The New Paper, 5 March 1994

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1 57 The New Paper
  • 14 1 the new paper weekend edition SATURDAY, MARCH 5 1994 MITA (P) 035/04/93 50 CENTS
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    • 65 1 pniQiHM 5 ft.HH JJ J -WTERVEWS WITH ONE OF THEM SEMTBWE TODAY Am m IP Tan Boon Chiang and remisier ™Casey Low (left) manipulate NOL shares to make $1.4 million. The r j 111 bid fails. The story of the shares (T killing that wasn't in graphics. m m /Pages
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      74 2 LEADING CHINESE DISSIDENT ARRESTED AGAIN 'We have sent a very stern statement. We strongly disapprove of what was done arid it obviously is not helpful to our relations/ President Clinton No laughing matter: China's most prominent dissident, Wei Jingsheng, may be laughing in this file picture taken
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    • 394 2 Wire services. CHINA'S lukewarm ties with the US may turn cold following the arrest of a top government critic in Beijing yesterday. President Bill Clinton said the arrest of Mr Wei Jingsheng could threaten relations between the two countries. "We have sent a very stern statement. "We
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    • 95 2 IF China continues to lock up its critics, President Clinton may have no choice but to withdraw Beijing's trading privileges. China now enjoys the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status in the US. This allows Chinese exports to enter US markets at very low import duties. The MFN
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    • 448 2 I NEW LOOK NEW BEGINNINGS I Simply massage Exercise Gel on to your problem areas before you jB TT™™r™"fx a i u i I exer cise. Exercising will increase your metabolic rate and burn calories, V\ of*24oml Expressions Exercise* »Kile the gel will improve your circdadon_ Together, they'll make your
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    • 49 2 Leisure Index Weekender: Pages 23-38 Saturday TV: Page 40 Sunday TV: Page 41 Radio, Comics: Pages 42-43 Saturday Special 7 days' tour of New Zealand for two plus 26 •lack's Place meal vouchers Coupon on Page 58 Hotlineplus HEARD or seen anything? Call Hotline Plus 1800-734-7711. Or fax 737-5375.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 207 4 HAWKER SURVEY HOT BLUE CHIP stocks closed slightly higher as investors shopped for bargains among car and technology shares. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 7.88 points at 3.832.30. with advancing issues overtaking declines 12-8 on a volume of more than 311 million shares.
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    • 88 4 The Straits Times: US brandishes Super 301 trade weapon Business Times: Mirage Tower condos set new benchmark prices Lianhe Zaobao: Hosokawa says Japan will cut trade surplus after US announces Super 301 move Berita Harian: Help set up industries: Vietnam. SBC morning news: The Prime Minister says Singapore wants
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 82 4 VIETNAM wants Singapore to help set up an industrial park so that it can learn modern management techniques from the Republic. Singapore will look into the possibility of setting up such an estate in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday. He
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      • 84 4 SINGAPORE has recorded a sparkling set of January trade figures. This was led by domestic non-oil exports which jumped by a hefty 31 per cent to $5.85 billion compared to the same month last year. Total trade for January was up 28 per cent to 424.9 billion.
