The New Paper, 5 January 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1989 MCI (P) 179/4/S0 SO CENTS
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    • 181 1 TORO^S FATAL DELAY MOST S'PORE WOMEN Almost nine out of 10 breast cancer cases spotted by accident, hospital survey CI/*klC /%C finds. Most are in intermediate stage when survival chances are 60 per cent. "If they come in at the early stages, then chances of survival are 90 per cent,"
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    • 21 1 WORLD M2 STOCKS 12 FOOD SHOWTIME 14,20-22 TV GUIDE 15 COMICS 24, 25 RADIO 26 FASTADS/JOBS 27 SPORTS 27-31 MONEYWORDS 31
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 421 2  -  Stories/ Chitra Rajaram T I I AN Took Seng Hospital has found that most of the 247 patients operated on for breast lumps at the hospital last year discover the lumps by accident. Although more women were becoming aware of breast cancer and know
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    • 283 2 WORRIED that young people are ignorant of the link between sexual promiscuity and cervical cancer, doctors are holding a symposium on the subject this coming Sunday. The cervix is the neck of the uterus in women, and cancer of the cervix is increasing all
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    • 95 2 Wire services. A PASSION for books has landed an American screen-writer in jail. Gustav Hasford, who got an Oscar nomination in 1987 for co-writing the screenplay of Full Metal Jacket, was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison. Hasford, of San Luis Obispo, California, was
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    • 149 2 THIS is Tan Kim Kee, the housewife accused of cutting off a man's penis with a pair of scissors. The picture was taken outside the Subordinate Courts yesterday. The identity of the man helping to shield her face is not known. Yesterday
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    • 104 2 Wire services. COSMETICS heir Bonald Lauder wants to be mayor of New York City, one of the biggest political jobs in the US. The millionaire Republican and former US ambassador to Austria announced yesterday that he is a candidate for mayor. Mr Lauder is the son of
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    • 411 3  -  By Yusman Ahmad PEOPLE who entrust all their personal details and vital information to pocket computers or data calculators face great inconvenience if they lose the things. They can even become as helpless as a new-born baby. Mr Henry Ng lost his Psion II pocket
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    • 332 3  -  By Ng Wan Ching THERE'S VSOP brandy, and there's VSOP brandy at $800 a bottle. Singapore is the first Asian country to see this new Courvoisier line of 'old' cognac at its extremely 'new' price. It costs $800 because
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    • 30 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over several areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.12 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.08 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 211 4  -  By Yusman Ahmad BODY checks are now compulsory at Changi Airport. All outgoing passengers must undergo a personal search. This new measure was introduced soon after confirmation came through that a bomb had caused the PanAm jumbo jet explosion last month in Scotland. In the
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    • 309 4 WITH memories of the bomb-related crash of a Pan Am jet in Scotland still fresh in people's minds, six airlines have stepped up their security measures at Changi Airport. Officers from Japan Airlines' headquarters in Tokyo will be coming here this month to check on passenger
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    • 369 4  -  By Geneieve Kwek THERE is no need to take examinations in three or four school subjects. This privilege will be available to lower secondary students at Methodist Girls School and Singapore Chinese Girls School. Both the schools went independent last Tuesday. Mrs Phuah
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 248 6  -  By Lois Ng w ATCH that hand! Industrial accidents are on the rise. And half the time, it's the hand and fingers that are hurt. There were 4,155 accidents reported in 1987. Of these more than half 2,335 were hand and finger injuries. This
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    • 168 6 SIXTY-TWO per cent of industrial accidents happened when machinery and tools were used. And mechanical machinery was the main cause of mishap at work. Mr Ameerali Abdeali of the Ministry of Labour gave examples of recent mishaps at work. In one, a man who
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    • 256 6 Draw No. 1 /89 Top five prizes 1st *****26 $1 million 2nd *****73 $400,000 3rd *****64 $200,000 4th *****99 $100,000 5th *****52 50,000 Jackpot numbers ($15,000 each) *****08 *****63 *****00 *****71 *****44 Lucky numbers ($5,000 aach) *****32 *****16 *****93 *****50 *****70 *****29 *****97 *****27 *****10 *****32 Gift prizes ($3,000
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    • 210 6 THE Vocational and Industrial Training Board (VITB) will now offer single subject courses. Those enrolling for the part-time Continuing Education and Training courses can offer these single subjects. Previously applicants to the Secondary 1 to Secondary 3 Normal stream had to apply for composite subjects,
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    • 168 6 THE economy has performed well. Singapore has received its four millionth visitor. So registered tour guides have decided to raise their fees. "I think it's time for guides to enjoy a pay rise," one 30-year-old Japanese-speaking guide said. The guides raised their fee for 1989
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    • 148 6 WITH rising wages, costs and rental, the Singapore Association of Rice Noodles has decided to raise rice noodles prices from today. Retail price for 400 g packs is to be raised from $6 to $6.30 each while the 3 kg packs will go up
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 539 8  -  By Thusitha De Silva LOCKSMITH Ang Kah Hway looked forlornly across Siglap Road yesterday morning at the wood and rubble that was once the old Siglap Market. It was being put in plastic bags and dumped into a Ministry of Environment rubbish truck by some men.
