The New Paper, 22 February 1990

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  • 15 1 the new paper THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1990 MCI (P) 36/4/89 SO CENTS the new paper
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    • 131 1 Moving in the nudes Businessman Um Cheok Sin brings to Singapore the Chinese nude paintings which stirred up a storm in Beijing last year. "I am curious to find out the response of Singaporeans to nude paintings," he says./ Page KIDNAPPED WOMAN TOLD: GIVE ME ANOTHER BABY Polk# investigate 25-year-old
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 192 2 Reuter. THE revived practice of drowning baby girls in China's south-western Guangxi province means that at least one million boys will not find wives in 20 years time, the China News Service reported yesterday. The Beijing news agency said that the ratio of
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    • 124 2 THE Ministry of Environment has increased burial fees at all cemeteries to persuade Singaporeans, as far as possible, to opt for cremation of their deceased. The fees will go up from $120 and $150 to $300 for adult burials at government cemeteries other than those set
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    • 434 2  -  By Brendan Pereira A PRODUCTION operator has reported to police that her former boyfriend abducted her then demanded that she have sex with him. The man locked her in a room in a Yishun flat for nearly seven hours. But she persistently resisted his
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    • 174 2 MALE chauvinists in America have named TV sitcom star Roseanne Barr for their Wimps, Grumblers and Grousers award. The award has been given by the National Organisation for Men, which says it is out to protect men from attacks by "radical feminists". Mr Sidney Siller,
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    • 144 2 AP A MAN who went berserk on a city street in Miami, USA, and bit at least eight people before he collapsed and died,was suffering from Aids. Police encouraged his victims to call the city's health authorities. Experts say, however, there are no known
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    • 551 3  -  By Lim Phay-ling T I HERE are six BMW cars worth $6 million parked at Empress Place. This half-dozen are not your usual "Yuppie" BMWs. For a start, four have taken part in the gruelling 24-hour Le Mans road race in France. What links
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    • 199 2 |j A (Bestsetfer in America follow the spiritual laws of money and abundance develop unlimited thinking %P iiP I sten 10 y° ur nncr B uidc use advanced manifesting techniques %p IB BSBpi niffil B create your life's work f I transform your beliefs %P VSc magnetize and draw to
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    • 53 2 HOTLINEPLUS IF you want to share a lfD1l[7E1lfTl point of view, call our |fl| '"111 I I HotlinePlus on 734-7711, or g I I llll write to The Editor, The New tUsJ 1JJ liflj Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, ISBlfElPB Singapore0923. Please UllLP IjlP include your full name, 734-7711 address
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

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    • 60 3 What is the purpose of 1 funeral wakes and how long do they last? SJ-S Wakes enable relatives and friends to pay their last respects to the deceased. They are either held at the home of the deceased or in funeral parlours. V, wakes go on from between three and
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 417 4  -  By Thusitha De Silva T I < I HE crush of devotees outside a temple in Waterloo Street yesterday forced police to make an unscheduled closure of the street. Thousands of people thronged the Kwan Im Temple throughout the day to symbolically "borrow" money
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    • 119 4 THE Kwan Im Temple was first established in 1884. It is an example of Chinese temple courtyard architecture and traditional Chinese craftsmanship reminiscent of the late 19th century. The original temple had a prayer hall with three altars. These were for Guan Yin, the Chinese goddess of mercy;
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    • 126 4 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. caravan: A vehicle with beds and other equipment inside, in which people live or spend their holidays. cohort: A group of individuals that have something in common. craze: An
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    • 91 4 TOP TOP QUALITY PENS 8t MARKERS PRETTY Classic, a new range of quality ballpoint pens. Comes in six different pastel shades that you can choose from white, blue, green, purple, pink and yellow. Smooth and slick, they are absolutely gorgeous! Get one today at your nearest stationery store. OMETRACO For
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 754 6  -  Stories/ Lois Ng w HAT will people say? How will they react? Businessman Lim Cheok Sin would like to know. He said: "I am curious to find out the response of Singaporeans to nude paintings." Mr Lim is the businessman who has brought the controversial
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    • 366 6 A CONSTABLE was caught peeping at a courting couple. He made a false police report stating that he had been robbed and assaulted by two men after he was caught by one of them. He also stated that he was made to write
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    • 447 7  -  By Suresh Nair AN American fugitive who allegedly tried to use Singapore as a base of operations to pull off a $19 million bank scam was extradited to London last night. His extradition ended several months of investigations by Interpol London and Singapore's Commercial Crime
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    • 631 8 Vocational training may be made compulsory for early school leavers. But there is a misconception that vocational institutes are less-than-desirable places. MICHELLE OH spoke to some teachers, students and parents T HEY are full of hooligans and gangsters and people who speak foul language."
