The New Paper, 18 May 1989

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  • 15 1 the new paper THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1989 MCI (P) 36/4/89 SO CENTS the w paper
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 65 1 m Last week SBC actor Chen Zhicai and actress Xiang Yun announced their wedding in June. Yesterday Zhicai's ex-girlfriend Ann-Marie (with Zhicai, at right) showed her hands and asked: "Look. Are there any marks?" Page 2 4* if GLEN FOOLS 'EM IN BRITAIN 1 "11. I I■ I I I
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    • 62 1 FOREIGN SOCCER RESULTS /Pages 28 and 29 HAPPY VESAK DAY The New Paper wishes all its Buddhist readers a Happy Vesak Day. We will not publish tomorrow, a public holiday. But our HotlinePlus desk will remain open as usual from 7 am to 7 pm. The New Paper will be
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  • 58 1 Light plane with engine trouble tries to land on highwa; near Kuala Lumpur's Subang airport. It crashes into car. Five of the seven people in the plane and a child in the car are killed. Crash causes massive traffic jam and delays several flights. Page 10 Picture/
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 39 2 ONE of the three pages advertising restaurants in The New Paper Food Celebration Draw was left out of yesterday's edition. An old page was published instead. Please turn to Page 9 for the restaurants you should consider patronising.
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    • 193 2 THE former girlfriend of SBC actor Chen Zhicai has put a stop to rumours that she tried to commit suicide because he is marrying Xiang Yun. "It is impossible that I commit suicide for him. I am not someone who wants to end my life so
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    • 246 2 CHIA Thye Poh, in political detention for 22 Va years, was freed conditionally yesterday. He was moved to Sentosa and cannot leave the resort island without permission. A Home Affairs Ministry statement says that Mr Chia will not be released onto the main
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 29 2 The weather WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over a few areas in the late afternoon. Max temp: 32 deg. Min: 25 deg. Sunset: 7.06 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.55 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 442 3  -  This story resulted from a Hotline Plus call By Harinder Gill TANG Jia Cheng lost his hair yesterday. But all for a good cause. It was to raise money for his school's welfare fund. He and 39 other Temasek Junior College students, most of them
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    • 145 3 EIGHT women semifinalists are still in the running for the coveted top prize in The Look of the Year 1989 contest. The finals will be held at the Mandarin Ballroom on July 13. The winner will get a chance to enter the
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    • 534 4  -  Mr Wasuke Miyake, the Japanese Ambassador to Singapore, will soon be replaced by Mr Tatsuo Yamaguchi. He will leave on June 1 with fond memories. Mr Miyake spent much time advising Japanese businessmen to invest here. He also initiated several cultural and educational
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    • 187 4 SINGAPORE has achieved a "miracle development", said Mr Wasuke Miyake. He noted the country has to work with a small population and land area, and with no natural resources. And yet Singapore continues to prosper. "The most remarkable key to the rapid development
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    • 115 4 THE newborn Infant found in a rubbish chute in Bukit Panjang on May 2 has been discharged from hospital into the care of the Ministry of Community Development. The baby boy was found in an unlocked chute in Block 275, Bangkit Road off Bukit Panjang.
