Singapore Monitor, 30 April 1985

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    • 251 2  -  Report and picture by CHEW YEN FOOK THIRTY-FIVE teenagers used to think that Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) dancers lacked professionalism and were not "good enough." Now, thanks to a dance course organised by the corporation, the teenagers have a completely different view.
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    • 353 2  -  Hotter-than-usual period not the cause of current surge in flu cases, say doctors By LEE KIT MUN MORE PEOPLE were down with the flu some time in the middle of this month. But the hotter-than-usual weather isn't the culprit, say doctors. The number of
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    • 44 2 Singaporeans are advised to keep away from public places because of the outbreak of flu Those with flu symptoms should not cough or sneeze indiscriminately. Strenuous exercises such as running and jogging should be avoided until complete recovery from the flu.
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    • 51 2 THE headline of a report on Page 31 of Monday's edition of The Singapore Monitor referred to Ting Sa Tee as the new captain of the SICC (Singapore Island Country Club). In fact, Ting Sa Tee is captain of the Seletar Country Club. We apologise for the
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    • 107 2 A STABBED youth collapsed in front of 50 spectators at a squash championship last night. Tang Seng Kat, 18, ran into a squash court at the Kallang Stadium where the Singapore Closed Squash Championship was being held, bleeding from a wound in his abdomen,
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    • 672 3  -  By BENNY ORTEGA MR PETER Chew says $1 million may save his department store from closure. The owner of Peter Chew's Private Ltd closed last week after two companies issued writs to recover debts totalling 148,000 said yesterday: "I don't blame the
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    • 432 4  -  By ROBERT CONCEICAO NGEE ANN Polytechnic is seeking help from banks and bank unions to find out why so few of its business studies graduates are getting bank jobs. Of the 2,322 business studies graduates since 1970, only about
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    • 144 4 MORE than $400,000 worth of goods were lost in a fire which broke out in a 3-storey pre-war building in Lorong Teluk off Circular Road early yesterday morning. The blaze, which started at the Nanyang Commodities Trading Friendship Society, spread to four adjoining shops,
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    • 231 4 fmayaayJ U 1985j| i i A THE FIRST Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Goh Chok Tong, will deliver the May Day address at the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) rally to be held at the World Trade Centre tomorrow morning The venue has been changed
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    • 244 4 PERFORMANCES by stilt walkers, snake charmers and girl pipers at the Japanese Garden are some of the activities the National Trades Union Congress has lined up for its members and their families to celebrate May Day. There will also be magic and ventriloquist
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    • 382 5 A HELL-RIDING suspect being treated at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday discharged himself without the doctor's permission. When a friend turned up to see him early yesterday afternoon, he had already gone. "He is a bit naughty and there's no way we can
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    • 233 5  -  By SEAH MEI KIANG AT A new plav centre for toddlers, children between 18 months and five-years-old will be encouraged to climb, swing, jump and slide under strict supervision. Eventually, says the company behind the venture, there may be one such
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    • 66 5 Lianhe Wanbao THE MINISTRY of Health has produced a brochure, What You Should Know About AIDS (cover above) for the public. It explains what AIDS is, its causes, those who are most likely to get it, its infectious nature and the symptoms. The brochures are available
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    • 275 6 TAXI-DRIVERS have been shying away from having their fare meters converted into the new ones ever since NTUC-Comfort had been reported to have proposed a revised fare structure to reflect market conditions. The move began last Friday where even the taxi
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    • 589 6  -  By YONG POW ANG SALES of frozen pork are rising, despite some consumer resistance, the Primary Production Department said yesterday. It released figures which showed that retail sales of frozen pork during the first three months 01 this year were five times the
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    • 109 6 At the Bamboo Court, we have some 30 others which are the favourites of our regular customers. Besides yun tun mian (wonton mee), there're rou gu cha (bak kut teh), chicken ric«, sweet com soup, chicken in earthen pot, cha shao fan (char slew fun), sha die mi fen (satay
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  • world
