The New Paper, 2 February 1990

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  • 15 1 the new paper FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1990 MCI (P) 36/4/89 50 CENTS the new paper
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    • 258 1 ANITA'S MEMENTO '■M Rock 'a' roll Hall of Fame opens in Singapore. And singer Anita Sarawak m donates her bustier at a memento. "This UB is one of my favourite pieces," says Anita, showing it off before giving it away. 111 TELECOM MAY CHARGE FOR LOCAL CALLS GUTSY GRANNY TAMES
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  • 55 1 Two jewellery shops are robbed within four hours of each other. Police believe same gang is responsible. Reason: Three give-away clues. In one robbery, three gunshots are fired. Picture shows police photographer taking a close-up of a spent bullet, marked with white tape near the
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 306 2 LOCAL telephone calls may not be free in future. Singapore Telecom is considering charging local calls depending on their number and duration, says Business Times. A decision is expected within a few months. Residential and business subscribers now pay only a flat annual rate
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    • 501 2  -  By Thusitha De Silva TWO jewellery ahop robberies that took place yesterday may be linked. They occured within four hours of each other. A senior police officer said last night: "We believe that the two robberies are linked." In both cases, there were four
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    • 244 3  -  By Angeline Song A LIGHTER holder with the Merlion symbol has been rated one of the world's worst souvenirs. Holiday Which? magazine, a popular consumer magazine in Britain, has included the lighter holder in its first listing of The World's Worst Souvenirs. "Totally taste free" was
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    • 147 3 THESE are the good, the bed and the ugly Singapore souvenir*, as rated by Australian tourists Mr Edmund D'Crui and Ms Melanie Watson: Mtst tffiHhttl' The pair agreed with Holiday Which? magazine that the Merlion lighter holder is one of the worst souvenirs in the world. "There's no way I
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    • 204 3 THE New Paper sent two Australian tourists on a souvenir hunt in Chinatown yesterday. Mr Edmund D'Cruz, 23, and Ms Melanie Watson, 22, had a mission: To seek out some Singapore souvenirs and rate them. The pair have taken a year off from university to
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    • 60 2 HOTLINEPLUS IF you want to share a point of view, call our HotlinePlus on 734-7711, or write to The Editor, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923. Please include your full name, address and telephone number. BEFORE HEAP FOR COOL. Mlak OUR COOLER OEPT IS NOW AT SPECIALISTS'
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    • 76 3 What is nacai Rllffl and when does it *3 CI take place? m Nacai is the exchange of gifts La between the bride ana groom. This traditionally takes place a few days before the wedding. The auspicious day Is chosen from the Chinese almanac or tongshu. The prospective groom sends
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 339 4  -  By Julia Goh AGE has not fallowed Tare Seng Ngiap, 63. The man with a string of convictions dating back to 1952 was jailed for two years yesterday for causing grievous hurt to his landlord. In 1983, Tare was jailed for six
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    • 251 4 FORUMS on the customs and practices of Malays, Chinese and Indians are to be held for grassroots leaders and residents over the next two years. The aim is to enhance in-ter-ethnic relations. Mr Zulkifli Mohammed, Member of Parliament for Eunos GRC, says this in a
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    • 278 4 LASER beams can be used for delicate heart and eye surgery. They have many advantages. These include "faster healing, reduced risk of infection, simultaneous cutting and cauterising and reduced pain and adjacent tissue damage", said Dr Carl Johnson. He is chairman and chief executive officer
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 390 6 Hotels have begun printing exemption clauses on cover sheets of faxes sent from their business centres. This is because there have been cases of guests refusing to pay service charges, complaining that their clients did not receive the faxes. LOIS NG reports T i
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    • 239 6 THEY can be the dread of consumers the fine print in contracts which protects businessmen when things go wrong. Called exemption or exclusion clauses, they are commonly found in carpark notices which announce the carpark operator "will not be responsible for any damage, loss or
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    • 187 6 HOP on a Singapore Bus Service bus and it may "talk" to you. You may be told to move to the rear, to stop smoking and littering or to be more safety conscious. SBS has placed pre-recorded messages on some buses in a move to