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    • 210 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. addled: Confused and unable to think clearly. anchorages: Places where boats can anchor. a steal: A good bargain. consummate: Used to describe a person who is extremely skilful. crash
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    • 205 8 A TECHNICIAN who was electrocuted while repairing a microwave oven and died three weeks later, had no one to blame but himself, a court found. The coroner's inquiry into the death of Mr Cheong Teck Huat, 24, was told yesterday that the equipment he
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 444 9 MRS Margaret Lee was in a crowded restaurant when her left breast suddenly began to swell up. The buttons down the front of her dress popped off as startled diners watched. Soon her left breast began swelling an inch an hour. She feared it would burst.
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    • 237 9  -  By Chitra Rajaram HAS it happened in Singapore? One plastic surgeon here admitted to The New Paper that one of his patients developed hard lumps in her breasts after cosmetic surgery. This was because of the silicone injections which later formed siliconoma. The lumps erupted through the
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    • 321 10 Wire services. THE US said its two fighters acted in "self-defence" when they shot down a pair of Libyan planes over the Mediterranean Sea. Libya described the shooting as a "dangerous" preplanned attack. It took place at 11.03 am yesterday (6.03 pm Singapore time). In
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    • 128 10 Wire services. AFGHAN President Najibullah hinted that he did not plan to step down after the Soviet Union pulled out its troops out of his country. Dr Najibullah made comments to that effect in an interview published in a British newspaper in London today.
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    • 98 10 Wire services PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat hints that he may quit his drive to end the Arab-Israeli conflict unless he gets encouragement from the Jewish state. "I will continue to offer peace, not out of weakness but out of strength/' Mr Arafat said in Cairo yesterday.