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    • 389 8 A TEACHER from one of the VITB's training institutes, Ms P K Yeo, spoke in defence of vocational training. She said some of the students had potential, were talented and should not be made to feel that they are "waste products". Ms Yeo,
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    • 229 8 A NEW computer training scheme for disabled people will improve their chances of finding jobs. Dr Ee Peng Liang, president of the Singapore Council of Social Service, is scheduled to announce the scheme this morning. "With this training scheme, we hope more disabled people with the
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    • 489 9  -  By Ng Wan Ching A BLIND Malaysian woman who claims she is the long-lost member of a Singaporean family will be asked to go for a blood test. Madam Norjan Mohamed, 48, contacted two members of the Singaporean family after the New
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 300 10 Thais pose as Malaysians: Police T f call girls, disguised as Malaysians, are now being supplied to vice dens in Tokyo. The disguise is employed because single Thai women are treated with suspicion by Japanese immigration authorities and often denied entry. The Malay Mail
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    • 280 10 AFP. A JAPANESE national of Chinese origin has alleged that the Chinese government had "tried to force" him to become a spy by holding his son hostage in Shanghai, a Japanese diplomat said in Hongkong yesterday. Mr Masami Yoshizaki, an ethnic Chinese who has
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    • 32 10 Clearing up: Riot police in Kosovo, Yugoslavia clear up rocks used to barricade student demonstrators yesterday. The students had defied a ban on gatherings. Picture/ Afp
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    • 280 10 AFP. AN MP from Japan's ruling party is said to be under investigation for allegedly evading taxes on undeclared profits of $14 million. Citing "sources close to the persons concerned", three major newpapers the Asahi, Mainichi and Sankei reported that former Environment Agency director-general Toshiyuki Inamura
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    • 154 10 AP. A VETERAN politician linked to the Recur i t shares scandal will be given a leading post in Japan's governing party. Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu has agreed to appoint former Agriculture Minister Mutsuki Kato as chairman of the party's Policy and Research Council,
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    • 298 11 AP. AN evangelist has been convicted of first-degree murder for starving to death a four-year-old girl she was trying to exorcise of evil spirits. Mary Nicholson, 40, showed no emotion when the verdict was read on Tuesday and refused to comment afterwards. Darlene Jackson, the mother
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    • 131 11 Reuter. BRITISH pop star Elton John put a swimsuit of Marilyn Monroe up for auction yesterday to help raise money for Vietnamese refugees. Monroe, who committed suicide in 1962, wore the black swimsuit with plastic sequins in the 1954 film There's No Business Like Showbusiness. Elton,
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    • 99 11 AP. POLICE in Maryland USA stalking a bank robber who preferred certain bank branches, correctly predicted where he would strike next and nabbed a suspect emerging from a bank after a holdup. Allen Lorenzo Mills, 34, was charged with armed robbery and assault. Police said a "bearded
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    • 263 12 Wire services. T I J HE Bush administration will continue to pursue an opening with the Chinese government despite a State Department report which sharply criticised Beijing's human rights violations. The report, published yesterday, re-ignited congressional opposition to President George Bush's efforts
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    • 143 12 WARNING: Listening to rock music may harm your well-being. That is what US lawmakers feel about some rock numbers being produced in the country, says the British magazine, The Economist. It says Pennsylvania sena- tors are now studying a proposal that some deviant
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    • 125 12 AFP A THAI university is to launch special English courses for taxi drivers. This will help them communicate with an increasing number of foreign investors and tourists, a university professor said in Bangkok yesterday. Mr Vanchai Rijirava nich, assistant rector of Chulalongkorn University, who developed
