The New Paper, 27 January 1989

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  • 13 1 the new paper FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1989 •Kl (P) 179/4/ M 50 CENTS
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    • 157 1 SEX STAR ARREST AS MALAYSIA'S NAKED 'TIGRESS' Page 2 THft&fACE HUGE AIDS OUTBREAK Bangkok health officials find 50,000 heroin addicts may have deadly virus. They warn: 650,000 Thai prostitutes are ripe for Aids epidemic. /Page 11 THEY'RE NOT SMILING NOW B Paiian (above) and Hashim Vl EmSYJ played too soon.
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  • 66 1 Stunned survivors walk atop 20-metre-high wall of mud that swallowed three Soviet villages after quake Monday. Oddly, experts say mud is one reason death toll is lower 274 than first feared. People could easily escape from traditional, mud-brick, one-storey homes in Tajikistan. Many more
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 194 2 THE father-in-law of a Malaysian Deputy Minister has cut all ties with him and the politician's wife. The son-in-law is Datuk Kok Wee Kiat, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry. Mr Seet Keng Jin, who lives in Singapore, made public his action in an
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    • 188 2  -  By; Augustine Low A NUMBER of HDB resettlement officers are being investigated in connection with a fruit tree scam. An official of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau said yesterday investigations are being finalised. "We are waiting for advice from the A-G (Attorney-General) chambers before proceeding with
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    • 142 2 A HOUSEWIFE is the first individual to make a bid for the Ball With A Cause. Her bid, on Day 4 of the auction yesterday, was $40,000. The bidding continues to go up by $10,000 a day. It was initiated by Mr Goh Chok Tong,
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    • 180 2 Shinmin Daily News. SEX star Bai Shueli allegedly tried to seduce her male audience with her stark naked "tigress" performance in Petaling Jay a, Malaysia, but the police did the pouncing. They waited until she was completely naked before they pounced on her and arrested
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    • 72 2 CHILDREN will help the Singapore Bus Service (SBS) improve the driving habits of its drivers. The company has asked 240 "road monitors" selected students from six schools, trained in road safety to fill questionnaires on the matter. This is part of a nine-week
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    • 28 2 The Weather THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Fair except for showers over a few areas in the late afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Sunset: 7.19 pm.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 467 3  -  By Lois Ng PICTURE this. Historic Telok Ayer Market throbbing with sound and music. Tourists and Singaporeans flocking there at all hours for a bit of food and a spot of fun. Maybe even a 24-hour beer garden lit by solar energy.
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    • 290 3  -  By Ronald Wong ABOUT 2,600 students of the Singapore Polytechnic burst into song this morning for a special reason. They were celebrating the formal launch of their own anthem, a first for the Poly. "It's like having a school song. We thought we should
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    • 366 4  -  By Yusman Ahmad s I INGAPOREANS going to Batam to stock up on cheap Lunar New Year cigarettes 'and alcohol are in for a surprise. Prices have gone up. More bad news favourite brands may not be there. Stocks in the island's many duty-free shops are
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    • 351 4 OUT: Heavy sandbags and zinc sheets. IN: Lightweight plywood. Instead of carrying almost 200 kg of sandbags and zinc sheets to set up as targets during live firing, men from the 6 Reserve Infantry Training Centre now use a sheet of plywood with pictures
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    • 149 4 IDEAS, big or small, can help improve the Singapore Armed Forces, said Dr Yeo Ning Hong, the Second Minister for Defence (Policy) this morning. He was speaking at the SAF's annual Pride Day, an event that puts on show ideas that improve military operations. "Indeed,
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  • 1074 6 PARLIAMENT ■For illegal immigrants and 90-day-plus overstayers at least 3 strokes T of cane and jail too Onus of proof shifts to their employers THE Immigration bill with caning for illegals is intended to give a clear signal outside Singapore: Don't come here to break
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 395 7 THE Ang Mo Kio West Town Council had their mind on building an image of a friendly neighbourhood police force. But for one parent at least, the paint platoon on the walls of the Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4 neighbourhood police post (NPP), have another
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    • 69 7 ANOTHER temple has fallen prey to thieves. Burglars broke into a Chinese temple off Dunearn Road on Wednesday and stole about $300. They forced open the donation box. This is the third temple re- portedly burgled during the past two weeks. Temple caretaker Mr Chua Ah Seng,
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    • 265 8  -  By Loh Tuan Lee THE Vocational and Industrial Training Board (VITB) is once again looking for better ways to get better workers. It launched its second formal survey on Jan 18, asking 500 manufacturing companies what their problems are in getting people to update their
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    • 331 8  -  By Irene Ng B IRTHDAY cakes by post, no problem. Better put the I cream on hold though, okay? Bees, leeches or parasites by post, that's fine, too. Just pack them carefully, right? Coconuts, sure thing. So long as they're clearly addressed. Those are
