The New Paper, 9 January 1991

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1 35 The New Paper
  • 15 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1991 MCI (P) 75/4/90 50 CENTS the new paper
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    • 87 1 X X fcY Prrmrn y P| 8 JAN T93? 1 PRICE ll 1 II II J Ah 7 v «r jKS&STUf I Pahang will pay Singaporean soccer star V Sundramoorthy housing, I ffiXr I US$7O,OOO ($122,000) to play in this year's Malaysia Cup season That will make the 2 1-year-old
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  • Article, Illustration
    136 1 Singer Foo Wee Leng (left), better known as J], wears the religious symbol of a cross near her crotch on the TV show Variety Tonight. Crosses also swing from chains and belts worn by other members of her act. Viewer Joyce Pong, 19, protests-. "I don't think this
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 418 2 BAKER AND AZIZ MEET IN GENEVA Wire services. THE American Secretary of State, Mr James Baker and the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Mr Tareq Aziz, are now both in Geneva for their talks which open later today. Mr Baker made no statement
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    • 240 2 WHEN he meets with Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Geneva, American Secretary of State James A Baker 111 will be dealing with one of Iraq's most polished officials. The silver-haired Mr Aziz is the only Christian in the 25-man cabinet. The Iraqi Government is dominated
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    • Article, Illustration
      532 3  -  overdone of ...in. Ml.mini pills may caitM Uixic materials iHCtlllHllllt in the body, leading in damage ill' l«*nu run. By Jackie Pau MS Anne Thong believes that vitamins are vital. So vital that she thinks little of spending $!(>() for 1.5(H) tablets. It is, said Ms Chong, a
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    • 90 3 A DOCTOR in private practice believes that if one has a well-balanced diet, vitamin supplements are not necessary for general health. "If people still want to take vitamins and they do no harm to the body, I would say 'go ahead'," he said. But another doctor said:
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    • 26 2 HOTLIKEPLUS TO share a |M>int of view, call Hotline Plus. TM 7711. or write to The Editor, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Rd, Spore 0923.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 169 4 HOT STORY NETS will be cast wider to make Singapore a cashless society. The Network for Electronic Transfers is planning to develop a single stored-value card that can be used to pay for carpark charges, phone calls and other services. It has begun talks on the scheme
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    • 86 4 The Straits Times: Baker US, France in total agreement. Business Times: SIA pledges to maintain network and staff size. Lianhe Zaobao: Nations urge their citizens to leave Iraq. Berita Harian: West will not budge on using force. SBC: US Secretary of State and Iraqi Foreign Minister have arrived in
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 87 4 THE latest vehicle tender exercise has drawn only about 5,000 bids for 3,688 COEs. The figure is the lowest since monthly tenders began last July. Under the vehicle quota system, buyers must bid for a limited number of certificates of entitlement (COE) to buy new vehicles. There were
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      • 58 4 US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney has cancelled plans to build the Navy's A-12 radar-avoiding Stealth attack plane. This was the largest weapons programme ever terminated by the Pentagon. Pentagon said the builders of the $97 billion warplane programme had defaulted by failing to "design, develop, fabricate, assemble
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      • 65 4 THE families of the four Republic of Singapore Air Force men who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday are proud that the men died for their country. Captain Tay Boon Tee, 27, Lieutenant Mark Wong Yew Tuck, 26, Staff Sergeant Henry Ang Leng Soon, 34, and Sergeant
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      • 93 4 MR Goh Chok Tong leaves today for Jakarta on his first official trip as Prime Minister. He will be in the Indonesian capital for two days where he will meet President Suharto. He will go to Kuala Lumpur on Friday to meet Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Mr
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      • 100 4 JAPAN'S economic growth will slow down to 3.8 per cent in the next fiscal year beginning April 1. According to a forecast by the Long-Term Credit Hank yesterday, business stagnation will become pronounced in the latter half of the year. The bank based its forecast on a slowdown
