The New Paper, 13 March 1990

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  • 14 1 the new paper TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1990 MCI (P) 36/4/89 50 cents new paper
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 67 1 FOREVER YOUNG ■TiIm ioLSHX Housewife Veronica Young (remember her?) makes record of oldies. For memories' sake and for Singapore./ Paga 20 WOMEN, HOME AND WORK: 10 SPEAK UP /Page 9 SINGER IN SEMI-COMA i^ L* jM tffl jflH W* Malaysian Zaiton Sameon, injured in lighway crash, may not be able
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  • Article, Illustration
    84 1 French doctors perform historic operation. They graft severed foot onto Operation is to save man's foot and leg. Patient's lower right leg was cut off by 5 r. Paris subway train when he fell onto the —w T surgeon Dr Maurice as long as possible. But I
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 310 2 THE Housing and Developj ment Board (HDB) will start balloting applicants for flats for the first time next month under its new booking system. Some 1,400 flats in Bishan and 40 in Geylang the two most popular housing estates will be balloted by
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    • 54 2 Fighting fat (TNP f March 12): Yesterday's report on a speech by the First Deputy Prime Minister said that nearly 18 per cent of boys in Primary 2 last year and about 10 per cent of Primary 2 girls were obese. In fact, these figures were for boys and
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    • 39 2 IF you want to share a point of view, call our Hotline Plus 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.
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    • 321 2  -  By Suresh Nair A I STOLEN taxi was found in the sea off Pasir Panjang less than two hours after a mid-dle-aged cabby was robbed 'and beaten by two men. Police believe that the taxi could have been stolen by drunk robbers. The driver
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    • 422 2 Xour ethnicity, your physical being, is something you cannot divorce yourself from... If you and I were to be stranded after a jumbo jet emergency landing in Timbuctoo. in Mali, it will take too long to explain to the Malians that you are
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 320 3 TWO guide books on tropical fungi and freshwater fish are to be launched today in conjunction with Ecoweek '90 at the Science Centre/Wore reports on Page 4 A RUBBER-TAPPING camp, a lesson on recognising common medicinal plants and an excursion to a cocoa factory are some
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    • 226 3 DESPITE its reputation as a garden city, the greening of Singapore will continue. Singapore, with its space constraints, could be expected to maximise the economic returns from the land. However, our approach is that it is precisely because we are highly urbanised that we must
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    • 79 3 CULTURR BITS Once the proposal has been accepted, a date will be fixed for the engagement I ceremony and the hantar tanda (sending the mark of betrothal). After this has been agreed on, other matters i related to the engagement
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    • 119 3 A GUIDE To Tropical Fungi was written by Dr Tan Teck Koon because he thinks people do not know enough about fungi. Each description of a type of fungus in the book is accompanied by colour pictures and notes on its uses
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    • 150 3 IN 1988, Singapore's fish exports raked in $68 million. Guppies, goldfish and tilapia stock items in any Singapore aquarium are not actually native to the island. Guppies and mollies originate from South America and tilapia are from Africa. These are just some of
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    • 357 4  -  By Griselda Loo d R Tan Teck Koon wants to set the record straight on fungi. Yes, fungi. The stuff that grows on bread, fruit, old leather shoes and clothes. But also those heavenly shiitake mushrooms. And the mould that make a good Roquefort cheese something
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    • 209 4 THE USEFUL: Oyster or abalone mushroom (Pleurotus). Shaped like an oyster shell, this edible variety is grown locally over raw cotton and sawdust. Green or blue moulds (Penicillium). Used for making antibiotics and cheese, this mould can be found growing on fruit and materials such as
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    • 532 4  -  By Loh Tuan Lee MR Kelvin Lim, 23, studies geography, sociology and philosophy in the Arts Faculty of the National University of Singapore. But he can often be found halfway across campus in the Zoological Reference Collection. Mr Lim's hobby
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    • 462 5  -  By Chitra Rajaram AN advertisement placed by a private blood bank has got some doctors worried. They feel it may alarm pregnant women. The ad by Autologous Blood Bank appeared in The Straits Times on Friday. It shows the silhouette of a pregnant woman under
