The New Paper, 22 November 1988

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1 32 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1988 MCI (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 107 1 JITA IS IT The score is Jita 30, Poh Leong12.22 That's the wav readers vote in The H r New Paper's Question of the Who would you pick as coach? Callers give Seak Poh Leoag-' high marks for knowledge of the game and player development. But most say Jita Singh
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 378 2 EDB's four moves to help tackle labour shortage THE Economic Development Board this morning announced four initiatives to help companies which are short of labour. They can automate with free advice and cash grants from the EDB. Singapore businesses must use more- machines to keep the
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    • 57 2 In solitary grief: An unidentified visitor bows his head by the grave of President John F Kennedy at the Arlington National Cemetery in Washington yesterday. Twenty-five years ago this day, on Nov 22. 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, in
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    • 38 2 THE last word from the freighter Lucky Star said it was in stormy seas off the coast of Vietnam. Since that Nov 7 radio message silence. The ship, out of Singapore, left here on Nov 2.
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    • 97 2 Wire services. A BLIND schoolboy from a remote village in Zimbabwe sent a $2 note pinned to the outside of an envelope for a braille watch to an association for the blind in South Africa. Incredibly, the note survived the 2,400 km
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    • 87 2 FOREIGN Minister Wong Kan Seng left this morning for a two-day visit to Brunei Darussalam as part of his Asean tour. He will call on the head of state, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, his counterpart, Prince Mohamed Bolkiah and the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports,
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    • 190 2 SIX taxi organisations shaping up an application for higher fares hope to be collecting them by Christmas. The C.hinese language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao quoted sources as saying the joint application could be submitted to the Public Transport Council today. The Council is to
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    • 419 3  -  By Lo Tien Yin SBC never had a better mob scene. Even a year-end sale at Orchard Road could not beat the crowds at the station yesterday. About a thousand children, plus parents, came in answer to an SBC advertisement for children, eight to
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 337 4 MARCHING and music. That's what band students are having for five days at a camp in Lim Chu Kang. They reported for camp yesterday. "At first the purpose was to teach them to march, but now we've worked in music training as well," said Specialist Inspector, ECA
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    • 129 4 THE days of ships sending out distress signals over a radio are fading. And Telecoms is playing its part in a major satellite system that's being used by modern ships. Telecoms has won a fiveyear contract worth $1 million to provide a land
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    • 178 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. appliqued: This means putting decoration on the surface of a larger piece of material. conservation: Conservation refers to the controlled use and protection of a limited supply of natural
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    • 432 5  -  By Irene Hoe FORMER United States Secretary of Defence Caspar Weinberger will be the keynote speaker for the 38th Pacific Asia Travel Association conference here next April 17. The conference which he will address is one of the most important tourism meetings for
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    • 129 5 A MAN accused of cheating a woman while pretending to be a doctor was granted a discharge when his case was called in a Singapore court yesterday. The discharge does not amount to an acquittal. He has not been cleared of the charges against
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    • 150 5 LAWYER Francis Seow's trial on tax evasion charges must go ahead on Dec 5, a district judge has ruled. Seow applied yesterday to have his trial put back by nine days to Dec 14. His counsel, Mr V K Dube, said Seow needed
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    • 93 5 AN American tourist smashed a lighted "systems map" at Yio Chu Kang MRT station at about 12.30 am on Oct 24. Yesterday, in court, Robert Mellinger, 40, pleaded guilty to a charge of mischief. He was fined $1,000, the sum the MRT map was
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    • 329 6 QUESTION: What do cranes, pelicans, ostriches, eagles, barn owls and peacocks have in common that is, apart from the obvious? Answer: These birds are all found in the Bible. And, from next month, they'll all be found in the Jurong Bird Park! They'll
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    • 275 6 HOUSEWIFE Marina Thong, 36, was speechless for a few moments yesterday. She'd just found out that she'd won The New Paper Moneywords contest for the second time in less than a month! "I really didn't expect to win again. In fact, I still can't believe it,"
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    • 290 6 BIG financial institutions in Hongkong will move their head offices to Singapore as 1997 draws closer. That's the year the British colony goes back to China. But Singapore will take it slowly, says Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. He said