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    • 108 4 The New Paper/ Nissin Cup Noodle Joint Promotion YOUR LUNCH IS ONUS TODAY! It's so easy to claim your free lunch of Nissin Cup Noodle (worth $1.50). Just present a copy of The New Paper which carries this coupon, to our Redemption Counter at the park facing the main entrance
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 409 6 T nothing second-hand about used furniture. Not when they have been carefully refurbished, polished and restored to near-new condition. They look new, last long enough, and best of all, cost only half as much as new furniture. That is why a growing number of Singaporeans
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    • 59 6 HAVE a cup of noodles on us! Hurry down to the OUB Centre today and exchange the coupon on Page 4 for a free cup of Nissin Noodle. Offer limited to the first 1,000 TNP readers only. TNP and Nissin Noodle will also lay
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    • 88 6 THESE words appear in our stories today. The following notes will help in case you need to check their meanings. blaspheme: Speak disrespectfully about God or anything held sacred brooding: Thinking about something sadly. connotations: The connotation of a word or a gesture is a significance it has besides
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 281 8 A MAN jumped to his death as his girlfriend's family tried in vain to stop him. Deliveryman Chen Fuxing, 24, was held back by his girlfriend's mother on his first attempt but the second time she could not hold on to him. The
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    • 139 8 CHEN'S mother said he had another girlfriend who left him two years ago. Though he did not show it, she felt he was very much distressed by the split. She said he also appeared very much disturbed after a road accident about a month ago. He was
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    • 341 8  -  By Chitra Rajaram FOR the first time, a local-ly-developed series of ads on Aids Awareness has caught on with the local and international media. International publications such as Time, Newsweek and The International Herald Tribune have agreed to donate space td these ads. "The
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    • 226 8 THE building boom will continue in Singapore though the economy may slow down because of the Gulf crisis. The construction business grew 25 per cent last year. Preliminary estimates show the total value of contracts hit $6.9 billion. Public sector building activity is not likely to
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    • 770 9 FOR THE FINER ART OF BEAUTY SERVICES, NONE CAN QUITE MATCH THOSE OFFERED BY COSMOPROF Because, as true professionals, Cosmoprof provides only the best personal service using the latest, effective method, and, attended by qualified beauty therapists. And that's not all. Cosmoprof also conducts beauty therapy diploma courses leading to
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 323 10  -  By Angeline Song Y I "OU have heard of recycled paper, but have you ever heard of recycled TV ads? A local advertising agency did it for one of its clients last month. The ads were originally made for Parker Pen Singapore for Christmas 1989.
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    • Article, Illustration
      70 10 Parker Pen TV ad "NO Santa this year. Thi-> m DOl news, of courFe. anymore. (Enter shapely woman, shown only from the waist down, right) So here is my assistant, the lovely Doris." Pan Pacific version l niviM (Rntet shapcK woman, ihowtl ollh tr-in the waist
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    • 187 10 THE ads shown on consecutive days during the Christmas season in 1989 and 1990 respectively. Title: Is Santa coming this year? 1989 Parker pen ad: "No. He says he is not. Unless he gets a Parker. He wants a Duofold. In blue. In a box with
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    • 275 10 SINGAPOREANS got a 9.5 per cent raise on average last year, which meant a 6.5 per cent increase in real wages after adjusting for price rises. But productivity is not going up at the same rate, says Mr Mah Bow Tan, Minister of State for Communications
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 266 11 Wire services. A CTOR Marlon Brando's daughter, Cheyenne, arrived in Paris yesterday for psychiatric treatment following two "suicide attempts since her lover was killed by her halfbrother. Miss Brando, who flew from Tahiti, was accompanied by a doctor and her mother, Tarita Teriipaia, one of
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    • 107 11 AP. A lfi-YKAR-OLD hoy committed suicide by shooting himself, in front of his classmates, in Dallas, Texas yesterday. The Richardson High School student shot himself while in his English class, said Ms Susan Wilson, a spokeswoman for the school district. The hoy,
