The New Paper, 5 November 1988

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  • 15 1 the new paper WEEKEND EDITION SO CENTS the 4/ new* paper the 4/ new* paper
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    • 163 1 WALK INTO THE 14™ CENTURY Right here at Fort Canning Hill. Legendary home of Singapore's Malay kings to be open-air history park, National Development Minister announced this morning. You will get a feel of the 14th century. /p«g«3 World chanp saya: "My divorce is a closed chapter." Ex-wife Robin Givena
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 313 2 WILL there be enough space for Singaporeans to live, work, move about and still have fun in the year 2030? Yes, according to Singapore's planners. But this will only be possible provided four ifs are met, said National Development Minister S Dhanabalan this morning.
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    • 159 2 WORK will start next year to make the Memorial Park, Esplanade Park and Empress Place more attractive. A National Development Ministry official yesterday said more than $3 million will be spent on upgrading Memorial Park. The War Memorial will be lit up
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    • 218 2 A DOUBLE-DECKER SBS bus hit a gantry poet on Adam Road this morning, ripping away part of its upper deck. No one was hurt. But it was the second time an SBS dou-ble-decker scalped itself under the post put up to warn drivers that a
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    • 159 2 UPI A MAN who tried to steal meat from a pack of lions wound up being a hearty meal Police said lions in a game park in Zimbabwe killed and ate a would-be thief. The man tried to get at the lions' food inside
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    • 157 2 BRACE yourself, Singapore. You may never be able to eat with abandon again. Otak-otak is already suspect. Now Case, the consumer association, will test 15 types of popular food in the next few days. Many of them are close to the hearts of
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

  • 743 3  -  THENEWSTODAY Legendary home of the ancestral kings of Singapore, Canning Hill will be turned, at a cost of $25 million, into an open-air museum designed to tempt you to walk into history. Underpasses will link the park on the hill to Stamford Road and Dhoby Ghaut
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 101 4 SINGAPORE it the most exhausting holiday on earth. The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) wants every Asian tourist to know it and feel gooa about it So the board's new advertising campaign for newspapers and magazines displays the attractions of Singapore with "teasing humour". Yesterday,
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    • 63 4 "THERE have been workout programmes, which purported to make the tummy grow lesser, as the heart grew Fonda; plus yoga, aerobics, and, heaven forbid, jogging. "But now, at last, a diet which combines the very best of all possible worlds. "A combination of food and exercise
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    • 81 4 JOIN the Singapore Olympics. There are events such as Weightlifting (Shoppers Division), jogging to see everything and Weightlifting (Self) in which your weight keeps going up due to Singapore's great food. There's also Weightlifting (Little Finger Division): "The competitor checks into one of Singapore's luxury hotels, and
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    • Article, Illustration
      63 4 THE rugged shoe pictured is supposed to be the kind of footwear that can last through an exhausting holiday in Singapore. Notice the spikes. The ad explains: "...in Singapore they also have to cope not only with days of frenzied activity, but with the activity which has
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      72 4 FOURTEEN good excuses to visit Singapore are given in this ad. We are told that Singapore is a city for everyone, with a calendar of events to suit the artist, sportsman, spectator and adventurer. Then, beside the last number, we learn there is: "No excuse. "That's right.
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    • 97 4 A MAN was charged in court yesterday for stealing a winning 4-Digit lottery ticket. But the man, Chen Guocheng, 24, asked for the charged to be amended, and the hearing was postponed to Nov 11. He was released on $5,000 bail According
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    • 66 4 A COURT will hear on Nov 30 charges against a man said to have used dud cheques to cheat Mr Li Ronghua of $30,000 worth of live pigs. Wang Yawu, 41, faces five charges, for using the cheques on five occasions between June and July last
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    • 46 4 A NEWLY completed stretch of the Mass Rapid Transit system goes into operation today. This latest extension of MRT service adds three stations: Jurong East, Chinese Garden and Lakeside. A festive ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the occasion was held at Jurong East.
