Singapore Monitor, 10 July 1985

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  • 11 1 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR M.C. (P) No. 51/5/85 Wednesday, July 10,1985 30cents
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  • 516 1  -  ■y PAT D'ROSE WEE AIK THIAN'S wedding, due to take place later this year, will have to oe postponed. He will probably have to go tobhunting again now that his employment has been cut short by a near fatal accident, just three
    PICTURES by SHAFIE GOH  -  516 words
  • 182 1  -  Picture and report by ASMAH HAMID BELIEVE it or not, you can now literally wear a hi-fi system, speakers and all. A local company, Creative Arts Centre, is distributing a fashionable Taiwan-made PVC jacket with a sewn-in hi-fi system. Looking good while keening
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  • 620 1  -  Current penalties don't deter offenders, says official By EE BOON LEE HAWKER-CONTROL officers want stiffer penalties to deter illegal hawkers who keep plying their trade despite repeated convictions. Some have chosen to stay selling outside the law even after being offered legal stalls. "Heavier fines
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • home
    • 476 2 PLAYING SAFE BANKS told a million Singaporeans yesterday how to protect themselves from dishonest use of their automated teller machine (ATM) cards. At the same time, they reiterated that there were stiff security measures to prevent bank staff from getting access to cardholders' secret
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    • 95 2 A REPORT on Page One of the first edition of The Singapore Monitor, Friday July 5, listed the United Overseas Bank as a creditor of the Galax group, of which one member company is in receivership and three others are in voluntary liquidation. The bank has pointed
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    • 336 2 Lianhe Wanbao BY ALL accounts, it was a strange robbery. He was probably a first-tim-er. Trembling in his shoes, the robber kept mumbling to himself: "I'm a robber! I'm a robber!" And he took only the gold. Even the diamonds he left behind.
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    • 204 2 Lianhe Zaobao HOW about renaming the Outram Road MRT Station to the Chinatown Station? This was the request from the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB) which was formally submitted recently to the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation. The rationale for the name change is simple: The name,
      Lianhe Zaobao  -  204 words
    • 365 3 Girl awakes from 48-hr coma 6-DEATH CAR CRASH IN MUAR DOCTORS in Muar last night kept the secret from little Suri Diana Tina that her grandparents were killed in the head-on collision between the car they were in and an express bus. Suri, 10,
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    • 63 3 THE SPEAK Mandarin campaign this year, aimed mainly at transport workers, has as its slogan, "Mandarin is Chinese." For the last seven years, both the public and private sectors have participated in the campaign, which is held to encourage the Chinese
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    • Article, Illustration
      423 4  - I will never accept licence, says tow suan hawker THE ILLEGAL HAWKERS REPORTS: Ee Boon Lee and Sit Yin Fong HAWKER Lim Song Cheow, 53, would not accept a licence if it were offered to him on a platter. He regards paying a fine occasionally as "a kind of unavoidable
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    • 263 4 THE STORY of a family that spurned an offer of a stall and continues to peddle Michael Jackson spectacles and costume jewellery in defiance of the law shows the extent of the problem faced by the Hawkers Department. The family a mother
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    • 157 4 THE LAST of the street hawkers many of them in Bugis Street are expected to be relocated by the end of the year. And when the legal hawkers have gone, the illegal ones will come under still greater pressure. "Once we have relocated all
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    • 258 6  -  By EE BOON LEE A "HEALTHY SIGN" of the move to more open government. That's how Mr Chiam See Tong sees the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's decision to telecast a talk he will give to students tomorrow. The Social Democratic Party leader and MP
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    • 268 6  -  By JOSEPH LEE THREE DUTY-FREE shops aiming to sell last-minute farewell gifts to wellwishers at Changi Airport have found business slow. The shops, set up in the check-in hall, allow duty-free goods to be selected and paid for, then collected in the departure
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    • 418 6  -  By YONG POW ANG UNIVERSITY students are being offered $10,000 insurance cover for $3 a year. The scheme which gives 24-hours-a-day cover anywhere in the world is being offered by NTUC Income, which has already introduced a $l-a-year policy for unionised workers. The
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    • 184 7  -  By K K FONG HUMAN RELATIONS rank highly with the management of one leading electronics company in Singapore. Matsushita Electronics (S) Pte Ltd (Mesa) conducts regular training programmes for its staff, designed to improve its nandling of human relations and operational problems. The company
