Singapore Monitor, 2 April 1985

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  • 12 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 21/5/84 Tuesday, April 2, 1985 30cents
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  • 952 1 Fares causing people to change lifestyles at least temporarily By YONQ ROW ANG BARELY a dav'after their introduction, the new taxi fares appear to be changing thfe lifestyles of many Singaporeans at least temporarily. Reluctant
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  • 199 1 Reuter WAVRE (Belgium), Tuesday FORMER Dominican sister Jeanine Deckers, who made headlines in the Sixties as the "Singing Nun," was found dead at her home here yesterday. Police said she had committed suicide. Deckers, 52, came up with a string of hits in the Sixties, the
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    • 284 2  -  NTUC DELEGATES CONFERENCE Reports by GANDHI AMBALAM A VETERAN trade unionist, Mr George Chua, who was planning to give up his union activities after 22 years, has now been persuaded to stay on and is tipped to become the new president of the
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    • 195 2 THE POST of chairman of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has been abolished Delegates attending the conference yesterday gave their apfiroval for the aboliion of the post Also abolished are the three deputy chair- men posts Three new posts of vice-president will
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    • 372 2 UPPERMOST in the minds of the 291 delegates attending the first day of the National Trades Union Congress Delegates Conference yesterday was how to arrest the decline In union membership. Between the closed sessions at the Singapore Conference Hall, a number of union
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    • 125 2 AN EXCEPTION to the declining membership rule is the Housing and Development Board Daily-Rated Employees Union, which boasts a 98 per cent membership. Its general secretary, Mr K Durai, said: "Our union does not have this problem. "Membership has remained at 5,000, or 98 per cent, for
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    • 287 2 DOES THE success of NTUC Income have anything to do with the decline in union membership? This was one of the questions raised by some of the delegates attending the closed session of the NTUC Triennial Delegates Conference at the Singapore Conference Hall. According to them,
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    • 69 2 IN A caption for a photograph on Page 4 last Saturday, The Singapore Monitor wrongly referred to Mr S Dhanabalan as the Whip for the People's Action Party. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Community Development is, in fact, the Leader of the House. The Whip is
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    • 334 3  -  At least two Malaysian papers fall for agency's April joke By CATHARINE FERNANDO IS SINGAPORE sinking? This was the poser set by Agence France-Presse (AFP) which got Malaysians excited and Singaporeans angry yesterday. A few Malaysian newspapers picked up the agency's April Fool story that the island's southern
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    • 399 3  -  By IRENE TOM PEOPLE are still calling Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), asking how they could donate to the Community Chest, and have been doing so since the live ring-a-donation show last Saturday. Mrs Beewan Ditzig, Deputy Director of the SBC, said yesterday:
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    • 325 4 SOME taxi-drivers went shopping at the shopping plazas yester&ut they were not looking for bargains they were looking for the vanishing commuter as the new taxi fares came into effect yesterday. Queues of more than 12 taxis were a common sight at popular shopping centres such
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    • 459 4  - Orchard Rd cabbies' dream turned nightmare By CHEE LI CHOO THE STREETS of Singapore were flooded with lights of a different kind last night turquoise lights on taxi rooftops, signifying empty taxis. A drive through Alexandra Road, River Valley Road, Paterson Road, Orchard, Victoria Street, Lavender Street, Jalan Besar, Bras
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    • 452 5  -  By ROBERT CONCEICAO TRAFFIC Police have assured the 21,000 learnerriders (L-riders) holding provisional riding licences that they will all be tested by Oct 1 at the various test centres. From then on, learner-riders will not be permitted on the roads.