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    • 146 8 THEY seek him here. They seek him there. That elusive man who tells women he works with a lingerie company and then asks some extremely suggestive questions. The company, Triumph International, is offering up to $10,000 as reward for tracking down this pest who hasmade
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    • 199 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. bystander: A person who is at the place where something happens and who watches but does not take part in it. con jobs: Tricks to deceive or cheat people.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 202 9 Wire services. RUSSIAN human rights activist Andrei Sakharov says President Mikhail Gorbachev is in danger of being forced out of power. "The conservatives will overthrow Gorbachev or at least impose their views on him," the conservative French daily Le Figaro quoted Mr Sakharov as saying.
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    • 215 9 Wire services. THE US President George Bush will visit China on Feb 25 and 26 to renew political acquaintances and "reaffirm our relationship". The White House made the announcement in Washington yesterday. A spokesman said China and presumably at least one other
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    • 343 9 Bernama. THE number two men in the governments of Singapore and Malaysia yesterday agreed that official visits between their countries should not be limited to politicians. Singapore's First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and his Malaysian counterpart, Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba, discussed
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    • 80 9 Wire services. PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia is reported recovering on schedule from his coronary bypass operation. In Kuala Lumpur, General Hospital Director Celestine Fonseka said yesterday the Prime Minister's "condition is stable and he has been allowed to take semi-solid food".
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    • 531 10 trrp-v 21 October 1988 ajsaft 28 February 1989 Hitachi lets you pick the prize you want. purchase anv (or impressive line-up of Hitacni's latest products refrigerator, colour TV, washing machine video cassette recorder or video movie you stand not ®ne but several f the above-mentioned items comes with several entry
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 380 11 Wire services. THAILAND faces the threat of a massive outbreak of Aids, health experts warn. More than half an estimated 100,000 heroin addicts in Bangkok may have the virus, Thai specialists said yesterday. They spoke at a conference on Aids in Asia held in
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    • 97 11 Wire services. AN UNIDENTIFIED foreign vessel sank in waters off western Japan after colliding with a ship from Singapore last night Coast Guard officials in Tokyo said today they sent a search team to look for the missing vessel and its crew. None of the 16
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    • 134 11 Wire services. AN AMERICAN woman drugged her two young children and forced them into prostitution with as many as 80 people. The 29-year-old mother was yesterday brought to a court in Richmond, California, to answer for her alleged crimes. A police spokesman said the woman
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    • 59 11 Double jeopardy: Peruvian paramedics rush to the aid of rescue workers after thev were overcome by poisonous gases outside a gold mine in Nazca. The rescuers put their own lives on the line as they try to rescue some 200 workers still trapped in the
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    • 250 11 Wire services. TAIWAN'S ruling Nationalist party brushed aside fierce objections by the opposition in ramming two major political reform bills through Parliament. Screaming deputies wrestled on the chamber floor and shoved each other off the podium before the final vote. Yesterday's clash in Taipei completed
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    • 128 11 Wire services. AMERICA'S leading maker of canned soups, Campbell Soup Co, is in hot water with the US government. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington yesterday accused Campbell of deceptive advertising claims about the healthful qualities of its soups. Advertisements linked the low-fat, low-cho-lesterol content
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    • 203 12 Wire services. BRITAIN plans to expand London's version of the MRT with French-style underground trains to carry commuters from the city's suburbs. The giant tunnels would let commuters travel to central London in what they call the Tube without changing trains. The British Transport
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    • 328 12 Wire services. SOVIET and Afghan tanks and artillery steamrolled a supply route to Kabul this week, killing hundreds of civilians and levelling villages, Western diplomats say. Among the "major atrocities" reported by the diplomats in Pakistan was an eyewitness account of "Soviet tanks rolling over
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    • 90 12 Wire services. CARTIER of France is no longer the queen of England's favourite jeweller. Buckingham Palace in London •aid yesterday that Cartier has lost Queen Elizabeth's royal war- rant because the family no longer does much trade there. Cartier will no longer be able to
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      265 12 Wire services. SHARE prices rose sharply on the London Stock Exchange yesterday as continued institutional buying combined with stock shortages produced sudden rises among the leading shares. The Financial Times 30share index closed 20.5 points up at 1601.3. Volume was 624.5 million shares, down from 924.7 million shares on
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    • 89 12 Reuter. SHARE prices rose sharply in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today following a third straight post-crash high on Wall Street, brokers said. The Nikkei index gained 119.25 points, or 0.38 per cent, to 31,631.06 in 10 minutes of trade. It closed with a 55.98-point loss yesterday.
