The New Paper, 22 October 1988

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  • 19 1 the new paper WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY. OCTOBER 22/ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 198S MCI (p) 179/4/88 50 CENTS new* paper
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    • 180 1 > i_l>V' .Mi. I BUT CAtf 11* HE SING? Chow Yun Fatt, king the celluloid, has cut a disc. His j^mWf debut album with released here Thursday. The lyrics poke fun at everything from sex to politics. Page 16 Woman frightened of taking her company's bus dies in ugly collision.
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  • 52 1 A man struggles in the strong current of high water left by Hurricane Joan as it passes Colombia, killing 22. The storm is bearing down now on Nicaragua with top winds of 175 kmh. Up to 80,000 people are fleeing lowlands near the Caribbean coast.
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 540 2  -  By Ambrose Poh MADAM Chiang Lai Peng, 35, had fears about taking the company's bus home. Too fast, she told her husband many times before. Late last night, her fears became reality. Madam Chiang was killed in an accident involving the company's chartered bus and another
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    • 105 2 A man was jailed two years and given 12 strokes of the cane for robbing a prostitute at knifepoint. Yesterday, the court heard that Chee Thiang Tin, alias Ho Wing Nam, went to a brothel on June 19 last year and offered the prostitute $15
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    • 28 2 IN YESTERDAY'S report "Genting Getaway", we said the price of a special package to the resort was $131 per person. It should be $131 for two people.
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    • 157 2 A STRANGER calls up and starts asking questions about your panty and bra sizes. He says he's doing a telephone survey for a lingerie company. Ladies, beware. Soon he's asking, "How do you find sex?" and "Do you enjoy blue films?" and "Which particular love-mak-ing
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    • 123 2 NEED a new heart, lung or liver? Before too long you may be able to get the transplant done right here. Surgeons in Singapore are quickly developing the skills to move on to the more complicated exchanges of human organs. There is no timetable for setting up
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    • 53 2 A STUDY is underway by the Government Parliamentary Committee for Education to find out if Chinese language spoken in Singapore is good enough. And to implement steps to raise the standard, if found wanting. The issue was raised last week by Second Deputy Prime Minister
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    • 471 3  -  By Irene Ng OBVIOUSLY, the people in power know the power of television. So when renovating Parliament House, one question on the Government's mind is: How to make the sittings of the new Parliament from January more appealing on TV? The $206,000 job started late last month.
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    • 69 3 DECISIONS on who sits where will depend on several factors, such as how often a member is expected to answer questions and his or her seniority. Parliament sittings may also be held in the afternoon to give MPs, especially those in the private sector, more time
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    • 23 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook today from noon to midnight: Fair. Maximum temperature: 32 degrees. Sunset today: 6.51 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.47 am.
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  • 177 4  -  By Trudy Lim STUDENTS who have been studying at fast food restaurants, Changi airport and other public places may soon find it more convenient to do it in their schools after all. They can do so after classes are over. The
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  • 351 4 A MAN running amok hurled a 12-year-old boy out of a 12th-Btorey flat last evening, but the child escaped death by grabbing the balustrade just in time. According to a report in Lianhe Zaoßao, Cai Qing Xiang's screams of pain and terror brought his
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  • 199 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. agenda: An agenda is the list of points to be discussed at a meeting. benevolent: A benevolent person is one who is generous and helpful. blueprints: Blueprints are the
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  • 238 4  -  By Loh Tuan Lee FOREIGN maids have given teachers an added responsibility, a Minister said this morning. The maids have become "parent substitutes',' said Dr Yeo Ning Hong, Minister for Communications and Information and Second Minister for Defence (Policy). He was speaking at the
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  • 172 4 MRS Narayanasamy Poobalan Naidu, 44, a Tamil language teacher at the Uma Palavar Tamil Language Centre, made a little bit of education history this morning. She received the Best Overall Performance Prize in the Tamil Studies programme. Mrs Naidu and 21 fellow
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  • 110 4 THE DRIVER of a speeding sportscar that struck down a pedestrian and dragged him 20 m to his death told the court he did not stop immediately because he was in a state of panic. That explanation didn't satisfy the judge. Raymond Chua Yan Tee,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 552 6  -  By Angeline Song HE'S a wonder man. Singapore's children believe it and so do certain tribes in Malaysia. Like a real-life Indiana Jones, London-born Dr Ivan Polunin has had many harrowing experiences in the wild. He has also given more than two
