The New Paper, 20 January 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1989 MO (P) 179/4/18 50 CENTS
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    • 106 1 BRIDES BY MAIL FROM S'PORE A "singles club" on Orchard Road sends Singaporean women abroad to be prospective brides for Caucasian men. Four or five go every month. Some 250 women aged 20 to 60 are in the programme. The club insists the service is proper. But NUS sociologist warns:
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    • 22 1 BRIBE SCANDAL SHAKES JOHOR SOCCER /Page 35 FANDI FITS IN /Page 33 PRO SOCCER: INSIDE TIPS ON PATH TO GLORY /Pag* 18
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  • 55 1 At list the fence hole at Yishun JC has been closed. The hole had remained open for two weeks after an alleged rape and students stayed fearful. /Pige 8 Temporary pitch: This is one of a number of steps to tighten security at
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 467 2  -  By Irene Ng SOME Singaporean women are being sent abroad as prospective brides for Caucasian men. Every month, four or five of them go overseas, according to Mr Andy S, manager of Icebreakers. This "singles club" in Orchard Road represents an Australian matchmaking agency called
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    • 102 2 A 40-year-old Singaporean woman. Works as a public relations officer. She paid $600 to be introduced to 15 Caucasian men. After writing to six men, she is "still looking". "I'm tired of meeting all the wrong kinds of people. I'm rather selective. I prefer a Caucasian preferably an
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    • 86 2 A 39-year-old Hungarian expatriate who has a PhD. A civil engineer, he is rather reserved and speaks English haltingly. He has met four women in three months. "I prefer Asian women. I find them more attractive than Caucasian women. Their appearance, their mentality, everything. Tliey don't place that
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    • 172 2 CASE THREE THE man in the picture is an Australian divorcee with two children. He is 46 and a project engineer. His Australian wife had been too demanding, according to Mr Andy S, who supplied this picture. He declined to name them. So the Australian looked
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    • 128 2 Wire services BRITONS who lost property in China after the 1949 communist revolution anything from a chocolate factory to a snakeskin banjo will soon be compensated. The Foreign Office said in London yesterday that initially only 10 to 15 per cent of the value of the
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    • 133 2 IN yesterday's report, "I want my baby back", we said that an unmarried mother can insert the name of the natural father on the baby's birth certificate. The Registry of Births and Deaths says that in such a case, the natural father also has to be present. But if
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    • 457 3  -  By Lois Ng A MODEST shophouße in Little India has won first prize in a national competition to uncover Singapore's history. It's a coffee shop that sits at the junction of Campbell Lane and Serangoon Road. The two-storey shophouse came out tops in the "Buildings"
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    • 327 4  -  By Abdul Hadhi MORE than 15,000 people will not be having a holiday away this coming Lunar New Year They wanted to. Trouble is, they phoned their travel agents too late. Just listen to Mr Joseph Lee, travel manager of Dynasty Tours. "All bookings
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    • 32 4 Aggressive selling: A hawker at Old People's Park pressing reporter Trudy Lim (second from left) and friends to order from her stall by laying the menus on the table.
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    • 370 4 HAWKERS shouting their wares, pestering you to buy from them. I thought it only happened to tourists. Until last night. Some friends and I visited the food centre at the old People's Park. As soon as we entered, a couple waved menus before us,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 30 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over a few areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24. Sunset: 7.17 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.14 am
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 400 6 DEBATEONPRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:DAYFOUR A NEW MP made a fervent plea for democracy. Another new MP made an equally fervent plea for individual effort adding up to collective well being. The two maiden speeches in Parliament yesterday made up a persuasive case for democracy. Brigadier-General (Res) George Yeo
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    • 361 6 CONCERN expressed in Parliament about the Government's language policy brought an announcement from Education Minister Tony Tan about two months early. Dr Tan said there will be parity of treatment. Students will be allowed to study Malay or Tamil as a first language if they
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    • 335 6 ALSO IN PARLIAMENT LAW Minister S Jayakumar said the Government will not seek a pardon for lawyer J B Jeyaretnam. He was answering a claim by Dr Lee Siew Choh (NCMP, Workers' Party) that the Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 390 7  -  By Chitra Rajaram has also been an increase in sales, but they have not had to hire more staff yet. Mr John Hariman, of the Lingerie Shop, in the Promenade also said that women, are no longer shy about buying their lingerie in public. Other underwear dealers
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    • 482 8 THIEVES at Hougang Street 61 have done an unexpected good turn. They have brought the residents of Block 686 together if only to talk about their stolen joss-stick urns. Early on Wednesday morning, thieves took away copper and china joss-stick urns from 17 families. And
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    • 186 8 THE hole in the fence at Yishun Junior College (JC) believed to have been used by an intruder has been closed. Barbed wire has been pulled across it to prevent any more illegal entry. A school attendant at the JC said the hole
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    • 192 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. abandonment: Freedom from worries or restraints. Angst: Anxiety caused by worrying about the state of the world. Bohemians: People who live in a very casual way that is different
