The New Paper, 21 December 1988

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  • 13 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1988 mci (p) 179/4/ M 50 cents
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    • 95 1 VICTIM OF DRUNK DRIVER Former cabbie Leo Cheng Kwang sits at home all day disabled by a drunk driver. "How can I ever drive a car safely?" Page 3 HORSE OWNERS SUSPECTED OF ILLEGAL BETTING Explain or you'll be banned, say Turf Club letters to some owners. Page 28 l
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    • 119 1 Iggt" 1 CHRISTMAS DAY 1 WEDDING BOOM And many are Muslim couples. m One man is invited to 13 weddings. "We can and be together the next day," says Fazidah whose fiance Abdul Samat cannot take leave. So they marry on Sunday. Monday a public holiday place Christmas Day. Page
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 399 2 WftNTED: In fast-food joints T HE intensifying battle for fast-food supremacy needs recruits thou- sands of new part-time workers. To man 29 new fast-food outlets to be opened, more than 2,000 workers will be needed over the next five years. Expansion plans already announced
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    • 319 2  -  I WANTED: In travel industry By< Geneieve Kwek T HE fast-growing travel industry is tapping school-leavers to fill its manpower shortage. About 60 young O- and A-level holders will be taken in under a new training scheme of the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore
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    • 126 2 SIXTY school-leavers start training next month to meet the shortage in the travel industry. The Travel Employment and Training (TET) Scheme, is a joint effort by the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas) and the Centre for Tourism Related Studies (CTRS). Required qualifications:
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    • 73 2 TWO lovers tied their wrists together and jumped into a river in Malacca in a suicide pact but she changed her mind. Ms Li Yulian, 40, could swim and was rescued by Mr Chen Binfa. Her screams woke him up. But Mr Luo Zedeng, 60, died.
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    • 433 3  -  Stories/ Chua Chin Chye m OTORISTS barred from driving for being drunk behind the wheel may have to pass a driving test to get their licences back. This would apply to all suspended motorists, if the Traffic Police have their way. They have proposed this
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    • 416 3 NOBODY blames Mr Leo Cheng Kwang for sitting at home all day not even his wife and nine-year-old son. He can no longer work. If he could, he might not have the will to go back to his last job. That's because Mr Leo,
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    • 323 3 This is a true story. The names, place and time of the accident have been omitted because the case has not yet been heard in court IT might have been the beer, ordinary-looking mugs of frothy beer. Both men drank it that
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    • 34 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over several areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.05 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.02 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 487 4  -  By Chitra Rajaram M I ANY couples are getting married on Christmas Day. What's interesting is that a lot of them are Muslims. Muslim catering houses and bridal make-up salons are fully booked on Christmas Day. "We have so many orders for December 25th!" said the
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    • 198 4 MR Mum Kasbi has been invited to 13 weddings on Christmas Day by Muslim friends and relatives. "I have never received so many invitations, and I don't think I can attend all of them," said Mr Kasbi. The sub-editor with the Malay-language newspaper Berita Harian
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    • 284 4 MR Ho Cham Hing will be one of the 21 people who will receive the Singapore Council of Social Service Award tomorrow from President Wee Kim Wee. This is the first time such an award is being given. The recipients must have contributed at
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    • 102 4 THE disabled will have a chance to do their Christmas shopping away from the crowds tomorrow. Just for the handicapped, Robinsons department store will open an hour earlier tomorrow. From 9.30 am to 10.30 am, volunteers from the store's staff will be present to
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 525 6 The wartime bunker at Pasir Panjang is a neglected relic. But the Committee on Heritage recommends that it be made a historical site. IRENE HOE reports BRING wartime bunkers back to life, says the Committee on Heritage. They make living history lessons. Sentosa can
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    • 217 6 THE total amount of fines lawyer Francis Seow must pay rose to $19,000 yesterday after he was convicted of two more charges of tax evasion. District Judge Sarjit Singh fined Seow $10,000 yesterday. The judge fined Seow $9,000 last Saturday for three other cases of