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    • 233 4 THE law is still dealing with the case of an attack on a 20-year-old who was beaten up after he ticked off some youths for sniffing glue at his sister's birthday party. In court on Thursday, five men and a juvenile, who
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    • 108 4 SHE took morphine while she was on probation. As a result, on Thursday, 20-year-old Normala binti Ismail lost her High Court appeal against a five-year rap for robbery-with-hurt. She was on probation in September after pleading guilty to the charge. Urine tests were part of
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    • 232 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. accumulation: An accumulation of things is a large amount of things gathered over a period of time. conjugal: Conjugal is that which concerns marriage and the relationship between a
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 364 6  -  By Trudy Lim WRECKING balls may take the last bite at Rasa Singapura next year. A Singapore Tourist Promotion Board official said yesterday the hawker centre at Tanglin Road, a popular target for tourists who want to try local tastes, may be demolished. The neighbouring
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    • 131 6 A MAN killed on the job on Monday wanted to take that day off, a source said yesterday. Telecoms supervisor Lim Geok Chan, 54, died on Monday morning after being hit by a forklift truck, police said. He had been checking the air pressure
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    • 589 6  -  By Ng Wan Ching THE day of Singapore's biggest drug haul started out as just another day at Clifford Pier. At 8 am on Thursday, four Customs officers in plain clothes began mingling with the crowds like they do every day.
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    • 360 7 L r ACK of land or money does not stop some Singaporeans from having their gardens. They resort to a garden of potted plants f inside their flats or along the corridors. These plots of greenery are called "gardens in the sky V The men and
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    • 50 7 TOMORROW is Tree Planting Day the 18th since its launch by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in 1971. This annual event is meant to rekindle the public's awareness of the value of trees and the need to care for them, according to the Parks and Recreation Department
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    • 717 8  -  Japan has proposed a Conjugal Day for men to take their wives out. Some Singaporeans, when told about this, laughed outright Yet others saw merit in the proposal. Call us on Hotline Plus and tell us your views. By Irene Hoe O H
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    • 122 8 SINGAPORE could become an international trading centre for products from the Malay/Muslim world. This is the aim of Haji Jalil Haron, president of the Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce. Haji Jalil said yesterday that a number of steps had already been taken. For instance,
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    • 69 8 THE body of a young woman was found floating near Clifford Pier early yesterday. The woman was about 1.5 m tall, slim, around 20 and fair complexioned with short hair. She was wearing a blue floral T-shirt and a checked red-and-grey skirt. Police do not suspect foul
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    • 159 8 A CORONER'S court gave an open verdict yesterday on the death of a boy who for months had mysterious complaints of violence and robbery. Jai Shakeran s/o Balakrishnan, 15, was found dead at the foot of a block of flats on June 4. His injuries
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    • 72 8 THIEVES took $18,000 worth of air winches from a store in Jalan Besar on Thursday. Police said Mr Ho Et Wan, 40, director of Atter Marine Engineering, went to the company's store in King George's Avenue at about 10 am to make a routine check.
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    • 320 8 UNION leaders yesterday welcomed the news that civil servants could get a year-end bonus of two months. "It is clearly a reflection of our feelings and sentiments," said Mr Tong Kok Yeo, general secretary of the Union of Telecoms Employees of Singapore. "I
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    • 387 9  -  By Ronald Wong JUST being neighbourly was all a 63-year-old grandmother thought about when a stranger asked for help. She trusted him, especially when he left an identity card as security. Too late, she found out he was a con man and she lost
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    • 298 9 THE very thought of retirement turns older people off. That may explain why only 20 retirees made it to the World Trade Centre for a two-day retirement seminar which ended yesterday. They were outnumbered four to one by the 80 younger people who turned up as
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    • 140 9 AROUND the world at the touch of a button literally. Singapore Airlines flight crew can now find out when they have to report for duty and other flight details just by picking up the phone and punching a few buttons. The latest issue of Outlook,
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    • 63 9 FOREIGN Minister Wong Kan Seng will spend Monday in Kuala Lumpur. It will be his first official visit to Malaysia as Foreign Minister. He will call on Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghafar Baba and have lunch with Malaysian Foreign Minister Abu Bakar Hassan Omar.
