The New Paper, 11 April 1989

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    • 82 1 i ik. i I i LAND sS LOCKED Nepal is importing oil from Singapore to test "an Indian economic blockade". Will India stop the oil trucks rolling across from Calcutta to the land-locked mountain kingdom?/ Page 10 LOVE TORN Filipino maid tells of 10-year friendship turned sour and how two
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    • 8 1 SPORTS PENG SIONG, THE COACH I /Page 31
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  • 12 1 PIANO TEACHER DOREEN HAVING A BALL—DANCING /Pate 8 Picture/ AundryGan
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  • 57 1 Natural beauty in the raw sits calmly on fringe of a bustling HDB town. Its name is Bukit Batok Nature Park. Residents say it is a paradise for jogging and quiet contemplation. For Mr Ibrahim bin Ismail, 23, construction worker, it is a calm oasis for
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 451 2  -  By Yusman Ahmad o NE of the two Filipino maids found with their wrists slashed in Lucky Plaza has recounted a tale of close friendship. It lasted 10 years and then it turned sour in Singapore. Ms Carmelita Suarec, 28, spoke
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    • 111 2 Wire services. CHINA says an energy crisis has forced power cutbacks in factories, hospitals and households nationwide. Official newspapers said even the homes of senior politicians and the lights of central Beijing's Tiananmen Square had been blacked out recently by power cuts, for the first
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    • 386 2  -  By Loh Tuan Lee IT WAS a good show even if it did throw up a lot of dust. And even if one block was left standing at the end of it all. Residents of Block 191 at Boon Lay Drive gathered
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    • 493 3  -  Story/ Loh Tuan Lee BUKIT Batok Nature Park packs a lot of nature in the raw. Yet its 36 hectares are also people-friendly. The park combines the best features of a town park and a nature reserve easily accessible, but not small or stiffly artificial. Its
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 34 2 THE WEATHER THE weather outlook from noon to midnight: Showers over several areas in the late afternoon and early evening. Maximum temperature: 33 degrees. Minimum: 24 degrees. Sunset: 7.09 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 7.01 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 417 4  -  By Augustine Low SOME hand phone users are giving the VIP treatment to their gadget they have taken up an insurance policy for it. It insures the users from theft, damage from accidentally dropping it, and damage caused by sea water. Mr Eddie Foo, 31, who
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    • 275 4 FROM today, all handphone and portable phone users will be able to make and receive calls while travelling underground in MRT trains. A Singapore Telecom statement today said this was a world's first for Singapore. Other improvements announced today: Extra seven base stations on
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    • 457 4 HIS punk hairdo earns him the name Rod Stewart although all he could do is fly, and, yes, break chicken eggs. The 20-year-old Egyptian vulture is the newest addition to the Jurong Bird Park's Fuji World of Hawks Show. He breaks chicken eggs by
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    • 221 5 p tEOPLE queued for an hour Fon Sunday to get free cock-roach-killers. The response to an advertisement in The New Paper on the non-aerosol insecticide Wipeout was very good. The queue started even before the booth was opened. To get a box of Wipeout, a
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    • 133 5 A MONTH-OLD baby boy died after milk got into his lungs while he was being fed. He remained in a coma until he died two days later, a coroner's court heard yesterday. Bryan Koh Seng Tee died of aspiration pneumonia after inhaling the
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    • 321 6  -  By Angeline Song LIKE the Miss Universe '87 Pageant where the finalists stayed and trained together for the big night, the Miss Union finalists will do the same. They will stay in the NTUC Pasir Ris Resort from April 27 to 30
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    • 105 6 THIS is the very first beauty contest for clerk Morni Mohamed Esa, 22. She is so new to the game that during the heats "everything was a blur". "The spotlight was so bright I could not see anyone, not even the judges. So I pretended that no
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    • 93 6 COMPARED with most other finalists, Madeline Ng, 22, a purchaser at The Body Shop, is a veteran, having taken part in three beauty contests. So "the deportment and catwalking sessions during the stay at Pasir Ris will not be all that important to me," said Miss Ng. "However,
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    • 322 6 GROOMING, managing stress and handling a job interview were some tips students of Raffles Junior College learnt last weekend. It was a parent-arranged seminar on personal development. The idea started with Dr Chio Lee Foon, mother of one of the
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    • 142 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The notes will help you check their meanings. chivalrous: Describing a man who is kind, honourable and unselfish, espe- cially towards women. cloisonne: Ornamental work in which different colours of enamel are kept apart by thin copper lines. compassionate: Describes a person
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    • 407 7  -  By Chitra Rajaram A SIMPLE test in the privacy of her home can let a woman know when she has the best chance of getting pregnant. The home test kit lets a woman know when she is ovulating (producing eggs) and thus