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    • 142 6 THIEVES broke into a sports shoe shop at the Lido theatre on Sunday and took $19,000 in cash from a drawer. Police said this morning that Ms Tan Hong Choo, 23, an assistant supervisor of The Athlete's Foot, discovered the theft
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 348 8 W I P HICH would you pick up from the supermarket shelf? Mushroom soup packed in a pouch which is water-tight and air-tight? Or canned soup? If you're Japanese, the pouch pack wins hands down. It is more attractive, lighter and easier to use, according
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    • 278 8 TO reward and encourage merit, St Joseph's Institution boosted the year-end bonus for some people on its staff to four months' pay. "This is one of the benefits of going independent and one way of attracting good teachers," said Mr Goh Sin
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    • 241 8 A FATHER burst into tears when the Juvenile Court ordered that his baby son be sent to live in a welfare home. Mohd Amiluddin bin Ahmad, 36, was before the magistrate because he threw the infant onto a mattress on the floor during a quarrel
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    • 98 8 A THAI worker whose lorry went over a kerb and overturned at Mandai Road was jailed for three weeks yesterday for drunken driving. Inspector Patricia Giaw, prosecuting, had pressed for a deterrent sentence against Amporn Manthee, 32, who was banned from driving for two years. Amporn was
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    • 73 8 SOME people get all firedup when a building is painted an unusual colour but the Urban Redevelopment Authority is keeping cool. The issue came up at a recent conservation seminar. One participant said URA should have some control over colours used in conservation areas.
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    • 418 9  -  By Ng Wan Ching IT was the day it rained money. A snatch thiefs bungled attempt to rob a salesgirl left cash scattered all over the road on Monday afternoon. The salesgirl was hurrying to the bank at 2.30 pm when a man rushed towards her.
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    • 143 9 A QUARREL over a sexual remark ended with a labourer slashing his two female companions with a chopper. Yeo Kwee Huat, 37, had invited the women to join him for a drink at the B B Gating House along Chai Chee Road on May 4
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    • 178 9 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. conspicuous: More noticeable and more likely to be looked at than the other people around. eligible: An eligible man is not married and is thought to be a suitable
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 181 10 Wire services. THE Sri Lankan election results have been watched almost as intently in New Delhi as Colombo. The reason: India has 47,000 peace-keep-ing troops on the island and wants to Iceep them there to hold the lid on violence along its south-east
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    • 522 10 Wire services. THE runner-up in Sri Lanka's presidential election has challenged results showing Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa as the winner. A spokesman for Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike said she had sent a letter of protest to the Elections Commissioner. The former Prime Minister's five-party Democratic Peoples'
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    • 48 10 Helping hand: A boy answers a driver's SOS call after a three-wheel taxi loses power on a flooded road in Jakarta. Heavy monsoon rains which swept the main Indonesian island of Java have claimed at least 49 lives and left tens of thousands homeless. Picture/Reuter
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    • 149 10 Bernama. A SINGAPORE company has been accused of helping smuggle goods into Indonesia. In Jakarta, Attorney-General Sukarton' Marmosudjono said up to 80 cases of smuggling involving employees of Societe Generale Surveillance (SGS) had been uncovered. He did not indicate whether formal charges Would be
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    • 47 11 Grieving: Filipino protesters burn replicas of the Dona Paz ferry, which sank a year ago with the loss of more than 3,000 lives. Relatives want the ferry operators to be tried for negligence. The ferry sank after colliding with a tanker. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 75 11 Wire services. CON artists are cashing in on the demand for infant boys in China by sewing false male genitals on girls and selling them to unsuspecting farmers. The Xinhua News Agency described one case in which a rural couple in northern Hebei province was
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    • 305 11 Wire services. A VISIT by the Soviet Foreign Minister to Japan has ended in disappointment on both sides. No progress was reported towards solving a decades-old dispute over ownership of a chain of islands. That, in turn, led Japan to veto closer economic ties. Mr Eduard Shevardnadze,