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    • 230 6 A DESPATCH rider is the latest victim of an "Arab-looking" man who snatched $350 from him on Thursday night. Police said Mr Rosli bin Hassan, 33, was at the covered carpark of the Plaza hotel facing Nicoll Highway when the man asked him to change a
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    • 198 6  -  By Angeline Song THE National Kidney Foundation is organising a 100 km bicycle challenge for cycling enthusiasts this Sunday at 8.30 am. The race is divided into individual and team events. So far, 70 people have signed up. The organisers hope to have at least
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    • 317 7 The International Exhibition, held in conjunction with the First Singapore Design Forum at the Raffles City Convention Centre, is open until 10 tonight. Tomorrow is the last day, when it will be open from 9 am to 5 pm. BRENTON WONG looks at the
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    • 153 7 TEACHERS who have to fork out their own money for pens and stationery say it's no problem for them. Seven primary and secondary teachers contacted said that they spend an average of $10 a year on stationery. "Money spent on stationery for students is no
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    • 201 7 FUJITEC has been an uplifting experience for the Housing and Development Board (HDB) since 1974, but in less than two years other companies will have the chance to install lifts in HDB blocks. Fujitec's contract expires in August 1990. The decision to let other
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    • 216 7 GETTING into a bus isn't the only thing a dog in Bedok is good at. It also has a knack for getting into the news. The New Paper reported on Thursday that a hound hitched a ride on SBS feeder service 220 at the last
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    • 565 8  -  By Ronald Wong QUICK thinking helped businessman Patrick Tan Hong Thian pull a fast one on a gang of conmen. The gang tried to trick him out of $475.65 in cash. He gave them a post-dated cheque instead then stopped payment on it. "A
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    • 203 8 ONCE upon a time, Ng Quee Lam had a multi-million-dollar empire in rubber, property and hotels. Today, he's officially broke. The High Court declared Mr Ng and three of his relatives bankrupt yesterday. Mr Justice P Coomaraswamy made the orders against Mr Ng,
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    • 129 8 TAKING money from a cripple earned a young man three months in jail. Jaffar bin Abbas, 21, pleaded guilty in District Court yesterday to a theft charge. Mr Ngoh Kim Hock, a paraplegic, testified he was selling lottery tickets from his wheelchair outside a toy
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    • 156 8 DOG owners may soon face tough new laws to keep their pets under control. Stricter rules are being finalised by the Primary Production Department (PPD) to deal with problems caused by pet owners who do not properly train or care for their animals.
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    • 372 8 THE call by the Singapore Democratic Party to boycott NTUC Fair Price stores is anti-union and anti-worker, the NTUC says. In a press statement the NTUC president, Mr Oscar Oliveiro, says that the SDP call "has strengthened NTUC's stand of removing SDP's lackeys from the
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 302 9 Wire services. A US court has ordered that ousted Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos be put on trial on charges that he used stolen millions to buy New York real estate. Along with Mr Marcos, the Federal Court Grand Jury also indicted his wife Imelda, and
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    • 55 9 Fre€ zone: Workers demolish buildings around the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs, in Amritsar, Punjab. The police want to create a free zone in the area as the buildings were often used as hideouts and arms depots by Sikh terrorists fighting for
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    • 196 9 Reuter. RADICAL change in the Soviet Union's prison system has given early freedom to hundreds of thousands of convicts with more to come. The weekly newspaper, Literaturnaya Rossiya, said that during a two-year span 600,000 will have been freed by the end of 1988. It
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    • 199 9 Wire services. TWO people drowned last night when a Greek cruise ship carrying 475 British teenagers and their teachers sank after colliding with an Italian freighter near Piraeus, Greece. An official of the Greek Merchant Marine Ministry said 64 people, including 30 students, were hospitalised
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    • 382 10 THE bloody cycle of revenge and counter-revenge rolls on in Lebanon with Israeli warplanes blasting Palestinian and pro-Iranian guerilla bases in southern Lebanon. Soon after yesterday's raids, Shi'ite Muslims threatened to punish two American hostages in retaliation. The Israeli raids were in retaliation for a suicide
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    • 159 10 Wire services. ISRAELI Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has accused Jordan's King Hussein of meddling in Israel's election campaign by backing the peace plan proposed by his main rival, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. "The results of the Israeli elections will be determined by the Israeli people,
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    • 196 10 Wire services. US SURGEON-GENERAL C Everett Koop thinks it is a "little fantastical" to expect a vaccine will be developed against Aids in this century if ever. He also questioned whether governments would be willing to carry indefinitely the financial burden of the disease.