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Thu 1,601.30 (1,580.80) Dow Jones Average Thu 2,291.07 (2,265.89) ST Industrial Thu 1,108.71 (1,101.39) NST Industrial Thu 1,904.40 (1,889.58) Hongkong Hang Song Thu 2,910.57 (2,900.74) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,539.30 (1,536.10) Nikkei Steck Average Thu 31,511.81 (31,567.79) Figures in brackets refer to thoee of the previous trading
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      263 12 Wire services. THE New York stock market gathered momentum yesterday extending its rally to new post-crash highs after overcoming an early round of selling. Analysts said the market drew some support from talk in Washington of a possible move toward restoring a capital gains tax break. The Dow
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  • 167 13 FOODNOTES FOODSTUFFS, like the tidbits featured yesterday, vary in size and weight. Quality and taste, of course, are not measurable. The Consumer Association of Singapore did a survey recently of Lunar New Year food in four areas. As with tidbits, prices at NTUC Fairprice were often the
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  • 514 14  -  Showtime By Adeline Woon s I INGAPORE could have been The Land of Smiles. The characters in that operetta speak more than one language. So do many people here. It was the perfect place to try a bilingual production. In the scenes in the Peking court,
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    • 1732 15 Television Silt M Friday at the Movies National Geographic Special ay Hfr. SCREEN M Enter the Ninja JKKjAustralia's Twilight of the Wlss,n S Wail i vlr/* IffirV GEMS f (10.35pm, sbc 5) Dreamtime (9.OOpm,SBC 12) K)sr lF NINJITSU master Cole HB (9.30 pm, SBC 12) T people fi& telegram from
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    1064 16 shoptalk You may never need to go beyond Yaohan's supermarket, the magnet of this shopping centre. But roaming the four floors of Bukit Timah Plaza, JOSEPHINE NG found, among other things,. free knitting lessons and quilted jackets for children. People in Sherwood Towers the apartments complex linked
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 242 20 F ROM next month, there will be an extra Mandarin or Cantonese film and an additional Hindi or Tamil film on RTM every week. These will be shown on the prime 8.30 pm slot With this, air time for Chinese programmes will increase
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    • 75 20 HONGKONG TV ac- tress Mimi Kung has worked as a piano teacher and a secretary. She got her break in a Television Broadcast drama audition in 1984. She has acted in about 25 serials. Her favourite: Battle among the Clans, showing at 6 pm over RTM 2
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    • 280 20  -  The Land of Smiles Killing Theatre, 8 pm Jan 26 to 29 FIRST NIGHT REVIEW/ By Adeline Woon Adeline Woon WE had a world premiere at the Kallang Theatre last night. A very quiet one. Half the auditorium was empty. A pity. Last night was the
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    • 118 20  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Sonja Tan YOU can always rely on a documentary to provide entertainment along with information. The Last Frontier (6 pm, SBC 5) proved the point last night. The programme, with the sub-title Desert Beneath the Sea, looked up close at the Bahama banks in the Caribbean
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    • 496 21 IHT. IN Asia, Lin Ching-hsia has been a cinema heart-throb, a household word, a gossip feature for 16 years. Now she is in Washington with her first retrospective, at the American Film Institute in the Kennedy Centre. At 34, Ching-hsia has made more than 80 films and
