, 28, called police after he found the huge snakes in the shovel. He was clearing
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    • 479 5  -  By Loh Tuan Lee THE EAST Coast Lagoon has 1 got the blues. The number of people going there has sunk, leaving the place almost high and dry. When the lagoon was new in 1976 and a novelty, about 620,000 people a year went
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    • 258 5  -  By Angeline Song THE beach at Sembawang is finding a place in the sun. Just next to Sembawang Park, it is only 100 m long. But it has calm waters and clean sands. On weekends, it also has a good crowd. Most of the people who
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    • 261 6 THE girl holding hands, at right, with her mother and a benefactor was born without arms. So when Chen Lijun, three, received a pair of artificial arms recently, she was overjoyed and said to her mother: "I now have my hands." Her
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    • 106 6 THE Skills Development Fund plans to give about $30 million to train workers in new skills in the next three years. These skills are expensive to teach, so the fund will double its grants to companies to help them do so. The scheme seeks to
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    • 114 6 FOR the first time, Singapore's trade organisations and government officials are setting up a trade and industry council with counterparts from a neighbouring country. Members of chambers of commerce and trade groups, managers of private businesses and Trade Development Board officials from Singapore will join
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    • 188 6 A SLIGHT drizzle did not stop devotees from their annual faith trip to Kusu Island. They flocked to Clifford Pier today from 5.30 am to queue for tickets for their yearly pilgrimage. Ticket sales were brisk. Sales started at 6.30 am, half an
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    • 275 7  -  By Trudy Lim SINGAPORE-MADE Coke is it in Japan! It's selling in the land of the rising yen, and Japanese bottlers don't like it. The strong yen has made foreign-made Coke about 20 per cent cheaper than the Japanese version. What worries the
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    • 134 7 A NUMBER of people found their way blocked by a huge fallen tree branch which fell owing to strong winds early this morning. The branch fell across the road in the heavily wooded Mt Faber at 7.20 am. Some people called the police. Officers from
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    • 358 7  -  By Joe Nathan GOING to the toilet is one of those necessary things in life. Sometimes necessity can overcome you before you figure out which door to enter. In Singapore we have various ways of telling "the mens"
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    • 114 7 MORE copies of Asiaweek, the weekly news magazine, could be on sale from Saturday. The government will increase the approved circulation of the magazine from 500 to 5,000 copies per issue. This was revealed in a statement yesterday from the Ministry of Communications and Information.
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    • 155 7 A VIDEO tape showing a fight between two groups of touts at Lucky Plaza is part of the evidence the shopping centre is using in a court action against six tenants accused of selling counterfeit goods. The management of Far
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    • 140 7 Arrest and then death THE daughter of Ms Lim Cheng Yin was a helpless spastic who required a lot of care and special care costs money. Lim's lawyer told a District Court yesterday that getting money to make 15-year-old Kirk Bee Keen's life bearable was the reason his client turned
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 256 9 Wire services. AFGHAN Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Sharq has hinted that his regime might step aside to pave the way for peace talks with rebels. Mr Sharq gave the signal yesterday as members of the ruling People's Democratic Party met Eastern bloc diplomats to seek
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    • 149 9 Wire services. PHILIPPINE officials have stepped up security in armouries amid reports of another coup plot by renegade soldiers. A spokesman for the government said commanders had been told to be on the alert for soldiers attempting to steal arms for rebels. A message sent by
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    • 40 9 Defiance: Workers' power in Yugoslavia's Montenegro republic led a senior regional officer, Mr Radivoje Brajovic, to resign. Workers at the Boris Kidric Steelworks, and thousands of others, are protesting against a crackdown on earlier rallies. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 531 9  -  By William L Chaze FOREIGN EDITOR A SMALL girl in pigtails stopped a wire-service reporter in Algiers. Weeping, she managed to choke out these words: "They killed a 13-year-old here today. The world must know." "They", she said, were Algerian security forces who swept through
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    • 260 10 Wire services. SCIENTISTS will know within a year if a new drug can stop people from getting Aids, a medical conference was told today. Robert Gallo, an American scientist who first helped isolate the virus, cautioned that researchers were still a long way from finding a
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    • 34 10 Poles apart South African blacks steer clear of mounted whites re-enacting the "Great Trek" of Afrikaners 150 years ago. The ceremony, held at Blood River, honours Dutch-descended settlers. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 203 10 Wire services. TAMIL rebels have butchered 45 Sinhalese villagers in Sri Lanka, officials say. A spokesman for the government in Colombo said Tamil separatists stormed into a remote northern village. They dragged sleeping residents from their homes and killed men, women and children.