    • 1393 8 VEINAM 10 YEARS AFTER SPECIAL REPORT BY MICHAEL RICHARDSON THE AGE NEWSPAPER, MELBOURNE HO CHI MINH CITY, Tues IF FRESH paint, statistics and the city's communist fathers are to be believed, the former capital of the US-backed Government of South Vietnam
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    • 196 10 UN officials declare 'war' on bad food in cafeteria Reuter UNITED NATIONS, Tuesday UNITED Nations officials yesterday left aside the grinding issues of world poverty, hunger and war to join a protest against bad food and smaller drinks served in their glass-towered headquarters. Hundreds of UN workers, among the world's
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    • 77 10 Reuter STOCKHOLM, Tues THE prize money awarded to No&el laureates will this year be increased by 150,000 crowns (5535,200 dollars) to compensate for the declining value of the Swedish currency, the Nobel Foundation said yesterday. In dollar terms the value of the award will
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    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 82 10 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS TO BE a white American Sikh from the midwest is rare. To be that and Michael Jackson's personal chef is unique. Mr Mani Khalsa (above) prepares every meal that the world's richest singing star eats. And when Jackson left for Britain
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      • 73 10 A NEW biography says Franklin Roosevelt had a serious teenage romance with a Boston socialite who turned down his marriage proposal, as well as a few of his overly amorous passes Mr Geoffrey C Ward, author of "Before The Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt," says Alice Sohier turned
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      • 51 10 FRENCH President Francois Mitterrand (above) walking past a barb-wire fence during a visit to the snow-covered Struthof death camp in eastern France on Sunday. Struthof was the only concentration camp built in France during the Second World War. Some 12,000 prisoners died there between 1941 and
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      • 62 10 THE former Archbishop of Lusaka, recalled to Rome because of his faith healings that some called voodoo, is holding what he calls "healing masses" in the Pope's own diocese. Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo was recalled to Rome in 1982 amid reports that many of the thousands who attended
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      • 57 10 EDDY ARNOLD, the Tennessee sharecrop?er's son who by some estimates has sold about 0 million records since 1945, admits there's a lot of speculation about how much money he has made. "I only wish I was as rich as they say," says Arnord, the wealthiest
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    • 370 11 Reuter NEW YORK, Tuesday FOUR masked gunmen acting with "inside information" broke into a Wells Fargo deG)t, ambushed guards and escaped with SsB million (SslB million) early yesterday but left US$l2 million behind, police said. It was the second largest cash robbery in US
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    • 153 11 AP JOHANNESBURG, Tues THE WORLD S largest Sold mine agreed yesteray to reinstate 14,500 Black miners fired over the weekend for staging an illegal strike, the Black miners' union said. Elsewhere in the country, police said six more Blacks were killed in rioting
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    • 328 11 UPI WASHINGTON, Tuesday PRESIDENT REAGAN said yesterday that despite a worldwide outcry, he is determined to visit a West German military cemetery where Nazi SS troopers are buried because it is "morally right to do so." On the eve of his 10-day
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    • 143 11 Bernama TAPAH (Perak), Tuesday A 24-YEAR-OLD man had his penis nearly severed when he tried to molest a housewife at her house in Kampung Baru Coldstream, Bidor, near here yesterday. Police said the man, a farmer, was in serious condition at the Teluk Intan
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    • 207 8 MING COURT HOTEL SINGAPORE Hill I I llllWiM'lnMiWir IUHWaMCMMMMnMIWiMMHMiMB Catfish on the menu? ICS ordinary catfish. These are catfish imported fresh from Louisiana farms, where they're grown i i i J wheat. The meat of these catfish is white, non-oily, low in calories and fat, high in protein, vitamins i^tT'^'
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    • 8 8 ON THURSDAY: THE DISMAL STATE OF VIETNAM'S ECONOMY
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    • 910 12 RRI BANQUE BRUXELLES LAMBERT SA (Quoted in MMtone of Belgian France) Consolidated Profit and Loss Account Consolidated Balance Sheet BOARD OF DIRECTORS as at 30th September 1984 as at 30th September 1984 30/9/83 30/9/34 30/9/83 30/9/84 Chairman BF BF BF BF Andre Dequae Debit Aeeete Interest and commission paid 85,673
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  • money
    • 449 13 Dr Goh says conditions here do not allow us to internationalise our currency FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Dr Goh Keng Swee yesterday gave three reasons why Singapore cannot allow large scale lending of Singapore dollars to foreign banks the way Swiss banks lend