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    • 52 8 to start off the new year we're holding a sale from Jan 20 to Jan 21,10 am to 9.30pm. I Com me Erreuno A Br Options Plantation I B Sophie Sitbon WK gmmm Bl fll J^ u Thierry Mugier I Yamamoto V HF I man ana ne wcman «»<*»>« wtOMiNAOf
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 306 9 Wire services. UN officials say it is now possible to make bread without wheat good news for poor countries dependent upon imported grain. Officials from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced the breakthrough in Rome yesterday. Researchers, they say, have found a
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    • 206 9 Lianhe Zaobao. Thailand is about to lift curbs on the teaching of Chinese in the country's schools. The move recognises ThaiChinese contribution to the country's development, said Education Minister General Mana Ratanakoses during talks with Thai-Chinese leaders in Bangkok. The new ruling, placing the
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    • 141 9 Wire services. SOUTH Korean police plan a crackdown on gas pistols. The pistols, initially intended for use only by security forces, are becoming popular among criminals. The guns are powered by a gas cannister. They can be loaded with pepper, red pepper, garlic or ginger
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    • 451 10 Wire services. PRESIDENT Reagan has decided against last-minute pardons for former US officials charged in the Iran-Contra scandal. The American leader, on his last full day in office, yesterday ruled out action that would bar trials for both Col Oliver North and Admiral John Poindexter. North
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    • 263 10 Wire services. SOVIET human rights campaigner Andrei Sakharov won't become a member of his country's new Parliament. Members say he has been rejected by the Academy of Sciences as one of its representatives. Mr Sakharov, 67, physicist and Nobel Peace laureate, was rejected along with several
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    • 163 10 Wire services. MALAYSIA wants no more nude sun-bathing by foreign tourists. Chairman Dr Sak Cheng Lam of the State Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports Committee said yesterday that hotel owners will be asked to tell guests that appearing nude in public is taboo
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    • 320 10 Wire services. BRITAIN is warning foreigners to get out of Afghanistan without delay. The warning came amid reports that all Soviet troops will have withdrawn from the capital by early February. The troops are said to be pulling back up the northern Salang highway
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    • 307 12 Wire services. CHINA has launched a national security crackdown on crime, corruption and foreign spying. The head of China's security apparatus, Mr Quao Shi, said "sabotage by overseas espionage agencies" is increasing. He called on law enforcement agencies across China yesterday to deal "severely" with
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    • 66 12 No kidding: Mr George Bush will become one of the world's most powerful men after he is sworn in as America's 41st President tomorrow. But for young Ellie Leßlond, Mr Bush will always be dear grandpa as she playfully shines a torch into his
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    • 194 12 Wire services A TIBETAN student has been sentenced to death by China for killing a policeman during a riot in Lhasa last year. However, the official Xinhua news agency in Beijing said execution was delayed for two years, meaning the sentence could later be commuted to
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    • 110 12 Wire services. MALAYSIAN Premier Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad is expected to remain hospitalised for about two weeks with a heart condition "His doctors are very satisfied with his condition," said Datuk Dr C G A Fonseka in Kuala Lumpur. He is
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    • 245 12 Wire services. A BRAZILIAN man whose parachute failed to open has survived a 1,500 m fall from a plane. "The impact was terrible," said Roberto Coseano, 37, a construction worker. "I felt pain envelop me from my feet to my head, and
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    • 202 13 Wire services. NATO has welcomed a Soviet move to cut short-range nuclear weapons. But officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation a grouping of Western allies also say they are worried that the move could complicate Nato plans to modernise its
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    • 163 13 Wire services. INDIA has expressed concern over reports that the US plans to sell 60 F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. An External Affairs Ministry spokesman said in New Delhi that if Washington made the sale, "it would be a matter of great concern to the Indian
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    • 60 13 Wire services. UNDERCOVER US agents have turned up evidence of massive fraud in futures trading on the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Sources said in Washington yesterday that the scandal could rival the Wall Street insider-trading cases. The Chicago Tribune said traders had
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 64 9 Snail's-pace sex is a killer MILD winter weather has snail farm in Wiltshire, southern excited British snails into having England. sex too early, killing thousands Mr Aubree said the snails need with exhaustion. rest in the cold months, so they can regain their strength for a full Premature mating has
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 572 11 Hitachi lets you pick prize you want. Simply purchase any item (or more) in this impressive line-up of some of Hitacni's 3Vg)^H latest products refrigerator, colour TV, washing machine, video recorder or video movie camera you stand to win but several m Every one of the above-mentioned items comes with
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    • 50 12 Febs gives effective relief for colds Febs helps relieve your cold discomfort effectively. That's because Febs is specially formulated to relieve pain .fever and nasal congestion. It also contains Vitamin C to build up resistance. So at the first WsTCVL-i signs of a cold, take Febs. international product from MHP*****6
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      272 13 Wire services. SHARES closed higher on the London stock market yesterday on good investment demand. Sentiment was encouraged by British industrial production figures for November, which showed a 0.1 per cent fall, reducing fears of further inflationary pressure. The Financial Times 30share index closed 16.2 points up at 1556.2.
