The New Paper, 24 May 1990

Microfilm: NL17370
Total Pages: 35
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    15 1 the new paper THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1990 MCI (P) 75/4/90 50 CENTS the new paper
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      78 1 )EiiHB3a3nz2ma*a*eeeeeHi AC MILAN WINS 1-0 m HOW TUG-OF-LOVE MUMS GOT THEIR KIDS Father picks up son from school and disappears. Mother Father plans to leave town with daughter. Mother hears looks high and low for her son here and overseas. Three about it. She picks daughter from mother-in-law and goes
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    Lock icon LIFE OF HELL
    237 1 The little girl at right is Jothy Murugapillai. She has a bald patch on her head. And there's a 3-cm long gash. Her body is covered with bruises and cigarette burns. Jothy, six, says a man did this to her. "I don't know why (he beats us),"
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Mum speaks to husband
      448 2  -  By Suresh Nair Australian tug-of-love mother Joanne Zorbas fears she may not see her two young sons again. She told The New Paper last night she is sincerely worried after a telephone conversation with her estranged husband. He is on board the Smolensk, a Soviet container
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      Lock icon N Korean leader re-elected
      57 2 AFP. NORTH Korean President Kim Il-Sung was re-elected today to the top post created for him in 1972 as the nation opened its Parliament following an unprecedented snap election, according to an official report monitored in Tokyo. Mr Kim, 78, was re-elected at the first session
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      Lock icon Japanese told to learn sex
      121 2 Reuter. JAPANESE should undergo sex education before travelling abroad, according to a Health Ministry panel which reported a record jump in AIDS cases in Japan. Four cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome were discovered in March and April this year while 18 people were found
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      Sorry
      107 2 What's life's like in 25 years (TNP May 21): Our report said the programme shown at 8 pm, SBC 12, is A Brave New World. That is incorrect. It is actually Tomorrow's World. The caption for the main picture identified the vehicle as a Singapore car with auto-navigator. That
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      'Environment for creativity here'
      216 2 DISCOVERIES and inventions in science are ultimately made by individuals. "Time and again, important breakthroughs in science have been made by that single creative and innovative scientist," says I)r Seet Ai Mee. In a speech scheduled for delivery today on the launching of the 13th Singapore
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      Lock icon Inside of a bus, believe it or not
      445 3 Two coaches one dark and sinister, the other bright and cheerful are all geared up for the drive against smoking. The Smoke Buster and the Smoke Choker hit the road from today. Reporter TRUDY LIM dared to enter the Smoke Choker. Are
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      BUS FACTS
      54 3 Visitors will receive a comic book drawn by Colin Goh, the young cartoonist behind the Orchard Road strip. The strip appears in The New Paper. About 50,000 copies have been printed at a cost of $7,000. The two buses will visit schools, army camps and community centres during
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      THINGN YOU CAN TRY
      58 3 Young people can take a smokelyzer test in the Smoke Buster bus. It measures the amount of carbon monoxide in your lungs. m 5) Another test measures how steady the hand is. Cigarettes affect fine motor skills. Visitors must put a needle into a small hole.
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      208 2 Let Diners show you a J J CHOICE OF RESORTS from $58 a day only! I THAILAND MALAYSIA 3 Days Hatyai/Songkhla Tour 2 Days Desaru i II 5 Days Ko Samui Adventure 3 D Tioman j 4 Days Phi Phi Island/Phuket 1 3 Days Kuantan Retreat I combination i 1
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      37 2 HOTUNEPLUS IF you want to share a point of view, call HotlinePlus on 734-7711, or write to: The Editor, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Rd, Singapore 0923. Please include your full name, address and telephone number.