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    • 67 13 TAN CHONG Motor Holdings Berhad has announced a 10 per cent fall in group pre-tax profits for 1984 from $74 million to $66 million. The audited results also showed post-tax profits dropping 5 per cent from $40 million to $38 million. The directors are
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    • 206 13 ISETAN faces gloomy prospects this year. The department store expects its Erofits for the current year to t>e simiir to that for 1984, which saw a 78 per cent drop in pre-tax profits from $13.3 million to $2.9 million. After-tax profits declined as drastically by
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    • 139 13 ANZ SINGAPORE, the Singapore branch of the Australia and New Zealand Banking group, has launched what is believed to be the first bond booked here that is denominated in the European Currency Unit (ECU). A European Currency Unit is
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    • 535 14  -  By ANG PENG HWA REGARDLESS of bad times, a handful of public companies in the red are paying dividends. And they are doing it to maintain investor confidence. One company is even borrowing to meet the regular payouts to shareholders. According to
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    • 280 14 LIM KAH NGAM's group pre-tax profit for the year ended Dec 31, 1984, jumped a hefty 80 per cent from $5.12 million to $9.23 million while turnover more than tripled from $28.78 million to $87.79 million. Attributable profit was up 68 per cent from $5.12
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    • 286 14 B HMLLSTREET 3 Reuter STOCKS skidded to their biggest one-day loss of the year yesterday as a combination of indicators suggested to investors that there is little prospect of an immediate improvement in the tJS economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by 15.46
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    • 136 14 AP THE DOLLAR fell against most major currencies in quiet activity yesterday as traders sold the US'currency to cash in on its sharp gains of the previous week. Gold prices turned mostly higher in quiet trading as the dollar fell. Republic National Bank of New York said
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    • 238 14 TIME Engineering Berhad saw a 36 per cent drop in its profits before taxation from Mss miliion (554.4 million) to $3 million. Profits after taxation attributable to shareholders also slided 32 per cent to $1.5 million from $2.2 million. Business conditions
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    • 396 15 PILECON Engineering, a piling company based in Malaysia, will begin trading under the second trading section of the Stock Exchange of Singapore. The 35 million 50-cent shares will be listed under the Industrial and Commercial section and trading will be on a
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    • 70 14 INTRODUCTORY OFFER FOR A LIMITED PERIOD ONLY OFFER: OFFER: $219/36° mm 400 mm 900 mm 850 mm 900 mm PLASTIC COATED SHELVES 1630 mm I OFFER: tt£=43BsZ^ 8 $230/— fcl OFFFR* <m mm Nfc UrrCK y 390 M 850 IM EX-STOCK: NEW USED UNITS OFFER: OFFER: $1870 l f5zS OQ
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    • 56 14 INDICES: THE Straits Times Industrial Index closed yesterday at 795.53, down 1.12 points from Friday. The OUB Composite Share Price Index closed yesterday at 403.62, down 0.27 point from Friday s close of 403.89. The OUB Trade-weighted Singapore Dollar Exchange Rate Index rose 0.1966 point to 133.4778 at the close,
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    • 1182 15 CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE 1984 CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (in thousands of Canadian dollars) CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME for the year ended W October 31 October 31 1984 1983 1984 1983 ASSETS Interest Income Income from loans, excluding leases 5,988,124 6,108,356 Cash Resources Income
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  • opinion/letters
    • 828 16  -  REPUSS DR GOH KENG SWEE Former First Deputy Prime Minister and former Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore DR RICHARD HU has told me that he was misquoted in the upbeat article in the Economist. He did not favour "internationalising" the Singapore
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    • 275 16  -  CHEW KING HWAN for Permanent Secretary (Education) I REFER to the letter "Harsh attitude impairs students' development" by "No Threats Please" (SM, April 9). We thank the writer for his views and suggestions. We would like to assure the writer that our principals and
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    • 178 16  -  LILY NAIR Singapore 1231 I REFER to the letter "Serangoon Rd shops have illegal foreign workers" by Bina Mehta (SM, April 23). Not only are the tosai shops and restaurants in Serangoon Road and its side-roads employing illegal foreign labour, they are also
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    • 186 16  -  MYLENE MINONG Singapore 2059 THIS IS in response to your article on the problem foreign maid (SM, April 22). Honestly I have nothing against the article for I agree that some foreign maids are a problem; I often read about the nasty