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    • 59 6 A PAKISTANI, charged two weeks ago with stealing $150 from a shop in Ming Court Hotel, was let off yesterday. The charge was withdrawn by the prosecution. Salim Raza, 31, was arrested at about the time an Arab-looking man with quick fingers was going
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    • 214 6 BRITAIN'S Privy Council says two Singapore opposition leaders "suffered a grievous injustice" in the courts. In a judgment issued in London, the council did more than uphold Mr JB Jeyaretnam's appeal against disbarment as a lawyer. It said Mr Jeyaretnam and the man accused
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    • 458 7  -  By Chitra Rajaram TAKE the cash, forget about security. That's the motto of some restaurant workers in Singapore. How do they do it? By working part-time. That way they get paid more, often for working fewer hours. They do it even though they can be asked to
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    • 219 7  -  Stories/ Irene Ng A SPOKESMAN for the PAP kindergarten where a child was reported to have been asked to repeat a year said yesterday that it was all a misunderstanding. Mr Lee Gek Seng, secretary of the PAP Community Foundation, said: "We don't make the child
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    • 200 7 FORMAL tests are taboo in the Dover Court Preparatory School, a private school for children of kindergarten age. It is not open to Singaporeans. Its principal, Mr James Watkins, was commenting on the reported retention of a child for a year in a PAP kindergarten class.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 336 8 Wire services. "IT went up. It came down. But it had absolutely no scientific value." With those blunt words, the former chief of the Soviet Union's space research unit blasted as a waste of time and money his own country's latest space venture. Mr Roald Z
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    • 93 8 Wire services. JAPAN and the United States will jointly develop a new jet-fighter support plane for Japan's growing air selfdefence force. Defence agency sources in Tokyo say the two nations will sign a partial agreement on Nov 25. This will give Japan the
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    • 261 8 Wire services. IRAQI President Saddam Hussein has ordered his eldest son, Odai, tried for murder. A message read over Baghdad radio yesterday said: "I ask for his trial according to the laws, and let God be with those whom you will choose to hold
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    • 160 8 Wire services. SOUTH Africa bans magazines featuring bare-breasted women but permits topless women on the beaches of Cape Town. Police in Cape Town say it is an obvious violation of indecency laws and want to do something about it. But local politicians are preventing them from
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    • 49 8 Whitewash: Snow flakes greeted the Swiss when they awoke in Zurich today. The early snowfall, which left this motorcycle looking like a sculpture, dumped 15 cm of fluffy snow on the central Swiss city. It normally does not snow m the area before mid-December. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 293 9 Wire services. SPANISH police have charged leaders of a USbased church with luring drug addicts to phoney treatment centres, then brainwashing and robbing them. The charges against 51 Church of Scientology officials include extortion, forgery and tax-dodging. Most were arrested yesterday in Madrid. The charges
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    • 225 9 Wire services. PAKISTANI President Ghulam Ishaq Khan has told his Cabinet that Ms Benazir Bhutto should get the first chance to form a new government. That word was leaked by sources at a meeting, held yesterday in the Pakistani capital. Four senior government sources said
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    • 166 9 Wire services. IN A bid to boost its trade and industry, Indonesia has announced further moves to relax its economy. Mr Radius Prawiro told reporters in Jakarta yesterday that the government will ease trade curbs and replace the previous ban on the import of some goods
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    • 270 9 Wire services. US PRESIDENT-ELECT George Bush's renewed commitment to "no new taxes" has sent the US dollar sliding again. He told reporters in Washington that while cutting the deficit was a top priority, he would not change his view on how to achieve
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    • 286 10 Wire services. A US federal judge today warned that a trial of ex-White House aide Oliver L North could reveal critical American national security secrets. Judge Gerhard A Gesell said in Washington that if North went to tri- al he would have "very little
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    • 268 10 Wire services. A STRIKE by hundreds of Manila's mini-bus drivers stranded commuters in the Philippine capital until troops hauled them home in army trucks. The uproar overshadowed celebrations marking Philippine President Corazon Aquino's I,oooth day in power. Schools closed early. Tens of thousands of people had their
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    • 46 10 Nostalgic: The Spanish dictator is long gone but his spirit remains alive among loyal supporters. Hare, followers of the late General Francisco Franco give the fascist salute during a demonstration in Madrid to mark the 13th anniveaary of his death. Picture/ Ap
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    • 214 10 Wire services. A CORONER'S report that shipping heiress Christina Onassis died of natural causes does not entirely convince a judge in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Judge Juan Carlos Cardinali said he could not rule out the possibility that drugs may have played a part in her death.
