The New Paper, 7 June 1989

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1 32 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, NINE 7, IMS mo <o 36/4/89 so CENTS
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  • 88 1 It's quite official: Party Policeman is taking over from Party Reformist. Qiao Shi is said to be head of China's secret service. Radio Beijing indicated this morning he has taken over the Communist Party leadership from Zhao Ziyang. Zhao, main advocate of reforms, is reported
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 110 2 Wire services. THE US House of Representatives yesterday elected Mr Tom Foley, a widely respected Democrat, as Speaker. He replaces Mr Jim Wright, who resigned following a year-long battle against ethics charges. Mr Foley took over the country's third most powerful elective post as Democrats voiced
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    • 788 2 THE PRIME Minister this morning gave a rare insight into the way he runs his Cabinet "I don't waste time taking opinion all around and then proffer my own at the end of it. I come out and say: 'This is where I
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    • 298 2 NEARLY a third of tradesmen working in Singapore do not have formal training, and have less than a year of working experience. This was the finding of a survey conducted in December last year by the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB). The survey
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    • 146 3 Wreckage: Beijing residents view the rows of armoured personnel carriers and buses that were burnt by civilians in Tiananmen Square. Witnesses reported fresh outbreaks of gunfire in the eastern part of the capital last night as a large military convoy left the centre of the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 27 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER outlook from noon: Showers over several areas in late afternoon. Maximum temperature: 32 deg. Minimum: 25 deg. Sunset: 7.09 pm. Sunrise tomorrow: 6.58 am.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 526 4 M 'ORE than 30 people have signed up to have their blood stored at a new blood bank. And the bank has yet to open. News of the Autologous Blood Bank (Sin- gapore) spread even before it was reported in The Straits
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    • 88 4 A DRUG addict who helped steal video cassette recorders from a warehouse was sentenced to two years jail yesterday. The man, A Steven s/o Paul Raj, 24, helped break into the Hock Giap Warehouse, near the Singapore River, on March 9 last year,
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    • 343 4 SINGAPORE'S measures to control the car population and traffic congestion in the city have attracted the attention of West German TV. A filming team from German TV network, ZDF, was here last week to film the operation of the extended Area Licensing Scheme
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 359 6  -  By Augustine Low I ■T seemed harmless enough. A stray cat had given birth to three kittens at a girl's school. Some of the students decided to keep the kittens as pets, and placed them in a cage outside a classroom. This act was blamed
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    • 344 6 LIKE many toy vehicles, this scooter is made almost entirely of plastic. But it is no toy. The It is designed for invalids. Made by a British company, KST Plastic, the scooter is already in use in Britain. The battery-operated scooter weighs about 30 kg
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    • 313 6  -  By Karen Goh THE women found it challenging and the men found it, well, different. For this was the first Hobiecat race in Singapore where the women took the helm and the men crewed. "It's great, super," said Mrs Mieke Lucassen, 39, the race organiser
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    • 125 6 VISITORS to Batam Island can opt for a new way of spending their nights. Air-conditioned Balinese huts are now available with the opening of the Turi Beach Resort last Friday. The resort has 156 Balinese huts spread out on hilly slopes. The resort costs
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    • 344 7 Catch the Action and the Replay ASIA GROUP* IK 1^ ll^^HSEllv V r < Ci vr M# J A WORLD Capture the magic and HB |MB 'T Q UAL FY N G^M(l|^^^^Hp^^HP l drama of the World Cup. Br Main Sponsor: *****1 MhHhgjP 1 The glory of the goals. Bfc
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  • SINGAPOREMALAYSIA
    • 510 8  -  A woman who helped a man rape a teenage girl was sentenced to four years jail by a Kuala Lumpur court on Monday. Singapore lawyers say the court here would consider abetting the crime as heinous as rape itself. The punishment could then be as
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    • 231 8 A MAN convicted of rape here two years ago got seven years for the crime and another seven for helping his friend to rape the same girl. This was what happened in the "Rape after beer" case. A 33-year-old businessman had been going out with the victim