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 392 8 Even as stores begin stocking up on products without CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) in Singapore, a product with another chemical which can damage the ozone layer has been taken off the shelves in Britain A SINGAPORE distributor may remove from store shelves a product containing yet another
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    • 274 8 COLD Storage and 7-Elev-en have joined efforts to help save the earth's protective ozone layer. The eight Cold Storage supermarkets and 62 7-Eleven convenience stores have had CFC-free products on their shelves since Jan 1. In August last year, Cold Storage said it would
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    • 147 8 ONE tout has been jailed for eight weeks. Another has been fined $2,000. The stern punishment was slapped on the two touts in separate cases in a district court yesterday. Police prosecutor Surjit Singh asked for stiff sentences when he told the court there seemed
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    • 162 8 THE former chairman of Pan-Electric Industries Limited's (Pan-El) board of directors was fined $4,000 yesterday by a district court for breaching the Companies Act. William Henry Crafter, 60, admitted that he had failed to state in a company directors' report that Pan-El director, Peter
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    • 457 9  -  By Leong Chan Teik SHE is an 83-year-old great-grandmother who needs a walking aid to get around. But when a robber tried to gag her, she gamely fought him off and then chased him and his accomplice away. The two men ran off with only $30
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    • 233 9 TWO men punched a 64-year-old woman and pushed her into a drain while robbing her. Madam Lim Sai Hong was helped out of the drain by a passer-by about five minutes after the robbery, a court heard yesterday. She was attacked and
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    • 327 10  -  Stories/ Lois Ng ANITA Sarawak's gold and black French lace bustier will make history tomorrow. The singer is donating the garment to launch the Local Hall of Fame at the Hard Rock Cafe. She will give it away right after wearing it for her
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    • 204 10 STEPPING into Singapore's Hard Rock Cafe is like visiting a museum of contemI porary music historv. i j Some 7,000 items will be on i show at the two-tiered cafe at Orchard Road. Many of the displays are i said to be items once owned by
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    • 261 10  -  NEWBEAT Esther Tan MRS Mah Ai Mee, 69, is a special friend to the children and teachers at the day care centre of the Cairnhill Community Centre. A mother of two grown-up children, she found life boring after retiring from teaching. She started
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    • 162 10 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. aborted: If some activity has been aborted, it has been cancelled. bickering: Quarrelling. cavernous: Describes some place that is very large and deep. cloned: Produced artificially. crinkle: A small
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    • 85 9 1 In' 1 > f or leisurely buffet lunches with the v -"J"' Pfami ly. Or I ong-drawn chats over lunch ids. I J Seafood I heatre Resn a sumptuous buffet of exquisite Cantonese-7 hai u dine in the quiet elegance of our restaurant. > by discreet service. Cold appetizers
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 411 11 USA Today. AT an age when most girls have stars in their eyes movie sweetheart Drew Barrymore had booze in her brain. The darling little girl almost stole the film ET from the little extraterrestrial himself at age seven. Seven years later she was fat,
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    • 166 11 DREW Barrymore earned fame and fortune as the bright-eyed girl who helped save ET in Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic. But the pressures of early stardom combined with an unhappy home life. Her grandfather was the great Shakespearean actor John Barrymore. He became an alcoholic at age
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    • 350 12 Reuter. B ULGARIA'S communist government resigned yesterday in a surprise i move. It failed to persuade opposition parties to join a coalition to run the country until free elections in May. The resignation was announced during an emergency congress of the ruling Communist Party, convened to
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    • 335 12 Cosmonaut goes for spin in space on motorbike A SOVIET cosmonaut took a spin in space on a special motorcycle designed for rescuing spacemen, and officials said the vehicle's maiden journey outside the orbiting station Mir was a success. Flight engineer Alexander A Serebrov rode the cycle as far as
