The New Paper, 7 January 1989

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1 30 The New Paper
  • 17 1 the new paper SATURDAY, JAN 7/SUNDAY, JAN 8, 1989 Ma (p) 179/4/88 50 CENTS the new paper
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 16 1 INSIDE THE STARS OF 1989: FIRST OF SHOWTIME'S SELECTION IS A SINGER /Page 12 'CANNIBALS'AT GENTINCS
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    • 77 1 CH0K T0NG TO I r% KICK OFF BOOST- W? SOCCER FUND M, Page 32 yMEP BADMINTON: IBF SETS mL DEADLINE FOR S'PORE .•4s*L Page 30 RACIAL MIX AND YOUR HOME: SOME HINTS FROM GOVT /Page 8 YEAR OF THE SNAKE Snake family comes from China with 600 snakes. /Page 4
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  • Article, Illustration
    92 1 Emperor Hirohito died of cancer this morning. He was 87, and had been critically ill for three-and-a-half months. He ruled Japan for just over 62 years. Millions in Japan mourn his death. Many outside will not, for they hold him responsible for Japanese atrocities during World War Two.
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 796 2 EMPEROR Hirohito of Japan died this morning after a long battle with intestinal cancer. Millions of Japanese will mourn his death. Many outside Japan will not. His name was used as a rallying cry by Japanese soldiers in their advance across Asia during World War Two.
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    • 421 2 PRINCE Akihito the first to take the throne of Japan as a man and not a god is expected to raise the "Chrysanthemum Curtain" that has long shrouded the Imperial Family in secrecy. As crown prince, he assumed a growing share of the Emperor's ceremonial
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    • 250 2 THE Japanese community in Singapore divided in its feelings about him made no special preparations to mark the death of Emperor Hirohito. Some said they could not mourn him because of his leadership of Japan during World War 11. Others said they would privately pray
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    • 621 3  -  The number of women learning to drive has almost doubled from a year ago. Qualified women motorists too have increased dramatically. So, are car manufacturers providing specially-designed vehicles for women? And what would female drivers look for if they want a car? Six of them give
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    • 374 3 I THOUGHT I was to drive my dream car yesterday, with satin seats, vanity box, spoilers, sports rims and all. None of it was in the new Mazda Granz which was launched by Asia Motor Company yesterday. It was billed as
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 24 2 The Weather THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showere over a few areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset: 7.13 pm.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 359 4 s NAKES alive! All of them! About 600 of the slithery things are leaving their farm home in Zheqiang province, south-east China, next month for the Chinese Garden to help usher in the Lunar New Year. The Year of the Snake, remember? The snakes will
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    • 165 4 A DRAUGHTSMAN standing in a crowded SBS bus had his knee broken when a fat lady landed on him after the driver jammed on the brakes, the Lianhe Zaobao reported yesterday. He has not been able to walk since the accident, on Dec 14
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    • 239 4 COME Lunar New Year, visitors who travel by MRT to the Chinese Garden will no longer need to take a 20minute walk to the main entrance. A new entrance will link the garden to the MRT station. A 42-metre timber bridge will span a
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    • 544 6 When the new Parliament opens on Monday, it will be in a newly-renovated Parliament House. In it 18 of the 81 MPs will be first-timers, voted in last September. They will hear President Wee Kim Wee give a speech outlining the Government's policy for
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    • 141 6 PARLIAMENT will be meeting in the afternoon. This will start on Jan 16, when it begins five days of debate on the Government's policy direction for the term ahead. Unlike the previous session when the House met from 11 am to 4 pm, it will
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    • 251 6  -  SATURDAY SOUNDS By Lim Sek "LET'S get together. Let's form a band. And with some luck, we may even win ourselves some fans!" That seems to be the attitude of many young band members in the Western world and the wonderful thing is that they
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    • 157 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. abusive: Describes language that is rude, offensive or unkind. arduous: Difficult, tiring and involving a lot of energy. bicuspids: Teeth in front of or before the molar teeth. cartographic:
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    • 588 7 THE PROBLEM TOO many Chinese living in Hougang over 90 per cent of households in certain neighbourhoods. Too many Malays in Bedok/Tampines over 30 per cent in some neighbourhoods. So says the Government. In the Singapore population, 76 per cent are Chinese and 15 per cent
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    • 438 8  -  By Trudy Lim HOW will the Government achieve a better racial mix in public housing estates? There were no outright answers yesterday. But there were some hints that the solutions might come from: Rales governing resale off flats: Mr S Dhanabalan, the Minister
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    • 127 8 THE mystery winner of the first 3-Plus-l Blockbuster Draws turned up to collect his prize yesterday morning. The organisers were not able to contact him earlier because they could not find his name in the telephone directory. Mr Tan Chee Sim won $1,260 —10 times the
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    • 104 8 A TWO-YEAR $2.34 m campaign to increase tourism to India from key markets in Asia and the South-West Pacific will be launched later this month by Singapore Airlines and the Government of India Tourist Office. This campaign will be pitched mainly at Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Australia,
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      253 8 Wire services. WIDESPREAD but selective buying characterised the London stock market on Friday, underpinned in afternoon trading by a strong New York opening. News that Chase Manhattan is pulling out of London equities market-making with the loss of 135-jobs failed to restrain enthusiasm for special situations and takeover talk.