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    • 388 9 Let your child spend a productive holiday at CAL. 1 1 Module 1 Computer Awirmii Expose the child to computers. Allow the child to gain an insight into the workings of a computer. J Familiarise students on the capabilities and limitations I 4* of computer technology. Module 2 Programming Concept
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  • STOCKS
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      268 10 Wire services. SHARES moved very little in indecisive trading on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. The Financial Times 30-share index was down 8.9 points at 1,485.6. Investors' interest was again centered on takeover bids. Shares in the British conglomerate Lonrho leapt 16.5 points to 411, boosted by hopes of
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    • 71 10 Reuter. SHARE prices in Tokyo were lower in opening trade on small-lot selling. A waiting mood dominated the market after the better-than-expec-ted US employment data for October, brokers said. The Nikkei index fell 99.21 points, or 0.36 per cent, to 27,864.04 after 16 minutes of trade. It lost 32.01
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    • 48 10 FT Industrials Fri 1,485.60 (1,489.50) a Dow Jonas Average Fri 2,145.80. (2,170.34) ST Industrial Fri 1,028.48 (1,030.17) NST Industrial Fri 1,734.02 (1,726.50) Maugham Hang Sang 2,584.51 (2,584.49) Australian All Ordlnarias 1,569.40 (1,572.00) Nlkkai Stack Average 27,953.25 (Closed) Figures in brackets refer to thoM of the previous trading day
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    • Article, Illustration
      269 10 THE stock market declined yesterday in fairly quiet trading, pressured by new unemployment data that showed surprising strength in the American economy. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 24.54 points to close at 2,145.80. Volume totaled 148.58 million sharss, down from 152.98 million in Thursday's session.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 332 11 Wire services. INDIAN Navy ships have surrounded a boat full of foreign mercenaries who fled after trying to overthrow the Maldives government. The mercenaries are holding about 20 hostages, including a Cabinet minister and his family on board the boat. The Indians were trying to negotiate
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    • 317 11 THE former president of the Maldives strongly denies that he played any role in a bloody attempt by mercenaries to take over the small island nation. "I categorically deny, and reject any suggestion, that I was at any time or in any way involved in the reported
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    • 70 11 TV violence: It happened on the "Geraldo" television show in Loe Angeles. Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress for Racial Equality In the US, tries to choke off the racist taunts of white supremacist John Metsger. Metzger had called Innis an "Uncle Tom'*, a
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    • 169 11 Wire services. THE US will have a "spy in the sky" that will be able to look over 80 per cent of the Soviet Union, by the end of this month. Sources said it could help American intelligence keep an eye on the Soviets
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    • 184 11 Wire services. A FORMER church secretary in the US has admitted helping a priest murder her husband a triangle that's the basis of a TV miniseries. Lorna Anderson Eldridge, 35, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Thursday. She told the Junction City, Kansas, court that
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    • 344 12 Wire services. PEACE that would end the Afghan war took a step backwards yesterday when Moscow suspended its troop withdrawal from Kabul. The Soviet announcement capped weeks of increasing tensions marked by fierce fighting along the PakistanAfghan border. An official said Mujahideen rebel attacks against the
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    • 76 12 Don t mess with Dukakis: That's the point US Vice-President George Bush seems to be making as he holds up the front page of an old newspaper. The Republican presidential candidate was ridiculing Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis' claim that he is a good money manager. Far from