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      • 111 4 WESTERN industry captains who met in Singapore to discuss regional issues are uncomfortable with their governments for pushing human-rights issues in the area. "The Westerners here were business people and not ideologues; they were not pushing the democracy agenda," said Singapore Ambassador-at-Large Tommy Koh. He chaired one of
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      • 89 4 THE editor of a British newspaper at the centre of a trade dispute with Kuala Lumpur says he regrets the row. But he denied his reporters had suggested any impropriety by Malaysia's Prime Minister. The Sunday Times article of Feb 20 had the headline "Wimpey offered contract
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    • 86 4 JSL I hear China, which once denounced me as a lackey of the imperialists and running dog of the British and the Americans, announce to its own people that they should learn from Singapore, I feel we must have done something right and they must have
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  • 369 5 THENEWSTODAY SOME gate-crashers simply wing their way into the Jurong Bird Park. They don't pay the entrance fee of $9 for adults or $3 for children. They stay as long as they please. And here's something to ruffle your feathers: Some are even mating with the birds at
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  • 505 6 Students at Pre-U centralised institutes spend three years instead of two to complete their A levels. To them, it is more satisfying to get good results because they are hard won. TANG WAI YIN speaks to two top students from Seletar Institute SINGAPORETODAY SERENA Toh
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 219 9 EXTRA YEAR PAYS DIVIDENDS/ Next page IT was obvious the whole family was bursting with pride. Lim Puay Ching, 19, had scored two As and a C for her A level exams. She was the first person in her family to get an A level
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    • 100 9 A HIGHER percentage of the 10,758 students who took the A levels last year passed. Eighty-six per cent got at least two A and two AO level passes, including General Paper. In 1992, the figure was 82.7 per cent of 11,455 students who sat for the papers. The
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    • 500 10 There are two conventional routes to A levels studying for three years at a Pre-U centre, or two years at a junior college. JENNIFER TAN talks to three students who did it the long way, at Outram Institute She jumped up and down like a rabbit,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 1741 12 NOL MARKET-RIGGING A diamond merchant and his remisier tried to make a $1.4-million killing at the share market by rigging the closing price of Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) shares. But their scheme was found out and both were found guilty last week. They will be
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    • 406 13  -  FROM PREVIOUS PAGE ABOUT TAN BOON CHIANG TAN. 40, is the managing director of Jumbo Diamond House, a wholesaler and retailer of jewellery. He received his GCE 0-level certificate in 1971 and joined his fathers company immediately after National Service. By Tay Boon Chuan A WOMAN
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    • 107 13 WITHIN seven months of getting to know each other, Tan and Low rigged the NOL share prices. They first met after Low called Tan, a diamond merchant, hoping to strike business deals. After several conversations about shares, Tan opened a trading account on behalf
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    • 241 14  -  By Tay Boon Chuan A CAT died after getting trapped in a washing machine recently. The woman's maid had turned on the washing machine without realising the cat was inside. The cat's owner asked the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) to
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    • 82 14 MS Deidre Moss, executive officer of the SPCA, said: "Cats are very adventurous animals and sometimes get into trouble for that. "If you are living in a high-rise flat, you must ensure that your cat cannot jump over the ledge of the window or balcony. "Another potential
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    • 225 15 SINGAPORE should further adapt the British legal system to the Asian culture so that it will be understood and embraced by more people, says Brigadier-General George Yeo. The Minister for Information and the Arts makes this point as he opens a law awareness exhibition
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    • 73 15 Call us tomorrow on 1-800-733-4455, at The New Paper office, where lawyers will be manning the hotline from 2 pm to 6 pm to answer legal questions for free. Write or fax your queries to The New Paper, Times House, 390, Kim Seng Road. Singapore
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    • 309 15 QUESTION THE last question in our four-part series leading up to the Law Society of Singapore's Law Awareness Weekend is: What are our rights when a police officer arrests us? Mr J Lee, 20, unemployed, wrote: "A friend was arrested a few weeks ago.
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    • 353 16  -  If you know of a groat money-saving tip, call our Hotline Plus at 1800-734-7711. PRICE BUSTER BY JUNE KONG JUNE KONG YOU can save money by sacrificing brand-names for generic products at the supermarket. Mrs Cynthia Tan, a moneymarket dealer, is one who has learned how.
