The New Paper, 19 March 1993

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1993 MITA (P) 75/4/92 50 CENTS
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    • 36 1 We didn't give l andi enough I respect. We paid the price. (jar Lineker V .> >j'" V £,Wz? A *V f, *1 v s B ml* 5 J|^|| ."./> rr'.j.t.. A% *•«.*> i|;. ;-«>:*- «.'j>\ v ->■: «?:^"-:"*i > jewe w
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 187 2 AFP. A KUWAITI official in Singapore, who has ties to the emirate's investment office, has been charged with embezzling almost $1.6 million, a Kuwaiti MP said yesterday. Mr Nasser al-Saneh, chairman of the Kuwaiti parliamentary finance committee, did not reveal the suspect's identity. However, the
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    • 375 2 Reuter. WANT a raise, Comrade? Then come to bed. Young Chinese women are facing increasing sexual harassment at work, says an official newspaper. China's economic boom has created many new opportune ties, but also dangers, for women, says the Economic Evening News. Millions «of
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      186 2 MARADONA MAY BE CHARGED WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING AP. ARGENTINE soccer star Diego Maradona and his former manager could be charged with drug trafficking, said an Italian newspaper. The Rome daily, La Repubblica, said prosecutor Maria Cordova asked for the indictment of Maradona (right) and Mr Guillermo Coppola for
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    • 434 3  -  By Cynthia Tan YESTERDAY'S assignment: Learn to ski. So I waited to be handed an air ticket to Aspen or St Moritz. Instead, I got a bus ticket to the World Trade Centre. There was no snow there, just a big square conveyor belt, covered
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      143 3 HERE'S an even bigger challenge than learning to ski. Eat a live, wriggling worm that looks like an overgrown maggot! It is one of the delights being served at the Australian booth at the Travel '93 Fair. The worms and other traditional "bush tucker" have been brought here
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    • 177 2 THE winner of Star Search '93, SBC's talent hunt, will be known tomorrow. Who will it be? The contestants and SBC stars pick the four hot favourites. Plus... Previous winners: What is Zoe Tay s 10-point success formula? Why is Chew Chor Meng still in the little league? Plus... Seventeen
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 198 4 BILL ON COMPUTER CRIMES O PEOPLE who break into computer systems, or hackers as they are called, can be arrested without warrants under a proposed new law. The Computer Misuse Bill 1993 was introduced yesterday in Parliament. The Bill covers four main crimes: Breaking
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    • 101 4 The Straits Times: Reforms will hit trade ties, Beijing warns Business Times: Patten told: Back down or UK will face economic retaliation Lianhe Zaobao: Chris Patten's insistence on political reforms will affect Sino-British trade ties, says Chinese Minister for Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Li Lanqing Berita Marian: VenufeTOr
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 74 4 CHINA yesterday warned Britain that their economic ties would be affected if Hongkong Governor Chris Patten's plans for democratic reforms are adopted. It was Beijing's most serious threat to Britain so far. British Prime Minister John Major yesterday defended Mr Patten. "The Government stands four square behind
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      • 64 4 AN illegal billiard saloon masquerading as a sports club in Middle Road was raided by police yesterday. A dozen horse-racing and other coin-operated gambling machines and a jukebox were seized. No arrests were made yesterday, but the owner of the. club, who was not present, will be
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      • 82 4 CUSTOMS officers in Johor Baru seized 15 luxury cars worth $4.41 million on Wednesday. The vehicles were believed to have been imported with approved permits issued to the Johor royalty, who usually are allowed a fixed quota of cars. Import duties (300 per cent) of $12 million
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      • 82 4 SABAH'S anti-hopping' law, which bars state assemblymen from switching parties, is illegal. The Supreme Court in Kuala Lumpur made this ruling yesterday. It said the law violated a legislator's right to resign from a political party. The state law was also inconsistent with federal law. But despite
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      • 71 4 MALAYSIAN Foreign Minister Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday that he could not estimate how long it would take to resolve Malaysia's territorial dispute with Singapore over Pedra Branca. "We want to settle it as quickly as possible," he said. On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Wong Kan Seng,
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      • 59 4 THE Consumers Association of Singapore may monitor prices at wet markets and sundry stalls. This follows a recent spate of high bids. Bids for 48 vacant stalls averaged $710 more than 10 times the current monthly rental. The Environment Ministry said that it would monitor food prices,