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    • 147 4 FORMER national rugby coach Natahar Bava helped the police catch a man they were chasing last night. Mr Bava was in his kitchen, in Sunset Way, just about to cook chicken curry, when a car crashed through his garden fence. He ran out, and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 366 6  -  By Karen Goh H 'E'S an 11-year-old virgin. She's a 23-year-old with, ah, experience. So what do they have in 'common aside from bow legs and hairy shoulders? Designer genes, for this is a match made in laboratory. It took test tubes, needles, blood
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    • 197 6 A KARYOTYPE is like taking a "photograph" of the chromosomes of an individual, according to Dr Ariff, a senior research fellow in genetics and reproductive biology at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at NUS. In the case of orang-utans, this means identifying and pairing
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    • 401 6  -  By Ng Wan Ching MAJOR Andrew Toh and his family were at the doctor's yesterday afternoon. They were blissfully unaware that their Normanton Park flat, off Ayer Rajah Road, had burst into flames at about 5 pm. They only found out
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 551 8  -  Stories/ Irene Hoe GET ready for the woman CEO or Chief Executive Officer. "Women CEOs are inevitable," said a top male boss involved in developing a productivity action plan for the *****, Productivity 2000. Mr Peter G McLewin, who heads the Committee on Quality Workforce,
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    • 138 8 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. amalgamation: Act of merging or joining different companies together to form a large organisation. bionnial: Describes something that happens once every two years. drag performers: Male entertainers who wear
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    • 486 8 WOMEN have arrived in the executive suite. The Singapore woman chief executive may still not be a common species. But she is not an oddity. She is the focus of Singapore Business's current issue. Its cover story looks at the growing group of
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 637 10 Bernama. IT was a chilling nightmare scene played out in real life: A stricken plane falls from night skies and smashes, with fatal results, into a passenger car. Five police officers and a child died last night when a police aircraft crash-landed on the road
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    • 310 10 Malay Mail and Bernama. BANK Simpanan officer Ramli Akit can count himself lucky to be alive today. His Proton Saga was hit by a Pilatus PC 6 last night as the plane crash-landed near the Kuala Lumpur international airport. He forced open his
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    • 248 11 Wire services. THE Non-Aligned Movement has shelved two membership bids. Canada's application for guest status in the 101-mem-ber organisation was deferred without explanation, diplomatic sources in Harare said yesterday. Venezuela's application for full membership was blocked by Panama on grounds that it was "plotting to
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    • 109 11 Wire services. A FUGITIVE clad in pyjamas and handcuffed to a bed rail is on the loose in Brisbane. "If anyone sees a person with a bed on his back, let us know," said an Australian police spokesman. He said the man
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    • 96 11 Wire services. A US Senate panel has rebuffed efforts to ban American military aid to the forces of Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The vote yesterday reflects the opposition of both the State Department and member countries of the Association of Southeast
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    • 510 11 Wire services. A NEW era of peace awaits the Far East now that the region's two most powerful nations are friends again. That forecast was offered by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday in a speech that capped his historic summit journey to
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    • 140 11 Wire services. UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar plans to ask the 15 nations supplying police for the Namibian independence mission to send more officers. United Nations officials said that the original suppliers are being asked for more officers in an attempt to
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    • Article, Illustration
      42 12 Hope: A small boy holds his hands in prayer during the funeral of a helicopter pilot killed in fighting outside Kabul. The Afghan government is battling rebels for control of the main road leading out of the capital. Picture/Reuter
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    • 269 12 Wire services. ISRAELI Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has won parliamentary backing for his Palestinian peace plan. After about seven hours of some-times-bitter debate, the Knesset yesterday voted 43 to 15 to endorse the plan. Observers viewed the vote as a key test to Mr Shamir's peace
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    • 196 12 Wire services. PANAMA'S government seeks to undermine a general strike aimed at forcing General Manuel Noriega to resign. The government postponed pay day for state workers from Monday until Wednesday and announced it would pay a delayed quarterly bonus to its employees if they ignored
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      261 12 Wire services. SHARE prices ended strongly higher on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, boosted by better-than-expected US trade figures. The Financial Times 30share index finished with a gain of 16 points at 1,792.2. Volume totalled 548.6 million shares compared with Tuesday's 401.5 million. The US government reported that the
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    • 74 12 Reuter. SHARE prices opened mixed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. The Nikkei index eased 14.52 points to 33,977.93 in the first 10 minutes of trade after firming 66 points yesterday. The biggest losers were bank, construction, rubber, real estate, pulp/paper, shipping, steel, railway/bus, electric power and machinery shares.