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    • 85 16 THIS week's Pricewatch supermarket survey by the Consumers' Association of Singapore (Case) examined 68 common items carried by three supermarkets in Holland Village (NTUC Fair Price. Yaohan, and Cold Storage). We picked the best listed price for nine of the items on the Pricewatch list,
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 373 17 I UN COMMANDER IN BOSNIA PLEADS AP. PEACE may at last he possible in Bosnia j except for one big hitch the Western powers' reluctance to send more UN blue berets to the war-torn country. The United Nations has called for 10,700 more troops 4,000 for
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    • 155 17 Reuter US President Bill Clinton is prepared to reward Ukraine for its moves toward economic reform and nuclear disarmament. He said he will double aid to the cash-strapped former Soviet state to $112 million. "This represents a major increased commitment to an important friend
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    • 173 18 AP. COMEDY actor John Candy died of a heart attack yesterday while on location shooting in Durango, Mexico. He was 42. Candy was making the movie Wagons East with Richard Lewis when he died. His films include the 1990 comedy blockbuster Home Alone, Steven Spielberg's 1941, and
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    • Pressing the Malaysian Govt
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        621 19  -  It's typical of the British press, say a British journalist and a Malaysian journalist of the media's role in the current row between Britain and Malaysia. But both have very different reasons for their views. BEN BARCLAY says the press is, as usual, attacking the British Government. WAN
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      • 429 19  -  By Wan A Hulaimi ARMCHAIR British media psychologists have been going to town with their analyses of Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad's character. Guardian said Dr Mahathir is a "complex personality (with) what resembles to be a chip on the shoulder sensitivity". The Independent called him "a
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    • 386 20 WORLD TRADE CENTRE BOMBING TRIAL Wire services. FOUR Muslim militants were found guilty this morning of the "worst terrorist act" in the US: The bombing of New York's famous World Trade Centre in February last year. After the forewoman read the verdict, the defendants pounded on
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    • 91 20 AP. THE noontime blast on Feb 26 last year blew a five-storey-deep crater in a garage beneath the World Trade Centre, the world's second-tallest building. Six people died and more than 1,000 injured in the blast. The 540 kg of explosives inside a yellow van wrecked the 110-sto-rey twin
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 258 21 MACAU casino king Stanley Ho will open Vietnam's first casino next month. Dr Ho, widely known as "Mr Macau" because of the eight casinos he runs in the Portuguese colony, has committed $40 million to the first stage of the Vietnam venture. He
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    • 113 21 THE original Mickey Mouse and a host of Disney characters will be arriving in Singapore today. They are here for this season's Walt Disney's World on Ice show and will make a live appearance at Clarke Quay at 6 pm this evening. During the appearance,
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    • 84 22 m bi BI ■■n. >■■ m vCa i M WmsSsz '4 8:.';4 J V -«Ti:| 888 PS I |fipsP*jp|^Lvß .-> K CLEAN AND CLEAN AND CLEAN AND CLEAN AND CLEAN... v Madam Soh Guek Pang (left) is obsessive-compulsive about cleaning. I Recently she was jailed for threatening her v B
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  • COVERSTORY
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      1075 23  -  REPORTS RY SITI ROHANHA KOID MADAM Soh Guek Pang was sentenced to two months' jail or a $2,000 fine after pleading guilty to criminal intimidation on Jan 11 this year. She had threatened her son and husband with a pair of scissors in a fit of rage last
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    • 64 23 I just lost my temper with them and regretted doing it... I will never try to hurt them again." Madam Soh Guek Pang, on being reminded of the incident last December, when she threatened her son and husband with a pair of scissors. (She added: "When the
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    • 74 23 THE first thing one notices about the minimallyfurnished flat is the sparkling clean white-tiled floor. Then it's the dust-free shelves, electrical fan and coffee-table. The vases and religious artifacts in the house, too, are spotless. The bathroom is tidy, with different cleaning agents arranged neatly in the corners.
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    • 169 23 THE FAMILY SPEAKS THE HUSBAND MR Chi Ah Thau, 53, a karung guni (rag-and-bone) man, borrowed $2,000 to get his wife released from prison. Mr Chi said: "Our family couldn't bear the thought of her living in a prison cell, so we got together
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    • 171 23 THE CHILDREN LIFE at home was not peaceful with a mother who was obsessed with cleaning. Madam Soh Guek Pang would get angry with her son, Chi Jun Shiang, 13, and daughter, Chi Eng Eng, 12. Now they are glad to have their mother at
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    • 318 23 HER OBSESSION MADAM Soh has been obsessed with cleanliness since she was 17 but does not know what triggered it. "I started to be a clean person out of the blue," she said. She comes from a family of four girls and five boys. She said
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    • weekender
