The New Paper, 23 April 1994

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1 71 The New Paper
  • 20 1 the new paper weekend edition I SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1994 MITA (P) 035/04/93 SO CENTS the 4/ new 1 paper
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    • 40 1 This is absurd! Minister Wong Kan Seng tells why Singapore must tackle crime its own way. 'It's absurd that societies so stricken with crime should attempt to apply their standards to us and teach us what to do.' /Page 13
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  • 210 1 loss to Pahang, soccer captain Fandi Ahmad S3VS" "We plsyed very badly. Very sloppily. We Soccer writer Jeff Low says: "From a fabulous blatant disrespect for the Kaiiang faithful." ''m flfl Q mm T r^n J j* I n H |E*PT,i
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 311 2 Palestinian rivals agree to work together Wire services. TWO main Palestinian groups have agreed to stop killing each other in the Israeli-occu-pied Gaza Strip. Fatah and Hamas also pledged, for the first time, to work together. However, the agreement, signed secretly earlier this week, did
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    • 118 2 So long as Hamas remains committed to terrorism, Israelis are not going to be thrilled at any deal. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres even warned that Israel would stop talking to the PLO if Mr Arafat's men became too friendly with Hamas. Israel's concern stems from the worry that
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    • 123 2 The Fatah-Hamas accord, especially if it leads to more deals, will be a boost to Palestinian unity. The Palestinians' struggle to find a homeland has long been hampered by differences among themselves. Fatah and the PLO are willing to live as Israel's neighbour. But Hamas, which aims
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    • 162 2 Reuter. SOUTH Africa's white and black leaders stage their final campaign blitz this weekend to woo millions of voters in historic democratic elections starting on Thursday. Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi yesterday raised prospects of new tension with Mr Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC),
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • Should US and China fall out...
      • 168 4 A break in ties between the US and China can have severe long-term consequences, warned Prime Minister Goh Chock Tong in an interview with the Financial Times in London. HOT STORY PRIME Minister Goh Chock Tong warned that a break in China -US relations
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      • 54 4 Singapore will continue to invest in China even if there is a break in ties between Washington and Beijing. "China will need even more investments from Singapore because there will be fewer from the States. The market will be open to those who trade
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      • 69 4 The Straits Times: Big changes to civil service Business Times: Wing Tai bids for control of Veo Hiap Seng Lianhe Zaobao: Personnel management of civil, service to be decentralised Berita Harian: Big changes to civil service SBC morning news: PM Goh announces strategic shift in the personnel management in
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      • 24 4 THE Dow Jones industrial average was off 3.86 points to end at 3.648.68, and it was down 12.79 points for the week.
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    • CATCH OF THE DAY
      • 83 4 POLICE arrested a group of people suspected of betting on football matches on Thursday. The group had received bets on matches in England and the Malaysian Premier League, including last night's match between Singapore and Pahang. A police spokesman said yesterday the 12 were caught at
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      • 85 4 MOTORISTS who have not paid their fines in -Johor are being turned back at the causeway. The .lohor Baru Municipal Council has begun surprise checks to make motorists, which include more than 28,(MM) Singaporeans, pay up parking fines owed since 1989. Both Malaysian and Singapore
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      • 81 4 CERTIFICATES of Entitlement (COEs) for motorcycles bought at $1, $5 and $21 over the past three months are now selling between $450 and $1,500. Speculation was not seen in motorcycle COEs for the past two years, when they cost only $1. They now officially cost $500. But the
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      • 91 4 SOUTH Korea's Prime Minister Lee Hoi Chang resigned yesterday. The shock resignation revealed an unexpected rift in the leadership of South Korea's civilian government. Mr Lee caused a political stir on Thursday when he issued an angry directive that he must first personally approve all policy
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      • 74 4 THAILAND plans to build highways connecting Malaysia's North-South Expressway to the newly opened Friendship Bridge that links Thailand and Laos. This will make it possible to travel by road from Singapore to Cambodia. Malaysian Foreign Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said that Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai mentioned
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      • 75 4 DATUK Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has warned Umno Youth to beware certain people who wished to split up the party. The Malaysian Prime Minister said they did this by spreading rumours. He said the rumours had spread so widely that the foreign media is suggesting "there is bickering
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    • 98 4 LKY always tells you what he thinks. What is interesting and new is his warning of 'reform fatigue'. Lee has made a constructive contribution to our national debate on reform. The Australian's foreign editor, Mr Greg Sheridan. The decline from the rule of law in
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    • 61 4 Sentimental Melodies With You I Am Born Again If Stand By Me Daddy's Home Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart My Way Eternal Flame Do That To Me One More Time Blue Eyes You Are My World How Deep Is Your Love I Am I Said When Will I See
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • 468 5  -  By Carol Leong THE Singapore River is irresistible to diners although she's no beauty, being dull brown and sometimes, smelly. Still, at Boat Quay, diners wait up to half an hour for a table by the river even when tables inside air-conditioned restaurants are available.