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    • 98 5 Post Partum haemorrhage (PPH): The patient starts bleeding profusely after delivery. It is a serious condition requiring blood transfusion. Placenta previea: It is a condition where the placenta lies below the baby at the mouth of the uterus. The woman starts bleeding during the pregnancy itself. The
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    • 205 6 HEALTHTALK MY wife's blood-screening indicates she is Hepatitis B positive. What should we do? Hepatitis B antigen positive (HBsAg ve) indicates that your wife has been infected by Hepatitis B. Hepatitis B antibodies (anti-HBs), which are the "soldiers" produced by the body to fight the infection,
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    • 408 6  -  By Lim Phay-ling OUTDOOR education aims to be more than learning how to row a canoe or find your way around the forest. It is also learning about the weather, environment, physics, geography and yes, even yourself. The' College of Physical Education is so serious about
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    • 211 6 TOMORROW, Mr Malcolm Gilbey will present his paper on training specialist teachers for outdoor education. Mr Gilbey will be speaking at the last day of the College of Physical Education's conference on Physical Education in South-east Asia Future Directions. "The paper examines the
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    • 245 7 THE charred body of Mr Koh Ah Kow, 52, was found early yesterday in the scrapyard in Tanglin Halt Road which was razed in an explosion and fire on Sunday. Mr Koh was a rag-and-bone man who lived in the scrapyard. He was
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    • 271 7  -  By Suresh Nair TOP crime busters of Singapore and Malaysia will meet in Penang tomorrow. Their aim: To reiterate the two countries' commitment in tackling criminals crossing the Malaysia-Singapore borders. Singapore's delegation to the two-day closed-door meeting is headed by Assistant Commissioner"
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    • 89 7 HIGH points arising from close rapport between the police forces of Singapore and Malaysia: At least 20 crime suspects were arrested and extradited to Singapore last year. For example, in August 1988, two suspects were nabbed in Johor less than a fortnight after a $1.2 mil-
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 209 5 r JBJT More and more people are picking up NEC Handheld Phones. j/ The NEC Handheld Phone Lightweight, Go for it. And have power in vour hand J compact, packed with features yet Features: compel,,,vely priced 10, a 32^,g,1 capaaly to, first 10 memory addresses Wquality cellular phone So it's
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    • 298 6 CHOCOL All WAF I R />.fc^aajj[lte, fv When It's lime to take a break, there's nothing like biting into a Bingo C o«v^ chocolate wafer. It's solid yet crunchy. Fills you like no other snack does! Serenata for that delicious munch with the sheer delight of chocolate. Koukou Roukou for
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • Questions of big business and the small man
      • 71 8 DAY ONE A 'tough budget to criticise' but... That was the feeling of most of the 16 MPs who spoke about the 1990 budget yesterday. It was the first day of the Budget debate in Parliament. Although most of the speakers were supportive, most felt the Budget could
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      • 242 8 DOING BUSINESS THE needs of small and medium businessmen were heard during yesterday's debate. Mr S Chandra Das (Chengsan GRC) recommended a separate agency for them other than the Economic Development Board. "A separate agency for SMEs, an agency that can
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      • 272 8 MAKING A LIVING THREE MPs championed the needy. Non-Constituency MP Dr Lee Siew Choh likened the budget to Robin Hood in reverse. It taxed the less well-off to give to the rich and big businesses, he said. The 5 per cent
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      • 270 8 MAKING BABIES MORE money and more perks for more women equals more babies. That sums up the reactions of eight MPs who spoke on tax rebates aimed at encouraging women to have more babies. Some felt the rebates should be
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      • 279 8 ONE measure drew unanimous support for NOT being in this year's Budget. Several MPs were relieved there would be no broad-based consumption tax yet. In fact one MP even came up with a novel alternative. Mr Heng Chiang Meng (Cheng San GRC) urged the Government to impose an expenditure
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 496 9 Ideally, a woman should stop working until her children are eight or nine years old. So said Dr Tay Eng Soon, Senior Minister of State (Education) at a seminar organised by the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations and the Rotary Club of Queenstown on Saturday.