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    • 128 11 AFP. A SELF-STYLED travel agent who conned German students into paying for a fictitious tour of England was sentenced yesterday to nine months in jail and $1,200 dollars compensation fees. Paul Ndekwe, 27, from London, who ran his company by using a shoe shop telephone, offered
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    • 173 11 A VIGILANTE Corps sentry submitted a forged medical certificate for two days' leave as he felt too tired and sleepy to work. Viyaykumar Panday, 18, a sentry with the Police Academy, was yesterday fined $1,000 for using the forged MC. He pleaded guilty. When
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    • 52 11 Vife reach the people who make your future happen Job hunting? Doesn't it make sense to look in the same place the employers j are advertising? That is why it makes sense to look in today's Straits Times Appointment Section, for the most opportunities of finding the job you are
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 338 12 Reuter. L I ITHUANIAN Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene resigned yesterday after the 112 republic's parliament rejected price rises that she had sponsored. "I resign with my cabinet of ministers," she told parliament. Local journalists said the session was broadcast live on local radio. Several deputies called on
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    • 86 12 Wire services. LITHUANIA was forcibly annexed by Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin in 1940. It sought independence on March 11 last year, the first of the Soviet Union's 15 republics to do so. Moscow retaliated by cutting off shipments of food, oil, natural gas and raw ma-
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    • 347 12 UPI. FIREMEN took nearly five hours to cut free 15 passengers trapped in two mangled cars of a train which slammed into a crash barrier during rush hour at a London station yesterday. One person was killed and 248 were injured in the
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    • 195 12 Reuter. SOVIKT President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian republic leader Boris Yeltsin yesterday resolved a dispute over the 1991 budget t h;it threatened to cripple the Soviet economy. The official Soviet news agency 'Pass quoted Mr Yeltsin's deputy as saying the position of the parliament
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    • 321 13 AP. A MAN accused of following four-time world figure skating champion Katarina Witt from city to city and harassing her has been advised of his rights on a misdemeanor harassment charge. Harry Veltman 111, 46, was held under $350 bond, authorities said yesterday. Veltman,
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    • 168 13 AP. GUNMEN yesterday shot and killed a police officer and helped a suspected drug trafficker escape as he was being taken to a court in Pakistan. Police said three gunmen waited outside a Karachi courthouse and fired with automatic rifles as the
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    • 180 13 AP. MOST whites hold negative stereotypes of blacks and Hispanics in the US. Their support for racial equality is, however, gaining ground, a US survey has found. Three of four whites believe blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to prefer living on welfare,
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    • 291 14 Reuter. THE White House has charged that a Soviet ship stopped in the Red Sea was laden with tank parts, explosives and other military hardware that could violate UN sanctions against Iraq. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the ship would be allowed to
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    • 127 14 Reuter THE Pentagon said yesterday that more than 605,000 US and allied forces are in the Gulf, facing 540,000 Iraqi troops in and near Kuwait. Defence Department spokesman Pete Williams, commenting on recent reports, said yesterday there are more than 360,000 US soldiers, airmen and sailors in
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    • 224 14 BRITAIN'S Prime Minister John Major, visiting his troops in the Saudi desert, said allied forces have no plans to use nuclear weapons if Iraq unleashes chemical weapons. "We have plenty of weapons short of that and we have no plans of the sort," he told
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      62 14 President Bush asks Congress to adapt the resolution endorsing the UN's call for the use of all necessary means to force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. President Bush says Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has a oneweek deadline to choose peace over war. Egypt says it will not accept
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    • 101 14 Wire services. SAUDI Defense Minister Prince Sultan has denied reports that Iraqi aircraft crews defected to Saudi Arabia. A US military spokesman in Saudi Arabia refused comment on the denial. There was no immediate explanation for the contradiction between the minister's statement and yesterday's reports that six Iraqi