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      85 3 I What is the function I of vitamin B? Vitamin B, a collection of eight separate vitamins, has a number of uses in the body The B vitamins act with enzymes to maintain chemical actions in the body. reduces fatigue and hrlps me rease a W Stamina and energy JjFy/
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Never-sick visitor hurt in fall
      190 4  -  By Griselda Loo GREAT-GRANDFATHER Lelord Kordel, 85, told The New Paper on Friday that he has never been sick in his life. Two days later, his perfect record took a fall. He tumbled down the stairs at the Empress Place and broke his spine around
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      HOW IT HAPPENED
      134 4 DR Kordel fell while visiting the Treasures of the Han Dynasty exhibition. With him was Ms Ng Mei Woon. "I thought he would enjoy the show because he is interested in cultural things," Ms Ng told The New Paper. "The place was very dim, and we couldn't
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      Free tickets for Singapore 2000
      109 4 READERS of The New Paper who were horn on Aug 9, 1965, stand a chance to get free double tickets to the Singapore 2000 Global Technopolis exhibition. The exhibition organisers are offering 250 tickets exclusively to our readers born on that auspicious day. To get
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      236 4 i 4 Jj More and more people are picking up NEC Handheld Phones. The NEC Handheld Phone. Lightweight. Go for it And have power in your hand. Singapore M U/ packed with features yet Features: 2000 rrfr) c competitively priced for a 32-digit capacity for first 10 memory addresses J|KV
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      94 4 P-—————— A New Paper Exclusive nnl^7«R w J i I i *24 May '90 THIS VOUCHER ENTITLES YOU TO ONE SILVER BONUS COUPON. Collect one whole week's set of vouchers J I (Monday Saturday) and redeem for double the number of coupons. Vouchers redeemable at: j 277 Orchard Road, #01
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      69 5 r— lev i s 501. One of the Red Tabs. Button fly jeans. Exclusively Levi's. Fits like no other jeans can. I LEVI'S BOUTIQUE #B1 -64 Wisma Atria #01 -09 Shaw Leisure Gallery #01 -24 Forum Galleria #01-41 Parkway Parade Also available at: Daimaru. Metro Stores, OG Stores, Oriental Woodlands,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Hospitals should announce fee hikes: Readers
      270 7  -  By Trudy Lim WE do not want to be surprised, we want to know hospital charges ahead of time, said six people interviewed by The New Paper yesterday. Hospitals should announce impending increases in hospital fees, they said. They were commenting on the hikes
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      FOUR HOSPITALS RAISE WARD RATES
      125 7 I WARD charges have also 1 been raised at Kandang Kerbau Hospital and Toa Payoh Hospital. They are among the four restructured hospitals which raised their rates by 15 to 30 per cent for some of their wards. The other two hospitals affected are the
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      Lock icon Woman gets back son after 3 years
      520 8  -  The "tug of love" we reported yesterday about an Australian woman's attempt to get her children back from her estranged husband is not an isolated case. Many such cases are never made public. But not all of them end unhappily for the parent
      Illustration/Patrick Chia  -  520 words
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      CHILD CUSTODY: THE LEGAL ISSUES
      255 8 A DIVORCED or estranged parent who takes away a child from the parent who has custody is in contempt of court because he or she has breached a court order. Mrs Anamah Tan, president of the Singapore Association of Women Lawyers (Sawl), told The New
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      Lock icon I went into hiding with Jackie
      408 8 THIS is Mrs Kate T's story as told to The New Paper. Why is it that momentous news only happens at night? I still remember that telephone call. The sharp ring pierced the quiet night, breaking my sleep. I did not know then that
      Illustration/Soh Ah Teck  -  408 words
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      266 7 It makes cars that cost the earth look like heaven. When new cars cost as much as they do in Singapore, Its unique silicone resin formula gives a really deep, it makes sense to take extra special care of them. protective showroom shine to even the most faded paintwork. That's