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    • 51 12 FT Industrials Wed 1,792.20 (1,776.20) Dow Jones Average Wed 2,462.43 (2,453.45) ST Industrial Wed 1,310.02 (1,303.48) NST Industrial Wed 2,254.46 (2,255.35) Hongkong Hang Seng Wed 3,246.41 (3,389.50) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,561.80 (1,556.00) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 33,992.45 (33,926.45) Figure* in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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    • Article, Illustration
      282 12 Wire services. WALL Street was hesitant but firm yesterday following the publication of March trade figures, which showed the US trade deficit had fallen to a less-than-expected US$B.B billion. Advance estimates on Wall Street had put the deficit at US$lO billion or more. The Dow Jones average of
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 506 13  -  Stories Geneieve Kwek I I 1 F you have to work outside, bring your office along. The increasing number of portable office equipment makes it easier to work outside the office premises. Dealers in electronic goods say sales of such items have gone up in the
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    • 210 13 SH0PHNCBUG DO you hate your boss, mother-in-law or the tax man? Here's your chance to get your own back by throwing darts at them. Novelty 30-cm dartboards are the latest gifts from Decor Gift Pte Ltd which brought them in two months
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  • 498 14  -  $&Owfc*K. By Adrian Koh J RECOGINISE her? ■It's him. [it's Glen Goei as he appears as M Butterfly in the West End play of the same name. As seductress Song Liling, he wafts about the stage in the David Hwang play for much of 2Vt hours before
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 2095 15 Television— ||§S M BG Lee Hsien Loong on Feeding the Future A Green Pre-Holiday Movie The Fan SCREEN US-Singapore Relations Revolution for Ghana (li.oopm, SBC 5) GEMS M (Q If) nm <mrs) (B.oopm, SBC 12) SALLY Ross (Lauren Bacall), a yv.ov pm, odu oj THE Saskawa Global 2000 renowned actress
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  • spotlight
    • 683 16  -  MENDAKIII 1 Tomorrow marks the beginning of a three-day congress to launch Mendaki n. But what is Mendaki 11, what does it hope to achieve, and why is it being formed? Today, The New Paper examines these questions and the proposed Total Approach StoriW Trudy Lim AN
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    • 584 16 THE problems of the Malay/Muslim community have been openly discussed in recent years. First Deputy Prime Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong and Muslim leaders have all said that a central body would be best able to handle these problems in a coordinated and systematic way, and so help
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    • Article, Illustration
      144 16 FIRST Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong first proposed the idea of a special committee to tackle the problems of the Malay/Muslim community in 1984 and has shown concern and interest since then. He will be opening tomorrow's congress. As the Minister in charge of Muslim affairs
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    • 95 16 Octobtr 1981 Mendaki, the council for the education of Muslim children, is formed. 1984 Mr Goh Chok Tong suggests s committee be formed to deal with the problems facing the Malay/Muslim community. lafloafy IMS Dr Mattar proposes statutory board to co-ordinate May 1988 Dr Mattar
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 291 20  -  Burning Sensation Cathay cinemas REVIEW/ By Vivien Chiong GHOST movies are no longer hair-raising affairs in Chinese cinema. While Hollywood has continued to churn out spinechilling box-office hits such as Elm Street, Salem's Lot, Poltergeist and their sequels as well as Beetlejuice, the ghost
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    • Article, Illustration
      197 20 m CITY KIDS 1989 (Opens today at Cathay cinemas) THE film portrays the city kids, convincingly played by Andy Lau and Mok Siu Chung as victims of circumstances. It is taut with toughness, depicting a society where one cannot succeed without being strong and beastly. A CRY IN THE
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    • 158 20 EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tommy Page, also known for being an Elvis lookalike, was born and raised in New Jersey. He worked in Nell's, one of the most famous dance clubs of Manhattan, as a coat-check boy. There, the house DJ began playing Making My
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    • 387 20  -  Vietnam War Story 4.30 pm t SBC 12 Sunday, May 28 PREVIEW/ By Geraldine Goh THE Vietnam War may have been over for two decades. But it rages on in the minds of men who fought in it. Come May 28, viewers will be