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    • 122 8 PENDING appeal, cosmetic promoter Sharif ah Hani Zaman has been granted stay of execution of her four-year prison term for abetting rape. Sessions Court judge Soo Ai Lin increased her bail from MsB,ooo to M 515,000. Sharifah could not raise bail. The judge convicted
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    • 438 8 Lorrain still in remand after 3½ years LORRAIN Esme Osman of Malaysia is Britain's longest serving unconvicted prisoner. Once a multi-millionaire lawyer and businessman, he completed his 1,278 th day yesterday 3 Yi -years in jail without having been found guilty of any offence. A British newspaper, The Independent, says
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    • 112 8 Bernama. A SABAH timber company has filed notice of its intention to cross-examine the state's Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan, in court. The hearing is in connection with the company's suit over a logging concession. Syarikat Tungaring Kilang Papan (S)
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 192 9 EVERYTHING was up for grabs at the Tropicana yesterday. But not Johnny Mathis, Pat Boone, Lulu, Nancy Wilson and Duke Ellington. The nightclub's former owner, Mr S C Shaw, 78, is saving their portraits for his own collection of memorabilia. "Pat Boone came to the
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    • 514 9 SOME people will go to great lengths to gain an advantage in a lucky draw. And we mean great. Take a look at the oversized "coupons" submitted by participants of the current The New Paper Score Win lucky draw contest in the picture at
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    • 180 9 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. abetting: Helping or encouraging someone to do wrong. adulation: Great praise and admiration: complied: Did what was required or expected of one. contrite: Sorry and apologetic for having done
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 221 10 Wire services. THE British Foreign Secretary has reiterated that the 1984 agreement for the return of Hongkong to Chinese sovereignty must remain the basis for securing the future of the territory. Sir Geoffrey Howe said because the colony consisted of "a tiny group of
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    • 25 10 Metal hulks versus human blood: Chinese tanks roar down Beijing streets yesterday, attempting to pressure away citizens gathering on their bicycles.
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    • 555 10 Wire services. RADIO Beijing indicated today that hardline Communist Party politburo member Qiao Shi had taken over leadership of the party from reformist Zhao Ziyang, apparently purged after a power struggle. The morning broadcast said the Supreme People's Court sent a telegram to comrade Qiao Shi
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    • 151 10 Wire services. CHINA'S leadi n g dissident, physicist Fang Lizhi, has sought refuge in the US Embassy in Beijing. A White House official said in Washington that Mr Fang went to the embassy on Monday "for his own safety." Mr Fang has been granted
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 407 11  -  THE REACTION IN HONGKONG Pauline Loh OUR HONGKONG CORRESPONDENT HONGKONG journalists, who left China for home hurriedly on Monday, have said they will carry on the fight by thinking of ways to get around China's news blackout. The journalists, some of whom went straight to the radio
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    • 202 11 THE planned general strike in Hongkong has been called off because of riots. Organisers this morning cancelled the strike planned for today as a protest against the bloody military crackdown in Beijing. Early this morning, police used teargas and truncheons against stone-throwing youths who
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    • 248 11 THE REACTION IN SINGAPORE TWO SBC stars got married yesterday. But to about 15 New Paper readers, it was a "so what?" kind of news. They called to say that they were more interested in China than in actress Xiang Yun and
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    • 251 11 THE queues were back outside the Bank of China building in Battery Road this morning. Some people in the queues came as early as 4 am. An army officer, who lives in Jurong, took the day off and was among the first in one queue.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 401 12 Wire services. THE Polish government and Solidarity, fresh from its overwhelming election victory, have held talks in Warsaw as the opposition pressed demands for greater democracy. Earlier Solidarity had signalled its willingness to share responsibility with the government for continuing economic and social reforms, although it ruled
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    • 238 12 Wire services. WORLD leaders stayed away from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's funeral yesterday in a vivid display of the isolation of the Islamic Republic he founded 10 years ago. The coolness of foreign powers was in sharp contrast to the emotions of millions of
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    • 125 12 Wire services. THE Sri Lankan village of Bambaragala was swept away by tonnes of black boulders and red clay in floods that have killed more than 310 people on the island. After two days of torrential rain, the boulders and clay roared down a mountain