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    • 69 16 THE authorities should seriously consider closing such places as Bugis Street, as one reader suggested. We should not keep such places open to encourage homosexual activities. Singapore should provide clean fun instead of this kind of fun. Because AIDS (Acquired Immune
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    • 449 17 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR EsSBHSj ABOUT 29,000 cars crossed the Causeway in March, nearly 10,000 more than in the same month last year. Much of the increase in traffic was believed to be due to cheaper petrol available in Johor. A litre of petrol, albeit
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    • 304 17  -  BEE WAN DITZIG (MRS) Deputy Director Community Chest of Singapore WE REFER to the letter "Not all $3 m raised during SBC Show" (SM, April 18). We would like to make some clarifications. The Community Chest Show was produced by the Singapore
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    • 173 17  -  JOSEPHINE ONG (MISS) Public Relations Officer SBS I REFER to the letters, "SBS driver ignored commuter" (SM, April 18) and "Reckless driving must be dealt with" (SM, April 14), complaining against a Service 10 and a Service 97 driver The Service
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    • 198 17  -  NG KEAT SENG for Commissioner of Inland Revenue PLEASE refer to Mr Nicky Lau's letter, "Four questions for taxmen on extra annual property tax'' (SM, April 17). A property is reassessed when there is evidence that its annual value is incorrect. A correct
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    • 75 16 w v\P\ LETTERS on any subject o» public interest wM be acoqated for publication They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer's name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful We
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    • 74 17 >?£ w LETTERS on any subject of public interest will be accepted for publication They should be typed and must be signed. They must also include the writer s name and address even if the writer decides to use a pseudonym in print. A contact telephone number would be useful
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  • leisure
    • 297 18 Co-ordination by INEZ WEI; Pictures by SHARIF RASHID; Clothes by THOMAS WEE BOUTIQUE; Hair by KELVIN ONO of HAIR'EM; Location PLUS DESIGNS THE shirt, in many variations, has emerged tops in nearly every collection shown in recent months And it has also
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    • 766 18 Three major sales throw auction halls into a frenzy LAT-WP NORMALLY somewhat subdued, the auction halls at Sotheby's last week were marked instead by a distinct, if dignified, frenzy. "Madness," said a Sotheby's spokesman, deftly dodging the rig of a Japanese television crew. Just as
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    • 1117 20 Pit-Holiday Movie The Secret War of Harry Frigg (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 5, 11.10 pm) DURING World War 11, five Allied brigadier-gen-erals were captured by the Italian army and detained in a luxurious villa. The situation becomes embarrassing for the Allied Command when the generals, all
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1446 19 2 30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Nawa 3.00 Opening and Programme Highlights 6.25 Selera Rata (M) (r) (English subti- T Afc followed by The Struggle (C) (r) -9 (English subtitles). Sharifah Alowiyah Alkaf shows how f x W 4.25 Naadaga Arangam Thodu Vaanam the two dishes, Shakshuka and Moha- J/F <•
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    • 179 19 [<l&& I Noon Newsdesk 12.30 Shakespeare and Music 12.45 Financial News 12.55 Reflections 1.00 World News 1.09 Twen-ty-four Hours: News Summary 1.30 New Ideas 1.40 Book Choice 1.45 The World Today 2.00 Newsdesk 2.30 Counterpoint 3.00 World News 3.09 Twenty-four Hours: News Summary 3.30 Computer World 3.45 Network UK 4.00
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    • 560 20 Holiday programmes 8.30 SBCTEXT Live Sample Paget. 810 Programme Highlight*. 9.00 Opening and Programme High- 6 15 News (E). lights followed by The Buga Bun- 6-25 Doctor Snuggles The Unbelievny/Road Runner Movie. able Wormmobile. This compilation of some of the A friend visits Dr Snuggles and best of Warner Brothers'
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 903 21 FILM GUlOe AND THE FORTRESS OF GOLD (E) DEUS (E) Tomorrow (11, 1.30,4,6.30,9.15): TRANCERS Starring: F Murray Abraham, Tom Halce, DALIT (*****16): (K) EMPRESS (*****67)' Kllnhfli Berridge IriiNST *TH?ia'i 3 ilh'i 3 |inlnf«?iN R ,M? RS To 1 1 (m"n'Bh*>= TRANCERS (E) Today (1.15, 3.15, 7.15, 9.15): THE TRAP (C)
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 310 22 T^^pai fta® PAINTING OF THE YEAR THE United Overseas Bank Group's 4th Painting of the Year Competition will be divided into three categories abstract painting, representational painting and Chinese painting. It is open to all Singapore citizens, permanent residents and foreign artists residing in Singapore. An entrant may participate in