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    • 80 5 A SLANDER suit filed in the High Court by a sports goods dealer against a High Street sports goods wholesaler was discontinued on March 9 this year. Mr Palaiyan Gnasekaran, who owns a chain of four sports goods shops, has withdrawn his suit against
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    • 529 6  -  Residents fed up with problems at their condo By OEI SIN GIOK RESIDENTS of a condominium in Cairnhill Road are getting hot air in their bedrooms when they switch on their air-conditioner in the living room. This is one of the
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    • 459 6  -  By JOSEPH LEE SEVERAL record retailers are cashing in on the popularity of the song We Are the World, made by 45 top American singers in aid of starving Africans. Local shops are importing the 12-inch singles record directly from retailers
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    • 188 7 MORE than 1,300 officers will be awarded the Singapore Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal for 1984. Thirty-nine of them, including 14 retired officers, will receive their second clasp for more than 30 years' service. A medal is given to
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    • 395 7  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG THE FIRST day of vacation for students of the Singapore Polytechnic is also the first day of work for some 2,200 second-year students. Yesterday was the start of the polytechnic's six-week vacation training programme. The annual programme, started since 1970,
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    • 269 7 Lianhe Zaobao AIR FARES between Singapore and China will be cheaper than generally expected when direct flights linking the two countries begin next month. A return trip to Beijing is to cost $1,568 while that to Shanghai and Guangzhou
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 97 3 Memories 4 H. 15 (nil's board meeting must lie conic by myself in case he was delayed. I lie music and atmosphere brings back ISiVtl memories of the- time he proposed Mk I three years ago today Mi ft Tlk ervice is still impeccable and it's jltj* &T nice ot
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 175 5 Republic of China Agricultural Food Products at your doorstep Dynasty Hotel Ballroom (3rd Storey) 3-5 April 1985 11.00 am. to 7.00 p.m. daily For the first time in Singapore, a wide selection of agricultural and food products from Taiwan, the Republic of China will be on display at the Dynasty
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 210 6 I Stalling April Ist, the West Knd Club at the I prestigious Goodwood Park Hotel opens I her door to executives from 4 p.m. 9 p.m. I During our new Executive Hours we offer I a 40% discount on all drinks I a complimentary half bottle of I liquor for
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • world
    • 223 8 AP BEIJING, Tuesday A CHINESE singing troupe has invited Taiwan pop star Teresa Teng to perform on the mainland, a new sign that Beijing approves of the 32-year-old entertainer whose recordings were once banned as counter revolutionary and decadent. The Shanghai newspaper Wen
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    • 48 8 UPI CHEYENNE, Tims A NEWSPAPER EDITOR has filed a disturbance complaint against an irate reader after the two men got into a fist fight in tne newspaper office. The fight started over an article about fundraising for a new truck stop in Cheyenne. UPI
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    • 222 8 UPI WASHINGTON, Tuesday JAPAN HAS made "new commitments on trade issues" and President Ronald Reagan welcomes this development, a White House spokesman said yesterday. Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes told reporters that two special envoys, Mr Gaston Sigur, a Japan expert on the
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    • 402 8 More economic support for non-communist rebels Agencies WASHINGTON, Tuesday THE US Government said yesterday it wanted to increase economic support for non-communist Cambodian rebels but said US military aid would create a hurdle to a negotiated settlement in that country. State Department spokesman Bernard
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    • 220 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday THAI troops captured a large communist guerilla camp, which housed a "factory for making booby traps, in southern Thailand last month, Malaysian Chief of Defence Forces Gen Mohamed Ghazali Seth said yesterday. They took the camp in Gubiar,
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    • 650 9  -  The two leaders are likely to concentrate on international issues From SEAH CHIANG NEE Ujung Pandang (Sulawesi), Tuesday INTERNATIONAL issues, rather than bilateral matters, are expected to be on the forefront of informal talks between Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and President Suharto of
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    • 250 9 Reuter COPENHAGEN, Tuesday DEMONSTRATORS used sentry boxes as battering rams to storm Denmark's parliament yesterday while thousands of striking workers defied a back-to-work order from the Government. In a further protest, a walkout by technicians forced Danish television to close down. Denmark's economy has been cripBled8
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    • 102 9 UPI DENVER (Colorado), Tuesday A DRIVING examiner died early Saturday while riding in a car driven by a woman whom he had already marked down for failure, officials said. The driver, Miss Annette Stripling, 27, of Denver, was proceeding from a stop sign when another
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 172 9 v -l k k l^2i' siof .•/•vxß^^^H v^H \r* >■—— Fashion and fine French jaie A sumptuous spread of fine Show starts at 1.30 p.m., French cuisine. Your choice of with fashion provided by the soups, appetizers, six main boutiques against the dates shown, courses or succulent meats from Apr
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  • money
    • 225 10 TUAN Sing Holdings is again trying to sell the block of apartments it owns in Sommerville Estate. But now, instead of the $35 million hoped for when it was marketed last August, the block of 84 apartments is unlikely to fetch more than
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    • 46 10 UNITED Overseas Bank will open a branch in Osaka next month, its second in Japan after the UOB Tokyo branch. The UOB Osaka branch will be in Semba, the main business district in Osaka, and will be managed by Mr Chew Kang