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    • 157 12 Reuter. CHILDREN who suffer from disturbed sleep may find relief through removal of their tonsils, a team of British doctors said in London today. Their study, published in the Lancet medical journal, suggests that tonsillectomies, long out of medical favour, could cure children
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    • 45 12 Hannibal project: This elephant is carrying a draft of plans by the Austrian Railways to reduce truck transport over the Alps. The trunk call was part of a promotion at the European Forum for Combined Transport in Brussels yesterday. Picture/ Afp
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    • 84 12 AP DEMONSTRATIONS by ethnic Albanians claimed two more lives in Kosovo, Yugoslavia yesterday, reported the state news agency Tanjug. The two latest deaths occurred in Podujevo, 32 kilometers (20 miles) north of Pristina, during a five-hour demonstration. The deaths brought to 20 the number of
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    • 68 12 AP. THE government-owned Radio and Television Malaysia is still operating at a loss despite collecting $99.4 million last year in advertising and other income, Malaysian Information Minister Mohamed Rahmat said yester- day in Kuala Lumpur. He said RTM spends $133 million a year. The minister
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    • 322 13 Wire services. WEST German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has rejected an East Berlin proposal for a united but neutral German state. He said he would negotiate unity only after East Germany's free elections on March 18. Mr Kohl said Prime Minister Hans Modrow's four-step plan for
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    • 284 13 Reuters. US allies in western Europe have welcomed a proposal by President George Bush to cut superpower troop levels in Europe to 195,000 on each side. Britain: While applauding Mr Bush's proposals, the British government said it had been assured by Washington that
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    • 177 13 Reuter. A CRIME spree by a mid-dle-aged "Bonny and Clyde" who eluded capture in five US states came to an end yesterday when police nabbed them. The couple were caught after a failed robbery that would have been their 34th in six weeks. Edward Aranjo,
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    • 59 13 Comforting bystander; A woman helps a child stretched out on the hood of a car at the scene of a schoolbus crash in Monroe, New York on Tuesday. The schoolbus was carrying 38 kindergarten and first-grade students when it skidded off the road and into
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 392 14 Reuter. SAUDI Arabia has urged the Thai government to track down the killers of three of its diplomats and bring them to justice, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). It quoted a Foreign Ministry official as saying in a statement the three diplomats
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    • 303 14 Reuter. IN Bahrain, a man was thrown to a pack of wild dogs every day for 10 minutes. Salt and pepper were later sprinkled on his bleeding wounds. In Tibet, a man was said to have been hung upside down for five consecutive days.
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      270 14 Wire services. SHARES on the London stock market finished slightly higher after a dull session yesterday. The Financial Times-30 share index closed two points up at 1,866. Volume came to 470.5 million shares, down from 571.9 million on Wednesday. Selective buying of blue chip issues maintained a steady undertone
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    • 65 14 Reuter INDEX-LINKED funds helped push up share prices when the Tokyo stock market opened today. The key 225-share Nikkei rose 167.66 points or 0.45 per cent to 37,374.08 in 10 minutes after firming 17.47 points yesterday. The key early risers were brokerage, railway/bus, nonlife insurance, real estate, construction, warehouse
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    • 52 14 FT Industrials Thu 1,866.00 (1,864.00) Dow Jones Average Thu 2,586.26 (2,590.54) ST Industrial Thu 1,528.83 (1,515.01) NST Industrial Thu Closed (2,908.12) Hongkong Hang Seng Thu 2,738.24 (2,751.60) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,670.90 (1,676.90) Nikkei Stock Average Thu 37,206.42 (37,188.95) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous
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      277 14 Wire services. SHARE prices moved within a narrow range in thin trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials fell 4.28 points to finish at 2,586.26. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by about 11 to 8 on the New York Stock Exchange,
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  • 199 15  -  8EENLASTMQHT By Adeline Woon CLIFF Richard might have looked a little ahem mature on The Rock of Europe last night. After all, the man has been around for years. But even Cliff hasn't been around as long as the fossils in Lost World, Vanished Lives.