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    • 471 10  -  By William L Chaze A QUARTERcentury after John F Kennedy's death, history has still not decided whether the American president was a hero or something less. He died on this date Nov 22 in 1963, cut down by an assassin's bullets in Dallas,
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    • 62 11 Protest The fight to save his land never ends for this Brazilian Indian. Macsuara (left), of the Kadiuel tribe, leads members of the Brazilian Green Party in a protest march in Rio De Janeiro against the government's agricultural scheme. Some 250,000 sq km of the
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    • 329 11 Wire services. CANADIANS voting for a new House of Commons were expected to stick to conservative rule. More than 17 million voters were registered to cast ballots in polling that began early yesterday. The final returns are not expected until late today. The campaign has become
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    • 140 11 Wire services. A MEASURE before Australia's Parliament would permit charges to be filed against Australian pilots who attacked unarmed Japanese soldiers in lifeboats during World War 11. The bill, originally intended to allow prosecution of Nazi fugitives in Australia, passed the Senate last year
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    • 53 11 Wire services. IS US Vice-President-elect Dan Quayle an "intellectual midget"? No, says former President Richard M Nixon. Mr Nixon met Mr Quayle early today and offered this opinion: "I was very surprised. He is a very different man from the intellectual midget who has been portrayed among the
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      252 11 Wire services. SHARES fluctuated narrowly yesterday on the London Stock Exchange, before turning sharply lower in line with a very poor opening on Wall Street At close of trading, the Financial Times 30-share index was off 8.9 points at 1480.1. Just 359.4 million shares changed hands, compared with 567.3
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    • 92 11 Reuter. SHARE prices were mixed in initial trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, after a streak of seven wins set the stage for a possible market breather today, brokers said. A national holiday tomorrow and a holiday on Thursday in the U.S. could also keep the market quiet today,
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    • 51 11 FT Industrials Mon 1,480.10 (1,489.00) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,065.97 (2,062.41) ST Industrial Mon 992.77 (991.37) NST Industrial Mon 1,711.47 (1,719.37) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 2,581.87 (2,581.16) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,482.10 (1,492.70) Nikkei Stock Average Mon 24,284.26 (29,180.20) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading
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      267 11 Wire services. A LATE blue-chip buying surge helped Wall Street close a wide gap and finish mixed yesterday, but a fall in the dollar and worries about technology stocks kept sentiment subdued. The Dow Jones industrial average, which slid 4.62 points last week and was down about 20
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  • Showtime
    • 481 12  -  By Danny Tan I T HAD to happen. Sting, the beady-eyed and squeakyvoiced ex-bass player with The Police, has now gone fully classical. He is one of the principal players in his recording of Stravinsky's musical play, The Soldier's Tale (Record Pan-6233). It is his first release
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    • 43 12 CDfo^t m 1) Five Elements 8teve Coleman. 2) Fareed Haque Fareed Haque 3) Days and Nights of Blue Luck Inverted Kip Hanrahan. 4) Tango Zero Hour Astor Piazzolla 5) Conjure Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed. 6) Vertical's Currency Kip Hanrahan.
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    • 464 13  -  By Toh Hai Leong D IRECTOR Yu Kan Ping, reicent Golden Horse awardI winning actress Wang Lai and veteran actor Sun Yueh will add glamour to a Singapore encore of last month's Taiwanese film festival. This showcase of the work of Taiwan's "new wave" directors will
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    • 468 13 IF you have missed the screening two years ago of the worldacclaimed Taiwanese new wave film, A Time to Live and A Time to Die, here's another chance to see it early next year. M W Enterprises, the company behind the recent Taiwanese film festival,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1455 15 with this IN^Co° per s Gloucester, cheese is IN 1879, some 3,000 Zulu special. Catch familiar faces from men of thTv^llfllri^hirk 1 tribesmen under King Cetewsgro jfflß! Talentimes, including T F SsciiSting andent folk customs" f massacred a British mission. This Tan, Dick lie, Jacintha, Max Britain. And in Oxford,
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  • 565 16 to be delayed by three hours. Luckily, no-one (tied in that wild night of gatecrmhing. JEFFREY LOW eeee it as Soccer Fever bunting out aH over Malaysia but without enough stadium space to contain the fiery kampung support SOMEONE could have died, probably trampled to
