The New Paper, 1 September 1990

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  • 17 1 the new paper WEEKEND EDITION I SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1/SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1990 MCI (P) 75/4/90 50 CENTS
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    • 138 1 N V FtaowFsl CANE FOR 8 BOYS q Whys and wherefores What powers will the Elected President have? Will there be a power clash between an Elected President and the PM? Our easy-to-follow colour centrespread answers these and other questions about the Elected Presidency proposal./ Page 24 Kangar jinx haunts
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 162 2 THE Ministry of Environment will launch a Clean and Green Week this November to help Singaporeans be more alert to their environment. Activities will be aimed at schools, businesses, voluntary groups and grassroot organisations to help inject more consciousness in caring for the
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    • 134 2 CONTRACTORS have been urged to send their workers for the safety orientation course before letting them work on sites. If enrolment in the course does not improve, the Ministry of Labour may be forced'to insist that all workers undergo the course.
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    • 329 2  -  By] Ben Davidson A LABOURER was condemned to death yesterday for killing a distant relation's wife in a way previously unknown to local medical history. At the sentence, Tan Cheow Bock, 38, smiled. He killed Madam Chia Chun Fong, 32, at her home in Siglap on
      Pictures/ Lianhe Wanbao  -  329 words
    • 65 2 TAN went to Madam Chia's house because he needed money desperately. He had lost heavily on horse betting. Deputy Public Prosecutor Lee Sieu Kin argued that Tan had intended to rob Madam Chia. Tan himself admitted stealing some jewellery he found in the house after the killing.
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    • 71 2 LAWYEfc Edmond Per eira was by the court to defend Tan. He argued that Tan could not have intended to inflict any fatal injury on Madam Chia. He was remorseful after the killing and helped the bereaved family in the funeral arrangements. Mr Pereira asked the court
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    • 221 2 AFP. FORMER Thai defense minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has announced he will form a new political party. Announcing this on Friday, Mr Chavalit, who is considered one of the most powerful figures in Thailand, delivered a scathing attack on the government of Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
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    • 284 3  -  By Dave Ang THERE is a tourist spot that can give visitors a giddy high like no other the new $200-million Tiger Brewery plant at Tuas. The plant, owned by AsiaPacific Breweries Limited (APBL), was opened in May. Since then, APBL has invited some 300
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    • 53 3 THE brewery has been opening its doors to visitors since the "old days" at its Alexandra plants. It is, however, only with the new brewery in Tuas that tourists are invited as well. "This is the most hi-tech brewery in the region," said Mr Peter Gregoire, 46, technical
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    • 210 3  -  By Ganesh Rajaram IT wasn't Christmas but it sure felt like one for more than 50 very special children on Friday. The kids, aged six months to 13 years, got to meet Santa Claus and his gang. They were from Margaret Drive Special School for children with
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 247 4 HOT STORY REGAIN public esteem, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew urged lawyers. Mr Lee was speaking on Friday in City Hall at the official opening of the Singapore Academy of Law. He said through peer pressure, lawyers must regain the public esteem that had been
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 53 4 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called upon Chinese businessmen to train Malays in management techniques. He said when disparities between races were narrowed there won't be any need for the economic quota system. Dr Mahathir discouraged Malays from selling shares in Chinese-financed firms to
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      • 29 4 THOUSANDS of people watched the National Day parade in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, marking the country's 33rd anniversary of independence. More than 19,000 people took part.
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      • Article, Illustration
        125 4 SINGAPORE needs more discerning readers, said Dr Seet Ai Mee on Friday at the opening of the Book Fair. Dr Seet also pointed out that the reading habits of Singaporeans are not fully developed. The Minister of State for Education and Community Development said that unlike Americans, Singaporeans
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      • 86 4 The Straits Times: Regain lost esteem, PM urges lawyers. Business Times: Exchange tightens hold on member firms. Lianhe Zaobao: PM Lee: Govt to amend Constitution on legal profession to allow more judges to attend hearings here. Berita Harian: PM Lee: More judges needed. SBC morning news: Talks on Gulf
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      • 99 4 RESERVISTS can now get increments anytime they join Government service, the public sector or a statutory hoard. The old restriction that they could get two increments above the starting salary only once is gone. From this month, reservists will be eligible for increments if they switch jobs within
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      • 68 4 SKIN disease is (he second most common work-related disease in Singapore. And it tends to affect the younger workers more. More than 1,000 cases were seen in the last five years, a doctor from the Labour Ministry said at a seminar on occupational skin problems in industries yesterday.