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    • 120 11 Wire services. NEW Zealand Prime Minister David Lange retained the ruling party leadership today against a challenge by sacked Finance Minister Roger Douglas. Mr Lange did not say how many votes he received when he announced the outcome at a news conference. But Mr
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    • 137 12 Wire services. PHILIPPINE Defence Secretary Fidel Ramos has shrugged off suggestions that his plane crash was the work of would-be assassins. Mr Ramos blames bad weather for the crash-landing and burning of an Air Force plane. It was carrying him
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    • 80 12 Wire services. CHINA is training special undercover graft-busters in its war on corruption. "People are getting more resentful of officials accepting bribes, taking graft, extorting money and spending without restraint," says Minister of Supervision Wei Jingxing. He said that once his special team hits the streets, China will
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    • 299 12 Wire services. HARDLINERS are reported to be plotting ways to oust Mr Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Sources in Damascus report that the extremists were meeting in seclusion in the Syrian capital today to decide on a plan of action. Mr Arafat
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    • 220 12 Wire services. THE British government came up with egg on its face in its effort to restore public trust in eggs. In the midst of high-level assurances that British eggs are safe came an official report that said 23 people have died this
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    • 292 13 Wire services. PREMIER Li Peng now says China is willing to gradually reduce military aid to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia as Vietnam withdraws troops. It was the clearest sign so far of a new flexibility by China on the issue of
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    • 142 13 Wire services. ANIMAL rights extremists today claimed responsibility for firebomb attacks on Harrods and other British department stores. A blaze early yesterday gutted Dingle's, the biggest store in the south-western city of Plymouth. Smaller fires were put out at Harrods and Selfridges in London
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    • 97 13 Wire services. ONE of the world's best-known conservationists, Glenn Tatham, has been charged in Zimbabwe with murdering a suspected rhino poacher. Two others were also charged. Prosecutors claim that Tatham, chief game warden of national parks, and the others lured suspected poacher Peter Chingodza into
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    • 59 13 Wire services. THE CRUSHED body of a teenager who tried to stow away on an airliner has been found near Spain's busiest airport, Palma. He hid inside the wheel well of an Air Europe Boeing-737 and was killed when the plane retracted its wheels after taking off from
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      277 12 Wire services. SHARES rose on the London Stock Exchange yesterday The Financial Times 30-share index was up 3.7 points to 1,438.3 at the close. Volume was a moderate 331.6 million shares. The market was boosted by the announcement that both money supply and bank lending were both showing slower
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    • 86 12 Reuter. SHARE prices opened mixed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, balanced between buying carried over from yesterday and selling due to rises in the dollar and oil prices overnight, brokers said. The Nikkei index firmed 19.30 points to 29,587.24 in the first 10 minutes of trade. Advances were
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Tue 1,438.30 (1,434.60) Dow Jones Average Tue 2,166.07 (2,172.68) ST Industrial Tue 1,014.75 (1,007.85) NST Industrial Tue 1,776.12 (1,765.61) Hongkong Hang Seng Tue 2,607.97 (2,611.84) Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,462.20 (1,451.40) Nikkei Stock Average Tue 29,567.94 (29,470.08) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      275 12 Wire services. WALL Street reversed itself sharply yesterday. The Dow Jones index of leading industrial indicators reached its highest level (2,183.58 points) since the October 1987 crash before profit-taking sent it crashing. It closed 6.61 points down at 2,166.07. Declining issues led advancing stocks by a ratio of
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  • Showtime
    • 519 14  -  By Vivien Chiong T I HIS year of the dragon is the year of wedding bells, even for Hongkong showbiz personalities. At least 12 of them took their marriage vows. Two of the most eligible stars gave up bachelorhood this year singer Kenny Bee and
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    • 164 14 NOW the Mrs Singapore contest, next it will be SBC's Talentime for Jennifer Leong. Vivacious Jennifer likes to sing and her dream is to be a singer just like Whitney Houston, her favourite. Weekends will see her and husband Barry liim, dancing away in
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1640 15 rp m, mm lelevision Mr tr ara This programme is a retrospective look fe <m| SIXTY million years ago, at the Year of the Dragon. The Seoul II dinosaurs roamed our planet. of Robert Maxwell the British Bush: From Bhutto: Making of y,Wk. media mogul. The third item, second fiddle