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    • 320 7  -  Story by IRENE TOH TWO YEARS ago, Madam Yang Ge Chun, 77, lost the use of her legs in a fall. But she still lives alone in her attap house in Jalan Gaharu, cooking her own meals and washing her own clothes. When she
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    • 192 8 THE LATEST hall of residence at the National University of Singapore will have student lounges to allow social interaction between small groups of students. It will be the first hall of residence at Kent Ridge to offer this feature. There will be
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 153 6 Kangxi Lounge Only $3'for a drink So what are you waiting for? BMinHI whisky for only $3? Unbelievable but true! We're charging $3 for every drink (except premium brands), served at e an^x lounge, from 4to 8 pm. This terrific offer celebration of Tai-Pan Ramada Hotel's magical transformation. :MTo top
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • world
    • PEOPLEWATCH
      • 83 9 A QUICK LOOK AT THE NEWSMAKERS THE GRATEFUL Dead and their loyal fans, the Dead Heads, were praised on the editorial page of The Washington Post. The Dead played outside Washington last week and the Post said it brought out "more tie-dyed clothes than you've seen
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      • 66 9 MADONNA (right) says she does not care that Penthouse magazine is going to publish nude pictures of her. Madonna, recently engaged to actor Sean Penn, is in New York and will not speak directly to reporters. But her spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg, said: "She doesn't feel that she's done
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      • 76 9 PRESIDENT RONALD Reagan's daughter Maureen criticised US Attorney General Edwin Meese 111 yesterday for withholding a U*****,000 (Sf 1.38 million) grant to a group that operates shelters for battered women because Conservatives have claimed the group promotes lesbianism. She said: "That's patently absurd., that's the
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      • 38 9 WHEN CHINA'S premier Zhao Ziyang met US astronaut Taylor Wang yesterday, the premier told him: "You are the first Chinese descendant to have flown in space. You are the pride of the Chinese nation."
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    • 198 9 Reuter WASHINGTON, Wednesday U.S. BUDGET director David Stockman, who frequently ran foul of the White House for candid remarks criticising Administration policy and the military, resigned yesterday to take a job on Wall Street. The resignation, effective from August 1, was announced by the White
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    • 226 9 Reuter UNITED NATIONS, Wednesday PRESENT day criminals begin their careers earlier than the previous generation, with an increasing number of 13- and 14-year-olds becoming delinquents, according to a US expert. Professor Marvin Wolfgang of the University of Pennsylvania said in a
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    • 97 9 AP LONDON, Wed SPEAKERS Corner in Hyde Park, Britain's citadel of soapbox oratory, is facing a threat to the free speech that has characterised it for a century. Some of the speakers who come here on Sundays to address the crowds claim they
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 94 9 National takes the out of buying a car audio set. Now you can ir < see Dynasty Hotel x hear the superb sound reproduction in <! Fo,eco uJuty 5 r the actual car environment. no w At our demonstration, you can test systems till you're absolutely sure Plus windscreen sunshield
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  • money
    • 499 10  -  Its strength is due to the weakening US dollar in Britain By JILL HUM FOR THE first time since December 1983, pound sterling traded briefly at $3.0019/42 to the Singapore dollar (U551.3480/90) yesterday morning before settling back around $2.9953/75 (U551.3450/60). This may augur sterling's
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    • 195 10 JURONG CEMENT'S group pre-tax losses dropped to $1.75 million, almost a tenth of last Sear's $15.89 million for le year ended Mar 31. It was the same story for the after-tax profits, which dropped to $1.73 million from $10.49 million previously. Over the same period, group
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    • 475 11 The Star ENGINEERING-BASED Innovest Bhd has emerged as the successful suitor for the Singapore operations of the popular fast-food chain Kentucky Pried Chicken. It is reliably learnt that Mr Loo Cheng Ghee has agreed to sell his controlling interests in E"" ly-listed Kentucky
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    • 230 11 NMIfIKI DOW JONES CLOSE: 1,321.91 (-6.50) STOCK market prices slid lower in moderate trading yesterday as investors grew nervous over the prospect of companies reporting lower profits in coming weeks. IBM and General Motors declined among the bellwether issues, generating a downbeat mood
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    • 225 11 DOLLAR GOLD THE AMERICAN dollar continued a broad decline yesterday, dropping to levels last seen in 1984. But it wound up above its lows of the day as some traders bought dollars late in the session to take profits from its earlier steep slide. Gold turned in a mixed performance,