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    • 352 10  -  By JILL HUM PRIME lending rates are likely to see another round of cut? as the cost of funds for banks continues to soften, bankers said yesterday. The prime lending rate is the lowest lending rate banks charge their best customers. Current prime
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    • 395 10 SINGAPORE factories are becoming more automated. Figures from the Ministry of Trade and Industry show that there are now 100 reprogrammable robots, 200 automatic insertion machines and 600 manipulators being used in local industries. At the end of 1984, there were 220 computer-aided design
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    • 79 10 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday BOLTON Properties Bhd turned in a better set of results for the financial year ended Dec 31, 1984 despite a marginal decrease in group turnover. Tlie group recorded a 25.1 per cent increase in {>re-tax profits to $11.19 million from
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    • 159 10 SEALION HOTELS announced a 16 per cent drop in company pre-tax Erofits from $8.6 million $7.3 million for the year ended Dec 31, 1984. Company net after-tax profits slipped 24.1 per cent to $3.7 million from $4.8 million previously. Turnover dipped 3.2 Gr cent from
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    • 490 11 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, TuMday BUSINESS corporations in Malaysia expect a 2.1 per cent increase in gross revenue from M821~98 billion (5|19.12 billion) in the second half of 1984 to M|22.45 billion in the first half-of 1985, according to a business expectations survey conducted by the Department
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    • 188 11 j HMLLSTREET J WALL STREET stock prices closed higher yesterday, despite sharp declines in several merger related stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 5.97 points to end the day at *****5. In the overall market, advancing issues led decliners by 849 to
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    • 126 11 THE AMEBICAN dollar rose sharply in light trading yesterday, rebounding from the threemonth lows of Fiiday. As the dollar advanced, gold prices plunged. Republic National Bank in New York said gold bullion was bid at US|3lB (*****.6) a troy ounce, down US$ll.5O from the late bid on
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    • 125 11 Reuter WASHINGTON, Tuesday NEW ORDERS received by US factories fell 0.2 per cent in February, reflecting a drag on the American economy from rising imports, the government reported yesterday.. The decline was the seventh in 11 months and reversed a rise of
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    • 144 11 haw heard this I J on radio now |HvE IJ FuiworW T m t t^em come true! Tr*» them u> a weekend picnic for^^jj^^J^jJ /fji^sygvW=^y \k i%c>7* p' w mmia^ißPso jjsK£« m/V/# wiv\ K use of cabana, lunch, iBr 1^ m Lt HL bai txxue dinner and cultural tjj^L 1
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  • opinion/letters
    • 298 12 I AM glad that "Needs Help" in his letter "Error in the way skills fund works" (SM, Mar 21) is one of those who see some disadvantages in the Skills Development Fund (SDF). My company is a publishing concern solely dependent on
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    • 250 12  -  MRS WEE LAURA Principal Redhill School I REFER to the letter "Locked school gate f>revents access to child" by "May Day" SM, Mar 19). The writer has mistakenly believed that Redhill School locked its main gate as a result of the recent abduction
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    • 92 12 I WISH to draw the attention of the relevant authority to the fire on Nov 22, 1984, at Lorong 29, Geylang. The debris from the fire was left uncleared. Could the relevant authority kindly remove this debris, including the receptacles immediately? This is because
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    • 410 12  -  SARDOOL SINGH Singapore 0208 ROSEMARY Chen's letter (SM, Mar 21) should not be allowed to go unchallenged. It was obviously written without really understanding the issues involved. Way back during World War 11, the Australians and New Zealanders fought alongside the American
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    • 47 12 "TEENAGE promiscuity isn't inevitable like the liberals think. We're talking about adolescent humans with dignity and self-control, not adolescent horses and dogs." Connaught Marshner of the United States National Pro-Family Coalition "IT'S hell to be 14 and pregnant." Sharon Lovick of Urban Affairs Corporation, Houston, Texas
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    • 452 13 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR COMMENT BUDGET TIME is usually a rough period for the National Development Minister. With more than 70 per cent of the population living in Housing and Development Board flats, Mr Teh Cheang Wan gets a hugely disproportionate amount of
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    • 354 13  -  REPLIES CHUA TOON WAH Estates Officer Estates Department Jurong Town Corporation PLEASE refer to your article "Leaky j>ipes at Lakepoint" (SM. Mar 20). According to the sales agreement between Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) and its lessees of Lakepoint, any defects such as
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    • 84 13 WE THANK your writer Mr Michael Seet for his letter "Traffic lights in Scotts Road causing jams" (SM, Mar 16). We would like to inform him that the Public Works Department (PWD) has readjusted the traffic signals at the above junction. The right turn green
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    • 140 13  -  CHEOK YEN AIK for General Manager Urban Redevelopment Authority WE REFER to the letter "Why coupon parking for longer hours?" (SM, Mar 16). Parking on the public roads in Kallang Industrial Estate including Genting Lane was chaotic. Cars and heavy vehicles were choking the
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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    • 72 12 LETTERS on any subject of pubic interest wW be accepted lor pubication. They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the visiter's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful We reserve the
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  • leisure
    • 306 14  -  From loose shapes and sober shades to tights and brights By INEZ WEI IF YOU have come to associate Japanese designs with big, loose shapes and dark, sober colours, Isetan's Spring/Summer '85 collection by Kansai, Studio-V and Comme des Garcons will change your mind.
