The New Paper, 20 February 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1989 MQ (P) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 201 1 LOOTERS TRY TO PLUNDER PLANE Ten people were arrested for trying to steal from a downed cargo plane. It crashed outside Kuala Lumpur. 100 policemen now patrol the area. Villagers living nearby are raising money "to thank God that we are alive today"./ Page 10 WHO'S ON TOP? Hongkong music
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    • 55 1 YA0HAN DISCOUNT PLUS NEWSMAN LUCKY DRAW Buy The New Paper today and save. (Discount coupon inside lets you buy goods from Yaohan at a bargain price. Different bargains each day. Today it is tuna fish. You can also use the receipt for a lucky draw. Newsman Travel is offering trips
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    • 23 1 DONT BE A HAIRY DEVIL At least 10 schools warn: No moustache, no trendy haircut. What principals, teachers and students say./ Page 3
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  • 36 1 She came here too heavy and too awkward. Now Miss Nigeria is back home with a Singapore look lighter and more graceful. She's pictured in Singapore-made gown. Page 21 Picture/ Choo Chwee Hwa
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 406 2 POLICE Corporal Mirza Abdul Halim, killed in the line of duty, had planned to become engaged to his childhood sweetheart. His eldest brother, Mr Mirza Abdul Hamid, 43, said yesterday that plans for Cpl Abdul Halim's engagement were already afoot. He said
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    • 158 2 Wire services. SOUTH African Fransie Geringer is alive at age 160. In calendar years, he is actually 16. But Fransie suffers from the rare ageing disease, progeria. This makes him age 10 times faster than other humans. His age in medical terms has qualified
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    • 216 2 A BAD black night is coming for superstitious souls who already find the Year of the Snake an uneasy time. They take it as an ominous sign that the first full moon will not shine for long when it rises tonight in the
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    • 45 2 Shin Min Daily News. A CHINESE play named "Rats' Meat in Cans" will be staged at 20 junior colleges and secondary schools between March 5 and April 2. It will be performed by the Shijian Drama Troupe Shin Min Daily News.
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    • 578 3  -  Principals think that students should learn to be neat and tidy and that means no trendy hairstyles or moustaches. Some feel that the macho-moustache look distracts students from their studies. One principal feels that by discouraging students from sporting fancy hairstyles, Western culture is
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 544 4 IF your account number is *****54, we know you've got $28,440.07 in the bank. If your account is *****84, we know that at 2:06 pm last Wednesday you withdrew $200. And that left you with only $11.01 in the bank! If you want to
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    • 262 5 TWO business partners won the top prize: A sleek fire-engine red Honda Prelude. But, being practical business people, they found a buyer even before they had warmed the driver's seat. One partner says the car is too "hot". "It's too sporty for me," said Madam
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    • 133 5 "NO, darling, it's not chocolate," housewife Madam Angela Chia, 35, told her three-year-old daughter, Adelina. Adelina kept trying to tear away the wrappers from the two shiny yellow bars, which adults know better as gold. "These two can buy you many, many
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    • 213 5 POLICE found a dozen video recording machines running when they burst into a one-room flat yesterday at 5.30 pm. The raid by police and private investigators is believed to have cut off supplies in an illegal trade involving copies of Hongkong Cantonese serials. About 550
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    • 575 6  -  By Irene Hoe SATURDAY'S report on women taxi drivers made Miss Julia Loh angry not at the women but at taxi owners who won't let them rent cabs. Our report said that though 290 women held taxi licences, only a handful are able to rent
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    • 294 6 MAILBOX Dear Editor, A HAWKER had his signboard taken away by the police because the words "penis soup" were displayed on it. It was removed under the Undesirable Publications Act. The hawker got around the problem by using the words "organ soup" But