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      • 53 4 THE Government has shelved its plan to privatise the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore for the time being. Minister of State for Communications Teo Chee Hean told Parliament yesterday that this is to allow the statutory board to concentrate on building Singapore into a major air hub
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    • 151 4 Protect your Skin. And save the earth. Hat's what I do because, like my health, the earth is important to me. So, I use Coppertone to protect my skin from the a,,*:- harmful effects oif too much ultra-violet rays from the Efe «*j| sun. E» PB* dlMtoKir <& jfly And,
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    • 390 6  -  By Augustine Pang FIVE months ago, Miss Yeo Hui Ling had her boyfriend Ang Tiong Hua arrested for stealing her gold chain. This week, she begged a judge to release him. On Wednesday, Ang, a 36-year-old odd-job labourer, pleaded guilty to the crime. But suddenly,
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    • 141 6 THE prosecution said Miss Yeo had ample time since Nov 12 to withdraw her charge. She also made two statements and said she was willing to testify against Ang but did not. The prosecution insisted that the court proceed with the case. The judge said: "This
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  • PARLIAMENT
    • 445 8  -  By Irene Ng CALL it a share in the giant company, Singapore Inc (as Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong did last week). Call it a prize for taking part in the economic marathon (as Labour Minister Lee Boon Yang did yesterday). Whatever the imagery used, the theme
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    • 232 8 MUCH more can be done to encourage more women to work, said Labour Minister Lee Boon Yang. This is especially true of married women above 35 who choose not to work, presumably because they are busy with their households and child-rearing, he said. Singapore's female labour force participation
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    • 658 8 The proposal for taxi companies to be allowed to set different fares is being worked on. Will the system confuse commuters? Not if taxis are required to publicise their fares, and prominently display them "inside the taxi, outside the taxi", said Communications Minister Mah Bow Tan. I n Cannot read,
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    • 138 9 l i OFF? r[2ka* Jytll ONLY J* C^LM DAYS? 4 I it marked down prices mwEB eleshop Pickering. 9 wUm <!% j H II §'f X. 4tflv- v \>v> ffi?# 1 '^f^t '1 m Wm 1 CIIPPIV MM f% k 1 ourrLl i,. Equipment CTjj fivi Srij {jajjl Sroi H
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 593 10 Mr Samat Dupree, 30, was freed by the High Court on Wednesday after spending 2 1 i years in prison for a murder he did not commit. TANG WAI YIN speaks to Mr Samat about his escape from the gallows
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    • 267 11  -  By Tang Wai Yin EVEN Mr Samat Dupree's family believed he was guilty of murder. "I couldn't understand why nobody would believe me," he said. They could not believe the police could have arrested the wrong man, he added. "Only when my passport proved
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    • 82 11 Nov 24, 1989: Mr Samat goes to Malaysia to sell sarongs. Dec 1, 1989: Mr Salleh bin Misnin, 38, is murdered in his Marsiling flat. Dec 4, 1989: Mr Samat returns to Singapore. Sometime in 1990: Mr Samat's wife tells him about a Crimewatch programme featuring Mr
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    • 155 11 WHAT'S THE USE OF ONLY PROTECTING MAN FROM THE ELEMENTS, IF YOU DON'T PROTECT THE ELEMENTS FROM MAN? Timberland's heritage and reputation for high quality stems Our goal? To raise funds for the Nature Society of Singapore from the very elements we design our equipment against through the sale of
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    • 211 12 TB 7/93 100 TOURISM imism IS (BOWING TWICE IS FIST IS TIE BEST OF TOE WORII'S. BO (BID WE 10 IT STANDING ON ODD DEADS?) Like a camera, the abacus never lies. In 1992, we had 10.6% more they went about their work. All those like last year's Special visitors
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 241 13  -  By Ganesh Rajaram CUSTOMERS were evacuated from two bars in Far East Plaza when fire broke out in an empty shop unit on Wednesday night. The fire at the fourth-level unit was reported at 10.30 pm. Smoke from the fire also set off safety sprinklers
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    • 172 13 ASIAN countries need to work together to cash in on a world economic shift towards the Asia-Pacific region, says Mr Yatiman Yusof. The Parliamentary Secretary (Foreign Affairs) is scheduled to say this at a workshop on international affairs at the National University of
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    • 409 14 Bukit Batok residents recently made it clear they did not want a hospice for the elderly in their midst. But for the old people concerned that's just another blow. The first big blow came when the children they raised shoved them aside into such homes, as
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    • 32 14 AN elderly grandmother sits on her rocking chair surrounded by laughing grandchildren. The message is clear. Marry young, have children and be rewarded with love and companionship in old age.