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 374 20  -  By Lo Tien Yin IT was a series of happy goodbyes for singer Amy Lim. First it was SBC, then smokey and rowdy joints such as Strawberry Park and Utopia lounges. And now she is following the yellow brick road to the hotel watering
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    • 268 20  -  By Adeline Woon ENTERTAINMENT today seems to rely very much on yesterday's music. Another joint with a nostalgic theme has opened within the last fortnight. It's called Yesterday's Cafe Bar at the basement of Goldhill Square. The decor a recreation of a soda
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    • 277 20 START 1989 with a double bill performance by The Great Leningrad Theatre of Modern Ballet. Don't let the term "modern ballet" put you off. It's nothing experimental or expressionist. To the Russians, it's anything after Swan Lake. And that was in the 19th
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    • Article, Illustration
      182 21 WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (Orchard) A MUST-SEE movie where cartoons share top billing with human actors. Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 pm. BULL DURHAM (Lido) A MOVIE more about love and less about baseball. Each season Annie (Susan Sarandon) picks the most promising player of the
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    • 294 21 COMEDY actor Dudley Moore is set to become the latest in a long line of Dr Whos this time on the big screen. He has been lined up to star as the famous time traveller in a new $67 million film version of the TV
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 222 22  -  By Lim Swee Hong c AN a German man from Hamburg find true happiness in Marine Parade Central? Yes, if he has a loaf of vollkorn brot by his side. These 100 per cent wholegrain bread loaves are not easy to find, says Mr
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    • 297 22 Werner's Oven MariiM Parade Central, #01-03 A Parkway Builders' Centre (between McDonald's and Stamford City Steamboat) From 50 cents Opens from about 8 am te 9.30pm NEVER mind if you can't pronounce the names of the goodies available at Werner's. The owner and his wife
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    • 277 22  -  MICROWAVECOOK By K Karuna CHAO guo tiao (or fried kway teow) from a microwave? Yes, you can. In less than 10 minutes. The microwave serves noodles firm and fast. Just don't leave them in too long or they become too soft. Follow the time
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 375 23  -  By Brenton Wong F ROM criminal lawyer to handbag designer, Ms Cora Jacobs has made the jump with style. Long known for her natu-ral-fibre handbags, she has recently opened a boutique at Centrepoint. The bags designed by this 44-year-old mother of three come in all shapes,
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    • 337 23  -  ISHOPPMGBUG By Josephine Ng H||| fn> k|h> Um A NEW hair product that claims to stop hair loss will be available end of this month. Called Foltene, its Italian manufacturers say it can even make hair grow again. "It has been verified that Foltene
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1569 24 RAOOGUDE ffijjjjgf i 3— \y xx MOON Nmi in BrM (Pmgrwmm— in Mandarin) NOON Bm4 Maslc. Cmbiiv aad Mk NOON Nm4nk fl 12 #5 Some entertaining Ustaalac Light inatru- Tun 1,1 BOma gr t toul d8 12J9 Tba Lsaralag Wartd: John Turya\A muaical fare in this noon pro- mIStJI ni!T!!lni«
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 128 25 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne loo* at dee errnrte I i cam Moi4gsTiY|!| that& aeAiniFULTWf TH&& SO CALM AHP SAY I LOVE US* J HA6AZ! Ifi&Hl eeeetie AHP J GNMSD A BOAT! AllgUStd/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill /r/UW \6 MoUft A M2TUnAY?IUA/6NYHAP) 7Wt»#NIT)«2S? (A wenjßAr i<972 r WA* 196*'*y George the
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 232 26 COMICFELIEF Orchard Road/coim Goh Single Slices/Peter Kohisaat SANTA, IT'S rtlOftE [wtlL. fIWCWHfc.IVS f) ANb OF COURSE,SOMETIMES fl\'k\ D«fAflfoN6 OF THAN A MONTH commoN «U*CONC£?TION I Gti sPetiAi REG\)EST£ A white-HOUSE {,V 1 Hs9£fHSHß^^^ffi|H|H^H96gK§ TO THAT OWLI VtttiK bVftING Poft E/)Al1 CHRSTMASES... CHRISTMAS... HOVO rofVIE CHftKTMAS... SOMETIMES J BMIMWWBmMHMm IKJ SINGAPORE
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  • SPORTS
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      138 27 AP. HUNDREDS of fans of Spanish First Division soccer club Seville welcomed Soviet star Rinat Dasayev to his new team yesterday with cries of "Torero, Torero" praise normally reserved for triumphant bullfighters. "It's wonderful, wonderful," repeated the 32-year-old, rated one of the best goalkeepers in the world. A
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    • 384 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON International in Altrincham China 3 England 1: Yao Fen (C) bt Helen Troke (Brit) 11-6, 12 10; Wu Chibing and Zhang Hongyu (C) lost to Andy Goode and Gillian Cowers (Brit) 2-15, 10-15; He Guoquan (C) bt Nick Yates (Brit) 13-15,15-11,
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    • 163 27 RACING by DENNIS CHIA TOSHIN, an impressive all-the-way winner at Penang last month, was the only horse sent against the clock on a rain-soaked track at Ipoh this morning. With K C Ng astride, he strode out fluently on the sand track, returning 44.7 for 600 m. Toshin
