The New Paper, 7 March 1989

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  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1989 MO (F) 179/4/88 50 CENTS
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    • 296 1 A STAR H is born rn^m How our young Mandarin recording artistes, like Eric Moo (right), made it Ef. big. Pages 16 ft 17 Uk ANDY LAU AND BfSflH COMPANY PIN-UP mm TWO NUS STUDENTS 'HACKER' FROM NTI An WTI student tried to hack into NUS computer. Two NUS undergrads
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    • 39 1 pr||^ MOTHER'S LOVE SEARCH Tan Eng Hong reluctantly gave away her six-month-old baby 33 years ago. She's now desperately looking for Poh Hong. Page 6 DID SOMEONE SPIKE JOHNSON'S DRINK? Yes, "a black guy", suggests his coach. /Page 29
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  • 7 1 'NUDE PIX' SHOCK /P2 Picture/ LIANHE WANBAO
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 124 2 ALREADY on their feet for a toast are President Lee Teng-Hui from Taiwan (centre), Mr Lim Kim San (left) and Mr Lee Kuan Yew (right). The occasion: Last night's dinner at the Istana given by Mr Lim in honour of President Lee. Mr Lim is
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    • 195 2 DID a male model fancied to win this month's Manhunt 1989 finals pose nude for a foreign magazine, or did he not? This question overhangs the sudden withdrawal of Eugene Poh, 22, a model, from the contest. Lianhe Wanbao newspaper, quoting sources, said Eugene
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    • 435 2  -  By Lim Swee Hong TWO National University of Singapore undergraduates have been barred from campus until the next academic year. One was fined $500. Both committed security breaches involving the NUS computer system. They are required to repeat their course of study in the
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    • 319 3  -  Story and pictures/ Kenneth Koh A WILD harvest of durians is being plucked for free from state land in Jalan Bahtera off Lim Chu Kang Road. Residents say that many people have been going there in pick-ups on weekends to pick the fruit ever since
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    • 289 3  -  By Abdul Hadhi SIX birds from the Jurong Bird Park will be flying to Japan on Thursday. They'll be going on an aircraft. The birds are a Great Horned Owl, a Harris Hawk, a Striate Caracara, a Red-Fronted Amazon, a Toco Toucan
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    • 26 2 the weather WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over several areas in the afternoon. Maximum temperature: 31 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.18 pm.Sunrise tomorrow: 7.12 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 194 4 A PLUMBER woke up early yesterday morning after hearing cries of "fire!" only to find his motorcycle ablaze. All that remained of his Yamaha bike was a blackened shell. Mr Phua Choo Kin, 24, a Malaysian, had made the mistake of parking his motorcycle at
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    • 318 4  -  By I Ng Wan Ching A VISIT to a temple medium cost Madam Goh Siew Kee her peace of mind and three gold rings worth about $800. "He told me the evil spirits would be driven out of my body after he threw the
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    • 98 4 SINGAPORE'S "unknown" Aids centre is doing poor "business". Since the Aids Counselling Centre at Rochore Outpatient Dispensary opened in November last year, it has received very few visitors. One of its doctor-counsellors said: "Perhaps, Singaporeans are not worried about Aids." Another doctor commented: "Perhaps, we
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    • 223 4 A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy probably saved his mother yesterday when he woke her and told her the house was on fire. Madam Alimah binti Hassan, 37, a house- wife who is expecting her third child, had dozed off while knitting. She was roused by
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 597 6  -  By Angeline Song A MOTHER of seven is looking for a daughter she gave away 33 years ago. Two days ago Madam Tan Gng Hong, 62, a toilet cleaner, placed an advertisement in The Sunday Times' classifieds. Behind that ad is a tragic
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    • 326 6 A LAWYER said Madam Tan Eng Hong should have sought the help of the police if she had wanted her daughter back. "Or she could have gone to the welfare department of the Ministry of Community Development for advice," he said. "There is a children and youth
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    • 169 6 THESE words are in our stories today. The following notes will help you check their meanings. adulterated: Made poorer in quality by adding something not as good. astronomical: A price that is astronomical is very high. choreograph: Invent the steps and movements of some dance and tell dancers how
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    • 140 6  -  By] Ronald Wong LUCKY eights? Not where van driver Roland Erh Thiam Hock is concerned. On Sunday, thieves broke into his van in Geylang and got away with a buddha statue and his car stereo equipment. The registration number of the van?