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    • 103 5 ONE outdoor diner is Ms Surene Tan, a hotel sales manager who has stretched dinner for four hours. She comes to Boat Quay twice a month for the atmosphere. "I always ask for an outside table. It's so relaxing, I feel I'm on holiday and the mix of people is
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    • 249 5 THE GOOD MS Shakuntala Prasadh, a public relations officer: "On a clear night, when the sky is sprinkled with stars and there's a moon, it's lovely to dine outside." Ms Daisy Leong, a tax senior in a public accounting firm, dines at Boat Quay twice weekly, outside: "Sitting
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 58 6 The CPF Board will raise the minimum sum from $35,400 now to $40,000 on July 1 next year. After that, the sum will be increased by $5,000 a year until it reaches $80,000 in July 2003 half of it in cash. This is to ensure that CPF members
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    • 128 6 MTHY: Younger members are concerned that they may not have any CPF savings left to service their housing loans after they set aside the cash portion. REALITY: CPF members need set aside the minimum sum only when they reach age 55. Those under 55 can continue to
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    • 138 6 TherejireJ>ome myths about changes in the CPF minimum sum scheme that are causing needless worry, says Labour Minister Dr Lee Boon Yang. THE CPF Board is reviewing the Dependants' Protection Scheme. This insurance scheme currently provides the family with financial protection if the insured member dies
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 924 9 A failed marriage led security guard Budiman Hassan to kill a Thai prostitute. When Budiman found out that his wife Madam Rupiah Silang, actually had four grown-up children and had an operation to prevent pregnancy, he became depressed. So depressed that he turned to drugs, alcohol,
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    • 253 10 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE A QUARREL over another round of sex led to Miss Sonthava Prakongjitt's death. Budiman Hassan had paid the prostitute $100 and had wanted to have sex with her at his guard post. But the woman refused, saying it was too small.
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    • 71 10 "THE circumstances in your case are that you had no hostility towards the deceased. I accept your intention was to keep her quiet. "Taking into account your state of mind at the time of the accident, the length of time of the strangulation and the manner of the
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    • 36 10 BUDIMAN was sentenced to six years' jail after Judicial Commissioner Kan Ting Chiu found him not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. On Monday, the Court of Appeal increased his sentence to nine vears.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 270 12  -  THE VANDNISM ISSUE By Michelle Ang VICTIMS and relatives of vandals and government officials involved in the Michael Fay and Shiu Chi Ho cases are on the most wanted list of foreign news teams. But these targets are unlikely to get rich from giving interviews.
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    • 204 12 INTERVIEWS with Government officials are not easy to come by, Ms Ressa said. She said: "The Government speaks with one voice, and that takes time for them to co-ordinate. I wish I had more time." Ms Mary Claude Foster, a producer with ABC's Primetime Live, said she
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    • 147 12 A Current Affair reportedly paid US$500,000 ($800,000) to interview Joey Buttafuoco who had an affair with 16-year-old Amy Fisher and his wife, who was shot by the teenager. But insiders say such figures are exaggerated. American Journal paid Mr John Bohhitt. whose penis was severed by
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    • 654 13 HOME Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng has put up a stout defence of Singapore's approach to fighting crime. It is one which ranges from fair and impartial enforcement to tough and no-holds-barred punishment. In bringing this out into the open, Mr Wong also raises some pertinent
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    • 511 14  -  THE VANDALISM ISSUE Comment/I Ken Jalleh Jr A WORD made pertinent by the Michael Kay media frenzy was uttered among writers attending a course for columnists recently. Pontificate, said the columnist to the class. do forth and pontificate, she said, in closing. 1 do so
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    • 260 15  -  THE VANDALISM ISSUE By Seow Su Kian THE caning demonstration was to warn. And it achieved this effect. A group of wayward youths taken to visit Changi prison in June 1992 were shaken. Now this two-year-old picture is being used by the foreign
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    • 478 16 A major theme in the three-day NTUC triennial delegates' conference is: We need more women union leaders* IRENE NG speaks to Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, a long-time union leader. How did she become ong? IT all started with this funny thing called enthusiasm. All Mrs Yu-Foo
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    • 97 16 MRS Yu-Foo Yee Shoon wears many hats: MP for Yuhua. Feedback Unit panel member. GPC chairman for Community Development, to name just a few. A mother of three, aged 17, 15 and 10, Mrs Yu-Foo tries to make it home for dinner, no matter how busy.