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    • 45 14 ST Luke's Hospital, a hospice for the aged, is to be built in an Housing Board estate. Nearby residents kick up a fuss with their MP. What about disease? What about hygiene? No way, they say, the hospice has to go somewhere else.
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    • 109 13 ■Our Cantonese Buffet Proved Very Popular. A Bit Too Popular, Actually. Queueing for food may be big in Russia, but it's not likely to catch on in Singapore. So owing to the phenomenal success of the Hai Xiang Restaurant's Cantonese buffet, we've decided to go A La Carte and let
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    • 387 14 I j()1 Healthy Living /J I Mums, Babies Children '93 t V Showcase of the idea/ lifestyle S *.W 17 -21 March 1993 11am 10pm World Trade Centre Expo Gateway FREE ADMISSION f *4 A wealth of features to keep you healthy, wealthy wisel V Diet& Nutrition* Sports Fitness. Latest
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    • 108 14 EiSEraEjaEia m Enjoy sumptuous Korean cuisine at Singapore's oldest Korean Restaurant. Established since 1973 Set Lunch Set Dinner 2 persons $24.00 2 persons $38.00 3/4 persons $48.00 3/4 persons $68.00 5/6 persons $68.00 5/6 persons $98.00 7/8 persons $88.00 7/8 persons $138.00 9/10 persons $108.00 9/10 persons $188.00 Single Set
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    • 97 15 wendy matthews lily the day you went away hey, does it evfer m y mind, i was only fever runningyMßßme. i never cried, i just watched my jilJMHK>ack of lies coz, you're leaving me long is there nothing i|l keepitend you're falling beHeving that'you're mine, it's just a w^freftV. ing
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 315 16 THEY DON'T THINK I AM USEFUL ANY MORE Mr E S Tay, 82, is an angry old man. He refused to talk about his family at all. "Useless! After all I did for them. Young people today don't care about the old. "When I was young, I
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    • 201 16 Thankfully, not everyone views old folks as burdens. Madam S T Lee, 85, brought up 11 children together with her hawker husband. Her husband died more than 20 years ago. Today she lives in an HDB flat paid for by her son who is
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    • 128 16 PEOPLE who try to keep the aged out of sight and out of mind may have the tables turned on them one day. Singapore has one of the most rapidly ageing populations in the world. The number of people here aged 60 and above is expected to
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 262 18 AFP. POLICE yesterday stormed a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines jet grounded since last week, killing two of the hijackers and one passenger. Another passenger had already died during the siege which began last Friday, said Ethiopian television. The ATR-42 plane was hijacked by about five people after
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    • 49 18 Like many other African countries, Ethiopia has been ravaged by civil wars and famines. For the past 30 years, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) has been waging a separatist war in Eritrea, the country's northernmost province. Eritreans are due to vote on secession from Ethiopia next month.
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    • 153 18 Reuter. GERMANY has apologised to a Somali priest for falsely naming him as the hijacker of a Lufthansa plane last month. The priest, Mr Far ah Siyad Shuriye, had demanded a public apology immediately after the incident but did not get it. He said
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    • 89 18 M y little 11-year-old goes out to feed my pony at 6.30 in the morning. I don't want to have to take her to hospital because she has found some sick group of people attacking our horse. Davy Jones, a member of the 1960s pop group The Monkees, who
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    • 268 18 rjgpiitta 1 AKASAKA SUSHI RESTAURANT Special Japanese Buffet Celebration BVWy Saturday Sunday 1 MENU J Sashimi, Sushi, Tempura, Grilled Dish, Deep Fried Disb, ~J Grilled Beef, Steamed Dish, Steamed Egg Custard, Fried Rice, Japanese Udon, Soba, Fruits Dessert 5522.00 per person Half price for children under 10 years old Saturday
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    • 348 19 All Who Seek Perfection In Beauty DARPHIN PRESENTS An Exclusive Seminar Conducted by Paris Aestheticians "PERFECTION IN BEAUTY" An exclusive presentation brought to you Enlightening...enhancing your beauty by a name well-known in French through Darphin exclusive and combeauty industry for more than 40 plete range of beauty care... years, a
