The New Paper, 14 March 1992

Microfilm: NL18981
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Major quake hits Turkey
      324 2 Saturday Special One complete Apple Macintosh LC with colour monitor and Claris Works software./ See Ad on Page 31 A STRONG earthquake struck eastern Turkey yesterday killing at least 300 people, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. State Minister Omer Barutcu said preliminary reports showed the
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      ‘Face swollen, but no tears’
      425 2  -  By Dave Ang THIS seven-year-old girl is a victim of child abuse. A relative slapped and slammed Eswari Palanivelu against a wall on March 3. Her skull was fractured. An operation was done to remove a blood clot in her head. The attack took place
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      BROKEN HOME
      131 2 ESWARI. a Primary One pupil of Aljunied Cresent Primary School, comes from a broken home. Her parents are separated, though not legally divorced. Eswari stays with her fathers family at Aljunied Cresent. Her uncle. Mr Sega, said Eswari's mother often quarrelled with the relative who assaulted the girl.
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      CONDITION ‘STABLE’
      99 2 LITTLE Eswari is reported to be in a stable condition and recovering. When The New Paper visited her in hospital yesterday and the day before, she was in high spirits, running around the ward and joking with other patients and visitors. The only reminders of her experience were
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      BRIGHT SPARKS
      118 3 Hotels and Restaurants: "Close to a 5-star", The Ball Partnership for the Yet Con Restaurant. Hotels and Restaurants Campaigns: "Will the Flattery", "Close to a 5-star" and "We Do Everything", The Ball Partnership for the Yet Con Restaurant. Public Service: "Fourteen", Ketchum Advertising for Ministry of Health. Best
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      52 2 Leisure Index Weekender: Pages 21 to 36 TV: Pages 19 and 20 Radio, Comics: Pages 39 to 41 -eora or see" j! a Hotline Plus i I 734-7711 j! \o Telecom j c-a-ge or cat I: ga *****75 j' Of write to: The New M Paper 390 <im Seng H
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      And now for Kim Keat
      330 4 L hot A Lstory k Other proposed improvements: A new lift which stops at all 11 floors, an additional room, a pavilion for weddings and community activities. barbecue pits, play facilities and more parking space. These are subject to majority vote. A UTILITY room will
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      HEADLINERS
      97 4 The Straits Times: Govt changes mind on open university Business Times: Wearnes clinches deal to make clones for IBM Lianhe Zaobao: Lee Yock Suan: To look for a management organisation and design practical programmes, Open University will only start offering courses in 1994 Berita Harian: Open University will not
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
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        Khamis firm folds
        98 4 MARINA Village International, the flagship company of Moroccan businessman Elyamani Khamis, was ordered to be wound up by the High Court yesterday. One of his creditors, Derek Construction Furnishing, petitioned for the winding-up order after Mr Khamis was declared a bankrupt last November for failing to service
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        Aids virus spreading
        99 4 AN increasing number of Malaysians are found to be carrying the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes Aids. About 200 to 300 new HIV cases are being detected each month. There are now 2,744 HIV carriers in a population of 18.5 million, said Health Minister Datuk Lee
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        Khmers attack
        93 4 KHMER Rouge forces have launched heavy attacks in the Cambodian countryside with rockets and mortars, United Nations military officers and diplomats said yesterday. Observers called it the heaviest fighting in more than a year and said the Khmer Rouge was attempting to capture as much territory as possible
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        Drop in feedback
        109 4 THE Feedback Unit received received 429 letters last year, down from 663 in 1990. But it is not worried. Some may be speaking directly to the Prime Minister on his community visits or writing on civil service matters to the Service Improvement Unit set up last year,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Pull up your socks!
      451 7 Have you ever been turned away from a pub for being improperly dressed? A popular nightspot even checks its male customers for socks, and sells white pairs to those without them. SHAHIRAN SAHARI reports NO socks, no entry. That's the rule at Tornado, a pub at
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      CLOTHES ON LOAN
      141 7 TWO popular nightspots lend clothes to "improperly" attired customers. Khameleon, a discotheque at Marina Village, does not allow jeans, collarless T-shirts and sports shoes. But the club did not want to upset customers who were not aware of the dress code. So it started a mini-wardrobe service.
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      US show on S'pore being shot
      282 8  -  By Helen Chang OK, roll those cameras! Singapore could be on television in the US in June. A US documentary film crew is here to record the experiences of a group of exchange students from Los Angeles. The 29 students, from five secondary-schools in
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      GETTING TO KNOW THE WORLD
      160 8 THE exchange programme, called Los Angeles Times in Education, is sponsored by The Los Angeles Times. Its aim is to broaden the global awareness of American students. Students are assigned a country and asked to collect information about that country from newspapers and other publications.