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    • 286 7  -  By Harinder Gill NOT all cruises lead to nowhere. This Friday, one will lead to a new council for the Singapore Advertisers Association (SAA). The SAA is holding its 15th annual general meeting aboard the Singapore Princess. It may sound like fun, but it will be
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    • 200 7 DIFFERENT methods are used to forecast hotel room capacity. That is why forecasts on the number of hotel rooms in Singapore differ. Mr Lim Chin Beng, chairman of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, said this in a statement yesterday. He was responding to reports last
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    • 191 8 HAW Par Villa re-opens next month with a distinctively Oriental touch. Yet executives who will run the show are to be trained in the United States. Fraser and Neave is looking for nine "young, enthusiastic and vibrant people" to fill various executive vacancies
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    • 373 8  -  By( Geneieve Kwek THE travel agency Ken-Air is spending about $18,000 on advertisements to deny rumours that its tours to the US and Europe are sold out. A spokesman said the rumours that the company was not distributing brochures because its tours were sold out could have
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    • 263 8 TRAVEL agency Travel care must refund $500 each to four disappointed holidaymakers by Wednesday, March 15, the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board has ruled. STPB acted as a mediator in a dispute between two honeymoon couples and Travelcare over a Bangkok/Pattaya tour last month. The four
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    • 103 8 THE Changi airport crunch will loosen next month. About 5,700 extra seats will become available when eight airlines put on 58 more flights a week. Air links to Asian cities will be increased. There will be at least 10 extra flights a week. It will be
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    • 792 9 Having lived through the anxiety over results, some students are facing another kind of dilemma which junior college or Pre-U centre to choose. For many, it is a test of loyalties. Students are posted to junior colleges in January based on
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    • 149 7 Walk-in interviews 7 March to 12 March 1989. Work experience not required. Getting started Exciting opportunities for girls Join the Army. And build a secure and Yes! There are many challenging careers for you H| rewarding career. as well. You'll specialise in areas related to sector \l fyJ U P
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 288 10 Wire services. A I US Supreme Court ruling may force new caution on the American press when it ret ports documents released by foreign governments. The ruling, in effect, makes the media liable for the accuracy of information released by a foreign power and
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    • 183 10 Wire services. COUP leader Gregorio Honasan has issued a nine-point demand for peace talks with the Philippine government. He warned that he would mount an offensive late this year if these were not met. Philippines' President Corazon Aquino immediately rejected the demands, a spokesman said yesterday.
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    • 164 10 Wire services. TWO people have died in the crash of two commuter trains in Scotland Britain's second such crash in two days. Forty-four people were hurt in yesterday's accident near Glasgow, officials said. The two suburban electric trains crashed near Bellgrove Station in Glasgow, about
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    • 113 10 Wire services. ITALIAN airline pilots have decided to give money to charity instead of striking for higher pay. They gave the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) $74,000 yesterday. "A strike only works if people know the motives and feel the effects," Mr Carlo Loris
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    • 113 11 Wire services. MISSING millions from a Greek bank went into the pocket of Premier Andreas Papandreou, reports a US news magazine. Time magazine says in its latest issue that the charge has been made by the former owner of the Bank of Crete, George Koskotas.