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      327 9 >■—> Takashimaya is the leading department store based in Tokyo and Osaka with an international MI urKM network in major cities all over the world. Takashimaya celebrates Q ur new S f o re will be opening in 1993 in Singapore, Singapore's 2§|h Anniversary along Orchard Road. Keep a look
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Creative touch in Chinese
      385 10  -  By Tan Ban Huat THE renowned author of A Flower in the Rainy Night will shed some light on the finer points of creative writing for 70 bilingual junior college students. Taiwanese author Hwang Chun Ming will be the key speaker at a five-day residential workshop
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      GLOSSARY
      127 10 THESK words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. come-hither: An invitation to approach; allure. eccentric: Someone who has habits or opinions that other people think strange and peculiar. offbeat: Something that is offbeat is unusal and often
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      Overpasses with ramps preferred
      473 11 Which would you rather climb? A steep, daunting flight of steps, or a gently, sloping incline. The writer of a letter published in The Straits Times on May 8 said overpasses should have ramps instead of steps. Reporter TANG WAI YIN staked out two overpasses one
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      WHAT PWD SAYS
      67 11 THE Public Works Department spokesman said: "If there is no site constraint and if space permits, it is our practice to provide ramps to pedestrian overhead bridges. However, very often, space is restricted. "So far, a total of 15 bridges have been provided with ramps," said the
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      Storm over don't-smoke ad
      412 12  -  By Tang Wai Yin and Lois Ng c HILDREN don't smoke, adults do. That is the hidden message BeTiind the new poster issued by the Tobacco Manufacturers and Importers Association of Singapore (TMIAS), say most of the people The New Paper spoke to. Among them was
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      IN DEFENCE OF ANTI-SMOKING AD
      174 12 THERE is no hidden message in the ad. There is no subtle exhortation to "children" to smoke to show they are adult. This is what the Tobacco Manufacturers and Importers Association of Singapore (TMIAS) told The New Paper. Mr Richard Png, the association's executive director,
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      27 10 a/p original anytime Til IB AC Eau de toilette eau de cologne deodorant after shave hair cream... Machl Trading Pte Lid Tel 748 2630 Fax 742 3002
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      55 10 ■wBkMjL -i V 'yir W^4l/Pt WHAT i MEDITATION CAN DO FOR YOU I SPEAKER DRKK TAN VENUE PIJB AUDITORIUM DATE 24 MAY 90 TIME 7J« 9_M PM Free Admission, All are Welcome ORGANISER BUDDHIST LIBRARY 27 POai ROAD #03-03 HOA NAM BLDO SINOAPOKF. <*20 TW. 2« 3151 (LIBRARY OPENING HOURS:
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      207 12 (1 ft* Hi iTillHW ATTACK! From June 8 to July 8, many of SYMPTOMS us will be exposed to a once• Victims will experience a high-level academic mind-every-four-years strain of virus boggling constant barrage of two-digit figures swirlresulting in a condition diag- ing through their minds -2-1,1-3,3-2,2-0,0-0. Many nosed by
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Lock icon Hunt on for more smugglers' tunnels
      272 13  -  Source/ USA Today POLICE and Customs agents are looking for more smugglers' tunnels between Mexico and the United States following the discovery of a similar passage last week. They are also planning to instal telephone hotlines to get information from people, reports the USA
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      Lock icon US, Israel at odds on UN observers
      255 13 Reuter. THE United States tilted closer yesterday to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and alarmed Israel by agreeing to consider UN observers for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Three days of bloodshed in the Israelioccupied areas have provoked world condemnation. US Secretary of
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      420 beach bags snapped up in a jiffy