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    • 436 22 OUR HISTORICAL SITES Alain Hesnais directed the film THE third and fourth shows in the which focuses on three days in the life series of Our Historical Sites will fea- a Spaniard. ture Serangoon Road and Malay Kam- Admission is free. pongs in Singapore. These audio visual shows will be
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    • 75 22 ART BY WEE SHOO LEONG TODAY is the last day of the exhibition by young Singaporean artist, Wee Shoo Leong, at the Alliance Francaise, 4 Draycott Park. It will be held from 4 pm to 8.30 pm. Wee Shoo Leong represented Singapore in the First Asean Youth Painting Workshop held
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 510 23 leisure comics i^jsssS] ARIES March 21 to AprU 20 LIBRA Combine diplomacy and hu- September 23 to October 22 mour. You get almost any- The cycle is such that you thing you want if you are pati- "flirt with fame." Your efforts ent and persistent. The lunar come to the
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    • 160 23 FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook V art, this it tub trs tiJtotßtttv, H U WoRVT ANALYSIS VOtfVi D«*T<»RT§D AND FiUfD TT COOtD »M fcV*RTi>Rtf«>iN/ WitM Factual ERRORS/ 1 TV DPCU-DRAIAA-. I V what us* cotfu> rr V V DR SMOCK By George Lemont f AAISS f/ 7 RBUAXV THAT U'U "I
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  • Netherlands National Day
    • 225 24  -  P. A. VAN BUUREN Ambassador of the Netherlands in Singapore ON the occasion of the official birthday of H M The Queen, it is fitting to look back to the year that has passed. Both Singapore and the Netherlands have experienced on the one hand, a growth in
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    • 596 24  -  By K C LOH (Assistant Landbouw Attache Royal Netherlands Embassy) THE Netherlands, acclaimed to be the world's second largest exporter of agricultural products, ranks first in the export of quality dairy products, eggs, potatoes, onions, cocoa powder, beer, vegetables and beautiful flowers. Like Singapore, the Netherlands
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    • 674 25 Renewed impetus to transport sector IN 1984 the economy of the Netherlands was characterised by very high exports and a recovery in industry. Flourishing foreign trade in turn gave a renewed impetus to the Dutch transport sector. As a result the volume of
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    • 387 25 AS a result of the economic recession in recent years a painful process of rationalisation has been carried through in Dutch industry. However, the fittest concerns which survived this process recorded a marked growth in their operating results for the first time in several years, thanks largely
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    • 387 25 THANKS to the kindly mood of the weather gods the Dutch farmers were able to enjoy a fruitful year. The yields of major products such as potatoes and cereals reached very satisfactory levels. The potato crop totalled 4.3 million tonnes (-*-26.4 per cent), while the cereals harvest
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    • 363 26 AFTER declining for four years, the net national income climbed back up to the 1980 level. Income per head of the population rose to just slightly below the 1980 level. In other words, per capita income in 1984 went up by two per
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    • 427 27 TODAY, the Netherlands is leaping forward culturally, shedding but not forgetting its traditional tourist image. Gradually, the windmill and tulip concept around Holland is no more than a background. In the meantime, this fast developing nation is busy painting a new cultural picture, which every visitor
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    • 965 28 AS WITH the performing and visual arts, museums form a large and important part of the country's culture. What visitors see collected, preserved and presented in these museums often represent those very things which have helped to shape Dutch culture into what it is today. When
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    • 106 24 HOMND INTERNATIONAL one of the largest travel groups in Europe offers premium STOPOVER and ROUNDTRIP PACKAGES for individuals to some of the most exciting destinations you'll ever want to visit All our ROUNDTRIP PACKAGES have guaranteed departures, exclusively on dependable KIM And, as with our STOPOVER PACKAGES, all hotel accommodation
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    • 40 25 congratulates tfk Queen and tfie people of tlie Netherlands on tlie occasion of Queens Day NMB BANK Let us point you in the right direction NMB Bank (Singapore) Ltd. 5 Shenton Way, #21-01 Singapore 0106. Tel: *****44 Telex: RS *****
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    • 47 26 Congratulations Best Wishes to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on the occasion of the Queen's Day from HOOGEWERFF-CWT SERVICES (PTE) LTD 47,Jalan Buroh, Singapore226t Telex: HOOCWT R*****7 Tel: *****02, *****22 FORWARDING WAREHOUSING TRUCKING CHARTERING SPECIALISTS IN HANDLING ORES, NON-FERROUS PRIMARY METALS, FERRO-ALLOYS AND OTHER PRODUCE.