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    • 8 8 The Tokyo stock exchange is closed today.
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    • 51 8 FT Industrials Fri 1,471.50 (1,471.50) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,194.29 (2,190.54) ST Industrial Fri 1,043.34 (1,034.13) NST Industrial Fri 1,825.74 (1,816.13) Hongkong Hang Song Fri 2,766.65 (2,758.54) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,479.80 (1,473.60) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 30,209.54 (30,183.79) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      287 8 Wire services. PRICES surged in early trading on Wall Street on Friday, but late profit-taking cut the advances. For the second day the Dow Jones industrial average narrowly missed closing above the 2,200 barrier. The Dow, which Thursday closed at its highest level since the October 1987 crash,
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 410 9 Shin Min. A PRIMITIVE family who lived by raiding farm fields or killing game with blowpipes has been rounded up in a Malaysian rain forest. The villagers who captured them said they ate their own dead. They had lived a furtive existence near Bukit Tinggi,
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    • 53 9 AP. THESE two French journalists, Alain Chaillou (right) and Bruce Franke, leave a New York federal court on Thursday after being charged of trying to pass fake bombs through security checks in New York's Kennedy Airport on Wednesday. They said they were testing the system for
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    • 215 9 Wire services. BRITISH investigators believe the bomb that destroyed the Pan Am jumbo jet over Scotland was probably smuggled aboard by a worker at London's Heathrow Airport. West German intelligence sources said yesterday British investigators feel the explosives could have been planted directly under
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 366 10 Wire services. ARAB radicals have formed a new anti-PLO alliance in the occupied territories that could threaten Mr Yasser Arafat's peace moves. They say it joins Muslim fundamentalists and pro-Syrian extremists in opposition to Mr Arafat's recent peace overtures to Israel. In a leaflet issued yesterday, the
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    • 73 10 Alarm: Soldiers on a busy New Delhi street watch for threatened trouble after the hanging of two Sikhs condemned for the slaying of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984. The troops were placed on guard as part of a nationwide security alert Prime Minister Rajiv
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    • 202 10 Wire services. PRINCESS Anne worked hardest of all the British Royal Family last year. Prince Charles, on the other hand, was a relative slacker. Figures released in London yesterday showed that the princess kept an average of two engagements a day and
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    • 367 10 Wire services. A VIDEOTAPE replay shows the US attack on two Libyan warplanes was unprovoked, says a British aviation expert. "It could have been just an innocent wish to investigate what was out there," said David Brinkman, the editor of Britain's respected Jane's Avionics Yearbook. He
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    • 185 10 ‘Africans entertain Chinese gi rls in dorms’ Wire services. THE president of a university beset by two weeks of racial unrest has denied curbing relations between Chinese women and African students. Mr Liang Ruiju, president of Hehai university in Nanjing yesterday blasted the Voice of America radio network for broadcasting
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    • 371 11 Wire services. A < FGHAN rebels say nothing came of five hours of peace talks with the Soviet Union except a promise that Moscow's troops will be 1 gone by Feb 15. "We didn't agree on anything except to meet again," Professor Sibghatullah Mojadidi, chairman of
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    • 200 11 Wire services. NOMINATIONS day for Sri Lanka's first parliamentary election in 11 years was marked by scattered violence, with dozens of people wounded. Between 1,000 and 1,200 candidates representing 15 political parties and independent groups filed their papers yestenlay. The Feb 15 vote will