      139 13 ALL 420 beach bags went bye-bye in less than a half-hour in yesterday's Asia Life Assurance and The New Paper joint promotion. In fact, there was a queue of more than 100 people by the time the promotion booth opened at noon
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      Lock icon Girl, 6, tells of beatings
      473 14 A NOTHER child has been brutally beaten up in Kuala Lumpur. The girl appeared on TV and showed a gash on her head and bruises and cigarette burns all over her body. Jothy Murugapillai, six, said a man did it to her. She said her
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      Tug of love over second boy
      279 14 THE parents of Balasundaram the baby boy battered to death, are now embroiled in a tug of love over their second child. Balasundaram's parents, Mr S Balakrishnan and Madam K Kaliammah, had left their younger son, Ravindran, with a couple living in Klang. The
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      Lock icon NEIGHBOURS BLAMED FOR BABY'S DEATH
      153 14 Bernama. THE residents of Kuala Lumpur's .Jalan Chow Kit area are getting brickbats for the brutal death of baby boy Balasundaram. Press reports quoted several neighbours who said they had seen the boy, Balasundaram, being beaten with a wooden stick and crying non-stop for a
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      185 13 Qje de Prince I jr A At the Cafe de Princc, that's just specialities: Roast Garlic Leg of Lamb, what you'll do. Feast on the most Roast Fork Loin with Prunes, Roast exciting variety of local, JB| Stuffed Chicken or Roast Beef. Western, Chinese and Muslim dishes. Isn't it time
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      76 14 fm WELCOME mmmmm 1 —_—< <* /,> ♦>' YOUR HUHIHiI pn,t £?i-' JU NEWBORN A great moment of joy. Bring out the champagne. Announce the birth of your newborn. In The New Paper Fastads Fitti Baby Announcements Page. FREE. As a birthday gift to your newborn, Fitti will present 2
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Lithuania offers to suspend some laws
      243 15 AP. LITHUANIA'S Parliament offered yesterday to suspend some of the laws it passed after declaring independence two months ago. But it was not ready to suspend the declaration itself. The republic's Supreme Council voted 74-15, with 10 abstentions, for a resolution that offers to
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      Malaysia, Thailand join Asia's dynamic four
      126 15 MALAYSIA and Thailand have joined Asia's "Four Tigers" to become the region's "Dynamic Six". The tigers, known for their booming economies, are Singapore, Hongkong, South Korea and Taiwan. The list of "Dynamic Asian Economies" (DAEs) was compiled by the Japan Centre for Economic Research,
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      Lock icon Indonesian painter Affandi dies at 83
      162 15 AP. INDONESIAN painter Affandi, who was acknowledged by his countrymen as their greatest artist but said he never liked his own work, died yesterday. He was 83. The expressionist painter died at his. home in Yogyakarta, Central Java. He had been in a coma
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  • STOCKS
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      Lock icon New York
      292 15 Wire services. TRADING on the New York Stock Exchange was dominated by profit-taking for most of the session yesterday. Investors rushed to cash in on the record high closing levels set on Monday and Tuesday. But Wall Street came back in the last minutes of trading to set
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      Lock icon Tokyo
      96 15 Reuter. TOKYO stocks opened firmer this morning on a strong yen and Wall Street's continued record performance. Corporate results of high technology electrical issues, to be released today, will be the focal point as blue-chip earnings are likely to set the tenor for trade in the near term, brokers
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      Lock icon London
      286 15 Wire services. SHARES closed mostly lower in moderate trading on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, depressed by disappointing British trade figures for April. The Financial Times 30share index was down 18.7 points at 1,810.8 at the close. A total of 510 million shares changed hands against 626 million on
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      Indices/Closing