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    • 102 7 A SCHOOL teacher in her late 20s wanted to have her baby in June, during the school holidays. "After a year of marriage, I did not conceive. I went for all the tests and there was nothing wrong with me or my husband," said Mrs X, who
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    • 75 7 A MALAYSIAN worker died instantly in a road accident along Pasir Panjang this morning. The body of Nai Hock Neng, 50, a construction steel erector, was flung about 5 metres from his motor bike. It landed on the pavement outside The Haven, a centre run
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    • 321 8  -  By Ting Mei See MANY of the dancers were new to dancing, but they still kicked up a lot of excitement at Club 5 last Sunday. Judging from their expressions, the spectators must have wanted to be in the competitors' shoes, jiving to Chattanooga Choo Choo
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    • 280 8 SOME second-hand book stores are selling new books unsold stocks dumped by publishers at giveaway prices. Such stocks are called "remainder books" in the trade. They are new books sold for as low as 10 per cent of the original price. One such
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    • 275 8 SOME backyards at Mimosa Walk off Yio Chu Kang Road turn into muddy pools on rainy days. The reason is the land next to the terrace houses. It has been raised by two metres to make ready the building site that will become Mimosa Vale,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 370 9 Wire services. INVESTIGATIONS have been launched in both Malaysia and Britain into violence possibly linked to the furore over Salman Rushdie's book, The Satanic Verses. In Kuala Lumpur, four people were hurt yesterday when a bomb blast damaged a building housing the British Council Language Centre. None
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    • 125 9 Wire services. GRACE Jones, the Jamaican singeractress known for her crewcut hair and muscular build, has been charged with posses- sion of cocaine, police say. Jones, 37, was scheduled to appear in a magistrates' court in Kingston, Jamaica, today to answer the charges. A
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    • 53 9 Wire services. THE cost of protecting Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has risen to $10 million yearly. Junior Home Minister P Chidamabaram disclosed the figure in Parliament. A heavily-armed Special Protection Group protects Mr Gandhi who came to power following the assassination of his
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    • 329 9 Wire services. AMERICA'S new anti-drug chief has unveiled a $140 million plan to rid the US capital city of its drug wars. Local government efforts in the District of Columbia Washington have so far failed. The plan outlined by Mr William Bennett
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    • 407 10 Wire services. N 'EPAL is set to test what it calls an Indian economic blockade of the kingdom by attempting to bring across India 7,000 tonnes of oil from Singapore. Foreign Secretary NB Shah said in Kathmandu yesterday that "right is on our side. There
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    • 58 10 Balancing act: This tractor-trailer rig perches perilously on its side on the Pit River Bridge in California after tipping over on a steep hUI. Efforts to pull the rig off the railing cause its load rolls of newsprint to tumble out of the trailer into Shasta
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    • 325 10 Wire services. A FORMER West German government secretary has testified that she was recruited as a Soviet spy after advertising in a "lonely hearts" column. Elke Falk, 44, was giving evidence at the opening of her espionage trial in West Germany yesterday. She was charged
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    • 205 10 Wire services. AN electric short-circuit caused the fire that blew up and sank a nuclear-powered Soviet submarine off the coast of Norway, a Soviet official says. The 42 dead included the captain, Yevgeni Vanin. The submarine was returning to the Soviet Union
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    • 144 10 Wire services. A STUNT by members of a daredevils' club trying to slide down a British bridge caused car crashes, jammed traffic and made a rescue helicopter take off. Police said in Bristol, England, that distracted drivers collided in two pile-ups one
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    • 29 11 Scrub: Even in the midst of a war, one must keep up appearances. Here, a Lebanese soldier scrubs his hair near troubled Beirut Picture/ Afp
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    • 260 11 Wire services. AT least 25 people have died m two separate plane crashes in France and the US over the past 24 hours. In Pensacola, Florida, in southern United States, three persons aboard a corporate jet perished when the plane hit an apartment
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    • 170 11 Wire services. JAPANESE electronics giant NEC Corp says it has developed a new series of supercomputers which would be the fastest in the world. The new SX-3 range is the first developed in Japan using several microprocessors in parallel, enabling computers to work faster, a technology
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      260 11 Wire services. SHARE prices fell sharply on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, depressed by fears that British interest rates might have to rise to contain inflationary pressures. The Financial Times 30share index closed 13.6 points down at 1,669.4. Volume totalled 406.1 million shares, against 475.7 million shares on Friday.