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    • 47 10 Partners in grief: The tragedy of the Pan Am crash in Lockerbie, Scotland continues to haunt the lives of those touched by it Here, two unidentified Pan Am stewardesses console each other during a memorial service for the 270 crash victims. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 187 10 Wire services. AIRLINES in Bangkok have refused to accept a terrorist suspect from Syria who was deported to Thailand from the Philippines. "We are giving Philippine Airlines time to make arrangements for a third country to take him probably Greece," said MajorGeneral Kriengkrai
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    • 327 10 Wire services. THE Soviet Union and Arab nations led a chorus of criticism against the United States for its downing of two Libyan planes. But European officials gave a more cautious reaction. Israel said it had no connection with the shooting. Government
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    • 310 11 Wire services. AN official of Bank Simpanan Nasional says the $15.78 million stolen in a bank fraud did not come out of the BSN's pocket. Outgoing BSN Chairman Datuk Dr Ani Arope said Bank Negara has acknowledged that BSN money was never at risk in
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    • 124 11 Wire services DRINKING more than one cup of coffee a day tends to keep some women from becoming pregnant, a study reports. Coffee was the drink cited by the study, made by the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. But it could be any drink
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    • 206 11 Wire services. RADICALS who want Iran and Saudi Arabia to stay hostile are believed responsible for murderous attacks on Saudi diplomats. Two have been shot dead and a third seriously wounded since Oct 25 in separate attacks in Ankara, Karachi and Bangkok. The Third Secretary
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    • 304 11 Wire services. NOMINATIONS for Golden Globe awards are in and the leaders are Working Girl, a corporate Cinderella comedy, and Running on Empty, about 60s activists still on the run. Working Girl collected six nominations yesterday, including best musical or comedy, best director
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    • 179 12 Wire services. CHINA plans to expel at least four African students involved in a campus clash in Nanjing, an African diplomatic source says. The source, who did not want to be identified, said in Beijing yesterday that the four had already been expelled from Nanjing's Hehai
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    • 327 12 Today. ONE odd sidelight to the terrorist blast that blew apart an airliner full of people was a new snap and snarl over smoking cigarettes. Shortly after the crash, before the reason for it was proved, the British tobacco industry said the disaster "underlined the
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      279 12 Wire services. SHARE prices closed firmer near the day's peaks yesterday as takeover rumors provoked strong rises among some of the leading British stocks. The market was also helped by the dollar's gains, which prompted rises among the leading dollar-earning shares, and by a firm early trend on Wall
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    • 95 12 Reuter ON the Tokyo Stock market share prices rose to new highs in opening trade on strong hopes for the New Year and after the sharpest rise in about two months on Wall Street, brokers said. The Nikkei index rose 124.11 points, or 0.41 percent, to 30,367.77 in 10
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Wed 1,459.80 (1,447.80) Dow Jones Average Wed 2,177.68 (2,144.64) ST Industrial Wed 1,030.69 (1,034.23) NST Industrial Wed 1,811.16 (1,811.22) Hongkong Hang Seng Wed 2,736.83 (2,706.69) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,470.30 (1,481.10) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 30,243.66 (30,159.00) Figures in bracket* refer to thoae of the previous trading
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      275 12 Wire services. THE stock market rallied sharply yesterday, rebounding from the decline it suffered in the first session of 1989. The dollar rose in foreignexchange trading, reversing its decline on Tuesday. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, down 23.93 yesterday, climbed 33.04 points to 2,177.68. Advancing issues
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  • FOOTNOTES
    • 317 13  -  Sarip Satay Pasir Panjang Food Centre, near PSA Gate 5 25 cents to 30 cents a stick 5.30 pm to 11 pm By Lim Swee Hong "MUST wait 30 minutes." Not the best way to greet a customer, but those were the first words I heard
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    • 86 13 SALT eggplants before cooking to draw out excess water, bitter juices and to stop the vegetables absorbing too much fat during cooking. Trim off ends of eggplant. Slice the vegetable and lay on a flat plate. Sprmkle Kgiitly with salt and leave to stand for
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  • 720 14  -  Showtime Lim Fei Shen does not sit still for long. Last year it was the Cimo-Cimo. This year, more of her dance ideas will pour forth on the Singapore stage By Lo Tien Yin CHOREOGRAPHER Lim Fei Shen a• usual, is not home. Her mind,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1252 15 HUPII Iglcvision pf U HBL SsSSS.^t. rar«.«", luc 1 3.00 pm Highlights followed v 6.05 pm The Last f~ 8.00 pm High Mountain If 9.00 pm News at Nine (E) ~_T~" tga fia 0 by Bianca Vidai (C): Jose |«D Frontier The Living Reef U Rangers: Two weekend S5 J
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  • 1270 16 spotlight It took four months to organise the flotilla that tailed for a glorious 40 minutes In a classy parade preceding the Singapore Powerboat race in November. Next Thursday, the best-dressed craft will be given awards at a ceremony to be held in Carlton Hotel. ALPHONSO CHAN
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 484 18  -  By Lo Tien Yin FROM next week, SBC will show a Hindi or Tamil movie at one go every Sunday at 12.30 pm over SBC 8. Previously viewers had to watch their Indian movie in two parts, over Thursdays and Fridays at 10.30
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    • 90 18 CITY Girls were formed in 1986 after Huang Ya Min and Kuang Ming Chieh were chosen from an audition of 1,000 girls. The duo is probably the most successful "packaged" group ia Taiwan. SZ. age, dance routines, costumes, TV commercial jingles and movies.