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      • 59 4 COIN-OPKRATED taps have been introduced in Tiong Bahru. Drop a 20 cent into the slot and you will net 12 litres of water, enough to till a standard-sized pail. The taps have been set up on the void decks of two blocks of Housing Board flats: Block 114,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 288 5 A woman with breast cancer has wires connected to her breast. After five to 10 minutes, the wires are taken out. The woman walks out of the clinic. CHITRA RAJARAM reports on this new treatment for cancer T I \H\S form of treatment for early breast
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    • 141 5 DENTALTALK TOOTH decay often begins in pits and fissures of the molar and pre molar teeth. Fissures are grooves on the chewing surfaces of the back teeth, which are so narrow that toothbrushes cannot clean them. Bacteria accumulates there, causing tooth decay. This can be prevented by
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    • 113 6 NO colour was spared by Agfa in trying to create enough "oohs and ahs" for its new film, Agfacolor XRG. There was colour everywhere at its trade launch on Friday night at the Westin Stamford Ballroom. Right down to the hundreds of red, orange, yellow and
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    • 353 6 AS major airlines decided to raise their fares last week, many Singaporeans are making a dash for the travel agencies to confirm bookings. Those planning to travel at the end of the year are also booking ahead, reports Shin Min Daily News. The change
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    • 106 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. a stay of execution: A person who is given a stay of execution is legally allowed to delay obeying an order of a court of law. afoot: If something
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    • 153 7 CONTEST RESULTS ONLY Mr David Wong Hoe Kit was content when he won a free seven-night trip to Australia's Gold Coast. His four co-winners of The New Paper Gold Coast contest hope to win another prize in its third and last draw next week. "I hope
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    • 413 7  -  By David Miller EIGHT students of Assumption English School have been caned for theft. Six of them, in Sec 4 and 5, have also been suspended from school. Two others, in Sec 2, have been told to seek a transfer to another school.
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    • 123 7 SOME Sec 2 students went to see the principal on Thursday on learning the fate of their friends. "They were quite agitated at first but I explained to them the circumstances for the actions," said Mrs Thomas. Classes were not disrupted, she added. She felt the students had
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    • 716 8 The 22nd Singapore International Festival of Books and Book Fair 1990 was officially launched yesterday. The nine-day fair that begins today will feature a number of authors. The New Paper highlights five nf them THE darker side of life sometimes brings its own rewards. For author
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    • 287 9 YOU can soon see ostriches and flamingoes dance on a stage to the sound of music while birds of prey swoop over your head in a state-of-the-art amphitheatre. The new amphitheatre is part of a $30-mil-lion development package to be completed next year for the Jurong Bird
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 243 10 Reuter. A SYSTEM of democracy based on the British model has been suggested in a draft constitution for Nepal. Under the new system, the King will have a ceremonial role. The privileges of his relatives will be curtailed. The draft also calls for a multi-party
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    • 137 10 AFP. CHINESE Prime Minister Li Peng has asked a Japanese ruling party official to persuade Taiwan to hold reunification talks. Mr Li told Mr Shin Kanemaru, a top Liberal Democratic Party official, on Friday that it was important to start talks as they were the
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    • 313 11 Wire services. HANOI and Phnom Penh have welcomed proposals by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to end the civil war in Cambodia. Non-communist factions had welcomed the plan earlier. Vietnam's ambassador to the United Nations, Mr Trinh Xuan Lang,
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    • 164 11 AFP. HONGKONG will go through with a controversial mammoth new airport project with or without China's blessing, a Government official said on Friday. Financial Secretary Sir Piers Jacob reiterated the Government's commitment to the new airport and its determination to carry out
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    • 138 11 Reuter. A SWISS jeweller who hated banks invited four bankers to a chic restaurant in Zurich and shot them. One banker was killed and three were wounded, police said on Friday. Police said Richard Breitler, 43, escaped on a motorcycle after the attack. But he later committed
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    • 407 12 AP. A I SINGAPORE-BASED freighter, suspected of carrying cargo for Iraq, was the first to be barred from docking by the US Navy during the Gulf crisis. The Kota Wirama managed by Pacific International Lines, which is based in Singapore was seeking a port which would accept
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    • 176 12 AP. ARAB Foreign Ministers ended a two-day emergency session in Cairo on Friday with a call for Iraq to immediately release foreign hostages. They have again condemned Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Only 13 of the League's 21 members attended the meeting and only 10
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    • 84 12 Reuter. US Navy crewmen from a guided missile cruiser boarded an Iraqi tanker in the Red Sea on Friday. They allowed the vessel to proceed after it was determined to be empty, the US Defence Department said. Defence officials said the boarding was the first of
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    • 366 12 Reuter. THE United States is building a war crimes file on Iraq. The file focuses on the taking of hostages and the use of foreign captives as "human shields," the US State Department said on Friday. However, department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler stopped short
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    • 258 13 AFP. IRAQ has mounted an ambitious self-sufficiency project aimed at cultivating every inch of arable land. The move is aimed at defeating an international embargo against Iraq. It used to buy about 80 per cent of its food needs from abraod. Officials in
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    • 280 13 AP. IRAQ has made more requests in connection with the release of Western women and children. More than 230 hostages in Baghdad were waiting on Friday to be flown to London and Paris on Iraqi Airways. Friday was the third day of
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    • 309 13 Wire services. THERE were no signs of breakthrough in the Gulf crisis after talks between Iraqi Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz and UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar in Amman on Friday. Mr Aziz demanded guarantees from Mr Cuellar before Iraq releases hostages.