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    • 171 16 Minister-without-Portfolio and NTUC secretary-general Lim Boon Heng said the number of women unionists should be doubled within the next few years. He added that while it was acceptable that women participated less than men in union work as they already did a larger share of housework and gave
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    • 18 13 HIGH STAKES Don't get shortchanged, go for a coverage you can bank on. Financial News. Everyday. RiisinessTimes 1
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    • 207 16 r Designers 9 Luncheon Secretaries' Week Celebrations (25 30 April 1994) L Your secretary deserves nothing but the best. Reward g 0 her hard work with a scrumptious BUFFET complimented with a glass of Evian water. f\ At the same time, watch svelte models II m M I 1 I
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 194 18 Personnel boards: A "hierarchy of personnel boards" will be created to allow ministries greater flexibility in staff recruitment and promotion. This will make the Govern- ment's personnel management system more responsive to J talent. A constitutional amendment will pass down
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    • 317 18  -  By Ovidia Lim UNDERSTATED and press-shy. The qualities of the stereotypical civil ser j> vant also aptly describe last night's gathering of top civil servants. The occasion: The Administrative Service Dinner. Familiar faces at the Royal Pavilion Ballroom at The Regent Singapore included Economic Development
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 258 21 Wire services. NATO has issued yet another ultimatum to Bosnian Serbs: Stop fighting immediately or face air strikes. Nato Secretary-General Manfred Woerner said the Bosnian Serbs would also face bombing raids if they do not withdraw their forces three kilometres from the centre of the
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    • 195 22 Reuter. RUSSIAN President Boris Yeltsin wants to kiss and make up with his political enemies. He made two compromise moves yesterday: (Iranting television time to political toes. Mr Yeltsin said this would enable his political opponents to express their views on a new pact which he
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    • 69 22 PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin, the Government, many powerful regions, and most trade unions have already said they would sign the accord on political stability. The pact, set for signing on April 28, obliges signato- ries not to seek major constitutional changes "which could destabilise society". "Each side will
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    • 80 22 Reuter. A SCOTTISH bank robber was caught because he was too law-abiding, a court heard yesterday. Mr Derek McFadden, 30, held up a small bank in Giffnock, near Glasgow, at gunpoint in February and sped off in his getaway car with £2,475 ($3,687). De- spite being pursued by
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    • 324 23 HILLARY CLINTON ON HER FINANCIAL DEALINGS: Wire services. IN a bid to end all doubts about her integrity, US First Lady Hillary Clinton did something she had long disdained: Talk to the press about her private affairs. The President's wife
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    • 325 24 A strange thing is happening in the United States. Just when the economy is doing fine, when fewer people are jobless and share prices are bullish, along comes Mr Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. He let fly three arrows, on Feb
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    • 467 24 MR Alan Greenspan and his Federal Reserve Board (the US central bank) are raising interest rates even though inflation is under control an almost unheard-of strategy. But they're not crazy, leading US economists told USA Today. The Fed is just trying to nudge short-term
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    • 33 24 The Fed is likely to raise its rates further this year. The next increase, probably to 4 per cent, is likely to be around the next board meeting on May 17.