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 318 20 Reuter. INDIAN police yesterday arrested two men who allegedly planted two of the 13 bombs which rocked Bombay last week. One of the men drove a jeep packed with explosives to a market in central Bombay and the other parked a booby-trapped motorcycle in
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    • 195 20 AFP. INDIAN police shot dead three notorious gangsters and a woman accomplice after a shootout lasting 10 hours on the outskirts of Bombay yesterday. Elite commandos finally stormed a five-storey apartment complex, throwing teargas shells in, and mowed down the four, said Bombay Police Commissioner
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    • 287 21 AP. A MEMBER of Japan's ruling party says his countrymen feel "tainted" when they shake hands with a black person. Mr Masao Kokubo, 58, said this while discussing illegal foreign workers at a budget committee meeting of the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly in western Japan, the Kyodo news
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    • 58 21 I would return to find everything a mess, Italian civil servant AtHos Bagatin, 60, explaining why he never took leave, apart from weekends, since 1964. On Wednesday, a judge ordered him to take leave after the unions took him to court. The unions calculated he had about
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    • 189 21 Reuter. A MOTHER in the US state of Ohio wore handcuffs and a prison uniform to her second wedding. Cheri Welch, 28, has been in prison since November after she pleaded guilty to killing her infant daughter. Her wedding garment was a drab olive-green
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    • 209 22 AP. US authorities drove three buses up to the Branch Davidian cult headquarters on Wednesday and urged its leader, David Koresh, to "let these people go". However, it was no go the cult members remained holed inside their wooden fortress in Waco, Texas. "Koresh
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    • 213 23 Happy b'day you are about to have a heart attack AFP. PEOPLE are more likely to suffer heart attacks on their birthdays, possibly because of the emotional stress of the event. This is the finding of Dr Alan Wilson, of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in the US. His
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    • 55 23 fT Gnee Hong Chinese Carpets Ha aiffer Carpets come with March mi Furniture Showroom: 71 Victoria Street, Singapore 0718 I QUICK PRESENTS Hi Ik j I Date Time pr^MflHflHMflH^Eg' Venue H Prices vbmmm* Tickets 6784) Forum The Shopping < enir^^lm^o^PdooqSladiunnv.rior.,! Concert Hall. Scotts CenirA^^StoS^TJ£il£WrS^mnenadeJ Official Official How WUH. V7| lttol'earamm
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 118 24 COMICRELIEF Cathy /Cathy Guisewite FCOOKIES AU_ W THE BOWL*] U CHOCOLATE B THE HEAD IOONUTS TWENTV JTTHE CEI6RWI Fox Trot /Bill Amend ...THEM AFTER WE R— REMOVED THE FRofcS' MMM-tWi, 6REAT f~ iMTESTIMES, WE-.. SPAGHETTI, H©M. Adam /Brian Basset SKNGfcI-fiATUP.' 1/ AHV »AW H£ ARE STARVING S 2 V KWTOH
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    • 567 24 SOUNDWAVES radio 1 symphony FM 90,5 FM 92.4 News on the Hour NOON Popular Classics 12.05 PM Koo Joo Kim Your Lunchdate Pro rimm€ Summar > 1.10 Midday Market Report fterno Conc rt 1.15 Koo Joo Kim Your Lunchdate JJJ la Muslca (cont'd) 6.00 What's On 2.05 An Afternoon with
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    • 255 25 'ROMANCING WITH STONES' LUCKY DRAW RESULTS Name NRIC No. Ist Prize: Mr Tang loong Hui *****65 C 2nd Prix*: Miss Lee Siew Houng *****55E 3rd Prix*: Miss Cheah Ai Lmg *****071 19 coraolttion prizM* Ms Ho Wee bng A *****94 Mdm Lee T S OOOWfIOC •Mr Peter Tham H*****02 Mdm
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    • 137 25 MOVIESPARADE Flow of life L Mk AfU Looking for love: A 1 Pacino (left) playing a blind man is guided by Chris O'Donnell in Scent of a Woman. A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT LORENZO'S OIL Story: Two brothers' lives Story: A family struggling are shaped by the river which with
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    • 175 25 COMICRELIEF Calvin and Hobbes/Bm Watterson I£TS SEE IF CAANIN GOT WITH STUPENDOUS HUSOES 5 ..FOR STUPENDOUS ITS NOT EUOUGW TWM WE WHATEVER WAS IN Of M6N\TOOt STUPENDOUS T .FOR TISER, FEROt\Vi Of/ UME TO BE D\SC\PUNMMVS. u\s UX<ER. m breaks t/-R* UMMEAR, RED/ NOW WE NE^Toet X laa ~~Ncs/\ POHER.
