The New Paper, 17 May 1989

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  • 21 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1989 mci <P> J«/*/»» SD CENTS the J new paper the 4/ new v paper
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    • 91 1 A GAS OF A CAKE What looks like a gas cylinder is really a cake. It was made by a local firm that specialises in whipping up gelatin-and-sugar cakes in any form. But they can cost as much as $1,000 and take up to two months to create./ Pago 3
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    • 20 1 m RMS PLEDGED IN CHINA /Page 11 LIVERPOOL TAKES OVER THE LEAD /Page 29 THE JOBS THAT FEW WANT /Page4
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  • 56 1 They're beautiful and they're stylish. But they don't mingle with the tipplers. These six beauty queens showed up at a disco not to dance but to model clothes and swimwear. From left: Sylvia Yeo, Caroline Lee, Mary Ann Mendis, Angeline Lip, Cindee Yeo and Stephanie
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 174 2 Wire services. TURKISH workers are turning to divorce in an apparent bid to force more pay out of the government. Officials say that more than 1,000 workers in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir have filed suits to divorce their wives
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    • 212 2 A HAMBURGER cost a man more than $2,000 worth of dresses on Sunday. No, McDonald's fast food chain have not raised their prices. Fashion designer Mr Vernon C W Tan, 25, alleged that his hamburger was spiked by his companion, who later robbed him. Yesterday's Shin
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    • 215 2 Man places ad to say he's dead but he's not MR Xie Ruming, 30, wants the world to know that he is dead. Except that he isn't. He placed an ad in Lianhe Zaobao last Sunday to announce his death to his relatives and friends. He also handed over a
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    • 404 2 YANKEE don't go home. But leave our internal affairs alone, please. That was the gist of remarks made in Washington last night by Trade and Industry Minister Brigadier-General (Reservist) Lee Hsien Loong. "While the US should continue to maintain
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    • 371 3  -  By Ernest Yeo A SHOP here has just made a $1,000 cake that can't be eaten. It's 2.5 metres high, has 10 tiers and will be dressed in fairy lights. Want to know more? Sorry. It's for a com- pany celebrating its 10th birthday,
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    • 245 3 BEAUTY queens are the latest attraction in hostess lounges. But sorry sir, they won't sit and drink with you. Six beauty queens turned the disco floor of the Raspberry Lounge at International Plaza into a catwalk last night. They modelled clothes and swimwear in
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  • 691 4  -  SINGAPORETODAY By Karen Goh THE job offers an income of at least $900 a month, a company van to drive while working, a five-day working 1_ A l__f 1 week, two weeks annual leave, a month's bonus and freedom to plan your working day. And
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  • 1175 6 SINGAPORETODAY They have qualifications, yet one is a newspaper vendor, another a food stall owner and the third a despatch boy. They are examples of what Dr Tay Eng Soon, Senior Minister of State (Education), said in December. Graduates should be prepared for all kinds of jobs
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    • 384 7 ClfUISi; TffE SWAqtilVEQWITtf I If* vSm~-1 -V.'- j Jr. /> jM| 7 PSl Burswood Hotel, Perth. fl/hlIr!**JiiXL~--LlHHHHiU 1 ■B08I Enter Yeo's Celebrities Cruise Contest and win. Yeo's is organizing another fabulous 1. Pur f/iem in an envelope and write your Celebrities Cruise Contest and this year, the s4 name, address
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 323 8 THE Automobile Association of Singapore (AAS) has offered the Government its suggestions for a long-term traffic policy. Its president, Mr Ng Ser Miang, said this in a statement yesterday in response to the latest government measures to ease traffic congestion. Mr Ng said
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    • 544 8 I Mas to sot up Japan Study Group: The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Iseas) is setting up a Japan Stuay Group. The institute is also launching a Fellowship in Pacific Affairs and a Pacific Studies newsletter. It was scheduled to announce these at a
      Stories/ IRENE HOE  -  544 words
    • 186 8 HE sat where one might expect the chairman or delegation leader would normally be placed at a press conference dead centre. Mr Ken Yokota even did most of the talking. And it is his words that the press duly noted down yesterday. It was obvious he
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    • 141 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. bleakness: Gloom. comet: An object with a bright trail, that moves round the sun. ditsy: Describes something that is silly in a crazy way. epitaphs: Short descriptions of people
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    • 130 8 THERE'S a business secret more important than money, profits or products: People. Three government committees meet today to focus on human resources as a company's most important asset. The Committees on Use of Manpower, on Quality Workforce and on Labour Management Co-operation will study and form