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    • 311 25 Wire services. A GERMAN extortionist who used ideas from Walt Disney cartoons to outwit and ridicule police was captured in Berlin yesterday. "Dagobert" the German name for the Uncle Scrooge character began his crime spree in 1992. He set off fires in several department stores and demanded
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    • 544 26  -  Last night, the tearjerker, That's Life, My Darling, took six Hongkong Film Awards. ANDY KWAN reports on the prizes and surprises of the ceremony at the Hongkong Cultural Centre. ANDY KWAN IN HONGKONG THAT'S Life, My Darling The big loser at the Golden Horse awards
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    • 155 26 Best Film: That's Life, My Darling Best Director: Derek Yee (That's Life, My Darling) Best Actor: Anthony Wong Chau Sang (The Untold Story) Best Actress: Anita Yuen (That's Life My Darling) Best Supporting Actor: Paul Chun Pui (That's Life, My Darling) Best Supporting Actress: Fung Bo
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    • 247 27 FROM PREVIOUS PAGE TWENTY-ONE years after his death, gongfu legend Bruce Lee received an honorary award for his contribution to the Chinese film industry. His American widow, Ms Linda Lee Cadwell, and their daughter, Ms Shannon Lee, flew in from the US for the presentation
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    • 166 21 CELEBRATE SECRETARIES WEEK AT THE HILTON APRIL 25 29 pigz OYSTER'BAR IW4 E iceitence n Service Award Take your secret a ry to the Harbour CiriU, fur a celebratory lunch to mark Secretaries Week. Pamper her with the likes of Thinly Sliced Abalone with Paarl Rock (Hive Oil, Nambucca Oysters,
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    • 160 22 Heineken x n22 a AT THE HARBOUR m For the first time euer I in Singapore, a Jazz L /"'*o£;jZ, S 'y concert featuring Acoustic Alchemy, F Daue Koz, Spyro Gyra. i IVINT MANAGfMfNT CONSUtANIS |T7II IQUIIR RICQROS Stay tuned to Tony Orchez's Quiet Storm 98.5FM for more details. Tickets
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    • 49 22 "Save the Earth" Contest Learn how to convert newspapers into decorative useful items for home For details, hurry down to Junction 8 Atrium (level 2) on 23 April 1994. Time Contest 1 11 JO pm IJO pm Contest 2JOpm-4 JO pm Contest sJOpm-7 JO pm Ha Jmk E EVERGREEN
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    • 202 23 The search is on Singapore's World Cup ambassador! Yes, dribble your way to the 1994 Subbuteo World Cup Championship in Chicago. Pit your skills against other soccer fans in the world's greatest table soccer game SUBBUTEO! The National Subbuteo Championship you could be on the next flight to U S
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    • 160 27 yreat .57 9HH From April 23-30, eveiy $50 you spend on a single receipt To claim these gifts, all you have to do is present your at any shop or restaurant at Clarke Quay entitles you to choose receipt at the information booth. Since this offer is only valid >._
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  • weekender
    • 928 30  -  DEDICATED SERVICE: Matron Sim Soh Chu, 54, looks after 100-year-old Madam Lee Seong Hoe. She talks about what she has learnt from caring for the elderly COVER STORY REPORTS BY TRUDY LIM MATRON Sim Soh Chu is an active and exuberant
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    • 893 31 RAPIDLY AGEING: The last census in 1990 said there were 71 people who were at least 100. Madam Lee Seong Hoe joined the growing club of 100-year-olds on Nov 28, last year THE New Paper contacted various associations, I social workers and homes for the* aged
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    • 217 32 PASSAGES OF LIFE: Everything looks blurred and you have to turn the radio volume higher to listen to the news. You have difficulty bending your knees while walking and it even hurts when you use a pair of chopsticks. Is age catching up? We show you
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    • COVER STORY
      • 253 34 LEE SOOK HAN asks eight people, aged eight to 81, for their views on longevity Yes, because I don't want to die just like that. I want to see my grandchildren before I die. I want to live to be 150 so that
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      • 284 34 FUTURE INDICATIVE: What will being aged be like in the next century? A specialist in geriatric medicine gives his opinion INFECTION and illness will no longer be the main health problems facing the elderly in the 21st century. Instead, the elderly will have to battle the deterioration
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      • 109 34 BY the year 2030, one in four Singaporeans will be more than 60 years old. Most will be widows, as women will outlive men by about five years. Each aged person will be supported by 2.2 working people. Today, eight working people support each elderly
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      • 271 35 LONG LIFE: So you want to live to be 100? It is never too early to start preparing. To make sure your body will last that long, here are some tips from Dr Sylvester Yong, a physician in geriatric medicine, and retired nursing
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      • 258 35 DIET NO, this is not about special cancer-fighting foods. Instead, the key words are "balanced diet". Eat plenty of vegetables and fruit. Fat should make up less than 30 per cent of your calorie intake. Everybody is different and so has different needs. It is all
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  • SPOTLIGHT
    • Article, Illustration
      109 36 ATOPIC dermatitis, as the name suggests, is a skin disease. The skin is inflamed and develops rash. This particular variety is called atopic because that's Greek for strange. Even now medical researchers are not sure what causes it. But mites tiny parasites that breed in food and carry
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      580 36 DO you break out in a red rash which ties your face, elbows or the back of >«rtir knees? Is it extremely itchy? The best remedy then may be a week of sun, sand and sea, say sortie Japanese doctors in a report in the Pacific Friend magazine.