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    • 294 9 FIVE years ago when Mrs Tan (not her real name) quit her job as a manager in a bank, she shocked everyone. "Even my closest friends were shocked. They all couldn't believe it," said this 35-year-old who left her job at the peak of her career.
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    • 385 9 HOW do women who left the workforce to tend their growing children feel when they return to work? Two of the three women in this situation we spoke to said they had no regrets. A third has mixed feelings. "I think it
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    • 396 10  -  By Lim Phay-ling c OLD STORAGE is firmly stamping the Jelita complex at 293 Holland Road as its own. The supermarket chain will be opening two more of its retail subsidiaries in prime sites at the two-storey shopping centre. One is a branch of Monique's
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    • 85 10 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. banshee: A female spirit in Irish folklore who warns people by her long sad cry that someone in the family is going to die. constrained: Forced to act in
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    • 207 10 HUGE birthday cakes will be made right before spectators' eyes at Hougang Stadium on Sunday. i The pink three-tier cakes are one of five games at the Singapore Telematch preliminaries. Fifty-nine teams from different I constituencies will compete for four places in the finals. Besides making
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 386 9 QUESTIONS 1. Top-spining a favourite Malay past time tor both the young and the old. In Malay, it« known as Ogasing O layang layang Qgoli 2. When a baby s bom into a Muslim family, the father or a male relative would recite the azan (call to prayer to the
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 439 11 A i IDS patients in the United States are turning militant. Representing the new mood is Act-Up, acronym for the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power. The group, formed in 1987, has faced down scientists and government officials in its fight for what it considers
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    • 244 11 AP. TAIWANESE police undercover agents and detectives battled one another in Taichung city, central Taiwan, on Sunday. One person was killed during the gun battle when each group mistook the other for gangsters, officials reported yesterday. Two other policemen were seriously
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    • 298 11 POPULAR Malaysian singer Zaiton Sameon, injured in a car crash two weeks ago, will need a miracle to sing again, said the Malay Mail. The newspaper was quoting Kuala Lumpur General Hospital director Dr Megat Burhainuddin. The 33-year-old singer is in hospital
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    • 136 11 Reuter. THE Soviet Parliament postponed a vote yesterday to give Kremlin chief Mikhail Gorbachev sweeping powers as executive president, including the right to rule by decree. Debate on the measure, opposed by many radicals fearing a slide towards dictatorship and deputies from some
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    • 415 12 AP A FRENCH plastic surgeon has claimed initial success for a history-making operation in Paris. A severed foot was grafted onto the forearm of a man run over by a train in the Paris Metro. A team of 10 doctors headed by Dr
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    • 136 12 Reuter. KEY colleagues rallied behind British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher yesterday after reports that one in four members of par- liament of her Conservative Party wanted her to quit before the next general election. Party chairman Kenneth Baker said the reports, based on straw polls by
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
    • Article, Illustration
      289 12 Wire services. SHARES remained dull throughout yesterday with little in the way of buying support to maintain sentiment on the London stock market. The Financial Times 30share index fell 12 points to close at 1,751.8. Trading volume was very thin with only 223.4 million shares traded against 546.8 million
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    • 68 12 Reuter. TOKYO shares dropped sharply at the open today as the weak yen pressured arbitrageurs and institutional investors to sell heavily on the cash indices. The key 225-share Nikkei dropped 217.46 points or 0.65 per cent to 88,150.77 in five minutes after tumbling 624.89 yesterday. Key losers were warehouse,
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    • 52 12 FT Industrials Mon 1,751.80 (1,763.80) Dow Jones Average Mon 2,686.71 (2,696.17) ST Industrial Mon 1,582.06 (1,575.98) NST Industrial Mon 3,051.48 (3,072.43) Hongkong Hang Seng Mon 2,892.98 (2,912.67) Australian All Ordinaries Mon 1,571.00 (1,579.20) Nikkei Stock Average Mon 33,368.23 (33,993.12) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous
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    • Article, Illustration
      286 12 Wire services. SHARE prices edged up in thin trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday with analysts describing the activity as dull. The Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrials moved within a narrow band before ending the day at 2,686.71 points, an advance of 3.38 points.