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    • 69 26 Trying out various kinds of food and eating places has become part of the Ramadan month for families where working parents don't have time to cook. NORENSHAH SAHARI munches through three different cuisines Japanese, American and Mexican to break her fast Raffy's spread: Clockwise from top, Lamb
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      278 26 TUCKED away on the second floor in a quiet corridor of Parklane Shopping Mall (not to be confused with Park Mall in Penang Lane) is a cozy outlet called Nik's Cafe. From potato soup, bergedel (potato cutlets) to its piece de resistance, the baked potato, the cafe is
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    • 191 26 AREEEBA, reeeba, reeeba! Check out Raffy's Place for Speedy Gonzales' break fast menu. Tacos with beef filling, chicken fajitas and chilli beans served with French bread are the Mexican specialities here. Don't forget teh tarik to round it off at this stall in a coffeeshop at Tampines New
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    • 264 26 IF tempura, udon and miso soup is your cup of o-cha (Japanese tea), then this may be the place to dine. Warong Kopi Nakhoda, or the Captain's Coffeeshop, delivers Japanese, Malay and Chinese food. A two-year training stint in Japan more than 20 years ago finally led
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    • 547 27 c/i 2.00 PM Text (Stereo) 3.00 Tea-Break Special Face of the Enemy: George Dicenzo and Rosana DeSoto star in this drama about a man who is obsessed with the time he spent as a hostage of terrorists in the Middle-East. He kidnaps a woman he believes to have been one
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    • 247 27 sbcB 6.00 PM Gordian the Warrior (Cartoon) 6.25 News in Tamil 6.45 Star Charade (Game show/stereo) 7.00 The Brave Ones (Drama with English subtitles/episode 26 of 30): Zifen and Huang Ben express their true feelings for each other in the locked warehouse. 8.00 News at Eight 8.30 Highlights from Parliament
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  • 436 28  -  Actress Kim Basinger landed plum roles after she posed for Playboy magazine. Hongkong's Veronica Yip and Amy Yip also found fame after they disrobed. Now, meet Loletta Lee (left) Showtime By Lo Tien Yin POINTS are important to Hongkong's new up-and-coming actress Loletta Lee. In the colony's parlance,
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  • 436 29 Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is showing at the cinemas. But some children go through worse ordeals. LO TIEN YIN talks about the pressure some parents here put on their children to make them stars and prodigies THEMOVIESPAGE HONEY, I Blew Up the
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    • 208 29 Mm iwM ik *m- H *X&}4&m *-*p>'- JBLsv A L;'. POLLvJniy^lr B€€ PCHJjENjjffi i y H 5E' j^ftk: Pollen. Ancient Greeks and Romans The Orient's legendary of glories past regarded Pollen as "Root of Life" is revered in Eastern cultures "Ambrosia" or "Food of the Gods". Pollen as a general
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    • 338 31 Reuter. THE 65th Oscars presentation ceremony is two weeks away and the media buzz has begun. Take reports on Clint Eastwood, Joan Plowright and Denzel Washington, for example. Eastwood, often the silent type on and off the screen, said that being nominated for three Oscars after
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    • 344 32 IT took only two weeks after terrorists blew up New York's World Trade Centre for the cameras to begin rolling. It took even less time for work to begin on a movie on the cult in Texas. Hollywood-based Wilshire Court Productions was in New York, making
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    • 81 32 THE Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society is hosting an evening of classic Carnatic music and culture tomorrow. Carnatic is a historically-important region in India now in Madras state. The concert starts at 4 pm and will feature kirtanas (devotional music) and ragas from the legendary Carnatic composers Thyagaraja,
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    • 119 31 IDOLS going for $2 Cards with pictures of pop idols are becoming a precious commodity. Students get them for 20? each from vending machines. The cards are dispensed in a random order. Only a lucky few get pictures of the more popular stars like Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Leon
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    • 215 44 ZARINAH Abdullah was philosophical after her loss to China's Ye Zhaoying in the All-England Badminton Championships yesterday. "I really have nothing to say," Singapore's national champion told The New Paper in a telephone conversation this morning after her 11-0,11-1 loss. "I did
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    • 235 44 Men's singles, 3rd rd: Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen (Den) bt Fung Permadi (Indo) 15-4, 17-14; Heryanto Arbi (Indo) bt Darren Hall (Eng) 15-11, 15-9; Rashid Sidek (Mai) bt Jens Olsson (Swe) 15-7, 12-15, 15-11; Ardy Wiranata (Indo) bt Kim Hak-kyun (SK) 18-15, 15-8. Liu Jun (C) bt Hermawan Susanto
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