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    • 299 22  -  Stories/ Wong Sing Yeong YOU probably won't notice them like you would Joan Chen or Dolph Lundgren. But they make the film festival happen. They are not the major sponsors like Singapore Airlines, the Westin hotels, Hour Glass, DHL, Salem and Thrifty Car Rental, who
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      225 22 ■THE MILAGRO BEANFIELO WAR (Prince 2) THE Milagro Beanfield War is a political statement about a group of little people fighting against the power, influence and interests of rich people. Directed by Robert Redford, the film is smooth. Times: 11 am, 1.90, 4, 6.46, 9.15 pm. J 1 T
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    • 328 22 IF you enjoy playing around with your film or video camera, come and see what Filipino independent film-maker Raymond Red has done with them. Raymond, 24, is here to show five of his short films at the Film Festival. Raymond made his short films
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  • 270 23  -  By Loh Tuan Lee IT was the second coldest month of the Indian year. Yet, there I was with my friend in Kashmir, high up in the very far north of India. It could have been a Singaporean's winter nightmare. But it was our
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  • 249 23  -  By David Brazil VALENTINE BREAKS SOON it will be Valentine's Day. If romantic breaks are on your mind, try Sinchew's two special Valentine Getaways. A Bangkok/Pattaya Rendezvous at $888 is 6D, leaving on Feb 11 with a full programme including a visit to Pan tip Theatre and Nite Club
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    • 1387 26 RSDRSGODE EZEEDH EZ33EEHI E233EZQHI EE9HH NOON Nsws k Brief (Programme# in Mandarin) *OON News la Brief ead Weether Bo- NOON Oeed Mesk. CNpwnri Me: NOON Niwinfc 12.05 Leasfedekc A selection of muaic P*t A musical treat to keep you 19J0 Pmm 0v Feet Michael Roeen and M> wiH kaep you
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  • SPORTS
    • 256 27 RACING.. .with MALCOLM BASTIANS JOCKEY Darryn Murphy has been confirmed to ride Hongkong's top horse, Clear City, the favourite in the Hongkong Invitation Cup race on Sunday in the British Colony. The other riders nominated were B. Leisher (Flying Dancer), P. Leyshan (Pride Of Hong Kong),
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    • 171 27 DICTIONARY 11, ridden by visiting jockey Chris GWilliam, wound up his preparation for a Sunday assignment with a relaxed gallop over the 600 m on grass in 43 sec at Bukit Timah this morning. The Pikehall four-year-old gelding was one of few to go against the
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    • 94 27 RACE 1: Class 4 Div B abt 1,860 m (1.45pm): Balmoral Knight. RACE 2: Class 2 Div A abt 1,860 m (2.15pm): Meticulate, Progressing, Handball. RACE 8: Class 4. Div C abt 1,200 m (2,45pm): Fitting Image, Imperial Hall, Terrific Warrior, Winter Wonderland. RACE 5: Class 2 abt
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    • 449 28 FA CUP FOURTH ROUND Reuter. UNDERWEAR and experience could make two of English soccer's least celebrated players the toast of the FA Cup tomorrow. Little-known strikers Matt Hanlan and Robbie Cooke will rely on a sprinkling of superstition and a wealth of experience to
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    • 59 28 Tomorrow: Aston Villa v Wimbledon, Blackburn v Sheffield Wednesday, Bradford v Hull, Brentford v Manchester City, Charlton v Kettering, Grimsby v Reading, Hartlepool v Bournemouth, Manchester United v Oxford, Watford v Derby, Norwich v Sutton, Nottingham Forest v Leeds, Plymouth v Everton, Sheffield United v Colchester, Stoke v
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    • 358 28 EUROPE KICKOFF: ITALY, SPAIN, HOLLAND Reuter. DIEGO Maradona ha 9 made public his dispute with Napoli team manager Ottavio Bianchi. In an interview with the Argentine daily Clarin reported in Italian sports newspapers he said either he or Bianchi would have to leave Napoli by the summer.