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    • 414 19  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang WIN a beauty title here and represent Singapore twice abroad. That's the bonus awaiting Metromedia beauty contest winners. Metromedia organises the Miss Singapore/World and Miss Singapore/Chinatown pageants and it holds the franchise for 45 other international contests. "We don't want to
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    • 154 19 MORE people watched Talentime 88 than the 1986 contest. SBC said yesterday 219,000 people watched the Talentime finals last year, compared with 103,000 in 1986. SBC's Executive Producer, Mr Suhaimi Jais, 36, attributed the rise in viewership to their new variety show format. This was revealed when
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    • 182 19  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Wong Sing Yeong YOU tuned in to Style with Elsa Klensch last night to check out the latest fashions in the apparel capitals of the world. You were not braced for a buying spree. You merely wanted to be in touch and keep tabs
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    • 473 20 USA Today. FOLLOWING her "every man's worst nightmare" role in 1987's smash Fatal Attraction, Glenn Close was branded "the most hated woman in America." In her new Him, Dangerous Liaisons, Close says she is going for the world title. She plays the exquisitely evil Marquise
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    • 259 20 THEY are true lovebirds. Husband and wife Haslina bte Arisand and Adnan bin Abdul Rahman are the only ones left of the original Lovebirds, now playing at the Imperial Hotel's Hilltop Lounge. They have been staying together and playing together for eight happy years. Haslina,
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      249 20 BAT* 21 (Capitol) AN intense movie starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover. It's about a man who was trapped behind enemy lines with a whole army after him. A war movie with magnificent battle scenes. Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 pm. SCROOGED (Prince 1 and Changi
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  • FASHIONTODAY
    • 197 21 DRESSY feet are going to be the latest- look for 1989. Shoe trends will be a little more showy and a mite more flamboyant for this year. And the favourite? Why, lace, of course. This follows the past year's trends for more lace in
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    • 185 21 USA Today. ROLL out the rubies, uncrush that velvet. With Lunar New Year around the corner, there's lots more parties to go to yet! Although the silhouette remains quietly restrained short poufs and frills are out the romance of the renaissance is in. There are deep
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 1509 24 RADKXlJlDE E333DBI EQjJEQH cnHDQH I NOON News in Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Newsbrief and Weather Report NOON Good Music, Coaipany and Ma: NOON Nawsdask 12.05 Lunchdata: Listen to a selection NOON Easy Ustaaiag: Light instru- 12.05 Tap af tba World: HiU of the Enjoy your lunch break with a
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  • SPORTS
    • 288 25 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS HONGKONG has maintained its winning team for the defence of the Hongkong Invitation Cup race in the Colony on Jan 29. In the HK line-up are the winner and runner-up of last year's race. Flying Dancer, the winner of the inaugural event,
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    • 175 25 JUNGLE LORD should shed his maiden status in Ipoh on Sunday if current form is anything to go by. With S.Y. Leong in the saddle, the Jungle Boy gelding was hard-held over 600 m on sand in 41.6 sec in Ipoh this morning. He
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    • 115 25 RACE 1: Restricted Terms D 1,200 m (2pm): Nightwing, Prime Prospect, Doctor Marino, Let's Celebrate. RACE 2: Restricted Terms B 1,200 m (2.30pm): Gibraltar, Too Good, Parvenu, Mennel, Dark Night. RACE 3: Class 5 Div C 1,400 m (3.05pm): Birthday Present 111, Speed On Wings, Spiritual Soldier. RACE 4:
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    • 315 26  -  By Abdul Shukor REFEREE Maidin Singa has become only the second Singaporean to be selected by the International Football Federation (Fifa) to officiate in a world finals. The first referee, George Suppiah, officiated in the 1974 World Cup finals in West Germany. Maidin, however,