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    • Article, Illustration
      48 36 THE Singapore National Skin Centre said it is not aware of the Japanese treatment. Here patients are treated with pills and ointments. Last year, the Centre treated 2,983 new cases of atopic dermatitis. (See graphic at right.) There are no figures available for all of Singapore.
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  • weekender
    • 233 37 telescope the world in review the issue INDONESIAN workers took their demands for better pay to the streets of Medan. They wanted minimum wages to be doubled to 7,000 rupiah (about $5). The protests later took an anti-Chinese bias as many big businesses are owned by ethnic
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    • 409 37  -  QUOTE OF THE WEEK It may be immoral but (it's) not illegal. The bottom line is money.' Teit by Ambiga Mayandi Raju Sovtk Africa: The first all-race election, to end 300 j years of white rule, to go on as scheduled from April 26
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    • SCENE & HEARD
      • 530 39 LOVE CONNECTION: Last June, pop singer Mariah Carey, 23, married her boss, Sony Music president Thomas Mottola, 43. Now Celine Dion, 25, is set to marry her manager, Rene Angelil, 52. Dion first met him when she was 12. He was 39 at the time CELINE
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      • 482 40 ICE MAIDEN: Bad attitude, arrogance and grunge outfits that's Faye Wong for you. MAUREEN KOH corners the pop singer for a chat SHE cut an unfriendly figure when she was in Singapore recently. Her answers came short and curt. Fellow stars Vivian Lai, Winnie Lau, Karen
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    • 489 41  -  MYWORD By Tang Wai Yin IT'S amazing how one's memories get coloured through the years. I discovered mine were dyed beyond recognition last week someone hud painted graffiti all over them. I made the discovery walking up Ann Siang Hill in Chinatown for the first time
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  • 585 58  -  JWitrJ/RACING PREVIEW/ By The Three Musketeers SHADOWFAX VI has been touted all over town as an extra good thing in Race Nine at Bukit Timah today and the jockey-trainer combination of Kim Clapperton and Teh Choon Beng looks set for another victory. The three-year-old Star
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    • 372 59  -  NICOLE ARENDT (US) bt TESSA PRICE (SA) 6-3, 7-6 By Bernard Pereira American tennis pro Nicole Arendt isn't going to forget Singapore in a hurry. After all, after three years on the Women's Tennis Association Tour, she's reaped one of her best results in the Republic. And,
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    • 226 59 ANDREI MEDVEDEV(UKR) bt JIM COURIER (US) 6-7, 7-5, 7-6 AP UKRAINIAN teenager Andrei Medvedev needed three sets and two tiebreaks to upset former world No 1 Jim Courier in a breathtaking quarter-final at the Monte Carlo Open yesterday. Third seed Courier, displaying his battling baseline game of
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    • 206 59 Wire services Results of yesterday's international sports: GOLF Catalonia Open in Spain second rd (British unless stated): 135 Jean Louis Guepy (Fra) 67, 68; 137 Rolf Muntz (Hoi) 72, 65, Wayne Riley (Aust) 68, 69; 139 Frank Nobilo (NZ) 71, 68, Retief Goosen (SA) 74, 65, Jose Coceres (Arg)
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    • 122 60 I MEET (ydhtcUti'PcUidx, FORAN ATTRACTIVE MasterCard MEMENTO! Come and meet Singapore's favourite son, Fandi Ahmad, today (23 April 1994) at Centrepoint Ist Floor Atrium, Orchard Road from 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm. Be among the first 1,000 persons at the Atrium with this advertisement and get an attractive memento. Hurry!
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  • SPORTS
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      304 61 DID YOU KNOW... s'AWEWY v Fasten your seatbelts, folks. Soccer's biggest show kicks off on June 17. And, The New Paper starts the World Cup countdown next week. By the beginning of June, our reporter S GULAM will be in the US to bring you on-the-spot reports...