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    • 215 6 I ADMIRE your efforts at running illustrated news features as centrespreads on a range of subjects. The "19th Century Singapore" of Feb 1 was a good attempt at raising interest in the early days of Singapore under the British Raj. However, the story appears to
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    • 125 6 I REFER to your report on the murder of Lim Lee Tin at Choa Chu Kang Christian Cemetery (TNP, Jan 30) which states, among other things, that it was the coroner who discovered that the deceased was a woman. I would first like
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    • 465 7  -  By Chitra Rajaram WOMEN want to man the guns and ride the tanks. They want the thrills of riding a motor-cycle. They want to handle and train police dogs. A recruitment exercise by Singapore Armed Forces over the weekend showed that many women are keen
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    • 96 8 It's 3 am and you're locked out of your home. It's midnight and you've got a toothache. It's 2.30 in the morning and your toilet is overflowing. What to do? All-night services are booming. They include electrical and plumbing services, car breakdown services, locksmiths, doctors and
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    • 184 8 PLUMBER AND ELECTRICIAN NOT many after-midnight calls come in for Mr Tan Kim Leng, 31. When one does, the work often stinks. The people are nice, though. Mr Tan provides both electrical and plumbing services. His pager is on 24 hours a day. He will deal with
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    • 77 8 DOCTOR ON CALL THERE is a special satisfaction for the doctor who is on call 24 hours a day. A doctor we spoke to agrees it is tough to handle an emergency in the middle of the night. So what keeps him going? "The fact that a
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    • 299 8 LOCKSMITH FAMILY quarrels are an occupational hazard for Mr K L Chan, a 38-year-old locksmith who offers night service. He gets some unusual calls. "There are cases where husbands lock their wives out of the house after a quarrel, and vice versa," he said. "At
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    • 190 8 COFFEE LOUNGE CAPTAIN LATE night customers can be a pain but Mr Don Chua says they usually have one pleasing habit, they tip big. The 25-year-old has been captain of the 24-hour coffee lounge in Goodwood Park hotel for about five years now. He does the 11
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    • 147 8 WORKING odd hours is it bad for the health? A university lecturer of medicine said: "There is no conclusive evidence that working odd hours adversely affects a person's health or adds extra stress." But the information on this may be skewed because those who
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    • 190 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. having a field day: Having a pleasant and exciting time doing something. brusqueness: Impolite behaviour or manner such as being blunt or curt. chamber music: Classical music written for
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    • 530 9 DOES a woman invite rape if she wears tight fitting or revealing clothing? Not really, Singapore men say though some say clothes and behaviour do play a part. The question was prompted by a caller who commented on our story about the "Bedok rapist who carried
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    • 88 9 A TANKER collided head-on with a lorry loaded with granite and burst into flames on Saturday. Police said the tanker driver, Mr Ang Wee Seng, 32, was killed. Mr Ang, of Jurong West, was thrown out of the vehicle into water 6.3-m deep. Navy frogmen recovered
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    • 50 6 DOPED) SO EASY Innocent girls are reported being doped at partiee and raped. To eee bow it could J happen, reporter Chitra Rajarain takee tj under controlled conditionaljil i End~£pi Thursday, Feb 2 WITNESS GETS 7 DEATH THREATS here for^ewonsj/ Saturday, Feb 11 FORMER LOVER'S V-PAY REVENGE?/ Monday, Feb 13
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 450 10 Malay Mail and Wire services. L OOTERS have been caught attempting to plunder a downed US Boeing 747 cargo 1 plane in Malaysia, police say. A spokesman said that 10 people were arrested late yesterday as they tried to take computer software,