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    • 87 13 Reuter. SHARE prices opened lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today because of concern over the direction of interest rates, brokers said. The Nikkei index fell 166.29 points, or 0.53 per cent, to 31,145.11 in 10 minutes. Stocks sensitive to interest rate and oil price fluctuations were lower. Declines
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    • 51 13 FT Industrials Thu 1,566.20 (1,540.00) Dow Imm Avtraga Thu 2,239.11 (2.238.75) ST ladastrtal Thu 1,099.24 (1,094.41) NST ladastrtal Thu 1,899.70 (1,887.85) Haagkaag M«i| Sm| Thu 2,909.66 (2,913.05) Aastrallaa All Ordlaarias Thu 1.511.60 (1,502.10) Nikkd Stock Atvaraga Thu 31,311.40 (31,354.55) Figurw in bracket* refer to tboee of the previoue trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      270 13 Wire services. STOCK prices closed virtually unchanged on Wall Street yesterday as profittaking took its toll on a session that saw both heavy gains and losses. The Dow Jones index of 30 leading industrials closed at 2,239.11, up just 0.36 point from Wednesday's close. At one point, it
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 64 13 Seafood Buffet 2nd 23rd lan Bali Hut's Seafood Buffet is a tempting array of the best catch from the sea. Dine on a delicious selection of drunken prawns, assam fish-head, chilli crab, torn yam soup, BBQ sotong, otah fish, satay. fruits.desserts.etc. Menu changes daily. nxatLfiut siTSo** GEM zJW CUM I
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  • Showtime
    • 553 14  -  By Lo Tien Yin i i LEFT my heart in a BMW 323. It's now somewhere on the floorboard, still on an motor obstacle course or zooming along at 200 kph on two wheels with Mr Hannes Meyer. Mr Meyer, 45, is a freelance BMW driving
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    • 326 15  -  By Wong Sing Yeong AN underground band is going commercial. The three-man group, Oddfellows, has produced a cassette and some of the songs could be released commercially. Music critics say the songs should be good enough to be cover numbers. If so, Oddfellows will be
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    • 219 15 RED HEAT (Cathay cinemas) ARNOLD Schwarzenegger is Moscow's toughest detective. He is sent to America to track down one of his country's most wanted cocaine smuggler. In Chicago, he has to co-operate with streetwise cop James Belushi. Worth watching for the car chases, piling body counts and Schwarzenegger's muscles.