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    • 667 62 FROM BACK PAGE WEDNESDAY BLACKBURN WEST HAM THE Hammers had nothing to play for except pride. But play they did. Matt Holmes opened the scoring with a diving header. And Lee Chapman scored with a miss-hit shot (well aren't they all?). Blackburn rallied with an Alan Shearer overhead
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    • 354 62 MAY 8 MAN U COVENTRY BLACKBURN Ipswich FINAL STANDINGS BLACKBURN 85pts MAN U 84 THE day dawned chilly for late spring. Alex Ferguson was also chilly, having been remanded in custody on assault charges and only just been released from jail. (Ferguson had strong words to say
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    • 212 62 As the referee got hack to the Old Trafford dressing room, he looked at his watch and realised that it had stopped 10 minutes previously. The same thing had happened with the linesmen's watches. Was Uri Geller, like everyone who doesn't live in Manchester, a United
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    • 173 63 THE CHARGES Marseille was accused of bribing First Division rival Valenciennes to throw their French League match on May 20 last year. Jean-Jacques Eydelie of Marseille handed over 250.000 francs ($70,000) to the wife of Valenciennes player Christophe Robert after asking Robert, and two other Valenciennes players. Jorge
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      99 63 Marseille will be demoted to the French second division next year. The club was already stripped of the French championship it won last year. It was also barred, by European soccer's governing body Uefa, from defending the European Cup it won last year. But Marseille will
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    • 59 63 Marseille president Bernard Tapie will be banned from French soccer. He will have his director's licence withdrawn and will not be given a licence for future activity in French soccer. Former Marseille general secretary Jean-Pierre Bernes has been banned for life from football. Tapie: Flamboyant businessman, member
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    • 181 63 Wire services. THE CONSEQUENTS The demotion threatens Marseille with financial disaster from reduced value in lucrative television rights. The loss of expected television revenues will forced the club to sell some of its top talent. Basile Boli, scorer of the winning goal last May when Marseille
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  • 338 65 MHIA6UE DOUGLAS MOORE, Coach: "PRESSURE? There was no pressure at all before the match. We were confident of winning. But now there's tremendous pressure on the team for playing like that. Now we've got to get a result. We didn't play our normal game. We allowed
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  • SINGAPORE 1 PAHANG 3 (Abbas Saad, 8th min; Zainal Abidin 26th, Dollah Salleh, penalty, 28th, Abduraimov Azamat, 70th) 1994 M-LEAGUE
    • 158 67 Sport is all about winning and losing. Pahang won its match convincingly last night. But did Singapore lose the same match courageously? No, it virtually gifted the match to its opponent by refusing to play spirited football. What went wrong with the Lions who had roared
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    • 307 68  -  Stories/ Ganesh Rajaram ALAN Davidson, who suffered the ignominy of being red-carded against Singapore last year, had a point to prove last night. And, boy, did he do it. Last night, Pahang's 32-year-old Australian sweeper was just superb. Just like he did last year, Davidson marshalled
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    • 181 68 LAST night was Abduraimov Azamat's first visit to the National Stadium. And Pahang's Uzbekistan import is already in love with the venue. The 27-year-old striker said: "It's very beautiful. "Very big and the pitch is in very good condition. So far it's the best
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    • 652 69  -  JEFFREY LOW UTTER, blatant disrespect for your own home crowd is a sin in soccer, a cardinal sin that needs a lot of forgiving if we hope to see Singapore rise from the ashes of last night's humiliation. How on earth could the Lions show so
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      339 70  -  We played very badly, very sloppily. We didn't deserve to win the match. Fandi Stories/ Ganesh Rajaram SKIPPER Fandi Ahmad was an angry and disappointed man after yesterday's 3-1 loss to Pahang. Said Fandi: "We played very badly, very sloppily. We didn't deserve to win the match. I
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    • 289 70 ZAINAL Abidin has a wish: That the National Stadium be Pahang's homeground. And who can blame the 32-year-old striker? Every time he plays at this stadium, he does well. Last night was no exception. Like he did in 1991 and 1992, Zainal found the net last night
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  • 383 71 Manchester United or Blackburn Rovers. Who will be the champion? It's going to be a fight to the finish. But CHRIS MATYSZCZYK has an inside line: his aunt Catherine is one of Birmingham's most celebrated gypsies. She got it right last year, predicting Manchester United's first crown for
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