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      Liver transplant woman to marry
      318 9  -  By R Vijaya THE woman who was told by her doctors two years ago that she had only six months to live is to be married. Ms Surinder Kaur, 26, was given a new lease of life after she underwent Singapore's lirst successful liver transplant
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    • Article
      ‘It's just like a fairytale’
      224 9 MS Surinder Kaur affectionately calls Ms Jaswir Kaur "auntie". But she is not a relative. It was Ms Jaswir who introduced Mr Gurchan Singh to Ms Surinder. Ms Jaswir has known him since he was 12. A close friend of her son, he visits the
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      ‘We'll publish political books’
      424 10  -  By Trudy Lim FOUR Singapore publishers say they are prepared to publish political books even if the publications criticise the Government. They feel Singapore is ready for such books. However, the manuscripts must reflect different viewpoints to make it to the bookshop. Criticism for criticism's sake
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      146 7 SQUT is one of Australia's largest universities. It offers a Foundation Program which prepares students for undergraduate courses in Arts, Business, Computing. Education, Engineering, Health, Law, and Science. Success in this program guarantees entry into an undergraduate course. QUT has 23 000 students (including 1 000 from overseas), studying internationally
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      192 8 If# jh| Join Uadewinds and take to the skies without leaving home. Tradewinds, Singapore's second scheduled air- citizen or permanent resident, at least 1.58 m tall, line, is still growing. Naturally, more planes mean single, and between 18 and 25 years old as of more flights. And more stewardesses. But
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  • PARLIAMENT
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      BUDGETOONS
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      A1 results = A 1 school?
      479 12  - A1 results A 1 school? The Budget Debate continues on Monday BY Irene Ng A GOOD school is not just one with good exam results. To earn the title, it must pass this test: Is the school taking in average students and helping them to do better? It is this
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      Less load for kids and teachers
      219 12  -  By Irene Hoe TOO few teachers, too much work, too much stress, too little help? Here's help, said Dr Tay Ens Soon, Senior Minister of State (Education). When new teachers graduate from the National Institute of Education this month, primary schools will have all
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    • OTHER GIGHLIGHTS
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        $1 billion IOU
        68 12 TAXpavers owe the Government $1 billion, a fifth of the total tax due at the end of 1990. The Inland Revenue Department (IRI)) hasn't been able to collect the money because many of its tax experts were poached by financial companies. When it becomes a statutory board,
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        Payrise? Perks?
        45 12 Government is reviewing payscales and perks for civil servants. The review may also win medical benefits for families of women in the civil service. Men already have these benefits. Please don't say no, pleaded Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon (Yuhua). Dr Hu said: "Maybe".
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        Woodlands stop
        52 12 By 1994 or 1995, Woodlands will be the last stop for Malayan Railway passengers entering Singapore. Customs, Immigration and Police officers can then check all rail passengers on entry into Singapore so smugglers can't dump drugs between Woodlands and Keppel station and illegals can't slip off the train
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        Motormedic
        57 12 Had an accident? New teams of motorbike medics should get to you within seven minutes. They'll zip through traffic jams faster than ambulances and give first aid to accident victims. An ambulance will be sent out at the same time to take injured people to hospital. Four life-saving bikes
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        Private ugrades
        47 12 Not everyone who lives in private housing is rich. Can they get government help to upgrade homes asked Mr Heng Chiang Meng (Cheng San GRC). Not as a rule, said Dr Hu. But if you know of some who need help, we'll consider, he said.
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    True love.
    49 13 I You can make it happen. 11 you're looking for a loving partner to shore \our life with, remember this. Somewhere, someone is waiting for you. All \ou have to do is to go out ami find that spedal person. Only you ean make (me love happen."