      • 88 24 A HABIT usually starts off voluntarily. For example, a person bites his nails because he enjoys doing it or because there is a need to. For example, his nails are long but he is too lazy to get a nail clipper. The person usually performs the action on impulse
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      • 92 24 AN addiction goes deeper than a habit. A person usually first starts taking in a substance voluntarily but when he consumes it repeatedly, it becomes an addiction. This is when he becomes dependent on the substance both physically as well as psychologically. The act gives the doer physical relief,
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      • 95 24 Ahi obsessive-compulsive person is preoccupied involuntarily with a particular idea and acts on it: The idea or thought, which he realises is not true or rational, keeps coming to his mind. Often, the obsessive-compulsive person tries to push away the idea, failing which he acts on it. This he
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      • 565 24 THE WAY IT IS: According to a US survey, two in every 100 people suffer from obsessive-compulsive behaviour. A consultant psychiatrist talks about how common the problem is in Singapore, what makes a person obsessive, the symptoms and the treatment OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE behaviour in Singapore affects about
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      • 153 24 THE treatment for an obsessive-compulsive patient may stretch from six weeks to a few years, depending on the history of the condition. "The earlier the treatment is started, the better the chances of recovery," said Dr Nagulendran. Usually during diagnosis and treatment, the family members of the
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        181 24 BEHAVIOUR therapy: The patient is put in a situation which helps him overcome his fear and modify his behaviour. The psychiatrist or psychologist will guide him to stop responding to the intrusive thoughts. For instance, a person who fears dirt will be put in a room full of dusty
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      • 186 25 Thought they had to do it again and again TRACING ROUTES ACTS OF ABERRATION: A whole range of normal behaviour is open to becoming an obsession. Here are some cases of everyday behaviour gone awry. To protect the identities of the afflicted, the names have been changed LAURA, 33, became
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      • 121 25 MAY Ann's yearning to be super-slim led to her obsessive behaviour. Last year, the 16-year-old student suddenly thought she needed to lose six kg. So she started counting calories and weighing everything she ate. She would do a certain number of exercises before school. Then, she began to
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      • 150 25 JEAN, 42, a housewife, is obsessed about things being perfect. She has to do everything in the right order. Her rituals include washing her hands many times a day. The washing has to be done in an exact way first she will soap her hands, then
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        98 25 MADAM Loh was obsessed with counting the coins in her pocket or purse. She suffered from a fear that she had counted them wrongly each time she finished. When she put the coins back in their place, she would wonder if she had left out a coin or
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      • 114 25 ALAN had a constant fear that he had left the switch on for every electrical appliance in his house. It started when he forgot to switch off the oven after use. An accident was prevented just in time. Since then, Alan imagined that one appliance, if not all,
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      • 707 26 ASK YOURSELF: This simple checklist will help you find out it your behaviour could be considered obsessive-compulsive. Answer the questions honestly, perhaps with the help of family members or friends who spend a lot of time with you and know you well ARE you plagued by any
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    198 28  -  DAVID TAN YES, we know you can see we're having a great time. Sure, we spend time on Newcastle beach, but we miss home. So the phone lines are kept busy. Of course, we write (some of us more than others). The food is wonderful, but we dream
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  • 55 29 weekender FROM PREVIOUS I PAGE Ken Worden: The sun's getting into the soccer coach's eyes. Kadir Yahaya: Hey that s no way to wave goodbye! "Goal, Lions, goal": All together now... (from left) Rati Ali. Suzri Wis jr. Aide Iskandar. Zakaria Awang, Malek Awab.
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  • 21 30 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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  • 353 30 LAST night, I watched a film in a "cinema" off Orchard Road. Yes, I hear you out there saying: "So what? No big deal." Granted that catching a film is no big deal. But now, prepare to eat your heart out. For starters, I carried
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  • 347 30 OTHE YARD «RUM RUNNERS ©CHIT-CHAT PUB ©THE DOORS' FRONT PAGE ©NEXT PAGE It wasn't too long ago 12, 18 months perhaps when Paramount Shopping Centre in downtown Katong housed Singapore's undisputed "pub row". In that narrow arcade were to be found 10 pubs, each unlike
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    • 529 31  -  MYWORD Try asking someone here to give up his lunch hour. You'll find a very unhappy person. Tell him to be productive and he will assume you mean working after 5 pm. By T JEYATHESAN THE principal came into the class. We knew we were in for
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    • SCENE&HEARD