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    • 249 12 Wire services. SWISS authorities in Zurich have found a $2 billion "Lebanon connection" in which heroin money was made to appear legal. A newspaper report yesterday said couriers regularly flew to Switzerland from Beirut via the Bulgarian capital of Sofia a well-known drug and money smuggling
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    • 170 12 Wire services. BOMB and gun attacks by Sikh extremists left 41 people dead and 49 wounded in two towns in Punjab, India. Reaction to the attacks set off riots in one town, leading officials to impose a curfew. The latest wave
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    • 105 12 Wire services. A 10-YEAR-OLD boy shot a school bus driver in the head at Port Arthur, Texas, when she drove off without him, police report Ms Russell Jean Hampton, 40, was shot in the back of the head with a small
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    • 203 12 Wire services. PRINCE Charles and a group of fellow skiers were cleared of blame yesterday by a coroner over the death of a friend under tonnes of snow and ice. Major Hugh Lindsay, one of Prince Charles' closest friends, died on March 10
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    • 424 13 Wire services. A VOTE on whether Algeria should undertake political reforms piled up a "yes" margin of 92 per cent in the final count yesterday. President Chadli Bendjedid's government celebrated victory. Opposition claims of vote fraud were ignored. "Yes to democratic changes," said the headline of
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    • 266 13 Wire services JAPAN'S biggest political scandal since Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita took office a year ago claimed its first major casualty yesterday and threatened to widen. An opposition member of parliament resigned to take "ethical and political responsibility" for his role in the affair. In
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    • 165 13 UPI. TALKS between the Cambodian leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and Prime Minister Hun Sen in Paris got hung up at the very start yesterday. A wrangle over where to hold the meetings have put off things until Monday. "There was some misunderstanding among us," said
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    • 219 13 Wire services. BACKSTAGE bargaining is intense as the right-wing Likud party struggles to form a new government for Israel. A final vote count released yesterday gave Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud 40 seats and the Labour Party 39. Traditionally, the leader of the largest party
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  • Showtime
    • 416 14 c 1 k ALLERS kept The New Paper Hotline Plus burning for rthe last three days after we asked for a vote for your favourite TV stars. Of the 227 callers, 107 voted Li Nanxing as television's leading man whilst 70 declared Zeng Huifen to
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    • 20 14 Cfetn Xiuhnait: 38 vote*. Zhu Noartn: 32 votes. ClWfl Uping 38 votes. Cktn Zhlcai: 19 vote*.
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    • 441 15  -  Stories^ Danny Tan B RITISH actor Jeremy Irons did it in Dead Ringers. Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin dupliI cated themselves in Big Business. And Eddie Murphy delivered four times the laughs in four different roles in Coming to America. At one point, three of
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    • 181 15 3 x 1 Eddie Laughs galore THREE Eddie Murphies? All in one scene? Yes, you can see this in Coming to America, his latest film. It is now showing at the Lido cinema. You may not recognise him, though. He appears as three characters in one scene. As Saul, Murphy
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    • Article, Illustration
      220 15 BEETLEJUICE (Capitol/Prince 1) A MOVIE that's as nutty as a fruit cake. The Maitlands have a car accident and drown. Back home as ghosts, they get the ghost-to-end-all-ghosts, Betelguese, to chase out the new occupants. Time: Midnight. STREET JUSTICE (Capitol) MICHAEL Ontkean plays a US secret agent who is
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    • 315 16  -  SATURDAY SOUNDS By Lim Sek OH THAT-rainy weather is here again. Makes you want to just laze around and take it easy. And that, believe me, is one of the greatest pleasures of life. To double the enjoyment, a little music is necessary. I'm not