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    • 156 15 MY DAUGHTERS THREE JM Ye Sumei: Plays Shanshan. She il ||H r II 1 llffiBttlil decides to keep her pregnancy from !l'1|| ||||i I'll] 1 1 J I j |l p Jia-chang (Huang Shinan) and raise l||!!" the child herself. Meanwhile, her U 1 11 ||||i|!! I jijij H mf
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    • 1168 15 ill 111 ff\ bkmf™" lllii Todd Boyce: fieturns as S/uey wAo IS I [I'-iilliip ijl|jjjllj I ||l Jar reunited for good with Dusty. Bluey's |r i'jl»;' ;|:ii!:!: ::jj!i!j?!!:i!!j:i I !IBBP|ft j^M attempts to mechanise the harvesting X.f, j'vj; j||M|iifc W J| of sugarcane upset some harvesters. \ijliUllMl 'I li[W'J F
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  • 934 16 The recent crash of an Avianca Boeing 707 in New York's John F Kennedy Airport has raised several questions about air safety. Among them: Do planes carry enough fuel and are they really safe with the kind of guidance they receive from air traffic controllers? Investigators of
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  • 199 17  -  SEENLASTN1QHT By Adeline Woon CLIFF Richard might have looked a little ahem mature on The Rock of Europe last night. After all, the man has been around for years. But even Cliff hasn't been around as long as the fossils in Lost World, Vanished Lives.
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    • 193 17 MY DAUGHTERS THREE J Bk (SBC 8,6.45pm) ]I l !Pn|||M Y® SWMfc Plays Shanshan. She I I!''"H i 111 decides to keep her pregnancy from I[J Iflrll II i l 111 luIIIhIIII Jia-chang (Huang Shi nan) and raise IP''! I "11!"'" 11l ili'lHll liiW the child herself. Meanwhile, her j-i'
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    • 1174 17 FIELDS OF FIRE II J 1111 (SBC 12,8.05 pm) Iji jl j i|W Todd Boyce: Returns as Bluey who is I j iij|j| ■11 —mm nun ited for good with Dusty. Bluey's l; lijjijS 'lijilii'P i!!!j|il I• m IPmIIV attempts to mechanise the harvesting V 'I'pj.jj;': 1 !lllij||;!f W m
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  • Showtime
    • 736 18 Hongkong's top singers Anita Mui (left) and Leslie Cheung (right) have announced plans to retire. Both have dominated the music scene for the last few years. And in the Jade Solid Gold Awards recently, both won top awards in their respective sections. But the
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    • 543 19  -  Wlii'ii Ham \lrl Siillv.. When Harry Met Sally Opens today at Lido and Changi I PREVIEW/ By Lo Tien Yin SEX, after a 12-year friendship, is safe. You wake up the morning after, not with a headache and trouble, but with a warm feeling. Touche. Rob Reiner
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    • 307 19 USA Today. BANG, bang. You're cloned. Lethal Weapon is everywhere. Next week in the US is designated Weapon week. The original film with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover makes its American network premiere on Sunday and Lethal 2 will be out in video form next Thursday.