      • 411 32  -  WHAT: Dark Obsession WHEN: Today. 10 pm WHERE: SBC 8 By Andy Kwan ACCEPTING an offer from SBC to act in a TV film served more than just raking in revenue for Hongkong actor Francis Ng Chun Yu. It was a good opportunity to let
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      • 607 33  -  WHAT: Bond of Love WHEN: Monday to Friday. 7 pm WHERE: SBC 8 By Maureen Koh DO BRAWN and brain go together? I had a mission: To find out if substantial grey cells were contained in hot model Bernard Tan. Could he act or was he
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    • 247 34 FUNNY THING HAPPENED: Last month we started our glossary of news reports. It is meant to be a monthly listing of new words and phrases that catch the eye. We've coined them tongue-in-cheek, so don't say we didn't warn you GLOSSORRY aerospace (n): not a fly-by-knight display. ames
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    122 35  -  PICTURE BY SAM YEO GRAVY TRAIN: A: We seem to be on the wrong track here. When you asked me out for dinner on a train, I thought you were taking me for a ride. B: (Nervously) Never judge a restaurant by its engine er, a book by its
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    • 615 38 THE NEW PAPER/Saturday, March 5. 1994 sbc5 7.00 AM Sell-A-Vision (lnfomercial presentation) Gcode *****02 9.00 Disney Club Singapore Variety/stereo) Gcode ***** 10.00 Transformers Generation 2: Dinobot Island (Cartoon/part 1) Gcode 5457 10.30 Batman The Man Who Killed Batman (Cartoon/stereo) Gcode 1308 11.00 Win, Lose or Draw (Gameshow) Gcode 1877 11.30
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    • 248 38 X TVTREATS MONDAY, MARCH 7 Sargam (SBC 12/10.00 pm): An award winning contemporary social drama about a budding singer forced to sacrifice his love for the sake of his good friend. But the latter feels that he has destroyed his friend's happiness and commits suicide. Stars Urmila Unni. TUESDAY, MARCH
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    • 297 38 Page 41 sbc8 I 9.00 AM Sweet Home (Variety/stereo) Gcode 7051 9.30 Starspeak (Variety/stereo) Gcode ***** 10.30 The Chinese Herbal Cooking Gcode 6186 11.00 The Butcher Schoolmaster (Episodes 15 and 16 of 20) Gcode *****41 1.00 PM Tamil Cinema Kalathur Kannamma (B/W/English subtitles) Gcode *****099 4.00 Journey to the West
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    • 1047 40 SUNDAYSOUNDS COMICRELIEF radio 1 symphony Calv n and Hobbes /Bill Watterson FM 90.5 FM 92.4 I'M WRITING A WHAT* IT IT'S AfcuT A QJX VWO ***** I *TUP{ NOVtL 1 J TWKOOGU TV CHNMUELS VUTW wol-rr- VIUAT 6.05 Hamish Brown on Breakfast 6.00 AM Sunday Classics A, y H\S REMOTE
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    • 264 44 2740 8«l«« Portion* I%HA established Group of Telecommunications A (Companies based in Singapore with operations in Malaysia. Brunei and China. Our activities cover the sales, servicing and project management of advance telecommunications systems. We seek high-calibre candidates to fill the following positions: 5 sales executive Requirements: Minimum GCE 'O' level
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    • 435 45 2775 Driver/ Delivery Despatch Positions 2760 Hotel/ Restaurant/ Lounge Positions 2760 Hotel/ Restaurant/ Lounge Positions A Henderson Industrial Park k has immediate vacancies-for DRIVERS Interested pis. call lei: 2622 6 2 6 for interview or come personally for a walk-in interview at: Blk. 217 Henderson Rd. #01-06 Henderson Ind. Park.
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  • 589 46  -  SPORTS/RACING PREVIEW/ By The Three Musketeers TRAINER Malcolm Thwaites' A Class Act can be followed in confidence in Race Four at Bukit Timah tomorrow. The three-year-old American colt has had two runs under his belt and is right on to score his maiden win in
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    • 112 46 in Hl] A sumptuous and delightful spread of afternoon hi tea delicacies awaits you at the Cafe Aladdin. Choose from a variety of hot desserts fish or chicken porridge, siew mai, sotong balls, chicken wings, otak otak, pizza, fried rice and tempting nonya kuehs, home-made pastries fresh fruits. All these
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  • SPORTS
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      723 47 SPORTS MAIL AZMAN ABDULLAH'S LETTER TO SINGAPORE BODYBUIDLERS FEDERATION I VERY much regret that the article written by Mr Bernard Pereira in The New Paper on March 2, 1994, did not convey my feelings in the correct perspective. Firstly, I wish to inform that I did not fully
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    • 403 47 AZMAN Abdullah seemed unmoved when I congratulated him on the Sportsman award at the World Gym on Mar 1, just after 6pm. Seeing that he was visibly upset, I started off the interview by asking him if he felt he deserved more than just the award. He
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    • 702 49  -  By Chris Matyszczyk IF you were a football manager, what would your team look like? Would you try and copy some beloved team from the past? the Liverpool of the 80s, perhaps. The Arsenal of the 30s. Or the Spurs the last time it won a game. But
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      461 49 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY v NEWCASTLE (tonight, 11pm) I DON'T know about you, but I have always been deeply suspicious of men with silly little strands of hair down their backs that masquerade as a pigtail. I know Bruce Grobbelaar is an eccentric. And I know he has lost the
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    • 64 51 A FOREIGN COACHING CONSULTANT, TWO LOCAL COACHES AND THREE FOREIGN IMPORTS...DIV ONE'S SEMBAWANC No local stars, no glamour. No glamour, no sponsorships. That's the story of this season's Premier League. Yet, from amidst this gloomy scenario rises a ray of hope: Division One club Sembawang Sports Club.