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    • 131 16 CLAIRE Hamill's music on Love in the Afternoon (Coda) invites you to cast your cares away and just enjoy the feeling of love. The title track is Hamill's claim to fame and is also the best example of her musical attitude. Her songs combine the best
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 118 16 Out Now! -I I'- %\fl\ "London, J Here I Come!" Meet the new \i Miss SingaporcWorld T*l TeoSerLee j f,|V jjf The Singapore H| J; F Woman, SBC Style Are we a nation of Ivixens and victims? is WORK jFjjhM A Four-Letter word? Jr^f^ Facing up to the wrong career
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1193 17 RAEHOGUDE IQWMm EEUMi EHEEBI CMDMHD EHBB (Programme# in Mandarin) MOOM News la Brief NOON Easy Ustealag: Soothing NOON Oa Track Rom Tucker plays NOON Newsdath Oy 12.05 Raal Faa: Roger Kool treats aounds for an afternoon's lis- the hottest new numbers and 12JO Here's Naaiabl: Presenting all (I «\J[ /KOV
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  • UPDATE
    • 1982 18 ►Gallery I —OLD MAPS. About 100 ifrj maps of aN parts of the 1 worid done by Abraham OrtaNue, a Dutchman. Thay are of 18th oantury vintage On show is Na famous India Orientate, dona In 1581. AM tor sale. Antiques of the Orient,
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    • Article, Illustration
      178 18 TODAY (T/T GALLERY: See ancient maps by Dutchman Abraham Orteiius. About 100 maps of all parts of the world are of 16th century vintage. Also, on display is his famous India Orientalis done In 1581. Antiques of the Orient, Tanglln Shopping Centre. |7/f CENTRESTAGE: Theatre group Warisan Anak-Anak
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    • 124 18 MUSIC is e universal language that even the intellectually handicapped can understand and appredate. 275 students from the Movement of the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore, or MINDS,are out to show yon what they can do m their own concert "Expressions." The students between six and 18
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    • Article, Illustration
      146 18 AOELE Auriol and Bernard Fauchet are a violin and piano duo from Pranee. This husband- wife pair have teamed up to present an evening of chamber music. Tne pair are accomplished musicians. He is a Kifeesor at the Claude bussy Conservatory of Music and she graduated from the
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1547 19 SCREEN M )m Henson's ss tourism '88 Coffeeshop JHI GEMS W The Storyteller (SBC 5,10.30 pm) (SBC 5,9.30 pm) >j|g c ansorrow TEN finalists vie for the honour to THIS drama centres round the oopavuvw be Singapore's next Miss Tourism. Hongs and Zhengs, two working KHr (SBC 5, 5.05 pm)
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1220 20 Television s SCREEN Movie Parade Cosmorama Poor Little Rich Girl: J/Cm GEMS Gremlins (r) The Barbara Hutton Story %ML (SBC &05 P ITS 1914 and Ulrich signs up as a SQRC <• If) M) nmi J THE chaos all began when Billy lieutenant in the German army. His (Zach Gallihan)
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  • UPDATE
    • 1966 23 ►Gallery I OLD MAP& About 100 f] maps of al parta of the world dona by Abraham Ortekus, a Dutchman. They are of 16th century vintage. On show Is his famous India OrtentaMs. dona m 1581. Alter sale. Antiques of the Orient, Level Four,
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    • Article, Illustration
      180 23 TODAY [7/T GALLERY: See ancient maps by Dutchman Abraham Orteiius. About 100 maps of all parts of the world are of 16th century vintage. Also, on display is his famous India Orientalis done in 1581. Antiques of the Orient, Tangttn Shopping Centre. (T/T CENTRESTAGE: Theatre group Warisan Anak-Anak
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    • 120 23 MUSIC Is a universal language that even the intellectually handicapped can understand and appreciate. S76 students from the Movement of Ac Intellectually Disahledof Singapore, or out to show yon what they can do in their own concert "Expressions." The students between six and 18 years old
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    • Article, Illustration
      146 23 ADELE Auriol and Bernard Fauehet are a violin and piano dno from France. This husband- wife pair have learned np to present an evening of chamber music. The pair are aeeomplished musicians. He is a Kifessor at the Clande bussy Conservatory of Music and she graduated from the