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
    • 165 13 AFP. SHARES ended an otherwise dull day with a modest late rally on Friday. But brokers were still avoiding long positions and investors stayed away. The Financial Times 30 shares index closed up 5.7 points at 1,693.6. A total of 356 million shares changed hands against 382 million on
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    • 51 13 FT Industrials Fri 1,693.60 (1,687.90) Dow Jones Average Fri 2,614.36 (2,593.32) ST Industrial Fri 1,277.87 (1,259.63) NST Industrial Fri Closed (2,931.56) Hongkong Hang Seng Fri 3,087.50 (3,064.19) Australian All Ordinaries Fri 1,505.70 (1,503.30) Nikkei Stock Average Fri 25,978.37 (25,669.96) Figures in brackets refer to those of the previous trading
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    • 154 13 AP. STOCKS gained ground Friday in cautious trading on the eve of Labour Day. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose 21.04 points to 2,614.36, finishing the week with a net gain of 81.44 points. Trading volume totalled 96.48 million shares, down from 120.89 million Thursday. AP
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  • Article, Illustration
    533 14  -  Showtime Suspense Twelve Hours of Suspense is action-packed. Andy Lau comes to Singapore with girlfriend May Lo. At the airport, May is injured when gunmen try to kill a religious figure. The VIP is also injured. Both belong to a rare blood group. Andy stumbles on street tout
    Illustrations/ Hup Lee; Pictures/ Shin Min Daily News  -  533 words

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  • 537 18  -  SHOWTIME By Shari Lee and Magdalene Hauw AT 19, Singapore-born Adele Anthony is already hailed as one of Australia's "most exciting young musicians". A gifted violinist, she has a list of achievements that most musicians her age would only dream about. Since her first concert,
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 374 19 I SATURDAYRADIO NOON News in Brief NOON News in Brief 12.05 Reel Fun 12.03 Popular Classics 1.00 News and Weather Report 1.00 News and Share Market Review 1.10 Traffic Report/Interlude 1.30 Popular Classics (cont'd) 1.30 Love on the Airwaves 2.00 Programme Summary 2.00 News in Brief, followed by Pro- 2.02
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    • 416 20 I COMICRELIEF SATURDAYRADIO 1 Orchard Road/coim NOON McCartney On McCartncy NOON Newsdesk II II 1.00 News 12.30 Hare's Humph! Q\Pp'c I .DARvOIN J 110 Future Hits 12.45 Woridbrief 1 f 200 T °p 40 Wlth Casey Ka- i.oo World News -s=— IT-** ju\» R'wHT. J S IB l.os Twenty-four Hours
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    • 736 21 SUNDAYRADIO 6am News in Brief 6am News in Brief and Programme 6AM Newt Brief and Weather Re- 6AM Breakfast Club 5.00 A Light Tench Of Jazz 6.05 Rise and Shine Summary pert 0.30 Sentimental Journey 5.30 Mean Musk Machine 7.00 News and Weather Report 605 Breakfast Classics BOS Contemporary Hits
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    • 779 22 saturdaytv EARTH STAR VOYAGER (PART 1) CRIMEWATCH tonights WHEN Earth s resources start dwindling in W divided into three segments. There J^HP 9 A f the year 2087, a specially selected crew of are young men and women are assembled for a Unsolved Case: Golden Mile Vv Wnf long journey
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  • 231 23  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By 1 Vivien Chiong FRIDAY Background (SBC 5, 8.20 pm) tried to lift the mask from the face of the Mad Chinaman. Not too long ago, we all knew Dick as a popular fashion designer, songwriter and producer rolled into one. But today,
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    • 216 23 I saturdaytv B FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE suicidftl courage of the humor o usly cynica 1 Major Ma 11 ory But, nevertheless, this is the mission of Force 10, an elite team of commandos, now under American command. They also have an additional assignment: To eliminate a German agent who
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  • 515 24 elected presidency The idea of having an Elected President was first proposed by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in 1984. A Government White Paper on the proposal was drafted four years later, sparking off much debate both in and out
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  • 766 41  -  SPORTS/RACING Preview by/ The Three Musketeers J I 'OCKEY K C Ng who has been granted a stay of execution pending his appeal against a three-month suspension can land a winner on Saturday when he partners Ming Kong in the sixth race at Penang.