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    • 435 16 TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Varfety Tonight Music Moves (Debut) (Ch 5, 7.50 pm) THIS first programme in the second MusicMoves series (the first series was shown in June last year) examines the plight of original music in Singapore and also takes a look at new
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    • 434 16  -  By WONG SING YEONG THE 57th Academy Awards Show probably won t win an award for the best award show if there were such a thing. But award shows do not deserve any awards anyway. Despite the 57-year history of the Oscar, a more inventive way
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    • 875 17  -  By PAUL ROSENFIELD in Hollywood LAT-WP THIS is my last Oscar story of 1985. It is being written because 1) I am sad and 2)1 will have to deal with Oscar again next year and, again, I will be sad. And even if Greta
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1512 15 H3SH IVPi] 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Paget. W J 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights followed by The Struggle (C) (r) subtitles). Story Time stories) (T) episode). 4.55 Jackanory Playhouse The King's Thief. B 5.20 My Favourite Martian Girl in the Flying Machine It). CP* I ./H\ Tim fans in love
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 234 17 BEST U.S. STEAK IK Tr Direct from Hams Ranch in Central California. The Number r One Steak in California, and now in Singapore L t A rt Only at Jack's Place Steak Howee you'll find six different choice* from only (16. you'll get a tender, juicy, corn-feo ~A premium U
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 525 17 FILM GUIO6 HOLLYWOOD (*****64) (1, 3.30, 7, 130): TEPPANYAKI (C) DALIT (*****16) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): THE FLYLIWAQU (*****30) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): SHEENA METROPOLE (*****27) (1.30, 3.30, 7.30, 9.30): QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE (E) GONGFU ZOMBIE (C) VENUS (*****97) (1. 3.30, 7.15. 9.30): CHASE A FOR BEDOK (*****77) (1.30,
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 298 18 am] SEOW YIT KIN PIANIST Seow Yit Kin will play Chopin's works today at 8.15 pm at the Victoria Concert Hall. The recital is organised by the Singapore Music Society. Tickets at $15, $12, $8 and $4 are available at the door. SOIREE MUSIC ALE THERE will be an evening
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    • 934 18 SCULPTURE 1 1 AN exhibition of Three- R" 1 dimensional Contemporary German Sculptures U-J-J-i-JJJJ i-J and Related Drawings T i BHHS[ will be held at the ißillVlfi I 1 m National Museum Art w Gallery until April H —1 9am to 5.30 pm daily. H I It is organised by
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 722 19 leisure comics I FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook h7 TH«6 i$ D«l£ formih®- W«TWfr*, ITS IMPDRTAMT I &V WW* AUAKt V --f Mot To &er CAO6MT u»l 1 V 0F THC ft*** SHIFfS~. 1 $rrp»fc- Douftl WMCH 1 I SHUffL* Of FbS«T»oNS/^gWw ARIES March 21 to April 20 LIBRA Stick to
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  • 336 20 PHOTOGRAPHY CHOOSING the first prize winner in the Kodak Singapore International Kite Festival Photo Contest was easy. Mr Lau Bok Leong's entry stood way out ahead of the rest of the more than 140 entries. What made it really outstanding was technical quality. Though this is
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  • 109 20 SHOOT a hawker and win yourself a trip to the Hong Kong dragon boat races. The Hong Kong Tourist Association, together with Kodak, Tithes Dental and Photo Supply Ltd and Cathay Pacific Alrwayr arc sponsoring a photo competition on hawkers' activities. The two top prizes are six-day
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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    • 57 20 I HOYA FILTER SYSTEMS HOYAREX FILTER SYSTEMS u 1001 Creative Filter System for A comprehensive filter system I black/white and colour photography for creative photography. Vartocroaa Color Spot Dual Color H 000 I Cantar Spot Muttl Wlaton Soft Spot \D Sq O H 1 Also available HOYA Naw Skylight (1B)
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  • 145 21 Spice OF 01® THE search for spices brought civilisation to this part of the world. Arab, European, Indian and Chinese traders converged upon South East Asia to seek fruits, seeds and bark to add flavour to their food. Today, the production of spices is more