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    • 110 11 Bernama, Xinhua. SCIENTISTS in the US may have come up with the answer to the problem of excessive pesticide residues in corn which had worried Singaporeans recently. The scientists have bred a new variety of corn which produces its own natural pesticide,
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    • 49 11 Thanks: Children anxious to receive presents crowd around one of the Three Kings, a festival in Madrid. For thousands of Roman Catholic children across Spain, the gift-giving part of Christmas arrives at the end of the first week in January on Holy King's Day. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 189 11 Shin Min Daily News. CHINESE leader Deng Xiaoping gets heated up when Szechuan food is not hot enough. As for US President Ronald Reagan, he frowns on "The Monk Jumps Over The Wall", a dish whose partisans claim is tasty enough to
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  • Showtime
    • 455 12  -  By Brian Miller T HE band on stage looked dishy. And the lead singer was at her frenzied best strutting her stuff to the accompanying oohs and ahhs of an appreciative audience. This was the second set at Celebrities and the packed house was
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    • 309 12  -  i By Lim Kuan Chiang FIRST, it was Tokyo Square. I Now, another local group Adam, I Adil, Ben and Don, will be hitting the entertainment scene in Tokyo this April. The popular quartet has been offered a six-month contract to perform in Tokyo
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  • UPDATE
    • 2461 13 SATURDAY Out About [~Zr RONGGENG NIGHT. y Here's your chance to leam how to dance the way Malays have for ages. If you want add to the joget to your list of lifetime accomplishments, hop on the ferry or cable car and leam from
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    • 132 13 Mr Wang Kaimin and Ms Lin Fan are husband and wife. But their bond runs even deeper to art. Mr Wang's paintings reflect the serene beauty of nature. Ms Lin's wife paints figures set in rustic scenery in a distinctive style. Mr Wang's are mainly
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    • Article, Illustration
      179 13 TODAY Y+/K NI6HTLICHTS Reggae and rock on the Nightshift. It's a l?_J six-member band led by Shah Maneck that takes listeners back to 60s and 70s at the aptly-named Woodstock Lounge, Far East Plaza. fT/T CENTRESTAGE: And the Wynners are here! It's a Hong Izll Kong pop group
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    • Article, Illustration
      170 13 Legal Exile is a six-piece Singapore showband with a large repertoire of infectious music and a large reputation for fun. The band is comprised of David Khoo, Freddie Stewar, Karen Teo, Suzami M Salleh, Nari Khaws and Chris Miles. David is the leader and plays lead guitar. He
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  • look back
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      820 14 Born to be a "god", he had to declare himself a mortal. Yet he never lived as an ordinary man. In death he is remembered as the one who presided over Japan's Asian conquests, over his nation's first and utter defeat, over its rise from ashes
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    • 276 14 1867. THE Meiji Restoration. The Meijis wrested control from the warlords and gave it back to the Imperial House. It ushered in the present system a largely symbolic Emperor and independent legislative, executive and judicial branches. 1894-95. Japan rushes troops to Korea, defeats the Chinese
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 2027 15 1010Vlsion s crorrv Dive to Adventure Saturday Night Movie Centrestage r CSharks: Hunters of the Deep Resting Place Cause Celebre f GEMS r 630pm> SBC5) MP*'-' (10.30 pm, SBC 5) (10.15 pm, SBC 12) A. VIEW the stunning PARENTS of a black US serviceman AN adaptation of Terence Rattigan's underwater
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1577 16 Television Ul Arte Circle W creen "7 ocus (9.30pm, SBC 12) FUNNYMAN John Ritter is in top THIS provocative bio-pic is about DAupRT U/QC 8 b --s.' \lfl f orm Phil Reed, a Ed Murrow, the charismatic 1 ffl ing poet I love-'em-and-leave-'em bachelor, who newscaster who broadened the p9|l
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  • look back
    • Article, Illustration