      53 15 FT Industrials Wed 1,810.00 (1,829.50) Dow Jones Average Wed 2.856.26 (2,852.23) ST Industrial Wed 1,572.95 (1,578.59) NST Industrial Wed 3,047.68 (3,031.53) Hongkong Hang Seng Wed 3,028.31 (2,970.87) Australian All Ordinaries Wed 1,472.50 (1,465.60) Nikkei Stock Average I Wed 32,176.51 (31,938.30) I Figures in brackets refer to those of the
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      102 16 Now CD quality goes on the move like never before. Technics SL~XP2 Pbrtable CD Player Outstanding features: Super-Lightweight A mere gins (including batteries) in a new slet compact design 4-times ovcrsanipling and 2-DAC system Multi-I unction One-Key Remote Control XBS. For Super Bass Response Digital 1(1) Display f Other features:
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      893 16 it |p (sbc 8, R YUNFGNG (Wang Yuqing, right) in debt and finally "/T JF decides to accept the offer from Tang Feihong (Baiyan) to take over his advertising firm and pay off the debt he owes I I «m the finance company. Meanwhile, the relationship between Yunfeng and Song
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    French lessons from those ads
    228 17  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Lo Tien Yin COMMERCIALS are not just meant as breaks for you to dash to the kitchen or the loo. In fact, if you hang around when these little interruptions occur in the middle of your favourite programmes, you may find that they
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      186 17 SING CELEBRATE WITH SINGAPORE conjunction with Singapore's Contestants stand to win Anniversary Celebrations, The New Paper by courtesy of AIWA: the (Community Chest of Singapore have together to sponsor this ISt Prize nationwide English Karaoke dinging $1000 cash Contest. Preliminaries 26 cmd 27 May 1990 AIWA X 808 Midi System
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      238 17 THE RETURN OF DESPERADO 21WMP STREET: ÜBC'D |^l|fc|k' Scene from Desperado: ,t Trilogy, shown on 4/>r/7 i 6. Duell McCall (Alex McArthur, right) returns to track down (SBC 5, 11.30 pm) Emmett to clear his name. IN this last episode of the series, Hanson Tllimrv\Al/ pp ■vi mr C*nrAl A
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    Lock icon Ain't workin' gone fishin'
    846 18 Four parks will be open for fishing in about two months' time. They are Pasir Ris Town Park, Bishan Park, Bukit Batok Nature Park and Woodlands Town Garden. The Parks and Recreation Department is leasing out these ponds for fishing as a pilot project. LOH TUAN
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  • TRAVELNOTES
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      Chiang Mai's 'touch of Eden'
      204 19  -  Stories/ David Brazil IT used to be a royal summer estate, 300 m up between the mountains that line the Mae Sa valley, just a 30-minute drive west from Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, Now, it's the Erawan Resort which, with some justification, tags itself:
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      COMPASSPOINTS
      231 19 SERENE SERIBU PULAU Seribu Marine Resort is on one of the "thousand" islands in the South China Sea just north of Jakarta a two-hour ferry ride from the Indonesian capital. It offers a full range of watersports and outdoor activities and a private beach. Accommodation is in little cottages,
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      238 19 r NO OTHER AIRLINE GIVES THE WORLD 5 AIR LANKA'S TASTE OF PARADISE. Our Bustling Sidewalks Oih Rhythms Or Liu; ,mk 'v Our High Tf.es Oik Glittering Nigh him You could visit the four comers of the world and still not find the staggering diversity of culture, Jmr heauty and
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      AMY GHOST OF A SHOW YIP
      539 20  -  The actress who dared to bare her oversized assets in countless Hongkong films and Playboy magazine is now displaying a new profile. Here, she tells why Vivien Chiong FACE-TO-FACE HONGKONG starlet Amy Yip wears clothes that leave little to the imagination. But her fans
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      Madonna's naughty, not dirty
      467 21  -  I'm Breathless Madonna REVIEW/ By Wong Sing Y Wong Sing Yeong THE title may seem just as come-hither as Like a Virgin. But "dirty" is an unlikely word to be used here. Madonna plays Breathless Mahoney, a slinky nightclub singer in the coming Dick Tracy film.
