The New Paper, 9 August 1997
1997-08-09
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Article, Illustration553 1997-08-09 2 Rachel Tan - Look around you... See those people with paint brushes? They're here to doll you up. One of them, Angie Soon, can transform you with her 'wand' NDP 97 By Rachel Tan PAGING Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong... Ms Angie Soon would like to paint you. No, not aPicture/ Jonathan Choo - 553 words
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Advertisement117 1997-08-09 2 ageing TV stars tor the camera, painting on "The first time I turned myself into a witch at she made an exception for our photographer. Up The New Paper-Nippon Paint NDP Contest DONT be shy. Splash on the colours! M da^^.^Zs^tC re for and )XV TL| Ten easy questions. vaiIable117 words
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Advertisement13 1997-08-09 2 CMGJIPBNE The different shade* that makeup Singapore Population: 3 million Males: 503* Female®:13 words
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Advertisement42 1997-08-09 3 I""""": s—n5 —n 'J JH| -.tit i''#'-jj^^^^|Bffifer* '^(PrftOTHP^ s I^v*t4'// V > »'V-fWffi-4 >*4'f| IKilll --/<■. jgr. jlSraEiHßßvßHflH^^^^lF" .A ,v |>. I X. Co^jMm Ui 11,., 1 P I^H V V r T V >: v C'7*'^'v 1, We colour your world while protecting the environment.42 words
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Article, Illustration396 1997-08-09 4 Lenny Mak, together with some 560 cheerleaders, has the awesome task of teaching all you folks how to dance and cheer. Can he get you to groove? He tries to prove it to SETO NU-WEN RESUME: Mamo: Lenny Mak Occupation: Pre-U 1 student at Temasek Junior CollegePicture/ Kenneth Koh - 396 words
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Article, Illustration101 1997-08-09 4 YOU can't miss the dazzling pompoms, bright skirts and loud, loud voices. The cheerleaders who represent all 14 junior colleges will swarm all around you to get you into the groove with them. Just follow the leader in front of you. Or catch them on stage. Better yet,101 words
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Article, Illustration434 1997-08-09 6 Rachel Tan - Second Warrant officer Selvam SK drops into the stadium today from Ikm above with 10 paraiumpers By Rachel Tan GUNG-ho commando Selvam SK is happy to jump out of a plane 1 km in the air. But he used to be scared of heights. "As a kid, I'd getPicture/ Kenneth Koh - 434 words
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Article, Illustration218 1997-08-09 6 T do you Jump from? At least 4,000 feet (1,216 m). Anything less and if 11 be crazy. But if we axe free-falling with acrobatics, we go to about 12,000 feet. How fast do you foil? OK faster than a speeding bullet Well, our top speed218 words
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Article, Illustration466 1997-08-09 7 Shermaine Wong - Nurse Selina Seah, 29, from the Ministry of Health, and 31 other Singaporeans take centrestage as they lead the nation in taking the pledge today By Shermaine Wong WHEN Selina Seah was a pink-cheeked girl clad in a neat dark-blue pinafore, morning assembly sessions at her school basketballPicture/ Kenneth Koh - 466 words
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Article, Illustration144 1997-08-09 7 Seto Nu-wen - bv; Seto Nu-wen minister and journalist, on the pledge he wrote 31 years ago: A —mrch: The Pledge was about a search for real ideals. Singaporeans must not lapse into a state of moneytheism or the love of money. The Pledge and the ideals it embodies are144 words
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Article, Illustration430 1997-08-09 9 Rachel Tan - Mr Md Musah shoots. With camera. And gun. The lance-corporal with the artillery unit mans one of six ceremonial 25-pound guns which will be fired as President Ong Teng Cheong inspects the guard of honour contingent By Rachel Tan ONCE he sets his crosshairs on targetPicture/ Sam Yeo - 430 words
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Article92 1997-08-09 9 How mmny gun* for whom? 21: Royalty and Heads of state 19: Prime Ministers 19: Ambassadors 7: Consuls Whmndldthmfonnml*mlutm begin? The 14th century, in Britain. To honour or express joy. The emptying of guns was seen as a friendly gesture as guns in those days could not92 words
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Article, Illustration478 1997-08-09 11 LTC Ishak Ismail, 34, a senior directing staff at the SAF Advanced School, has been in the army for 16 years. He conducts courses for officers at advanced levels HE will be decked out in all his finery today or what most guys here know as the No 1Pictures/ Kenneth Koh and Sam Yeo; Used by permission/ PIONEER MAGAZINE - 478 words
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Article, Illustration120 1997-08-09 11 help you keep track of Parade Commander LTC Ishak's commands, shouted in Malay, we explain the simpler ones: Attention. Legs together, hands clenched at the side. Smnmng dirt: At ease. The 'rest 7 position on parade. Legs slightly apart, arms behind, rignt palm resting on left. Kmkmnan120 words