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    • 87 12 Wire services. OPEC nations lifted their oil production to 21 million barrels a day in May, the highest amount so far this year, according to estimates. And the International Energy Agency predicted in its report that demand for the cartel's oil would rise
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    • 274 12 Wire services. PAKISTAN and the United States have agreed to seek a political settlement to the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, says Premier Benazir Bhutto. "The President (George Bush) and I have reviewed the situation (in Afghanistan) and we are in complete accord both in terms of
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 33 13 Safety test: A factory worker tests a condom for imperfections in Indonesia, where the government is starting a new programme to encourage privatisation of the family planning sector. Picture/ Reuter
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    • 220 13 Wire services A BUSE anabolic steroids and you could go crazy. An American researcher said this in Monte Carlo on Tuesday, the second day of an international symposium on drugs in sport. Dr David Katz said that a study by himself and a colleague
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    • 142 13 IT seems to be sabotage: At least two Area Licensing Scheme booths have been hit by vandals. The keyholes of the booths at Botanic Gardens and Kim Seng Road were found to be stuffed with glue this morning. The Gardens booth shutter was broken
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  • FOREIGN STOCKS
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      175 13 Wire services. A MORE cheerful trend had supplanted early falls on the London stock market by the close yesterday, although trading volume remained thin. The Financial Times 30share index was up 16.0 points at 1,753.0 at the close. Volume rose to a moderate 445.8 million shares from Monday's 359.2
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    • 91 13 Reuter. BROKERS hoping to entice institutional investors back into the languishing market helped share prices surge at the open. The market is struggling to come out of a four-day slump, caused in part by uncertainty over the violence in China. The Nikkei index shot up 197.93 points, or 0.59
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    • 51 13 FT Industrials Tue 1,753.00 (1,737.00) Dow Jones Average Tue 2496.32 (2,480.70) ST Industrial Tue 1,233.13 (1,271.37) NST Industrial Tue 2,184.58 (2,214.43) Hongkong Hang Seng Tue 2,149.71 (2,093.61) Australian All Ordinaries Tue 1,522.60 (1,535.40) Nikkei Stock Average Tue 33,452.01 (33,457.08) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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      264 13 Wire services. SHARE prices see-sawed in active trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. After spending most of the day showing healthy advances, the market took a sudden dip before a late rally pushed the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials up 15.62 points, at 2,496.32
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  • Showtime
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      293 14  -  Wong Sing Yeong IT was supposed to be a quiet ceremony. But it turned out to be the most widely-publicised wedding this year. And they blamed me for it Chen Zhicai and Xiang Yun sneaked into the Registry Of Marriages on a sleepy Tuesday afternoon to apply
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    • 208 14 THEY bought a new bedspread the day before their wedding. It was the only addition to the bridal chamber. It was also a symbol of a new beginning for SBC stars Chen Zhicai and Xiang Yun, who were married yesterday. But they still didn't have
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1657 15 Television M The Beauty and the Beast Migrations in the Wake of the It's Showtime at the Apollo SCREEnm Remember Love White Pelicans (11.20 pm, SBC 5) GEMS (7 55 p m SBC 5) (*10.45 pm, SBC 12) AL Jarreau hosts soul group The Jamaica £2" J 9 A m
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  • 121 16 spotlight The wedding of_ the year took place yesterday when SBC stars Chen Zhicai and Xiang Yun got hitched in a blitz of popping flashbulbs and champagne. The Registry Of Marriages buzzed with excitement at their arrival. At 9.50 am, they were declared man and wife. A
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 425 20  -  By Geraldine Goh HI! THEATRE, Singapore's noted Theatre of the Deaf, will soon be joyously waving "bye!" but just for a while. The group will be off to Washington, DC, in the United States next month to perform Curious Circus. It will be their
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    • 234 20 WILD SEARCH (Cathay cinemas) ANOTHER cop-and-robber movie starring Chow Yun Fatt. This time, he's after the murderers of a gun-runner (played by Elaine Jin). He falls for the sister of the dead woman, Cherie Chung. THE FLY II (Cathay) THIS is a sequel to a horror movie of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      463 20 USA TODAY SHIRISH NADKARNI. SHIRISH NADKARNI. BETTE MIDLER MOVES UP BETTE Midler's Wind Beneath My Wings, from the movie Beaches, is the new No. 1 single on Billboard's Hot 100. The soundtrack LP from the film is No. 2, right behind Fine Young Cannibals' The Raw and the Cooked,