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    • 824 11  -  By CATHERINE ONG HOLIDAY Inn Parkview wants 75 per cent occupancy in its first year of operation and its 36-year-old general manager Bernd Riegger, is confident of getting it despite intense competition and a sagging market. ™'m very, very aware of the situation, and
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    • 245 11 Bernama A TOTAL of 12 stocks have been traded below their par value while another seven hovered at iust between 1 and 10 per cent above par. Amalgamated Properties and Industries Bhd (API) was traded at 67 Malaysian cents yesterday, down 33 cents
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous


  • opinion/letters
    • 200 12 I REGULARLY travel on Service 41 of the Singapore Bus Service from Marine Parade. Recently, when I was on the bus, there was a pregnant woman and an old woman standing next to me. There were also three girls sitting in front of
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    • 815 12 THIS is courtesy month. It's time again to take a look at the "bus hog", a Jteculiar being who inests our buses. Members of the species are there in the morning when you 30 to work and there again in the
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    • 81 12 MAY I suggest that the vehicles of lift mechanicsbe fitted with a siren and strobe lights like those on ambulances and fire engines. Otherwise, a team of mechanics responding to emergency calls may arrive 20 minutes late. And old folk especially trapped in
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    • 174 12 CONGRATULATIONS to the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation for the very pleasant production, "Glimpses of Peking and Shanghai". Considering that it was only an incidental product of a visiting mission and that there was no prior planning in terms of personnel and equipment, it scored significant
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    • 494 13 THE SINGAPORE MONITOR HUB THIS is the second time in the past few years that Malaysia has decided to relax its guidelines on foreign ownership of equity. The first was when Kuala Lumpur announced that those companies which exported 100 per cent of their products
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    • 112 13 COULD the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) please change the way it is televising the weekly Indian movies? At present, Indian movie fans are treated to a Tamil show in one week and a Hindustani show in the following week. But instead of screening the
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    • Article, Illustration
      74 13 LETTERS on any subject of public interest wM be accepted tor publication They shoukJ 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 m print. A contact telephone number would be useful. We
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    • 108 13  -  L REPLY DERRICK TAN Public Relations Officer Telecoms WE REFER to the letter in Press, "A mailbox too far" by Derrick Poh (SM, July 1). With regard to the writer's request for a posting box near his home, we would appreciate it if
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    • 61 13 FOR the last few months the houses between Lorong Chuan and Cardiff Grove have been plagued by mosquitoes after dark. Residents have been badly bitten and denied sleep at night. There must be some mosquito breeding grounds in this area. Will the Ministry of the Environment kindly locate
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    • 175 13 RECENTLY I was stopped by a Registry of Vehicles enforcement officer and booked for speeding. I asked to see the speed gun in order to ascertain the speed I was travelling at. I made this request after I suspected there was a mix-up
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    • 82 13 I REFER to the recent report of a death associated with drug allergy in our hospital and the reply by Dr Chew Chin Hin, the Director of Medical Services (The Straits Times, June 21). As a concerned citizen, I am writing to ask what facilities
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 815 14 lelsfre/tv 141 2.30 SBCTEXT Live Semple Pagea. 6.50 Dreama What Dreams Are Made Of ,2, 3.00 Opening and Programma Highlights (Dabut). I foNowad by Bloaaoma in tha Sun (C) See Highlights. (English subtitles). 7.20 Newswatch (E). Yu Lian's father is depressed when he 7.30 News (M). Wml finds out that
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  • leisure
    • 391 15 Series V A Reflection in Terror (Malay subtitles) (Ch 5, 9.15 pm) THE parent of this series, a shorter mini-series shown earlier, provides an excellent example of what makes an action sci-fi series throb, particularly when compared with its plodding follow-up. The ingredients are the
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    • Article, Illustration
      178 15 i— Highlights Dreamt What Dreams Are Made Of (Debut) (Ch 5,6.50 pm) THIS new musical drama series follows the careers of five young Philadelphians as they realise their dreams of rock 'n'roll stardom. You could say it's Fame on the road but played for laughs. The five youngsters
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    • 42 15 1985 NCAA Basketball Championship (Final) (Last episode) (Ch 5,10.30 pm) THIS week's NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) Basketball Championship features the final game between Villanova Wildcats and Georgetown Hoyas. Next week: THE MISL (Major Indoor Soccer League) All-Star Soccer Game.