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Article, Illustration341 1997-08-09 13 Watch the story of Singapore past, present and future in a 50-minute musical fantasy as seen through the eyes of a little girl WATCH out for the dizzying display of lights, music and action. Youll get into a breathless tizzy trying to catch up with the animation video341 words
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Article, Illustration235 1997-08-09 13 THE Merlion took shape in April 1964, when the then Tourist Promotion Board adopted it as a logo for their promotional materials. Its creator was the late Mr Kwan Sai Kheong, an avid inventor and later Singapore's embassador to the Philippines (He died in November 1981). WhythoPictures/ Kenneth Koh - 235 words
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Article, Illustration414 1997-08-09 15 Wong Sher Maine - Mr Ho Hoi Leot and more than 1,000 light dancers will turn the National Stadium into a brilliant multi-hued jewel winking in the night By Wong Sher Maine Tonight, the stadium lights and the light of many homes will come on at the flick of a switch.414 words
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Article, Illustration388 1997-08-09 16 Wong Sher Maine - JJit* 5 v*i .--A >; 'r Uk'-.AU'' .frilfc, r* v W Wong Sher Maine /T 'ZXZXSZ time, IH just go to the pond or the sea, set up my stuff and sit ani wait, Sometimes I go alone, sometimes I go with friends. But I like it because388 words
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Article, Illustration98 1997-08-09 16 RACHEL TAN THIS oversized orchid needs your help getting down to the field. You re needed to help bounce... yes, bounce... it down from the rim of tne stadium to the centre of the field. The giant plastic flowers, in the familiar mauve of our national flower, theRACHEL TAN; Picture/ Alvin Toh - 98 words
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Article, Illustration340 1997-08-09 18 Rachel Tan - Second warrant officer Lee Lip Seng. 39. sets off 10-storey-high fireworks, but he lets on that it is his young daughter, Cheryl, who is the biggest spark in his life BY Rachel Tan CHERYL Lee, 12, is her daddy's biggest fan. Simply because he makes the biggest bang340 words
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Article, Illustration87 1997-08-09 18 THE Spanish fireworks tonight will set the night glowing for three minutes with flashing daisies, flickering palm trees, curtains of crescents and stars. How they are made is a secret. What we know is cookie cutter frames are packed with chemicals andjam-packed into some explosive material for blasting.87 words
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Article, Illustration366 1997-08-09 20 Seto Nu-wen - This pint-sized girt with a big voice stood out from several thousand children from the Yamaha Music "School. That Is why she is leading the 50-strnnp choir of kids in the finale. She even stars in the animated cartoon show on the iumbotrons. By: Seto Nu-wen ASK her366 words
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Article196 1997-08-09 20 1 will build swimming pools in the road dividers. So that everyone can have a swimming pool Just across the road, and also because the weather in Singapore Is very hot I will build overhead bridges for people who want to gettothe other side." Sebastian196 words
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Article, Illustration355 1997-08-09 21 Seto Nu-wen - Wheelchair-bound, 29-year-old Elizabeth Tan cannot climb stairs, but her song, Parcels Of Dreams, will soar high above the stadium today By Seto Nu-wen f REAMS come true when you" I 1 least expect them to. That's mS what happened to me. I wrote my song afterPicture/ Kenneht Koh - 355 words
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Article101 1997-08-09 21 THE Community Chest received $31.14 million last year. In all, 154,168 people from 50 charities gained from the donations. The money goes to children and youth, the elderly, the disabled, health, community and family services. Your dollar gives them: 1. Food and laundry services for old folk101 words
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Article, Illustration170 1997-08-09 21 HERE'S howyou can win a trip for two to Tokyo Disneyland or $100 Ikea Nippon Paint vouchers. Just read the 10 statements below and circle true or false in the coupon. The answers can be found in this Parade supplement. Conditions or entry are listed in the advertisement on170 words
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Advertisement201 1997-08-09 22 nr.! I Now Nippon the questions on the opposite page Department, 1 First Lok Yang, and no correspondance will be chance to experiAe fthe magical correctly and mail them in. Stagfcore *****3. entertained. world of Disney. This magnificent- cross your fingers. Because if AU entries must be submitted by 5.201 words
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