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    • 85 26 Hartelijk gefeliciteerd! mm 3 p/iii /«> •V i;.;. rlrfrt! )••••■< MMIMIIlim <••••<■> I «t*M X w r '4 J* I IHIM ji'H <# "Congratulations!" The Netherlands celebrates the Queen's birthday on 30th April. And we at Hagemeyer toast our Dutch roots as we reflect with pride on our growth over
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    • 43 27 Congratulations Best Wishes to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on the occasion of the Queen's Day from m Heath Langeveldt Rollins Private Ltd. #07-01, Nedlloyd House, 1 Finlayson Green, Singapore 0104 Tel: *****44 Telegrams: HEATHLANG" Telex: RS ***** Insurance Brokers Consultants.
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    • 122 27 Preserving an ancient heritage TO the Dutch the preservation of monuments and historic buildings is of vital importance. Alreday, more than 40,000 are protected. In some cases this includes entire cities which have been designated National Monument Towns. Nearly every city, town and village in the Netherlands is steeped in
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    • 177 28 Congratulations and Best Wishes to Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on the occasion of the Queen's Birthday CARPET WALLCOVERING SPECIALISTS Our fine selection of other products home and luxury off ce kj Singapore conditions .dwvSnu H£- la I 1 1 Extensive range of vinyl ■HIBB —Spl m rrt-USPL
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  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • 331 29 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR KODAK and The Singapore Monitor will be launching a promotion for photographers in which $600 worth of Kodak prizes will be given away every month between now and the end of the year. This Kodak/Singapore Monitor Photographic Promotion is
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    • 224 29 THERE is no need for entry forms. Simply send in your 3R prints, (taken with any Kodak film and printed on Kodak paper) with details of yourself and your equipment written on the back. We require your name, age, address, occupation and phone number. As
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    • 192 29 BEGINNING next month, the Photographic Society of Singapore will be conducting a comprehensive course in black and white pictorial photography. The threemonth course is scheduled to start in mid-May. The secretary of the Photographic Society of Singapore, Mr David P C Tay, said that
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
    • 64 29 T7'' r soo Hil the high performance Mm?* medium format camera IS&Sk extremely The SOA/SQ-Am comes filmbacks Also available-theGS-1 and models. lAvailable leading photo Sole Agent SENG CHEONG CO*PTE LTD Singapore: 116 Middle Road, *04-01, ICB Enterprise House, S'pore 0718 Tel *****44 Tlx: RS ***** Cable: KEEPTIME Kuala Lumpur 68,
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    • 594 30 Classified Ads *******90 Classified Ad Rates SiQfMporc Monitor: Sunday Monitor: WerSe 0.35 t«nU per word 0.55 ctnli per word Display $7.70 per col. cm $10.00 p«r col. cm Bmlmm Hn Mon-Frl. 9«m-spm Sal. 9«m-lpm DISCO SERVICES > JE T'AIME M.D. 338 5881/2 Office Hours; 564 9715 I Michael. 1 PANACHE
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    • 224 30 TOOTcorneT CATERERS DURIAN EATERSI (SPECIAL durians) air flown from Medan. Interested phone: 781 1392/ 782 0630. Free delivery direct to your homes. WE CATER BUFFET, barbeque, cocktail party for $8/- only. Tables, chairs provided. Annie 481 4782, *****15, 288 8097 INDONESIAN BUFFET 440 3255. MEMORY CATERER 481 9428 MRS. WAH
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    • 322 30 PROPERTY Accommodation Vacant BUKIT TIMAH MANSION luxuriously furnished apartment for immediate rent. For immediate rental call 235-2411, Miss Ng. WALKING DISTANCE TO Orchard Road. 31 4 bedrooms, quiet, with without pool. Hoe-Tan; 734-7821. WATTEN ESTATE CONDOMINIUM. Luxurious town houses available for rent. Partially/ fully furnished. Tel: 734-9181, Miss Ng PUBLICATIONS
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    • 140 30 SWIMWEAR SPEEDO SWIMWEAR, sole agent Shalome Associates 737 7562. THE MEETING PLACE HUMBLE CHINESE GENTLEMAN, aged 37 would like to meet mature career ladies of good nature. Write in with contact phone number to S.M. Box 531 #03-01 Delta House. 2 Alexandra Road. Singapore 0315 WIDELY TRAVELLED, CHRISTIAN career woman,