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    • 89 11 Reuters. SHARE prices opened mixed today. Investors will be sidelined waiting for Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to clarify his links with the Recruit Co this morning in response to opposition party questions at a session of the Lower House, brokers said. The Nikkei index shed 24.22 points to 32,974.80
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    • 51 11 FT Industrials Mon 1,669.40 (1,683.00) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,301.87 (2,304.80) ST Industrial Mon 1,191.97 (1,186.66) NST Industrial Mon 2,092.12 (2,084.68) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 3,021.43 (3,024.09) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,412.70 (1,412.90) Nikkei Stock Average Mon 32,999.02 (32,185.05) Figures in bracket* refer to those of the previous trading
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      253 11 Wire services. WALL Street stocks hovered in a narrow range yesterday in a session dominated by takeover news and speculation. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials slipped 2.93 points to close at 2,301.87. Advancing issues slightly outnumbered declines on the New York Stock Exchange, with 716 up,
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 309 12  -  By Karen Goh G ALERIES Lafayette is giving itself a new image. It wants to look "younger and more up-to-date". The French fashion store hopes to achieve this with a renovation of its Liat Towers outlet. Plus a distinctive new logo. This appeared last week.
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    • 204 12 SHOPPING centres are also using country themes to draw the crowds during this first International Shopping Festival. Here are what three of them are doing: CENTREPOINT: New Zealand Fair From Saturday, the best from the Maoris will go on display. The two-week promotion will show, for the
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    • 388 12 EYETOEYE THE Singapore Contact Lens Society a society of qualified optometrists writes this weekly column on eye care. Address your queries to: Eye to Eye, c/o Skoptalk, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923. I WOULD like to know if my
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 211 13 The good stuff in your food is not decided by just what goes into it. The way it is cooked is equally important. The Health Ministry has come out with a booklet explaining how the good in your food can be kept under the lid
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    • 193 13 Avoid soaking food. If you must, use the liquid to cook the food. Cook vegetables only to tender crisp, not soft or mushy. Use liquid in which food is cooked for soups, gravies and sauces. Save meat drippings from panfrying, roasting
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    • 259 13  -  MICROWAVECOOK By K Karuna PREPARING a beverage in the microwave is easy enough even for a child. It is very quick, especially when making a mug of instant drink. Remember to stir before putting it in the microwave. If there is
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    • 330 13 Conjugated linoleic acid may also prevent harmful reactions that appear to play a role in heart diseases, cancer and even aging. USA Today. A TYPE of fatty acid discovered in hamburger and dairy products may be able to protect against cancer and other
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  • Showtime
    • 514 14  -  By Ting Mei See THREE world premieres in dance will bring poetry to the stage during the Singapore Dance Theatre's anniversary show Celebrations in June. Celebrations coincides with the first anniversary of SDT's debut performance in June last year. The show, which
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    • 334 14  -  By Adeline Woon AFTER a blazing success at Kallang five years ago, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Zubin Mehta, is due to perform here again. The New York Philharmonic was last here in 1984, when it gave three performances. The highlight
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1444 15 Television R 1 W Cultural Moments Tour of Duty Tuesday Premiere |P* 1 SCREEN M Metropolitan Opera Battling Baker Brothers Harris Down Under m GEMS W Centennial Gala (Part 2)HT, (9.30pm SBC 5) (10.35 pm, SBC 5) JT Mr (9.30pm, SBC 12) PRIVATE Baker is visited on his ACTION-PACKED adventure
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  • 1301 16 spotlight It's back to the good ol' board room, as avid latter-day knights and space age wizards take on an assortment of mediaeval menaces and space monsters far removed from electronic game machines. HARINDER GILL reports JOHNNY Chan has died twice during the past two
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 436 18  -  Butterflies Don't Cry Drama Centre April 27 and 28 preview/By Adeline Woon YET another work of playwright Stella Kon will be staged soon. It follows Jurong Junior College's production of one of her plays, The Trial, less than a month ago. Arts and Acts'
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    • Article, Illustration
      245 18 DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (Lido, Republic 1) A COMEDY. Steve Martin and Michael Caine play charming conmen out to cheat an innocent American girl of her money and virtue. Times: Lido 11am, 1.30, 4, 6.45, 9.15 pm. Republic 1 1.30, 3.30, 7, 9 pm. THE DEAD POOL (Capitol) IT is
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    • 318 18  -  By Vivien Chiong YOU don't need good looks to be a singer. Taiwanese producer-composer Ma Zhaojun has lately decided to sing his own compositions, "to show that I may be ugly but I can sing". He adds:" Most Taiwanese music fans go
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    • 447 19  -  By Geraldine Goh TIME stands still in Singapore's Chinatown district when one peers into the canvasses of artist Choo Keng Kwang. The old-world charm of early Singapore seems to come alive in Choo's depiction of hawkers and ordinary people going about their business. Four
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    • 217 19 FIRE engines were reportedly called in to dampen the fever of screaming Chinese music fans. That is the kind of craze Cui Jian, China's only rock 'n' roll star, brings about in his live concerts. Now Singaporeans will get a chance to
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    • 153 19 STATUESQUE Meltem was in the world spotlight in January when she won the Miss Charm International 89 pageant in Moscow. It was the first international beauty pageant to be held in the Soviet Union. "I guess I won because my looks fit the judges'
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    • 603 20  -  By Kevin Lim REPORTING FROM LOS ANGELES I ■T had been the hottest spring day in Los Angeles since 1910. The temperature reached 52 deg C and the f hot, dry winds didn't help. Despite heatwave conditions, many Angelenos still wanted to be outdoors. Me?