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 160 11 IT S EASY! IT'S FUN! IT'S OPEN 10 EVERYONE! Take up the creative challenge. Help promote good values among school-children. And be rewarded for your efforts. The Good Citizens Songwriting Competition is a nationwide search v. for songs suitable for school-children 'Si aged between 6 to 14. The songs f)
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      295 12 Wire services. LONDON stocks yesterday recouped losses induced by Tokyo's third biggest points fall on record. The Financial Times 30share index was 15.2 points lower at 1,783.8 points. Nervousness over sharp falls on overseas equity markets kept British stocks under pressure. The declines came on fears of rises in
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    • 77 12 Reuter. TOKYO shares continued to rise in opening trading on widespread relief that New York stocks had weathered the local stock market's nose-dive yesterday. "New York's endurance overnight has brought some relief to investors here but it's too soon to tell whether the market has finished its correction," said
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    • 52 12 FT Industrials Wed 1,783.80 (1,799.00) Dow Jones Average Wed 2,583.56 (2,596.85) ST Industrial Wed 1,544.42 (1,595.40) NST Industrial Wed 3,089.09 (3,158.81) Hongkong Hang Seng Wed 2,862.27 (2,980.90) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,624.40 (1,629.90) Nikkei Stock Average Wed 35,734.33 (36,895.52) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous
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      291 12 Wire services. SHARE prices tumbled in early New York trading yesterday in the wake of the third biggest single-day loss on the Tokyo bourse, but managed to regain much of their lost ground as the day wore on. Down 30 points within 10 minutes of the opening bell,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 476 13 Drinking water problems continue in France. One week after Perrier withdrew its mineral water stocks, Vittel called back its Hepar brand mineral water for pollution checks. And people living in some parts of the country have been given water-pollution warnings Wire services. FRENCH mineral water producer
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    • 215 13 PERRIER'S mineral water is described by Time magazine as a "drink with the flavour of old rocks and the price of cheap perfume". The magazine, in its latest issue, carried a report of the French company's decision to withdraw its mineral water from all the world's
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    • 286 13 Reuter WORKERS at a British nuclear plant may be advised not to have children. This follows a report linking cancer among children to radiation absorbed by their fathers before they were conceived. Men working at the Sellafield plant in the north
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    • 245 13 Wire services. THE Malaysian government will not take any action against the Attorney-General for advising police to destroy videos and photographs linked to a sex scandal involving the Deputy Speaker of Parliament. Solicitor-General Datuk Abdul Aziz Mohamad said yesterday he had directed the police not
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    • 166 13 Bernama INDONESIA has warned farmers to stop breeding golden snails, an increasingly popular activity for earning extra income, saying they are threatening padi fields. Agriculture Minister Wardoyo said in Jakarta the golden snails, so named because of their golden colour, had become a pest
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  • UPDATE
    • 1584 14 Centrestage 0 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Performed by The Stage Club. This play is about two couples whose marriages are in trouble even though the respective partners love each other very much. Until Saturday. 8 pm. Drama Centre. Tickets at $8, $10 and $15
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    • 20 14 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF ►OUT ft ABOUT: MANHUNT '90 EXHIBITIONS: CHINESE BRUSH PAINTINGS UP: MALAY CULTURAL MONTH
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    • Article, Illustration
      67 14 The controversial "Beijing nudes", a collection of more than 70 paintings are here. The paintings created a furore when they were first shown in Beijing over a year ago. The women who modelled for the artists claimed they were not told the drawings would be shown in public.