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    • 293 21 THE first local classical composition recorded on compact disc was officially released today. Overture Dayong Sampan is one of the highlights of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's 10th anniversary commemorative disc under the Philips Digital Classic label. The overture draws on the strains of the
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    • 109 21  -  SEENLASTNWHT By Wong Sing Yeong WE all had crushes on our teachers some time. And we lived to keep the secret. Jinmei (Zhu Leling) almost didn't. She tried to kill herself in last night's episode of Good Morning, Sir because her teacher didn't return
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    • 278 21  -  By Debbie Henson CHINA CRISIS: DIARY OF A HOLLOW HORSE (EMI) NO, it has nothing to do with what's happening in Beijing right now. To jog your memory, this group had the hit Black Man Ray some years ago. This 10-track collection contains some good music, although it may
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    • 184 21 1927 Members: Garry Frost (guitar), Eric Weldeman (vocals, guitar), Bill Frost (bass), James Barton (drums), Charlie Cole (keyboards, he's not in the picture). Latest release: That's When I Think off You 1927 features Garry Frost on guitar. Garry composed the international top 40 hit, What about
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 573 22 THE SINGAPORE FURNITURE Designers' Competition 9 The starch is on for local dosignors who havo tho potential to design furniture that could be the start of a Singapore Style At the same time the quality should be on par with the best of international designs. An award that conies with
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 1339 23 RADIOGUIDE EEBDB mm imnmmini?i 1339HH NOON News In Brief (Programmes in Mandarin) NOON News In Brief and Weather NOON Good Music, Company and Ma: N00N N#w dtsh 12.05 Luuchdate: A musical selection NOON Baantlfal Music: Light instru- Report Noon-time musical entertain- 12*30 Business Matters: A weekly is offered here for
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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  • HORIZONS
    • 1415 26 DEAR AGGIE AGGIE gives advice every Wednesday. Questions Aggie can't answer are put to other experts such as doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists. Write to: Dear Aggie, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923. You must give your name and address. But The New
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    • 87 26 Confused Gemini where are you? You wrote asking how to be a nurse and I answered your letter on May 10. Shortly after that, a Dr Y K Ong wrote to me, offering you a job as an assistant trainee nurse and dispenser.
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  • SPORTS
    • 371 27 Creditors seize Conner’s cat Reuter. THE US Government has impounded the catamaran used by Dennis Conner in last year's America's Cup after creditors filed a suit against the group which handled the defence of yachting's premier trophy, a US official said in San
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    • 102 27 Reuter. THE US Olympic Committee said yesterday it hoped to begin enforcing a joint drug-testing agreement reached with the Soviet Union by as early as August. The USOC executive board approved the agreement in principle at a meeting last weekend, subject to changes on
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    • 150 27 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA AUSTRALIAN jockey John Scorse, who gained recognition for his association with champion racehorse Placid Ark, can make an impact in his first visit here. He was on the tracks at Penang this morning and worked Sovereign Party. The newcomer, trained
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    • 227 28 AFP. A CLAIM that England's five biggest clubs are on the point of quitting the Football League was strenuously denied yesterday. Responding to the allegation by Coventry chairman John Poynton that Arsenal, Gverton, Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham were committed to joining a
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    • 141 28 AFP, Reuter. BAYERN Munich became West German First Division soccer champion yesterday when Stuttgart Kickers held closest pursuer Cologne to a scoreless draw. The result left Cologne five points behind Bayern with only two matches left in the league programme. Visitor Cologne, without internationals Juergen Koehler
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    • 167 28 AFP, Reuter. GOALKEEPER Peter Shilton has turned down the chance of captaining England on his record 109 th appearance for his country in Copenhagen today. Manager Bobby Robson said yesterday: "Bryan Robson offered Peter the captaincy but he wants to treat it as a normal international.