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      No sign of life in Wilde album
      321 21  -  By Paul Zach THE 1990s are off to a great start. Communism is crumbling, the United States soccer team is in the World Cup and Singapore is partying in the streets. Better yet, the world is making music again. For starters, real jazz
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      Lock icon Eccentric who made good
      550 22 Reuter. F ILM director David Lynch, winner of the Golden Palm award at the Cannes festival for Wild at Heart, is Hollywood's favourite eccentric a cult leader whose dark, moody, often sexually-violent films fascinate and upset audiences. He is a dedicated, driven artist whose work is
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      I'm not all boobs and no brains, says Amy
      308 22 AMY YIP GHOST OF A SHOW BEFORE Ghost Stories there was Ghostly Vixen. In one scene, actor Nat Chan grabs her boobs. "That wasn't such a big problem because it lasted for just a few seconds. "After that, Nat had the
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      438 23 THURSDAYRADIO QjJXQSEZH EHQI^H MOON News in Brief NOON News in Brief 12.0S Lunchdite 12.03 Popular Classics 1.00 News and Weather Report 1.00 News and Weather Forecast 1.15 LuncMate (cont'd) 1.10 Currency Exchange Rates 2.00 News in Brief 1.15 Popular Classics (cont'd) 2.05 Words and Music: A music mag- 1.45 Midday
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      182 23 COMICFELEF 1 i Curry-Puff/Raymond Lee Augusta /Dominic Poelsma Angus McGill l&zP'i w \V*X4U\??Z9^ T f/ I £6YPTIM6/ Y ?^ypr; George the Robot/stephen Stanley W I'M To j| MlrJ£ s P*2oMisec> -To oo«2- p fi MY fccat' -To >/ Cfr X F«l*e«40U< J YoJ, Duffy/Bruce Hammond DUPfV li IT TRUE t
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      593 24 COMICRELEF THURSDAYRADIO Orchard Road/conn Goh rrnHjm NOON Oaad Mask, Company aad NOON Nwilnli WWWB I MOW, CLASS... H IcffWS&r M I GET A 1215 Saatia«atal Jaaraay i 2M Aady Karsfcaw's WarM af Mask L no „|l WHAT'S WRONG ZT7 1230 JaaHag Track; CUre Francis- 1.00 WarM Naws 1 didntjMie II
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  • UPDATE
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      YOUR GUIDE TO TODAY'S ACTION
      1440 25 ►CeeME 0 ANIMAL FARM. A musical adaptation of the George Orwell satire. Presented by Katong Convent. 8 pm. Drama Centre. Tickets at $8, $12, and $15 are available at the Central Booking Office or from producer Susan Yeo at 448-6433. Last day. THE FANTASTICKS. The
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      DON'T MISS:
      17 25 CENTRESTAGE: ANIMAL FARM TALKS: CANCER AND YOU FOOD: VEGETARIAN FARE COMING UP: CHILDREN'S MUSIC CAMP
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      TREASURES OF THE HAN DYNASTY
      81 25 This is a collection of 234 artefacts from the Han Dynasty. A highlight is the jade suit made from 2,007 pieces of jade sewn together using about 1 kg of gold thread. It belongs to the vassal king Liu Sui and was unearthed in 1986.
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    Angling for a break from routine
    503 27 THE bell rings. The fishing line jangles and the pursed lips break into a smile on Mr Frederick Tok's face, bright against the pitch darkness of the night. Mr Tok, 28, feels the weight of the ensnared fish that finally took the bait after
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon THE HAND OF GOD?