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    • 77 27 GLOBE-TROTTING jockey Alan MacKay has been granted a local riding permit for the Perak Turf Club Gold Vase meeting this week. He is being sponsored by Ipoh trainer Johnny Kok, who has entered 18 runners for the meeting. Scottish-born Mackay, 29, has ridden more than 360 winners
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    • 401 28 HEATHT Fitness The full benefits of exercising can be felt only if it is a sustained effort. Most people, however, tend to give it up after a while. How does one stay in the exercise mode? SHAHIRON SAHARI has the answer SO you've decided to
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    • 182 28 EVERYBODY knows about the cardiovascular benefits of running, cycling, and other sports that require non-stop activity. In tennis, though, there's a good bit of standing round between spurts of activity. How does the sport measure up? According to a University of Arkansas study, it depends on
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    • 269 28 SIMPLY SNOOKER by PETER WATSON THERE are three stages in cueing correctly. The first is when you "address" the cueball, with the tip of the cue almost touching the white. A few backward and forward movements of the cue are normal to prepare to strike, but in this
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    • 353 29 Singapore tennis undergoes a Satellite Revolution next year, beginning with the Thai leg of the inaugural circuit in February. ALFONSO CHAN reports SINGAPORE'S Davis Cup tennis squad will be given a test of fire when it takes part in the new-ly-formed Satellite Circuit next year.
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    • 582 29 RUGBY -By SHAHIRON SAHARI RUGBY may not be a game suited for Asians and Singapore will never be a world power at it. But the same could be said about soccer, athletics, basketball in fact, any sport which places importance on strength and fitness. So
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    • 168 29 NATIONAL rugby coach Song Koon Poh has named a provisional 11-man squad for the Cathay Pacif-ic-Hongkongßank Invitation Sevens in Hongkong next March. They are: Forwards: Suhaimi Ahmad, Winston Ng, Yong Yuen Kai, Adrian Chong. Backs: Abbas Ismail, Henry Lee, Khairul Anuar Sidek, Ahmad Ibrahim,
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    • 239 30  -  Stories S. Gulam THE Football Association of Singapore has decided to adopt a carrot-and-stick policy in its efforts to stop rough play in next year's Premier League. "We want to encourage fair play on the field. We don't want rough play," said Maj Abbas Abu Amin, the FAS
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    • 205 30 IF you're young and able, Singapore wants you! The Football Association of Singapore, concerned about the floundering standards of the game at the age-group level, has set up a committee to improve the situation. Two factors spurred the ruling soccer body into action: The lack
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    • 233 30 BALESTIER United is involved in a tense battle with Geylang International for the services of Fandi Ahmad, Malek Awab and Subadron Aziz in next year's Premier League. Balestier, runner-up to Geylang last year, seemed to have pulled off a big coup last week
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    • 383 30  -  By Abdul Shukor WHEN Chris Bush steered his Mercury-pow-ered boat to victory in the Singapore Powerboat Grand Prix eight days ago, almost 20,000 people turned up to watch. Last weekend, more than 10,000 were there at the Kallang Riverside Park for the finals of the World
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    • 254 31  -  By S. Gulam COMPASSION for Seak Poh Leong from soccer's rulers comes with a challenge: Do well during next year's Malaysia Cup or else. His term as national coach until March 1991 by the Football Association of Singapore comes with a catch: He has to meet
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    • 380 31 QUESTIONOFTHEWEEK PAPER, you say, can't beat pizazz. So you want Jita Singh's practical experience, and pooh-pooh to Seak Poh Leong's paper qualifications. Poh Leong has a soccer teacher's Diploma from Cologne University. Jita Singh has years of experience. Jita can motivate. Poh Leong can
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  • UPDATE
    • 854 32 TUESDAY Out&About SENTOSA LOI KRATHONG. Classical Thai dance demonstration at 7 pm 7.30 pm. A procession that demonstrates how flowers are placed on water at 7.30 pm 8.30 pm. Beauty parade with 20 Thai girls who will also dance with you for a $2 flower fee.
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    • 12 32 FILMS: French drama TALKS: Story-telling COMING UP: Lunch-time variety show
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    • 142 32 The full moon is up. The rainy season has ended at least in Thailand. To the Thais it's time to celebrate and make offerings. Loi means "to float" and krathong, "leaf cup". The leaf cup with a candle on it, is floated in rivers as a
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