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    • 129 10 Wire services. AN INDIAN court has ordered one year's hard labour for 23 people accused of murdering three women they thought were witches. The Press Trust of India reported that a judge in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh found the 23
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    • 128 10 Wire services. THOUSANDS of photographs and dozens of videotapes showing men and boys in sexual actions have been seized in the American state of Wisconsin. Waukesha county district attorney Paul Bucher said yesterday the confiscation was part of an investigation of a child pornography
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    • 158 10 Wire services. THE political scene in Burma, still simmering with rebellion, grows ever more complex. Four more parties have registered with the military government. That makes 32 political parties legalised since the army took over the country in a Sept 18 coup a bumper crop for
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • Faces in the news
      • 46 12 Best actor: Hongkong's kungfu star Jackie Chan acknowledges cheers after receiving the Best Movie Actor Award. It was presented to him by Brooke Shields yesterday during the Hrst Golden Dragon Awards ceremony for actors and actresses from Hongkong and Taiwan. Picture/ Reuter
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      • 36 12 Marching to ethnic beats: Young Serbian nationalists demonstrate in Pozaavac, birthplace of Mr Slobodan Milosevic, leader of a campaign for more Serbian control of the Albanian-dominated province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia. Picture/ Reuter
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      • 46 12 Memories: Above, at the Alfred Smith Memorial Dinner in New York, Mr Michael Dukakis seems to wonder what Mr George Bush has that he doesn't. Most polls put Mr Bush ahead of Mr Dukakis in the race for the White House. Picture/ Reuter
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      • 46 12 Early death: It's inevitable when adults wage war children get caught in the crossfire and their lives end almost before they begin. Two Hezbollah militiamen show the corpse of a child killed during an Israeli air raid in south Lebanon yesterday. Picture/ Afp
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      • Article, Illustration
        42 12 Last flight: British flyer Ms Sheila Scott, the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, seen at the controls of her Piper Comanche aircraft in 1967. She died of lung cancer on Wednesday, aged 81. Picture/ Afp
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    • 279 13 Wire services. ANTICIPATING slower economic growth next year, Malaysia announced a tax-cutting budget yesterday aimed at encouraging investment. The $22.6 billion package for 1989 would reduce taxes on big and small companies, give civil servants a pay raise, and extend the sales tax into new
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    • 148 13 Wire services. IRAN and Iraq appear set to compromise to help prop up world oil prices. The major difference appears to be how much oil each country should produce. Iraq's Oil Minister Issam AbdulRahim al-Chalabi, asked by reporters in Madrid if Baghdad and
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    • 167 13 Wire services A GOLF putter designed to putt straight, a car that can cruise at more than 320 km an hour, and a piano with 220 keys. These are but some of the exhibits on display at the "World Genius Convention" in Tokyo. More than 45
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    • STOCKS
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        255 13 Wire services. SHARES fell on the London Stock Exchange yesterday and the Financial Times 30-share index closed 3.2 points down at 1,509.3. The London market was initially steady after a strong close on Wall Street, then reacted slowly to a speech from Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson on
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      • 74 13 Reuter. SHARE prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today fell in initial trade on profittaking centred on leading shares, despite Wall Street's advance yesterday, brokers said. The Nikkei index fell 42.97 points, or 0.15 per cent, to 27,358.45 in first 15 minutes. Major steelmakers, precision instruments, electronics and some
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      • 51 13 FT Industrials Fri 1,509.30 (1,512.50) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,183.50 (2,181.19) ST Industrial Fri 1,038.42 (1,022.33) NST Industrial Fri 1,725.23 (1.701.41) Hongkong Hang Song Fri 2,581.69 (2,584.04) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,594.40 (1,590.90) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 27,401.42 (27.390.55) Figuree in brackets refer to thoee of the previous trading