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1514 24 RADIOGUIDE V. /ftN (Programmes in English) jyvj M M •Ml BrMhfnt Clak: Rediffusion's t Nswksar vW\JWJ ACW* Mi MM V M MM la Brief Sunday Bomfai wtki-up show 7 M WmM Maws MsVy \2yMVS Oi Aln Wake up to the songs of in NlgMlgkta tf tke day* prt- with good
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 530 25  -  By Adeline Woon w HEN dramatist Kuo Pao Kun and dancer Goh Lay Kuan got married more than two decades ago, The Practice Performing Arts School was their wedding present to each other. They first met in Australia where he was studying broadcasting and drama
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    • 200 25  -  By Adeline Woon ONE is a musical performed by children for children. The other sounds like child's play but is nothing like that. Practice Theatre Ensemble's The Robbers From Nutmeg Town is a Broadway-style musical adapted from a children's story. It
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
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    • 108 28 COMICRELIEF Hagar the HorribleciK Browne YTtXJtL U*E TUePIACS-l WHAT& YCPBAAA OF A (S& IT£ Ol*2 KIMP OF THE OOU2OON J V V AllgUStß/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill ~~7f\ fiu zeAiir mam v is^ George the Robot/Stephen Stanley /W- ..WWCFS JOSTT CArJT HeiP^ *icu9e.tK vJexru&p. /t. 2*£\ orJ£.. Dllffy/Bruce Hammon AdaiTl/Brian Basset
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 628 29  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang w 'HO will be Miss Singapore Tourism '88? Tonight, our latest tourism ambassador will be elected in an evening of glitter and glamour from among 10 finalists. About two hours after Miss Singapore Tourism '88 is crowned at the Neptune Theatre, home-viewers will
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    • 422 29  -  By Adeline Woon IT all started with an innocent phone call. Come down and be a judge at our in-house beauty contest, they said. Bewildered, I said yes. Mistake number one. The colleagues hooted. Ha ha, you a judge, they went. You've been
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  • Page 30 Advertisements
    • 205 30 All these people have Wonderful Home Ideas they're happy to share with you in HOME DECOR Oct Nov '88. JBJHOME &l I.| Jeanny RobertChia: I ■Mfcl former Paris model, -■-X-./Lh He pursued his Masters in pi I |1| 11-l HER World covergirl \HB Human Resource H 111 I I II
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 388 31 C HONG LI Primary School earned the highest number of badges at a Young Scientist Badge presentation at the Science Centre today. The students bagged 145 badges of the 2,562 awarded in the North Zone at the Singapore Science Centre. Three Primary Five
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    • 472 31  -  AMATTEROFOPINION By Harinder Gill The excitement of Singapore Swing has yet to fade away. On Nov 19, a series of weekly street discos will start at Marina Square. Rlza Kamsan, 17, Dunearn Secondary School "It's a great idea to have the disco weekly. It
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    • 533 34 I I 1 NSPIRED never looked like catching our selection Mr Shoosh last Sunday but he made himself the talking point of the day with his response to a couple of strokes with the whip from jockey John. The six-year old bay finished so full of running that
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    • 183 35 Reuter. THE Chilean Football Federation (CFF) yesterday revived its hopes of participating in the 1990 World Cup finals in Italy. It paid the $87,400 fine imposed by the International Football Federation. CFF president Miguel Nasur said his federation had sent a telex to Fifa and expected the
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    • 121 35 Reuter. ROMA'S renewed bid to have its Uefa Cup defeat by Partizan Belgrade reversed because of a missile-throwing incident at the tie on Oct. 26 was rejected yesterday. Uefa's five-man appeals board said it had turned down the Italian First Division soccer club's appeal against last Sunday's
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    • 238 35 UPI. JOHN Fashanu, the Wimbledon striker accused of assaulting Manchester United's Viv Anderson in an aftermatch incident, will keep his captaincy in today's home clash with Norwich. Wimbledon called a press conference yesterday to explain its side of soccer's latest stormy episode in which Anderson had to