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    • 230 11 Wire services. A US army officer has pleaded guilty to spying for the Soviet bloc. The guilty plea came at the. start of the military trial of Warrant Officer James W Hall 111, 30, in Washington yesterday. Hall was earlier charged with 10
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    • 53 11 Tragedy: Relatives mourn one of the 130 victims killed by a poisonous batch of bootleg liquor in the Indian state of Gujarat. Another 150 remain critically ill. Some are not expected to live. Since liquor is banned in the state, home-made brew is widely consumed there by
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    • 119 11 Wire services. LAOS has delayed a search with US teams for remains of missing American soldiers. The delay is an apparent response to US charges that Laos encouraged narcotics trafficking. The delay came after official Vientiane radio reacted sharply to charges contained in a
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    • 76 11 Wire services. INDIA has agreed "in principle" to give humanitarian aid to war-torn Afghanistan. The understanding follows an appeal by Afghan President Najibullah to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. His letter was delivered to Mr Gandhi by Afghan Foreign Minister Abdul Wakil. An extremely harsh winter
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    • 49 12 One-man showr Spanish bullfighter Juan Herrera, dressed for work, seeks support on a Madrid street He wants the public to back his bid for a fight at the Los Ventas ring. A fight there is a must for any bullfighter who aims to get ahead. Picture/Reuter
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    • 264 12 Wire services. TWO Americans who fled the US after being charged with running a child homosexual sex service have been jailed on similar charges in Bangkok. Thai officials say they acted at the request of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with
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    • 121 12 Wire Services. LUXURY West German car firm Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a new model to revive its sagging image as a sports car maker. It is a two-seater convertible SL, powered by a choice of three-litre six-cylinder engines or a five-litre VB. The sports car is
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      268 12 Wire services. SHARE prices on the London Stock Exchange rose yesterday. But trading activity was thin, with players waiting cautiously for the British budget to be presented next week. Several factors combined to boost prices, including a strengthening of the pound and a shortage of stocks among market makers.
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    • 99 12 Wire services. SHARE prices fell sharply in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The slump followed the arrest of the former chairman of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) on suspicion of bribe-taking in connection with the Recruit share scandal, brokers said. The arrest revived concern that
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Mon 1,706.4 (1,697.50) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,294.82 (2,274.29) ST Industrial Mon 1,119.91 (1,118.42) NST Industrial Mon' 1,956.03 (1,953.49) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 3,058.95 (3.056.58) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,512.90 (1,507.90) Nikkei Stock Average Mon 31,876.86 (32,000.10) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading
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      260 12 Wire services. WALL Street stocks posted broad gains yesterday in activity dominated by buying of communications and entertainment issues. Analysts said the weekend merger agreement between Time Inc and Warner Communications touched off speculation that other entertainment and publishing companies, also, might be heading for mergers or takeovers.
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 297 13  -  Stories^ Lim Swee Hong THE secret of Special Penang Food's success lies in the sauces. And the Kam sisters intend to keep it that way. Madam Christine Kam is co-owner of the Changi Road coffee shop, specialising in Penang food, with her elder sister Juliet. When asked
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    • 338 13 Special Penang Food 351, Changi Road (Junction of Lor Marzuki and Changi Road) 7.30 am to 12 midnight $2 onwards SPECIAL Penang Food serves nine delicious Penang dishes under one roof. The shop enjoys a continuous stream of customers. "It's very difficult for
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    • 269 13  -  MICROWAVECOOK By K Karuna THEY are inexpensive but rich in fibre and protein. They also boost one's stamina. Besides beans black, lima, kidney and soya pulses also include chickpeas and lentils. They are best served as a soup lavished with either fresh herbs or
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  • 454 14 Showtime Tanamera, the $10 million mini-series, which was largely shot in Singapore late last year, was shown on Australian television last month. MAGDALENE HAUW, a Singaporean studying in a Sydney university, put aside her books for three nights to watch the seven-hour show. This is her verdict L
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1422 15 Television raw mCultural Moments Masters Reaching For The Skies Lighter Tuesday Premiere Top Secret SCREEN M The Performing Arts: Maureen Than Air (10.30pm, SBC 5) Forrester and The Edison Gala (8.00 pm, SBC this performances have entranced German Hindenburg in the 1930s Starrir^'va/Kjlmer*Lu^J 6 audiences on five continents. The nearly.brought
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  • showtime
    • 1353 16 The road to fame is paved with sweat and tears. And our young Mandarin recording artistes have certainly paid their dues. VIVIEN CHIONG talks to some big homegrown names about the grit beyond the glitz and also probes the packaging of a new teenybopper group
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    • 372 16 WEA'S NEW TEENYBOPPER TIME-BOMBS 2-4-6. THAT'S the tentative name of a six-member group WEA is grooming. The reason for the strange name: "Most of us are students, so 1,3,5 we study and 2,4,6 we sing," said Lim Meng Loon, referring to the days
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 424 18 M I ■AKE a date with Grammy Award winner Ernie Watts. On March 22 and 23, he will take centrestage in a concert with Jeramzee and Friends at the Crystal Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency hotel. Nights of top fusion jazz featuring celebrated tunes
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    • 417 18 USA Today. DEBBIE Gibson will tell you exactly where she stands. She hates washing dishes. She likes Big Macs, Snoopy, Guns 'N' Roses, ice skating, shopping for hats and, you guessed it, boys. "I'm glad the image I portray is totally honest.