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 118 15 MATLOCK: APPLAUSE: JOHN THE PSYCHIC MCLAUGHLIN AND A> Andy Griffith: Cracks the case of a I PAC0DE LUCIA f psychic who forsees her boyfriend's (SBC 12,10.30pm) W JM& 0mr murder and is suspected of murder. P»C» D*Lu&: This leading expressive world of the flamenco J jK— ——Blilikhtluiluiii McLaughlin, one of
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    • 821 15 11.50 AM Programme Summary 4 50 pM p r0 g ramme Summary 3-M> PM Opening and Programme Highlights, foi- 5.55 PM Opening and Programme Highlights, followed 7.30 PM Opening and Programme Highlights, followed 11.55 Quran Reading 4 55 0ur n RMdln lowed by I Do (Mandarin, with English subti- by
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  • 195 15  -  SEENLASTNtQHT By Wong Sing Yeong BODY-HUGGING designs are back, declared the presenter on Videofashion News (SBC 12, 7.30 pm) with great authority. Did I hear wrong? Wasn't it the same voice who told us that baggy clothes were in vogue just a few weeks ago? After watching
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  • spotlight
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      544 16 A nation's culture is one of its main attractions and Sarawak has come up with the idea of offering visitors its diverse cultures all under one roof in the Sarawak Cultural Village in Kuching. The village was recently opened by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
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    • 379 16 TWO members of the Sarawak Cultural Village are Baram native craftsmen Tusau Padan and Apau Madang. Tusau, 56, is a Kenyah from Long Selatong. He has been making the "sape" (Orang Ulu guitar) for decades. He is also a wood carver, sculptor and designer of
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 132 17 N* ll THE MEW PAPEIt/Thursday. February 22, 1990 Pa®. 15 MATLOCK: APPLAUSE: JOHN THE PSYCHIC MCLAUGHLIN AND jf Andy Griffith: Cracks the case of a i PACODE LUCIA mk f psychic who forsees her boyfriend's (SBC 12,10.30 pm) f 1 murder and is suspected of murder. p aC 0 De
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    • 814 17 11.50 AM Programme Summary 450 pM p rogramme Summary 3.00 PM Opening and Programme Highlights, fol- 5.55 PM Opening and Programme Highlights, followed 7.30 PM Opening and Programme Highlights, followed 11.55 Quran Reading 4 55 ouran Readine lowed by I Do (Mandarin, with English suhti- by God Mars (Cartoon) by
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  • 195 17  -  SEENLASTNGHT By Wong Sing Yeong BODY-HUGGING designs are back, declared the presenter on Videofashion News (SBC 12, 7.30 pm) with great authority. Did I hear wrong? Wasn't it the same voice who told us that baggy clothes were in vogue just a few weeks ago? After watching
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  • Showtime
    • 419 18  -  stohM Lo Tien Yin T I HE current craze for nostalgia so obvious in many pubs and ballroom-dancing discos has nit television viewers as well. More than 16 people interviewed told The New Paper that they want to see the good old shows sgain. Old series evoke
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    • 191 18 THRILLERS with that old-world charm and heroes and heroines with more brains than brawn go down well on memory lane. The Avengers seems to be the series from the 60s that TV addicts are most eager to get back in their I living
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    • 177 18 THAT Girl will return with her typically flippedout 60s hair-do for a second season. Starring Mario Thomas as the energetic Ann Itorie, an aspiring actress, That Girl will air over SBC from tomorrow at 4 pm. Aleo recently returned since their first appeseance in
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    • 559 19 F iIFTH-YEAR students of United World College are putting on 10 plays in public next month. And they will be clamouring for more than public approval. They want the examiner's mark of approval, too. In the shape of good marks. The plays will be part
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    • 343 19  -  By Lim Kuan Chiang A SITAR player has come out with an English-language instruction cassette tape on how to play the instrument. Sharafat Khan, 39, says the two-volume cassette titled Sharafat Khan Vol 1 and 2 is a first in both
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    • 523 20 GORE, once taboo with SBC, is trickling out of the woodwork. SBC used to think bloody scenes had no place in a lo-cally-produced show. Now, a reasonable amount of blood is all right. The results can be seen in a script shelved six years
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 488 21 THURSDAYRADiO COMICRELIEF W&LlWtm umjmm Curry-Pllff/Raymond Lee NOON Newt in Brief NOON News in Brief 12.05 Lunciidate 12.03 Popular Classics /2£) 1.00 News and Weather Report 1.00 News and Weather Forecast Alfl if N\ cr* 1.15 Lunchdate (cont'd) 1.10 Currency Exchanse Rates X. I s 2.00 News in Brief 1.15 Popular
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 572 22 COMICRELIEF THURSDAYRADIO Orchard Road/coim Goh NOON Good Musk, Company and Me NOON Newsdesk n 12.15 Sontimontal Journey 12.30 Off the Shelf THE ADVENTURES OP "™eTIEEV]A6E £E*fcOOK" NEvO SOM6 AND 00ft HERD IS 12.30 Keeping Track 12.45 Andy Kershaw's World of Music SSN6*S 'PDRt' BECOME <oKwm X&iK iliS l 00 1M
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  • TRAVELNOTES
    • 767 23  -  By Loh Tuan Lee WANT to see the world without being tied to a gaggle of gawking fellow tourists? You are not alone. Many Singaporeans prefer to travel independently now. But hitch-hiking is dangerous, and bus-hopping involves the hassle of juggling time-tables, tickets and luggage.