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    • 88 15 Applause The Song Writers: An Evening with Charles Strouse (Ch 12, 8.55 pm) TONIGHT'S music man is Charles Strouse, the composer who wrote Bye Bye Birdie, an old Broadway hit which shot him to fame. More familiar to local viewers is his Broadway sensation, Annie. In this programme,
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    • 153 15 Lome Greene's New Wilderness The Scariest Place on Earth (Ch 5,4.20 pm) THIS episode brings us deep into the Colombian rainforest, along tne Putamayo river. The sun never shines on the forest floor and the mammals compete with the reptiles for survival in perpetual gloom. There is the
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    • 116 15 Civilisation The Skin of Our Teeth (r) (Chinese subtitles) (Ch 12, 8 pm) THIS 13-part series returns for another rerun after it was first telecast more than a decade ago. An art historian's incisive view of the story of Western civilisation, it remains timeless and is a must
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    • 624 16 But she has yet to fulfil Polygram deal POLYGRAM has just bid farewell to Tracy Huang, and it looks like it may do the same to another of its biggest money makers Teresa Teng Teresa is one of the "original" singers, joining the company wt\en it
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    • 420 16 WHEN Bella Lewitzky was asked by reporters what she had told the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Joe McCarthy witch-hunts of the early Fifties, she replied: "I said I was a dancer, not a singer That she has been, from the age of seven,
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 834 15 Noon News-in-Brief followed by Programme Summary 12.05 Your Lunchdate 1.00 News 1.10 Your Lunchdate (Cont'd) 1.30 Mid-day Market Report 1.35 Your Lunchdate (Cont'd) 2.00 News-in-Brief 2.05 On the House 3.00 News-in-Brief 3.05 On the House (Cont'd) 4.00 News-in-Brief 4.05 On the House (Cont'd) 4.30 Musical Treats 5.00 News-in-Brief 5.05 Music
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  • Page 17 Miscellaneous
    • 1377 17 ert Preston learns the meaning after rea- jg Borneo FUem Organisation Synopsis: Because of his skill a Using that peace not within the *1 video game, a small-town teenager temple but in the wide, open nuiT /i u •> ik io« is recruited to help the inhabitants of country. Shedding
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 254 18 DIARY- A guide to what's happening Concerts THE PHOENIX BOYS CHOIR THE Phoenix Boys Choir will perform at the Victoria Concert Hall today at 8 pm. Aged between nine and 14, the singers will perform works by John Rutter, Johann Michael Haydn, Guillaume Dufay, Leonard Bernstein, Ernst Toch, Jacques Offenbach,
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    • 525 18 Films British GANDHI be screened at GoetheAuditorium, Shopping Centre, today at 7 pm. Probably the bestknown movie in the film *w f V week, it won eight f M Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The 1982 film, directed by Richard Attenbor- I»eSMWL ough, stars Ben Kings- X <
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 768 19 leisure FASTRACK By Bill Holbrook irEkW" A ittws, M»sr iuam& manam V'uhm' faotwck "V »»r. 8<».„ <* "X VCPXKMIV... THAT IS, THIY 73M<f U«P$ IS M*U 1 AittADV M#MT 1 J fiW* "ft* Tof AM>f*4*lHeM HO*tfO|fC*L J HoßtfotfTAL I DOWN! "TfciV MfVCft 6oMMtft)iCAf£ V MAKA66MENT' 7 MAHAfrCMiHT/ 1 £5 f"S
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  • property
    • 538 20  -  Reports by LINDA CHAN A BIG market exists for timeshare purchases in the corporate sector, participants at a recent real estate convention in Kuala Lumpur were told. Timeshare "holiday bonuses" are a cost-effec-tive and valuable way that a company can reward its sales people,
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    • 108 20 THE ONE-PG timesharing resort in Penang is on the open market for sale in Singapore. The beach resort fronting the northern coast of Penane consists of fullyfurnished three-bedroom apartments (1,815 sq ft) and four-bedroom maisonettes (2,530 sq ft). Prices start at M 56,900 for a three-bedroom
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    • THE BUYER'S GUIDE
      • 32 20 VACATION timesharing is the purchase of vacation accommodation whereby the buyer receives the right to exclusive use of the accommodation for a specific period for a stated number of years.
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      • 70 20 TIMESHARING resorts are so sophisti rated these days that most of them are linked to international vacation exchange networks like Resort Condominiums International (RCI) or Interval International (II). This allows a buyer to exchange his time at a resort with a similar length of time at another resort
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      • 50 20 MOST resorts charge a flat one-time fee for a period of time. The market rates for resorts in Malaysia range from $4,900 to $14,500 for a period from five to 50 years. On top of this, you pay an annual maintenance fee of about $200 for one week's use.
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      • 36 20 MOST resorts are sold on one- or twoweek use, either on fixed dates or on a floating time basis so that you can, to a certain extent, vary the timing of your vacation.