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  • 393 31  - Twenty-five coaches to join A W scheme By ERNEST FRIDA LIM HONG KANG and his wife, Pritam, who have not seen eye to eye with the Singapore Amateur Athletics Association for the past two years, especially with specialisation, have sportingly agreed to join the A W training scheme. The scheme
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  • 92 31 COACHES who have either submitted their forms or have given their assurance to join the scheme are: Andrew Khoo, Lim Hong Kang, Pritam Lim, Tan Soo Hian, Wong Chong Sai, Bernard Jaw, Lim Boot Hiang, Glory Barnabas, Chow Weng Kai, Yeo Hock Ann, Ng Chor Tan, C Jayapandian,
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  • 552 31  -  By JEREMY YEO Special to The Monitor WHILE other seeded players breezed into the third round of the Ascot 10th Singapore Closed Squash ChamKionships at Kallang yesterday, fifth seed Kelvin Sng ad to fight tooth and nail for 70 minutes to subdue
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  • 139 31 SINGAPORE Armed Forces are back in winning form in the national InterClub league tennis championships. The army boys, who did not win any title last season, were in fine form in the C and B Grade championships this time. While their C graders beat YMCA
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  • 79 31 CEYLON Sports Club will go all out for revenge against Singapore Cricket Club in the annual hockey clash for the Muthu Trophy at Balestier Road today(S pm). CSC, who won the trophy at their ground in 1983, lost it to SCC last year at the Padang.
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  • Page 31 Advertisements
    • 493 31 classified s 273-9090 NOTICES j Mortgagees" Sale Of Properties By Public Auction To Be Held At No 6 Cecil Street #02 04. People's Insurance Building. On Wednesday. Bth May 1985 at 3.00 p.m. Particulars Landed Properties 1) No. 55 Lorong Ong Lye (Vacant Possession) Land Area 421 6 sq m
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    • 404 31 In the Matter of THE COMPAHIES ACT (CHAPTER 185) AHD In the Matter of UHIOH AQUARIUM CO (PRIVATE) LTD (In Members Volun tary Liquidation) HOTICE OF FIHAL MEETIHQ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 308 of the Companies Act, Chapter 185, the final meeting of the members of
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  • sports
    • 456 32  -  Diet by ANNE BARRY YOUR BODY'S need for fluid is not just something that comes into play during exercise. After all, how many cups of tea or coffee do you go through on your more restful days? Even totally inactive people
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    • 111 32 OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER: SEIKO BY NOW, those of you who have already sent in your entry forms for the 10 km run would have received an acknowledgement and a note to inform you to collect the sponsorship cards from the race office at the Singapore Monitor,
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    • 511 32 Running 's their game WATCH for the Bedok Runners. They started as a "social running club'' but interest generated has been such that they are now seriously thinking of registering themselves as an association. "We started out over two years ago with a small group of people in the district
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    • 353 32  -  ON THE ROAD Louise McGrillen INJURY is the bane of every runner's life. It strikes indiscriminately and always without mercy. It sneaks up on you like a thief in the night and strips vou of all the months ana miles of hard work
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    • 388 33 SPORTS CHATTER COACH Hussein Aljunied and his players have come under lot of fire for "poor" performances in recent Malaysia Cup matches. But let's not look at the situation from just one angle. Spare the Young Lions a thought. They are not as bad
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    • 318 33  -  By K SILVAM LAST South East Asia Games' gold medallist Wong Shoon Keat will lead a seven-member junior badminton team to the 2nd Asian Youth Training Camp in Hong Kong as coach. This will be Shoon Keat's first coaching training overseas since he took