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  • commentary
    • 972 16 The Armenian Earthquake IS THE earthquake that ravaged Armenia on Dec 7 has left Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with two daunting jobs. The first: To mobilise the sluggish Soviet bureaucracy to cope with the mounting human and property loss. The second: To pay the bills while maintaining
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    • 290 16 When the world came to Russia's aid IT was the first time since World War II that the Soviet Union accepted aid from the outside world. Medical supplies, rescue equipment and trained search teams from France, West Germany, Britain, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Poland, among others, were flown
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 392 20 RADIO 10 may be a new station, but from Jan 1, old-timers Anita Hari Chandra, Jenny Teo, Suresh Menon, Philip Choo and Belinda Yeo will lead a team of new recruits to spin popular fare over the air. Said Anita Hari
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    • 136 20  -  By Adeline Woon I WAS forcibly plonked in front of a TV set last night. I wish I hadn't been. The new Hongkong period serial, Dong Xiaowan (6.45 pm, SBC 8), was as interesting as cold leftover chop suey. Set in the Manchu Imperial court, the
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    • Article, Illustration
      224 20 BEETLEJUICE (Prince 2) ADAM and Barbara Maitland (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) return home as ghosts and want back their house. They get the ghost-to-end-all-ghosts, Betelguese, to help drive out the new occupants. Wild, wacky and gory. Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.45 and 9.15 pm. SCROOGED (Lido and
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    • 602 21 T HE stars will come out on Jan 14 for the second Singapore International Film Festival. Not only will we see them on screen and rub shoulders with them at the gala dinner and dance, the Silverscreen Gala Ball, there will be a series of
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    • 259 21 Jan 14 Cathay: The Glass Menagerie (USA), Cathay Jan 15 Prince 1: Skin (Belgium), A Greek Tragedy (Belgium), Despite Everything (Turkey), The Lighthorsemen (Australia), The Laser Man (USA), Bird (USA) Jan 16 Prince 1: Dominick and Eugene (USA), Ngati (New Zealand) Jan 17 Prince 1:
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    • 379 22 VROOMING onto the small screen from next April will be our traffic cops who will act in a new serial, Patrol, together with SBC stars such as Chen Zhi Cai, Chen Guo Hua, Xiang Yun and Zoe Tay. It will be the latest SBC
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    • 424 22 UPI. IF you are tired of hearing about the adventures, misadventures and latest ostentatious purchases of Bill Cosby, Mike Tyson and Donald Trump, then Alan Caruba is your kind of guy. Last Sunday he issued his 1988 list of "The Most Boring Celebrities Of
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 94 21 -Jacks Place Steak House: Enjoy great steak in the heart of Orchard Road and adjourn to The Cellar for great music by one of Singapore's top singing trio-Tony, Terry and Hans. 3 Great Choice at 3 Great Prices 5 COURSE SET DINNER Appetiser Prawn Cocktail Soup Of The Day Choice
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  • 733 23 HORIZONS AGGIE will give advice every Wednesday in this paper. Questions Aggie cant answer will be put to other experts such at doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists. You can write to: Dear Aggie, The New Paper, 800 Kim Seng Roadj Singapore 0923. You must give your
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 159 24 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/oik Browne I FINALLY FOtiMP c&sags* (i^j AllgUStfl/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill (wsoiWNeir/wy J P Ra/6^^ > 'v George the Robot/stephen Stanley u ys i c&«vrr cp*r \*jmy 1 TR»»O I*T— A*JO I fJcNv/ VJifH S<*A£ J You WOWkrJfi *M To J V fooO »f/ /AV So ML
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
    • 1487 26 RADIOGUIDE NOON Newt in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON 6eod Musk. Company and NOON Newtdetk 12.05 Lunchdata: Enjoy the mu»ic "f 1 Noon-time musical enter- 12.30 Batlaett Matter*: A weekly K/N/Nrf spun for you by programme NOON Easy Listening: Light and easy tainment for you. survey of the commercial and
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
    • 221 28 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA T HE Bukit Turf Club is acting against horse owners suspected of taking part in illegal betting in the club's premises. Letters have been sent to several owners asking them to show cause why action should not be taken against them. They
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    • 136 28 AP. AMERICAN distance athlete Mary Decker Slaney says there is extensive drug use among track and field athletes throughout the world, and many of them go unpunished. Slaney said at a news conference yesterday that there is a big "cover-up" of drug use in the sport.