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    • 136 19 THIS beautiful blonde is a singer. She loves Formula One racing, has studied ballet and danced in Swan Lake. She is an actress and has made several appearances on TV and in films. She collects electronic toys. She has one of the biggest
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    • 97 18 S_ GOLLY WHIZ!! COME RAIN OR SHINE, I GOTTA GET TO LADIES NIGHT AT CELEBRITIES!! (THANK GOODNESS THERE ARE 12 NIGHTS OF THAT) Here's news to keep your spirits flying! From Feb 1-12 (weekends excluded) CELEBRITIES will be having a stretch of ladies nights. This means all ladies can come
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    • 128 20 COME CELEBRATE Rendang Double Burger Fries. Whopper Fries I Chicken Burger Large Fries. Bacon Double Cheeseburger Large Fries. ißQPßS|||||ilißH9^^!i|i|K9B3||||||EEß9^^^i T Breakfast Croissan'wich Ham/Sausage Or j Wow! Wfi Ve COITI6 3 long Way. OUT very first Bacon Large orange juice. i restaurant was started in Miami in '54 and today «T
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  • SHOPTALK
    • 431 21 KUALA LUMPUR not only has a padang like ours, it also has a central market much like our Telok Ayer market But KL's Central Market, located just by the famous Dayabumi Building, is really a warren of little shops and stalls, selling a fascinating array of artefacts,
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    • 242 21 EYETOEYE I LAST week, we discussed eye drops for contact lens users. This week, we look at salines used to clean the lens. SALINES Salines are solutions containing sodium chloride, or salt. They are used to rinse contact lens after they have been cleaned
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 274 23 i FRIDAYRADIO qjqEHESZH E233EEHHH NOON News in Brief NOON N«ws in Brief 12.0S Lunchdate 12.03 Popular Classics 1.00 Naws and Weather Report 1.00 News and Weather Forecast 1.15 LaacMate (cont'd) 1.10 Currency Exchange Rates 2.00 News in Brief 1.15 Popular Classics (cont'd) 2.05 Words aad Music 1.45 Midday Mariiet Report
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    • 388 24 COMICRELIEF FRIDAYRADIO I Orchard Road/coim Goh rnjTnTjnnTJJB FTHSHUH n |wki,ioomm«sk! SaSSST" SSSnUL SKHt iSSl ?J^ E |»lS T |liaf2S<'lB WHO CME4.100 WILL 12.30 K<xpin( Track 12.05 Sportlworld E«tr« QatfrYhfiL BATTLE \a)HH... pRofeftBri CONCLUDE,,, 1.00 News 100 World News rp=r\ If"'£>»/■« tee (BUT PlEftSE bOfJ'T OR 1.10 Good Music, Company and
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    • 838 25 HiwSto^g6 800 Food/EntertainiiMnt 800 Food/Entertalnmant It's Carribean Week PIJ anything goes as long Co as it is in Bubbles J l O MAWAaUiK ,r Q I J EWTHITAINMENT P/OAcT| II I 811 Personal Sarvteaa/ 811 Personal Service*/ HarrhanHlia ilainhanHlaa MtrcnanaiM NwrcninaiM iimnip n f-E-X-P-R-E-S-S-l-O-N-Hl 0 IMAGE £7 BEAUTY CONSULTANTS Come
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 608 26 •31 Employment 831 EmploynMnt 831 Employment SSBES^BSSS ASSISTANT SALES MANAGER We are expanding and looking for suitable candidate for above Ksltlon. Successful candidate will be responsible for the sales of and Its related peripherals for Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Applicants must have at least 3 years sales experience In similar
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    • 539 26 831 Employment 831 Employment A fast expanding engineering company In Jurong requires the following: 1) SALES MANAGER 2) SALES ENGINEER to promote centrifugal oil filters locally and this region. Requirements: Technical diploma with experience In dlesel/ marine engine. Good contacts In marine Industry. Possess own car. Minimum 3 years' experience
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    • 347 26 t •31 Employm#nt I 831 Employment A wall sttiblithsd international company apacialftainQ In procufSfnant, war9housinQ and forwarding, aiiMaAsJia jaa a alal a g.a aL^ invn99 aunamy quaimao applicants for ina touowidq IMPORT EXPORT CLERKS e OCE *0' Level e Knowledge of Import or Export documentation e Ability to Type Is
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    • 222 26 Our Aaeoclate Company In Thailand U looking for a dynamic Individual to fill to post of a: TEXTILE FACTORY MANAGER The Ideal candidate should speak some aewlns English and poeeees a food knowledge and pact experience In factory work L*. sewing Inventories, stocks and management of labour etc. AHrasMva ealvy
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  • UPDATE
    • 1633 27 0 CHINESE MUSIC EVENINGS. Two concerts by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra with soloist Jiang Jian-Hua, one of the world's foremost exponents of the erhu. This is the world premiere of Evening at Qlng Shui River by Wang Yan Qiao. Other pieces to be featured include
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    • 17 27 CENTRESTAGE: CHINESE MUSIC OUT ABOUT: CHINESE ARTS DEMO FOOD: MEGEVE CUISINE C0MIN6 UP: MAGICAL CHINGAY