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  • 103 21 RAMMIS Pte Ltd in Hougang markets some 29 local and imported spices for the wholesale market. However, the company takes retail orders occasionally. EASTERN Import Export in Hong Lim Shopping Centre specialises in different types of dried chillies from all over the world. The company
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 96 21 STOCKIST OF PEPPER MEMBERS OF RUBBER ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE THE SINGAPORE PEPPER EXPORTERS' PACKERS' ASSOCIATION THE CHINESE PRODUCE EXCHANGE' m $3 'M K t §1 SEOW GUAN CO., (PTE) LTD 21 CHIN BEE CRESCENT, SINGAPORE 2261. TEL: *****04, *****05 CABLE: "SEOWANRUB" TELEX: KOFIRM RS ***** M 4 m MANUFACTURER, WHOLESALER,
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    • 80 21 Dealing with spices and foodstuff <*3 Specialise in <*5 dry chillies and garlic Import and Export of produce goods and spices from China, Thailand, V* Indonesia, Pakistan, Europe and America <+$ EASTERN IMPORTER EXPORTER <+§ NO. G32, HONG LIM SHOPPING CENTRE, $+> SOUTH BRIDGE ROAD, $+> <+§ SINGAPORE 0105. £+>
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 525 22 VAN Classified Ad Rates Singapore Monitor: Sunday Monitor: Wm4i 0.55 ctuli per word O.SS cent* p«r word Dfapli) $7.70 per col. cm $10.00 per col. cm B—lnm Hro Mon-Frl. 9am-Spm Sat. 9am-lpm ACCOUNTING LOOSE-LEAF BOOKS. Accounts. Records. We're simply better 274 7474/ 221 7177. A 1 ACCOUNTING 280 7777/ *****57.
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    • 112 22 Music/Dancing Lessons m CORONATION MUSIC School 469 3252 ERIC'S QUITAR Tuition 445 1291. Private Tuition PT EXPERIENCED DEDICATED TUTOR offers to teach all subjects at lower primary levels. Hanitah 441 4009 (night). TUTORS NEEDED FOR all levels/ subjects/ districts. Preferably A level and above Please contact: 220 6949 EMPLOYMENT Situations
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    • 250 22 Caterers kAI WE CATER BUFFET, barbeque, cocktail party for $8/- onwards Tabtes, chairs provided Annie 481 4782. 288 8097 Entertainment SNT r, QUALITY PIANO: With our marginal profit idea and low overhead business system, you will get the most value for the piano from our company. And our professional piano
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    • 252 22 Interior Decor/ Renovation m ITALIAN MARBLE AT $1 50 $5 00 psf (Compressed and Natural) Call 250 6536 or #02-09, Balestier Plaza. MIKESAN CONTRACTORS. SPECIAL package prices you can afford on all renovation works. Installment arrangeable. Contact: 743 1272/3. 12"x12" HEAVY DUTY ceramic with skirtings. 3-room $2,800; 4-room $4,400; 5-room
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    • 326 22 PEN PALS GOODLUCK FRIENDS CENTRE introduces ideal friends, lifetime partners confidentially Please send stamped self-addressed envelope to get few hundreds members particulars free of charge to Bras Basah P.O. Box 269, Singapore 9118 Tel *****05. *****23 11am to 10pm Reg No *****1/00 C (Estd 1979) MAKE FRIENOS CONFIDENTIALLY. Contact GRACE
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  • sports
    • 314 23  - Start running for a good cause WEEK 6 CATHARINE FERNANDO The pace is stepping ap as the dale draws Bearer for the Pama/Moaitor IIK raa oa Jaae 9. Wa have received more thaa 1,000 entries aad oar telephoaes are basy with calls flroas people who've heard soa»ethlag ahoat it, hat
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    • 561 23  -  ON THE ROAD CHARITY RUN by Louise McGrillen Train with Herb Elliot FOUR years ago, I ran four miles in the Phoenix Park. The evening was cool ana dry and the run took me all of 33 minutes. I was tired at the end
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    • 728 23 DIET by ANNE BARRY I BET when you were a little girl, your mother used to say that unless you ate your dinner you weren't going to get any cake after or if she caught you eating sweets before dinner she'd murder
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    • 354 23 AUSTRALIAN Olympic champion and onetime middle-distance world record holder Herb Elliot today gives you a training schedule for the beginner as well as the advanced runner during for the sixth week of training. BEGINNERS: Day 1: Jog about one and a half kilometres or walk about 15 minutes
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    • 667 24  -  FITNESS by YVONNE DOLAN NOW THAT your mileage is steadily increasing, there are times when, having finished your training, you feel stiff and leg heavy. I know I often do and that too despite stretching out immediately. I still get home feeling weary and tense sometimes.