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    Kids, this sea show's for you
    285 14  -  SINGAPORETODAY WHAT: Sea sports and fishing exhibition WHEN: 11 am to 8 pm daily until March 22 WHERE: Liang Court Shopping complex. River Valley Road ADMISSION: Tree By Suresh Nair NINE of Singapore's biggest sea sports bodies intend to make a big splash in
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      100 14 your admission ticket to enjoy this special privilege. So come for the thrilling rides and many other attractions at v half the price now. x 3&, PPPf Normal Admission V Fr v f> purchase of one ticket per Prices A<ra|Sj^^H'^V Student Concession Card $lh Adults N ac vance P urc^ase
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    Lock icon Fat Lucy's heavy problem
    457 15 Ri'firintMl from The New HafMT. Wminesday 4th March Inft2 Reuter. ITALIAN tenor Luciano Pavarotti said yesterday he planned to lose so much weight that opera fans might not recognise him. The 136-kg singer told reporters in Scotland that he wanted to shed 57 kg. "I'm on
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    THINGS HE CANNOT DO
    94 15 LUCIANO Pavarotti carries so much weight that he cannot even walk short distances unaided. He cannot even stand for long. His legs are in danger of giving way under the strain. He is losing stage roles. He merely stands on stage for a short while waving
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      320 15 Don't wait till your waistline makes headlines. Marie-France is all about a unique, scientific This process lowers your body temperature FMS, in conjunction with a sensible diet weight-loss programme developed almost 30 years by two to three degrees, and almost immediately programme, allows you to lose fat from any part
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Baseball players on sex charge
      230 16 OTHER CASE Three players from the New England Patriots, an American football team, sexually harassed a sportswriter in 1990. The woman. Lisa Olson, settled her lawsuit against the players and the club out of court. Wire services. THREE members of an American baseball club have
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      Lock icon Out-of-control tram kills 13
      239 17 Wire services. THIRTEEN people were killed by a runaway tram in Sweden because a tramway foreman did not know how its brakes operated. An inquiry committee looking into a tram accident in the port city of Gothenburg said yesterday the tram's braking system was too complicated
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      413 16 Fii 11 j rri X I jH I A letter a day makes a thousand dollars! From Monday to Friday this week. The New Paper has published a letter of the alphabet each day. Now. collect all five letters and make as many words as you can from them Write
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      335 17 '«V 9 si v< Our Army is one of the best run organisations in Singapore. And we'd like to invite you to join us to help make it better. We've vocations that will provide you with the training for a promising future. So if you're considering a secure career, then
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      80 19 A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF BUSINESS TRENDS Fortune frowns on forex dealers Where's the new life in an old area? 1 ILAI WT\^ The rags to riches to rags trade India's underground banking network Full marks for ribbon maker The'X'factor in a successful MNC j i/\ Hong Leong's Hillview hopes Real
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
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      926 19 saturdaytv IN BETWEEN LOVES CHANCE OF A LIFETIME WORLD ENTERTAINMENT (Channel 8, 10.15 pm) (Channel 5, 10.30 pm) REPORT A CABBIE (Alt red Cheung) A ROMANTIC comedy starring (Channel 5, 3 pm) falls for aTV newscaster (Maggie Betty White in the role of a Br TUU2 Cheung, right) and offers
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      924 20 sundavtv I THE 19th ANNUAL AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS I BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED M- (SBC 5,9.45 pm) (Channel 5,5 pm) RAPPER MC Hammer (left) hosted this ceremony, held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los I 1 Angeles .Jan 27. Among the performers were j Colour Me Badd, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion
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      60 21 Cecil Jacobson has fathered 1 5 children. But he is not their father and they are not his children. Why? Because the American sperm doctor had secretly used his own sperm on some of his patients. Jacobson allegedly fathered up to 75 children this way. Can the same thing happen
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      SPERM SHOCKER
      665 22 COVER STORY BABY-MAKER: American sperm doctor Cecil Jacobson is alleged to have secretly fathered as many as 75 babies using his own sperm. His action provoked outrage and despair among many of his patients "NOT my husband's his!" Mrs Mary James sobbed as she pointed a finger at
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      PLAYING GOD
      221 22 "(JOD doesn't give you babies I do," Cecil Jacobson told one patient. To another, he described himself as "the baby maker", prosecutors said. In the end, .Jacobson was found guilty of lying to his patients by artificially inseminating them with his own sperm and then telling them the
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      ‘I WANTED TO HELP’
      100 22 "ANYONE would be lucky to have his sperm," said Cecil Jacobson's wife, Joyce, 52. Jacobson, 55, who has eight children of his own, said after the verdict: "I spent my life trying to help women have children. It's a shock to be found guilty of trying
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      ‘I don't care whose sperm it was’
      329 23 COVER STORY 4 A SAVIOUR': Not all the women who unwittingly bore Cecil Jacobson's children denounced his action "I WOI'LD never submit my son to genetic testing and I don't really care whose sperm it was." These words came from one of Jacobson's
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      ‘I did no wrong’