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        276 13 WALL Street's Dow index recorded a post-crash high yesterday after a late burst pulled the index out of the minus column. The Dow Jones industrial average, which rose 43.92 points to a post-crash high on Thursday, added another 2.31 points yesterday to finish at 2,183.50. For the week,
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  • Showtime
    • 453 14  -  By Lo Tien Yin T HE microphone kept giving out embarrassing squeaks. And occasionally laughter and snatches of conversation came through the sound system. But the polish of the singers more than made up for these technical faults. Last night, the three-day Xinyao Festival 1988
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    • 312 15  -  By Lo Tien Yin STARDOM could be just $200 and a doorstep away from you. The ninth SBC artists training course is here again. From Nov 17 to Nov 20, application forms will be available at community centres. SBC will charge $200 for the
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    • 168 15 T i SBC Roadshow, Together We Celebrate, enters its second-last leg tonight at 7.30 at the carpark in front of Block 178, Bishan Street 11. Among the stars of the show will be members of the cast of We Are Family, the series in
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    • 414 16  -  By Pauline Loh c HOW Yun Fatt has taken to 1 the air. His LP is hitting the radio charts, and every disco 'in Hongkong is spinning his upbeat music. Yes, Chow Yun Fatt, our well-known king of celluloid is cashing in and branching
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    • 486 16  -  SATURDAY SOUNDS By Lim Sek HAVING a hugely successful album is a heavenly experience for people in the music business. But the pressure to follow one smash hit with another can be hellish. Four class acts are about to find out if they
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 103 15 OFRA HAZA SHADAY A four star review from Q Magazine ★=Excellent •Successful fusion of yemenite singing contemporary disco Includes Im Nin' Alu the song which is responsible for her international success Shaday's breadth of appeal is guaranteed: it's perfect, contemporary dance music, and it's also (paradoxical but true) unusually easy
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1728 17 RADIOGUIDE NjVV ri (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON On Track: Robs Tucker plays NOON Newsdesk Ny Vv NwN/ 12.05 Real Fun: Join Roger Kool for the new ones and offers some 12.30 Here's Humoh! an afternoon of good music and NOON Easy Listening: Soothing good advice in this entertaining t<J LL_\j\
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  • UPDATE
    • 2008 18 SATURDAY ►Centrestage r—pr PUNJABI STARS. Comedy, songs and dances 1 in a variety show by 11 celebrities, including Mehar Mittal, Jatinder Kaur, Sudagar Singh, Hakam Singh Sufi and Hardev Singh. World Trade Centre Auditorium. 7.30 pm. Tickets at 15. $25, $30 and $35 from
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      188 18 TODAY 0NIGHTLIGHTS: Amo, a seven-piece band from the Philippines, belts out the latest hits from U2, The Thompson Twins and Billy Joel. This show band was tops in the recent Band Explosion contest in Manila. Catch them tonight at Celebrities, Orchard Towers. HT/T CENTRESTAGE: A night of song
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    • 193 18 LIGHT up your life! Banish the darkness! Deepavali is just around the corner, and Little India will be ablaze with light and colour. The Hindu festival of lights falls on Nov 8. Starting tonight, Serangoon Road between Bukit Timah and Kitchener Road brightens up with streams
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    • 140 18 SINK or float. Three boats, each made from 3,000 soft drink boxes glued together, will face this crucial test. This is one of the novelty events at the People's Association Sea Carnival. Other events will see contestants furiously paddling canoes, kayaks and dragonboats; a tug-of-war between
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1414 19 Televisions 1&& SCREEN M Probe Untouched Centrestage Ghosts Saturday Night Movie (9.30 pm, SBC 5) Ibsen's classic play. Dorothy Tutin stars JANE and LAST chance to watch this f Mrs Alving, who plans a bright future Dolly Parton star in this comedy fJI EhP^^RP^S&^KSI funny private detective series artist son
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1435 20 Television s VSH SCREEN M Movie Parade Screen 8 (C) The Grand Screen 5 Poor Little GEMS W The Cossacks Substitution Rich Girl: The Barbara (3.00pm, SBC 5) r Hutton Story (Part 1) A 1959 movie about a war tiyWHU'j THIS Shaw Brothers film tells the (9.30 pm, SBC 5)
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  • UPDATE