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  • BUYINGGUIDE
    • 190 13 This weekly advertising feature provides a guide to what's available on the shopping shelves. It appears every Tuesday. REEBOK stops just short of saying their new sports shoe fits any foot. But it does say the shoe provides a "customised fit". The newcomer,
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    • 84 13 BABIES horn in the "Year of the Horse" are believed to walk and talk early and display a passionate love for life. To commemorate the year, Cannon Babysafe has produced a special print of the horse on their popular Cannon Babysafe Feeding
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    • 89 13 DONT get hot under the collar during a smashing game of squash. Here's a new soft drink specially for sportsmen. Staminade is the only isotonic drink made with natural mineral water, say its manufacturers. It is based on a formula tailored to the requirements
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    • 108 13 THIS is said to fit most hands like a glove. Literally. The disposable copolymer and polythene gloves mounted on paper or without paper can come in handy on most occasions from medical examination to processing food to shampooing your hair. Lension
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    • 84 13 POST-IT, makers of the self-sticking notes, now have a flag on the market. The Post-it Tape Flags are strips of tape with a special adhesive at one end that can be used to flag, colour-code and highlight information for easy reference. They are kept in
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    • 89 13 CHARLES Jourdan watches designed in simple, clear and uncluttered lines for all occasions come in two new models. Each piece is water-resistant and comes with bi-coloured bezel and bracelet. Select from either a white or black dial complete with gold indices and calendar. Each timepiece
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  • FOODNOTES
    • 553 14  -  Xiamen Fujian Banquet Fest Harbour View Dai-Chi Hotel Ends tomorrow By Trudy Lim I I IT looks like ordinary popiah, but bite into it and you get a taste explosion. There is hot mustard which numbs the tongue. Crunchy preserved cuttlefish and peanut brittle
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    • 248 14 USA Today. THE first dietary fat substitute will hit supermarkets in the United States in a few weeks. It has recently been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Called Simplesse, the substitute is made of egg white and
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 944 15 Jtmm ONE PLUS ONE Jf STARTING OVER d|j 111 I I !llillli>k STORM IN SHANGHAI ffili |i|| Chen Xillhuan: Plays Jianan. In limß |||H j (SBC 8,6.45 pm) .n*- IV tonight's episode, she persuades Mm n l||jl Adam Cheng: Plays Xiaotian. He Huijuan (Lin Yi) to return to lijllHv f
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  • 194 15  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Lo Tien Yin SPIN-OFFS can be dicey. In Ghostbusters 2 On Location (SBC 5, 9.30 pm) last night, we were told that the special effects in the first movie were thought not so special for the sequel. So the accent had to be on the
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  • 425 16 spotlight THE pictures on this page are not creatures from your worst nightmare. They are the superb work of photographer David Scharf which appeared in the Observer magazine. Using a scanning electron microscope, Mr Scharf lifts the carpet on the unseen world of dust where fleas,
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    • 1011 17 18 |||||J |||j||||jj|j'Jj|^ HE PAPER/Tuesday. March 13, 1990 ONE PLUS ONE Af STARTING OVER ~i life 8111k STORM IN SHANGHAI jjH Chen Xiuhuan: Plays Jianan. In Ijjjjjiijillillffllllißlfti t (SBC 8,6.45pm) ™i ll iiMt!i.. IIW tonight's episode, she persuades noln H H N|IB|uHSK| Adam Cheng: Plays Xiaotian. He f 'VflTfiSfr P
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  • 194 17  -  SEENLASTNK3HT By Lo Tien Yin SPIN-OFFS can be dicey. In Ghostbusters 2 On Location (SBC 5, 9.30 pm) last night, we were told that the special effects in the first movie were thought not so special for the sequel. So the accent had to be on the