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    • Article, Illustration
      368 23  -  By David Brazil ISLAND HOPPING THE new season is under way for Spice Island Cruises on the 18cabin Island Explorer, the Indonesian catamaran said to be the world's largest. Based at Bali, this mini-cruiser will set off twice monthly on 9D tours of the islands between Bali and Timor,
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 193 24 B AXAI ftTAj mbH fS I M|| m^B I TAKE A PEEK I INTO YOUR CAREER Hear what graduates have to say about choosing a Poly course Ngee Ann I Forum I Polytechnic 10 00am Il3oam p Electrical Engineering Department Lar eer Electronic Engineering Department Seminar '90 f Shipbuilding Offshore
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
    • 291 25 •11 Personal Sarvicaa/ Merchandise 831 Employmant WINDS I tOGfiTC uwas FTf LTD VACANCIES FOR I SHIPPING I DOCUMENT CLERK I Able to type I e familiar with docu- I mentation SALES/ CUSTOMER I RELATIONS I EXECUTIVES I e Preferably with tome sales experience and possess a car I Pliih call
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    • 240 25 SSI Employmant 831 Employmant 831 Employmant The US leader in medical and diagnostic products is looking for capable and hardworking persons to support our Distribution Centre and Warehouse. because we're looking for: RECEPTIONIST (Basic salary from $800) She will be responsible for operating the Switchboard, receiving all visitors and handle
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    • 171 25 A PCS manufacturer rsqwtrw: g ■1) PRODUCTION OPERATORS ■2) TECHNICIANS WE OFFER: 5-day week. J Attendance, transport J allowance. Overtime pay, shift allowance for 2nd <■ 3rd shift 5 Free medical benefits. 5 Malaysians naad not apply Intaraatad applicant*, plassa walk-in lo: 2A Lorong Tukang Dua Singapore 2361 g I
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    • 443 25 831 Employiwnt Ml Employment incorporated in DESIGN ADVERTISING WW AND P.R. CONSULTANTS W W have the following vacancies: JM m STUDIO ARTISTS AOMIN. M WRITERS ACCOUNTS CLERKS/TYPISTS M B To form another new Creative Team to service new acquired businesses. I I Training will be given to those who lack
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    • 336 25 831 Employment d TELEPHONE b RECEPTIONIST/ 1 1 GENERAL CLERK 1 GCE O or N levels Min 1 year s working experience Able to operate PC Pleasant personality Fluent in conversational English phone etiquette Salary will commensurate with working experience and qualifications Interested applicants please write or call lor an
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 286 26 MM——T 831 Employment 811k>creen Company requires urgently ADVERTISING BALEB REPRESENTATIVE (Female) a Preferably with 1 year of sales experience a Possess own vehicle Interested, please call or write In for Interview. TATLY INDUSTRY Bik 3011 Badok Industrial Park E Badok North Avenue 4 #04-2008 Singapore 1440 Tafc 442-0708 FEMALE INDOOR
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    • 304 26 811 Employment Vecanciee exist for SUPERVISORS GENERAL WORKERS ft RECEPTIONISTS e no qualifications or experience needed a retired personnel welcomed afa i tin Ma -a AIUBUUVV irinof Dvnvnvi soa ■Nawsnoss wis bs offscsd Please call personally at 131 Lsvtndsr Street 2nd. floor John Hochstadt Building Singapore 1233. rROCKY'S PIZZA 1.
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    • 363 26 831 Employment 831 Employment Urgently required EXPERIENCED ACCOUNTS CLERK We require j Mln OCE O' level with LCCI Full-tiine/Psrt-tiine accounting qualifications m i cminrDC J Able to handle full seta of LEL i lKfcKj Preferably with working I for «hc following knowledge of PC Maths 1 Able to start work
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    • 316 26 831 Employment 831 Employment 831 Employment An eeUfclahed, f 1111| pubtoMng company I 1111 I has Immediate Mil vacanctai for the 11|| Doollom of:UNITED OVERSEAS FINANCE LTD A member of the UOB Group) ASSISTANTS Bukit View. Marine invites applications for the post of Parade Ang Mo Kio areas BVWENWH'IPfHNnVIV^HI sales
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  • SPORTS
    • WORLD CUP WARM-UPS
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        389 27 HOLLAND 0 ITALY 0 Preparations hot up as the World Cup finals come closer. Several of the leading contenders, among them hot favourites Holland and Italy, were involved in yesterday's warm-up matches... Reuter. HOLLAND and Italy, among the favourites to win the World Cup, again failed to impress.