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    • 182 15  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Vivien Chiong THE Making Of A Gentleman made its debut last night at 6 pm over RTM 2. Like the first episode of any TV serial, much time was spent introducing the main cast. The story will probably turn out to be another
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    • 446 16 T I >0 SING or not to sing? To sing. So, a Beijing opera becomes a Cantonese opera. Crossroads will be staged Cantonese-style by the Chi- nese Theatre Circle for the first time at the Sentosa Musical Fountain tomorrow at 7.30 pm. This will be the
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    • 317 16 BEING away from home for two months cost singer Eric Moo 7 kg and $4,000 in phone bills. The Xinvao star was in Taiwan for the promotion of his first album released there. And he burnt up the phone lines calling
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 23 14 HE/ADVnDND Malaysia's celebrated rockers a. HEAVEN KNOWS Promotion. vL RESERVATIONS Mam}uSv l Or»^ ae CetebrltlM: 1, Claymore Drtva, Orchard Towers (Rear Block) *****97
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1810 17 rpr t Utadl lelevision mrm M The Van Dyke Show Friday Night at the Movies Sportscene SCREEN m My Favourite Person Dirt y Dozen: Next Mission Grand Prix Snooker 1988 Ik* GEMS r (9.30 pm, SBC 5) I (10.35 pm, SBC 5) (7.25 pm, SBC 12) dflPjf DICK Burgess (Dick
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  • soccer
    • 212 18 Talk of pro soccer and CHOW CHEE KEONG, arguably the best goalkeeper Malaysia produced, can talk up a storm. He was one of the most popular 'keepers in the region in the late 60s and early 70s. And he lived a decade as a professional footballer. He
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    • 530 18 PROFESSIONAL soccer, as we all should know, cannot survive without money. Sponsorship money fuels players' performances; the more money they get, the better they play. And the better the deal for the fans. I still remember when the big sponsors started to pull out from the
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    • 115 18 Valve: $45.5 million for 10 years Period of validity: From 1987 to 1997 What the states get from this deal: $182,000 each every year Among the terms: No sponsorships from other rival cigarette companies; That State teams wear the Dunhill name across their jerseys; Should there be
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    • Article, Illustration
      694 18 PLAYERS: CHANGE OR DIE NST. T HE ones most affected in this move to pro soccer are of course the players. It's going to change their lives and give them a better lifestyle but only if they are ready for it. Are they ready for the regimented life
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    • 640 18 NST. T HE biggest problem the FA of Malaysia will have is making their subjects understand what professionalism is all about. Malaysian soccer has turned pro. Fine. But do all concerned players, of- ficials and fans really understand the implications, what their roles are
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 246 22  -  By Wong Sing Yeong THE names of the two "mystery" films in the Second Singapore Film Festival have been disclosed. The British drama Raggedy Rawney will be screened on Jan 26 and another British film, Withnail and I, the next day. Raggedy Rawney, a
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    • 263 22  -  ViMMt lan 22, 6.30 pm, Mkc 1 PREVIEW/ By Ting Mei See WHAT sufferings did Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh undergo before his death at the age of 37? What inspired his 1,800 works? The story of Vincent van Gogh is told in this
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    • 376 22  -  Philoctetes Victoria Theatre Jan 19 and 20, 8 pm FIRST NIGHT REVIEW By Adeline Woon Adeline Woon FOR a British drama group making their debut in Singapore, Cheek By Jowl sure started things on the right foot last night. Before the play began, a
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    • 150 22  -  By Wong Sing Yeong DOLPH Lundgren, the mean Russian boxing machine in the film Rocky IV, will be here for the Second Singapore Film Festival on Jan 27. The Swedish actor also played a KGB agent in the James Bond thriller A View
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    • 201 22 THIS Tokyo-bound quartet started off in 1973 with only Adam and Ben. Adil joined the duo in 1979 and Don completed the present line-up in 1987. They have been packing in the crowds six nights a week at the Europa Lounge and Restaurant for six
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    • 388 23 USA Today. THE Rolling Stones join history's mightiest rockers as members of the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame. In a ceremony on Wednesday at the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, the Stones, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Dion and the late Otis Redding, plus famed producer Phil Spector
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    • 240 23  -  By Vivien Chiong CALLY KWONG: HEARTFELT WISHES (Polygram) RELEASING a compilation of hits is evidence of a singer's popularity. Cally Kwong has four new tracks, including the title track, in her first ever compilation. This saccharine-voiced singer packed her bags for a one-month Japan training stint recently and returned
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 376 24  -  By Irene Hoe AN old American custom has arrived in Singapore and Chinese dinners may never be the same again. Just as Chinese immigrants brought their cuisine to the United States, it's now the turn of the US to export fortune cookies to Singapore. They're marketed
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    • 136 24 BRITISH health officials say this is how you can reduce the threat of listeria. Cook food thoroughly, either to kill the bacteria, or to reduce it to a level where it will not cause infection. Never keep food for more than two days
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    • 438 24 Daily Mail ANEW danger lurks in chilled "ready to eat'* foods listeria bacteria. It attacks pregnant women especially, and has severe effects on the unborn baby, according to British reports. Elderly or infirm people are also at risk of developing meningitis and fatal blood poisoning.