      280 23 JACOBSON'S TESTIMONY "I WAS never that frequently used as a donor," Cecil Jacobson testified during his trial. Prosecutors accused him of fathering up to 75 children, and submitted genetic-test reports in 15 cases. "Do you think 1 was the donor for that many?" Jacobson asked. "The
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      ‘He pointed out foetus when I wasn't pregnant’
      337 23 CECIL Jacobson "got very red in the face" when a patient showed him another doctor's report stating she was not pregnant. Mrs Catherine Maimone testified that Jacobson had pointed out a foetus during a scan a day after another doctor had determined
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      Safeguards in local sperm banks
      388 24 COVERSTORY FAIL-SAFE: The Cecil Jacobson case raises an important question for Singaporeans: Can the same thing happen here? DAVE ANG finds out The danger of abuse happens when it is a one-man show. When the doctor is also the lab technician, the counsellor and in
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      CHECKING ABUSES
      114 24 WHEN the first sperm bank was set up at Kandang Kerbau Hospital in 1977, there was no control over donors and no registry of donors and recipients. This led to fears of transmission of diseases and consanguinity (incestuous relationship). A computerised registry linking the National Sperm Bank and
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      ‘Ask the right questions’
      532 25 MYWORD THE misdeeds of I)r Cecil Jacobson evoked strong emotions in me. Here's another example of a doctor who has abused his patients' trust, I thought. I've always had a high regard for doctors. I still do. I see them as noble professionals who devote their
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      111 25 Would you like to meet Jackie Chan... rj^nn I stunts I 1 I IL, cmouft wMt m*** W J OunMnd 11 J ,OU{ V ...and write about it? 0 VIVIEN CHIONG DID. At The New Paper, our journalists meet all sorts of people every day. But that's just one of
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  • COVERSTORY
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      Lock icon SPERM DONATION
      508 26 GIFT OF LIFE: So you want to donate your sperm. How do you go about it? The three sperm banks in Singapore have slightly different procedures for donation, as DAVE ANG finds out. But this is generally what happens. HERE are the steps to take when you want
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      THE RIGHT MATCH
      165 26 A COUPLE selected for the donor insemination programme must be legally married and have a stable relationship. Also, the wife must be fertile. A woman cannot go to the sperm bank alone and ask for an insemination. THE MATCH Matching of donor and recipient is usually done
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      IN THE DEEP FBEEZE
      149 26 COLLECTED sperm is frozen and stored in thin, col-our-coded, 13 cm-long straws. Each donation usually fills up four straws. It normally takes two straws for an impregnation. The straws are placed in bell-shaped, stainless steel tanks in the laboratory. The sperm is frozen and stored in
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    • SCENE&HEARD
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        Hari Raya cards for Wings fans
        278 27 CHECK your mail if you're a fan of Wings, the Malaysian rock group. There could be a Hari Raya greeting card for you. Wings is sending out about 50,000 Hari Raya cards to fans in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei who had written to the
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        BEST OF WINGS
        96 27 WINGS is scheduled to release its Best of Wings compilation album, tentatively j on March 16. The four members, who took a crack at 1 producing the album, said they had a lot of fun doing it. There were very few production problems, they added. Awie said:
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        Lock icon Connery the muscleman
        663 28 PRIME SCOTTISH BEEF: Unlike the mythical Samson, the gracefully ageing Sean Connery is still as potent even without a full head of hair AP. SO you think Arnold Schwarzenegger is the first bodybuilder to make it big in Tinseltown? Well, you're wrong. The first was Connery. Sean
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        ‘A FOUR-STAR LOVER’
        147 28 AT the height of his screen success as -James Bond. Sean Connery was voted the Sexiest Man Alive. What do some aci tresses think of him? Zsa Zsa Gabor: "I might have been a one-man woman if I had met Connery ear lier in life." (Gabor is
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        And they're smart too!
        455 29 No, Hongkong sex bombs Amy Yip and Veronica Yip are not related. But they do have two things in common (and we're not talking about you-know-what!). Besides their wellendowed fronts, they are both quite brainy too, say their mums. AMY was quite a smart girl in
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        Veronica tops the class
        299 30 VERONICA Yip, 25, is one-up on bosomy rival Amy A bright student in school, she once topped the class in secondary school, says her mum. When not no. 1, she came in either second or third in class. But mum frowns on Veronica's soft-porn career which
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    Brian Miller
    21 33 What's the talk of the town? Who's doing what? And with whom? Our man about town tunes you in
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    Ahem, that's a slimy act
    259 33 A FRIEND of mine has now taken to carrying a handkerchief whenever he attempts a song at a karaoke lounge. No. It's not a part of his musical performance. The hankie is there for another reason. It happened last week when he. in true gung-ho
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    And you thought all barmaids are dumb
    159 33 WHILE most pubs seem to be headed towards glitz and glamour, one club has strived to retain its rustic image. I'm talking about Somewhere, one of the longest-surviving pubs in Serangoon Gardens. Situated on the ground floor of a I row of shophouses
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    Great Scott, it's a frame-up!