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      217 42 AFP. LINDA FERRANDO, in her greatest moment as a tennis player, overcame a one-set deficit and leg cramps to upset third-seeded Monica Seles in New York on Friday at the US Open. Ferrando, a 24-year-old Italian who had never advanced beyond the second round of a Grand Slam
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    • 62 42 Reuter. FOURTH-SEEDED Andre Agassi was fined US$3,OOO ($5,250) on Friday for a temper tantrum during Thursday night's win over Czechoslovak Petr Korda. The fine, announced by Grand Slam supervisor Ken Farrar, was for shouting obscenities and for spitting at chair umpire Wayne McKewen of Australia late
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    • 129 42 Reuter. CELTIC manager Billy McNeill made an impassioned plea to Scotland's footballers on Saturday to stop cheating and start to show respect for each other. McNeill's frank comments come 24 hours before Celtic's potentially explosive Premier Division clash with Aberdeen and less than a
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    • 231 42 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: ATHLETICS European Championships (winners only) 110 m hurdles: Colin Jackson (Brit) 13.18 Men's hammer: Igor Astapkovich (USSR) 84.14 m. Triple jump: Leonid Voloshin (USSR) 17.74 m 50km walk: Andrei Perlov (USSR) 3.54:36. Women's 400 m hurdles: Tatyana Ledovskaya (USSR) 53.62 10,000 m:
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    • 63 42 Reuter. DUTCH soccer champions Ajax Amsterdam were nine minutes away from their first defeat of the season on Friday when international midfielder Aron Winter scored to earn them a draw against Fortuna Sittard. Fortuna, lifted by their home supporters, went ahead two minutes after half-time with
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    • 204 42 Wire services. A SINGLE German international football side will take over from the East and West teams from Nov 21. The two national federations decided at separate meetings here and in East Berlin on Friday that the transformation will be marked on that date by a final match between
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    • 396 43  -  I SINGAPORE 3 PERAK 2, KL 1 KEDAH 1, JOHOR 2 T'GGANU 2 Only two players impressed in Singapore's Under-16 win yesterday but there were no Fandis. ABDUL SHUKOR reports Abdul Shukor NO FANDI Ahmads. Not even a V Sundramoorthy. A sad malady which proves
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    • 522 45  -  Yes, the headline reads right. Singapore will be up against more than Perlis on Saturday. The Lions have also to contend with the outcome of the Selangor-KL and Perak-Kedah ties. And against fate. They are the better side, certainly,
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    • 324 45 THEY can score as many goals as they can against Perlis. Then they must endure a nerve-wracking four-hour wait to find out if they are the champions of the 1990 Semi-Pro League Division One. It's a win-and-hope situation for the Lions. Anything
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    • 206 46 Kangar jinx haunts '87 seniors The way it went in 1987 MEMORIES of the painful exit in 1987 will return to haunt some of Singapore's senior players, including 'keeper David Lee, at the Dato Sheikh Ahmad Stadium in Kangar. It was at this venue that Singapore soccer suffered
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    • 359 46  -  The way it could be on Saturday By S Gulam IN PERLIS PERLIS has sounded a warning to Singapore on the eve of the Lions crucial Semi-Pro League soccer match at Kangar: Don't expect any favours from us. Though it has been relegated to
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    • 129 46 THE searing heat more than Perlis will be Singapore's greatest threat to its title hopes. The Singapore players found the heat almost unbearable when they arrived in Alor Star yesterday. It measured 33 degrees C which is what is expected at the Kangar Stadium
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