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    • 43 10 On guard: British police have mounted a massive security network in Brighton where the ruling Conservative party is holding its convention. Here, a police helicopter competes with seagulls for a bird's eye view of the waterfront Picture/ Reuter
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    • 128 10 Wire services. A PILOT'S mistake or faulty brakes is blamed for an Indonesian jet's weekend collision with a terminal at Bangkok's airport. Three people were slightly hurt in the Sunday incident. The Garuda Indonesia airliner, on a stopover from Jakarta to London,
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    • 265 10 Wire services. A JUDGE today ordered CBS Records to find the master tape of a rock album blamed by parents for forcing two teens into a suicide pact. One of the teens died. The other was injured. The parents claim in a lawsuit in Reno,
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  • WORLDTODAY/STOCKS
    • 240 11 Wire services. WHILE last October's stock market crash stung many of America's richest people, the rich are still getting richer. Forbes magazine's list of the richest 400, published today in New York, shows America's wealthiest are worth a combined $440.8 billion. This is slightly more
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    • 213 11 Wire services. TAIWANESE celebrating National Day have been told their main duty as a nation is to liberate China from the communists. President Lee Teng-hui told a rally in the capital yesterday that Taiwan must build a military machine that can "accomplish our historic mission of
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    • Article, Illustration
      262 11 Wire services. SHARE prices finished an uneventful session on the London Stock Exchange slightly lower yesterday, as the market awaited a series of economic reports due later in the week. The Financial Times 30-share index fell 0.1 point to close at 1,490.3. Dealers said some of the market's enthusiasm
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    • 71 11 Reuter. SHARE prices were higher in initial trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today after Wall Street rose to a postcrash high overnight, brokers said. The Nikkei index rose 222.38 points, or 0.82 per cent, to 27,480.65 in the first 10 minutes of trade. Advances were led by securities
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    • 53 11 FT Industrials Mon 1,490.30 (1,490.40) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,158.96 (2,150.07) a ST Industrial Mon 1,015.90 (1,003.27) NST Industrial Mon 1,692.17 (1,681.02) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 2,566.42 (2,478.871 Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,534.70 (1,525.00) Nikkei Stock Average Mon Closed (27,258.27) Figure* in brocket* refer to tho»e of tbn tw
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    • Article, Illustration
      259 11 Wire services. WALL STREET stocks closed yesterday at their highest level since last year's market crash in a continuation of Friday's strong rally. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 8.71 points to 2,158.96. The previous post-crash high for the 30-stock Dow average was set on July 5, when
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  • Showtime
    • 637 12  -  By Terry Tan OUR LONDON REPORTER N 1 ot since the days of October Cherries has another Singapore group attempted to make the international circuit. Today, Energy is one of Singapore's most envied rock bands. British talent scout and music entrepreneur Darryl Patton, who discovered them
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    • 349 13  -  REVIEW/ Bi Sonja Tan "YOU'LL be happy, you just won't know it." Ominous words indeed, especially when uttered by Jake's best friend just before the wedding. Jake Briggs (Kevin Bacon) decides that his wife will be his "mate for life'*. The rest
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    • 244 13  -  REVIEW/ By Wong Sing Yeong WHEN Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (Tonight, SBC 5, 10.40 pm) was released in 1981, it bombed at the box-office. Critics panned the $70-million Western as unfocused, boring and too long. The film is based on a real range war
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    • Article, Illustration
      303 13 KUEI-MEI, A WOMAN (Plaza cinema) THIS masterpiece spans more than 25 years, from 1959 to the present. The film charts Kuei-mei's hard-luck life. Yang Hui San is superb as Kuei-mei who though saddled with a compulsive gambler as a husband and a growing family to feed, finally triumphs by
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    • 329 14  -  By Vivien Chiong THREE Hongkong actors will fight for recognition as best actor at the 25th Golden Horse Awards. The ceremony will be held on Nov 6 when 16 film awards will be presented. The Golden Horse is the Taiwanese equivalent of Hollywood's Academy
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    • 28 14 BEST DIRECTOR Lo Kai Feng Wong Ka Wai Ann Hui BEST ACTOR Alex Man Ti Lune Samo Hung BEST ACTRESS Carol Cheng Cora Miao Jiang Hsia
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    • Article, Illustration