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    • 352 33  -  By B KULA LOSING weight may be a problem to you, but not to Singapore's threetime Mr Asia, Fatholomein Ali. Fatholomein, our gold medal hope for the Asean Championships this Saturday, has only four days to shed seven kilogrammes to be eligible for the
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    • WORLDFRONT
      • 114 34 A QUICK UPDATE AROUND THE WORLD PRESIDENT Francois Mitterrand yesterday made top footballer Michel Platini (above) a member of France's most prestigious order, the Legion of Honour. After the solemn ceremony at the Elysee Palace, the new "Chevalier" Platini told reporters: "It does you good to serve
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      • 103 34 OUTSTANDING young strikers lan Rush and Mark Hughes pose a real threat to Spain's World Cup ambitions in their European Group Seven qualifying match in Wrexham tomorrow The pair have not finished on a losing side together in five internationals and it was their combined effort
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      • 112 34 THE LAWLOR Events Centre at Reno, Nevada, was named yesterday as the site for Larry Holmes' (aboveJ defence of his International Boxing Federation heavyweight title fight against Carl "The Truth" Williams on May 20. The scheduled 15-round bout will be televised in prime time by
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      • 59 34 HEAVYWEIGHT Greg Page's World Boxing Association Championship belt was stolen on the eve of his title defence, police said yesterday. Police detective George Battaglia said Page reported that the gold belt was among US$3O,OOO worth of items stolen from his hotel room on Sunday night. Battaglia
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      • 62 34 A SWARM of bees yesterday broke up a football match in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, as terrified players and officials ran for shelter and the referee called off the game. Bees invaded the same stadium a week ago and soccer fans now believe
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    • 439 34  -  It's the name of the game, new table tennis coach tells our players By B KULA YOU'VE got to play an attacking game that's the point the newly- recruited table tennis coach from China, Hu Bingquan, made to our national men and women during his third
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    • 318 34 JUNIOR MEN'S TABLE TENNIS SINGAPORE Airlines Group emerged Group D champions in the the first round of the Junior Men's interteam table tennis championship at Toa Pavoh yesterday with their 3-2 victory over Shing Wah Sports Association. The victory, however, did not
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    • 116 34 TABLE TENNIS fans won't have to wait long to catch a glimpse of the world's best in action here. Come Sept 11, the Toa Payoh Indoor Stadium will be the battleground for 32 of Asia's best men and 16 of Asia's best women when they
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    • 287 32 OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM PUMASINOAPORe MONITOR 10 Km CHARITY RUN, IJII 111 II WWTmD "id of the Singapore Cancer Society rUI W MRa¥IIHV Sunday, 9th June, 1985 (Under lAAF/SAAA Rules) Piin.tj-r ti-nn rirn,.mm I SURNAME MALE FEMALE essss n i i i i i ii m £SSSffi! CTPI OTHER NAME I.C.
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  • Page 33 Advertisements
    • 123 33 CROCODILE <?*£*> womenTENNIS CLASSIC D 5 WKk Come and watch the Work) Famous ■gfe TENNIS WONDERGIRLS in action V Don't miss this FIRST ever event In Singapore' Featunng GABRIELA SABATINI. No 1 World Junior Champion; HU NA. China's Former Tennis Queen, SOPHIE AMIACH. leading French player, and MER~w CEDES PAZ,
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  • MONITOR sports
    • 433 35  -  Draw eliminates the possibility of earlier encounter By S GULAM A MONEY-SPINNING Malaysia Cup final between Singapore and Selangor at the Merdeka Stadium on July 6 seems a possibility after yesterday's quarterfinals draw made at Kuala Lumpur. Both teams are drawn in different groups, which
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    • 529 35 "IT DOESN'T matter whom we play. We have not been disgraced by any team this year. So what is there to be afraid of?" said Hussein Aljunied on learning that his team will meet Trengganu in the Malaysia Cup quarterfinals The
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