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    • 234 18  -  0SEENLASTNK3HT By Wong Sing Yeong KUDOS to SBC for the delayed live transmission of the World Indoor Athletics Championship in Budapest. The telecast last night took place hours after the events were completed in Hungary. The Grammy Awards last month was also screened on the
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    • 143 18 THE film News Attack, gives an insight into the world of journalism. Starring as pressmen are Eric Tsang, Miu Kiu Wai and Wilson Lam and teenage idol Andy Lau. You've probably never seen Eric in such a serious role. The chubby comedian's height (or
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    • 365 19 THE seven judges at SBC's Bintang 89 Malay Talentime grand final on March 27 are in for a tough time. If the last semi-final of the singing contest held last night is anything to go by, deciding on one winner will be a difficult task.
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    • Article, Illustration
      242 19 A FISH CALLED WANDA (Cathay, Marina 1) JAMIE Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and John Cleese are together in a witty comedy. Cathay: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 pm. Marina 1: 1, 3.30, 7, 9 pm. GORILLAS IN THE MIST (Lido) SIGOURNEY Weaver plays Dian Fossey, who lived among
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    • 391 20  -  Young People's Theatre Petrouchke By Tears off Joy SLF Auditorium March 6 (3 pm/ 8 pm) f March 7 (3 pm) and March 8 (8 pm) Tickets: $4 and $10 ffrom Central Booking Office, Victoria Theatre, Tangs and Centrepoint REVIEW/ By Geralj Geraldine Goh THE
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    • 301 20  -  By Sonja Tan MOVIE ticket prices here in Singapore are not just reasonable, they're among the lowest in the world. Going to the movies is one of the most affordable forms of entertainment. Compared with Japan, where prices are an astronomical $21.75, going to
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      256 20 USA Today. CHER PRESENCE CHER, last year's best actress for Moonstruck, will be a presenter on this year's Oscars show, a pageant so rich in splendour it almost makes the head explode even to think about it. Also presenting: Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, who costarred in Hitchcock's Vertigo.
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 509 21  -  Stories/ Karen Goh ITS official closing is still three weeks away. But only a ghost of the Change Alley spirit remains. Some stalls have already pulled down the shutters for the last time. Those that remain wait gloomily for the end. "It's sad.