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    • 273 10 Wire services. US President George Bush departs Wednesday on his first overseas journey as president a fastpaced trip to three Asian nations. President Bush will spend more than five days travelling to Japan, China and South Korea. White House officials said the trip offers an
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    • 90 10 Wire services. IRANIAN spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini says author Salman Rushdie cannot be forgiven even if he repents for writing The Satanic Verses. He said it was the duty of every Muslim to make sure Mr Rushdie was sent to hell. "Even if Salman
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    • 164 10 Wire services TRIBAL radicals threaten a new rebellion in India's northeastern frontier. The latest revolt is spearheaded by the Bodo tribe, which is demanding the division of the oil-rich border state of Assam into two. It wants the half on the north bank of the
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    • 128 10 Wire services. SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is in Taipei today on the first leg of a trip that will take him to Tokyo for the funeral of Emperor Hirohito. Aides say Mr Lee's visit to Taiwan will lay groundwork for a visit to Singapore next
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    • 256 11 Wire services. A PROVINCIAL capital in central Afghanistan has fallen into rebels' hands, say guerilla sources. The fall of Tarin Kot, which could not be confirmed independently, would be the first major victory by the Muslim guerillas since the Soviet Union completed its troop withdrawal
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    • 113 11 Wire services. US Secretary of State James Baker has ruled out an early meeting of big powers to seek a solution to the Middle East crisis. "There ought to be some quiet consultation done before we ever get close to that," said Mr Baker
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    • 187 11 Wire services. AN ANGRY Pakistani policeman kept hundreds of Afghan rebels trapped inside a pilgrim centre after shooting his superior dead in Rawalpindi. Yesterday's killing took place outside the main gate of the centre where 460 mujahideen were discussing the formation of a
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    • 122 11 Wire services. MORE than 20 people were injured when some 5,000 South Koreans clashed with police outside a university in Pusan. The casualties came as workers and student radicals attacked riot police with petrol bombs and stones yesterday. The security forces hit back
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    • 258 11 Wire services. NATURE was too much for Mr Fumio Niwa. His attempt to become the first to cross the Pacific Ocean alone in a balloon ended in failure, his wife said yesterday. Mrs Noriko Niwa told reporters: "He just wasn't able to beat nature."
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    • 192 12 Wire services. A PREVIOUSLY unknown group called the Black Cats has claimed responsibility for killing 20 Sinhalese militants in a Sri Lankan massacre. The bodies, burnt and with gunshot wounds, were discovered late on Saturday in villages in Anuradhapura district, 165 km north-east of
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    • 332 12 Wire services. V 'lETNAM will not withdraw its 50,000 troops from Cambodia until December 1990 if a political solution to the conflict does not emerge in coming months. That was the message from Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach yesterday as the second Jakarta Informal
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    • 110 12 Reuter. SHARE prices rose in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today after US December trade data on Friday turned out in line with expectations, brokers said. The Nikkei index put on 93.21 points, or 0.29 per cent, to 32,266.60 in 10 minutes of trade. It rose 89.81
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    • 149 12 Wire services. A TAIWANESE group plans to set up privately-funded scholarships for mainland Chinese students in the US. The group is called the Grand Alliance of Reunification of China under the Three Principles of China. A spokesman said it hoped
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    • 52 12 Salute: Graduatee of the elite Philippine Military Academy toes their hats in the air to mark the end of their four-year officers' training course. The officers were urged by President Corazon Aquino to guard the gains of the 1986 revolution which toppled long-time strongman Ferdinand Marcos.