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    • 43 9 you be? 1| If not say NO to drugs Drugs is a serious problem, it causes disorientation, hallucination, degeneration of the body, extensive brain damage, a feeling of despair and eventually...death! Drug addiction, you'll die for it. @SANA Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association Tel: 732-1122
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 291 10 HELP is at hand for small and medium-sized enterprises to invest in CAD/CAM technology. CAD/CAM is computer-aided design/com-puter-aided manufacturing. A CAD/CAM advisory service targeted at them is to be started by ATS SoftwareCentre and GINTIC. This was announced in a speech prepared for delivery this morning
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    • 178 10 ALMOST three times as many new drug addicts were arrested last year as in 1985. Mr Baey Lian Peck, president of the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association, said 1,214 new addicts were detained last year, with a significant increase among Malays. He said last night that
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      277 10 Wire services. SHARES opened lower and drifted downward in very thin trading on the London stock market yesterday. At the close the FT 30share index ended 11.0 points lower at 1,776.2. Volume was thin, as 401.5 million shares changed hands, compared with 411.7 million shares on Monday. Leading exporters
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    • 83 10 Wire services. SHARE prices gained moderately in opening trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The key 225-share Nikkei index rose 85.12 points, or 0.25 per cent, to 34,011.57 in 10 minutes of trade. It closed with a sharp 210.16-point gain yesterday. Gains were led by securities house, shipbuilding,
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    • 51 10 FT Industrials Tues 1,776.20 (1,787.20) Dow Jones Average Tues 2,453.45. (2,463.89) ST Industrial Tues 1,303.48 (1,295.40) NST Industrial Tues 2,255.35 (2,248.81) Hongkong Hang Seng Tues 3,289.50 (3,309.64) Australian All Ordinaries Tues 1,556.00 (1,565.90) Nikkei Stock Average Tues 33,926.45 (33,716.29) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      281 10 Wire services. PROFIT-TAKERS dominated Wall Street yesterday, cutting some 10.44 points off the Dow Jones industrial average which had surged more than 81 points in the two previous sessions. The Dow, which had closed Monday at its highest level since the October 19, 1987 stock market crash, ended
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 412 11 Wire services. CHINA'S leaders, stunned by half-a-mil-lion demonstrators thundering for democracy in Beijing and other cities, appeared to have surrendered early today to key demands of students leading the protests. But the first-ever concession had little immediate impact on students, who began massing for yet
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    • 214 11 Wire services. CHINA and the Soviet Union have not only agreed to put 30 years of hostility behind them but also share the view that Karl Marx's communist theories must be revised to fit the times. Both Mr Deng Xiaoping and President Mikhail
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    • 86 11 Wirevices. CHINA'S student protests have sparked tensions between Chinese and Soviet diplomats during President Mikhail Gorbachev's current visit to China. The protests have forced almost constant schedule changes. They often left the Soviet leader with little choice but to show up for high-level talks
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    • 352 12 Wire services. THE US Senate has cleared the way for America to partner itself with Japan as builders of the FSX fighter I jet. Before approving the deal yesterday, the Senate adopted a provision that would impose tighter safeguards against Japan selling weapons
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    • 207 12 Wire services. THE opposition has vowed to bring Panama to a halt today with a general strike despite government's threats to stop it. "The threats of the government will not Btop us. They will give us the incentive to go ahead," opposition presidential candidate Guillermo
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    • 50 12 Small b beautiful: Jenny Faunce, one of the world's tiniest surviving babies, lies in a crib at a Sydney hospital where she was born on April 23, 11 weeks prematurely. She weighed only 380gm at birth and measured 25 cm from head to toe. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 107 12 Wire service. AT least 22 people have been killed in a fire which gutted a plush sauna and entertainment centre in Taiwan's southwestern coastal city of Kaohsiung. Police and firefighters said yesterday that 22 bodies had been pulled out from the nine-storey
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    • 101 12 Wire services. PRESIDENT George Bush has chosen former Indiana Governor Robert Orr as US ambassador to Singapore. The widely-expected announcement was made by the White House yesterday. The US Senate will have to confirm Mr Orr's appointment. He was governor of Indiana from 1980 until early