      819 17 Born to be a "god", he hud to declare himself a mortal. Yet he never lived as an ordinary man. In death he is remembered as the one who presided over Japan's Asian conquests, over his nation's first and utter defeat, over its rise from ashes
      ILLUSTRATIONS/ G Celestino  -  819 words
    • 276 17 1867. THE Meiji Restoration. The Meijis wrested control from the warlords and gave it back to the Imperial House. It ushered in the present system a largely symbolic Emperor and independent legislative, executive and judicial branches. 1894-95. Japan rushes troops to Korea, defeats the Chinese
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  • UPDATE
    • 2459 18 SATURDAY Out About RONGGENG NIGHT. Here's your chance to leam 1 how to dance the way Malays have for ages. If you want add to the joget to your list of lifetime accomplishments, hop on the ferry or cable car and leam from the
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    • 132 18 Mr Wang Kaimin and Ms Lin Fan are husband and wife. But their bond runs even deeper to art. Mr Wang's paintings reflect the serene beauty of nature. Ms Lin's wife paints figures set in rustic scenery in a distinctive style. Mr Wang's are mainly
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    • Article, Illustration
      181 18 TODAY V7/K NIGHTUGHTS Reggae and rock on the Nightshift. It's a L?U six-member band led by Shah Maneck that takes listeners back to 60s and 70s at the aptly-named Woodstock Lounge, Far East Plaza. CENTRESTAGE: And the Wynners are here! It's a Hong LZU Kong pop group that
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    • Article, Illustration
      170 18 Legal Exile is a six-piece Singapore showband with a large repertoire of infectious music and a large reputation for fun. The band is comprised of David Khoo, Freddie Stewar, Karen Teo, Suzami M Salleh, Nari Khaws and Chris Miles. David is the leader and plays lead guitar. He
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1437 19 RAEHOGUDE EMXMEMSEH lifl'll'lH inißiniHTiffi MOM Not I. (Prop*™*. in M»ta) HOW tmli kWMD.tW NOOM Oa Trade Rom Tuck., play. *00* *a«4eel, 12.9S Real Fob: Have an enjoyable NOON Easy I Istaalar A f+lfrrtion of Bipnrt new record* to keep you enter- 12.30 Hart's Namphl: It's jazz showtime of good musical
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 1399 20 RAWOGUIDE EHEnM ism E33EBH H33Hi!OEI2I m Newt hi BrM (Programmes in English) 12.M Call Mr A selection of pop vo- Ml Braebtert Clab: A host of great MS Oa Air Wake up to lovely melo- aa N«n la BrM and instrumental* with a musical entertainment for you. Wend Ml dies
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 269 21  -  Wynners in Concert 8 pm, World Trade Centre Jan 6 te 8 (three nights) FIRST NIGHT/ By" Vivien Chiong FOR more than two hours last night, the time machine threw me back 15 years. The elaborate stage props, dancers, giant video monitors and the narration took me
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    • Article, Illustration
      280 21 WILLOW (Cathay) A FANTASY adventure, Willow unfortunately has too much of the same for anyone who has seen all of George Lucas' films. Otherwise it is well-produced and designed. Willow Ufgood, a Nelwyn dwarf, undertakes the task of getting baby Elora Danan out of evil Queen Bavmorda's grasp. Times:
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • NOWMATTERS
    • 458 24 IT'S a small world, they say, and the new maps put out by America's National Geographic Society show it to be at least a little bit smaller. On the new map, the world is flatter, squatter. Continents look different. Mother Russia
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    • 338 24  -  AMATTEROFOPINION By Chow Wai Fong Alvln Darwin, 18, Our Lady of Loiirdas English School. "A good A level certificate, join the Airforce as a {>ilot, and get my driving icence. I also hope my girlfriend, Evelyn will forgive me." Suah Shu Chin, 17,
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  • SPORTS
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      235 25 Wire services. Algeria outclassed Zimbabwe, winning 3-0 in a World Cup qualifying soccer match yesterday. Striker Djamel Menad was the hero, scoring twice in the 11th and 27th minutes. The other goal came from star striker Rabah Madjer in the 68th minute. The Algerians dominated throughout to the