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    • 330 21 CHANGE Alley has changed a lot over the years. It was a magnet for shoppers, browsers and adventurers long before the Orchard Road shopping centres mushroomed in the 70s. Its stalls and makeshift stands lined both sides of the cramped corridor linking Collyer Quay
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    • 1512 24 RADIOGUIDE BQI E233EQH EHEEEH mamaaiKim?! mmm NOON Nm iii Bri«f (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News in Brief and Weather NOON Good Music, Company and Ma: NOON Nawsdask 11 ac u o u/tnu r.. u ii.t u i.. i :„u» Report Tune in for some great sounds 12.30 The Learning Worid
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  • SPORTS
    • 251 25 AFP. SCOTLAND striker Mo Johnston is doubtful for tomorrow's World Cup soccer qualifier against France in Glasgow. The 25-year-old, who has scored in the Scots' last three qualifying games, was hurt by his own striking partner Ally McCoist during a sprint session in training yesterday. Scotland manager
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      320 25 Wire services. FORMER West German international star Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is to retire at the end of the season. The striker has decided not to renew his contract, which expires on June 30, with Swiss First Division side Servette. Rummenigge, who will be 34 in September, moved to Servette from
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    • 442 26  -  By Shahiron Sahari JULIANA Lee is determined to take part in the ABC Stout Singapore Triathlon in November despite a training accident last Thursday that left her with cracked bones in five places. Said Juliana, who cycled into a stationary two-and-a-half ton truck barely five minutes into
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    • 136 26 QIGONG sth movement FLOWING from the fourth movement, the fifth starts off with the left hand clenched while right hand is open and moving down. With both palms facing up and arms moving up, withdraw right foot and return to
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    • 348 27 Reuter. CARL Lewis says at least 90 per cent of the world's top athletics competitors do not use banned formance-en-hanc i n g drugs. "A very small percentage of iL L this sport are on drugs, but it's a percentage that is performing well and beating other
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    • 558 27 AP, Reuter. BEN Johnson's track coach suggested yesterday that the sprinter was a victim of sabotage. He said the runner had been taking steroids until just before the 1988 Summer Olympics, but not the drug for which he tested positive. "1 was totally shocked," Charlie
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    • 296 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Utah 85 Atlanta 83, Milwaukee 103 Cleveland 98, Houston 88 LA Lakers 83, Detroit 109 Miami 100, Washington 114 Charlotte 101, Indiana 121 Portland 118, Sacramento 110 Golden State 96. SOCCER Scottish Div 2: Stenhousemuir 1 East Stirling 2.
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    • 231 27 RACING... with MALCOLM BASTIANS J SIR TOBY 111 is firming up to a good bet for the Singapore Derby on Sunday. The St Puck 1 e gelding did a round of pacework before covering the final 600 m on grass in 40.4 at
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    • Article, Illustration
      285 28 Hussein Ahmad Satar was a surprise inclusion in national coach Jita Singh's squad. Is he the answer to Singapore's striking woes? ABDUL SHUKOR finds out PUT him in front of a goal and quiet, soft-spoken Hussein Ahmad Satar turns into a poaching predator. That's why he has scored
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    • 288 28 THE Premier League Committee has ignored Police's appeal to have the replay of its abandoned Premier League match against Jurong at Clementi Stadium, its home ground. The replay has been fixed for April 5 at 7.30 pm, at Jalan Besar Stadium. The managers of both
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    • 299 29  -  BOWLING: KENT MALAYSIAN OPEN By Alfonso Chan ONLY one of Singapore's top six men bowlers Sam Goh will be in the Republic's four-man team for the Kent Malaysian Open from Mar 1-12 in Petaling Jaya. Mike Wee, Tan Wan Che, Rahman Noor, and Lim Choon Heng
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    • 77 29 MaSCOt: There are about five months to go for the Sea Games in Kuala Lumpur but Johan the Turtle is already there. The smiling official Games mascot can be seen on several neon signs in Kuala Lumpur, like this one being put up in front
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    • 98 29 TVSPORTS TO pi 7.«*n: WddAthl.Ua. '—mI lights the legal battle between the Mercury WED II 'jjl 7 00p International Sports. Whiti^l^^ZeS- land ana the San Diego Yacht Club, United ($l2 10.35pm: Midweek Sports: States. iwi'l Road to Wembley. ii n Jl2 j 7.30pm: Sportscene: Rugby THURS S8 10.30pm: Sports Centre:
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  • UPDATE
    • 892 30 TUESDAY Gallery ART OF TANG DA WU. See more than 50 of Tang Da Wu's oil paintings and drawings at the Home Documentation exhibition. At the Art Base Gallery, 78 Shenton Way. #01-02. 10 am to 6 pm. On Sundays, the gallery is open from 1
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    • 19 30 OUT AND ABOUT: Make a movie and win NIGHTLIGHTS: Eldee Young Quartet COMING UP: Kid's music competition
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    • 144 30 BACK when Malaysia was still a British colony called Malaya its charms and features were captured in watercolours. Photography was not yet a common medium for documentation. So Sir Frank Swettenham's artistic hobby turned out to be a valuable record of life in those times. Sir Frank
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