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    • 172 12 Wire services. ABOUT 18 million people could carry the Aids virus by the year 2000 unless prevention and treatment improve. That grim figure was put before Aids experts from wealthy nations at a one-day conference in Paris yesterday. However, conference participants overwhelmingly
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  • 1035 13 DEAR AGGIE HORIZONS Dear Aggie, I AM a Secondary 2 schoolgirl. I have a crush on another girl who is in Sec 1 in the same school. Although I don't know her personally, I think she is cute, adorable, lovable and sociable. I
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  • 537 14 Showtime USA Today. HERE lie three television serials, once brilliant trail-blazers, faded to black. New episodes of ABC's Moonlighting and NBC's Family Ties air for the last time on American television on Sunday. NBC's Miami Vice closes its run May 21 with a two-hour
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1642 15 Television=KS1SI It's Showtime at Insight 60 Minutes In Wildness "^uSS|to^®jjB$£H SCREEN M the Apollo (8.00pm, SBC 12) The Great Bears JJM |W3SFv GEMS (11.20 pm, SBC 5) Tffl! pise takes a look at the (9.30 pm, SBC 12) A trial and conviction of Erie Jackson nine years ago v 2r
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  • 1328 16 spotlight Y V "D»nce to the beat that we like best, m heading for the nineties, living in the M wild, wild West." So go the lyrics of one of the current dance hits at J Singapore nightspots. But what happens when a pop group
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 317 17  -  By Chitra Rajaram THE Indian group that took part in the Arts Festival held in China last month is here for a one-night performance. The group from Bombay was sent to China by the Indian Cultural Committee in India. They performed Indian classical dance
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    • 240 17 DANCER Vani Ganapathy was once married to Kamalahasan, popularly called the "playboy" of south Indian movies. Today, a year-and-a-half after their divorce, Ms Ganapathy, 37, says: "I don't want to plan for my future any more. I live for the moment" The
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    • 446 17  -  By Vivien Chiong JULIE Su Rui firmly believes that aspiring singers should not model their style after established singers. "New singers like to copy other stars. I'm trying to show them one can sing their songs but still have one's own
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    • 208 18 KARAOKE in a disco? Yes. That's what patrons at Plaza Hotel's Studio M will get when they drop in at the discotheque on Friday nights beginning May 26. The disco is being turned into a mini-ka-raoke lounge for the heats of the First Singapore
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    • 227 18 SINGER Othman Hamzah has the sev-en-year itch. The 27-year-old 1978 SBC English Talentime runner-up signed a contract with WEA seven years ago. After seven albums in Malay, singing at lounges and an Indonesian tour, he is ready for new things. He leaves for Australia
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    • 214 18 SBC producer Lim Siauw Chong had a tough time writing the English lyrics for the theme song of the Chinese serial, On the Fringe. He did it in four sittings. Usually it's a breeze. He has written the lyrics for all the other English dubbedover
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    • 244 18  -  I8EENLASTNK3HT By Sonja Tan COOKING never appeared so boring as on the programme Man Memasak, shown at 6 pm on SBC 5 last night. The dish to be demonstrated, puffs made of minced mutton and prawns, could well have been appetising, but the way it
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    • Article, Illustration
      292 19 THE BLOB (Cathay last day) A REWORKING of the original 50s Blob. Today's Blob crashes to earth and then sets out to eat anything that moves. Good special effects, but some scenes look suspiciously like Alien I. Times: 11 am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pm. MIDNIGHT RUN (Changi 1
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    • 332 19  -  By Lo Tien Yin ANDY Lau and Mok Siu Chung are tough guys. But they really take a beating in the latest Cathay cinemas offering, City Kids 1989. These city kids are not Orchard Road kids. They don't have fun. -Most of the time, they
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 1233 25 RADKX3UIDE nn |Sm|E2Mm l:UilljjlHM?l NOON News ta Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON Nwi la Briaf and Weather NOON Good Music, Ctapiiy and Ma: NOON Newsdosk 12.05 Laachdate: A musical selection NOON Beautiful Maslc: Light instru- Report Noon-time musical entertain- 12.30 Business Matters: A weekly is offered here for your listen-
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  • SPORTS
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      293 26 Reuter. OLYMPIC champion Miloslav Mecir crashed out in the first round of the Italian Open tennis championships yesterday. He fell in straight sets to unheralded Italian Omar Camporese. The Czechoslovak fourth seed, ranked No 10 in the world to Camporese's 120, looked wooden in comparison to the Italian.