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    • 127 12 Wire services. ARMED men commandeered a bus taking 28 Japanese tourists to a shrine outside the Philippine capital and robbed them of money and valuables worth $72,000. A police spokesman said the tourist bus had just pulled up outside the Yamashita shrine in Los Banos,
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 430 13 Tiffany Coffee House Furama Hotel $5.50++ for local set lunch 11.30 am to 2.30pm By Lim Swee Hong NO time. Must eat. Where to go? Try Tiffany Coffee House at Furama Hotel. It serves a daily lunch special with a main dish and
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    • 372 13 YOU hear a lot about safe sex lately, mainly to do with condoms. Now comes another safe sex tip eat right to avoid cervical cancer. Doctors say cervical cancer is almost always sexually transmitted. And it is reported on the rise over much of the
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    • 236 13 LAST year Singapore bought 4.6 million bottles of cognac, 1.4 million bottles of French wine and nearly half a million bottles of champagne. Hie. And that's only from one country never mind the stuff that comes here from the rest of Europe, Australia and the
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  • 650 14  -  Showtime By Zack Lin IN HONGKONG A MAJOR takeover is imminent in the Hongkong music scene. Reigning champions Alan Tam and Anita Mui will have to keep a sharp look-out for contenders Leslie Cheung and Sally Yeh. The two younger singers have won Round One, as
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1903 15 Showcase Horizon The Transplanted Entertainment This Week EN /The Long Night (B/W) J3. Brain (10.30 P m, SBC 5) r GEMS W J HH ~7 (9.30pm, SBC 12) WILL Ronald Reagan go back to M (10.20pm, SBC 12) Mm W Jf NEW techniques are currentlv acting? This edition looks at
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  • showtime
    • 1218 16 IF you dabble in business any business it's not what you put in that matters most. More importantly, it's what you take out that counts. And in the topsy-turvy world of showbiz, this makes more sense. Patrick Lee, 32, had big plans and even
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    • 57 16 When the oil-money dried up: Matthew Tan at Matthew's before the club went bust The right formula: Resident band Tania performing at Anywhere. The no-frills pub is raking in the stuff. Tired of J***" Michael Isaac at the entrance of Club 392 before it was
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    • 444 16 FACTSHEET For the first-timer in the entertainment business. here are some tits. From rental to beanuts SO you want to own a pub. You want to set up a place where your friends can gather and trade stories over an ice-cold mug of beer. You want
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 351 18  -  A Fish Called Wanda Yesterday morning show Marina 1 Coming to Cathay cinemas REVIEW/ By Adeline Woon T I HROW together a strange quartet of jewel thieves, a stuffy British lawyer, a fish called Wanda, and you'll get a sparkling witty comedy. Repartees come
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    • 149 18 SOME of the lines in the movie are gems. It's wry, witty British humour at its best. Wanda tells the rather thick Otto that the London underground is not a political movement but the subway system. Otto compliments Ken by saying that he has
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    • Article, Illustration
      226 18 MR COCONUT (Cathay cinemas) A COMEDY about a country bumpkin (Michael Hui) who has his first taste of city life when he goes to Hongkong. Also stars Raymond Wong, Olivia Cheng and Wong Jo-yin but Michael is the main draw. Highly recommended. PEDICAB DRIVER (Eng Wah cinemas) ACTION movie
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    • 163 18 AFTER 12 years of being together, Tania is still a big name on the local entertainment scene. "I don't really know why we've lasted this long. We don't even do anything together in our spare time," says Zul. Having
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    • 469 19  -  By Vivien Chiong A SUDDEN downpour yesterday afternoon washed out a stunt show which was to be part of the new SBC television series Patrol. Three stunts had been scheduled for filming at the Police Academy grounds on Whitley Road. But only one could be completed.
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    • 327 19  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang NIGERIAN beauty Bianca Onoh will never forget Singapore. Every time the breeze caresses her dusky skin, the 21-year-old stunner will think of her two-week stint here and blush. She will be remembering the day she walked down Orchard Road with
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    • 123 19  -  i^SEENLASTNIGHT By Adeline Woon KITCHENS on TV are unreal. Everything is always hunky-dory. No blunt knives. TV cooks never have to contend with stuck lids on jars. So how much would you trust a TV cook? In yesterday's What's Cooking? (5 pm, SBC
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    • 935 20 Los Angeles Times Syndicate. SO you think you're a music Can. You listen to the radio, you go to concerts, you buy magazines and albums. All told, you think you have a pretty good idea of what happened on the pop and rock scene
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    • Article, Illustration
      303 20 Wire Services. LONELY JACKSON MICHAEL Jackson "Many girls want to rescue me from my loneliness but they give me the impression they want to share my loneliness, which I wouldn't wish on anybody, because I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world." Smash Hits. DOWN-TO-EARTH STAR
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  • 368 21 FASHIONTODAY Tired of the ups and downs in hemlines? Change. Take your next stride out in pants. From slim cuts to bold and wild flares, they're back to kill in formal day and evening wear. Thanks to the high priests of high fashion NYT p
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    • 1675 24 RADIOGUIDE EMiZMI EEHHH »;h»ii»hJ manmmnfll EH9HHI NOON Nows la Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News in Brief and Weather NOON Good Music, Company and Mr NOON Newsdesk 12.05 Lunchdate: Listen to some en- NOON Easy Listening: A selection of Noon-time entertainment to 12.30 Dangerous in Lava: Detective tertaining musical fare
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  • SPORTS
    • 167 26 FA CUP AFP, Reuter. NOTTINGHAM Forest outclassed Sec- ond-Division Watford 3-0 yesterday to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals. Unbeaten for 13 games and already through to the semifinals of the Littlewoods and Simod Cups, Forest forced 11 corners in the first 17 minutes before Neil Webb shot in
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    • 220 26 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS IPOH trainer Malcolm Thwaites* strategy of sending only a trickle of newcomers in restricted terms races throughout this season is paying off. With his entries finally firing at Penang over the weekend, he narrowed the gap with archrival, champion trainer Teh Choon Beng.