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    • 301 25 Wire Services. MANCHESTER United midfielder Gordon Strachan is being watched by Sheffield Wednesday. Having sold Gary Megson to Manchester City, troubled Wednesday is in dire need of a playmaker. Should Strachan, who is also wanted by Queens Park Rangers, be sold, United is likely to swoop for Portsmouth's
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    • 616 26 C Kunalan says watch for S Pandian this year. No, not even his daughter Mona. But f Pandian. The 800 m record-holder could set a bleak athletics scene alight with a medal at the August Sea Games. SHAHIRON SAHARI talks to Pandian, our personality in our continuing
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS/RACING
    • 571 27 The Three Stooges fill in from next week WINNING the first race of the season is a good start. Last year the honour went to Uncompromising in a Class 5 event. He went on to win three more, including the Selangor Trophy ana is now knocking at
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    • 179 27 THE Three Musketeers are off on holiday after today's column. We will back to follow the new season's racing in early February in time for the Tunku Gold Cup meeting at Kuala Lumpur. We are not unhappy with our performance since July and trust our
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    • 355 27 TOMORROW'S top race pits five last start winners against each other, all having their first go in Class 3. Also in Race 5 is Windu Karya who has been looking in great condition at home. If the going stays good then this sprint could
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  • SPORTS
    • 216 28 BADMINTON GRAND PRIX FINALS: LIVE ON SBC 12, TOMORROW, 2 pm WILL the 1989 World Grand Prix badminton finals be hekHn Singapore? Yes, says the Singapore Sports Council, according to a press release issued in November. No, says the International Badminton Federation. Not until certain
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    • 619 28 Icuk Sugiarto, Indonesia's No 1 badminton player, has had a troubled year. It has been evident that something has been preying on his mind. In an exclusive interview to The New Paper, he says it is all because too much is expected of him by
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    • 494 28 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON Grand Prix finals in Hongkong Men: Singles: Zhang Qingwu (C) bt Yeung Yik-kei (HK) 15-7, 15-0; Eddy Kurniawan (Indo) bt Morten Frost (Den) 15-12, 13-15, 15-10; Zhao Jianhua (C) bt Ardy Wiranata (Indo) 18-13, 15-8; Sze Yu (Aust) bt Chan Siu-lcwong
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    • 212 29  -  Today: Balestier v Tyrwhitt Tomorrow: Jurong v Tiong Bahru Geylang v Safsa Stories/ Shahiron Sahari SINGAPORE'S former international stopper Norhalis Shafik will make his Premier League debut tomorrow. He will play for defending champion Geylang International against Safsa at the National Stadium (4.45pm). Norhalis will replace
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    • 236 29 ALMOST everybody seems to be raving about Balestier United's two Yugoslav players Boris Lucic and Jojko Spanic after just one Premier League match this season. Balestier team manager S Thavaneson even says: "We have the best imports in the competition." Not surprising, as they practically ran the
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    • 226 29  -  By Abdul Shukor RICHARD Woon's boys will be put under the microscope when they play Jurong Town tomorrow afternoon at 4.45pm at Jurong Stadium. The Tiong Bahru manager has seen his team draw and lose its two previous matches while his defenders have "scored"
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  • 417 30  -  GOH FOR IT! By S. Gulam SOCCER will get a big boost when Mr Goh Chok Tong launches the Football Association of Singapore Donation Draw. The aim of the draw is to raise $500,000 for the FAS Soccer Development
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  • Page 30 Advertisements
    • 163 30 C. Kunalan picks tlje athlete of '89 dpes Singapore's sprinting to make an impact it his daughter MoHaron Mundir? Findi put Page 28. w fed up I of beings pro Fans and O fi0U%fk t too much, says think a pro career is a milk and honey. BERNARD PEREIRA speaks
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