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    • 284 26 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: CRICKET Eagliah County Championship At Northampton: Yorkshire 191 (A Metcalfe 49, P Robinson 46; W Davis 4-48); Northamptonshire 113-2 (Cook 62 n.0.). SOCCER Division One: England: Liverpool 2 Queens Park Rangers 0. Wast Germany: Bochum 2 Bayer Leverku•en 4. European Under-21 Championship
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    • 239 26 MORNING TRACKWORK RACING... with DENNIS CHIA KUALA LUMPUR trainer Bernard Ang's charges brightened up an otherwise dull morning at Bukit Timoh. Megastar and Sir Gallowin, two of his Restricted Terms runners, provided an interesting trial when they raced over 600 m in 38, with Megastar going
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    • 225 27 DENMARK v GREECE (Copenhagen); RUMANIA v BULGARIA (Bucharest) WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Renter. GREECE plans to use speedy counter-attacks to try and upset a tired Denmark team in its qualifying match in Copenhagen today. Denmark, second in the four-team group, is only one point behind leader
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    • 478 27 AFP. JOHN Aldridge sent Liverpool storming to the top of the English First Division yesterday. He scored his fifth goal in four games to set up a 2-0 win over stubborn Queens Park Rangers at Anfield. Ronnie Whelan added the second goal. The pressure is now on
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    • 92 27 AFP. DIEGO Maradona became a father for the second time yesterday. The child was born on the eve of Napoli's Uefa Cup final second leg against VFB Stuttgart in West Germany. Minora Yamina, the Argentine soccer star's second daughter, weighed 3.9 kilogrammes when she was born at a
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    • Article, Illustration
      438 27 Wire services. DANISH soccer international Flemming Povlsen has his eyes on a move to Italy after next year's World Cup finals there. Though the 22-year-old striker has agreed a new three-year deal with FC Cologne, there is a get-out clause in his contract which will free him to leave
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    • 345 28  -  By Alfonso Chan THE spotlight may be on the four who have returned from their European stint, but it is the comeback bids of former national players that has stirred interest in the Milo National squash championships from Saturday to June 3 at the West Coast
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    • 282 28  -  By Abdul Shukor ARMED with a recently-acquired advanced coaching certificate and a successful European stint behind him, squash ace Peter Hill returns tonight looking to dethrone Zainal Abidin in the coming 17th Milo national championships. The 25-year-old pro, ranked 34th in the world, is seeded first
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    • 202 28 CHEW Kok Wye, top-seed for the Milo national squash Under 19 championships, may not play at all. The 18-year-old younger brother of national player Kok Keene has been made top-seed above second seed Vernon Teo despite one year's absence from the scene. National serviceman
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    • 388 28 SINGAPORE Marathon champion Ricky Khoo clocked a personal best at the Pacific Rim Marathon at Long Beach, California, last weekend. Ricky, who came home yesterday morning, ran the 42.195 km course in 2hr 39 min 18 sees, more than a minute faster than his previous best
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    • Article, Illustration
      335 29  -  Stories/ S Gulam HOT-SHOT Salim Moin has been ruled out for the pre-World Cup first-leg in Seoul from May 23-27. The Singapore midfielder has failed to recover from a knee injury he suffered two weeks ago in the national team's friendly against Combined Schools. Salim continued to train
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    • Article, Illustration
      272 29 AU-YEONG Pak Kuan could be a surprise inclusion in the Singapore team for the pre-World Cup first-leg in Seoul. Though coach Jita Singh had initially said he would only consider Au-yeong for next month's second leg at the National Stadium, he has been impressed by the fitness of
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    • 116 29 Suspense over the national team captaincy will finally be over tonight, when Jita Singh names his skipper. Though T Pathmanathan skippered the team in last Saturday's friendly against Indonesia, coach Jita Singh has refused to say if the arm- band was Pathma's permanently. "I'll announce
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  • 842 30 Out About Mo Kk) Branch PERSONAL HEALmWi|dM talk is about breast ej self-examination and the pap smear test. The speaker is Miss Boon Lee Chin. Mandarin. Free. 7.30 pm. Jalan Kayu South Community Centre. DISEASES. Sexually transmitted diseases is the topic of this talk. The speaker is Miss Yap
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  • 14 30 OUT AND ABOUT: Stress management CENTRESTAGE: Sound of Music FOOD: Peking duck
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  • 89 30 This is Henry Shih Yik Tong*s first exhibition in Singapore. The native of China was born in 1944. He graduated from the Zheittang Academy in Hangshou. He later became a member of the Chinese Art Association of Hongkong. His Chinese brushpaintings are the focus of the exhibition
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