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    • Article, Illustration
      357 28 Wire services. ENGLISH champion Arsenal is on the trail of Sheffield Wednesday's Icelandic playmaker Siggi Jonsson, who is wanted by Nottingham Forest as well. Arsenal is also interested in Coventry's England Under--21 midfielder Steve Sedgley. Meanwhile, Aston Villa look likely to accept an improved offer of $2.7 million from
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    • 251 28 Wire services. RESULTS of yesterday's international sports: BOXING WBC super flyweight fight in Los Angeles: Gilberto Roman (Mex) bt Juan Carazo (Puerto) on points after 12 rounds. CRICKET English County Championship At Tunbridge Wells: Hampshire 213 (M.D. Marshall 61). Kent 276-3 (M.R. Benson 114, N.R. Taylor 104 n.o). Kent
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    • 361 29 Reuter. BORIS Becker and Stefan Edberg, two masters of fast court tennis, set up a semi-final meeting on the slow clay of Roland Garros with quick victories yesterday. Becker rounded off a day disrupted by showers on the centre court at the French Open championships by thrashing
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    • 185 29 Men's singles q-finals: Boris Becker (WG) bt Jay Berger (US) 6-3, 6-4, 6-1; Stefan Edberg (Swe) bt Alberto Mancini (Arg) 6-1, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5). Doubles: Mansour Bahrami (Iran) Eric Winogradsky (Fra) bt Cassio Motta (Bra) Blaine Willenborg (US) 4-6, 6-1, 6-1. Women's singles: Steffi Graf (WG) bt
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    • 380 29 Wire services. YUGOSLAVIA'S sensational 15-year-old Monica Seles stormed into a semi-final showdown with world No 1 Steffi Graf, and admitted she was scared. Seles defeated sixth-seeded Bulgarian Manuela Maleeva 6-3, 7-5 and said, "I'm so happy about winning today I can't describe it,
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    • 739 30 Devaraj delights to ease Jita’s plight I Move over, Sundramoorthy; here comes Devaraj, Singapore's latest scoring hope. The 21-year-old could be the solution to coach Jita's frontline woes. S GULAM makes an introduction CALL him Singapore's latest "Black Pearl". Like V Sundramoorthy, he's dark, slim, slippery, long-striding with
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    • 303 30  -  By Abdul Shukor BEWARE of the Koreans. That is the message Singapore skipper T Pathmanathan to his team-mates. "Despite the Koreans' two lethargic performances, they are still better than the others. And they will have the more reason to prove a point
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    • 387 31 Singapore faces Korean class tonight. So what will it be? Three goals? Four goals? Or a draw. No mercy, no diplomacy, promise the Koreans. Can Singapore stave off an onslaught? S GULAM sizes up the odds SINGAPORE will face its moment of truth tonight. The
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    • 26 31 David Lee, Sudiat Dali, T Pathmanathan, Borhan Abu Samah, Ishak Saad, A R J Mani, Salim Moin, Razali Saad, Hasnim Haron, D Devaraj, D Tokijan.
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    • 24 31 Cho Byung-Deuk, Jung Yong-Hwan, Park Kyung-Hoon, Gu Sang-Bum, Cho Min-Kook, Choi Keng-Hoe, Chung Hae-Won, Hwangbo Kwan, Ko JungWoon, Kim YongSe, Hwang SeonHong.
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    • 166 31 TONIGHT'S Singapore versus South Korea match will be spiced up by action from the past. Ex-national soccer stars Mohammed Noh and Lim Teng Sai will face former team-mates Paul Anthonysamy and Lim Chiew Peng in a penalty kicks contest at half-time. Each
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
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  • 960 32 ►Gallery 0 SHANTOU FOOD. A photograph exhibition in conjunction with the Shantou Food Festival. Cafe Carousel, Boulevard Hotel. Ends Sunday. STUDIO SHOW. Visual art forms from paintings to audio-visual projects and performances are on exhibition at the 2nd Open Studio Show. Marvel at the works of 25 artists. 9
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  • Article, Illustration
    30 32 affect as? Can we slow down the aging a good luiigHiBlPoteiraale pflle yoo have to grow Cashmore tries to answer theee questions in tide taOpH 7 pm totjElpi Fitness vr
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