      48 31 Note to God: Argentine star Diego Maradona puts a note, with a written message to God, on the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. Four years ago Maradona did the same, and Argentina went on to win the World Cup Picture/ Afp
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      Lock icon Mikhailichenko out of Soviet World Cup squad
      272 31 Reuter. SOVIET national soccer coach Valery Lobanovsky stuck predictably by the old guard in naming his World Cup squad yesterday. He chose 10 players from his own club Dynamo Kiev. But he was forced to leave out a favoured Kiev veteran, elegant midfielder
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        307 31 THE THOMAS CUP: STARTS TOMORROW IN NAGOYA THE SOUTH KOREAN CHALLENGE Bernama. SOUTH Korea, which Malaysia must beat tomorrow to book a semi-final berth, is tight-lipped on its double combination. It is not known whether it will split its powerful combination of Park Joo Bong and
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        224 31 THE DANISH CHALLENGE Bernama. DENMARK, which has wilted under the heat and humidity of the other Asian cities in past campaigns, hopes the cool conditions in Nagoya will help it qualify for the final. Team manager Erland Kops said the Danes, who had reached the final
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      369 32 Ruud Gullit played his first major game in almost one year yesterday. He was certainly not at his best in the European Cup final. Have three knee operations left a permanent scar on him? Or was it just lack of match practice? Reuter, AFP. R UUD Gullit,
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      273 32 Wire services. MANCHESTER United striker Mark Robins scored five times as England beat France 7-3 in an Under-21 tournament match in London. LIVERPOOL won the Professional Footballers Association's Fairplay Award for the third successive season. Kenny Dalglish's side, with 49 points, pipped Nottingham Forest (43) for the title as
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      Lock icon SCORELINE
      290 32 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: CRICKET One-day international between England and NZ: NZ 298-6 (M Greatbatch 102 n.o, J G Wright 52, A Jones 51, M Crowe 46; Lewis 3-54); England 295-6. SOCCER European U-21 Championship: England 7 France 3. TABLE TENNIS World Team Cup in Japan
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      OH NO!
      320 33 The President's Cup, arguably the most prestigious local competition, will play second fiddle to the Semi-Pro League. The FAS has suspended its fixtures indefinitely, to spare Singapore's overtaxed national players. Was the FAS right? No, say the clubs. Yes, say the players. Yes, say FAS officials, who explain
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      YEAH, YEAH!
      275 33 THE PLAYERS ABDULLAH Noor has been playing football for almost every night of the week for the past six months. His commitments include training with his company team (Oberoi Imperial), club (Tiong Bahru) and the national team. And he plays competitive games about three times a week in
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      THE FAS' POINT OF VIEW
      185 33 PRIORITY for the Malaysia Cup was the main reason for the FAS decision. Tournament committee chairman Larry Thambiah agreed to suspend the competition after an appeal from the national team manager Mohamed Shahar and coach Robin Chan. "We agreed to suspend the competition so as
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      Come together
      497 34  -  S Gulam RIGHT, says the Football Association of Singapore. Wrong, say the clubs. So who is right and who is torong? It all depends on which side of the fence you're on. The clubs' fury over the sudden suspension of the President's Cup is understandable. They have spent
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      SAAA's all-out bid for World Cup
      271 34  -  By Alfonso Chan THE Singapore Amateur Athletic Association is going all out in its bid to wrest the prestigious 1993 World Cup athletic championships from its rival bidders. A six-man team, headed by SAAA boss Loh Lin Kok, will present Singapore's case before the
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      Lock icon HAIL RIJKAARD
      440 35 EUROPEAN CUP FINAL FRANK Rijkaard scored the only goal of the match to carry AC Milan to an emotional 1-0 win over Benfica in Vienna yesterday. Midfielder Rijkaard, the least publicised of Milan's three Dutch stars, raced on to a brilliant through pass from compatriot Marco van Basten
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      555 34 THURSDAY, MAY 24.1990 21/90-4 I Win $s,ooocash jackpot this week, j Cut out and attach with other coupons (Monday to Saturday) fmmm. -,*Vjv i»| j I FILL IN MISSING LETTERS ACROSS USING CLUES BELOW. 1B IEI1 E 1 L i v H 1 P TT TH 'tSZT I May 24,199#
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      52 35 PRESIDENT'S CUP CONTROVERSY The President's Cup, arguably local soccer's most prestigious tournament, will play second fiddle to the Semi-Pro League. The FAS has ImL suspended its fixtures indefinitely, to spare iff J8M Singapore's overtaxed national players. Was the I FAS right? S GULAM finds out... P THOMAS CUP: THE DANISH
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