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    • 94 28 TEO Cheng Hay, a prominent race horse owner, died last night. He was 78. Cheng Hay, who died at the Mount Alvernia Hospital, was a long-serving committee member of the former Singapore Turf Club. He co-owned several horses with the late Dr C K Quek, another former
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    • 244 28 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: AMERICAN FOOTBALL National Football League: Minnesota 28 Chicago 27. SOCCER FA Cup 2nd rd replay: Aldershot 2 Bristol City 2. Simod Cup 2nd rd: Ipswich 1 Norwich 0; 3rd r<l: Everton 2 Millwall 0. Coke Cup U-16 tournament in Jakarta: Indonesia A
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    • 268 29 MAILBOX I REFER to the article in Saturday's newspaper (Dec 17) by Abdul Shukor entitled "Sundram: Stop Fixing Matches." I deny having stated that Singapore soccer matches are rampant with gambling. I disassociate myself from all that I am alleged to have stated in the article except where
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    • Article, Illustration
      348 29 The Premier League committee feels Changi's last-minute withdrawal was unethical and has recommended strong punishment. S GULAM reports CHANGI Constituency Sports Club, who pulled out from the Premier League soccer tournament early this month, faces a five-year ban. The punishment has been recommended by the Premier League committee
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    • 170 29 Reuter. GYOERGY Mezey, who returned to manage Hungary's national soccer team only five months ago, has resigned saying he sees no chance of doing professional work in the job. His announcement in a television interview on Monday was a further blow to Hungarian soccer, already rocked in the
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    • 216 29 AFP, Reuter. JOHN Fashanu and Viv Anderson escaped lightly yesterday after both were found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute with their infamous "tunnel brawL" Wimbledon striker Fashanu was suspended for three matches and fined $7,000 and Anderson, the Manchester United and England fullback,
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    • 402 29 Wire services. BRITISH Sports Minister Colin Moynihan will block England's attempt to re-enter European club competitions if the Football League does not give full backing to his controversial club membership scheme. Uefa has insisted since the ban was introduced in 1985 that the British Government would have to
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    • 606 30 2 Day Two of The New Paper's daily series on Singapore's seven clubs going semi-professional next year focuses on Police Sports Association. SHAHIRON SAHARI finds out that "The Coppers" have the material to surprise the favourites. TO policemen, don't talk about money. They don't need it. Discipline
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    • 244 30 ONE of Police Sports Association's proudest moments came in 1980 when it won both the Division Two title and the President's Cup in the same season. It was a rare double which pundits thought could never be achieved, especially since the Police team was Second Division
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    • 549 31 Thirteen is an unlucky number for some. Which is why Robin Chan is retiring from the Police Force only after the next football season, which will mark his 14th year as Police coach. This season proved unlucky for Police, he said, citing the "silly"
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  • 881 32 T Centreswge CHARITY BALLET. In j Ar Expressions of Love, four 1 men and 161 ladies, young and old, will take to their toes to raise money for charity. The dancers range in age from six to 28. They will perform seven items including the Polonaise from Swan Lake,
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  • 8 32 COMING Bombay GALLERY: > CENTRESTAGE: Charity ballet
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  • 108 32 ITS sprouting again, as it always does this time of year. But you will have to take a ferry or cable car to see it and hear it. The Calvary Charismatic Centre choir is branching out to Sentosa this year. About 150 performers will sing from
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