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  • Showtime
    • 326 18  -  In an unusual break from tradition, the Moscow State Circus will not be held under a canvas "big top". It will, instead, be held in the air-conditioned comfort of the Singapore Indoor Stadium. TING MEI SEE reports By Ting Mei See THE big top will make
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    • 170 18 THE history of circus in Russia dates back 300 years ago to Peter the Great. The Tsar added to the list of Russian talents and arts the skills of the clown, acrobat and rope-walker, and made arrangements for the training and employment of these
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    • 431 19  -  By Vivien Chiong V I I ERONICA Young may have emigrated to France but she left her heart behind. Before she left for Charente, France last September, the 41-year-old singer recorded an album of golden oldies for her old friends and fans. It is is
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    • 576 19 w„ would I not change? It would seem silly to keep ranting and raving. I don't understand why people do one thing all of their career. Sinead O'Connor USA Today. IN The Emperor's New Clothes, Sinead O'Connor sings, "How could I possibly know what
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    • 452 20 SHE was me first singer in both Malaysia and Singapore to record on compact disc. Her much acclaimed debut album, Kali Pertama (The First Time), was also quite well-received in Indonesia. Now, with the release of her second album, Malaysian singer Fairuz Hussein is all
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    • 192 20 STYLE your own hair and be a winner on television. That is what the Studio Line Hairstyle of the Year 1990 contest, organised by L'Oreal, is all about. The hairstyling contest with a difference is not aimed at hairstylists. It is for anyone, male or female,
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    • 139 20 UNLIKE some of her fellow artists, Fairuz Hussein is not keen to venture into films even though she is the daughter of veteran actor/director Hussein Abu Hassan and actress Mahyon Ismail. Her brother Faisal is an up-and-coming actor. "I have been offered several film roles, mostly
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    • 46 20 len weeks ot I food choices I C Tuck m a hearty meal at a y steak restaurant or a grill house listed in our s P |f fa re Gourmet Fare feature found on March 14 in The New Paper Fastads. A SPECIAL FEATURE OF
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 582 21 TUESDAYRADIO COMICREUEF ETiT*if7iT»TPW I Curry-Puff/Raymond Lee NOON News in Brief NOON News In Brief 1-C r 12 05 PM Lunchdate 12.03 Popular Classics effect our* cW\XI I I VTVtfn X >Al\ 1.00 News in Brief 1.00 News and Weather Forecast I Tt»>j rnvxrO Vu*»*j! ir; 1.15 Lunchdate (cont'd) 1.10 Currency
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 342 22 COMICRELIEF TUESDAYRADIO Orchard Road/coim Goh NOON Good Music, Company and Mo NOON Newsdesk IvmooNttftTU |eltoiTs CMKT& U Lis so£*one IT'y'l !!:»EEEr* SHOUVb WE CAST I A LOT UKF..M N q 1 i .00 News 12.55 Book Choice fIS-E«\lLtOF JS.SS^' 601 I nSScT H WE/// 111 *J 1.10 Good Music, Company
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  • UPDATE
    • 1573 23 ►CENTOKWjE I EMILY OF EMERALD y HILL. Emily strides on 1 1 stage again, this time in aid of the Singapore Action Group of Elders (SAGE) Elders' Village Building Fund. Pearly Chua takes the title role of a Peranakan woman who traces her life as
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    • 17 23 CENTRESTAGE: CHARITY PLAY HOLIDAYS: BALLOON CRAFT OUT AND ABOUT: COMPACT DISCS TALKS: FACE TO FACE
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    • 77 23 Guan Wei, Yuan Xun and Chen Wai are artists from Guanzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong. Sixty of their landscape works are featured. Guan uses ink and colour to show elegance. Yuan uses the tradtional water and ink to stress the atmosphere and mood of his scenery pieces.