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      • 53 20 TIMESHARE proponents say it's a hedge against inflation becasue it allows you to pay for your future vacation accommodation at today's prices. Studies have shown that timeshare owners spent more on food, entertainment, etc, than an ordinary tourist because their purchasing power is heightened by not having to pay
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      • 169 20 RESORTS offer different forms of ownership to buyers, but briefly: Fee Timesharing The buyer receives all of the rights inherent in the ownership of real property such as the right to sell, lease or bequeath the interest. Noa-fee Timesharing: This does not convey a legal title in the property.
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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    • 142 20 SALE TODAY 1) No. 28-H Lorong Marzuki 2) No. 40 Crowhurst Drive 3) No. 8 Hon'g San Walk 4) No. 4 Jalan Sentosa 5) 56 Faber Avenue 6) Block 86 Jalan Daud #03-90 7) No. 9-C Chiku Road 8) Unit 06-09 Jade Tower, Bayshore Park 9) No. 36-0 Mar Thoma
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  • sports
    • 111 22 Reuter CORK (Ireland), Wed TOP AMERICAN runner Mary Decker-Slaney opened a two-month EuroKean tour with a win over 00 metres at the Cork City international meeting last night Slaney came withrn eight-hundredths of a second of equalling her own US record
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    • 451 22  -  By ALFONSO CHAN SILHOUETTED against the sky, James Wong looked like a giant. A noisy giant. As the discus flew out of his right hand, a tremendous roar echoed around the National Stadium. The sound came from James, as he threw the discus to
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    • 105 22  -  By HSU CHIEN TEH IRVING NG one of our youngest swimming sensations, shattered three national records yesterday in the 16th National Age Group Swimming Championship 1985 at Amber Road. He now holds the national record for the 200 m freestyle, 100 m breaststroke and the 200 m backstroke.
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    • 338 22 Boy*: Groap 1 200 m free 1 Terry Koh 2 Ray Lee 3 Chia Heok Meng 2:15.25; 100 m breast: 1 Colin Tan 2 Terry Koh 3 Ricky Tan 1:15.92; 200 m back: David Tay 2 Ricky Tan 3 Ng Chin Han 2:38 27. Groap 2 200
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 55 23 SPORTS IN SHORT Reuter OLYMPIC champion Sebastian Coe has withdrawn from the English Amateur Athletic Association Championships in London this weekend Coe, due to run over 1,500 metres, has not recovered from a virus infection which affected him after his last race in Birmingham
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      • 43 23 Reuter TOTTENHAM must pay Newcastle £590,000 (511.77 million) for Ensland winger Chris Waddle (above), a football league tribunal in London ruled vesterdav. Newcastle wanted around £750,000 for him while the London club had originally offered £500,000. Reuter
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      • 68 23 AP US TENNIS ace Vitas Gerulaitis and Frenchman Henri Leconte, seeded fourth and fifth, were surErise casualties yesterday i the first round of the Swiss Open tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland. Andreas Maurer of West Germany, winning 6-1, 64, never left Gerulaitis a chance, while Poland's Wojtek
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    • 375 23  -  By HO KWANG HOCK EX-INTERNATIONAL goalkeeper Lim Chiew Peng of Toa Payoh and Robert Ng, team manager of Fairer Park United, were both furious with th 6 decision of the Football Association of Singapore disciplinary committee last night. Chiew Peng and Ng were slapped with
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    • 266 23  -  1985 PUTRA CUP Kuala Lumpur Ir. ERNEST FRIDA in KUALA LUMPUR FOUR Singaporean golfers were at home in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. It may be a contradiction, but it's a pleasant state of affairs because for the next fqur days, the Royal Selangor Golf Club
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    • 281 23  -  Comment by ALFONSO CHAN THEY USED to want to ban the bomb. Then it was burn the bra. In the Eighties, it is ban the boys. The Heysel Horror has got English clubs banned internationally, and football fanatics in Singapore are now discovering that method will
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    • 290 24  -  By K SILVAM S SIVALINGAM is a victim of football violence. He now has a eobia about getting ck on the field or facing another football tackle. Six stitches and a sixty-minute ordeal under a surgeon's scalpel at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday was the price
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    • 100 24 SPORTS EDITOR'S NOTE; We chose to carry this story, not to publicise a man's misfortune, but as testimony to the pain that can result from playing the man instead of the game. Enthusiasm for football is fine. But it is wrong that
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    • 239 24 Agencies LONDON, Wed BORIS BECKER, who became the youngest Wimbledon men's chamGion yesterday, played trough the two-week tournament unaware that his grandfather had died, British Press reports said yesterday. Becker's parents, who watched the final, kept the news secret from tne 17-year-old tennis
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