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    • 204 26 "MIAN LtAGUE AFP. INTER MILAN bounced back from its surprise first defeat of the season at Fiorentina last week to beat bottom-of-the table Ascoli 3-1 yesterday. And with Napoli being held 1-1 away at Atalanta, Inter moved two points clear at the top of the table. Inter
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    • 293 26 REST OF EUROPE Wire services. AJAX Amsterdam stumbled to a 3-2 defeat away to relegation can- didates Sparta of Rotterdam in the Dutch First Division. Although it retained second place in the league, Ajaz dropped to five points behind leader PSV Eindhoven, which thrashed Venlo 5-2.
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    • 226 26 (WORLD I YOUTH CUP AP. FAVOURITE Brazil went on a second-half spree and trounced Mali 5-0 in a Group C match at Jeddah yesterday. Surprisingly held goalless in k/UA|/t iUlllglJ UViU gl/CUA^fXI the first half, Brazil went up through Cassio Alves de Barroe five minutes after the break.
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    • 243 27 JUST one missing top rider was enough reason for the Singapore Amateur Cycling Association to shorten the course of yesterday's Sea Games trials at Changi. The absence of champion Kenneth Tan, who's temporarily hung up his bike for paternity reasons, saw the road race cut
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    • 430 27  -  Stories/ T R Ramakrishnan T i HE $250,000 Tiger Beer Pacific Rim Tennis Championships, starting today at the Kallang Tennis Centre, is great preparation for the Singapore Davis Cup team. That's what Dr Ong Leong Boon, president of the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association, feels.
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    • 244 27 GUESS what was bothering top-seeded Steve Guy on the eve of the Tiger Beer Pacific Rim Tennis Championships. Night lights Singapore's night lights. Guy, a winner the two times he's played before in Singapore, takes on Indonesia's Daniel Haryonto at 7pm today in his first round
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    • 489 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Charlotte 119 Indiana 114, Cleveland 118 Philadelphia 100, NY Knicks 125 New Jersey 115, Houston 105 Dallas 94, Utah 107 San Antonio 93, Golden State 121 Detroit 119, Washington 98 Los Angeles Clippers 93, Seattle 116 Portland 115, Phoenix
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    • 389 28  -  By Shahiron Sahari except us. JURONG Town will gladly grab a walkover if Police refuses a replay of their abandoned Premier League match yesterday. So says Jurong team manager K. Suppiah, after his Police counterpart Syed Kadir Alsree was adamant that it should not be replayed
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    • 233 29 RUGBY... with SHAHIRON SAHARII SINGAPORE has been drawn with Asian champion South Korea in pool B of the 1989 Hongkong International Rugby Sevens tournament, on April 1-2. Also in pool B is Irish Wolfhounds, a selection of Irish and guest internationals. Said Singapore coach Song Koon
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    • 418 29  -  By Alfonso Chan THREE titles for the Indonesians. That is the hope of team manager Eddie Yusof who arrived yesterday morning with a squad of seven for the Konica Cup Asian Invitation badminton championships starting on Wednesday. Respect for the top two Chinese players here men's singles Zhao
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