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    • 461 21  -  By Vivien Chiong F {ANS of English or Chinese pop music will get •to meet some of their favourite stars over the next two months. On May 31, EMI Records will bring in mIaam Dm'lioU rrvAiin DuAfVlAI* *4 f A clean-cut British group tsrotner Beyona
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    • 224 21 BRIGITTE Nielsen's real life is beginning to sound as spacey as her new CBS-TV movie. Neilsen and her unsteady love Mark Gastineau said on Monday that they are back together and expecting a baby. Just 2V2 weeks ago, Nielsen told USA Today that the exfootball player had
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    • 226 21  -  SEENLASTNK3HT By Lo Tien Yin LAST night's TV miglit have been inspiring for men who are still single and have not decided what kind of woman they want for a wife. Would they, perhaps, like a wife who is "90 per cent fashion and 10 per
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    • 588 22  -  By Ting Mei See COME next month, there will be no running away from the sound of music. You will hear it practically everywhere, day and night. The first Music Festival, organised by the Ministry of Community Development, will boast 152 participating groups from Singapore and
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    • Article, Illustration
      387 22 UPI. JACKIE STILL NO. 1 THIS week's music charts in Hongkong feature an interesting mix of East and West, according to the RTHK and Commercial Radio channels. On the Chinese charts, Jackie Cheung sits pretty on the top rung for the second week with To the One I Love.
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 756 23 Diabetes sufferers in the US, who find it difficult to cut out fatty foods, are now being told to eat more of them NYT. D IABETICS may be in for a change of diet if recommenI dations from a new study take root.
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    • 288 23 CO LU I] IS 3 Dear Sir, I HAVE heard from very respectable people in very high positions that they have known personally those who had either become very ill and suffered terribly or even died from taking durian and alcoholic
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  • SPORTS
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      289 27 AP. TOP seed Mats Wilander rallied yet again from a oneset deficit to claim a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Javier Sanchez, of Spain, in the second round of the Italian Open men's tennis championships in Rome yesterday. In a match delayed four-and-a-quarter hours by rain, Wilander made
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    • 152 27 ARSENAL SETBACK PAGE 29 AFP. WEST Ham can expect no favours from Nottingham Forest at the City Ground today in a match it has to win to keep alive its faint hopes of staying in the English First Division. John Lyall's side must triumph in
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    • 398 27 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA AUSTRALIAN jockey Wayne Harris, who arrived on Tuesday night, was at work at Bukit Timah this morning and will be in action this week. He took out Against All Odds for a trot and wound up his workout with a 600
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    • 547 28 AFP, Reuter. DIEGO Maradona yesterday realised his ambition to turn Napoli into a European soccer power. He guided his team to a 5-4 aggregate victory over VFB Stuttgart in the Uefa Cup final yesterday. The star of Argentina's 1986 World Cup triumph gained his Italian club
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    • 175 28 AFP. NAPOLI captain Diego Maradona nominated Brazilian striker Careca as the Man of the Match after his side lifted the Uefa Cup with a 5-4 aggregate victory over VFB Stuttgart. The Brazilian striker had been doubtful, suffering from a high fever before the game. He made
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    • 155 28 Reuter. NAPLES erupted in a riot of fireworks, champagne and revelry expected to last until dawn as Napoli entered the European soccer history books for the first time. By the final whistle police estimated there were about half-a-million people outdoors, dancing and partying in the streets. In
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    • 299 29 Reuter, AFP. ARSENAL'S English soccer title challenge faltered again yesterday when it drew 2-2 at home with Wimbledon. Former Wimbledon fullback Nigel Winterburn gave Arsenal hope with a superb 25-metre goal in the 14th minute. But Wimbledon rolled up its sleeves and was rewarded after 31 minutes,
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    • 463 29 DENMARK 7 GREECE 1 RUMANIA 1 BULGARIA 0 Reuter, AFP. DENMARK scored five second-half goals to record a sensational 7-1 win over Greece in Copenhagen yesterday. Seven different players scored the Danish goals in a performance of pace and verve that left the visitors looking increasingly ragged.