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 397 15 Reuter. A WHITE South African man has found love in a troubled black township. Mr Silvano Gregorin, of Italian parentage, ignored warnings and cut off family ties to live with his black girlfriend Dikeledi Makume in Kutloanong, 300 km southwest of Johannesburg. "Love is love to
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    • 121 15 Reuter. AIDS cases rose by 7,231 in December laßt year, reaching a total of 314,610 in 158 countries. The with 2,560 new cases, and Zimbabwe and Uganda reporting 2,115 and 1,853 new cases, accounted for most of the increase, the World Health Organisation
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  • FOREIGNSTOCKS
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      234 15 Wire services. SHARK prices closed lower on London's Stock Exchange yesterday as investors waited for today's meeting between the US and Iraqi. The tone for London's weak session was initially set by earlier losses in Tokyo and New York, dealers said. The Financial Times 30share index closed down 10.9
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    • 87 15 Reuter. STOCKS opened lower on news of a weaker yen and a drop on Wall street overnight. The key Nikkei index was down 184.07 points or 0.80 per cent to 22,713.77 in the first 10 minutes of trade. Trade is expected to be thin and bearish again, ahead of
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    • 53 15 FT Industrials Thu 1,649.00 (1,655.70) Dow Jones Average Thu 2,573.52 (2,610.64) ST Industrial Thu 1,164.94 (1,153.48) NST Industrial Thu 2,856.39 (2,883.17) Hongkong Hang Seng Thu 3,004.88 (3,031.34) Australian All Ordinaries Thu 1,273.00 (1,285.10) n Nikkei Stock Average j Thu Closed (Closed* Figure* in brackets r«-Or t«> t« >f" the
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    • Article, Illustration
      237 15 AP. STOCK prices slipped yesterday as the market digested a spate of bad news and marked time ahead of Wednesday's diplomatic meeting on the Iraqi standoff. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks fell 13.36 to 2,509.41. Analysts said the market was also troubled by the Pentagon's
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1069 16 wednesdaytv HUNTER: ON THE AIR HHI TESTIMONY HP Hi (Channel 5, 8 pm) WKH9 ft (Channel 12, 10.20 pm) m KATE Lawson (Erin Gray) is a BEN Kingsley (right) stars in this beautiful disc jockey who hosts Male A biographical film about the great II Call, a late-night radio talk
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  • 255 17  -  SEENLASTNIGHT By Lo Tien Yin HAVING been short all my life, I can sympathise with the Lacey son in Cagney and Lacey (SBC 5, 11.10 pm.) The poor chap suffers from insecurity and lacks confidence because of his height. Can I tell you all
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    • 295 17 wednesdaytv WEDNESDAY ON 5: A FINE MESS WHILE making a movie on a racetrack, lady-crazed actor, con-artist and all-round bungler Spence Holden (Ted Danson, wISHm left), stumbles on two goofball thugs Turnip (Richard iff Lf !W Mulligan) and Binky (Stuart Margolin) doping a race horse, w i'wßlM Always ready and
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  • spotlight
    • 952 18 After two years of study, the Government has come up with design guidelines for Singapore's new generation school. The shape of tomorrow's full session schools is set out in a guidebook called New Direction in School Building, by the Public Works Department (PWD), designer of government schools.
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    • 128 18 WITH all the extra facilities and better finishing, schools are much more expensive to build and furnish than those in the past. (See graphic above). But schools of the future will have a unique, designer look, said Mr Lim Kweng Piow, PWD's executive architect and
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  • DEARAGGIE
    • 964 19 AGGIE gives advice every Wednesday. Questions Aggie cannot answer are put to other experts such as doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists. You can write to: Dear Aggie, The New' Paper, 3so Kim Seng Road, Singapore 0923. You must give your name and address. But
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    • 92 19 Please refer to your reply to 'Shameful' in the Dear Aggie column on Dec 26. I would like to point out that the statement "as long as you are not legally married, your child will not bear your surname" is untrue. A child born to parents who are not
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  • Showtime
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      482 20 THE music was fast and the action hot. Two of the sisters were in mini shorts and two in long pants. Pendants shaped like crosses swung wildly about when they danced. They also had crosses pinned to their belts. Between them, they must have sported about six crosses.