      255 14 VIKING ROOTS MAGS of A-Ha tells British pop magazine Smash Hits that "one of my ancestors was a Norwegian king. He used to dress in women's clothes and hang out with wandering minstrels." FROM A STYLIST TO A STAR BRITISH singer Yazz's real name is Yasmine Evans. Number One
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    • 380 15  -  By Griselda Loo A FAN of Jane Li jumped for joy when she met her idol at SBC last Friday. Lim Sue Ling, 17, suffers from cerebral palsy, a handicap which affects her mental and physical development. She met the Newswatch team recently when some of
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    • 145 15 LORRAINE Desmarais, a captivating jazz pianist from Canada, will make guest appearances on Mer* idien Hotel's Le Rendezvous from Oct 29 to Nov 10. And going strictly on her reputation and repertoire, this is a show not to be missed. Desmarias, who is Canada's
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  • spotlight
    • 890 16 SUPERMAN celebrates his 50th birthday this year. And Mickey Mouse marks 60 years as the world's best-loved rodent Yet neither is in danger of leaving us any time soon for comic-book heaven. Superman has gone through a particularly extraordinary change. He started out as a
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1841 17 /A rr\ i m lelevision= GEMS 0 Of lames Cook Brainstonn (Last Episode) Heaven's Gate customs of d tte U Zo^and h 2ke l^J' e the December, which we all the detail. The story is on k' f '1, 'S in the annual feast for the launching In Cook's Wake
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    • 890 21 SUPERMAN celebrates his 50th birthday this year. And Mickey Mouse marks 60 years as the world's best-loved rodent Yet neither is in danger of leaving us any time soon for comic-book heaven. Superman has gone through a particularly extraordinary change. He started out as a
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  • 235 22  -  'SHOWTIME By Vivien Chiong A HUNDRED thousand dollars. That's the amount PolyGram expects to raise from ticket sales of the recording company's 20th anniversary show on Oct 29. The money will be donated to the Ministry of Community Development's Cultural Foundation. The three-hour show is being
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 372 23  -  Stories/ Lim Phay-ling c I LOTHES were the number one sellers when Tangs Studio at Scotts opened two months ago. Working women eagerly snapped up jackets, blouses and skirts at about $80 a piece. Men were persuaded to fork out $400 for the locallytailored two-piece business
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    • 187 23  -  SHOPPINGBUG By Josephine Ng CARDS are no longer just a side show to gifts. They are opening up to become presents in themselves. Well-made and attractive, they can cost as much as a gift. At Tangs Studio, old-fashioned three-dimensional pop cards and slide cards with tabs
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    • 251 23 A FIRM dealing in posters, prints and greeting cards has picked Singapore as the springboard for its expansion in Asia. The company, Athena International, plans to treble its sales in Singapore and South-east Asia in the next five years. There are altogether 110
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 269 25  -  Stories/1 Lim Swee Hong N '0 blushes for Ms Georgina Lee over how often she changed her job before becoming owner of Blush. She's been a chauffeur, a real estate agent, a beautician and a hairdresser, to name just a few. "I'm a very restless person.
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    • 291 25 Blush Continental Restaurant 81-18 A Parkway Parade 345 7009 Prices from $4 onwards (five per cent service charge till the end of the year, 10 per cent after that) ALMOST everything in the Blush restaurant comes in shades of peach. Even the wine glasses
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    • 458 25  -  By K Karuna A TASTY fish is not a flash in the pan, but it can be cooked in a flash using a microwave oven. And you can get that nice pan taste. With a microwave, the advantages of steaming, grilling and sauteing can be
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 1667 30 RADIOGUIDE £\wwi nn EHiHHa VVVV\ /VN NOON News la Brief NOON Easy Listening: Instrumental NOON Gaad Music, Ctapany And Ma: NOON Nawsdask ✓V/SJ 12.05 Laachdata: Listen to some en- music will be played for your Tune in for some great sounds j 2 .jo The Spiaaar* And Friaads: The ■\/y
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 250 31  -  By Alfonso Chan SQUASH has been left out of the Beijing Asian Games in 1990, ending Singapore's campaign for its inclusion. A list of 27 sports released by China's Olympic Council has put to rest the issue of squash's participation for which Pakistan, Singapore and other
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    • 128 31 AFP. HOWARD Wilkinson yesterday became the latest man to accept the challenge of trying to restore struggling Leeds soccer club to its former glories. He moved across Yorkshire from Sheffield Wednesday to succeed Billy Bremner as the man in the Elland Road hot seat with this message:
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    • 74 31 Reuter. ENGLISH soccer club West Bromwich yesterday refused Spanish team Atletico Madrid permission to talk to manager Ron Atkinson. Albion board member Sid Lucas said: "It was only a few weeks ago that Ron signed a new contract and the board expect that contract to be honoured.