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    • 247 29 Reuter, AP. GHEORGHE Popescu, the only non-Steaua Bucharest player in the team, gave Rumania a 1-0 victory over Bulgaria yesterday. The goal came after a superb 35th-minute free-kick by Steaua winger Marius Lacatus. He found the head of Popescu, whose powerful effort gave Bulgarian goalkeeper
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    • 261 29 Wire services. NEWCASTLE manager Jim Smith continued his clearout yesterday. Smith, who gave free transfers to David McCreery, Ken Wharton and Glenn Roeder on Tuesday, put strikers Rob McDonald, Archie Gourlay and Mark Gill on the transfer list. Fullback Kenny Sansom is also likely to go. He wants to
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    • 457 30 Was Haron Mundir guilty in cutting short his Japanese training stint? The SAAA gives its verdict today. SHAHIRON SAHARI reports TODAY will decide whether Singapore's fastest man, Haron Mundir, will have his wings clipped for the rest of the year. The Singapore Amateur Athletic Association will
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    • 199 30 BOWLING... with ALFONSO CHAN SUPERBOWL is aiming for a record turnout when it hosts the Singapore International Open in August. To celebrate the Open's 25th anniversary, Singapore is hoping to lure bowlers from as many countries as possible. For starters, prize money will be $60,000,
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    • 159 30 MR S S DHILLON, the Singapore National Olymp i c Council secretary-general, will lead local bowling supremos to a meeting in Kansas to sell Singapore's efforts in hosting the 1991 World FIQ championships. Dhillon, appointed organising chairman of the 1991 World FIQ championships, will be in
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    • 341 30  - SLTA's choice present or future DAVIS CUP DILEMMA By Alfonso Chan SINGAPORE'S Davis Cup future will be decided next Tuesday when the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association management committee meets to weigh the pros and cons of continuing participation in the competition. While players obviously want to carry on, the SLTA
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    • 216 31  -  By S Gulam NATIONAL football coach Jita confirmed yesterday that he has selected T Pathmanathan as skipper for the preWorld Cup first-leg in Seoul, starting on Tuesday. Pathmanathan, Singapore skipper last year, was expected to keep his job. He may face stiff competition to retain the job
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    • 263 31 A PULLED back muscle has put paid to Martin Hagger's chances of defending his Hongkong Triathlon title on Saturday. But the Ujtfted World College student is determined to compete in the race, which consists of a 1500 m swim, 40km bike and 10km run "I am
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    • 238 31 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BASKETBALL NBA League Eastern Conference s-flnals: NY Knicks 121 Chicago 114. Western Conference: Phoenix 116 Golden State 104. BOXING WBC cruiserweight fight in London: Carlos de Leon (Puerto Rico) bt Sammy Reeson (Brit) 7th rd. SOCCER English Div 1: Arsenal 2 Wimbledon
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  • 879 32 ►GaU£TO I —HENRY SHHL An artist I fr\ from China, this is his first I 1 exhibition in Singapore. His brush paintings show tranquil skies, vast emptiness and nature in harmony. Gallery, Oriental Hotel. Ends on Sunday. SCULPTURE AND ART. Etchings, lithographs and sculptures by Henry Moore. Photographs of
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  • 12 32 GALLERY: Henry Shih's paintings FOOD: Mexican-American COMING UP: Hi-tec Run
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  • 71 32 Now philatelists can get four oil paintings in miniature— new stamps. The stamps faithfully reproduce Choo Keng Kwang*s oils of old Chinatown. The scenes show four streets: Sago, Pagoda, Trengganu and Temple. The stamps come in denominations of 10-cents, 35-cents, 75-cents and $1. Presentation packs at $3.50
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