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    • 625 21 FROM PAGE 21: HOT CROSS S HE admires Madonna. But that is not why she collects crucifixes. k Yes, her costumes are on the weird side. 'But that is because she does not want to appear dead on stage. Foo Wee Leng (better known as JJ) is
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    • 98 21 ROCK star Madonna created a controversy with her use of a crucifix and other religious symbols last year. During her Blond Ambition Tour, she had several acts which some people thought made fun of religion. For example, in Like A Virgin, she simulated sex on a velvet-draped bed,
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    • 285 22 MADONNA has won the battle to bring the life story 6( the feminist icon Frida Kahlo to the big screen. Kahlo was a Mexican bisexual artist who died in 1954. She has become a colt figure in America. At least four films based on
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    • 492 22 Reuter MEL Gibson may not make the most brooding Hamlet, but director Franco Zeffirelli says he must be the sexiest. The Australian actor, better known on film for firing semi-automatic weapons than Shakespearean soliloquies, has taken on theatre's most daunting role in Zeffirelli's
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    • 139 22 HAMLET, the legendary prince of Denmark, is the central figure in Shakespeare's play of the same name. His problematic character has lent itself to innumerable interpretations by actors and critics. The prince is haunted by the ghost of his dead father. Shortly after his father's death, his
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    • 485 23  -  By Vivien Chiong A i LOCAL production house has big plans to make "a national movie". But it needs investors to pump about $4 million to $5 million to get the cameras rolling. If it happens, SBC actor Edmund Chen's dreams of movie stardom will
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    • 37 23 w, don't want to make a commercial film that is nothing but boom-boom and bang-bang. We want to make a film that will show people in other countries what Singaporeans are capable of Ms Tay
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    • 12 23 Li Nanxing Zoe Tay Madeline Zhu Pan Lingling
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    • 193 23 JAYTEX Productions will also assist acclaimed director Peter Wang in the filming of his movie, A Lifecycle in Four Chapters. Filming is expected to begin in April. Meanwhile, Ms Tay is on the lookout for three actresses to play a rebellious 18-year-old daughter, a mother aged about
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    • 69 21 UA MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF BOSINESS TRENDS Energy trading the power behind the men Finance houses face lean and loan-ly days behind the business 9 Foreign Investors a little jumpy The chief of NTUC FalrPrice talks in land of kangaroos Which booming industry was left unscathed Piracy not of the copyright
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    • 444 24 WEDNESDAYRADIO NOON News in Brief NOON News in Brief 12.05 PM Your Lunchdate 15... 12 03 PM Popular Classics 1.00 News and Weather Report 1 00 News and Weather Forecast 1.15 Lunchdate (cont'd) 1-1° Currency Exchange Rates 2.00 News in Brief 115 Popular Classics (cont'd) 2.05 Feminine Flair With Kala
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    • 295 24 COMICRELEF Fox Trot/Bin Amend Dip PETE.R till You WHAT BECAUSE HE'5 A STUPID 50, I'VE UNBELIEVABLE. WHAT? HE DiD?/I'LL TELL You- 3CUM CHEWER. I CAN'T Pft>BABLY C>oT UH... Simply i he put a stupid ad in the imaoine feeuno amile-hi&h UNBELIEVABLE. STUPID SCHOOL PAPER MORE HUM"L'ATED STACK OF I V
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    • 365 25 COMICRELIEF WEDNESDAYRADIO Orchard Road/conn Goh EE9IHHHI 12.30 PM Sentimental Journey NOON Newsdesk i oo News 12.30 PM Off the Shelf 22 !L£ML£ ftEtN,rtG ■mHH i,,w tuc NtAu inn w\ 110 Ca|,iB AH Maids 12-45 Coußtry styl# SoIKV SlDOB'l CoUIbNT D 200 Th. Dual C.„ Sho. >00 W.rW Ne»> I UFFIS
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    • 73 28 800 Food/Entertainment 832 Employment company in Paya Leber requires: FEMALE CLERKS 1) Accounts •GCE xy or A' level LCCI Intermediate 2-3 years' experience Abie to keep full sets of accounts up to Trial Balance 2) Production Planning and Control GCE xy or A- level Preferably with 1-2 years' experience School
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    • 170 28 821 Business To Business 821 Business To Business I NOISE i#S V/s WILTERM ENGINEERING PTE LTD BIK 12 Unit 19, Pandan Loop Pandan Light Industries Park 11, Singapore 0512 832 Employment 832 Employment YUSEN AIR A SEA SERVICE (S) PTE LTD Internatlnal computerized freight forwarder has Immediate vacancies A) LADY
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    • 372 28 832 Employment 832 Employment 832 Employment I SINGAPORE FOOD INDUSTRIES (PTE) LTD Join us and grow wfth us as we gear up to meet new challenges In 1 §91! f Due to the rapid expansion of our mass catering business, we invite motivated and energetic individuals to join us: i.Muslim