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    • 224 28 Wire services. NEWCASTLE is trailing Ipswich forward Dalian Atkinson. Newcastle boss Jim Smith has made a $2.45 m bid for the Second Division player, after having a $2.62 m offer rejected for Crystal Palace forward Mark Bright. SOUTHAMPTON manager Chris Nicholl is fighting to keep his job after
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    • 170 28 AFP. DAVID Seaman has sparked a $2.62 million chase for his signature after rejecting a new contract with Queens Park Rangers. Arsenal and Glasgow Rangers are expected to lead the race for the 25-year-old goalkeeper, who was the subject of a $3.5 m offer
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    • 389 29 The Singapore Lawn Tennis Association meets tonight to elect its office-bearers for 1989. There appears to be no challenge to the existing team. ALFONSO CHAN reports H I 'ERE'S hoping that the dust settles when the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association holds its Annual General Meeting to
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    • 206 29 AFP. SINGLES rivals but doubles partners, Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabatini confessed yesterday they don't have much to say to each other on court. "We don't talk very much," said 18-year-old Argentine Sabatini after Graf whipped her 6-3, 6-0 in the Australian Open singles semi-final in Melbourne.
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    • 206 29 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Indiana 103 Boston 94, Philadelphia 120 Chicago 108, Detroit 105 Golden State 104, Dallas 117 Los Angeles Clippers 98, Utah 107 San Antonio 103. 10th Asian Basketball Confederation championships in Manila Men: China 93 Thailand 45, Iraq 101 Pakistan
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    • 171 29 AUSTRALIAN umpire Tom Johnston will arrive this weekend to conduct classes for Singapore's tennis umpires. His two-day session, on Jan 30-31, has been made possible through the International Tennis Federation's development fund, which seeks to improve the standards of tennis in Asia. Upgrading the standards of
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    • 215 30 GEYLANG International is not impressed with Tyrwhitt Soccerites' appeal to the FAS Council against the decision to award it full points in their Jan 14 Premier League match. the issue. "Let them appeal," said Geylang manager, Mr Patrick Ang. "I've said what I wanted to
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    • 392 30  -  Stories/ Abdul Shukor ANG MO Kio; newcomer to the National Football League, showed why it is the current leader of the Division II table yesterday. It beat Marine Castle 4-2 in a President's Cup match at Hoqgang, overcoming a jittery first half, when its players
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    • 227 30 NST. THE FA of Selangor is likely to look for its foreign pros in Yugoslavia, from where it recruited its coach Stevan Bena. Assistant team manager Tengku Ahmad Shah said the FA of Se langor was likely to get the three players within the next two months
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    • 219 30 JURONG Town's manag er K Suppiah feels Wednesday's shock loss to Safsa in the Premier League could have a bright side too. "In a way the loss did us a lot of good. It has woken up the sleeping tiger. Just watch us come back," Mr Suppiah
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      559 31 For Hashim Hosni and Ahmad Paijan the pay-for-play policy has come too late. Hashim was a soccer celebrity living on the charity of glory. Ahmad had to cross the Causeway for financial security Jalfeh PROBABLY, Hashim Hosni probably loves his three kids more than he loves soccer. Probably,
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    • 231 31 NST. THE Sabah Football Association has budgeted Msl million to mount a strong challenge in the Semi-pro League. Besides getting an English coach, it will also be engaging three full-time professionals, most likely from Indonesia, for its Second Division side. The bulk of the money will come
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    • 935 32 FRIDAY ►Gaubv AUSTRALIAN BATIK A collection of contemporary Australian batik by six Australian artists. Some have trained in South-east Asia, all have been influenced by its batik. On display at the Australian High Commission. Weekdays from 8.30 am to 5 pm. Ends Feb 3. SCULPTURE FROM TAIWAN. See
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    • 15 32 OUT AND ABOUT: Chinatown light-up FILM FESTIVAL: Times To Come CENTRESTAGE: Lunchtime concert
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    • 115 32 THE picture above shows the Alden weather display screen which forms part of the permanent Information Technology Exhibition at the Singapore Science Centre. The exhibition traces the historical development of IT and aims to give the public an opportunity to understand the latest developments in the
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