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 371 25 EYETOEYE THIS week, we will start a two-part series on good vision. Today's story is: See well, drive safely. Psychologists say we get to know 80 per cent of the world around us through our eyes. Road safety therefore depends heavily on our eyes
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    • 205 25 WEEKENDBROWSER GLAMOURETTE: A special Lunar New Year promotion called Red is on this weekend. Coordinated reds and brights are going to be sold at special prices. The promotion is from Jan 20 to 28 at #02-02/03, The Promenade. DAIMARU: Ladies' wear is
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 110 25 OutP^* BEST WAY FOR ALL MUSIC LOVERS TO BEGIN WITH The Yamaha Portable Keyboard is the most suitable learning tool to acquire fundamental musical ability. It is easy to use and it is suitable for all ages For more information or demonstration, PORTABLE KEYBOARD courses r.l«.ac. mtirt. .c 1 !>«
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    • 91 26 S. ,/fr 2 IP Midnight Run Growing Up In The 80s Forecast Eighty-Nine Everything you've always The high points and low The up-and-coming trends in wanted to know about points of life in the stylish the next 12 months! Singapore's nightcrawlers decade. but were too sleepy to ask. What's In,
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  • TRAVELNOTES
    • 297 27  -  By Ronald Wong A CRUISE along the Chao Phya river and its network of canals is a must for any visitor to Bangkok. However, the colourful sight of heavily-laden barges, river-side houses on stilts and floating markets is but a tourist image of this Venice of
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    • 164 27  -  By David Brazil LUNAR NEW YEAR SPECIALS MANY, many offers are available. For Australia, there's a Brisbane/Sydney 6D package at $1,658 and an Adelaide 5D package starting at $1,428. Both from Universal Travel at 535-6677. For Indonesia, a Wast Java 5D package departing Feb 3 at $439 from Dalight
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 124 28 9 B 1, I aJKII 1 HER WORLD IS CAREER-CONFIDENT stylishly" SURPRISING! YES! To checks, florals and stripes all together. Pants it is! Wear your undies Out MAD ABOUT MEN Why not advertise for a husband? When relating to men, go by the book! How well do S'pore bachelors cope?
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 156 28 COMICRELIEF Hagar the Horrible/pik Browne YOU CAN'T P= eo tfCMg AGAIU" I &TILL I AllgUStd/Dominic Doelsma Angus McGill Ipw^T~rj^— &e es... 1 co V~___ uica tv&T&O eocoTo I impo V ua^.../ \Tuiu<se? V OP J J (FANV&Ttc! I George the Robot/stephen Stanley CTnb (fAHA J tie feeew "To Mvjst margy
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  • SPORTS
    • 348 31 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS JOKE'S ASIDE is seriously shaping up for a win in Class 2 on Sunday. With New Zealander Gary Grylls astride, the five-year-old Australian gelding was pulling at the reins, sprinting over the 600 m on grass in 37.35ec. The Resident gelding began
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    • 549 31 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON Japan Open Singles 2nd rd: Men: Sompol K ukase mkij (Thai) bt Icuk Sugiarto (Indo) 15-5,18-17; Liu Jun (C) bt Stove Butler (Eng) 6-15,18-16,18H4; Liu En-hung (Tai) bt Shinii Matauura (Jap) 9-16, 16-3, 15-7; Stove Badaeley (Eng) bt Hiroki Etoh (Jap)
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    • 217 32 EUROPE KICKOFF: ITALY Reuter. D lEGO Maradona has ruled himself out of Napoli's key League clash against Sampdoria on Sunday to take at least 10 days rest for a back strain. "I'm not well. I need rest," Maradona told reporters at Napoli's training ground after meeting Napoli's
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    • 240 32 EUROPE KICKOFF: HOLLAND, PORTUGAL Reuter. AJAX Amsterdam nurtures high hopes of surging ahead of champion and leadership rival PSV Eindhoven as the Dutch League resumes after the winter break. Ajax, three points behind leader PSV, foresees little difficulty in overcoming mid-table Veendam at
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    • 208 32 Wire services. KEVIN Wilson, the Northern Ireland international who plays for promotion-chasing Second Division club Chelsea, is West Ham's latest striking target So far the top-flight strugglers have failed in its attempts to land Luton's England international Mick Harford, Wimbledon forward John Fashanu and Second Division trio lan
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