    184 33 SOME of Singapore's classier nightspots really know how to pamper their members. Among the privileges accorded to this special group are reserved tables, a waiver of the cover charge for a member's guests and even a personal cabinet for their own liquor. Some clubs throw
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      318 36 Reuter. BANGLADESH will launch a vigorous international campaign to force I Myanmar to take hack about 170,000 Muslim refugees. Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia made the an- nouncement yesterday during a visit to Teknaf, a BanglaI desh border town besieged bv refugees. "We cannot sustain this
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      145 36 Reuter. ALEMBA Aaaz. 17, told Prime Minister Khaleda Zia that she was gang-raped by the Myanmar military in Buthidong area before she escaped last week. "The Luthins (Mvanmar army) came to our house last Sunday and asked all of us to vacate
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      455 37 US intelligence has pinpointed about 40 sites in Iraq with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons and components. A look at some of them: Wire services. A US aircraft carrier, with about 80 warplanes on board, has been sent to the Gulf. Some analysts see the
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      105 37 IS a military strike against Iraq likely? The British Broadcasting Corporation this morning quoted its Washington correspondent as saying that "large-scale action against Iraqi targets is not believed to be imminent". Keuter reported, however, that US administration officials said that the next two weeks would be crucial
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      255 37 MORE than 60 of the American Congressmen who wrote "rubber" cheques which bounced at the House bank, made quick confessions yesterday to avoid bad publicity. Among the top confessors: Democrat Charles Hatcher, who said overdrew his account as many as 780 times over the 39 months. Democrat Gerry
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      629 46  -  PREVIEW/ ByT The Three Musketeers J UDGING from the way Metal Trader has been burning up the training track, he should have little to beat when he tackles a Class 4 Division 5 field in Race Eight at Ipoh today. The son of New Regent
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      316 46 Wire services. TOTTENHAM captain Gary Mabbutt was yesterday awarded the Sir Stanley Matthews Trophy. It is given for "outstanding contribution to fair play and sportsmanship on the field of football". Spurs colleagues Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne shared in the last award which was given to the England squad
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      801 47  -  [what I 1 niichm* 1 IvftNA 1 isMS J The Football Association of Singapore hands out contracts for nine players, including Czech midfielder Michal Vana. The offers are made to the players' clubs. How do the players and officials feel about the contracts?
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      Deva off to KL for trial
      345 48  -  FAS CONTRACTS: MORE REACTIONS Storiesy Abdul Shukor TIONG Bahru top-scorer D Devaraj will play a trial match for Kuala Lumpur tonight despite having been offered a contract to play for Singapore. And that's largely because he is disappointed with the Singapore offer, which sources
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      92 48 Safsa defender Lim Tong Hai says he will have to see what his offer is first. "I have not been officially told by Safsa oficials what the FAS has offered me so I cannot comment Former Singapore and KL midfielder Malek Awab declined comment on
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      461 49 BS,aturda33 BMksPOTLIGHTijJ Life has changed for Zainal Yusoff and he intends to make the best of it. The call-up by Milous Kvacek means that soccer now takes on a new dimension. ABDUL SHUKOR speaks to the latest member of the national training squad FOUR-and-a-half years
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      378 50 China's Zhao Jianhua, who has been a disappointment this week, finally put his game together and booked a place in today's men's singles final of the All-England championship. His opponent is compatriot Liu Jun The men's and women's finals will be telecast live over SBC 12
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      152 50 AFP. THE women's final nearly turned into an all-Chinese affair as well, but South Korean Bang Soo-Hyun ruined that idea with a 11-7, 0-11, 11-5 win over World No. 2. The 19-year-old joint third seed will now try to become the first Korean winner
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      265 50 Wire services. Results of yesterday's I international sports: BADMINTON All England Championships, sfinals, Men's singles: Zhao -lian hua <C) bt Allan Budi Kusuma (In do) 15*12, 15*10: Liu -bin (C) bt Wu Wenkai (C) 12-15. l">-2, 16-4; Liu •Inn (C| bt Wu Wenkai (C) 12*15, 15-2, 15-4. Doubles: -lan
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      271 50 AFP. CHINA faces a daunting challenge if it is to win badminton's Thomas and Über Cups for an unprecedented fourth time in a row in Malaysia in May. In yesterday's draw for the finals, which take place in Kuala Lumpur from May 6 to 16,
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      199 48 j KANNAN: Nine months? This is not my idea of a contract GEYLANG International striker K Kannan described the contract offered to him as "disappointing". "I have no qualms about the money offered to me. But where in the world is a player given a contract for just nine months?
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