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      • 190 27 BELGIUM 0 SWEDEN 0 Reuter. BELGIUM recorded its fourth disappointing result in a row yesterday, drawing 0-0 against fellow World Cup finalist Sweden. Sweden created the best chances in a poorly-at-tended match that saw both teams jeered and whistled off the pitch at half-time and again when they
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      • 182 27 SPAIN 1 CZECHOSLOVAKIA 0 Reuter. A FIRST-HALF goal from winger Manolo Sanchez was enough for World Cup finalist Spain to beat Czechoslovakia 1-0 in a warm-up match in Alicante. In one of the few inspired moments of a mostly scrappy match, Sanchez trapped a 42nd-minute cross
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    • 250 27 Wire services. DUTCH champion PSV Eindhoven is negotiating a new contract with Brazilian striker Romario. It hopes to keep him at the club until 1996. Romario's present contract expires at the end of the 1990/91 season. He joined PSV from Rio's Vasco da Gama in 1988 for US$2.B million.
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    • 420 28 AFP. SECOND Division Oldham, already on the verge of reaching Wembley in the Littlewoods Cup, kept its dream of a second visit alive by drawing 1-1 with Everton at Goodison Park. Joe Royle's side should have done better as Everton midfielder Norman Whiteside was sent off for
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    • 160 28 Reuter, AFP. ASTON Villa beat Tottenham 2-0 at White Hart Lane to go clear at the top of the English First Division for the first time since it won the League title in 1981. Lan Ormondroyd and David Piatt were the scorers as Villa virtually
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    • 153 28 AFP. FRENCH League leader Bordeaux fell to only its fourth defeat of the season yesterday, but it still retained a three-point lead. Bordeaux was surprisingly beaten 2-0 at Brest but nearest rival Marseille was denied the chance to close the gap because its match at Sochaux was
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    • 283 28 AFP, AP. NEW world heavyweight boxing champion James "Buster" Douglas must fight Evander Holyfield in the first defence of his title, the World Boxing Council ordered yesterday. The winner must then fight Mike Tyson, the feared undisputed champion who lost his title in Tokyo on Feb
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    • 473 28 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: BADMINTON Thomas Cup qualifying rd: Ireland 5 Guatemala 0, Norway 5 Hungary 0. Uber Cup qualifying rd: Bulgaria 5 Belgium 0, W Germany 5 Wales 0, Finland 3 Hungary 2, Czech 3 Ireland 2, Norway 3 France 2. SEPAK TAKRAW Asian meet
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    • 293 29 Singapore's hopes for a good start to its international season do not seem very bright. Its training for next month's Brunei Merdeka Games soccer tournament has been marked by poor attendances and lack of top-class exposure. S GULAM reports S I INGAPORE can hope for no more than
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    • 221 29 YOUNGSTERS Nazri Nasri and Mohamed Shaari Ismail could find themselves at the centre of a tug-of-war between the Football Association of Singapore and Jurong Town FC. The two talented players have been included in the Brunei-bound team for the Merdeka Games in Bandar Seri Begawan. The
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    • Article, Illustration
      147 29  -  SAFSA 0 T BAHRU 1 By Abdul Shukor IT WAS all very well for the Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association and Tiong Bahru to pay a minute's silent tribute to the late Rahim Omar at Jalan Besar last night, but both clubs did not do justice to
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    • 179 29  -  POLICE 3 TYRWHITT 0 By S Gulam WHAT started as a promising season is threatening to turn out into a nightmare for Tyrwhitt Soccerites. With six points and several top scalps in the bag, Tyrwhitt was expecting to finish among the top five. But now
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    • 176 29 RACING... with DENNIS CtilA" AMERICAN jockey Rick Dominguez has landed the ride on Bestplan in the Lion City Cup on Sunday. In Singapore this morning, he took out the King's Gold Cup winner for a testing trial with stablemate Fighting Spirit VI (Saifudin) The pair raced
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    • 175 30 BORIS Becker barely escaped disqualification before advancing to the second round of the ATP tennis tournament in Stuttgart yesterday. Becker came within one code of conduct violation of defaulting, but managed a 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 first round win over Brod Dyke of Australia. The West German was
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