    • 2007 23 SATURDAY ►CENTRESMjE —x PUNJABI STARS. y Comedy, songs and dances in a variety show by 11 celebrities, including Mehar Mittal, Jatmder Kaur, Sudagar Singh. Hakam Singh Sufi and Hardev Singh. World Trade Centre Auditorium. 7.30 pm. Tickets at 15. $25. $30 and $35 from
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    • Article, Illustration
      190 23 TODAY [a/T NIGHTLIGHTS: Amo, a seven-piece band from the I—J Philippines, belts out the latest hits from U2, The Thompson Twins and Billy Joel. This show band was tops in the recent Band Explosion contest in Manila. Catch them tonight at Celebrities, Orchard Towers. [T/f CENTRESTAGE: A night
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    • 193 23 LIGHT up your life! Banish the darkness! Deepavali is just around the corner, and Little India will be ablaze with light and colour. The Hindu festival of lights falls on Nov 8. Starting tonight, Serangoon Road between Bukit Timah and Kitchener Road brightens up with streams
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    • 140 23 SINK or float. Three boats, each made from 3,000 soft drink boxes glued together, will face this crucial test. This is one of the novelty events at the People's Association Sea Carnival. Other events will see contestants furiously paddling canoes, kayaks and dragonboats; a tug-of-war between
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1856 24 RADIOGUIDE 600 iB (Programmes in English) 6.00 Breakfast Club: Rediffusion's 0.00 World News Vx MS£S< 6.05 0a Air Wake up to the songs of 6.00 News In Brief Sunday morning wake-up show 6.09 From Our Own Correspondent QCSL today in this early morning 6.03 Highlights !Sd°SS2i «.25 Mature Notebook SA
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 495 25 ACTRESSES have a hard time finding film roles as they fade from young and beautiful to, ah, mature women. Ageing is a special hazard for everybody in the business, in one form or other. Cute and cuddly child stars may not survive a change of voice.
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    • 190 25  -  REVIEWS/ Toh Hai Leong RICHARt) Ng's comedy, King of Stanley Market, is a fast paced action cops-and-rob-bers flick about a businessman mistaken for a master criminal (both roles played by Simon Yam). Chow Tak Han, an epileptic businessman, switches identity with gangster Chen
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    • 151 25 IN THE Taiwanese sob opera, Human Sentiment Law, we have Simon Yam again. He plays the father of prostitute Yao-wei's son, Hsiung. Hsiung is an honest inspector who finds his career jeopardised by Yaowei's presence in the district he polices. The ambitious Hsiung
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      204 25 GOOD MORNING VIETNAM (Orchard) MOVIEGOERS will not be disappointed by Good Morning Vietnam. Thanks to Robin Williams, who plays fast-talking army deejay Adrian Cronauer quite perfectly. The year is 1965 and Cronauer delivers rapid-fire jokes in between shrewd impersonations to raise the American troops' morale. Times: 11 am, 1.30,
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 244 26  -  By Loh Tuan Lee YOU think you want to work as a designer. So, what do you do next? You get the book, So You Want to be a Designer, that's what. It's crammed with information on career opportunities for designers. It has details on education and
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    • 452 26 THIS is a test from So You Want to Be a Designer, to help you decide if you have the right personality to be a designer. 1. You are given three lines of a conversation and told to write an essay based on
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    • 437 27  -  By Loh Tuan Lee T IHE restless hands of Mervyn Lee can turn junk into art. With his touch, an upturned altar cup becomes the spire on an emperor's hat, a laddered stocking stuffed with cotton begins life anew as a doll's head. Clearly, he is a
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    • 274 27 A MATTER OF OPINION Hashil bin Ahmad, 16, Whitley Secondary School "Students should wear uniforms because it makes them look neat and tidy. But I don't stay neat and tidy all the time. It's especially difficult to keep cool after playing basketball." Adeline
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  • SHOWTIME
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      272 29 NYT THERE definitely is life after Sylvester Stallone. Brigitte Nielsen, recently divorced from this megastar, is now engaged to footballer Mark Gastineau of the New York Jets. Gastineau's divorce from his wife, Lisa, isn't final yet. But the days of "me" and "I" oft-heard in his speech
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    • 134 29 Los Angeles Times BEFORE Robin Givens married Mike Tyson, she was young, beautiful and a not-very-well-known actress. Now that Givens and Tyson are divorcing amid a storm of media frenzy, she is young, beautiful and a figure of national notoriety. But what has that