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    • 401 35 AP. AT White Hart Lane, the chant used to be "Glory, glory, hallelujah, the Spurs go marching on." With one of the most famous names in the game and a flashy, attacking style, Tottenham Hotspur was heading back toward the top of English soccer. Now, two years,
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    • 383 36 UPI. WORLD heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson broke his silence yesterday about his personal life and said he is looking for a woman who would "fulfill" him in "every way." "I'm in love with love. I like beautiful women, but now I am looking for someone
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    • 159 36 UPI. A TOP World Health Organisation researcher has said that the risk of the deadly disease Aids remains small, even in rugged contact sports. "There is a small, theoretical possibility of Aids transmission in sport," said Dr. Jonathan Mann, director of WHO's Special Project on
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    • 193 36 Reuter. ORGANISERS of the major tennis tournaments said in London yesterday they had devised a peace plan which they hoped would appease angry players who have decided to run their own circuit. "We remain optimistic but this must be the final move," said English Lawn Tennis
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    • 667 36 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON Wimbledon Open in London Men's singles semi-finals: Anders Nielsen (Brit) bt Michael Kjeldsen (Den) 15-8, 15-12; Steve Baddeley (Brit) bt Vimal Kumar (Ind) 17-16, 15-7. Women's singles q-finals: J Munday (Brit) bt A Fisher (Brit) 11-2, 11-6; S Louis (Brit) bt
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    • 365 37 Despite Icuk Sugiarto's absence, coach Tang Xianhu feels there is lots of hope for Indonesia in the Asian Badminton Championships. BERNARD PEREIRA reports from Bandar Lampung ARDY Wiranata, Alan Budi Kusuma, Br am Karnadus, Joko Suprianto, Hermawan or even Bambang. With them around, the Indonesian flag
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    • 474 37 WORKING by remote control. That's what it is like in the Asian Badminton Championships in Bandar Lampung the capital city of southern Sumatra in Indonesia. Up till now, hardly anyone in the press corps seems to know whether there is going to be a re-draw in
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    • 164 37 AFP. MALAYSIA has recruited two former top-ranked shuttlers from China on a one-year contract to coach their youngsters, a senior official said yesterday. Elyas Omar, the president of the Badminton Association of Malaysia said the husband-and-wife team of Chen Changjie and Zhang Ailing arrived
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    • 444 38 On the eve of KL's final against Kedah comes the call from Singapore: Make this Fandi's and Malek's last game for KL, reports S. GULAM- IF MAJ Abbas Abu Amin has his way, Fandi Ahmad and Malek Awab will play their last game for Kuala Lumpur
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    • 310 38  -  By S. Gulam SINGAPORE has been judged the fairest team in the Malaysia Cup soccer competition. With the Fairplay Award comes prize-money of $7,600. Though Singapore tied with Kuala Lumpur, the Republic won the vote as it received only two yellow cards throughout the competition. KL
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    • 185 38  -  By Abdul Shukor NEE SOON is favourite to win the In-ter-Constituency football final against Ayer Rajah CSC at Bedok Stadium tonight (6.30). Nee Soon is also going for the "treble". Its women's team has already won the Sevens title and its seven-a-side men's team is
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  • 659 39 On the eve of the Malaysia Cup final, when the phone doesn't stop ringing, and his office door can't stop opening, Datuk Ahmad Basri Akil is as cool as ever. Anyone who has been in the eye of last Friday's storm in Kuching can certainly
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  • 516 40  -  MALAYSIA CUP FINAL: KUALA LUMPUR v KEDAH (Merdeka Stadium, 8.30pm tomorrow). Jeffrey Low S TAND by, soccer fans, for one of the best finals in the history of the Malaysia Cup or one of the worst. Events leading to the Cup final tomorrow offer greater prospect of
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