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    • Article, Illustration
      292 20  -  By Vivien Chiong TRACY HUANG: GOOD DAY, MY LOVE (WEA) THE queen of love ballads is back after a 15-month recording hiatus with another collection of Mandarin love songs. Most of the songs are sweet sentimental ballads with melodic strains, which give Tracy's lilting voice full play. There's also
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    • 139 20  -  OSEENLASTNKSHT By Wong Sing Yeong YOU know you are growing old when the kids in television serials start to become young adults. Last night (7.30, RTM2), Samantha of Who's the Boss was preparing to go away to college. Then, you suddenly detected more wrinkles on
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 1218 21 RADKXUIDE ■iM.It.BM rrniTM Md.llddlUMH IT^— 1205 nt. r,« i (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Newsln Brief and Weather NOON Good Music, Company and Me: NOON Newsdesk ~!SV!Z' entertaining NOON Beautiful Music Nnport Tune in for some great sounds 12 30 The Learning World usicand songs are played for 12 50 Market
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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  • SPORTS
    • 200 25  -  By Alfonso Chan SINGAPORE'S Peter Hill advanced to the second round of the British Open squash championship yesterday. He beat Englishman Luke Gojnic 9-7, 9-7, 4-9, 5-9, 9-2. Hill's best performance was in 1986 when he advanced into the third round only to be beaten by
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    • 166 25 MORNING TRACKWORK with DENNIS CHIA TRAINER Malcolm Thwaites looks set for a good meeting at Ipoh this weekend. His charges worked very well when taken out for work. On a yielding track this morning, Maquis (Skinner) was hard held to do 38, while Trend Setter
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    • 179 25 Men's first round: Anders Wahlstedt (Swe) bt Mark Cairns (Eng) 9-3, 9-5, 10-8; Geoff Hunt (Aust) bt Tony Hands (Eng) 9-6, 9-7, 2-9, 9-1; Neil Harvey (Eng) bt David Poole (Eng) 9-2, 9-2, 9-3; Sami Elopuro (Fin) bt Simon Parke (Eng) 9-2, 9-1, 2-9, 4-9, 9-2; Robert
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    • 385 26  -  HEALTH Fitness By Abdul Shukor MARTIN Hagger is, in his own words, "a masochist". An appropriate term, indeed, if one considers the torturous exercises he indulges in the name of fitness. Hagger runs, swims and cycles. So what's special in that,
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    • 93 26 5.30 am Wakes up and off for his morning jog. 6.30 am Breakfasts and waits for the bus to pick him up at 7.15 am. 7.30 am to 3 pm School at the United World College. 3.30 pm to 4 pm Relax at home 4 pm to
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    • 104 26 QIGONG TENTH MOVEMENI PUSH out palms while breathing out. Put palms straight, raise them upwards and stretch them outwards when breathing in. Move palms backwards in circular movement. When palms move past legs, place them upwards and raise them to shoulder level. When breathing in,
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    • 388 27  -  By Alfonso Chan BADMINTON'S new coaching scheme got off to a flying start on Saturday after the five-man coaching panel met about 40 potential players for a talk on the future of the game in Singapore. National coach Wee Choon Seng, who heads the panel, is confident that
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    • 298 27  -  Stories/- Alfonso Chan RAIN frustrated the players at the DHL Singapore Women's Open tennis championship at Kallang yesterday but the tennis was great while it lasted. Third seed Ann Henricksson's stay in the tournament lasted five hours three of them rain-hit. She blamed the rain for her 5-7,
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    • 334 27 HE looks like a Martian. From a tennis loving planet in outer space, no doubt. Broke free from Star Trek and sneaked a ride to Singapore for the DHL Open. No, perhaps he's a monk who has disrobed, and exchanged habit for shorts and a
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    • 441 27 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League: Atlanta 108 Chicago 100, NY Knicks 94 Washington 92, Cleveland 122 Charlotte 116, Detroit 100 Milwaukee 91, Portland 120 Denver 114. BOXING King's Cup International Amateur Tournament in Bangkok Ist rd Feather: Ronald Chavez (Phi) bt Yupadol Kaewpadsin (Thai)