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 1040 24 the new paper FASTads 737-1166 THE EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFIED SECTION 811 Personal Services/ Merchandise 831 Employment j RMG TOURS I I a iilla a —>1 nr I I inviivv ippiJCiiioni fOf. FEMALE BOOK-KEEPERS i i Mln 3 'O' levels with I i credit In Maths. I li* LCC Intermediate i i
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    • 556 26 831 Employment 831 Employment j An established company has Immediate i vacancy for: i MALE ACCOUNTS Cum ADMIN. OFFICER j Diploma in Accounting or equivalent ii» 2 years Accounting and admin, experience J in manufacturing firm i i Ability to keep full set of Accounts PC knowledge i i Interested
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  • SPORTS
    • 556 27 Q wJabatini played one of the best matches of her life....For Jennifer, it does not matter if she wins or loses. It matters if she plays good or bad. She proved she belongs with these girls. Stefano Capriati AP. A T AGE 13, Jennifer Capriati
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    • 125 27 AFP. ANABOLIC steroids was the "daily bread" for East Germany's hugely successful women swimming stars, a former coach claims. Michael Regner, who coached at the ASK Potsdam club, told Der Spiegel magazine the widespread use of drugs was disrupted when the communist regime collapsed.
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    • 275 27 Reuter. THE first Grand Slam Cup, the world's richest and most controversial tennis tournament, will be held in Munich from Dec 11-16. International Tennis Federation chief Philippe Chatrier told a news conference yesterday that Munich would host it for the first three
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    • 318 27 Wire services. AFTER some delay, the two Soviet coaches recruited by the Indonesian Football Association to inject new life into Indonesian soccer, have finally arrived in Jakarta. Anatoly Polosin and Vladimir Urin were recommended by the Soviet Union FA to the Indonesian FA which agreed to recruit them initially
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    • 345 28  -  I was struggling for a decent job in 1988 and 1989 and my mind was not at peace. I have since found a job and am more settled now. Nasa By Abdul Shukor N ASARUDDIN Jalil's maturity as a soccer striker passed the acid test last
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    • 309 28  -  ASIAN WOMEN'S BASKETBALL By Alfonso Chan WHEN Li Gyong Suk snatched the ball from Kawaljit Bath with a slight jump at the start, the Indians knew they were in trouble. And so they were, as the North Koreans marauded them to go
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    • 271 28  -  PREMIER LEAGUE SOCCER By S Gulam TIONG Bahru has sounded a warning to Jurong Town: "Don't expect any favours from us". The former treble winner is expected to be the main obstacle to Jurong's hopes of edging Geylang International for the Premier League title. The two
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    • 396 29  -  Neighbours Austria and Czechoslovakia, traditional rivals that they are, have been placed in the same group in the World Cup Finals. Both will be second favourites to host Italy to reach the second round. One team is inconsistent, the other fast maturing. Which will win? Our countdown to
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    • 454 29 JOZEF Venglos is' the only Czech name that's intimately known in these shores. That means we can expect the Czech World Cup team to be technically competent but somewhat regimented, skilful but cautious and therefore more defensive than offensive. The Venglos trademark of wait-and-see football, mildly successful
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    • 240 30 AFP. G EORGIAN football clubs Dynamo Tbilisi and Guria have declared their own act of secession by pulling out of the Soviet championship and Cup competition. The two First Division clubs failed to register for the events by the deadline of Feb 15. Official overtures
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    • 204 30 AFP. ENGLISH-BORN striker Bernie Slaven is poised to start his international career with the Republic of Ireland later this month against Wales. Eire manager Jack Charlton has named the 25-goal Middlesbrough sharpshooter in his 18-strong squad for the friendly on March 28. Charlton plans to
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    • 171 30 WORLD BADMINTON STANDINGS AFP. DENMARK'S Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen has strengthened his hold on second place in the World Grand Prix men's singles standings. By finishing runner-up to China's Liu Jun in the Swedish Open on Sunday, the Dane moved clear of Indonesian Eddy Kurniawan. Morten Frost, Hoyer-Larsen's
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    • 118 30 AFRICAN NATIONS CUP AFP. ALGERIA fought its way to the final of the African Nations Cup yesterday beating Senegal 2-1 in front of 65,000 delirious Algiers home fans. Algeria will now meet Nigeria in the final on Friday. Nigeria defeated Zambia 2-0 in the other semi-final last night.
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