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    • 427 25 AP LONDON, Tumday IN AN unprecedented crackdown on soccer hooligans, the British Government yesterday announced that it would ban alcohol sales at violence-prone games and press for higher security fences and electronic surveillance at stadiums. The announcement followed a meeting, chaired by Prime Minister
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    • 113 25 Reuter MILAN, Tuesday ITALIAN club Inter Milan said yesterday that it was stunned by the severity of a fine imposed by the European Football Union (UEFA) following trouble before the home match last month against the West German side, FC Cologne. A spokesman
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    • 495 26  -  By S GULAM FOUR DAYS are all Singapore have left to check their recent decline in form before they face Johor, a team with the potential to spoil the Young Lions' unbeaten home record in the Malaysia Cup this season. Coach Hussein
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    • 145 26 Reuter GOTHENBURG, Tues SWEDEN. ROARED on by 6,000 highly-excited spectators, beat Poland 5-3 to reach the final of the men's team event at the World Table Tennis Championships yesterday. Jan-Ove Waldner, still only 19, Erik Lindh and Mikael Appelgren had too much strength
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    • 147 26 P W D L F A Pta Singapore. 12 10 1 1 22 3 31 FT 10 6 2 2 17 9 20 Saiangor 9 6 1 2 17 6 19 Pahang 9 5 2 2 16 6 17 Jobof 10 5 2 3 19 10 17 Parak 12
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    • 224 26 THE BEUNEIANS are a very hospitable people, especially when they know that you are a Singaporean. They go out of their way to help you. Just a few days ago, after a hearty meal at a restaurant, a reporter waited in vain
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    • 158 26 Reuter BUENOS AIRES, Tuesday THE Soviet Union became the first team to make sure of a semifinal place in the Intercontinental Cup women's hockey tournament by beating Zimbabwe 11-0 yesrerday. They top "Pool B" with three victories and are certain to finish first or second in
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    • REVIEWS
      • 51 26 TODA Y we give you a post-mortem of bow four of Singapore 's teams fared in the- recently concluded Merdeka Games in Brunei. Sports reporter B KULA reviews hockey, sepak takraw, tennis and table tennis. Tomorrow we will bring you more reviews on the other
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      • 160 26 Training that's the key word top the team TENNIS TRAIN, TRAIN, train that's the. code word that the Republic's tennis team will have to adopt, if they want to keep up with the region's best. Taking a game off the Philippines, the Indonesians ana the Thais in the singles, is
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      • 111 26 HOCKEY MALAYSIA will reign as South-east Asia's best for a long, long time. Singapore, who nave always been tagging behind Malaysia as the second best team in Southeast Asia, may just lose their strong hold if they carry on performing like they dia in
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      • 139 26 SEPAK TAKRAW BEATING Malaysia and Thailand in sepak takraw seems to be a pipe dream for Singapore. Even stealing a game from them appears to be an impossible task. The Thais and the Malaysians are far superior in skill. Their players, in
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      • 171 26 TABLE TENNIS THE REPUBLIC'S table tennis quartet did the impossible in the Merdeka Games. Critics had written them off as "no hopers" before the competition. Yet they remained undaunted and went for the kill in Bandar Seri Begawan, winning for themselves a bronze
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    • 476 27  -  Higher prize money to attract top golfers to play here REVIEW OF S'PORE OPEN By ERNEST FRIDA TOP golfers, such as Sam Torrance, Graham Marsh and Bill Brask, are the big names that the organisers »f the Singapore Open golf championship are seeking to attract
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