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    • 263 52 NO LOCAL stars, no sponsorships and poor Kate collection expected this season have caused many of the Premier League soccer clubs to scale down their budgets this year. But amidst the gloom and uncertainty has emerged
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    • 139 52 PRIZE MONEY FOR 1994 Champion: $3,000 Runner-up: $2,000 Third: $1,000 Fourth: $500 All four teams will also receive Hummel sports vouchers HUMMEL senior sates manager Jerry Goh is so convinced of Sembawang's organising capabilities that he wants the club to run the $25,000 Hummel Cup
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    • WHAT SOME PREMIER LEAGUE CLUBS SAY
      • 118 52 Jurong's manager K Suppiah said: "Last month, we asked the FAS to tell the press what directions it was taking in the running of this year's Premier League. "Its haphazard way of running the League last year has caused a lot of people to lose interest this
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      • 77 52 Tyrwhitt's president Thomas Teo said: "We have yet to work on a budget. How to do it when we don't have sponsors? Anyway, we're going to slash it this year." EFFECTS: Slashing budget because of the lack of sponsors. Caltex, who spent $330,000 last year $130,000 more than
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      • 112 52 Geylang's manager Thomas Zilliacus said: "With six star players out, you can expect a drop in attendance. And less tickets sold means more trouble attracting sponsors. "That's why we've got to cut down our budget. The FAS is not helping us by giving us insufficient compensation for our
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      • 76 52 Tiong Bahru's vice-president Jimmy Phua said: "We don't have any main sponsor. Our funds come mostly from well-wishers and A-sign advertisers. "Our two Chinese players will cost us about $65,000. But because our club is being reorganised, we may have to work out a bigger budget." EFFECTS:
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    • 42 53 It's not easy to go through life physically handicapped. It's even tougher, if that life is a sporting one. Rajeev Bagga, the Indian badminton player, knows all about it. Being born deaf hasn't prevented him from becoming a national champion.
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    • 590 53 FACTFILE Name: Rajeev Bagga Age: 26 Height: 1.85 m Plays: Right-handed Handicap: Deaf (Born in Calcutta on Apnl 6, 1967, to a family with normal faculties. His elder brother and sister have full use of their senses) Favourite player: Yang Yang
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    • 154 54 I i CONGRATULATIONS TO TECK GHEE COMMUNITY CENTRE ON THE BUILDING EXTENSION 1 OPENING BY BG LEE HSIEN LOONG, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MP FOR ANG MO KIO GRC. I Whenever you want to exercise Your m i nd, we'll provide the software. i mm 1 I ,|p fHKk g
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      237 55  -  FAR NORTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES 1 SINGAPORE 5 S Gulam FREE-KICKS around the opponents' box should be one of Singapore's weapons in this year's Malaysian Premier League. At least, if the third goal the Lions scored against Far Northern New South Wales last night is any indication. It was
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      469 56  -  FAR NORTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES 1 SINGAPORE 5 S Gulam SINGAPORE was hit by unhappiness at the Coffs Harbour soccer ground last night. It went like this: Ken Worden fielded 11 reserves. He was hopeful, maybe even confident, they would hold their own against the bigger but ordinary opponents.
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    • 422 56 KEN Worden defended his decision to change nearly the entire team in the second half last night. "If I've to do it all over again, I'll do the same. I've no regrets. I've no apologies," said the coach. Worden's move to replace his reserves with his
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