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    • 85 31 AFP. DERBY County has fended off the third approach in less than a week for its highlyrated manager Arthur Cox. Last week, Leeds United twice asked for permission to speak to Cox but was rejected and yesterday, Newcastle received the same response. Newcastle, who sacked Willie McFaul
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      516 31 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASEBALL Japan's Central League: Chunichi 5 Hiroshima 0, Yakult 5 Hanshin 3, Yakult 8 Hanshin 2. Pacific League: Seibu 6 Nankai 4, Kintetsu 3 Lotte 0, Kintetsu 7 Lotte 2 (2nd game), Nippon Ham 3 Hankyu 1 (Ist game), Hankyu 4 Nippon
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    • 154 31 RACING... ...by DENNIS CHIA CAPTAIN Atom has progressed since finishing second to I Wish at Ipoh last month. He displayed good form in a workout at Penang this morning when hard held by apprentice Saifudin to clock 39.7. The going was good. Fayez, also engaged in
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  • SPORTS
    • 482 32  -  HEALTH SiFitness Report: JUDY KHAW IF THE thought of a tennis elbow has always put you off tennis, never fear. Because soft tennis is here! Soft tennis? It's a game that's 150 years old, with world tournaments running for 25 years! It all started in the villages of
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    • 271 32 QIGONG YIJINJING literally means limber-ing-up exercise for the tendons. It is an ancient Chinese activity *and is still used today by many people. It is not only good for health but also serves as a kind of therapeutic exercise for orthopaedic patients during their recovery. Yijinjing was
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    • 71 32 STARTING position: Stand with feet shoulder-width apart. Clench both fists with knuckles facing forward and tips of both thumbs pressed lightly against thighs. Movements A: Use gentle abdominal respiration. B: When breathing in, expand lower abdomen to the full. C: When breathing out, clench both fists
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    • 86 32 STARTING position: Stand with feet shoulder-width apart. Press both palms downward with fingers pointing sideways and fingertips turned upward. Movements A: Breathe in and out as in the previous exercise. B: When breathing out, press palms downward with in- ward strength. Do not bend legs. The whole
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    • Article, Illustration
      416 33 Italian long-distance runners have been in the forefront in recent years. The most recent winner was Gelindo Bordin at the Seoul Olympics marathon. Is it because running is in their blood? Alberto Salazar, the famous marathon runner, has something startling to say on the subject, as ABDUL SHUKOR discovers
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    • 408 33  -  By Alfonso Chan THINGS need to be tightened up if the toughest triathlon this side of Asia is also to be the best. Organising the triathlon along a quiet, winding road by the sea on a Sunday afternoon seems easy enough. And, National University
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    • 162 33 AP. ATLANTA Falcons cornerback David Croudip died yesterday after suffering seizures at his home in Georgia. Gwinnett County coroner Randy Simpson said witnesses reported Croudip had ingested cocaine. Croudip was 29. Simpson said an autopsy would be performed later. The suspicion is that "it
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    • 253 34 THE national rugby team's latest stand-off also happens to hold the Asean Schools' pole vault record. Mohd Kamal Abdullah, who played in Singapore's 33-9 friendly defeat by the New Zealand Force yesterday, set the record 4.21 metres when he won his second
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    • 368 34  -  STORIES BY SHAHIRON SAHARI NEW ZEALAND Force team manager Jim Clarke expects a good showing from Singapore in next month's Asian Rugby Football Union tournament in Hongkong. This follows his team's 33-9 victory (three goals, three tries and a penalty goal to a
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    • 381 35  -  MALAYSIACUP With only three days to go before Singapore's first-leg quarter-final against Kedah, the Lions' top right-midfielder is down with the flu. There are replacements. But is there enough time to find someone suitable? Stories/ S. Gulam THE right-midfield position is giving Singapore soccer coach Seak
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    • 324 35 K. KANNAN has warned that Kedah will pay a heavy price if it sacrificed any player to shadow him on Friday. "I've the greatest respect for the Kedah players," he said. "But they would be making the mistake of their lives if
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    • 227 35 NST. KEDAH coach Ahmad Shafie will not be teaching his boys any new tricks now that they are in the quarterfinals. They are carrying on with their usual training. His reasoning: "To teach them new things would mean having to start the learning process all over
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  • UPDATE
    • 885 36 ►Ceniresiace -y BRITISH HUMOUR Laugh with Reg Vamey, the I comedian who appeared in me nn television series. On the Buses. He entertains you with little quips while playing on the piano. Crystal Ballroom. Hyatt Regency. Today and tomorrow. 7 pm. $90 includes cocktail and
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    • 15 36 CENTRESTAGE: British comedian FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: French thriller OUT AND ABOUT: Technology show
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    • 74 36 opium, which oonot from the poppy flower, make good pain-killer* If takes In moderation, t < Dr Polunin, 67, was a former associate professor jn the Department of Social Medicine and Pwblie Health at the National University of Singapore. He has written a hook. Plants and Flowers
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