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    • 68 27 A colourful song-and-dance presentation by one of China's best performing arts groups, The China Arts Troupe. The group has won several awards at national competitions and festivals. Its programme here includes Night on the Prairie, a vocal solo performance; The Galloping Horse, an erhu performance; and Welcoming
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  • SPORTS
    • 761 28 Sir Stanley Matthews turned 75 on Thursday. Reflecting on the sport he loves, the "Wizard" says he deplores many of its present ailments. Much of the fun and pleasure has gone because of players' behaviour, he says. And he rates Gullit as the
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    • 131 28 EUROPE KICKOFF: ENGLAND Reuter. ALEX Ferguson has the perfect opportunity to escape from the pressure which has dogged him and his team this season. Ferguson's Manchester United faces neighbour Manchester City in one of two classic derby matches in tomorrow's programme. While United battles to haul
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    • 199 28 EUROPE KICKOFF: SPAIN, ITALY, HOLLAND, FRANCE Reuter. REAL Madrid striker Hugo Sanchez, the top-scorer in Spain, may find his work cut out on Sunday when his team meets Real Mallorca. He must beat goalkeeper Badou Ezaki. The Moroccan international has the best defensive
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    • 211 29 AFP. ENGLAND badminton star Steve Baddeley's tale of woe was completed this morning. He was forced to withdraw from the men's singles bronze medal play-off against English teammate Darren Hall because of a badly blistered right foot. Left-handed Baddeley, the defending champion, was thrashed 15-6,15-2 by Malaysian
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    • 262 29 AP. SEBASATIAN Coe has one more chance to end a 14-year career with glory instead of gloom. The 33-year-old Englishman's record of winning a medal in every major championship in which he has competed came close to an end in the 800 m at the
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    • 232 29 AP, AFP. CANADA'S Guillaume Leblanc triumphed at his third attempt to win the Commonwealth Games 30km road walk here today. The 27-year-old French-speaking Canadian overtook runaway leader Andrew Jachno of Australia after 22km to win by more than half a minute in two hours, eight minutes
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    • 197 29 AFP. DISGRACED Welsh weightlifter Ricky Chaplin said yesterday he was proud of his part in the Commonwealth Games at which he was disqualified for taking drugs. But Chaplin added that the whole drugs story has not yet been told. The 25-year-old, who won the middleweight snatch
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    • 322 30  -  By S Gulam THE Football Association of Singapore has set its targets high for this year's Malaysia Cup. And whoever is finally appointed national coach will have to meet two objectives if he is to retain his job. The objectives are: To finish among top
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    • 132 30  -  By Abdul Shukor TUG-OF-WAR, that traditional test of brawn among Scottish highlanders, is set to make a grand comeback in Singapore. The Singapore Amateur Athletic Association has formed a Tug-of-War sub-commit-tee in an effort to revive the sport here. It was presumed dead after the pullout
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    • 135 30  -  By Dennis Chia SINGAPORE'S sepak takraw team will get a chance to gauge its Asian Games medal hopes when it competes in the Nanning International Sepak takraw tournament in April. Sepak takraw is one of the medal sports in the Games, to be held in
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    • 147 30 RACING... with DENNIS CHIA RIGHT Decision continued to attract attention when he wound up his preparation with a solid workout at Ipoh this morning. With Azhar up, the Robert Ng trained gelding was full of running at the end of a 600 m run in 39.3.
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    • 556 30 1 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1990 5/90-5 I Win $s,ooocash jackpot this week, j Cut out and attach with other coupon* (Monday to Saturday) Name: I/C No: I FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS J USING CLUES BELOW. j I g a i YhM 1 E L im I G E IE —^Last
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    • 140 31 BAD LUCK FOR BADDELEY Injury forces defending badminton champ Baddeley to concede his bronze medal play-off match third time lucky Canadian Guillaume Leblanc wins the 30km road CTJI walk in his third attempt MBSjjjGullit the Stanley the "Wizard of the Dribble", says only Ruud jr"' HH Gullit, amongst the modern
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