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  • Page 32 Advertisements
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS/RACING
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      576 35 By THE THREE MUSKETEERS T |HE Tote Board Feature Race for Class 2 gallopers tomorrow is also the quartet for the day. There are a number of contenders for the honours although only 12 runners will go to the start. Last start winners Supreme Picco and
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    • 449 35 APPRENTICE jockey Asogan showed last week at Penang just how the speedy Ammushanti should be ridden. He rode the mare easy and she thanked him by romping home for her maiden win although starting from barrier 12. The two-and-a-half claimer teams up again with the four-year-old
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  • SPORTS
    • 444 36 ISSUES IN SPORT: ATHLETICS THE NG CHIU FONG CONTROVERSY It's boo-boo season again for the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association its third in two years. In 1986, there was the case of Sakaram Gawade. Then, this April, it was the turn of Mona
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    • 162 36 NG Chiu Fong doesn't want to say too much about the SAAA not ratifying her record. Just a few sad and sorry things. "I trained so hard for the event. My coaches, friends and officials in Flash Sports Club knew that
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    • 415 36 Td forgotten about it' FOR Sakaram Gawade, it was all so long ago. He had almost forgotten it. Gawade, then 34-years-old, had thrown the hammer 47.08 metres during the SAAA's Inter-Club championships in Sep 1986, breaking Eknath Mane's 21-year-old record by six centimetres. But
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    • 190 37 ISSUES IN SPORT: ATHLETICS THE NG CHIU FONG CONTROVERSY IT'S very simple it's the officials' fault, says Loh Chan Pew, the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association honorary assistant secretary. "Everyone involved in the technical side of the meet should shoulder the blame. In
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    • 175 37 ONE of the technical officials at the Flash meet, Lim Kim Yeow, said he did not know the shot had to be weighed after Ng Chiu Fong had registered her "record" 12.49 m. Lim, a chief Held judge at the Asian
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    • 187 37 Reuter. THE International Weightlifting Federation said in Budapest yesterday it was introducing random dope testing in a bid to clean up the sport's image, soiled badly during the Seoul Olympics. Repeated cases of doping in any .country would result in the national weightlifting body
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      490 37 Reuter. ASIA suffered a double blow when top seed Yang Yang, of China, and fifth-seeded Ardy Wiranata, of Indonesia, crashed out of the men's singles in the Danish Open badminton championships in Odense yesterday. And the man who caused their downfall was none other than unseeded Danish player
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    • 445 37 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASEBALL Japan's Central League Taiyo 1 Yakult 0. CYCLING Dortmund Six-day race 1 Danny Clark (Aust) and Tony Doyle (Brit) 55 pts 2 Volker Diehl and Roland Guenther (WG) 53 3 Dietrich Thurau (WG) and Urs Freuler (Swit) 51 4 Stan Tourne
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    • 282 38  -  ISSUES IN SPORT: SOCCER THE MALAYSIA CUP DEBACLE By S. Gulam SEAK Poh Leong's faith in his team has not been shaken by the Malaysia Cup elimination. He says he will stick to the current squad for the year's remaining assignments. "There's not much change
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    • Article, Illustration
      254 38 THE PLAYERS SPEAK THE BOSSES SPEAK X We lost to a good team. W Their players shared the same vision. They worked as a team. Maybe that's where we lost out. Their forwards had correct timing. If only we had somebody like Sundramoorthy, who could cut through defenders,
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    • 442 39 ISSUES IN SPORT; SOCCER THE MALAYSIA CUP DEBACLE The Singapore team is out of the Malaysia Cup. Will heads roll? It doesn't appear so, at least for Poh Leong. The FAS has come out in support of the national coach. S. GULAM reports SEAK Poh
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  • 413 40  -  Money that's the remedy for Singapore's bankrupt soccer fortunes, says FAS boss Maj Abbas By S. Gulam M ONEY. Not the root of all evil, but the remedy for soccer suc- cess. So says Singapore's soccer boss Maj Abbas Abu Am in. The Football Association of Singapore
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