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    • 217 28  -  Stories/! S Gulam THE national team has been hit by injuries. But the players' enthusiasm in training spells good days ahead. Defender Borhan Abu Samah has been ruled out from training for two weeks. He is down with injuries to both ankles. Striker D Tokijan has
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    • 235 28 AFP. GOODISON fans yesterday enjoyed a five-goal thriller which saw Everton beat Charlton 3-2 in a First Division match. Paul Mortimer gave Charlton the lead after 16 minutes following a dazzling solo run. Everton had barely recovered from that shock when Charlton's Robert Lee crossed for Carl Leaburn
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    • 213 28 VERSATALITY, quick interaction and ability to integrate into the local scene. These were qualities that convinced national coach Jita Singh to recommend Boris Lucic for Singapore's Malaysia Cup squad. Lucic, 24, a former Yugoslav youth international, looks set to become the first
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    • 225 28 AP. UEFA officials meet in Palmela, Portugal, today to decide whether to readmit English clubs to European tournaments next season after a four-year ban. Uefa president Jacques Georges, speaking to reporters yesterday, refused to speculate on the outcome of the discussions. But he repeated his call for British
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    • 172 28 Reuter. EUROPE'S soccer players have backed a campaign designed to abolish transfer fees and win them the freedom to play in any country of their choice. The International Federation of Professional Soccer Players (FIFPro) said yesterday its nine European Community members supported a bid to remove
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    • 230 28 Wire services. NORWICH'S bid to reach its first ever FA Cup final could hinge on the fitness of captain Michael Phelan. Phelan has a hamstring injury which makes him doubtful for the match against Everton at Villa Park on Saturday. REFEREE Brian Hill reacted with disbelief to the news
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    • 391 29  -  By Bernard Pereira SINGAPORE'S fastest swimmer Ang Peng Siong has agreed to coach Chinese Swimming Club. Neither a fee nor a full-time coaching career has yet been mentioned because overtures have apparently "so far been only on an informal basis". According to the club
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    • 212 29  -  By Abdul Shukor THE Singapore Amateur Swimming Association (Sasa) will organise a carnival week in late June/early July to celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. This was announced at Sasa's Annual General Meeting yesterday. Said Mr Woon Sui Kut, its secretary general: "Since this
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    • 158 29 THE champs marched on, but it was no easy route. Jansenites fought titleholder Singapore Recreation Club all the way to the final whistle before succumbing 2-1 in a Singapore Hockey Association Premier League match at Farrer Park yesterday. The winning goal from Recs' Kiwi recruit
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 151 25 lijL ALL THE BEST. I ttl SINGLE IN SINGAPORE. Opportunities and H| options for the single working woman in the 90$. L 1 A new optimism. FEMINISM TODAY. Does v H 1 have relevance in an Asian context like Singapore? 'W /i® J THE MODELLING UFE. How new aspirants T
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  • UPDATE
    • 948 30 TUESDAY [~pr HEALTH MENU. Chef V Uwe Lukas of Cafe Vienna makes health food delicious. On the menu is a fat-free Spanish Gazpacho Soup a vegetable soup with seasoning of garlic and chilli. $4.80+ Poached fillet of beef is a recommended main course. The chunk of
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    • 92 30 Take your date upmarket after a day at the shopping festival Listen to Ars Antique De Paris in Concert. Countertenor Joseph Sage and instrumentalist Raymond Couste present a programme of classical music ranging from the Medieval to the Renaissance Baroque period. Margaux Ballroom, Le Meridien Singapour. 9.30 pm.
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    • 16 30 NUTRITION WEEK: Health menu OUT AND ABOUT: Sculpture camp COMING UP: Youth in education
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