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    • 355 29 832 Employment 111 111 TOP PARKING One of the top professional car park management companies in the market, invites applicants for the following posts:Requirements: preferably male applicants below 27 years old with 2 or 3 years wonting experience preferably A' level. Diploma, Siiil Tinggi Pelajoran Level or equivalent Fringe Benefits:
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    • 351 29 832 Employment The upstream Company of Singapore's $2 billion Petrochemical Complex invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for the position of: CLERK Requirements: GCE 'O' or 'N' Level 1 year relevant experience Ability to type (Those without experience will be considered) Generous Benefits include: 15 days annual leave Medical dental
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    • 340 32 AP. A 1 NDRE Agassi was fined a record $43,500 yesterday for his withdrawal from December's Grand Slam Cup, but was spared a threatened suspension from major tennis tournaments this year. Agassi, 20, was fined the maximum currently allowed for pulling out of the inaugural Grand Slam
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    • 230 32 Wire services. POLISH international Piotr Soczynski has started a fortnight's trial with English First Division side Coventry City. The 23-year-old midfield player, who plays for Polish champions Lech Poznan, is valued at £150,000. BRIAN Talbot paid the price for West Bromwich Albion's shock defeat by minor league side Woking
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    • 90 32 Wire services. Results of yesterday's international sports: DARTS World Professional Championship 2nd rd: Kevin Kenny (Eng) bt Peter Evison (Eng) 3-1, Jocky Wilson (Scot) bt Ronnie Baxter (Eng) 3-1, Dave Whitcombe (Eng) bt Cliff Lazarenko (Eng) 3-1. SNOOKER Mercantile Credit Classic sth rd: Mike Hallett (Eng) bt Wayne Jones
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    • 327 33 Tyrwhitt Soccerites has faced difficult times in the past. Now, with its Burmese connection, it may hit its purple patch. BERNARD PEREIRA reports FROM a team teetering on a tightrope in the Premier League to an outfit many feel could finish top of the class that's Tyrwhitt
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    • 220 33 TYRWHITT is on a Win-ning mission this season. That is, if you take 20-year-old Burmese striker Win Aung's word for it. From second-last spot last season to likely winner this year? No, it's not such a long shot after all. Win's record of 14 goals in 15 League
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    • 485 34  -  Stories/ S Gulam SINGAPORP]AN V Sundramoorthy will be paid US$7O,OOO ($122,000) to play for Pahang over 10 months in this year's Malaysia Cup season. That makes him one of the highest paid players in the competition. The Singapore soccer star has agreed to terms and conditions
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    • 68 34 Sundram: *****,000 over 10 months plus accommodation a car, training and match allowances and victory bonuses Fandi: *****,000 over 10 months plus accommodation, a car, training and match allowances and victory bonuses Zainal: 5564,000 over 10 months plus accommodation a car, training and match allowances and
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    • 179 34 STRIKER V Sundramoorthy will be the highest paid in the Malaysia Cup competition unless Pahang lures former Manchester United star Arthur Albiston to join it. Albiston, who played at left-back for the Red Devils, is likely to be paid US$BO,OOO ($140,000) to
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    • 406 34  -  By Abdul Shukor ALISTAIR Edwards and Abbas Saad, Singapore's twin strike-force in last year's Malaysia Cup, have been selected for the Australian national team. If they play against Czechoslovakia in Melbourne on Jan 30, it will be their fisrt international. Said Edwards:
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    • 207 35 Reuter. Liverpool, so nearly humiliated in the third round of the FA Cup last weekend, crushed Second Division challenger Blackburn Rovers 3-0 in the replay at Anfield yesterday. The League champion escaped one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history last Saturday when
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      • 183 32 Reuters. BEN Johnson, who returns to international sprinting on Friday after a two-year drug ban, will not recapture his old speed, says his former coach Charlie Francis. Francis coached Johnson for 12 years before the Canadian was positively dope tested for steroids after winning the
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      • 88 32 AFP. JAGBIR Singh will captain the Indian team in the seven-nation Indira Gandhi Gold Cup hockey tournament at New Delhi this month. The ace forward becomes skipper in place of Pargat Singh, who cannot play due to personal reasons, the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF") said yesterday. Meanwhile,
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      • 102 32 AP. UNBEATEN British heavyweight boxers Gary Mason and Lennox Lewis will meet in a dual-title fight on March 6, with a chance at the world championship possibly going to the winner, their managers said yesterday. Mason's British title and Lewis' European Championship will be on the line
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