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    • 387 26  -  By Abdul Shukor THE chase for the 1989 Premier League crown is going to be wide, wide open. Geylang International, last year's champion and this year's favourite, won its first match of the season against Tiong Bahru at Jalan Besar last night. But only just. Its
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    • 306 26  -  By Shahiron Sahari JUST three years ago, Saf8a won the League and Cup double. Certainly a feat to be proud of. But last night, the soldiers lost its second successive League match to early leaders Police by 2-1 at Toa Payoh stadium. And suddenly
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    • 166 26 NST. RICHARD BATE, Malaysia's national soccer coach, has resigned without returning to' Kuala Lumpur after his Christmas holidays. The English coach tendered his resignation by phone from his Sheffield home yesterday. He cited "family problems" as the reason for quitting a job he held for only
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    • 425 27 China's badminton guru has spoken. The normally reticent chief coach has revealed that 12 young players are being groomed to take over as China's shuttle stars. BERNARD PEREIRA reports from Hongkong S TEP aside Yang Yang, move over Zhao Jianhua, your time's up. Twelve young
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    • 151 27 Men Singles: Xiong Guobao (C) bt Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen (Den) 18-13, 8-15, 15-10; Nick Yates (Brit) bt Lius Pongoh (Indo) 15-12, 15-8; Jens Peter Nierhoff (Den) bt Tse Bun (HK) 15-2, 15-2; Icuk Sugiarto (Indo) bt Sompol Kukasemkij (Thai) 15-7, 15-4; Zhang Qinqwu (C) bt Eddy Kurniawan (Indo) 15-10,
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    • 326 27 ASIAN champion Xiong Guobao, of China, hiccuped on his first date in the Fuji Grand Prix badminton finals last night. But his countryman Zhao Jianhua did worse. He laboured. The two world shuttle giants won, of course. Only Xiong had a less embarrassing 18-13, 8-15,
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    • 180 27 AS the Konica Cup draws near, the Sidek brothers fear more. Jalani and Razif, the top Malaysian doubles pair, are getting more apprehensive about their being beaten by China's Chen Kang and Chen Hongyong. The Malaysian duo met the Chinese second-ranked pair twice,
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    • 97 28 WATCH him this year, says national player-coach Song Koon Poh. Song (right), an international prop for the past 16 years, thinks highly of the young Lim Theng Leong, who is also a prop. "He was unlucky not to be considered for the Asian
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    • 459 28 Day Two of our series on the fresh faces to watch for this year focuses on rugby prop Lim Theng Leong. Nominated by coach Song Koon Poh, reported by SHAHIRON SAHARI Lim theng leong was pack leader and vice-captain of the promising Singapore Under--20
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    • 217 28  -  By Shahiron Sahari IT MAY be just a friendly match, but Singapore Under-20 rugby coach Slemat Rakisan knows a lot will be expected of his team against the visiting Canford School at the Padang today (5.30pm). "Rugby fans will expect to see another good
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    • 559 29  -  By Shahiron Sahari TWO World Cup stars will flaunt their skills on the Padang in the Singapore Cricket Club Rugby Sevens next month. If you are a rugby fan you will remember Michael Lynagh for leading Australia to a 13-12 upset win over the mighty New Zealand
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  • 800 30 Gallery HOTEL ART. Tay Bak Koi, Choy Moo Kheong and Thiang Kiang How show 22 of their works. Tay's paintings adorn the rooms of the Hilton Hotel. Choy has been selected to represent Singapore in an art exhibition in Switzerland. And Thiang was Overseas Union Bank's Painter of the
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  • 15 30 CENTRESTAGE: Anita at Celebrities OUT AND ABOUT: Crocodile park COMING UP: Family sounds
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  • 149 30 THE late Fan Chang Tien hailed from the Guangdong Province in China. He studied art under master artists Wang Geyi, Wang Yiting and Wu Dongmai. Fan left China for Bangkok in 1948 and came to Singapore in 1956. He taught at Chung Cheng High School and
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